Opening film:
La Grande Bouffe
Four well-to-do middle-aged friends gather in a villa to collectively eat themselves to death. A nauseatingly decadent suicide attempt, complemented by a trio of prostitutes and a spontaneously invited school teacher.
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Wings
Wings is Ukranian Larisa Shepitko’s first. The film is about former fighter pilot Nadezhda Petrovna who works as the principal of a provincial school, but is dissatisfied with her peaceful, everyday life with her daughter and misses her old job. The film shows the postwar restlessness of a veteran, combined with feelings of nostalgia and trauma.
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Handsworth Songs + Africa Is You (short)
Rioting broke out in several cities in England in 1985 – and it wasn’t for the first time. Racial tensions played a big part in triggering the clashes with police, the looting and the arson attacks. Handsworth Songs examines the unrest and its aftermath in Birmingham’s Handsworth district and in London.
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1986, Great Britain
John Akomfrah
2016, The Netherlands
Linde Luijnenburg, Ahmed Magare, Dennis Mulder, Anna van Winden
23 september, 17:00
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John Akomfrah
2016, The Netherlands
Linde Luijnenburg, Ahmed Magare, Dennis Mulder, Anna van Winden
23 september, 17:00
tickets
Bend it Like Beckham
The British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha made this coming-of-age story about sports, love and family in 2002 and opinions differ if this film has aged well. What we can already say is it’s lightheartedness, successful female football players and this chemistry between the two girl friends is uncommon in the current canon.
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Yol
Yol shows the aftermath of the coup in 1980's Turkey. Five Kurdish prisoners are given a week's leave but only run into disappointments.
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Eine Prämie für Irene + Britannia
Two shorts, of which the first, Eine Prämie für Irene, is meant as a critique of the traditional working-class film in which men predominate.
The second short, Britannia, casts a satirical eye on British cultural identity.
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Das Purpurmeer
Das Purpurmeer consists of images shot by Amel Alzakout with an underwater camera. The images were filmed from the Mediterranean Sea where Alzakout's boat capsized. In Das Purpurmeer, Alzakout tells her story to her partner Abdulwahed. They fled separately from Syria to Europe.
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Calendar
In Calendar, the characters, played by director Egoyan and his wife Khanjian herself, go to Armenia to shoot pictures for a calendar. The film gives the viewer a better glimpse into Egoyan's identity as part of the Armenian diaspora.
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I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians
The film has an alternative format: a play is the focus of the film, which is prepared and performed in a square in Bucharest. The play revolves around the genocide of Jews in Odessa in 1941. The actors, the city government, and the audience all have strong reactions to how best to stage and present this genocide.
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Binti
De film toont het verhaal van de 12-jarige Binti, die aspiraties heeft bekende vlogger te worden. Parallel aan dit wordt ook een zwaardere verhaallijn getoond: Het leven van de met uitzetting bedreigde Binti en haar vader, afkomstig uit de Dominicaanse republiek.
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