Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (Almanya – Welcome to Germany)
Am 10. September 1964 wurde in der Bundesrepublik der millionste „Gastarbeiter“ begrüßt. Der Film der Schwestern Yasemin Samdereli (Regie) und Nesrin Samdereli (Buch) erzählt die Geschichte des Eine-Million-und-Ersten, eines Mannes namens Hüseyin Yilmaz, und seiner Familie. Und das über einen Zeitraum von 45 Jahren. „Wer oder was bin ich eigentlich – Deutscher oder Türke?“ Diese […]
Black Deutschland
The documentary film BLACK DEUTSCHLAND is an intimate study of how a not so small minority in Germany thinks and feels. It explores how images and counter-images, life-plans and their reflection in the media mutually condition one another. How all of this becomes a social reality in which age-old clichés and prejudices continue to exist […]
Kultur als Ereignis. Fatih Akıns Film Auf der anderen Seite als transkulturelle Narration
Fatih Akins Film »Auf der anderen Seite« erzählt die Geschichte von sechs Figuren, deren kultureller und nationaler Hintergrund sich vom Deutsch-Türkischen über das Türkisch-Türkische bis zum Deutsch-Deutschen erstreckt. Trotz dieser biographisch bedingten Disposition, die Migration, Familie, Nation und Kultur bündelt, geht es in Akins Film weder um einen Kulturdialog noch um einen Kulturkonflikt. Kultur wird […]
Anita and Me
With actors Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster, Kathy Burke, Ayesha Dharker, Omid Djalili, Alex Freeborn, Lynn Redgrave, Zohra Segal, Meera Syal, Christine Tremarco, Chandeep Uppal, Mark Williams Anita and Me (2002) tells the coming of age story of Meena, a 12-year-old Indian girl growing up in the West Midlands of England. Meena listens to […]
100 pour cent Arabica (100% Arabica)
Produced by Mahmoud Zemmouri With actors Khaled, Cheb Mami, Mouss, Najim Laouariga, Fard Fedjer, Youssef Diawara, Patrice Thibaud, Mohamed Camara available on DVD in the US and France Set in a rent-controlled Paris suburb populated entirely by North Africans, this comedy of music and cross-culturalism centers on a battle waged between the neighborhood youth, who […]
Anam – Meine Mutter (My Mother)
color, Germany, Buket Alakuş, 86 Min, 2001 With actors Nursel Köse and Saskia Vester. Anam is a 40-year-old traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in Germany, where she works as a cleaning lady. When Anam finds out that her 20-year-old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and that […]
Alles wird gut (Everything’s Gonna Be Great)
With actors Kati Stüdemann and Chantal De Freitas Nabou, an Afro-German slacker, desperatly wants to win back her club kid ex-girlfriend Katja. Nabou becomes a housekeeper for Katja’s neighbor, Kim, who is a workaholic that is striving to become a partner in an advertising agency. A refreshing romantic comedy with the ingredients of a classic […]