The power of being, acting, and remembering together runs through the films of this program, making visible the supporting bonds that tie the individuals to the collective. Multiple perspectives of historical and actual facts give voice to other actors, other visions, and other affects to reinterpret the world beyond the dominant narratives. How to integrate the trauma and the ghosts of the past in new places and new relations? How can the community become a site of resistance to oppression and discrimination? (Maria Morata)
A former military barracks of the Wehrmacht now serves as a refugee camp for people from Ukraine. The film accompanies the children on their journey, where their own history intertwines with that of the barracks. A moment between past and future, war and silence, departure and arrival, which paints a portrait of German past and present through the eyes of its young protagonists.… >>>
A variety of places, moments, and snatches of historical memory are woven in the film into a particular decolonial view of our time. The telling of history and the politics of memory in Germany are oriented to a white dominant society. The longings, experiences and struggles of Black people, People of Color, Indigenous people and migrants are marginalized. Three sisters, Saboura, Basira and Kirat, gather at historically significant sites in Bavarian history. They approach these stories with their own biographies and the sculptures by the artist Ahu Dural. As poets, children of migrant workers, thinkers they stand for the many stories of resistance and biographies of the in-between world.… >>>
The view from the window falls on landscapes that become smaller and smaller, cloud covers, rising and setting suns. Images many of us will have made themselves before from the window seat of an airplane: the tourist's gaze. However, voices from the off tell of something egregious. While traveling to a festival where they show their film, the two filmmakers from the Republic of Kongo have to change over in Angola. At passport control they are accused of having counterfeit papers, they end up in a nightmarish Kafkaesque detention from which it seems almost impossible to contact the outside world. With an impossible image, the work of Collectif Faire-Part resolves the paradox of telling a documentary story about an aspect of the contemporary border regime that is stubbornly hidden from the public gaze.… >>>
A set of memories, a series of readings. After two hundred years as a nation, Peru has many forgotten struggles in different territories and in different times. On our bicentennial anniversary, this super 8mm film brings together activists and families and raises for a compilation of speeches coming from the smaller side of history.… >>>