Heartfield’s artistic efforts of the 1920s and 1930s were directed against the same militarists, nationalists and fascists once again crawling out of the woodwork of today’s crisis-ridden capitalist society.
22/09/2023 - The new films by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Peter Mettler, Ivan Ramljak and Katrin Rothe, amongst others, will be locking horns at the 66th edition of the German gathering
An official selection in the ‘Coutrechamp’ feature film category, Katrin Rothe’s film, mixing documentary and fictional elements, details how the father of political photomontage, protesting against German warmongering, became an enemy of the Nazi state; the festival runs June 11-17.