HATRED

HATRED is an award-winning Australian documentary - a personal journey that asks big social questions about identity and prejudice in the modern world.

What makes us who we are and how easy is it to hate? This is a question for us all as we are tested with personal identity, the right to free speech and the incitement to hate on the basis of skin colour, ethnicity, religion and ideology.

Every day we see the effects of hatred. We see it on the news, on social media where violence, anger and hate speech has become normalised. We all face a responsibility as role models and guides in helping young people to deal with such a powerful and potentially dangerous emotion.

In a multicultural society, how do you discuss hatred in classrooms which may contain students who have fled ethnic violence or persecution for any number of reasons? How do you introduce the topic to students who may come from ethnic, cultural or religious groups with strongly opposed views? How do you deal with the self-hatred which comes from internalising the prejudice of others? Goldman confronts hatred, exploring it in a range of places and then turns her questions to herself. We are all accountable for our own thoughts and behaviours.

HATRED documents various kinds of hatred and their consequences, beginning with the hatred that led to the filmmaker's German-Jewish father fleeing the Nazi Holocaust. This led to exploring hatred in the lives of the poor and people of colour in New York and then to the complex clash of identity, religion, history and emotion between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

HATRED is both a challenge and a resource for anyone ready to explore the issues behind expression of hatred in contemporary society.

Written, Directed and Narrated by Mitzi Goldman
Produced by Rosemary Blight and Mitzi Goldman
Editor – Denise Haslem
Director of Photography – Erika Addis
Sound Recordist – Paul Finlay
Original Music Score – Sandy Evans
Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission
© 1995, R.B. Films Pty Ltd and Mitzi Goldman

"Weaving through gender, race and self-hatred ... sailing over morality ... Goldman discovers hatred is both spontaneous and deliberate, sustaining and Exhausting." - Doug Anderson, Sydney Morning Herald.

• Winner! ATOM Award for Best Social Issues Documentary (1997)

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