the horrors visited on nanjing are also at the centre of the documentary the girl and the picture, aes on xia shuqin, who was barenetted as an eight—year—old by japanese forces. the film shows the woman passing on her memories to her curious seven—year—old great—grandson. that moment, to me, is the defining special moment to me, because it is this visceral moments of literally him touching the past. she was passing on a very valuable lesson to her family and the grandchild: forgiveness. and that is the purpose of this entire film and exercise — learn from history so that we can reduce the possibility of it happening again. but then to move on. there is a moment where he sort of flinches a little bit, and he's concerned about his grandmother. and what i really love is what she says. she notices his feeling and says, "but i survived." japanese leaders have repeatedly apologised, but many feel the country has never quite fully reckoned with its war crimes. some, though, do suggest that china uses the memory of war crimes to pressure japan and ignores its more positive role since the war

beyond sensitive and subtle gently nanjing the visitors towards new perspectives.he tenth beilin be an all or ambiguous and astute. art that lingers in the mind. of course but only in a trance not just artists but writers too one of them is ivana psycho winner of the tenth international literature prize international prose translated into german. ivana psycho has known berlin for nearly twenty years she's lived here. twenty sixteen she came on a scholarship and decided to stay. it also helps me in some way too to see things that are happening in creation and maybe to. put the things that i want to do i maybe have that have this ability if i do it here than if i do it there because i have a problem there. so and because of the political political things that are happening there i don't have i don't have much space to work. in a van and speaks of the political things happening in croatia she means how society has swung to the right history being whitewashed poverty and corruption minorities and critical intellectuals being marginalized the loss of any solidarity. she