24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Programmsparten: Reflections

Sergei Loznitsa: Babyn Jar. Kontext / Babi Yar. Context

Using material from German, Russian, and Ukrainian archives, the film reconstructs the massacre near Kyiv in which 33,711 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by a German Sonderkommando and the Ukrainian auxiliary police on September 29 and 30, 1941. »What is also frightening about the film is that similar

Ece Temelkuran: Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World

Climate crisis, pandemic, war: the world often causes fear and despair. Ece Temelkuran opposes this with a ten-point plan and shows an action-oriented way, based on determination and trust, to gain new hope and creative power. In doing so, she focuses not on a distant future, but on the here

Sergei Loznitsa: Auschwitz / Austerlitz

Shot in black and white and using a freeze frame device, this film poses the question of appropriate commemoration. People are shown crowding through memorials like Sachsenhausen or Dachau, but also individuals who grasp something essential about the Holocaust during their visit. »The film asks us how we formulate universally

Far East Berlin – Reading the Asian Berlin. With: Ma Thida, Sonny Thet

Residents of Berlin from Thailand, Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam help shape the city’s diverse cultural life and will share what it feels like to live in Germany with a different background. Themes and texts of Asian Berlin are presented by Ma Thida, Burmese surgeon, writer, and president

At the Peak of Book Art: Gerhard Steidl and the Steidl Publishing House

54 years ago, Gerhard Steidl set up a screen-printing workshop for prints and posters in his native Göttingen when he was 18. After founding Steidl Verlag in 1969 and working closely with Klaus Staeck, Joseph Beuys, Günter Grass, Karl Lagerfeld, and many others for many years, the early bird has