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Toxi: Film Now Available for Purchase

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Toxi

A five-year-old girl suddenly appears on the doorstep of a well-to-do Hamburg family. The members of the multi-generational, white household react differently to the arrival of Toxi, who is black, the daughter of an African-American G.I. and a white German woman who has died. Eventually Toxi works her way into the hearts of this German family, but then her father returns, hoping to take Toxi back to America with him.

At the time of the film’s release in 1952, there were between 3,000 and 5,000 children of Allied paternity born since WWII living in West Germany. Toxi was the first feature-length film to explore the subject of “black occupation children” in postwar Germany and premiered when the first generation of these children began entering German schools, creating a public awareness of this situation. Robert A. Stemmle, one of the most popular West German directors and known for his unique blend of social realism and melodrama, brought together an exceptionally renowned set of classic German actors with diverse experiences of the Nazi era, including Paul Bildt, Johanna Hofer and Elisabeth Flickenschildt.

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ALBUM TRAILER – Joy Denalane “Maureen”

ALBUM TRAILER – Joy Denalane “Maureen” from Nesola on Vimeo.

 

Künstlertreff: Label Noir

 

“Heimat, bittersüße Heimat”

 

Lara-Sophie Milagro

 

Black German Film at the Berlinale

African-German Filmmakers Hope to Open Up ‘New Perspectives’

By David Gordon Smith in Berlin

The African-German community has a long history, but the sizeable minority is often overlooked in a country where being German is often considered to mean being white. Now a group of black German filmmakers is trying to change that.

A teenage girl finds her life turned upside down when her father, who she has never met, turns up. After some initial distrust, she begins to develop an affection for him. Even though she still blames him for abandoning her mother, she begins to understand that life is about making difficult choices — until she finds out her father has established a new one with another woman.

Winta Yohannes' "Cherish" is a universal coming-of-age story.

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Winta Yohannes’ “Cherish” is a universal coming-of-age story.

The plot of the short film “Cherish” is one which many people could relate to. Winta Yohannes, the film’s 32-year-old German director, wanted just that. “It’s a universal story which very many Germans can identify with,” she says.

But the film is more than just that. Yohannes, who was born in Eritrea and moved to Germany at the age of three, is showing her film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) as part of the series “New Perspectives.” Her film is informed by her experiences growing up in Germany — a country where the black minority is next to invisible.

That’s something the organizers, the association Black Artists in German Film (SFD), is trying to change. “We want to make people aware of the fact that black filmmakers are making films which avoid the old clichés and represent black life as we see it,” says SFD’s Philippa Ebéné. READ MORE!

 

Afro-Deutsche Schauspieler

 

Label Noir Brandenburg-Tour 2010!

Label Noir Brandenburg-Tour 2010!
Label Noir Brandenburg-Tour 2010!

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GO-BAMA between Hope & Dreams

by A. Rahman Satti

An uplifting fly-on-the-wall documentary that portrays the monumental time of change during the Obama campaign that led up to his presidency in 2008.

This film interweaves complex cultural questions with the director’s biographical legacy and becomes a source of renewed inspiration reconciling the personal and universal dream for a better world.

We follow filmmaker Satti, born to a German mother and Sudanese father and raised behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, as he embarks on a quest following the Obama campaign to find hope again.

On this epic journey, Satti encounters varied and charismatic people that give us deep insights into the political expectations that led to the Barack Obama Presidency.

Satti’s initial skepticism is often overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and spirit of the American people; nevertheless he dares to ask: “Can we really resurrect our lost hopes and dreams?”.

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Mo Asumang Portrait on MNET (Studio 53)

Mo Asumang Portrait on MNET by Moderator Fareed Khimani Mo is an acclaimed filmmaker, actress, and moderator well known in Germany due to her brave documentary movies and TV moderation. Recently she has gained International exposure being featured in Roman Polanski’s movie “The Ghostwriter” playing Condoleezza Rice, featured in an article by USA Today which linked President Obama and Mo Asumang, being compared to Michael Moore, and through her work leading workshops and lectures about racism and social integration in Universities and Schools across USA and Europe. Since the beginning of her career as actress and TV moderator in Germany in 1996, she has became a well known cultural figure and has taken on a successful career as both moderator, producer, writer, actress, and film director. In recent years Mo has dedicated her multi talents and her energy to creative activism in the field of racism. In her new documentary “Road to Rainbow”, directed and produced by Mo Asumang, Mo is searching for the dream the south Africans had about equality that was to rise after the Apartheid Era, and the social reality of South Africa 16 years later. In her last movie “Roots Germania” Mo was able to solve a trauma caused by racism; She undertakes a journey to discover her roots and identity, facing her African father in Ghana, her White German Mother in German, and Jürgen Rieger, the head of the neonaziparty NPD. The catalyst of this journey, a threat over her life received by the NeoNazi Band “White Aryan Rebels”, becomes a poignant tool for self discovery and a sharp reflection to matters of racism in Germans society of today. Mo’s seeking for social justice is not by chance. At the age of 5 weeks Mo was sent to an orphanage, and then raised by foster parents and her white grandmother. Mo Asumang has been selected as one of the leading figures and activists in Germany for social integration and Intercultural affairs. www.mo-asumang-management.com

 

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HOPE – Obama Musical Story

Das neue Interaktiv-Musical “HOPE” feiert am 17. Januar 2010 in der Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt am Main Weltpremiere.
HOPE – Obama Musical Story präsentiert emotional bewegend die Geschichte einer neuen Generation! Die vorherrschend schwierige wirtschaftliche Situation lässt die Menschen näher zusammenrücken – ein neuer „Geist entsteht.

Und genau diesen greift das Musical unter dem von Barack Obama weltweit verbreiteten Slogan YES WE CAN auf.

HOPE ist kein herkömmliches Musical, sondern vereint eine Mischung verschiedener musikalischer Stilrichtungen, wie Pop, Soul, Gospel, HipHop, Rock und Klassik. Die Inszenierung ist damit Spiegelbild einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft. Dramatische Balladen und mitreißende Songs bringen die nötige Mischung aus Gänsehaut-Feeling und Begeisterung. Dargeboten von einer erstklassigen Künstlerbesetzung.

Mit «baff Musikmöbel» präsentiert das Musical ein weiteres Novum: mit der innovativen Erfindung spezieller Trommelstühle als Bestuhlung für das gesamte Publikum werden weltweit erstmals Tausende von Menschen gemeinsam mit den Künstlern auf der Bühne in dem Musical agieren. Dieses völlig neue Rhythmus- und Trommelerlebnis jedes Einzelnen schafft im Rahmen des Events ein großartiges Gemeinschaftsgefühl, das alle mitreißt und begeistert.

Erleben Sie hautnah das neue Musical HOPE und musizieren Sie gemeinsam mit den Bühnenstars!

Besuchen auch Sie unser Musical “HOPE” und musizieren Sie gemeinsam mit den Bühnenstars!

 

NOISEAUX unplugged at Tide TV Yoomee – "Stempel"

Win an unplugged gig from NOISEAUX in your favourite bar/pub!! (in Germany only)
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Cassandra Steen

 

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