Our program offers cinematic encounters with the directors of the films, world premieres as well as German premieres of international titles. After most screenings, there are moderated film discussions about the backgrounds and artistic realization of the films. An overview of all guests and scheduled film talks can be found below the respective films.
Our panels offer an additional opportunity for deeper insights into individual topics.
THE FOLLOWING HIGHLIGHTS ARE PLANNED:
TALK with Anetta Kahane on racism and anti-Semitism in East Germany during the years of the reunification
Wed, May 7 18:15 Kino Krokodil
Free entry, Language: German
Anetta Kahane was the first and last Commissioner for Foreigners of the East Berlin City Council. After reunification, she helped set up the Regional Office for Foreigners' Issues in Berlin, and at the end of 1998 she initiated the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. Today she is an author and publicist. JFBB Program Director Bernd Buder talks to Anetta Kahane about racism and anti-Semitism in East Germany during the reunification years. Why was anti-Semitism
was hardly ever addressed in the GDR and post-socialism? Moderated by Bernd Buder.
MATINEÈ on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war
Cooperation with Centrum Judaicum and the Urania Berlin e.V.
With Lea Wohl von Haselberg and Knut Elstermann
Thur, May 8, 11:00 Filmkunst66
Language: German
On 8 May, we will be showing a matinee program to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, with a focus on the immediate post-war period. The event is the last in a joint series with the Centrum Judaicum. It will be followed by a discussion with Lea Wohl von Haselberg, moderated by Knut Elstermann.
Films of the programme:
REMINESZENZEN AUS DEUTSCHLAND and THE ILLEGALS (Tickets zum Filmprogramm finden Sie here.
JEWS AND ARABS IN ISRAELI CINEMA – (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF A DIALOG?
Supported by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / Federal Agency for Civic Education
Films and Talks
Alongside films from many other countries, Israeli cinema is a core component of the JFBB. A significant part of the Israeli film scene deals with Jewish-Palestinian or Israeli-Arab experiences. How diverse these cinematic reflections are in terms of content is little known outside the region. In three panel discussions we will talk about how Israeli cinema – often critical, often in search of intercultural mediation as well as the understanding of the experiences of “the other” – deals with such topics. The aim is not to explain the Middle Eastern conflict, but to highlight how filmmakers from Israel – both Jewish and non-Jewish – deal with the extremely complex situation, bringing history and the present, possibilities and limits of shared experience to the screen.
PANEL: The Israeli-Palestinian Cinematic Spaces – Between Identity and Constraint
Fr, May 9 16:45 Filmkunst 66, Saal 1
Language: English, free admission
Guests:
Yousef Abo Madegem (Director, EID / Feature Film Competition)
Neta Shoshani (Director of 1948: REMEMBER, REMEMBER NOT / Section Kino Fermished)
Baher Agbariya (Filmproducer)
Moderated by Naomi Levari
How do Palestinian and Jewish or Israeli and Arab filmmakers cooperate? How has this relationship changed since October 7? How do the respective communities and politicians react? What hopes are associated with such collaborations, where are the boundaries and how do filmmakers who are caught in the middle fare?
PANEL: Genesis: The Jewish-Arab relationship in Israeli film – a review
Sa May 10, 10:30 – 11:30 Filmkunst 66, Saal 1
Language: English, free admission
Guests:
Ariel Schweitzer (Film Critic and Film Historian / Jury member of the Feature Film Competition)
Yael Reuveny (Documentary Filmmaker)
Naomi Rolef (Film Scholar)
Moderated by Nir Ferber
How has the Israeli film industryʼs view of the Jewish-Arab relationship developed? How were these views received by the audience and in the industry? Which issues were and were not discussed in the films that were made?
PANEL: Reception: Jewish-Arab perspectives at international festivals
Sa May 10, 12:00 – 13:00 Filmkunst 66, Saal 1
Language: English, free admission
Guests:
Dani Rosenberg (Director, OF DOGS AND MEN / Feature Film Competition)
Nir Ferber (Film Scholar and Festival Programmer / Member of the JFBB Programme Team)
Baher Agbariya (Filmproducer)
Moderated by Naomi Levari
How are Israeli and international films that deal with the Jewish-Arab relationship received today? What prospects do they have in the international festival landscape? Do festival programmers specifically look for certain content, are there political blinkers? What expectations do filmmakers from the region face, especially after October 7?
MATINEÈ Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann revisited
with Voelker Koepp and Barbara Frankenstein
Sun 11.05. 11:00 Filmmuseum Potsdam
Entry: free, Language: German
Director Volker Koepp and screenplay co-author Barbara Frankenstein on the making and background of the classic documentary. What is it about Bukovina and Czernowitz that still fascinates us today? How has the view of the film changed as a result of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine? How did the film crew experience the situation for Jews in the post-Soviet era?