Film screening at the Kulturscheune Eibenhof
Preliminary program “The Island”
FILM OHNE GRENZEN presents two short films on the topic of NOW: “MILA” and “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING”
The films were made as part of the experimental film workshop DIE INSEL, a project to prepare people with a history of flight and migrants for their studies. DIE INSEL was developed in 2016 as part of the Refugee Class at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Since then, the workshop has taken place under the direction of Jean Boué, this year for the first time in cooperation with FILM WITHOUT BORDERS, the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF is a cooperation partner.
A GOOD JEWISH BOY
“A bittersweet drama about saying goodbye to home.” (Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg)
Bellisha is a 27-year-old Jewish man who lives with his mother Giselle in a poor Parisian neighborhood and struggles to finally become independent. The already tense situation in the Jewish community is becoming increasingly fragile as the last synagogue has been closed and now the last kosher grocery store is also on the verge of closing. This leaves Bellisha and his mother as the last Jewish family in their neighborhood. Bellisha is forced to pretend to his mother, who no longer leaves the apartment, that there is hardly a world out there anymore.
Despite these precarious circumstances, he does not want to move away, unlike his mother Giselle. While her health deteriorates rapidly