Aysun Bademsoy’s long-term observation of Turkish women football players in Berlin-Kreuzberg turns to the next generation 30 years after the first encounter. Born and raised in Germany, they nevertheless ask themselves: Are we really accepted here? It seems as if a cultural divide still shapes their lives. Looking back to the 1990s, their mothers reminisce about a youth in which…

The world-famous Black American jazz musician Jon Hendricks decides to face a part of his past. After France awarded him the Legion d’Honneur in 2001, he sets out again in the summer of 2007 to revisit the places of his first encounter with France – after landing in Normandy. During the Second World War, the 22-year-old Jon Hendricks fought on…

Silent film pioneer and “Africa explorer” Hans Schomburgk shot adventure and documentary films in the former German “model colony” of Togo around 1910, shaped by a colonial perspective. More than 100 years later, director Jürgen Ellinghaus travels with a mobile cinema to the original filming locations to explore, together with Togolese audiences, the historical context of the film images and…

A cinematic journey through war-scarred Odessa. With sensitivity and poetic images, director Eva Neymann captures the dreams of the darkened city and the different lives of its residents: children’s dreams and painful memories, street cats in the twilight, flirtations and military call-ups come together to form stories of loss, hope, and resistance.   Film discussion with Eva Neymann, director Ruth…