On Thursday, the organizers will show the film “Grenzland” (2021) at the same location, which portrays the lives of different people on the German-Polish border. In the event that the weather does not cooperate, the event will take place in the rooms of the Ev.-Luth. Pauluskirchgemeinde Leipzig-Grünau (Alte Salzstraße 185).
Both events take place as part of the Grünau cultural summer and the filmmakers will then be present for discussions with the audience. On Friday the film series will stop in Schönefeld-Ost and will show the recently released documentary “Who owns my village?” (2021) in the BGL Hof (Max-Lingner-Straße 8-22 / Löbauer Straße 54-56). The entry is free.
WED, August 25 | 8 p.m. | Robert Koch Park on the meadow in front of the Grünau Park Palace
One Word (Marshall Islands, FRG 2020, German subtitles). Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers Viviana and Mark Uriona (film team Kameradistinnen).
The greenhouse emissions of the industrial society are likely to destroy the ancient culture of the Marshall Islands. This is not just a local event, but also a universal warning to all people. Taking the fate of the Marshall Islands, the filmmakers were able to use a specific example to show the effects of global warming and rising sea levels.
It was particularly important to Viviana and Mark Uriona not to go to the Marshall Islands as first world filmmakers and make a film about those affected. They took a participatory approach. They got to know the local people, developed the film project together with them and thus enabled a kind of empowerment.
This unique approach of mutual exploration has resulted in an exciting, haunting and highly explosive documentary that hits the most important topic of our time to the core.
THU, August 26th | 8 p.m. | Robert-Koch-Park on the meadow in front of the Parkschloss Grünau (when it rains: Pauluskirchgemeinde Leipzig-Grünau (Alte Salzstraße 185).
Borderland (FRG 2021). Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Andreas Voigt.
The wide, flat land behind the dykes on the Oder and Neisse rivers is just like it used to be. Floods have dragged on, wars, people on their wanderings and the search for a place to stay and a better life. A landscape and its history. Borderlands – a journey. From the border triangle, where Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic meet, to the Oderhaff …
FRI, August 27 | 8 p.m. | Schönefeld-Ost (BGL Hof, Max-Lingner-Strasse 8-22 / Löbauer Strasse 54-56.)
Who does my village belong to? (Germany 2021). In cooperation with the BGL neighborhood aid association. Followed by a discussion.
In his home village on the Baltic Sea, the filmmaker Christoph Eder observes the residents * awakening from their political lethargy in the struggle for the fate of the popular tourist destination. A film about the essence of democracy between white bathing architecture and the sound of the sea.
The series runs until November 3rd. The complete program with the film descriptions and further information can be found on the website www.globale-leipzig.de.
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