Wed September 9, 2015
My name is not Ali
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at Goethe Institut German Cultural Center
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El Hedi Ben Salem M'barek Mohammed Mustafa died on 15 May 1976 in a prison in Nimes. The man was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s partner in the early seventies and played the leading role in Fassbinder’s film ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL. Since then, many rumours on the life and death of the native Moroccan, whom Fassbinder met in Paris, have circulated.
Filmmaker Viola Shafik searches for traces of his life. She interviews a number of Fassbinder’s former colleagues in Germany and members of Salem’s family in France and North Africa. In doing so, she discovers the complicated fate of Salem’s two sons, who Fassbinder once had brought over to Germany. Without a doubt, the most striking memories are those voiced by the sons: Hamdan, the younger of the two brothers, was so unhappy in Germany that he soon returned to his homeland.
The result of Viola Shafik’s research is an insightful documentary, despite its own contradictions, also when it comes to the gap between ideals and reality in the lives of Fassbinder and his circle.
The film will be shown in French, German and Arabic with English subtitles.
Viola Shafik grew up in Germany and Egypt. She studied Fine Art, Middle East Studies and Film Studies in Stuttgart and Hamburg and taught at the American University in Cairo. She has been a selection panel member for the “alRawi Screenwriters Lab”, the World Cinema Fund (Berlin International Film Festival) and the Dubai Film Connection since 2007.
This film screening is part of the program surrounding the exhibit "Homestory Deutschland - Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times" which is part of the thematic focus "EXPRESS YOURSELF - Stories & Identities".
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Filmmaker Viola Shafik searches for traces of his life. She interviews a number of Fassbinder’s former colleagues in Germany and members of Salem’s family in France and North Africa. In doing so, she discovers the complicated fate of Salem’s two sons, who Fassbinder once had brought over to Germany. Without a doubt, the most striking memories are those voiced by the sons: Hamdan, the younger of the two brothers, was so unhappy in Germany that he soon returned to his homeland.
The result of Viola Shafik’s research is an insightful documentary, despite its own contradictions, also when it comes to the gap between ideals and reality in the lives of Fassbinder and his circle.
The film will be shown in French, German and Arabic with English subtitles.
Viola Shafik grew up in Germany and Egypt. She studied Fine Art, Middle East Studies and Film Studies in Stuttgart and Hamburg and taught at the American University in Cairo. She has been a selection panel member for the “alRawi Screenwriters Lab”, the World Cinema Fund (Berlin International Film Festival) and the Dubai Film Connection since 2007.
This film screening is part of the program surrounding the exhibit "Homestory Deutschland - Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times" which is part of the thematic focus "EXPRESS YOURSELF - Stories & Identities".
El Hedi Ben Salem M'barek Mohammed Mustafa died on 15 May 1976 in a prison in Nimes. The man was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s partner in the early seventies and played the leading role in Fassbinder’s film ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL. Since then, many rumours on the life and death of the native Moroccan, whom Fassbinder met in Paris, have circulated.
Filmmaker Viola Shafik searches for traces of his life. She interviews a number of Fassbinder’s former colleagues in Germany and members of Salem’s family in France and North Africa. In doing so, she discovers the complicated fate of Salem’s two sons, who Fassbinder once had brought over to Germany. Without a doubt, the most striking memories are those voiced by the sons: Hamdan, the younger of the two brothers, was so unhappy in Germany that he soon returned to his homeland.
The result of Viola Shafik’s research is an insightful documentary, despite its own contradictions, also when it comes to the gap between ideals and reality in the lives of Fassbinder and his circle.
The film will be shown in French, German and Arabic with English subtitles.
Viola Shafik grew up in Germany and Egypt. She studied Fine Art, Middle East Studies and Film Studies in Stuttgart and Hamburg and taught at the American University in Cairo. She has been a selection panel member for the “alRawi Screenwriters Lab”, the World Cinema Fund (Berlin International Film Festival) and the Dubai Film Connection since 2007.
This film screening is part of the program surrounding the exhibit "Homestory Deutschland - Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times" which is part of the thematic focus "EXPRESS YOURSELF - Stories & Identities".
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Filmmaker Viola Shafik searches for traces of his life. She interviews a number of Fassbinder’s former colleagues in Germany and members of Salem’s family in France and North Africa. In doing so, she discovers the complicated fate of Salem’s two sons, who Fassbinder once had brought over to Germany. Without a doubt, the most striking memories are those voiced by the sons: Hamdan, the younger of the two brothers, was so unhappy in Germany that he soon returned to his homeland.
The result of Viola Shafik’s research is an insightful documentary, despite its own contradictions, also when it comes to the gap between ideals and reality in the lives of Fassbinder and his circle.
The film will be shown in French, German and Arabic with English subtitles.
Viola Shafik grew up in Germany and Egypt. She studied Fine Art, Middle East Studies and Film Studies in Stuttgart and Hamburg and taught at the American University in Cairo. She has been a selection panel member for the “alRawi Screenwriters Lab”, the World Cinema Fund (Berlin International Film Festival) and the Dubai Film Connection since 2007.
This film screening is part of the program surrounding the exhibit "Homestory Deutschland - Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times" which is part of the thematic focus "EXPRESS YOURSELF - Stories & Identities".
show less
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