We are presenting a selection of films at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen on May 3rd that originally premiered as part of the 2019 Forum Expanded program and now form part of our distribution range: CAN’T YOU SEE THEM? – REPEAT (Clarissa Thieme, Germany/BIH 2019), LE SILENCE DES SIRÈNES (Diana Vidrascu, France 2019), PARSI (Eduardo Williams & Mariano Blatt, RA/CH 2018) und VEVER (FOR BARBARA) (Deborah Stratman, USA 2018).

On April 8, our archive researcher Vaginal Davis and Daniel Hendrickson are guests at b_books! b_books is a bookstore, publisher, film production company, and event space in Kreuzberg and on hand each year at the Berlinale with a stand in the Arsenal foyer. Two films produced in collective contexts will be shown. Kartemquin Films has been producing documentaries in Chicago for over 50 years: WINNIE WRIGHT, AGE 11 (1974) tells the story of a working-class family living in Gage Park, Chicago, where African-Americans are increasingly moving to the previously mainly white district. Pacific Street Films was founded in 1969. FRAME-UP: THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARTIN SOSTRE was made in 1972 about the Puerto Rican owner of a bookstore in Buffalo, who is wrongly sentenced for drug possession and assault and is incarcerated in Attica.