Director: Burhan Qurbani, colour, 128 Min., 2013-14
We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, August 8, 2017. This time we will screen the film called
Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark. (We are young. We are strong.) directed by Burhan Qurbani.
Rostock-Lichtenhagen, August 1992: unemployed youths struggle with their boredom and frustrations in a prefabricated housing development. At night, they run riot, fighting with the police and foreigners. The confrontations become so threatening that the authorities decide to evacuate the Romanian Roma from a refugee centre. As potential victims, the Vietnamese remain in the so-called “Sonnenblumenhaus” (Sunflower House). The riots escalate, but the police retreat, and a night of violence ensues – before the eyes of a gaping and applauding crowd. The young filmmaker Burhan Qurbani reconstructs the notorious night that became a national disgrace in
We are young. We are strong..
Arthouse Cinema
Arthouse Cinema is the regular film program of the Goethe-Institut. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month we screen independent movies, avant-garde movies, retrospectives, experimental films or documentary films from Europe and Indonesia – anything but the mainstream!
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