Evolution (2021)

mini|upright=1.1|Éva is discovered during the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp “Éva” When the Red Army liberates Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, men cleaning a gas chamber find a little girl. The child is Jewish, her name is Éva, and she has miraculously survived the tragedy. “Léna” Several decades after the camp’s liberation and the end of the Second World War, Éva lives in a chic little apartment in Germany. She is in her late seventies and somewhat demented. When her daughter Léna visits and asks for birth certificates or her grandmother’s identity papers as proof of her Jewish heritage, so she can enroll her children in a Jewish school and also claim compensation from Germany as a descendant of a Holocaust survivor, there is a problem. Léna’s grandmother had five different passports, all of them forged to conceal her Jewish ancestry. What is more, her mother is unwilling to profit from what happened to her. “Jonás” Jonás, Léna’s son, is a student at a Berlin secondary school. The teenager feels excluded by his non-Jewish classmates. Classes are canceled for the rest of the day because there was a fire at the school and the students were evacuated. Jonás has fallen in love with his Muslim classmate Yasmin. While his mother is a proud Jew, Jonás does not know exactly who or what he is.