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12:30 PM
Aysun Bademsoy presents: After the Game
Film & Discussion|Co-presented with the 25th Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival
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Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston, MA
- Language English
- Price Free Admission, please RSVP
In her documentary Girls On The Pitch (Mädchen am Ball, 1995) Aysun Bademsoy followed five young Turkish girls from Berlin-Kreuzberg, who belonged to the successful Turkish football team “BSC Agrispor”.
After the Game picks up two years later. Until recently, the friends had high hopes for an independent future based on their sporting success. But now the season is coming to an end and the five young women, all around 20 years old, are going to stop playing soccer. They don't know exactly what the future holds for them. Apprenticeships are rare, and without money, it is impossible to achieve independence from their strict parents. But for now, they are enjoying the Berlin summer together one last time, roaming the streets, checking out boys, going to parties, and “hanging out.”
Director: Aysun Bademsoy
Germany, 1997
Documentary, 60 min
German/Turkish with English Subtitles
Co-presented with the 25th Boston Turkish Film and Music Festival
Aysun Bademsoy
Aysun Bademsoy was born in Mersin in 1960 and moved to West Berlin at the age of nine, where she still lives today. She first encountered film as an actress, but at the same time began studying theater studies and journalism at the Free University. She worked with Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold as an assistant director and production manager. In her first documentary film, she observed young people whose migrant perspective was intended to shed light on social conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany. Different realities of life in Berlin appear repeatedly in her documentary films, but so does the counter-perspective of people in Turkey who have left Germany. Her films have been shown at numerous international festivals. Since 2024, the Deutsche Kinemathek has been responsible for the preservation and digital restoration of her work.
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