This potent documentary captures the catharsis of 11 bikers as they deliver their unforgettable message about the Holocaust back to Hitler’s homeland. In this symbolic journey of solidarity, they take the Maccabiah torch from Israel and bring it Back to Berlin. Flying their flag from Athens to the site of Hitler’s Olympic Games in 1936, and stopping off at Auschwitz en route.

The Maccabiah movement was created in the late 19th Century as a reaction to the upsurge in anti-Semitism on the streets of Paris with the chants of ‘Le sale Juif’in 1894, when a French Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was wrongfully arrested. This fuelled the creation of a movement, which would unite Jewish athletes and reinforce ties to the Land of Israel.

Back to Berlin may have one foot in the past, but it carries a prescient message for our here and now. This is not only a Jewish story but a human one, that demonstrates what happens when words become weapons, and they remain unchecked. How the act of remembering can become a powerful form of resistance in an age where history is being re-written. Antisemitism may be on the rise, but Back to Berlin stands in opposition to this resurgence by promoting understanding and acceptance to audiences with a conscience and a knowledge of history.