21:10 and Sunday 29 November 13:15 
The screening will be preceded by the short The Last Wheel
Schattenwelt
 Long Shadows 

Also known as the Red Army Faction, the Baader-Meinhof group had its roots in extreme left-wing 1960s student politics and terrorized Germany for two decades, targeting the German elite. Long Shadows looks at the aftermath, more than two decades after the “German Autumn”, when the second generation of the RAF went through a period of extreme violence.

After 21 years, Widmer, a former member of the Red Army Faction, is released from prison. He moves into an apartment block, hoping for anonymity and a possibility to establish contact with his estranged son. Soon after arriving he meets Valerie, his next-door neighbour. The young woman is trying to get her life back on track after losing custody of her child. Soon she starts showing an interest in Widmer, as the two have a shared history, though Widmer is initially unaware of this fact. As they learn more about each other the truth comes between them – her father was murdered during an RAF assault.

Connie Walther’s intimate film looks at the RAF, a topic still very much being debated in Germany today. This film concentrates on the perspective of the victims from both sides: the families of those murdered and the families of the terrorists. Uli Herrmann’s screenplay was co-written with Peter-Juergen Boock, a former RAF member whose story closely resembles Widmer’s.