The next Filmmakers' choice event will be presented by Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn on April 20: Jorge Sanjinés (born in 1936) co-founded the film collective UKAMAU in 1962. LA NACIÓN CLANDESTINA (The Secret Nation, Bolivia 1989) examines the main themes of his work, which lend the film its unique narrative: The worldview of the Aymara people, who perceive time to be circular and consider themselves as having a collective identity; the conflicts between the indigenous people and the powers-that-be, and above all the identity problems portrayed by the protagonist Sebastian Mamani, someone who rejects his origins but at the same time is not accepted by another culture and therefore gets lost.

The Lebanese filmmaker Eliane Raheb (*1972) is currently the guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist-in-residence program. Her documentaries - in which she always involves herself - are outright political, investigative and intrepid. SUICIDE (2003) is about Lebanese volunteers who fought in Iraq for Saddam Hussein's regime. SO NEAR YET SO FAR (2002) visits children in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt who dream about fighting actively for the Palestinian Intifada. In SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (2012), Raheb - in a climate of state-ordered collective forgetting - brings together the perpetrators and victims of Lebanon's civil war: a secret services officer of the Christian militia who has openly admitted his guilt, and the mother of a communist fighter who disappeared in 1982 at the age of 15, who is unflustered as she makes public her pain. (bik) (20. & 22.4.)

On April 26 Vaginal Davis is presenting Alan Parker's BUGSY MALONE (USA 1976) which is set in Chicago during the Prohibition era. Bugsy Malone works occasionally for Fat Sam, who only has his bar, a couple of gangsters and the singer Tallulah (Jodie Foster) left since Dandy Dan's gang took away all his business. Bugsy falls in love with Blousey Brown who tries in vain to to perform and recruits men from a soup kitchen to capture Dan's arms cache. The machine guns are real, but they are loaded with cream. A gangster musical with an all-children cast.