Tuesday, October 23rd
Brand I: On property rights to land and forests
Brand II: Presence of old places and costing nature
Wednesday, October 24th
Brand III: Resistance within riches (updated 2018 version)
Tuesday, October 23rd
Brand I: On property rights to land and forests
Brand II: Presence of old places and costing nature
BRAND II portrays the destruction of a century-old cultural landscape for the extraction of lignite in the Rhineland up until 2027. It makes the scope of this existential interference tangible: forced displacement and the knowledge that the place you call home is being put to waste – everything down to language, traditional crafts, and several hundreds of years old family histories. The conversation about the societal relationship to nature, the Kyoto Protocol and the concept of the imperial mode of living will be continued and interwoven into the pictures of this country. [https://www.brandfilme.org/]
Wednesday, October 24th
Brand III: Resistance within riches (updated 2018 version)
In Brand III, Susanne Fasbender looks back at the first Climate Camps in the Rheinland, visits citizens taking action against the threat to good health caused by power generation from lignite, and tells the story of the forest occupation in the Hambach Forest until its eviction in 2018. In co-operation with the Hambach Forest Film Collective, she followed some of the many key events of the resistance, not only to document these individual transgressions, but also to give them a space where the underlying concepts are explained and where personal thoughts can be expressed. Activists speak about tactics and motivation, and about their experience of living in the forest and at the same time, through their struggle for a future worth living for, being exposed to anti-ecological repression mechanisms. “The eviction is not the end”. That’s how the movie ends. [https://www.brandfilme.org/]
Showings start around 8p.m. in the large assembly tent.
A must-see masterpiece for any activist and all humans interested in the epic nature of this struggle. Whoever has seen it, knows why we’re here… to stay.
Further screenings and announcements can be found at https://www.brandfilme.org/termine-dates.html