The films of Su Friedrich explore self-representation in a historical, political and social process, in a search for identity and the events that have informed it. With film, screenplay, editing and sound, all the product of her artisan work, her cinema is a medium for sharing doubts, questions and emotional states.
The Ties That Bind is a dialogue with her mother, who lived through the rise of Nazism, the war years and the allied occupation, during which she met her husband, a US soldier, in an astonishing archive montage. An intimate yet collective story that reflects on the impregnations of racism and totalitarianism, where questions of the past raise their head in the present.
