Nico | Directed by: Eline Gehring

Tuesday, 6 October 2026, 19:00
Registrations open!

The self-confident and lively German-Persian Nico loves her job as a geriatric nurse and is popular with everyone because of her easy[1]going and sympathetic manner.

She enjoys the Berlin summer with her best friend Rosa until a racist attack suddenly tears her out of her carefree everyday life. Nico realises that she doesn‘t belong as self-evidently as she always thought. Haunted by flashbacks of the terrible attack, she withdraws more and more into herself.

Not only Rosa loses touch with her, but also her clients fail to recognise the young woman. Nico feels that things cannot go on like this and turns to the gruff karate champion Andy.

With him she begins a tough training programme which helps her to channel her anger and discover her own strength, but she also loses touch with herself.

When Nico eventually meets the Macedonian woman Ronny, a connection develops between the two that causes Nico to question the path she has chosen.

About the curator One-time advertising writer, Vani Subramanian has been a feminist activist and documentary filmmaker since the nineties.

Her work as a filmmaker explores the connections between our everyday practices, perceptions and prejudices, and the larger political questions confronting us through the lens of everyday practices, perceptions and prejudices – be it about gender and space, sex selective abortions, sectarian intolerance, education, food practices, cinema spectatorship and culture, neighbourhood histories and memory, or justice and the death penalty.

Vani's films have been screened and received awards, both nationally and internationally. Over the years, she has extended her practice to video art in performance, mixed media installations and pop-up digital art shows.

She is also the Creative Director of reFrame Institute of Art and Expression, an initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary challenges.