BLINDER FLECK + Filmgespräch

In the organizer's words:

Special screening + subsequent film talk with the director Liz Wieskerstrauch

• DE 2024
• 80 min
• Director: Liz Wieskerstrauch
• FSK: from 16 years
• FBW rating particularly valuable

" A stirring documentary about organized ritualized violence against children. (...)
An important film that can open discussions and enrich the discourse on the subject "
FBW

You don't see them, the victims of ritual violence, even though they have been talking about their childhood ordeals for many years. You don't want to hear it, you don't want to see it, you don't want to believe it. And the perpetrators are certainly not seen.

Yet child abuse in structures of sexualized violence has been uncovered several times and the images of abuse that result from it have been found on the internet. But how these images are created, with which recurring training and torture methods or even cult rituals full of twisted ideologies children are literally trained to function in forced prostitution and sex orgies at the push of a button, still remains hidden. And when children even talk about hooded men with masks, they are told that their mothers have talked them into it. We only see the consequences of the most severe physical and psychological traumatization, including the splitting of identity into multiple personalities, but at the same time we question the victims' memories as the cause of their mental fragmentation.

As long as society, the justice system and the media look the other way, this protects the perpetrators, who can continue to maltreat children unchallenged. In this respect, "Blind Spot" - a documentary film financed solely by donations - is a plea for a closer look and against the hasty prejudgement of numerous victims for making false statements. Of course, mistakes can creep into people's memories, but that doesn't mean that none of it is true.

Ritual violence is reported in conversations with victims and experts, i.e. psychotherapists, victim advocates, investigators and a memory researcher. In order to avoid any re-traumatization, the images only show situations from normal everyday life and nothing from the parallel worlds mentioned.