Between Self and Home: A Diasporic Filmclub

Auf dem Bild sind Bildstreifen in schwarz-weiß von den Filmen untereinander angeordnet abgebildet. Darüber steht diasporic filmclub und die Adresse des Veranstaltungsortes, unter den Streifen steht in blauer Schrift "Between Self and Home".
Between Self and Home: Ein diasporischer Filmclub
17.08.2022
Titel der Veranstaltung und Informationen zum Ort und Anmeldung sind abgebildet. Im Hintergrund eine Zeichnung eines Herzens unterlegt in Orange.
People of Colour – ein Gespräch über die Geschichte von Solidaritäten
11.10.2022
Auf dem Bild sind Bildstreifen in schwarz-weiß von den Filmen untereinander angeordnet abgebildet. Darüber steht diasporic filmclub und die Adresse des Veranstaltungsortes, unter den Streifen steht in blauer Schrift "Between Self and Home".
Between Self and Home: Ein diasporischer Filmclub
17.08.2022
Titel der Veranstaltung und Informationen zum Ort und Anmeldung sind abgebildet. Im Hintergrund eine Zeichnung eines Herzens unterlegt in Orange.
People of Colour – ein Gespräch über die Geschichte von Solidaritäten
11.10.2022

September 15th – October 06th, every Thursday, 7pm

at OYA BAR
(Mariannenstrasse 6, 10997 Berlin)

On the picture there are picture strips in black and white of the films arranged one below the other. Above them is diasporic filmclub and the address of the venue, below the strips is written in blue letters "Between Self and Home".

For those deracinated subalterns, “home” has become “another country”. Losing home is not only losing a material shelter or geographical place but above all it means losing a social world in which your life was previously shaped. That created new generations whose cultural aspirations and references are inevitably different from those of their parents and ancestors.

The film program consists of films on our roots that are no longer in their original soil. Stories that sometimes become an ode to or a quest towards our lost homelands.

Where is home? What does ‘homeland’ mean for us?

The diasporic filmclub „Between Self and Home“ is a cooperation with POC Art Collective, curated by Nahed Awwad and Necati Sönmez and OYA BAR Kreuzberg.

Together we invite you to watch, share stories and have discussions around these essential questions of what and where home is, sometimes accompanied by the filmmakers.

Program

Necati Sönmez works as a film critic, curator and filmmaker. He is the initiator of Which Human Rights? Film Festival and one of the founders of the Documentarist Film Festival, which soon became the most important documentary film festival in Turkey. He has been a jury member at over thirty festivals and curated various documentary film programs.

Nahed Awwad is an independent Palestinian filmmaker and film curator based in Berlin. She has worked in films and television since 1997. Nahed received her diploma from the European Film College in Denmark and has since released eight films, e.g. “25km”, “Going for Ride?”, “5 minutes from home”, “Gaza Calling”.

Nahed Awwad and Necati Sönmez are a part of the POC Art Collective.
POC Art is an art collective based in Berlin consist of artists and curators who emphasise the art of People of Color. POC Art aims at organizing cultural events such as film screenings, concerts, talks, and workshops. An earlier event was a series of film screening and concerts under the title of “Music Beyond Borders”

OYA BAR is a queer-feminist Collective, running the Bar space at Schokofabrik in Kreuzberg, Berlin. It’s aim is to provide a Café, Bar, community place as well as home and safer space especially for queer BIPOCs.

Let’s continue to take care of each other!
Feel free to test yourself before coming and wear mask if possible.


September 15th, 7pm

Their Algeria by Lina Soualem

2020, 73 minutes, Algeria
Spoken languages: French and Arabic, English subtitles

Inserted is the film poster of Their Algeria. Pictured, besides the title in the center in English and below in Arabic, are two people looking into the distance.

After 62 years of marriage, Lina’s grandparents, Aïcha and Mabrouk, separate. They came from Algeria to France 60 years ago. Side by side, they experienced a chaotic immigrant life. Their separation is an opportunity to question their journey of exile.

Lina Soualem
French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, she started working in journalism and as a programmer in film festivals, looking to combine her interests for cinema and the study of contemporary Arab societies. Lina worked as a programmer for several film festivals. Her debut film “Their Algeria” premiered in Visions du Réel International Film Festival.


September 22nd, 7pm

A Year in Exile by Malaz Usta

2020, 19 minutes, Turkey/Syria
Spoken languages: Arabic, English subtitles

The movie poster of "A Year in Exile" is in black and white. On it are 12 images from the film arranged as tiles. Underneath is the title of the film in Turkish and Arabic.

An immigrant’s first year in a metropolitan city outside his small country. Through a collection of moving images and sounds the film exhibits what he faces, the pictures that he sees, the crowded thoughts in his head, and the state of emotional shock that he lives in.

Malaz Usta
Damascus born Malaz Usta moved to Turkey in the beginning of 2016. In 2014 he started working as a graphic designer and film editor. In 2018 he started studying Radio, TV, and Cinema at the Faculty of Communication in Marmara University. He is also continuing his double major studies in Film Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Saroyanland by Lusin Dink

2012, 72 minutes, Turkey
Spoken languages: Turkish and Armenian, English subtitles

The Saroyanland movie poster features a figure in a beige trench coat on the left, standing with his back to you. She wears a beige hat, but the back of her head is transparent, as if the person had no head. The background of the poster is turquoise. The title of the poster is centered in English and Turkish.

In the year 1964, famous author William Saroyan took a journey to his birthplace in Bitlis, located in historic Armenia. This docu-drama traces the actual path of that journey and aims to understand Saroyan’s unique attitude to belonging, witnessing the self-discovery of a man who followed the traces of his Armenian ancestors.

Lusin Dink
After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Cinema-TV Department, Dink began her career as assistant director. She has worked for about ten years in many national and international productions and shot her first feature docu-drama SaroyanLand in 2012 which has premiered at Istanbul Film Festival. The film did its international premiere at Locarno Film Festival the same year and screened in over 20 national and international film festivals, winning the Best Balkan Film Award in Sofia and Best Documentary Award in Yerevan.


September 29th, 7pm

Stand Still by Majdi El-Omari

2013, 104 minutes, Canada
Spoken languages: English

The film poster of "Standstill" shows three faces looking down sadly and or dreamily. The poster is in black and white. The title is placed in the center.

After the political crisis in Kanesatake’s reserve, Arihote, a Kanienkehaka „Mohawk“, sometime war photographer, and his wife parted ways. While trying to help his son who has committed a misdemeanor, Arihote happens upon the revenge killing of a neighbor by Wedad, a Palestinian refugee. Loath to get involved in a police investigation, Arihote finds himself helping Wedad to leave the crime scene. Arihote finally begins to rebuild his relationship with his son, and to focus on resolving his feelings about both his wife’s departure and his father’s suicide.

Majdi El-Omari
After working in the Middle East as an assistant director and production manager on various feature and documentary films, El-Omari became a filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer and editor. El-Omari’s short films d’auteur have been selected in several international festivals. “Standstill” was his debut feature film. El-Omari lives in between Haifa and Montreal now is writing his next feature film while teaching fiction filmmaking in Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.


October 6th, 7pm

You Come From Far Away by Amal Ramsis

2018, 84 minutes, Egypt
Spoken languages: Russian, Spanish and Arabic, English subtitles

On the movie poster of "You Come From Far Away," an image clip from the movie is divided into many post-its. On it, at the bottom, there is a person who looks like a shadow. Above the colors of the sky are in a bright blue. In the middle is the title in Arabic and English.

Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents… This cinematographic journey reveals the extraordinary story of the family of Najati Sidki, a Palestinian brigadist who took part in the Spanish Civil War, and finds out how the Palestinian identity faces the turmoil imposed by the numerous exiles.

Amal Ramsis
Amal Ramsis is an Egyptian filmmaker who was born and raised in Cairo. She has studied cinema in Madrid between 2002-2005. She has conducted numerous workshops around the world with women who have no experience in filmmaking at all. Ramsis is the founder and the director of Cairo International Women’s Film Festival. Her films “Only Dreams” (2005) “Life” (2008), “Forbidden” (2011) and “The Trace of the Butterfly” (2014) have got several international awards and been screened in many festivals.


This event takes place within the LADS funded project #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken.

Auf dem Bild sind Bildstreifen in schwarz-weiß von den Filmen untereinander angeordnet abgebildet. Darüber steht diasporic filmclub und die Adresse des Veranstaltungsortes, unter den Streifen steht in blauer Schrift "Between Self and Home".
Between Self and Home: Ein diasporischer Filmclub
17.08.2022
Titel der Veranstaltung und Informationen zum Ort und Anmeldung sind abgebildet. Im Hintergrund eine Zeichnung eines Herzens unterlegt in Orange.
People of Colour – ein Gespräch über die Geschichte von Solidaritäten
11.10.2022

September 15th – October 06th, every Thursday, 7pm

at OYA BAR
(Mariannenstrasse 6, 10997 Berlin)

On the picture there are picture strips in black and white of the films arranged one below the other. Above them is diasporic filmclub and the address of the venue, below the strips is written in blue letters "Between Self and Home".

For those deracinated subalterns, “home” has become “another country”. Losing home is not only losing a material shelter or geographical place but above all it means losing a social world in which your life was previously shaped. That created new generations whose cultural aspirations and references are inevitably different from those of their parents and ancestors.

The film program consists of films on our roots that are no longer in their original soil. Stories that sometimes become an ode to or a quest towards our lost homelands.

Where is home? What does ‘homeland’ mean for us?

The diasporic filmclub „Between Self and Home“ is a cooperation with POC Art Collective, curated by Nahed Awwad and Necati Sönmez and OYA BAR Kreuzberg.

Together we invite you to watch, share stories and have discussions around these essential questions of what and where home is, sometimes accompanied by the filmmakers.

Program

Necati Sönmez works as a film critic, curator and filmmaker. He is the initiator of Which Human Rights? Film Festival and one of the founders of the Documentarist Film Festival, which soon became the most important documentary film festival in Turkey. He has been a jury member at over thirty festivals and curated various documentary film programs.

Nahed Awwad is an independent Palestinian filmmaker and film curator based in Berlin. She has worked in films and television since 1997. Nahed received her diploma from the European Film College in Denmark and has since released eight films, e.g. “25km”, “Going for Ride?”, “5 minutes from home”, “Gaza Calling”.

Nahed Awwad and Necati Sönmez are a part of the POC Art Collective.
POC Art is an art collective based in Berlin consist of artists and curators who emphasise the art of People of Color. POC Art aims at organizing cultural events such as film screenings, concerts, talks, and workshops. An earlier event was a series of film screening and concerts under the title of “Music Beyond Borders”

OYA BAR is a queer-feminist Collective, running the Bar space at Schokofabrik in Kreuzberg, Berlin. It’s aim is to provide a Café, Bar, community place as well as home and safer space especially for queer BIPOCs.

Let’s continue to take care of each other!
Feel free to test yourself before coming and wear mask if possible.


September 15th, 7pm

Their Algeria by Lina Soualem

2020, 73 minutes, Algeria
Spoken languages: French and Arabic, English subtitles

Inserted is the film poster of Their Algeria. Pictured, besides the title in the center in English and below in Arabic, are two people looking into the distance.

After 62 years of marriage, Lina’s grandparents, Aïcha and Mabrouk, separate. They came from Algeria to France 60 years ago. Side by side, they experienced a chaotic immigrant life. Their separation is an opportunity to question their journey of exile.

Lina Soualem
French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, she started working in journalism and as a programmer in film festivals, looking to combine her interests for cinema and the study of contemporary Arab societies. Lina worked as a programmer for several film festivals. Her debut film “Their Algeria” premiered in Visions du Réel International Film Festival.


September 22nd, 7pm

A Year in Exile by Malaz Usta

2020, 19 minutes, Turkey/Syria
Spoken languages: Arabic, English subtitles

The movie poster of "A Year in Exile" is in black and white. On it are 12 images from the film arranged as tiles. Underneath is the title of the film in Turkish and Arabic.

An immigrant’s first year in a metropolitan city outside his small country. Through a collection of moving images and sounds the film exhibits what he faces, the pictures that he sees, the crowded thoughts in his head, and the state of emotional shock that he lives in.

Malaz Usta
Damascus born Malaz Usta moved to Turkey in the beginning of 2016. In 2014 he started working as a graphic designer and film editor. In 2018 he started studying Radio, TV, and Cinema at the Faculty of Communication in Marmara University. He is also continuing his double major studies in Film Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Saroyanland by Lusin Dink

2012, 72 minutes, Turkey
Spoken languages: Turkish and Armenian, English subtitles

The Saroyanland movie poster features a figure in a beige trench coat on the left, standing with his back to you. She wears a beige hat, but the back of her head is transparent, as if the person had no head. The background of the poster is turquoise. The title of the poster is centered in English and Turkish.

In the year 1964, famous author William Saroyan took a journey to his birthplace in Bitlis, located in historic Armenia. This docu-drama traces the actual path of that journey and aims to understand Saroyan’s unique attitude to belonging, witnessing the self-discovery of a man who followed the traces of his Armenian ancestors.

Lusin Dink
After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Cinema-TV Department, Dink began her career as assistant director. She has worked for about ten years in many national and international productions and shot her first feature docu-drama SaroyanLand in 2012 which has premiered at Istanbul Film Festival. The film did its international premiere at Locarno Film Festival the same year and screened in over 20 national and international film festivals, winning the Best Balkan Film Award in Sofia and Best Documentary Award in Yerevan.


September 29th, 7pm

Stand Still by Majdi El-Omari

2013, 104 minutes, Canada
Spoken languages: English

The film poster of "Standstill" shows three faces looking down sadly and or dreamily. The poster is in black and white. The title is placed in the center.

After the political crisis in Kanesatake’s reserve, Arihote, a Kanienkehaka „Mohawk“, sometime war photographer, and his wife parted ways. While trying to help his son who has committed a misdemeanor, Arihote happens upon the revenge killing of a neighbor by Wedad, a Palestinian refugee. Loath to get involved in a police investigation, Arihote finds himself helping Wedad to leave the crime scene. Arihote finally begins to rebuild his relationship with his son, and to focus on resolving his feelings about both his wife’s departure and his father’s suicide.

Majdi El-Omari
After working in the Middle East as an assistant director and production manager on various feature and documentary films, El-Omari became a filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer and editor. El-Omari’s short films d’auteur have been selected in several international festivals. “Standstill” was his debut feature film. El-Omari lives in between Haifa and Montreal now is writing his next feature film while teaching fiction filmmaking in Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.


October 6th, 7pm

You Come From Far Away by Amal Ramsis

2018, 84 minutes, Egypt
Spoken languages: Russian, Spanish and Arabic, English subtitles

On the movie poster of "You Come From Far Away," an image clip from the movie is divided into many post-its. On it, at the bottom, there is a person who looks like a shadow. Above the colors of the sky are in a bright blue. In the middle is the title in Arabic and English.

Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents… This cinematographic journey reveals the extraordinary story of the family of Najati Sidki, a Palestinian brigadist who took part in the Spanish Civil War, and finds out how the Palestinian identity faces the turmoil imposed by the numerous exiles.

Amal Ramsis
Amal Ramsis is an Egyptian filmmaker who was born and raised in Cairo. She has studied cinema in Madrid between 2002-2005. She has conducted numerous workshops around the world with women who have no experience in filmmaking at all. Ramsis is the founder and the director of Cairo International Women’s Film Festival. Her films “Only Dreams” (2005) “Life” (2008), “Forbidden” (2011) and “The Trace of the Butterfly” (2014) have got several international awards and been screened in many festivals.


This event takes place within the LADS funded project #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken.

Auf dem Bild sind Bildstreifen in schwarz-weiß von den Filmen untereinander angeordnet abgebildet. Darüber steht diasporic filmclub und die Adresse des Veranstaltungsortes, unter den Streifen steht in blauer Schrift "Between Self and Home".
Between Self and Home: Ein diasporischer Filmclub
17.08.2022
Titel der Veranstaltung und Informationen zum Ort und Anmeldung sind abgebildet. Im Hintergrund eine Zeichnung eines Herzens unterlegt in Orange.
People of Colour – ein Gespräch über die Geschichte von Solidaritäten
11.10.2022

September 15th – October 06th, every Thursday, 7pm

at OYA BAR
(Mariannenstrasse 6, 10997 Berlin)

On the picture there are picture strips in black and white of the films arranged one below the other. Above them is diasporic filmclub and the address of the venue, below the strips is written in blue letters "Between Self and Home".

For those deracinated subalterns, “home” has become “another country”. Losing home is not only losing a material shelter or geographical place but above all it means losing a social world in which your life was previously shaped. That created new generations whose cultural aspirations and references are inevitably different from those of their parents and ancestors.

The film program consists of films on our roots that are no longer in their original soil. Stories that sometimes become an ode to or a quest towards our lost homelands.

Where is home? What does ‘homeland’ mean for us?

The diasporic filmclub „Between Self and Home“ is a cooperation with POC Art Collective, curated by Nahed Awwad and Necati Sönmez and OYA BAR Kreuzberg.

Together we invite you to watch, share stories and have discussions around these essential questions of what and where home is, sometimes accompanied by the filmmakers.

Program

Necati Sönmez works as a film critic, curator and filmmaker. He is the initiator of Which Human Rights? Film Festival and one of the founders of the Documentarist Film Festival, which soon became the most important documentary film festival in Turkey. He has been a jury member at over thirty festivals and curated various documentary film programs.

Nahed Awwad is an independent Palestinian filmmaker and film curator based in Berlin. She has worked in films and television since 1997. Nahed received her diploma from the European Film College in Denmark and has since released eight films, e.g. “25km”, “Going for Ride?”, “5 minutes from home”, “Gaza Calling”.

Nahed Awwad and Necati Sönmez are a part of the POC Art Collective.
POC Art is an art collective based in Berlin consist of artists and curators who emphasise the art of People of Color. POC Art aims at organizing cultural events such as film screenings, concerts, talks, and workshops. An earlier event was a series of film screening and concerts under the title of “Music Beyond Borders”

OYA BAR is a queer-feminist Collective, running the Bar space at Schokofabrik in Kreuzberg, Berlin. It’s aim is to provide a Café, Bar, community place as well as home and safer space especially for queer BIPOCs.

Let’s continue to take care of each other!
Feel free to test yourself before coming and wear mask if possible.


September 15th, 7pm

Their Algeria by Lina Soualem

2020, 73 minutes, Algeria
Spoken languages: French and Arabic, English subtitles

Inserted is the film poster of Their Algeria. Pictured, besides the title in the center in English and below in Arabic, are two people looking into the distance.

After 62 years of marriage, Lina’s grandparents, Aïcha and Mabrouk, separate. They came from Algeria to France 60 years ago. Side by side, they experienced a chaotic immigrant life. Their separation is an opportunity to question their journey of exile.

Lina Soualem
French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, she started working in journalism and as a programmer in film festivals, looking to combine her interests for cinema and the study of contemporary Arab societies. Lina worked as a programmer for several film festivals. Her debut film “Their Algeria” premiered in Visions du Réel International Film Festival.


September 22nd, 7pm

A Year in Exile by Malaz Usta

2020, 19 minutes, Turkey/Syria
Spoken languages: Arabic, English subtitles

The movie poster of "A Year in Exile" is in black and white. On it are 12 images from the film arranged as tiles. Underneath is the title of the film in Turkish and Arabic.

An immigrant’s first year in a metropolitan city outside his small country. Through a collection of moving images and sounds the film exhibits what he faces, the pictures that he sees, the crowded thoughts in his head, and the state of emotional shock that he lives in.

Malaz Usta
Damascus born Malaz Usta moved to Turkey in the beginning of 2016. In 2014 he started working as a graphic designer and film editor. In 2018 he started studying Radio, TV, and Cinema at the Faculty of Communication in Marmara University. He is also continuing his double major studies in Film Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Saroyanland by Lusin Dink

2012, 72 minutes, Turkey
Spoken languages: Turkish and Armenian, English subtitles

The Saroyanland movie poster features a figure in a beige trench coat on the left, standing with his back to you. She wears a beige hat, but the back of her head is transparent, as if the person had no head. The background of the poster is turquoise. The title of the poster is centered in English and Turkish.

In the year 1964, famous author William Saroyan took a journey to his birthplace in Bitlis, located in historic Armenia. This docu-drama traces the actual path of that journey and aims to understand Saroyan’s unique attitude to belonging, witnessing the self-discovery of a man who followed the traces of his Armenian ancestors.

Lusin Dink
After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Cinema-TV Department, Dink began her career as assistant director. She has worked for about ten years in many national and international productions and shot her first feature docu-drama SaroyanLand in 2012 which has premiered at Istanbul Film Festival. The film did its international premiere at Locarno Film Festival the same year and screened in over 20 national and international film festivals, winning the Best Balkan Film Award in Sofia and Best Documentary Award in Yerevan.


September 29th, 7pm

Stand Still by Majdi El-Omari

2013, 104 minutes, Canada
Spoken languages: English

The film poster of "Standstill" shows three faces looking down sadly and or dreamily. The poster is in black and white. The title is placed in the center.

After the political crisis in Kanesatake’s reserve, Arihote, a Kanienkehaka „Mohawk“, sometime war photographer, and his wife parted ways. While trying to help his son who has committed a misdemeanor, Arihote happens upon the revenge killing of a neighbor by Wedad, a Palestinian refugee. Loath to get involved in a police investigation, Arihote finds himself helping Wedad to leave the crime scene. Arihote finally begins to rebuild his relationship with his son, and to focus on resolving his feelings about both his wife’s departure and his father’s suicide.

Majdi El-Omari
After working in the Middle East as an assistant director and production manager on various feature and documentary films, El-Omari became a filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer and editor. El-Omari’s short films d’auteur have been selected in several international festivals. “Standstill” was his debut feature film. El-Omari lives in between Haifa and Montreal now is writing his next feature film while teaching fiction filmmaking in Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.


October 6th, 7pm

You Come From Far Away by Amal Ramsis

2018, 84 minutes, Egypt
Spoken languages: Russian, Spanish and Arabic, English subtitles

On the movie poster of "You Come From Far Away," an image clip from the movie is divided into many post-its. On it, at the bottom, there is a person who looks like a shadow. Above the colors of the sky are in a bright blue. In the middle is the title in Arabic and English.

Imagine that your father is a Palestinian Arab, and he had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Imagine that you have siblings, and you cannot talk to them because you do not speak the same language. Imagine that you have a family, but you were raised without parents… This cinematographic journey reveals the extraordinary story of the family of Najati Sidki, a Palestinian brigadist who took part in the Spanish Civil War, and finds out how the Palestinian identity faces the turmoil imposed by the numerous exiles.

Amal Ramsis
Amal Ramsis is an Egyptian filmmaker who was born and raised in Cairo. She has studied cinema in Madrid between 2002-2005. She has conducted numerous workshops around the world with women who have no experience in filmmaking at all. Ramsis is the founder and the director of Cairo International Women’s Film Festival. Her films “Only Dreams” (2005) “Life” (2008), “Forbidden” (2011) and “The Trace of the Butterfly” (2014) have got several international awards and been screened in many festivals.


This event takes place within the LADS funded project #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken.

farbenfrohes Bild mit DGS-Kurs Ankündigung und Informationen die auch im Text zu finden sind
DGS-Kurse I & II mit dem Team von Lebendige Gebärden I Herbst 2022
17.08.2022
On the picture there are picture strips in black and white of the films arranged one below the other. Above them is diasporic filmclub and the address of the venue, below the strips is written in blue letters "Between Self and Home".
Between Self and Home: A Diasporic Filmclub
17.08.2022

15. September – 06. Oktober, jeden Donnerstag, 19 Uhr

in der OYA BAR
(Mariannenstraße 6, 10997 Berlin)

Die Gespräche findet in englischer Lautsprache statt,
weitere Infos sind in den Filmsynopsen.

Auf dem Bild sind Bildstreifen in schwarz-weiß von den Filmen untereinander angeordnet abgebildet. Darüber steht diasporic filmclub und die Adresse des Veranstaltungsortes, unter den Streifen steht in blauer Schrift "Between Self and Home".

Für diese entfremdeten Subalternen ist „Heimat“ zu „einem anderen Land“ geworden. Der Verlust der Heimat bedeutet nicht nur den Verlust einer materiellen Bleibe oder eines geografischen Ortes, sondern vor allem den Verlust einer sozialen Welt, in der das eigene Leben bisher geprägt wurde. So entstanden neue Generationen, deren kulturelle Bestrebungen und Bezüge sich zwangsläufig von denen ihrer Eltern und Vorfahren unterscheiden.

Das Filmprogramm besteht aus Filmen über unsere Wurzeln, die sich nicht mehr in ihrem ursprünglichen Boden befinden. Geschichten, die manchmal zu einer Ode an oder zu einer Suche nach unserer verlorenen Heimat werden.

Wo ist Heimat? Was bedeutet „Heimat“ für uns?

Der diasporische Filmclub „Between Self and Home“ ist eine Kooperation mit dem POC Art Collective, kuratiert von Nahed Awwad und Necati Sönmez und der OYA BAR Kreuzberg.

Gemeinsam laden wir ein, die Filme anzuschauen, Geschichten auszutauschen und über diese grundlegenden Fragen, was und wo Heimat ist, zu diskutieren, mitunter begleitet von den Filmemacher*innen.

Programm

Necati Sönmez arbeitet als Filmkritiker, Kurator und Filmemacher. Er ist der Initiator des Which Human Rights? Filmfestivals und einer der Gründer des Documentarist Film Festivals, das bald zum wichtigsten Dokumentarfilmfestival in der Türkei wurde. Er war Jurymitglied bei über dreißig Festivals und hat verschiedene Dokumentarfilmprogramme kuratiert.

Nahed Awwad ist eine unabhängige palästinensische Filmemacherin und Filmkuratorin mit Sitz in Berlin. Sie arbeitet seit 1997 im Bereich Film und Fernsehen. Nahed erhielt ihr Diplom von der Europäischen Filmhochschule in Dänemark und hat seitdem acht Filme veröffentlicht, z. B. „25km“, „Going for Ride?“, „5 minutes from home“, „Gaza Calling“.

Nahed Awwad und Necati Sönmez sind Teil des POC Art Kollektivs.
POC Art ist ein Kunstkollektiv mit Sitz in Berlin, das sich aus Künstler*innen und Kurator*innen zusammensetzt, die den Schwerpunkt auf die Kunst von People of Color legen. Ziel von POC Art ist es, kulturelle Veranstaltungen wie Filmvorführungen, Konzerte, Vorträge und Workshops zu organisieren. Eine der vergangenen Veranstaltungen war eine Reihe von Filmvorführungen und Konzerten unter dem Titel „Music Beyond Borders“.

OYA BAR ist ein queer-feministisches Kollektiv, das die Bar in der Schokofabrik in Kreuzberg, Berlin, betreibt. Ziel ist es, ein Café, eine Bar, einen Ort der Gemeinschaft sowie ein Zuhause und einen sicheren Raum speziell für queere BIPOCs zu bieten.

Lasst uns weiter aufeinander acht geben!
Testet euch gerne vorm kommen und tragt Maske wenn möglich.


15. September, 19 Uhr

Their Algeria von Lina Soualem

2020, 73 Minuten, Algerien
Gesprochene Sprachen: Französisch und Arabisch, Englische Untertitel

Eingefügt ist das Filmplakat von Their Algeria. Abgebildet sind außer dem Titel in der Mitte auf Englisch und darunter auf arabisch, zwei Menschen, die in die Ferne schauen.

Nach 62 Jahren Ehe trennen sich Linas Großeltern, Aïcha und Mabrouk. Sie kamen vor 60 Jahren aus Algerien nach Frankreich. Seite an Seite erlebten sie ein chaotisches Leben als Einwanderer. Ihre Trennung ist eine Gelegenheit, ihren Weg des Exils zu hinterfragen.

Lina Soualem
Französisch-palästinensisch-algerische Filmemacherin und Schauspielerin, geboren und lebend in Paris. Nach ihrem Studium der Geschichte und Politikwissenschaften an der Universität La Sorbonne begann sie im Journalismus und als Programmgestalterin bei Filmfestivals zu arbeiten, um ihre Interessen für das Kino und das Studium der zeitgenössischen arabischen Gesellschaften zu verbinden. Lina arbeitete als Programmgestalterin für mehrere Filmfestivals. Ihr Debütfilm „Their Algeria“ wurde auf dem Internationalen Filmfestival Visions du Réel uraufgeführt.


22. September, 19 Uhr

A Year in Exile von Malaz Usta

2020, 19 Minuten, Türkei/Syrien
Gesprochene Sprachen: Arabisch, Englische Untertitel

Das Filmposter von "A Year in Exile" ist in schwarz weiß. Darauf sind 12 als Kacheln angeordnete Bilder aus dem Film. Darunter steht der Titel des Films auf türkisch und arabisch.

Das erste Jahr eines Einwanderers in einer Großstadt außerhalb seines kleinen Landes. Durch eine Sammlung von bewegten Bildern und Tönen zeigt der Film, was er erlebt, die Bilder, die er sieht, die überfüllten Gedanken in seinem Kopf und den Zustand des emotionalen Schocks, in dem er lebt.

Malaz Usta
Der in Damaskus geborene Malaz Usta zog Anfang 2016 in die Türkei. Im Jahr 2014 begann er als Grafikdesigner und Filmeditor zu arbeiten. Seit 2018 studiert er Radio, Fernsehen und Kino an der Fakultät für Kommunikation der Marmara-Universität. Außerdem setzt er sein Doppelstudium in Filmdesign an der Fakultät für Bildende Künste fort.

Saroyanland von Lusin Dink

2012, 72 Minuten, Türkei
Gesprochene Sprachen: Türkisch und Armentisch, Englische Untertitel

Auf dem Filmposter von Saroyanland ist links eine Figur in beigem Trenchcoat abgebildet, die mit dem Rücken zu einem steht. Sie trägt einen beigen Hut, der Hinterkopf ist allerdings durchsichtig, als hätte die Person keinen Kopf. Der Hintergrund des Plakats ist türkis. Der Titel des Posters ist Mittig in englisch und türkisch angeordnet.

Im Jahr 1964 unternahm der berühmte Schriftsteller William Saroyan eine Reise zu seinem Geburtsort Bitlis, der im historischen Armenien liegt. Dieses Doku-Drama zeichnet den tatsächlichen Weg dieser Reise nach und versucht, Saroyans einzigartige Einstellung zur Zugehörigkeit zu verstehen und die Selbstfindung eines Mannes zu erleben, der den Spuren seiner armenischen Vorfahren folgte.

Lusin Dink
Nach ihrem Abschluss an der Fakultät für Film und Fernsehen der Istanbul Bilgi Universität begann Dink ihre Karriere als Regieassistentin. Sie hat rund zehn Jahre lang an vielen nationalen und internationalen Produktionen mitgewirkt und 2012 ihr erstes Doku-Drama SaroyanLand gedreht, das auf dem Istanbul Film Festival uraufgeführt wurde. Der Film feierte im selben Jahr seine internationale Premiere auf dem Filmfestival von Locarno und lief auf über 20 nationalen und internationalen Filmfestivals, wo er den Preis für den besten Balkanfilm in Sofia und den Preis für den besten Dokumentarfilm in Eriwan gewann.


29. September, 19 Uhr

Stand Still von Majdi El-Omari

2013, 104 Minuten, Kanada
Gesprochene Sprachen: Englisch

Auf dem Filmplakat von "Standstill" sind drei Gesichter abgebildet, die nach unten traurig und oder verträumt schauen. Das Plakat ist in schwarz weiß. Der Titel ist mittig angeordnet.

Nach der politischen Krise im Kanesatake-Reservat trennten sich Arihote, ein Kanienkehaka-„Mohawk“ und ehemaliger Kriegsfotograf, und seine Frau. Bei dem Versuch, seinem Sohn zu helfen, der eine Ordnungswidrigkeit begangen hat, stößt Arihote auf den Rachemord an einem Nachbarn durch Wedad, einen palästinensischen Geflüchteten. Da er sich nicht in die polizeilichen Ermittlungen einmischen will, hilft er Wedad, den Tatort zu verlassen. Arihote beginnt endlich, die Beziehung zu seinem Sohn wiederherzustellen und sich darauf zu konzentrieren, seine Gefühle über den Weggang seiner Frau und den Selbstmord seines Vaters zu überwinden.

Majdi El-Omari
Nachdem er im Nahen Osten als Regieassistent und Produktionsleiter bei verschiedenen Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen gearbeitet hatte, wurde El-Omari Filmemacher, Drehbuchautor, Produzent und Cutter. El-Omaris Autorenkurzfilme wurden auf mehreren internationalen Festivals ausgewählt. „Standstill“ war sein erster Spielfilm. El-Omari lebt zwischen Haifa und Montreal und schreibt derzeit an seinem nächsten Spielfilm, während er an der Dar al-Kalima Universität in Bethlehem fiktionale Filmkunst unterrichtet.


6. Oktober, 19 Uhr

You Come From Far Away von Amal Ramsis

2018, 84 Minuten, Ägypten
Gesprochene Sprachen: Russisch, Spanisch und Arabisch, Englische Untertitel

Auf dem Filmposter von "You Come From Far Away" ist ein Bildausschnitt aus dem Film in viele Post-its aufgeteilt. Darauf ist unten eine Person abgebildet, die aussieht wie ein Schatten. Oben die Farben des Himmels sind in einem leuchtenden blau. In der Mitte ist der Titel auf arabisch und englisch abgebildet.

Stell dir vor, dein Vater ist ein palästinensischer Araber, der im spanischen Bürgerkrieg gegen Franco gekämpft hat. Stell dir vor, du hast Geschwister, kannst aber nicht mit ihnen sprechen, weil ihr nicht dieselbe Sprache sprecht. Stell dir vor, du hast eine Familie, aber du bist ohne Eltern aufgewachsen… Diese filmische Reise enthüllt die außergewöhnliche Geschichte der Familie von Najati Sidki, einem palästinensischen Brigadisten, der am spanischen Bürgerkrieg teilgenommen hat, und zeigt, wie die palästinensische Identität mit den Turbulenzen konfrontiert ist, die durch die zahlreichen Vertriebenen entstehen.

Amal Ramsis
Amal Ramsis ist eine ägyptische Filmemacherin, die in Kairo geboren und aufgewachsen ist. Sie hat zwischen 2002 und 2005 in Madrid Film studiert. Sie hat in der ganzen Welt zahlreiche Workshops mit Frauen durchgeführt, die keinerlei Erfahrung im Filmemachen haben. Ramsis ist die Gründerin und Leiterin des Cairo International Women’s Film Festival. Ihre Filme „Only Dreams“ (2005), „Life“ (2008), „Forbidden“ (2011) und „The Trace of the Butterfly“ (2014) haben mehrere internationale Preise erhalten und wurden auf vielen Festivals gezeigt.


Diese Veranstaltungsreihe findet im Rahmen des, von der LADS geförderten Projektes #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken statt.

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