August 3

NO LAND’S SONG (Ayat Najafi, 2014, 91min)

Since the revolution in 1979, it is prohibited for female vocalists doing solo performances in public in Iran, it is allowed only if the audience is composed exclusively of women. Sara Najafi is determined to freshen up the cultural memory in Tehran by following in the footsteps of famous songs crossed from the 1920s and 60s. She defies censorship and plans a concert of Iranian and French female soloists to rebuild cultural bridges that have expired. In two and a half years following the director Ayat Najafi preparations between Tehran and Paris. Sara’s regular meetings with the Ministry of Culture in Tehran highlights the system’s arbitrary logic. Where is the limit and who decides? Can multicultural solidarity and revolutionary music triumph?

No Land’s song can be seen as both a political thriller and a musical journey, but never lose focus of the female voice.

August 4

HOTEL KRISTINEBERG (Moa Kjellstrand & Roxane von Gerber, 2015, 60 min)

In 2012 lives the young filmmakers Moa and Roxane in an apartment in Kristineberg. A few minutes away is an abandoned hotel and full of curiosity, they take his camera and go there in the belief that it is empty. It does not, fifty people have done Hotels Kristinebergsgatan to their temporary residence and inside the broken windows teach filmmakers know a couple of their age, Emily and David. In the film we follow into a world of abuse and alienation on the streets of Stockholm, a world where Hotel Kristineberg demolished and Emily and David are without shelter. When the couple ends up on the street is the relationship with the filmmakers increasingly complex.

August 5

TONGUES UNTIED (Marlon T. Riggs, 1989, 55 min)

Tongues Untied is an Emmy Award-winning chronicle of the director Marlon T. Riggs. In the film he uses poetry, personal stories, rap and performance art to describe the violent homophobia and racism that black gay men are subjected.

Tounges Untied brings up stories about a man who is denied access to a gay bar because of his skin color. A university student who left bloody on the sidewalk for a hate crime. If the loneliness and isolation of a transvestite. And it confirms the black gay man’s experience of demonstrations, smoky bars, “snap divas’ humorous musicology and Vogueing.

A quarter century after its release the film won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the prize for best documentary at the Berlin Film Festival – and is today highly relevant although it omits the women’s stories and perspectives.

August 6

B-MOVIE – LUST & SOUND IN WEST-BERLIN 1979 – 1989 (Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck & Heiko Lange, 2015, 92 min)

B-Movie is a documentary about art, music and chaos of the 80s West Berlin. The creative melting pot that occurred inside the walls before the Iron Curtain fell attracted where artists and swindlers, squatters and hedonists and a lot of world famous celebrities. In Berlin, it was not long-term commercial success but about living for the moment, too high, in the present. B-Movie tells the story of the divided city, a cultural Interzone where everything was possible, the nights were endless and nothing like the rest of Europe. Exclusive interviews and previously unreleased footage creates a fast-paced collage of a frenetsikt decade beginning in punk and ends at the Love Parade.

Nick Cave, Gudrun Gut, Einstürzende Neubauten and techno pioneer Westbam and Blixa Bargeld takes place in the film, and Tilda Swinton, Keith Haring, New Order and David Hasselhoff swishar pass inside the West Berlin Walls.

In This is not my Revolution photograph Malin Bernalt burnt objects, such as; flags, books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records and images of political leaders. Breakers belong to a ceremony where using fire destroys different types of media, often because of moral, political or religious reasons.

Her work serves as a metaphor for all the stories and memories that have gone through the history of our times. Only aftermath is visible, open for the viewer to dissemble stories around each artifact.

This series has informed the direction of her current projects, Body of Violence in Palestine – which have been implemented under her MFA studies at the University for the Creative Arts, UK, in 2015. She was awarded the Hasselblad scholarship from Hasselblad Foundation 2013. Bernalt has participated in exhibitions at the Red Sten Art Centre, Visby Art Museum, Copenhagen Photo Festival, among others.

Roped is an instrumental duo where Marko Bandobranski and Victor Tarre reins two guitars and a drum machine. Roped is a live act that makes use of visual elements that enhance the music rooted in dark cavernous dance and cinematic undertones. Roped is a concentrate in its most crude form.