WADA‘ (PREDICTION)

A close relative has disappeared in the Syrian war region. Ibrahim, an instrument maker and family man enters a struggle with his feelings of responsibility towards his family back home. The war is thousands of kilo-metres away and yet destroys everything.
(Khaled Mzher)

Khaled Mzher, D 2015, 29 min
cinematography: Alexander Haßkerl
with: Ahmad Faraj, Hani Al-Shami, Inaam Wali, Ahmad Dahawish
languages: Arabic (with English subtitles)
guests: Khaled Mzher, Ahmad Faraj (actor)

ESCAPE FROM MY EYES (FLIEH AUS MEIN AUGEN)

„I want to go back, but my brother is a ghost with no feet. I still dream of diamonds and blood. They see a black man, and think it`s a lion.“

ESCAPE FROM MY EYES tells three short fables about Mayga from Mali, Elias from Ghana, and Abidal from Burkina Faso, using documentary images and imaginary fiction.
Where are they going now? The film was shot over the course of four months at the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014. Felipe Bragança, then an artist in residence with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program, facilitated the creation of fictional and poetic images based on a number of interviews made with a group of war and political refugees, who at the time were living in tents in a protest camp on Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg, Berlin. In the film, the men re-enact their own stories of escape and struggle, transposed to Berlin in the winter.
(Forum Expanded)

Felipe Bragança, D/BRA 2015, 33 min
cinematography: Rodrigo Levy
with: Chamseddine Maiga, Eliassou, Abidal Bance, Teophil Noël Koukou
languages: English, German (with English subtitles)
guests: t.b.a.

NAPPS – MEMOIRE OF AN INVISIBLE MAN

This film tells the story of Mr. X, but his identity, and his face, are never revealed. Mr. X is a West-African asylum seeker living in Berlin without a work permit. As his exposure might put him in danger, he is the one holding the camera instead of appearing in front of it. Mr. X shoots the landscapes and people of Berlin to tell stories about the refugee camp in Italy, about his grandmother in West Africa, about his acquaintance with African drug dealers from Görlitzer Park, and about the relationship between him, his legal status and his camera.
(aug&ohr)

Tami Liberman, D 2015, 30 min
cinematography: Mr. X
with: Mr. X
languages: English

SAFE SPACE (GESCHÜTZTER RAUM)

Sara is supporting the refugee protests at Oranienplatz where she met her friend Patrick, a refugee activist. The fight for equality seems adventurous at day and romantic at night, until one night a sexual assault happens. The film stops, changes its form completely, and begins a 360° pan shot in which all arguments concerning the incident are discussed. SAFE SPACE is a daring and important discourse film that asks a lot of questions and leaves us with the difficult task of finding our own answers.

Zora Rux, D 2014, 14 min
cinematography: Ágnes Pákozdi
with : Thelma Buabeng, Maëlle Giovanetti, Gorges Ocloo, Franziska Wulf
languages: English, German (with English subtitles)
guests: Zora Rux, Thelma Buabeng (actor), Nina Caspers (editor)

Also see the panel IMAGINING REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS ON FILM