It is the last day of the big carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro. Demétria, a single mother, is waiting for her daughter Cora in a favela. But instead of Cora, various men arrive: a priest, the governor and a policeman. A brutal police raid is underway, allegedly because of drug dealing. The police contemptuously call the inhabitants of the neighbourhood “favelados” and “slumdogs” and the military shoots even at unarmed children. Meanwhile, Demétria and the women around her desperately try to save their daughters and sons. READ MORE

Art & Science. The Brazilian director Mirah Laline stages encounters between Humboldt researchers of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and contemporary art.

It is people with a European background who are first remembered when it comes to the struggle for freedom and against enslavement. One of them is Alexander von Humboldt. Based on his notes and observations on slavery in Latin America, director Mirah Laline, author Uriara Maciel and Humboldt expert Tobias Kraft (BBAW) develop a lecture-performance that reveals structures of power and exploitation that persist until today. READ MORE

Am meisten freut Bárbara Santos und João Pedro Prado die Kategorie, in der ihr Film „Ash Wednesday“ auf der Berlinale laufen wird: Perspektive Deutsches Kino. „Ash Wednesday“ erzählt von Polizeigewalt gegen Schwarze in Brasilien, gedreht wurde auf Portugiesisch. Ein Musical. Brasilianische Rhythmen, brasilianische Farben. „Dass dieser Film in der Perspektive läuft: Was sagt das bitte darüber aus, was deutsches Kino heute ist!?“, sagt Prado. Es begeistert ihn. MEHR LESEN