Hannas schlafende Hunde (2016)

Nine-year-old Johanna Berger grows up as a Catholic girl in Wels, Upper Austria, in the late 1960s, living with her mother, Katharina, her father, Franz, and her brother. She loves singing more than anything, but her parents forbid her from doing anything that brings her joy. Her mother is always careful not to attract attention and to observe customary practices, such as going to church on Sundays. Little Hanna is taught that modesty, conformity, and restraint are important virtues. After suspecting that her family is hiding a secret from her, she wants to know where she comes from and why she is repeatedly met with rejection. Hanna begins investigating and comes to realize that she is of Jewish descent. She confides in her blind grandmother, Ruth, who can remember who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War and still shares their ideologies. Ruth lost her eyesight from the flash of a grenade, after the caretaker at the time barred her from entering the air-raid shelter. Hanna begins to understand the reasons for her mother's behavior and fears: her mother absolutely does not want to stir up old trouble, even though more than twenty years after the end of the war, Nazism is still rooted in the minds of some people. On the other hand, the young girl does not want to hide or deny her identity. With her grandmother's support, Hanna begins to break the cycle of fear that still paralyzes everyone in her family. Her grandmother is the only one in the family to rebel against the deceitful appearance of normality maintained in the postwar years. Together, they expose society's hypocrisy and the evil that has continued to spread among the townspeople with impunity. At last, the family begins to come to terms with the past.