The Flats

A dark, uneasy reminder of the indelible, multi-generational stain of violence.

It’s a powerful, urgent and deeply sad film.

With a nod to landmark 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, Italian-born filmmaker ­Alessandra Celesia brings an outsider’s perspective to a cloistered environment now recontextualised in this era of reunification discussions.

The Flats gives voice to people who have lived most of their lives feeling silenced, but it’s all the little details it captures in passing that speak loudest.