DE, feature movie, 88 min., 2022
Script & direction: Erol Afşin
Amal, Omar, and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. At the playground, they encounter a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. The case goes to court, but an incident during the hearing changes everything for the family.
Based on real events.
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Lisa Wentz has been awarded the Contemporary Arts Alliance (CAA) Berlin Prize for Drama 2023.
The Contemporary Arts Alliance (CAA) Berlin is a platform for private commitment to the promotion of contemporary culture in Berlin. CAA Berlin awards a one-time scholarship to an emerging playwright in the Studio of the Schaubühne Berlin.
On 9th of June, at 7:30 p.m.: award ceremony and staged reading with ensemble members
Studio / Schaubühne Berlin
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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.
Premiere on 18 June at 8:30 p.m. in Dicker Turm, Heidelberg
As part of Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele festival
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Tag XYZ is a text about the vicissitudes of political action and activism, about dreading collectives and yet sensing the urge to leave your own comfort zone, and about the dilation of your pupils in the dark.
Wolfram Lotz in conversation with Lorenz Just
On Wednesday, 7 June at 7:30 p.m. in Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin
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
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.
“In “Planet B”, Yael Ronen and her co-writer Itai Reicher have not solely made a drama out of the highly topical environmental theme, but rather spun a witty sci-fi comedy in the light, Ronenian twist and development style. […] Errors and confusions, in which edge and center, cause and effect, but above all all all social themes and discourses fly around in the most beautiful way and unleash truths that are stuck in hard, is what makes Ronen’s theater so bright, funny and extremely human.” – Doris Meierhenrich, Berliner Zeitung (the quote originally in German)
A not-so-distant future: climate change has continued unabated, many species have already extincted, vast land areas are barely inhabitable… A race begins to see who deserves to survive. Welcome to the alien entertainment reality show, where humans compete with chicken, panda, ant, etc. for the repopulation of the Earth as the only surviving species!
Dates & tickets under this link (external)
CRUISING MYTHOLOGY searches for queer-feminist concepts in Greek mythology and makes an attempt in transferring them into today’s life practices through performances, installations and lectures. What can we learn about plants and animals from the adventure dyke Artemis? What does the six-armed Scylla tell us about polyamorous relationships? What does the song of the sirens reveal about male fears? Varios topics and theses related to antiquity will be examined for their usefulness for the city of tomorrow.
Symposium at Schauspielhaus Hamburg
16 – 23 September 2023
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