#BERLIN 2022

Short films by Berlin-based female filmmakers with a migration background – Screening 4.11.2022

Curator: Alejandra Atalah
🗓️ 4.11.2022 – 6PM
📍 Brotfabrik. Caligaripl. 1, 13086 Berlin
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Ofenheizung: Portrait of a Stove

Director: Juli Saragosa
Country: Germany

In Berlin in the year 2020, there are still homes that rely on coal stoves for heating, despite their ban in 2015 by the Federal Emission Control Ordinance. This short film is a portrait of one of those stoves, the maintenance it requires of the inhabitant of the home it’s in, and what it means for its Kiez, Kreuzberg.

Love: One Way Ticket to Berlin

Director: Daniela Lucato
Country: Germany

Whether having come in Berlin for love or having fallen in love in Berlin, some women coming from different parts of the world give an insight of the capital confronting themselves with women issues experienced in their countries.


Who owns the city?

Director: Jennifer Mallmann
Country: Germany

Unanswered voicemails face the destruction of urban living and cultural space and the displacement of its people. A portrait of impermanence. “Who owns the city?” capture the impacts and consequences of gentrification in Berlin and allows for the pain of the people affected by their housing struggle. It addresses the essential right to a home – and criticizes the economic and political conditions by which our housing conditions are determined in reality. The film shows people who fight, who want to participate and who belong to the city. The film focuses on three places: The bookstore Kisch & Co, the solidarity-based neighborhood pub and a prefabricated building for the socially These places are connected with voice massages that represent the remains of a broken relationship and symbolize the loss of the former inhabitants of the houses.


Alice Coming Down

Director: Berglind Thrastardottir
Country: Germany

Alice is trying to escape the male gaze by tumbling down the rabbit-hole of techno Berlin. Will an underworld presuming to punctuate liberation with pills and powders show little, lost Alice the path that runs away from patriarchy? A dark, psychedelic journey leads Alice to confront her sexuality.