John jay should johnson takes you along on a thrilling and bone chilling journey each week you can discover new stories and locate. On instagram. Luke. Hello and a very warm welcome to a special edition of q. Know from the small brown the book town of about zahra together with my colleague Hans Christoph we have traveled far from the hustle and bustle of berlin to the beautiful countryside around the shores of like dogs. And were here for the six without borders Film Festival last nights just its an International Festival dedicated to breaking down barriers and again its a great selection of documentaries and features films dealing with. Challenging and moving stories but aim to change the way we think about the world. So without further ado lets remove the borders and take a cinematic journey around this tiny planet which is our common home. Watching three countries three conflicts three phones the personal tales behind the International News stories. In europe. Syria two thousand and eleven the arab spring a whole generation son of rights a new beginning to sense of freedom. Abiders like to live films or friends had only one side wow. Ok. We intend to document the art movement at first through the uprising in the arab world and then. Can be returned to focus on us how we are dying. Bashar al assad brutally suppressed the uprising it became a mass less war against his own people and violence became normal the war turned into a show a war of images shift. I learned. How to be like. I did those who were there must feel more human maybe have a better. Mr how to. Wash all is about media manipulation. Carried out turn to be like a weapon. And at the same time as a savior. If you threw what ive got my. Head there live. On the. Law. Thank you read that it wasnt mission walk more quietly hustle thirty eight. So i would have made about. Oh by those i tunes fled syria but she remains traumatized for a long time it was difficult for her to talk about it ive been in some festivals around but never in interviews. Im doing this now to. What my friends in my circle who are lost and. What they started. About as friends were abducted tortured or killed but somehow she finds the strength to keep going. Our next film without borders is from kenya and another female director keenan lives in the district of nairobi where Everybody Knows each other and she feels drawn to seek a friend of the. People and see whom. Yes so. Does make a pact that we will never be like any of them down there. The two women fall in love and absolute to boo in kenya. And two thousand and eighteen rafiki became the first kenyan film to be invited to the come from festival. What did. You want and before the film was shown in cannes it was banned in kenya because homosexuality is a crime that Office Making films about the topic assessing such films is also a crime. In the film. Of victims of violence and intolerance. You little piece and you know what. If you dont want to. Say to cut a bob or young. One door you do see a more. With. Politics and repression packed into a sensitively told love story. For the actors who portrayed the lovers in the film it was a real test of courage. Is that anyone could be if they stayed in the country but initially they were threatened with a prison sentence but after the film running can the situation calm down where. The battle Film Festival is all about Cultural Exchange our first film takes us to israel and to the israeli occupied. Territories of the west bank novelist now about goes on a road trip and puts both palestinians and israelis under the microscope monocle delivers them below the world when. The old bomb. Is a business as along as they. Will esteem. He also talks to Israeli Settlers might any amount of fashion your words alec delight and so on and you merely did afghanistani lucky if only the first. Time approaches the topic with curiosity and openness and talks to people with widely differing opinions revealing a minefield of opposing ideas and when they would open a mind without any previous note about the settling of the what the palestinians its what the movie did give you the story that you know when you open it is well its basically open i think new questions about the two state solution about our past what appears to be a narrative a cheer such there are some surreal encounters like this one with an israeli Real Estate Agent perry would be about fifty one of. The crematorium a meeting over the weekend is also a conflict about seventy broken sevilla community diddle shekel in forty eight we have to engage with it there will never be peace without a. Land without borders like many of the films and bad it takes us to unfamiliar places that says here the people stories and allows us to reflect on what they tell us. Hard hitting stories and the contrast between the films and the peaceful fighting here could hardly be crites out thats one big strength of the festival its an oasis of calm that facilitates discussion one pick talking point here is how to combat rising santa phobia and rices a documentary film by actor charlie who cannot focuses on a punk group that says its time to take a stand. Chances by force the course of swedish will soup of something. Better known as mancini the charismatic singer of fina design a. Villa search director charlie who wanted to make a film with munchie from the word go. If you group through munchy is a character that weve never seen in the movies before and this was the intuitive actor in me told me that if you can put someone with this energy on the big screen that will be interesting from the face some of. The documentary is on one level a coming of age movie mancini revisits his youth. As a teenager and fan of soccer team f. C. Rostock keep drifting to the who can sing and eventually find salvation through music. But mills has his own so more than the portrait of the band its central theme is the rise of the right wing in eastern germany where she stopped coming to the kids the boys from the band realize they have to adopt a position the songs begin to reflect their refugees welcome stance and they are also increasingly on the front line by neo nazis a challenge on the streets during the twenty six thing state Election Campaign they took for poland with a very political message this is if you goes on to go to the mission we get home which believe it wasnt good said was that so i focus not just if you know that he first responsible. For dont you go to the top of the. Response you get a bit out of your mode of well thats really not supposed to do you dont know if youre bono funny but some of. The bandit chief notoriety off to being placed under surveillance by germanys domestic security service. Is munching heroes in the eyes of the director and head of infidelity hero for sure because a hero is someone who finds a situation and reimagines it or approaches it in an entirely new way and the band anyon have done just that since they first got together before the current. Sins. Making the film the band has continued to make headlines in the wake of violent demonstrations by n. T. Innocent protesters they played a free concert in cannes next time in the film could hardly be better. Does the director think germany is shifting towards fascism when was that we have to acknowledge that and not just hope that someone else will deal with that in the full monty solidarity with refugee is given. As the windy city of whom just as much as this is going to fitness to battle the shelves on a future of truth which is an affront and a commitment to newton furtively its mccool on its monthly or so on when this is very good who holds the truth just not initially. Build this hands Political Sentiment that packs an emotional punch. Thats it for this special edition from the without borders Film Festival in sorrow mo about the first online and join us next week for a special edition on screen legend romeo. To learn. Place of home. Colonial in chile. German come sunday dinner nine hundred sixty. One slain georgian. Fillets memorandums it was fought on and that was the beginning of the torture itself. The survivors quest for justice continues to this day next d. W. Meet the artist we talked to sasha folletts the. Choreographer who is constantly pushing the limits of Dance Theater the funny thing was courtside the little guy and. Shes the dancing against the current for twenty five years where does she get her energy from claiming such a. Change. In sixty minutes on d w. M a nine hundred sixty eight democrats ekotto rumble. Known people rebelled against their own strawman. Demanded nothing less than a whole society. 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