“Masel Tov Cocktail” Post Film Discussion

Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with Germany Close Up, is honored to invite you to screen the short film “Masel Tov Cocktail” and join us for a post screening discussion with the filmmaker Arkadij Khaet and Dr. Lihi Nagler, film scholar and an expert on Jewish and German Film.
DIMITRIJ Liebermann (19) is Jewish and punched Tobi in the face. Now he’s supposed to apologize to him. But Dimitrij doesn’t exactly feel sorry. While on his way to meet up with Tobi, he encounters a diverse representation of German society. An analysis of the status quo.

ARKADIJ KHAET

ARKADIJ KHAET was born during the final moments of the Soviet Union. A few weeks after his birth his family left the Republic of Moldova and immigrated to Germany. After graduating highschool he lived in Israel for a while, and then moved to Cologne to start his undergraduate studies in Film and Television. As a student he started to implement his own film projects. During studies he met his Co-director colleague Mickey Paatzsch with whom he started a collaboration on several projects. Since October 2016, Arkadij Khaet has been studying Film Directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and is currently living in Southern Germay.

His previous film projects include:

2020 MASEL TOV COCKTAIL I 30 min, co-director, screenwriter

2019 ALINA IM WUNDERLAND | 35min co-director, screenwriter

2018 USERDATE | 11min | director, screenwriter

2017 SCHEIDEWEG | 4 min | director, screenwriter, editor

2017 HIKIKOMORI | 30 min | director, screenwriter, editor

2017 ABLICHT | 7min | director, screenwriter, editor

2016 THROUGH THE CURTAIN | 27 min | director, screenwriter, editor

Dr Lihi Nagler

Dr Lihi Nagler is a film scholar affiliated with the Department of Literature, Art & Linguistics at The Open University of Israel. She has dual Israeli and Polish citizenships and lives in Berlin since 2007. Lihi is the Head of the non-profit organisation:´Jewish Moving Pictures: Film Curation for a Better Future’. She serves as a curator at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. She was a Max Planck Gesellschaft–Minerva Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Seminar for Film Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin, and was previously a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and a lecturer at Tel University and Sapir Academic College in Israel and at Freie Universität Berlin. Lihi has more than 20 years experience of teaching and mentoring young students from around the world in Hebrew, English and German.

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