Lily Brett - Laughter Can Pierce Pain

2026Directed by Irene Höfer, Anke Sterneborg

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Released: October 21, 2026
Runtime: 1h

About Lily Brett - Laughter Can Pierce Pain

Documentary

Synopsis

In 1948, a little girl sits smiling on a Parisian carousel – for the first time she experiences a moment of carefree childhood. Her parents are Holocaust survivors; Lily Brett was born just after the end of World War II in a DP camp in Feldafing. The writer Lily Brett artistically explores the trauma she inherited in a remarkable way, marked by gentle humor rather than bitterness or anger. Not as an accuser, but as a bridgebuilder.

Directors: Irene Höfer
Anke Sterneborg
Writers: Irene Höfer
Anke Sterneborg
Original title: Lily Brett - Lachen gegen das Grauen

Principal cast

In billing order

Lily BrettSelf
Julia von HeinzSelf

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