HARC Event ‘Welcoming Strangers’: ALMANYA – WELCOME TO GERMANY
Venue: Ciné Lumière, 17 Queensberry Place, London (nearest tube: South Kensington)
Date: 18 January 2012
Time: 6.30pm
Almanya – Welcome to Germany (dir. Yasemin Samdereli, Germany 2010), followed by a Q&A session with writer-director Yasemin and her sister and co-script writer Nesrin Samdereli
The film ALMANYA – WELCOME TO GERMANY, was a big success at last year’s International Film Festival in Berlin, but has so far not been released in Britain and the screening in London is a unique opportunity to see this heart-warming comedy and to discuss it with the Turkish-German filmmakers Yasemin and Nesrin Samdereli.
“Who or what am I – a German or a Turk?”, asks six-year old Cenk Yilmaz when neither his Turkish nor his German schoolmates select him for their football teams. ALMANYA – WELCOME TO GERMANY provides an answer to this question by taking the arrival of the one-millionth “guest worker” in Germany on 10 September 1964 as its historical backdrop and narrative starting point. This heart-warming, nostalgia-tinged comedy about Hüseyin Ylimaz (fictional guest worker number one-million-and-one) and his sprawling, multi-generational family imagines labour migration as a magical tale of German hospitality and successful Turkish integration.
Prof. Daniela Berghahn (Media Arts, Royal Holloway) will introduce the screening with a presentation on “Families in Motion: Migration with a Touch of Magic”.
The event is supported by the Goethe Institute and the Ciné Lumière. Cinema. Tickets at a special concessionary rates (£4 and £6 plus £1.50 online booking fee) will be available from the box office or can be booked online in advance. Please click on the link below to book tickets and watch the trailer:
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