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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
San Francisco Newsreel
In their speeches and rallies, the Black Panther Party makes it clear that white supremacy over the Black US population can only be overcome by a “Black Revolution.”
Filmstill Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
San Francisco Newsreel
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1968
16 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere

One of the first productions of San Francisco Newsreel, a local offshoot of the nationwide network of Newsreel collectives, demonstrated solidarity with the Black Panther Party against the ghettoization of Black Communities in the cities and against police violence. “Off the Pig! – Death to the cops!” is the battle-call of the militarily organised protesters in the streets of Los Angeles. They demand the release of imprisoned Black Panther founding member Huey Newton. The latter speaks at length in a prison interview, as do his co-fighters Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale. What they say and read out is aimed at nothing less than a revolution, a violent overthrow that is to liberate the Black US population from white supremacy.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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29.10.
#333
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Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19) + A Song for Dead Warriors + ¡Huelga!
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San Francisco Newsreel
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San Francisco Newsreel

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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
Newsreel
Self-organized solidarity communities: The New York squatter movement fights to prevent the poorer population sections from being driven out of the lucrative areas in Manhattan.
Filmstill Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
Newsreel
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1971
41 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere

“Why should I move? I was born here.” While a senseless war is waged in Vietnam and million-dollar rockets are shot to the moon, there is not enough decent housing in New York – and worse, the poor are being forcibly evicted from their homes, says an angry protagonist of this activist film which introduces the New York squatter movement. Latin Americans in particular are forced to leave the lucrative Manhattan housing market, but the protesters do not accept this without putting up a fight. “Break & Enter” is a spontaneous and encouraging film document about self-organised communities based on solidarity.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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07.11.
Luru Kino
Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62) + People’s Firehouse No. 1

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Break & Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62) + People’s Firehouse No. 1

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Newsreel
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Newsreel

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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill The Chicago Maternity Center Story
The Chicago Maternity Center Story
Jerry Blumenthal, Suzanne Davenport, Sharon Karp, Gordon Quinn, Jenny Rohrer
The Chicago Maternity Center, which provided safe and affordable home births primarily to Black women, is threatened with closure. Resistance begins to form.
Filmstill The Chicago Maternity Center Story

The Chicago Maternity Center Story

The Chicago Maternity Center Story
Jerry Blumenthal, Suzanne Davenport, Sharon Karp, Gordon Quinn, Jenny Rohrer
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1976
60 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German
No Premiere

In 1974, the Maternity Center, located in a low-income Chicago neighbourhood, is acutely threatened by lack of financing from its funding body, North Western University. Resistance begins to form in the predominantly Black community, since this is an institution with a 75-year-old history that has provided countless woman with safe and affordable home-births. “The Chicago Maternity Center Story” uses this civil protest as a starting point to tell the story of the rampant commercialisation of medical care in the USA, including its sexist and racist connotations. A film that approaches the issue sometimes gently, sometimes with agitprop vigour.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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08.11.
Luru Kino
Trick Bag + The Chicago Maternity Center Story

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Trick Bag + The Chicago Maternity Center Story

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Jerry Blumenthal, Suzanne Davenport, Sharon Karp, Gordon Quinn, Jenny Rohrer
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Kartemquin Films

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Audience Competition
Filmstill Coexistence, My Ass!
Coexistence, My Ass!
Amber Fares
Noam Shuster-Eliassi grew up in a Jewish-Arab peace village in Israel, worked for the UN and is doing stand-up comedy on the Middle East conflict in English, Hebrew and Arabic.  
Filmstill Coexistence, My Ass!

Coexistence, My Ass!

Coexistence, My Ass!
Amber Fares
Audience Competition
Documentary Film
USA,
France
2025
93 minutes
English,
Hebrew,
Arabic
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

The name of her village stands for a utopia that has shaped Noam Shuster Eliassi from childhood: Newe Shalom (Hebrew) or Wahat al-Salām (Arabic) roughly translates as “Oasis of Peace.” This small community of 300 people from Jewish and Arab families which was founded in 1969, located in Israel at the border with the West Bank, is a test of solidarity in practice. Thus, Noam, who is Jewish, and her Palestinian friend Ranin become ambassadors of mutual understanding even as children, for example when Hillary Clinton or Jane Fonda come to visit. They seem predestined for a career in the United Nations.
In her comedy show “Coexistence, My Ass!”, which director Amber Fares uses as a leitmotif, Shuster Eliassi strikes a harsher tone. Her career shift from diplomacy to political comedy – in English, Hebrew or Arabic, depending on the audience – shows her as a critic of the Netanyahu government, both before and after the Hamas terrorist attack on 7 October 2023. Her example also reflects the division in parts of the Israeli left: Shuster Eliassi’s deep pain of having lost loved ones herself is followed by anger about the Gaza war. What is humour able, what is it allowed to do in this situation? Perhaps help us mourn the suffering of two nations and, despite everything, not give up the utopia of peace.


Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

Photosensitivity warning: Contains flashes of light that may trigger seizures for people with visual sensitivities.

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30.10.
#422
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Coexistence, My Ass!
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Coexistence, My Ass!
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02.11.
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Coexistence, My Ass!
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Director
Amber Fares
Cinematographer
Amber Fares, Philippe Bellaiche, Amit Chachamov
Editor
Rabab Haj Yahya
Producer
Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones, Valérie Montmartin
Sound
Rachel Leah Jones, Ibrahim Zaher, Sharon Luzon

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Nominated for: Leipziger Ring
International Competition Animated Film
Filmstill Death Does Not Exist
Death Does Not Exist
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
A group of young activists raid a posh mansion. The revenge campaign fails. Only Hélène gets a fatal second chance and is sucked into a surrealistic vortex.
Filmstill Death Does Not Exist

Death Does Not Exist

La mort n’existe pas
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Canada,
France
2025
72 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

When Marc confesses his love to his girlfriend Hélène, all she answers is “Later!” The timing of his confession could not be worse, as there is a whole other dimension to Hélène’s reply. Both belong to a group of activists who have just burned their mobile phones and tackled the ultimate important questions in the forest. Questions of fear, power, courage, loyalty, and doubts. Following this, they attack a rich and influential retired couple in their posh mansion, representing those guilty of the dilemma of this world in their eyes. The armed attack ends in a bloodbath. In the midst of the shootout, though, Hélène is struck with a strange kind of paralysis and soon afterwards sucked into the surrealistic maelstrom of a fatal second chance.
Canadian director and writer Félix Dufour-Laperrière says, he writes “with colours in mind, with transformations, dreamlike sequences, mental images that take shape on screen.” Hand-drawn templates unfold in a powerful symbolic 2D animation of flowing figures and silhouettes that neither shrinks from aggressively formulated messages nor from the exuberant magic of the format.


Andreas Körner

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28.10.
#241
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God Is Shy + Death Does Not Exist
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31.10.
#571
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
God Is Shy + Death Does Not Exist
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#571
God Is Shy + Death Does Not Exist
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02.11.
#7B2
Schauburg
God Is Shy + Death Does Not Exist
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Schauburg
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Director
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Producer
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
Animation
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Animation Technique
Drawn

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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill Different Sons
Different Sons
Jack Ofield
In 1970, a group of Vietnam veterans set out on a long march. They want to confront the local population with the shocking injustices that have been going on in Vietnam for years.
Filmstill Different Sons

Different Sons

Different Sons
Jack Ofield
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1971
55 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
No Premiere

On 4 September 1970, a group of Vietnam veterans set out on a long march from Morristown, New Jersey, to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Their goal: to convince the local population along the way of the injustice that has been going on in Vietnam for years. They did this not just with speeches by the wayside, but with shocking, unannounced and publicly performed re-enactments. Complete with uniforms and plastic machine guns, supported by extras, they thus draw attention to their own war crimes in Indochina. Both camera and tape recorder stay close to all this, capturing the reactions of passers-by and city residents. Solidarity on the one hand, vicious insults on the other. A deep divide runs through the “home front”.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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31.10.
#532
CineStar 5
Different Sons + Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
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Different Sons + Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
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Director
Jack Ofield
Cinematographer
Bob Ipcar, Lee Kenower, Bob Baldwin, Bob Fiore
Producer
Arthur Littman, Bob Sann, Wendy Megginson
Score
Phil Ochs

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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill Harlan County, USA
Harlan County, USA
Barbara Kopple
In her long-term observation, Barbara Kopple focuses on the Brookside Strike in Kentucky in 1973. Partisanship that appeals to all the senses, accompanied by folk and bluegrass music.
Filmstill Harlan County, USA

Harlan County, USA

Harlan County, USA
Barbara Kopple
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1977
103 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German
No Premiere

“Which side are you on?” sings Florence Reece, an icon of the miners’ movement in Harlan County, Kentucky, with a brittle voice into the microphone at a union rally. Barbara Kopple’s long-term observation of the 1973 Brookside strike might even be called a music film. Because aside from Reece’s classic strike anthem, song and speech, folklore and politics, rhythms of speaking and editing are combined throughout: a successful attempt at partisanship that appeals to all the senses, where slogans are absent – or put into song. “Harlan County, USA” was presented in a special screening at the Leipzig Dokumentarfilmwoche in autumn 1977, its fame having preceded it: It had already won the Oscar for Best Documentary Film in April of that year.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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01.11.
#633
CineStar 5
Wildcat + Harlan County, USA
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Wildcat + Harlan County, USA
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Director
Barbara Kopple
Cinematographer
Kevin Keating, Hart Perry
Editor
Nancy Baker, Mary Lampson
Producer
Barbara Kopple
Sound
Joshua Waletzky, Barbara Kopple
Score
Hazel Dickens, Florence Reece, Merle Travis

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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill ¡Huelga!
¡Huelga!
Ralph McGrew
An emerging solidarity community on strike: In 1965, Mexican farm workers stood up against the unregulated capitalism in the agricultural sector and the racism of the white land owners.
Filmstill ¡Huelga!

¡Huelga!

¡Huelga!
Ralph McGrew
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1967
54 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None
No Premiere

In 1965, the longest farm workers’ strike in US-American history unrolled in Delano, California. Led by Cesar Chavez, the as yet unorganised Mexican seasonal labourers fought successfully for better working conditions and the right to found a union of their own, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). “¡Huelga!” is the partisan portrait of an emerging solidarity group that not only stood up against the unregulated capitalism in the agricultural sector but also declared war on the racism of the white landowners. In addition to depicting the mechanisms of the strike, the mobile camera also makes a point of documenting the degrading living conditions of the people who kept one of the most powerful industries in the country going.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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29.10.
#333
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Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19) + A Song for Dead Warriors + ¡Huelga!
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Director
Ralph McGrew
Script
Mark Harris
Cinematographer
Richard Pearce, John Haney
Editor
Ralph McGrew, Dick Gilbert
Producer
Mark Harris
Score
Augustin Lira, El Teatro Campesino

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Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill In the King of Prussia
In the King of Prussia
Emile de Antonio
In 1980, a group of radical pacifists break into a factory where nuclear weapons are produced. The film focuses on the trial against the activists which takes the form of a re-enactment.
Filmstill In the King of Prussia

In the King of Prussia

In the King of Prussia
Emile de Antonio
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Fictional Film
USA
1982
90 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German
No Premiere

To put it bluntly, one could say that most of de Antonio’s films are courtroom dramas. In this sense, “In the King of Prussia” is typical – and at the same time unusual, starting with the title. King of Prussia is a small town in Pennsylvania which became the scene of an action by radical Christian pacifists in September 1980. They broke into a factory where, unbeknownst to the public, parts of the nuclear missile Mark 12A were produced, and held a happening inspired by the Sermon on the Mount and Fluxus. The film is a re-enactment, but not of the action, rather of the trial against the so-called Plowshares Eight. In de Antonio’s first video production, shot in the trial breaks, the defendants played themselves. The role of the judge was played by New Hollywood star Martin Sheen.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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25.10.
Luru Kino
In the King of Prussia

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Director
Emile de Antonio
Script
Emile de Antonio
Cinematographer
Julian Abbio, Judy Irola
Editor
Mark Pines
Producer
Emile de Antonio, Vincent Hanlon
Sound
Jack Malkan
Score
Sidney Carter, Jackson Browne

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German Competition Documentary Film
Filmstill Intersection
Intersection – It’s Political
Karoline Rößler
Facing up to discrimination and reviving deadlocked debates? Finding alliances outside of one’s bubble? Six strong voices seek (and find) answers together.
Filmstill Intersection

Intersection – It’s Political

Intersection – Alles ist politisch
Karoline Rößler
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2025
87 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
Audio Description
World premiere

The “Intersection – It’s Political” project asks how structures of discrimination can be made tangible – especially for those who have not (yet) experienced discrimination themselves. That is precisely the purpose of an interactive smartphone game distinguished by two qualities: It is competitive – and it is unfair. Some players start with privileges, others with handicaps, depending on which character they are assigned. In the film, this game serves as a starting point, visualisation, and reality check for a group of six people who are actively committed to fighting to identify social injustice and discrimination and publicly opposing them.
The exchange between those six around the table makes it clear how ubiquitous racism, sexism, ableism, queerphobia, and transphobia are. And that, at a time when right-wing parties are growing stronger across the globe and marginalised groups are denied rights, it is all the more important to work against inequality not only in one’s own bubble, derided as “woke”, but also to influence the equally often quoted “middle of society”. Questions of how to reach this important, but often sluggish mass, of language and identity in the discourse about discrimination are just as much part of the discussion as strategies to protect themselves from frustration and burnout.


Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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28.10.
#213
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Intersection – Alles ist politisch
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Intersection – Alles ist politisch
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01.11.
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Intersection – Alles ist politisch
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Intersection – Alles ist politisch
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Director
Karoline Rößler
Cinematographer
Clara Marnette
Editor
Julia Maxin Kaiser
Producer
Markus Heidmeier, Laura Küntzel, Jascha Loos, Karoline Rößler
Co-Producer
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Sound Design
Anastasiia Nasonkina
Score
Jan Glauser
Animation
Frederick Freund, Mascha Ermakova
Animation Technique
Game Engine

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Nominated for: DEFA Sponsoring Prize, Gedanken Aufschluss Prize, VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness
German Competition Documentary Film
Filmstill A Jewish Problem
A Jewish Problem
Ron Rothschild
Key events of the Middle East conflict have left their traces in this filmmaker’s family history. When he arrives in Berlin, he learns to distrust his own perceptions.
Filmstill A Jewish Problem

A Jewish Problem

A Jewish Problem
Ron Rothschild
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2025
80 minutes
English,
German,
Hebrew
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

In the opening image, there is a grid between the camera and the world, conveying the field of vision of an Israeli soldier deployed as a cameraman in the Israeli-occupied territories between 2007 and 2010. The filmmaker’s self-critical comments today ask what he could and could not see then. Leaving the country and arriving in Germany triggered a learning process that he traces here in a multi-layered and very personal research: “I learned I can’t trust myself to do the right thing.”
Complex camera pans show current German street scenes that bundle up signs of a precarious coexistence, while family and friends drift apart over the so-called Middle East Conflict. Ron Rothschild now lives in a country that his grandmother had to flee at the age of seven to escape from the Nazis. Even in old age, she could still recite Schiller’s “Song of the Bell” from memory. Once arrived in Haifa, she became a soldier and part of the establishment of the state of Israel and the expulsion of the Palestinians. The yearning to belong creates ambivalences and open questions in the family’s history, which the grandson confronts without resolving the ever-new distances emerging between the camera eye and the world.


Jan Künemund

Contains mentions of war scenes

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30.10.
#413
CineStar 2
A Jewish Problem
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A Jewish Problem
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31.10.
#5B1
Schauburg
A Jewish Problem
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A Jewish Problem
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01.11.
#664
Passage Kinos Astoria
A Jewish Problem
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Director
Ron Rothschild
Script
Gil Rothschild
Cinematographer
Ron Rothschild, Julien Mayer, Masha Biller, Fion Mutert, Sina Aghazadeh
Editor
Astrid Hohle Hansen
Producer
Yusuf Celik
Sound Design
Vadim Mühlberg
Score
Georg Mausolf

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Nominated for: DEFA Sponsoring Prize, VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Filmstill My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
Heather Archibald, Tami Gold
The female first-person narrator recalls her political awakening – from exploited day labourer to guerillera – and the fight against the United Fruit Company’s influence on her country.
Filmstill My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
Heather Archibald, Tami Gold
Retrospective: Un-American Activities
Documentary Film
USA
1971
29 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere

Set to high-contrast series of images in black and white that sometimes come to a standstill, the female first-person narrator recites an emphatic speech about her political awakening: her development from an exploited day-worker to a guerrillera fighting against the political and economic influence of the USA on Latin American states, in this case the globally active United Fruit Company and its dominance in Guatemala. “My Country Occupied” is a film in search of a political form, oscillating between rapidly edited agitprop in the spirit of Latin-American Third Cinema, polemically used found footage and rather catchy, folkloristic-looking passages about the country and its people.


Tobias Hering, Tilman Schumacher

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07.11.
Luru Kino
Army (U.S. Army) (Newsreel #36) + My Country occupied (Newsreel #151) + Teach Our Children

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Army (U.S. Army) (Newsreel #36) + My Country occupied (Newsreel #151) + Teach Our Children

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Director
Heather Archibald, Tami Gold
Producer
Newsreel

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