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Jewish Ledger ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT By Joe Baur BERLIN (JTA) – There’s a swastika drawn inside of a high school bathroom stall. Dima Liebermann, the protagonist of the German short film “Masel Tov Cocktail,” uses a marker to alter the hate symbol, giving it eyes and wings. “Nice owl,” a woman smoking in the stall with Dima says. “Nazi owl,” he replies with a smirk. So begins the darkly comic 30-minute film on a day in the life as a young Jewish person in Germany, which pokes fun at several layers of a society still not fully comfortable with how to intera...

The darkly comic 30-minute film on a day in the life as a young Jewish person in Germany pokes fun at several layers of a society.

There’s a swastika drawn inside of a high school bathroom stall. Dima Liebermann, the protagonist of the German short film “Masel Tov Cocktail,” uses a marker to alter the hate symbol, giving it eyes and wings.

“We wanted to show a Jew who hits back and isn’t a victim,” said the director of the award-winning film, which is now viewable online through American festivals.