SO DIKHEA? WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Romani Perspectives in Film
Curated by Hamze Bytyçi
Romani Perspectives in Film
Curated by Hamze Bytyçi
Director Furqan Faridi, Ashfaque EJ, Shaheen Ahmed and Vishu Sejwal India 2019
43, OV with English subs
Followed by a talk with Shivramkrishna Patil and Susanne Gupta
Director Afraa Batous Syria, Lebanon 2015
82 min., OV with English subs
Followed by a talk with Lisa Jöris and Afraa Batous
Shifting Narratives
Curated by Florian Wüst
Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families
Curated by Malve Lippmann and Can Sungu
By Esra Özban
Syrian Society and Politics before and after 2011
By Amer Katbeh
Perspectives on Mobility in African Film
By Enoka Ayemba
By Marie Rasper and Hanna Döring
Mobilities between tourism and migration
By Malve Lippmann and Can Sungu
By Florian Wüst
Parent's and Children's Fates in the Context of Labor Migration
By Malve Lippmann and Can Sungu
Social Criticism in German-Turkish Migration Film
By Can Sungu
By Branka Pavlovic
OV with English subs
Followed by a talk with Can Sungu
Director Carmen Losmann Germany 2011
90 min., OV with English subs
Director Afraa Batous Syria, Lebanon 2015
82 min., OV with English subs
Followed by a talk with Lisa Jöris and Afraa Batous
In 2010, the director Afraa Batous and a group of young people in Aleppo worked on the text The Hamlet Machine (1977) by East-German writer Heiner Müller. In his play, Müller imagines the end of oppression – a revolution that also leads to destruction. Only one year later, the revolution in Syria breaks out. The remarkable similarity between The Hamlet Machine and the events in Syria after 2011 motivated Afraa to go back and see how her previous colleagues were dealing with the fact that the life they had depicted in the play had now become reality. The result is the film Skin – an intimate portrait of the different paths Batous’ friends from Aleppo took after 2011.
In collaboration with Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Lisa Jöris holds degrees in political science and Arabic language studies. She is currently working on a research project at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient about how urban infrastructure in Aleppo shaped everyday life and social encounters before 2011. The disruption caused by the revolution is very present in her research.
Afraa Batous was born in Aleppo, Syria. She graduated in English Literature in 2008 and is currently doing her Masters in film directing at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Previously, she also worked for five years in theater in Aleppo.
