Wo ist die Mauer? / Where is the Wall?

Format: HD, 16:9. Length: 87 min. Ein Film von Stefan Pannen und Elke Sasse.

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Autumn 2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. While still a powerful presence in the minds of older generations, it is simply past history for young people and visitors to Berlin today. And it is tough to find any traces left on the cityscape.

The “Where is the Wall?” documentary focuses on Japanese photographer Takahisa Matsuura’s search for any and all that remains of the Berlin Wall. He studied in Berlin during the 1980s and took over 2,000 photos of the wall. Now he is engaged in a struggle to reconstruct where it once stood. Driven by the simple desire to see any bits of the Berlin Wall that still exist, he begins at Brandenburg Gate and tours what used to be a strip of no-man’s land between the two Germanys.

BACKGROUND
in co-production with:
ZDF, MDR, RBB,
WDR, United Docs

in co-operation with:
ARTE, ETB, Télé Québe,
TV3, Odisea, YLE

funded by
Bundesstiftung zur
Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur,
MEDIA +

Format: HD, 16:9
Length: 87 min.
Ein Film von Stefan Pannen und Elke Sasse

Hannah Arendt – The obligation to disobey

A film by Ada Ushpiz, HD, WDR/arte, 90 min. | 2016

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Hannah Arendt is one of the 20th Century’s most influential political thinkers. But what does her work say to the young people of today, a generation that moves beyond the restrictions of nationality or even continents, and who take sides with the idea of “ thinking without a banister” (Hannah Arendt) as regards systems, ideologies and desires? From the Arab Spring, the protests against political repression in the Ukraine, Hong Kong or Canada, to accomplishments of the Occupy movement, the work of NGOs or exposes of state-sanctioned spying on entire populations, Hannah Arendt declared that politics is to be understood as a “matter of freedom from the evil of despotism of any kind.”

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Karneval!

Ein Film von Claus Wischmann. 90 min., WDR 2014

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One year, five seasons and 365 days uncovering the secrets of the Karneval. The film takes a glimpse behind the scenes of one of the world’s largest folk festivals. All in keeping with the motto “After the session is before the session”.

The Cologne Carnival is one of the biggest folk festivals in the world. >For a few days every year, millions of people – locals and strangers, dedicated revellers and tourists – come together in a collective frenzy of intoxication. But is it really all over on Ash Wednesday? After the Carnival is also before the Carnival. No culmination without a prelude, no spectacle without a rehearsal. What is the role of this giant festival outside the official season? In his documentary, Claus Wischmann takes a look behind the scenes and follows five Cologne carnival revellers for one year in ‘Carnival! Proud To be Mad’.

Kinshasa Symphony

Ein Film von Martin Baer und Claus Wischmann. 90 min., Kongo, WDR/RBB 2011

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Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Orff’s “Carmina Burana” in total darkness. A power cut has hit the Ngiri Ngiri district of Kinshasa, only a few bars before the last section of the work. Kinshasa’s power stations and main networks are insufficient to supply electricity to all the 8 million inhabitants of what is Africa’s third-largest city. Once again the lights have gone out in the “Salle des fêtes”, a kind of open garage where the orchestra practises. But for its members this is no reason to stop rehearsing. Most of them know their parts by heart. Small lapses of memory are compensated for by a talent for improvisation and the grace of God.

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