A Sweet Secret is a two-part film project written and directed by Bernadette Wegenstein.
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THE ARCHIVES
Documentary Film
In production
With the truth under constant threat of erasure in today’s post-truth era, The Archives shines a light on Holocaust memory through the site of the archives. The film accompanies family archivists and institutional archivists on their journeys as they collect, organize, exhibit, and donate the historical archives that prove the gruesome facts of the Holocaust in writing and through artefacts.
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A SWEET SECRET
Narrative Film
In Development
A Sweet Secret is the story of Sonia Wachstein’s forced exile and her rediscovery of the feminist play A Sweet Secret from 1927, which she participated in during her childhood in Vienna. Sonia’s journey serves as a feminist narrative of a woman who survived the Holocaust, and shares values about the importance of women’s independence and bodily autonomy. Ultimately, the rediscovery and restaging of the play is a metaphor for the fact that yes, fascism can kill people, but not their ideas.