Magic Mountain by Mariam Chachia and Nik Voigt (ჯადოსნური მთა)
Abastumani – a unique resort in Georgia, must yield to the country's richest man, Bidzina Ivanishvili. The place that for more than a century often offered tuberculosis patients their last hope remained a persistent thought in the director's dreams. Through her personal medical history, the narrator approaches the fairy-tale-like and eerie past of the location. "The Magic Mountain of Abastumani" transforms – if only briefly – from a place of isolation and death into one of solidarity and mutual care.
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29.10., 18:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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Do You Love Me by Tonia Noyabriova
One year before the Soviet Union collapses. Kira (17 y.o) is stepping out of her adolescence into adult life at the very same moment as Ukraine steps out of Soviet slavery into the unknown. Together they will try all kinds of things for the first time – funny, dangerous, rebellious – as every teenager does.
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26.10., 20:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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BABYLON XX by Ivan Mykolaychuk
Mykolaychuk made history in world cinema in the 1960s, playing the role of Ivan in Sergei Parajanov's “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”. But Mykolaychuk himself also made brilliant, poetic, authorial films that are incredibly interesting to watch today. His films are surprisingly polyphonic: folk songs in different languages, colorful heroines and heroes in a complex, intricate ecosystem of social life.
Babylon XX is the directorial debut of actor Ivan Mykolaychuk. Set in the picturesque Ukrainian village of Babylon in the 1920s, the film tells the story of the clash between the old and new political worlds. The international premiere of the film took place at the Locarno Film Festival, and it became a high-profile event, even though it was shot at a time (1979) when Ukrainian cinema was under considerable pressure from the official Soviet government.
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27.10., 20:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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Such Late, Such Warm Autumn by Ivan Mykolaychuk
Another "Bukovinian story" tells the story of Rusnak, a peasant who leaves for Canada in search of a better life and later returns home with his granddaughter Orysia. Through the character of Orysia, Ivan Mykolaychuk raises an important issue of national consciousness: in Bukovyna, Orysia falls in love with a local boy and realizes her own national identity. It was Ivan Mykolaychuk who played the handsome village boy Hryhor, with whom Orysia falls in love.
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29.10., 20:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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The White Bird Marked with Black by Yuri Illienko
The White Bird Marked with Black is a landmark film of the Ukrainian cinema era, a film that belongs to the school of Ukrainian poetic cinema, a famous film directed by Yuriy Illienko and shot at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio. Despite the fact that Yuriy Illienko shot the film back in 1970, it was released on the big screen only two years later, on January 17, 1972! 50 years later, The White Bird Marked with Black is still among the most iconic films, ranking 8th in the list of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema.
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27.10., 18:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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Self-Portrait along the Borderline by Anna Dziapshipa (ავტოპორტრეტი ზღვარზე)
In her essay film, the Georgian-Abkhazian director retrospectively explores her identity in a border region filled with trauma and loss. Over 20 years later, she can return to her abandoned house in occupied Abkhazia. A summer house like a spider's web, keeping the first-person narrator trapped in the past. Using the family archive, Anna Dziapshipa reconstructs an intimate portrait of a Georgian-Abkhazian family and reflects on questions of identity and memory work in the context of war.
The film is followed by Q&As with the film director Anna Dziapshipa.
SCREENINGS
26.10., 18:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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A Room of my Own by Ioseb „Soso“ Bliadze (ჩემი ოთახი)
The film by Ioseb (Soso) Bliadze tells the story of Tina and Megi, two young women who become roommates by chance. In their shared flat, worlds collide as these two women from very different social milieux navigate their new life together. Megi is a sociable and modern woman with many friends and an outgoing lifestyle who plans to leave the country after her US visa is approved. On the other hand, Tina, who comes from a conservative family and is already divorced at the age of 25 and has been struggling to find her place in the world after the dissolution of her marriage. Despite their distinct backgrounds, both women encounter similar obstacles as they transition into adulthood. Throughout the film, their shared apartment becomes a haven of support and a merging of their disparate worlds.
The film screening is followed by the Q&As with Taki Mumladze, the co-author and one of the main actresses, and Eva Blondiau, the producer.
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28.10., 18:00
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin
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