Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature-length film The Lives of Others was a landmark picture that explored life and Stasi surveillance under Soviet-controlled East Berlin. His third film, 2018's Never Look Away, explores the life of an artist through the decades between the start of World War II and life under both the artistic constraints of post-war East Germany and his love's ex-Nazi father holding tight to visions of a genetically superior "perfect society" into which he does not fit. The film is at once both a terrible tale of human horrors but at the same time an uplifting story of a young man finding his voice through art in a world that would silence his creativity beyond accepted conformity. Special feature including Q&A with the director.
