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OUTDOOR SCREENING ADVISORY
This film will be screened outdoors on a rooftop terrace the evening of September 29, between 7:30pm and 9:00pm. If it rains, we will relocate the screening indoors. Please dress accordingly as the terrace is not heated.
Return to GO! (2007) dir. Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
Germany. 95 minutes.
In German with English subtitles.
When Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer and writer who grew up in East Germany and is now living in Berlin, finds out that he's HIV-positive, he gets extremely drunk, spends a few days in misery, and then promptly falls in love. In a crumbling, once-grand apartment, Sam and his ravishing on-again-off-again lover Rainer, his devoted and cuttingly funny best friend Bastl, and Bastl's wide-eyed photographer boyfriend Mike come together to form a caring but fragile family. Like the schmaltzy old East German love songs that Sam is recording for his new CD, the film's sweet innocence rises to the top in spite of its characters' misfortunes.
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss was born in East Berlin on August 17, 1962. He studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and acted in two DEFA films:
Verflixtes Mißgeschick!, a film by Hannelore Unterberg, and
Coming Out, the ground-breaking film by Heiner Carow that premiered on 9 November 1989—the night the Wall came down.
Sanoussi-Bliss acted in several films during the 1990s, including director Dorris Dörrie's
Keiner Liebt mich. In 2000, he tried his hand at directing with
Zurück auf Los! This film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, screened at over sixty international film festivals and was nominated for a prize at the International Filmfest Emden.
Sanoussi-Bliss lives in Berlin. In addition to continuing to act and direct, he also performs as a voice actor in audio books.
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SHAPING THE PAST: PAST AS PROCESS
This film was originally screened virtually during Summer 2021 as part of the streaming series
Shaping the Past: Past as Process, curated by Berlin-based Karina Griffith.
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