film.macht.kritisch. Screenings - Launch Event: Bodies, Borders, Resistance

film.macht.kritisch. Screenings - Launch Event: Bodies, Borders, Resistance
📍 BIWOC* Rising | 🗓 February 1, 2026 | ⏰ 8:00 PM (Europe/Berlin)

Join us for the launch of film.macht.kritisch. Screenings — a carefully curated feature and short film program dedicated to cinema that intervenes. The selection brings together bold, formally distinct works that confront dominant narratives and foreground marginalized perspectives. Across different geographies and aesthetic approaches, the films engage with questions of grief, resistance, identity, care, and creative survival.

This program is grounded in curatorial justice: political without simplification, intimate without exploitation, and unapologetically intersectional.

Bodies, Borders, Resistance - Featured Shorts:

Eid (12 min | Canada / Palestine | 2024 | Rame Ibrahim)
A restrained yet piercing reflection on mourning under occupation. The film traces how borders, bureaucracy, and structural violence shape the most intimate moments of grief in a Palestinian context.

Forest Echoes (19 min | Canada | 2024 | Eva Grant)
On the anniversary of a traumatic arrest, two Indigenous non-binary queer activists navigate memory, care, and love. The film weaves personal healing with ongoing struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice in British Columbia.

Cow Heavy and Floral (15 min | USA | 2024 | Richa Rudola)
Through immersive split-screen compositions, the film offers a close portrait of Anamaria — a Latin American mother and writer negotiating creative desire, emotional labor, and social expectation.

Nightbirds (14 min | Philippines | 2024 | Maria Estela Paiso & Ashok Vish)
A visually inventive mythic narrative combining live action, animation, and mixed media. The story follows Ivy and a mythical bird, exploring longing, belief, and the pursuit of freedom beyond imposed limits.

Holy Curse (16 min | India | 2024 | Snigdha Kapoor)
Sharp, tender, and darkly humorous, this film follows a non-binary/trans child navigating family rituals, faith, and cultural contradiction across national and generational contexts.

🎧 Bonus: Pre-recorded Q&As with the filmmakers accompany the screenings, offering insight into artistic choices, ethical representation, and the political stakes of their work.

The films are presented in their original languages, partly with English subtitles.

Organizer, Curator & Moderator: Canan Turan

Experience cinema that is decolonial, queer, feminist, and uncompromising — films that refuse neutrality and insist on responsibility: Formally inventive and socially attentive cinema.

🔗 Website: www.cananturan.de
🎙 Podcast: https://film-macht-kritisch.podbean.com