MARCH 2021
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE?
Roberto Minervini
Documentary 2018, IT / US / FR
123 min, OmeU
In the summer of 2017, Alton Sterling is murdered by police, another racist killing perpetrated by law enforcement. Against this backdrop, Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini follows his protagonists - residents of black neighborhoods in Louisiana and Mississippi - through their everyday lives. Weaving together several narrative strands, the film captivates its audience with powerfully eloquent characters, fearless female leadership of political movements, and teenage brotherhood in a hostile world. An intimate film portrait shot in black-and-white, moving between public and private spaces, and multiple generations; defined by the pursuit for justice and human dignity in the face of entrenched historical racism and ongoing violence.
In cooperation with Kaleidoskop - Film und Freiluft am Karlsplatz. Since 2019, CineCollective invites to the film festival under the starry sky in the middle of the city and deals with the coexistence in urban spaces.
AMAL
Mohamed Siam
Documentary 2017, EG / LB / DE / FR / NO / DK / QA
83 Min, OmeU
Amal is 15 years old when she takes part in the protests at Tahrir Square in Egypt, disguised as a boy. There she meets the filmmaker Mohamed Siam, who will accompany her for six years - in search of her own identity, sexuality and her place in a society that persists in patriarchal ideas. Today, 10 years after the beginning of the Arab Spring, AMAL (2017) becomes a document of a personal as well as social upheaval.
SILVANA
Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, Christina Tsiobanelis
Documentary 2017, SE
95 Min, OmdU
SILVANA is the cinematic portrait of the rapper Silvana Imam. The film accompanies the ambitious woman in her uncompromising fight against racism, sexism and heteronormativity. Silvana has a lot to say and does not shy away from doing so, loudly and provocatively. Her success quickly establishes her as an artistic icon who learns to mediate between public and private life and realizes that authenticity is a key component in doing so.
The film is presented in cooperation with
Brunnenpassage and femme dmc.
STARLESS DREAMS
Mehrdad Oskouei
Documentary 2016, IR
76 Min, OmeU
Insights into an otherwise closed community are provided by STARLESS DREAMS (2016). Mehrdad Oskouei waited seven years for the permission to film inside an Iranian "correctional institution" for underage women: Theft, drug trafficking, murder - the young women's offenses vary, but the causes are often the same: broken childhoods, family violence, abuse.
STARLESS DREAMS begins an empathetic and respectful portrait, whose later sequel SUNLESS SHADOWS, won the International Competition of this human world Outlines 2020.
WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY (Part I & II)
Marwa Arsanios
Essayfilms 2017/2019, LB / Kurdistan / SY
57 Min, OmeU
WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY? Part I & II by Marwa Arsanios revolve around questions at the intersections of ecology, feminism, social organization, nation-building, war, and economic sustainability. In both films, the artist explores structures of self-governance developed by the communes of the Kurdish autonomous women's movement. Her films reveal not only the lived paradoxes of its documented subjects, but also the contradictions of attempting to capture such complexities with the camera.
ON THE INSIDE OF A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
Karen Stokkendal Poulsen
Documentary 2019, DK / FR
98 Min, OmeU
In Karen Stokkendal Poulsen's film key figures in Myanmar's political arena lead through recent parts of the country's story: How Myanmar's military stepped into the background after 50 years of dictatorship and Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been held under house arrest for 20 years, became the country's head of state. The result is a critical portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi's political career, which for decades has been under international observation and takes on new meaning in the light of current events.
With the online screening of ON THE INSIDE OF A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP (2019), the Hub aims to use its potential to respond to and provide impetus for discussion of current events.
