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A Better Man
by Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman
Canada 2017, 79 min., documentary, English with English subtitles
One summer night 22 years ago, 18-year-old Attiya ran for her
life, to get away from her violent boyfriend, who abused her every
day. Now, after all those years, she offers to meet with him: she
wants some answers to her candid questions. Surprisingly, he agrees
and is ready to come to terms with his actions...
Expert present.
Trigger warning:
about domestic violence.
Kino Museum Sun 26.11., 15:30
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Azmaish – A Journey Through
the Subcontinent
by Sabiha Sumar
Pakistan/India 2017, 85 min., documentary, Urdu/Hindi/English
with English subtitles
70 years after achieving independence, Pakistan is viewed as a
country which breeds terrorism, and Hindu fundamentalists in neighbouring
India threaten the country’s secular identity. Pakistani
director Sabiha Sumar, together with her Indian colleague the Bollywood
actress Kalki Koechlin, examines the question as to why religious
extremism is spreading more and more in both countries.
Special Recognition Award, London Asian Film
Festival 2017.
Director present.
Kino Museum Mon 27.11., 18:00
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Child Mother
by Ronen Zaretzky und Yael Kipper
Israel 2016, 90 min., documentary, Hebrew/Maroccan/Arabic with
English subtitles
In their old age, Esther, Naomi, Hana, Rumia and Soshana tell
their children for the first time about their past: As young girls
of five, eleven and thirteen years old they were sold into marriage
to considerably older men. As they share the painful consequences
of forcibly becoming a wife and mother, children and mothers are
brought closer together.
Four awards.
Kino Museum Mon 27.11., 16:00
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City of Joy
by Madeleine Gavin
Democratic Republic of the Congo/USA 2016, 75 min., documentary,
English/French/Swahili with English subtitles
The “City of Joy“ in the Congo is an oasis for women
in the middle of a country where sexual violence is intentionally
used as a weapon of war. This oasis is a place of retreat where
victims are able to speak without any tabus about their experiences,
to gather strength from their pain, and to laugh together. The
goal: they should return to their villages as leaders and be able
to live there free of fear.
Seven awards.
Expert present.
Kino Museum Tue 28.11., 15:30
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Free Angela and All Political
Prisoners
by Shola Lynch
USA/France 2013, 102 min., documentary, English with English subtitles
Angela Davis is a feminist, a Communist and an icon for the Black
resistance movement in America. This combination was once devastating:
in the 1970’s Angela was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List
in the USA. In Shola Lynch’s documentary she speaks about
her imprisonment for the first time and talks about the incredible
sense of community created in a revolution.
Tribeca film award.
Kino Museum Mon 27.11., 18:00
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Girl Connected
by Koen Suidgeest
Bangladesh/India/Jordan/Kenya/Peru 2016, 53 min., documentary,
Bengali/Hindu/Arabic/Kiswahili/Spanish/English with English subtitles
Five countries, five teenagers, one goal: to fight against gender-based
violence and discrimination. The admirably strong young women engage
in a struggle against early marriage and try to transmit to their
peers self-confidence and strength, to show them that it is always
worthwhile to dare to go beyond one’s own limits.
In cooperation with filia. Die Frauenstiftung.
Kino Museum Sun 26.11., 16:00
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Girl Unbound: The War to
Be Her
by Erin Heidenreich
Pakistan/Canada 2016, 80 min., documentary, English/Urdu/Pashtu
with English subtitles
Maria is a professional squash player and doesn’t know if
she sees herself as a man or a woman. These two facts bring continuous
death threats to her and her family, as she lives in a stronghold
of the Taliban in northwest Pakistan. With the tremendous support
of her father, she defies the Taliban!
Two awards.
Kino Museum Wed 29.11., 16:00
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Girls’ War – Der
Freiheitskampf der Kurdinnen
by Mylène Sauloy
Turkey/Irak/Syria/France 2016, 53 min., documentary, Turkish/French/English
with
English subtitles
“Women! Life! Freedom“ is the battle cry of hundreds
of Kurdish women. In Kobane in Syria, in Kurdistan in Turkey, and
in Sindschar in Irak the women warriors are active and resist the
patriarchal system and IS-terrorists. Their goal is a democratic
society in which women and men have equal rights.
Two awards.
Expert present.
Kino Museum Mon 27.11., 16:00
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Hooligan Sparrow
by Nanfu Wang
China/USA 2016, 84 min., documentary, Mandarin/English with English
subtitles
Director Wang accompanies the Chinese women’s rights activist
Ye Haiyan with a camera camouflaged as eyeglasses. What begins
as a protest against the sexual abuse of girl pupils ends quickly
in total surveillance and harassment by the authorities. With tremendous
effort, Wang succeeds in smuggling the film material out of her
country.
Eleven awards.
Expert present.
In cooperation with the Amnesty International University group
Tuebingen.
Kino Museum Thu 23.11., 18:00
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Jaha´s Promise
by Patrick Farrelly and Kate O’Callaghan
Gambia/USA/UK 2017, 80 min., documentary, English with English
subtitles
Jaha, who herself was circumcised as a baby, decides after the
birth of her daughter to break the silence about FGM and confront
her culture, her homeland’s politicians, the Muslim clerics,
and not the least of all her own family about that practice. Undeterred
and impassionate, she fights her battle all the way to the United
Nations in New York.
Activist Rakieta Poyga present.
Kino Museum Fri 24.11., 18:00
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Los niños – The
Grown-Ups
by Maite Alberdi
Chile/The Netherlands/France 2016, 82 min., documentary, Spanish
with English subtitles
Anita and Andrés are a couple, but they are not allowed
to get married. Both of them have been going to a school for people
with Down’s Syndrome for over 40 years. They finally want
to lead an independent life, but society has other expectations.
Six awards.
Expert and person concerned present.
Kino Museum Fri 24.11., 15:30
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Mama Colonel
by Dieudo Hamadi
Democratic Republic of the Congo/France 2017, 72 min., documentary,
Lingala/Swahili/French with English subtitles
Decked out in her police uniform, her Gucci glasses and her little
leather handbag, Mama Colonel struggles day in and day out as the
leader of a police force to assure the protection of women and
children in the Congo. She tries to attend to the voices of the
victims of a country that has been destroyed by a civil war lasting
for decades.
Eight awards, among them Berlinale.
Kino Museum Thu 23.11., 16:00
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Motherland
by Ramona S. Diaz
Philippines/USA 2017, 94 min., documentary, Tagalog with English
subtitles
Women in summer dresses and flip flops cavort about in front of
the hospital in Manila, one of the biggest maternity hospitals
in the world. The hospital is the last hope for pregnant women
who mostly come from the poorest of circumstances. Over 100 babies
are born here daily. The midwives accomplish logistical miracles
in the overcrowded wards, calm their patients and explain everything
to them, from child care and birth control, to their rights and
how to seek help in cases of domestic violence.
Sundance Special Jury Award 2017.
Kino Museum Thu 23.11., 16:00
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Ovarian Psycos
by Joanna Sokolowski und Kate Trumbull-LaValle
USA 2016, 72 min., documentary, Englisch with English subtitles
They are young, loud, and tatooed: With their black bandanas bound
around their mouths, the Ovarian Psychos cycle through the unsafe
streets in Eastside, L.A. They are a society of Women of Color
who have declared war against racism and violence against women
and offer a place to those who feel they don’t belong anywhere.
Two awards.
In cooperation with d.a.i.
Kino Museum Thu 23.11., 18:00
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Patience, patience, t’iras
au paradis!
by Hadja Lahbib
Belgium 2014, 85 min., documentary, French/Arabic with English
subtitles
Daily prayers and visiting the market on Mondays – this
is what has made up Warda’s life since she came from Marocco
to Belgium. That changes all at once when she registers for a literacy
course. There she gets to know like-minded people, and together
the adventuresome senior women who were hungry for discovery explore
their unknown world, experiencing hilarious moments along the way.
Protagonist Tata Milouda present.
Kino Museum Sun 26.11., 18:00 I Frauencafé Achtbar
Sun 26.11., 11:00
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Ri Chang Dui Hua – Small
Talk
by Hui-Chen Huang
Taiwan 2016, 88 min., documentary, Taiwanese with English subtitles
Huang knows very little about her mother, who would rather spend
time gambling than with her daughters. Only hesitantly, in intimate
conversations, does the mother reveal what difficulties she had
because of her homosexuality, her arranged marriage and later as
a single mother. A moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship.
Berlinale Teddy Award. Taiwan’s
candidate for the 2018 Oscar.
Kino Museum Fri 24.11., 16:00
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Skörheten – Fragility
by Ahang Bashi
Sweden 2015, 73 min., documentary, Swedish with English subtitles
Ahang, a young filmmaker from Stockholm, starts suffering from
panic attacks at the height of her career. She then documents her
panic attacks, providing courageous insights into her everyday
life between periods of depression and her emergency action kit
while trying to figure out why this is happening to her? The search
leads her to her own family history and their flight from Iran
to Sweden.
Three film awards.
Kino Museum Tue 28.11., 16:00
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Some Things Are Hard
to Talk About
by Stefanie Brockhaus
Germany 2017, 79 min., documentary, German with English subtitles
“Mum, I’m pregnant again.“ Stefanie tells her
mother a lot, but what does she actually know about her mother?
It’s hard to talk about some things, especially about the
subject of abortion. Family secrets that have long been kept silent
are finally aired: three generations, four different fates, and
a family that breaks the silence can in the end find a way to mutual
understanding.
Expert present.
Kino Museum Sat 25.11., 15:30
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The Apology
by Tiffany Hsiung
Japan/South-Korea/China/Philippines/Canada 2016, 104 min., documentary,
Japanese/Korean/Mandarin/Cebuano (Visayan)/English with English
subtitles
Grandma Gil, Grandma Cao and Grandma Adela from Korea, China and
the Philippines have all experienced something in common: they
were all forced into prostitution as “Comfort Women“ by
the Japanese military during World War II. These three strong women
tell their life stories, all the while waiting for their demands
to be met by the Japanese government.
Five awards.
Kino Museum Wed 29.11., 16:00
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The Poetess
by Stefanie Brockhaus and Andreas Wolff
Saudi-Arabia/Germany 2017, 89 min., documentary, Arabic with English
subtitles
Hissa Hilal is the first woman to appear on Saudi Arabia’s
favorite reality show “Million’s Poet.“ With
a powerful voice, she recites her poems for 75 million men and
women in the TV audience, poems in which she specifically denounces
terror, fundamentalism and the oppression of women in her country.
A scandal which makes her world famous overnight, causing admiration
and death threats. She continues to use the media platform to have
her cause heard as she wins against her male competitors round
after round.
Expert present.
Kino Museum Tue 28.11., 18:00
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What Tomorrow Brings
by Beth Murphy
Afghanistan/USA 2016, 89 min., documentary, Dari/English with
English subtitles
“I have no interest in marriage. All I want is to graduate.“ The
seventh-grader Pashtana and over 400 other girls are given a chance
for education in a girls’ school in the province of Kabul.
The goal of the founder Razia Jan is to educate girls to be independent,
strong women, who can provide hope as role models to the destroyed
country of Afghanistan.
Three awards.
Kino Museum Sat 25.11., 16:00
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