2022

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Film Talk
20.10.2022 at 11.00 at moviemento Berlin in he framework of he school cinema week Berlin
Talk with pupils from 10th grade about Oualid Mouaness feature fiction 1982 Nineteen Eighty Two (Lebanon 2019).

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The update of Yelo Guide - Funding Guide for Arab Filmmakers and Producer is online at daleel.film, compiled by Irit Neidhardt on behalf of Beirut DC.

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Palestine Fights: Behind the Scenes of PLO-GDR Cooperation in Filmmaking. In: Shafik, Viola (ed., 2022): Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa, The American University in Cairo Press, pp. 63-78.

^{(photo: Birgit Schweitzer)}

Moderation
September 16, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. in the Haus am Dom in Frankfurt/Main as part of the Film Days Global Perspectives
In focus: 50 years of documentaries about the Global South
To mark the anniversary of the Film Days Global Perspectives (till 2017 a television workshop on development policy), the history of the event and 50 years of film work on development policy will be looked back on. Afterwards, our guest of honor Peter Heller, documentary filmmaker since 1973, discusses the difficult production conditions and the changing distribution channels for documentaries about the Global South with media representatives. The financing of feature documentaries is usually insufficient. Can new remuneration rules provide sufficient help?
Introduction: Bettina Kocher, former managing director of the AG television workshop development policy
Panelists: Martin Pieper (ZDF/Arte), Anna Schoeppe (HessenFilm), Peter Heller (director), Moderation: Irit Neidhardt, author and curator

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Film Talk
11.5.2022 at 20.00h in Heilandkirche Berlin, Mobile Cinema Moabit
Victory Day (D 2018, 94 min)
Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.
As guest: director Sergei Loznitsa in conversation with Irit Neidhardt

^{(photo: Eythar M Gubara)}

Film Talk
24.4.2022 at 12.00h in Arsenal Berlin
in the framework of the ALFILM Spotlight Lebanon – From Civil War to Chaos: A Tribute to Filmic Resistance
CIRCLE OF DECEIT (1981)
Georg (Bruno Ganz) is a journalist who travels to Lebanon to cover the civil war and to flee an unhappy marriage. Once in Beirut, together with photographer Hoffmann (Jerzy Skolimowski), he becomes more and more aware of the complexity of the situation there. He starts to question his methods and his job: even though he knows the value of war pictures, he starts doubting the ethical correctness of his approach. When he meets the young German Arianna (Hanna Schygulla) who lives in Lebanon, not only does his perspective on Lebanon changes, but also his view on his private life. Shot during the Lebanese civil war, “Circle of Deceit” impressively portrays the violence perpetrated by the militias as a part of everyday life.
followed by a Q&A with director Volker Schlöndorff, moderated by Irit Neidhardt

^{(photos: Reem Alfahad)}