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7:00 PM-8:40 PM
Haus-Kino: Lola and Billy the Kid
Film Screening | Lost in the 90ies
- Language Original with French subtitles.
- Price Free of charge. Recommended donation $5.
- Part of series: Lost in the 90ies
Lola und Bilidikid
Germany, 1998, 91 Min.
Regie: Kutluğ Ataman
With: Gandi Mukli, Baki Davrak, Erdal Yıldız, Inge Keller, Michael Gerber, Murat Karabey Yılmaz, Hasan Ali Mete, Hakan Tandoğan, Cihangir Gümüştürkmen, Celal Perk
A troupe of Turkish drag queens calling themselves "The Migrant Workers" performs to great acclaim at an off-off club in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. One of the troupe, Lola, considers himself a gay man. Lola is in a relationship with macho man "Billy-The-Kid", who is pressing Lola to get a sex-change operation so they can go back to Turkey and open a beach bar together as a married couple. Lola's brother Murat, who still lives with their mother, is also gay. Like Lola before him, Murat's sexuality is not accepted by their older brother Osman. And just like Lola, Murat is mercilessly bullied by a trio of German neo-Nazis. When Lola washes up dead in the River Spree, it is clear to Billy that the three murdered her. He takes Murat under his wing and turns him into an avenging angel – "this is our war, yours and mine".
This intense family drama by UCLA graduate Kutluğ Ataman juxtaposes its cross-cultural characters with homophobic attitudes in the Turkish district of Berlin Kreuzberg, as well the bourgeois suburb of Wannsee. By doing so, it takes us into a queer subculture whose members, being both gay and Turkish, are subject to double discrimination. - www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
Content Note: Lola and Billy the Kid explores queer and migrant communities in 1990s Berlin, addressing themes of exclusion, family conflict, and belonging. The film contains depictions of homophobic and transphobic violence as well as discriminatory language. These elements form part of the film’s critical engagement with the social realities and power structures of its time and may be distressing for some viewers.
Germany, 1998, 91 Min.
Regie: Kutluğ Ataman
With: Gandi Mukli, Baki Davrak, Erdal Yıldız, Inge Keller, Michael Gerber, Murat Karabey Yılmaz, Hasan Ali Mete, Hakan Tandoğan, Cihangir Gümüştürkmen, Celal Perk
A troupe of Turkish drag queens calling themselves "The Migrant Workers" performs to great acclaim at an off-off club in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. One of the troupe, Lola, considers himself a gay man. Lola is in a relationship with macho man "Billy-The-Kid", who is pressing Lola to get a sex-change operation so they can go back to Turkey and open a beach bar together as a married couple. Lola's brother Murat, who still lives with their mother, is also gay. Like Lola before him, Murat's sexuality is not accepted by their older brother Osman. And just like Lola, Murat is mercilessly bullied by a trio of German neo-Nazis. When Lola washes up dead in the River Spree, it is clear to Billy that the three murdered her. He takes Murat under his wing and turns him into an avenging angel – "this is our war, yours and mine".
This intense family drama by UCLA graduate Kutluğ Ataman juxtaposes its cross-cultural characters with homophobic attitudes in the Turkish district of Berlin Kreuzberg, as well the bourgeois suburb of Wannsee. By doing so, it takes us into a queer subculture whose members, being both gay and Turkish, are subject to double discrimination. - www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
Content Note: Lola and Billy the Kid explores queer and migrant communities in 1990s Berlin, addressing themes of exclusion, family conflict, and belonging. The film contains depictions of homophobic and transphobic violence as well as discriminatory language. These elements form part of the film’s critical engagement with the social realities and power structures of its time and may be distressing for some viewers.