Ep. - 1767 - A FAMILY AFFAIR

Dutch filmmaker Tom Fassaert joins Kate to talk about his haunting documentary A Family Affair, the IDFA opening film that won the Golden Calf for Best Long Documentary. On his 30th birthday, Tom got an unexpected invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother, Marianne Hertz. In the 1950s she was a model the press called the "perfect mother," and she placed her two young sons in a children's home before starting a new life in South Africa. Tom picked up his camera hoping to finally understand the family secret no one would talk about, then found himself caught up in his grandmother's world in ways he never expected. Kate and Tom talk about what it means to film your own family, the home movies that shaped him, the ethics of keeping the most uncomfortable moments in the final cut, how his father and uncle reacted, and the generational patterns he's still trying to break. They also get into his new film, Between Brothers, in which his father and uncle go looking for the man who left them behind.

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