All films are available on DVD – click image to see a trailer.
What We Knew
2024
An autobiographical documentary filmed on a smartphone in London at the start of the Israeli state’s murderous attack on Gaza, three Jewish women of European heritage – Ruth, Gail and me, all born in 1948, the same year as the Israeli state – discuss the (fairy) stories of empty deserts and false dreams of Jewish salvation we heard about Israel growing up. 1948 What We Knew paints a compelling portrait of contested Jewish identit
If Not Now When?
2023
If Not Now is a short essay film addressed to Daniels’ Jewish great-great grandmother, Rebecca, who lived and died in London’s Brick Lane. Brick Lane has been home to successive immigrant communities, and today is semi-gentrified. In 1978, Bengali workers organised the first black strike in England and protested against racist attacks and murder by the fascist National Front.
Resisters
2021
Located in Berlin and framed by a personal voiced address to the revolutionary Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, this essay film brings the largely silenced stories of ordinary individuals who resisted fascism during the Third Reich, into the present. Their stories are put in conversation with contemporary resistance against the right-wing nationalist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) through the activities of the Berlin branch of Omas Gegen Rechts (Grandmothers Against the Right).
Breathing Still
2019 – 8 mins
Part agit-prop, part essay film, Breathing Still creates a compelling portrait of Berlin, as the right wing nationalist party the AfD wins members in Parliament for the first time. Weaving together voice-over, stills, archive and found footage, Daniels’ flaneuse, a follower of the Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, who was assassinated by the Freikorps fascists nearly a century ago, explores Berlin’s memorials to Luxemburg and the Jews who once lived there.