Who owns the public sphere and where does it clash with the private sphere? Who has a
right to be represented and what does radical transformation into a better society actually look
like? Who is visible and which stories are being told? RESISTANCE TAKES PLACE understands these
questions and the intention to answer them as a starting point. Actors inspire through body,
music, text, activism, spoken-word, revolution, and performance an imagery that relates to
contemporary civil and political questions. Or as bell hooks expresses the power of art and
imagination: "Space can be real and imagined. Spaces can tell stories and unfold histories.
Spaces can be interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary
practice.”
In most cities the representation of women in the urban landscape is far from gender parity. In Vienna, about 90% of all personal traffic areas bear the names of men. The film PRÄSENZ brings Vienna's traffic areas named after women to the attention and thus into the consciousness of the viewers. The 397 traffic areas named after women flash up on the screen in one shot each, as if to reflect their own way of perceiving public space. A countdown effect (settings ordered from periphery to centre) points to the value and distribution of the traffic areas named after women.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
- Director: Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk, Karl Wratschko
In and around the historical ruins of Fustat in Old Cairo, tensions simmer between the site’s government-appointed guards and residents of a nearby informal settlement, al-Izba. The guards chase away looters and confiscate their equipment, while locals infuriate them by taking shortcuts through the site, occasionally stopping for a smoke. For the guards it would be easiest to keep the site closed until further notice.… >>>
- Director: Ahmed Elghoneimy
Junkanoo - a carnival-like form of celebration in the Bahamas - is a culture with innovative costume designs. Aesthetic and political intertwine as we follow the Shell Saxon Superstars in the year-long production of costumes. Here is Black radical imagination, a resistance, a uniquely Bahamian identity. So who is archiving Junkanoo for future generations?… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
A PASSAGE is a film that tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. By focusing on two significant events which illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region, the film looks at how processes of rapid militarization and neo-liberalization have restructured these borders. These two events include the recent erasure of the historic Yerevan-Baku Railway; and the upcoming construction of an industrial Free Economic Zone (FEZ) planned precisely where the removed train infrastructure was housed. The film stitches together various contested sites of the region including Meghri’s abandoned airport, a functioning Soviet-era Copper and Molybdenum mine, a 16th century church, the deserted Karchivan and Meghri train stations and an abandoned rail tunnel that bridges the geopolitical boundary of Nakhchivan and Armenia.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson
WAR OF PERCEPTION follows the journey of a spirit medium through the streets of Hong Kong. The medium endows the ability to perceive the spirits through the ether. At a point when lies and rumors abound, she is on a mission to search for the truth, by collecting messages from the spirits.
The film interweaves political events that occurred in Hong Kong in 2019/20 with cityscapes, the personal and domestic everyday, resulting in a cinematic poetry that reflects on the relationship between the city’s colonial past and present.… >>>
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