Franka Frei writes in her new book “Überfällig. Warum Verhütung auch Männersache ist.” (en. “Overdue. Why contraception is also a man’s business“) about pill policies, masculinity myths and a revolution that starts in the testicles.
Reading & talk with Franka Frei, Fritzi Wartenberg
On Saturday, 24 June at 8:15 p.m. in Werkraum of the Berliner Ensemble
Natalia Sinelnikova’s feature debut WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD had its world premiere at Berlin International Film Festival in 2022. It finally toured through over 20 international festivals.
It will preview at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg in Brooklyn on May 22 before opening at Manhattan’s IFC Center on May 26. The film will then screen at LA’s Lumiere Cinema on June 2, with more cities and dates to follow.
The successful documentary film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay and Cem Kayas has been nominated for the German Film Award in the category “Best Documentary Film”.
After winning the German Film Critics’ Award in February, this nomination is another great success for the film, which through the music scene of Turkish guest workers tells and passionately revives the often forgotten piece of German history.
4 May 2023, 8:30 p.m.
DYKE DOGS SALON: »Vollversammlung/Prololesben«
A queer-lesbian cultural party by Lynn Takeo Musiol, Eva Tepest & guests
Tickets and information under this link
ANOUK & ADOFA from Marco Damghani will be on view on 30 April and 1 May as part of Autor:innentheatertage at Deutsches Theater Berlin. The play is a production of Schauspiel Leipzig and has been running to sold-out audiences ever since.
ANOUK & ADOFA
Written & directed by Marco Damghani
Marco Damghani tells sensitively and honestly the story of a young couple trying to fulfill their lives, goals and dreams, even though they keep coming up against social limits. But both are also struggling with their own inner demons and these struggles put pressure on the relationship.
On view on 30 April at 6:30 p.m. and
on 1 May at 4:00 p.m. and at 8:00 p.m.
Premiere on 28 April 2023, 7:30 p.m.
From Calle Fuhr, in cooperation with DOSSIER
Directed by: Calle Fuhr
With THE EDITORIAL Calle Fuhr has written a Hollywood-worthy thriller: we follow a team of journalists who uncover a major scandal. Based on true events around the journalist collective DOSSIER, Calle Fuhr leads us into the machinations of the environmentally destructive corporation (OMV), which uses taxpayers’ money to support corruption, washes its hands of the matter by subsidizing high cultural institutions, and undermines the freedom of press through targeted advertising policies and bullying.
THE TROJAN WOMEN, adapted from Euripides
In German
Direction: Lucia Bihler
Costume: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
For THE TROJAN WOMEN, director Lucia Bihler and her team search for a contemporary narrative method to make the ancient material about the three surviving women and their fate after the 10-year siege of Troy tangible in a sensual way. Thus, in the first part of the play, the audience becomes part of the Trojan women’s home on stage, before being able to observe the suffering of the characters from the safe distance of the auditorium.
Premiere on 28 April at 7:30 p.m.
More information & tickets unter this link.
Director and screenwriter Sueheyla Schwenk shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, presented at Berlinale Series Market 2023, produced by Studio Zentral for ZDF.
16-year-old Alva has the feeling of being different and not belonging to the world around. After moving to the countryside, she meets Esma, who doesn’t care about what others think. FEELINGS portrays teenage self-doubt and the power of friendship, hope and love.
Screenings take place on:
Fr., 14.4. at 6:00 p.m. in Acud
Sa., 15.4. at 5:45 p.m. in Babylon
Tickets under this link
Podcast KEIN KOMMENTAR
with Alina Schaller, Ashwien Sankholkar, Calle Fuhr
Since 2020, the journalists of the Austrian investigative magazine DOSSIER (including Ashwien Sankholkar) have been researching the OMV group and its former CEO Rainer Seele. There was hardly any critical reporting on the billion-dollar corporation before – because OMV is one of the biggest advertising partners in the Austrian advertising business and a major sponsor. However, it is not possible to advertise in the DOSSIER magazine due to it’s ad-free policy.
That’s why the research collective decides to embark on a high-risk investigation of the OMV’s shady businesses…
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music & Podbean.