Tacheles – The Heart Of The Matter

Three generations removed from the Holocaust; Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner desperate to leave the past behind. He develops a computer game set in 1940s Germany featuring a young Jewish girl based on his grandmother, Rina, which enables Jews to defend themselves, and Nazis to act humanely. Yaar’s father is shocked, and the work opens old family wounds left unaddressed for generations. Tacheles – The Heart of the Matter follows the journey of this family’s painful confrontation with history that will forever change Yaar’s relationships with his father, and explores with growing self-awareness how trauma of survivors is inherited, asking the burning question from the perspective of a 21-year-old: what does the Holocaust have to do with me?

TACHELES – The Heart of the Matter – shows how the trauma of the survivors affects the third generation. By blurring the truth and switching the roles of victims and perpetrators – can anyone cope with his own history?

Is reconciliation possible with a Computer Game?