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The Right to Have Nights


(BALi Kinos)

Freedom of Movement

Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila won the first gold medal for a Sub-Saharan country, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend as well as a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer and el Sani have recontextualized amidst Romes rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their freedom of movement, also understood as the possibility of being welcomed in another country. With Freedom of Movement, Fischer and el Sani show the complexity of ideological, colonial and architectural implications of the iconic Olympic marathon victory of Abebe Bikila and its impact to the present day.… >>>

  • Duration: 30 Min.
  • Director: Maroan el Sani,Nina Fischer

Cast Away Souls

Cast Away Souls focusses on the Detention Center Sjaelsmark in Denmark, where the bureaucratic coldness of European migration policy is displaying in an especially perfidious version. In the film, we follow the questions of Stanley Edward, who was himself housed there for many years, to current manager of the center, a trained prison director. In the conversation, Edward's questions make the director reveal the specific mechanisms at work in the center. Again and again, the director is pointing to rules and laws, and if he could decide on his own, he would act differently – but he is not allowed to. And because of that he doesn’t.… >>>

  • Duration: 34 Min.
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Markus Fiedler,Nanna Katrine Hansen,Thomas Elsted,Stanley Edwards