Against it! - Indignation, protest and resistance in film

Monthly thematic film series by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa highlighting films from Germany presented at the University of Ottawa (Hamelin Hall, 70 Av. Laurier East):
 
What to do when inner values and external reality can no longer be reconciled? Ignore, despair, laugh it off, or resist? Rejection of authority, denunciation of abuses, inner resistance, attempts at revolution from within or without, protests that turn into movements—in this film series, we explore the various forms of more or less spontaneous, individual, and social expressions of discontent. Where are the boundaries between “small acts of resistance in everyday life” and resistance against great injustice? How far does civil disobedience go? And does the urgency of a good cause justify the means? And who decides whether a cause is “good” in the first place? 
Social change takes time – what happens to those who find themselves on the margins of major movements? 

The films presented here address several forms of protests in film, such as anti-capitalist positions, counter-cultures in the GDR as well as the current climate protests. But it will also deal with the less “vocal,” less visually powerful forms of resistance: a mother's struggle against the justice system and the inner resignation of a woman who feels stuck between her dreams of emancipation and self-realisation and her traditional family constellation in the 1980ies.