Authority & Alterity in East German Moviessummer film festival |
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SAVE THE DATES: 3 SPECIAL EVENTS! Twenty full-length and short films highlight issues of authority and alterity in the former GDR. Feature, documentary and animation films show how filmmakers addressed state values and proscriptions and different types of East Germans reacted. |
THANK YOU for attending our virtual film festival showcasing films by and discussions with Black German filmmakers, actors, scholars and activists! Recordings of all five events are now available in our FILMBOX Digital... |
On May 16, 1946 the founding of the DEFA Studio in the Soviet Occupation Zone got official approval. In 2021, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of this occasion with a wide range of new programs and resources! |
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Love's Confusion
Sonya, an art student, loves the med student Dieter. And Siegi, a factory worker, loves the bricklayer Eddie. At a lavish Carnival party at East Berlin’s art school an unintentional exchange of partners begins. When everyone...
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Locked-Up Time
After documentary filmmaker Sibylle Schönemann applied to leave the GDR and go to West Germany, in 1984 she was arrested by the Stasi—the East German secret police—and imprisoned for the “crime” of “interfering with state...