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Interflugs Documentary Film Week: Cinema of Resistance
Interflugs invites you to ‘Interflugs Film Week: Cinema of Resistance’ which will take place between 3rd , 4th and 5th of October in Kino Moviemento, and a following panel discussion at aquarium on the 6th of October.
We are presenting the first edition of our Documentary Film Week, hoping to continue with different
focuses every year.
Documentary cinema is one of the forms that can serve to tell untold stories which cannot find representation in the mainstream narrations. Throughout the democratization of tools which allows us to produce visual images, documentary cinema has become more and more a way of activism, resisting groups witnessing, archiving and transferring their story. With this Film Week, we are trying to introduce different examples of documentary films to the audience, in order to open a space for discussion from the perspective of resisting subjects, who are also filmmakers themselves in this case.About this year’s theme:
This year our focus is Turkey, North Kurdistan and Northern Syria, or Rojava (Western Kurdistan) the
name which became known all over the world.
After the so called peace process ended violently in Turkey, local politicians and MPs as well as academicians and journalists faced huge repression. Kazım Kızıl, video activist and documentary filmmaker, was only one of those who had to experience imprisonment while the Kurdish people and their representatives had to experience massacre of civilians and demolition of cities alongside with captivities in prisons and exile. In our times, where the truth claimed to be accessible to everyone through new media, murder of civilians in the basements of Cizre was not eligible to be spoken enough as a truth even the phone call to the victims was being streamed at the same time. Leyla İmret, protagonist of the film Dil Leyla, as the youngest mayor in Turkey, was also one of those who experienced the process. We would like to focus on the latest developments in Turkey through the lens of ongoing war in Northern Kurdistan, and try to reveal the ‘truth’, under the shadow of narrations produced by manipulated mass-media, censorship and repression.
On the other hand, the revolution in Northern Syria has developed further in the last years, lead by women and created a new model of society based on the Kurdish Movement’s ideology. The revolution in Rojava is still giving a fight based on self-defense and its visual narration with a revolutionary perspective is started to be formed as well through the Film Kommune located in Rojava as well as a considerable number of local and international filmmakers, which is represented in our program with few short films focusing on city of Kobane. Here we would like to discuss how to produce our own stories in difficult times.
When the academicians started to face another huge witch hunt in Turkey, the university students wrote on the walls: ‘The Truth Does not Obey’. But what is truth, in this age of manipulation and oppression? How the documentary cinema can serve it? What makes the documentary cinema an essential tool of witnessing and transferring narrations?Locations:
Screenings: Kino Moviemento: Kottbusser Damm 22
Pnale Discussion: Aquarium, Skalitzerstr. 6 (Behind Südblock)Screenings:
Hypercoup: Rise of the Troll Nation, 61’ (Q&A with directors)
03.10 15:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/584294735079000The Tree of Eternity: The Yırca Resistance, 53’
03.10 17:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/1192298020874041Shorts Program: Sniper of Kobani 12’/ Meryem/ Distant/ Red Handkerchief (Q&A with Leyla Toprak)
04.10 19:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/1959512584325868Dil Leyla
05.10 19:00
https://www.facebook.com/events/116728979016160Panel Discussion:
with Leyla Toprak and Mizgin Müjde Arslan
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Opening Hours during the Summer Semester Break 2017
Interflugs Equipment Loan and the Büro will be open on the following days of the Summer Semester Break 2017:
24.07.2017
07.08.2017
21.08.2017
04.09.2017
18.09.2017
02.10.2017From 16.10.2017 on, we are open regularly every Monday.
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UNIversity, not UNIform
Dear UdK Students and friends,
Although it doesn’t appear in the event calendar of the University, We have realized that on June 18th 2017 the concert hall of the UdK is hosting The Summer Concert from the series “Uniform in Concert” organized by Charity Club Berlin e.V. in which the Stabsmusikkorps of the Bundeswher conducted by lieutenant colonel Rinhard Kiauka will perform.
AstA, Commomn Ground and interflugs demand that the concert of the Stabsmusikkorps is cancelled and the terms of use and the rental policises of the concert hall are changed in a way that further performances by the representatives of the Bundeswehr in the future are foreclosed.
AstA & Common Ground & UdKWe students stand for peace. We want to be able to say that our university stands for the same values with determination and commitment.
Come to support us on Sunday 18.06.17 from 10:00 am in front of the concert hall of the UdK.
Our university belongs to us! We will not be militarized! No place for Bundeswehr!
for further questions, please contact: keinplatzfurbundeswehr@ris
eup.net Our open letter:
Dear members of UdK,
although it doesn’t appear in the event calendar of the university, we have realized that on June 18th 2017 the concert hall of the UdK is hosting The Summer Concert from the series “Uniform in Concert” organized by Charity Club Berlin e.V. in which the Stabsmusikkorps of the Bundeswher conducted by lieutenant colonel Rinhard Kiauka will perform.
In a letter written collectively by AStA, Common Ground and Interflugs we demanded the cancellation of the concert. In the reply we received from the Dean of the music faculty, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schäfertöns, it was pointed out that a contract has already been signed for the concert and also that our concerns about the Bundeswehr are unfounded. He writes that “It is not true that the Bundeswehr is involved in acts of war that displace people, it is rather engaged in efforts, in cooperation with higher-level organization (eg Nato and the EU) and their alliances to prevent displacement. (See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auslandseins%C3%A4tze_der_Bundeswehr#Laufende_Eins.C3.A4tze).” The university administration confirmed that they were of the same opinion as the dean.
We actually find it unnecessary to argument why there should be no place for the Bundeswehr in universities as we, historically conscious, cofident and peace loving students are aware of the destructive influence of the Bundeswehr in the world, from the near east to Africa to Asia and refuse to be part of this violence.
The UdK advertises itself with diverse projects that facilitate the entrance of people with refugee background to the university. To give the representatives of the Bundeswehr space at the same time is a grave contradiction.
It is written on the web page of UdK that the university distances itself from cooperation with tobacco and defense industries for ethical reasons. The close ties between the Bundeswehr and the defense industry are undeniable, therefore we ask how could the same concerns not apply to cooperation with the Bundeswehr.
AStA, Common Ground and Interflugs demand that concert of the Stabsmusikkorps is cancelled and the terms of use and the rental policy of the concert hall are changed in a way that further performances by the representatives of the Bundeswehr in the future are foreclosed.
We students stand against militarization and for peace. We want to be able to say that our university stands for the same values with determination and commitment.
Come to our support on Sunday 18.06.17 from 10:00 am in front of the concert hall of the UdK.
Our university belongs to us! We will not be militarized! No place for Bundeswehr!
AStA & Common Ground & Interflugs
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S O N R E I R. Eine Dreck(s)arbeit
We recommend… (With support by interflugs)
24.06 / 25.06 || 19:00
Theatersaal (Raum 201) UdK. Bundesalle 1-12, 10719, Berlin
Eine Inszenierung von lateinamerikanischen Frauen, die in Deutschland in der Reinigungs- und Pflegearbeit tätig sind und über die damit verbundene transnationale Sorgeketten.
Inszenierung auf Spanisch mit deutscher Übersetzung.
Eintritt auf Spende!
Kartenreservierung: drecksarbeit.berlin@gmail.com ————————–
————————– ————————- Una obra de teatro sobre mujeres latinoamericanas que trabajan en Alemania en la limpieza de casas particulares y el cuidado de personas mayores y sobre las cadenas transnacionales de cuidados.
Obra de teatro en español con traducción al alemán. Entrada por donación!
Reservación de entradas: drecksarbeit.berlin@gmail.com ————————–
————————– ————————- Une mise en scène autour de femmes latino-américaines, qui travaillent en Allemagne dans les domaines de l’entretien et du nettoyage, et sur les chaînes transnationales du soin/Care.
En espagnol, traduction live en allemand
Entrée sur donation!
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PROJECT FUNDING JUNE 2017
New Project Funding Open Call announced for June 2017. Please read about our selection criteria and
send us your applications until the 18th of June, 2017, via e-mail to: @ (Subject: Projektförderung Juni 2017)
Looking forward for your ideas,
Interflugs Project Funding Team
