COVID Dystopia is an official selection of the Berlin Short Film Festival. We are busy getting passports and making travel plans. Though we are fast tracking the passports, there is no guarantee that the US Government will get them ready in time. Though I am super excited to screen the film for the first time in Europe, this isn’t the 74 year old Berlin Festival which will be happening several weeks later. I thought this might be an Academy Award Qualifying festival, but I didn’t do my research well enough.
I have been researching my father’s WWII military unit history and I know which towns he was engaged in as his unit moved towards Berlin. His unit crosses the Rhine Rover at Duisberg the day after Churchill crosses the river a bit further north. I also know he was at the liberation of a forced labor, or concentration camp in the Ruhr. I hope to figure out exactly what camp that was someday. There will not be enough time on this trip to explore those cities in the Ruhr section of Germany.
COVID Dystopia will be screening at 6pm on February 11, 2023 in the Babylon Cinema, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, Mitte Berlin.