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Thursday 14th December 2025 19:15
The films Milad – My planet and P.S. Break isolation in the center of Berlin will be screened at the 14th Avant Garde Film Festival of the Greek film Archive, as part of the Movements: Archive and Memory program.
The collaboration of the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival with the German Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art and the Goethe-Institut brings to the fore a polyphony of contemporary and older films that engage with the themes of migration movements and memory. These two thematic axes ‒ core elements of modern European and global experience ‒ are explored through a prism that combines the political, the poetic, and the experimental. The contemporary refugee crisis is depicted in a direct and immediate way.
Milad – My Planet… 2015, Documentary, 66’
Jelani married a woman from a different tribe. To avoid getting killed, they fled their country. On foot – and any other way possible – they finally arrived at a river, months later. Some die crossing it; others manage to swim across and enter Europe. But, once they set foot in Greece, the first adjacent European country, they found themselves homeless and socially excluded, without being able to move on or go back. The only solution is to travel illegally to Germany, that’s what the smugglers say. They don’t have enough money for the whole family to pass. Jelani faces this dilemma and has to choose. If one of the children leaves unaccompanied and arrives in Germany sound and safe, it will be able to bring the whole family there. Jelani’s children will have to learn violently what it’s like to discover their own planet or how they can create one from scratch – and whether Germany is the solution or just a new nightmare.
P.S. Break isolation in the center of Berlin 2015, Documentary, 7’
Refugees trapped at Germany’s borders stage a peaceful protest against their detention conditions and isolation. Walking across the entire country, they reach Berlin, where they occupy one of its central squares. Many local residents show solidarity. A year later, the square is violently cleared by the police.
