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Saturday . May 5 (Kinosaal/Cinema)
10 pm / 22 Uhr

CHILDREN OF THE WALL
Director: Eric Brice Swartz
Documentary, Color, 59 min.
USA/Germany 2011
English and German with English subtitles

"Children Of The Wall" is a documentary film about Berlin’s rise as a creative capital after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The film’s historical and cultural ideas are portrayed through the eyes of 20 artists living and working in Germany today. Artists, including musicians, street performers, photographers, singers, painters, writers, a raw food artist, dancers, actors, and arts administrators tell their personal stories about living and working in a city struggling for an identity after almost 30 years of division. Many of the artists profiled in the film were in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, and they discuss how that historic event shaped their creative and personal lives. The film also explores how the threat of gentrification and development is pushing the artists – and their creativity – out of the main areas of the city.

"Children Of The Wall" ist ein Dokumentarfilm über Berlins Aufstieg als kreative Hauptstadt nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer 1989. Die historischen und kulturellen Ideen im Film werden durch die Augen von 20 Künstlern betrachtet, die heute in Deutschland leben und arbeiten. Künstler, darunter Musiker, Straßenperformer, Fotografen, Sänger, Maler, Schriftsteller, ein "Raw Food Artist" (ein Künstler, der rohe Speisen zubereitet), Tänzer, Schauspieler und Kuratoren erzählen ihre persönlichen Geschichten über Leben und Arbeiten in einer Stadt, die nach fast 30-jähriger Spaltung um ihre Identität kämpft. Viele der im Film vorgestellten Künstler waren in Deutschland, als die Berliner Mauer am 9. November 1989 fiel, und sie erzählen, wie dieses historische Ereignis ihr kreatives und persönliches Leben formte. Der Film untersucht auch, wie die Bedrohung der Gentrifizierung und Bauvorhaben die Künstler – und ihre Kreativität – aus den Zentren der Stadt verdrängt.

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XXVII.
Black International Cinema Berlin

May 2-6, 2012

Black International Cinema Berlin
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
FESTIVAL IMPRESSIONS
INTERNATIONAL
PRESS VOICES
FILM AWARDS
HISTORY
Workshop for
Puppet Theatre, Berlin
"FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND?" - Exhibition
"FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND?" - Photo Gallery
Footprints in the Sand?
an exploration - excavation
Poetry by Ursula Troche
PAR - Performing Arts Review
Taiwan 2008 / Portrait of
Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith