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Antisemitism may have been temporarily discredited in post-Holocaust Germany, but in Leo Khasin’s dark and cutting comedy, The Un-Word, it continues to seethe and spread like a deadly virus that no vaccination, however potent, can eradicate.
Due to be screened online by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which runs from June 3-13, it unfolds in a high school in contemporary Berlin as the distraught parents of a 15-year-old Jewish student try to make sense of their son’s brush with antisemitic bullying.