Come along and wander, because I´ve wanderlust... In a fast pace and full of vitality Ebow a young rapper takes us on a journey through the history of immigrants in Germany. Filmmaker Uli Bez interviewed three different groups of them: the so called traditional immigrants of the sixties, political immigrants and their grandchildren. The last go back to their very roots, grandmothers and mothers, portrayed as a source of creativeness. All these women are sharing with us their quite often adventurous life, being open-minded and with a touch of humor. It goes about stories of not being able to understand the new world as well as not being understood there. And there is an ongoing pain: having left your children behind in the rural area, a mother who turns into a stranger, a feeling of distortion due to political circumstances and a lack of the own roots -- a permanent shadow. And yet, leaving poverty, being a political fugitive was possible on the wings of hope, a strong longing for freedom and self-determination. On the other hand it meant for the women breaking with the traditional ways of living. Singer and songwriter Ebow X puts it like this: Let us all be wandering, from heart to heart, let´s feel and comprehend each others pain... The story ends with singing women dancing in a circle -- a symbol for being grounded, each of them in their own way. The song „wanderlust was composed and written by Ebow Düzgün. The gimmick of using the term Wanderlust´, a typical 19th century German virtue in the context of history of industrialisation gives the film it´s particular note. All players gave huge contributions in sharing their stories and songs. The film was a low búdget production by Frauennotruf (emergency call for women). The film is a contribution to face racism an xenophobia in Germany. The title `Daughters of the Dawn´referres to the Aufklärung and to feminism. Both have the same ambition: To break off a deficient situation in order to create a life of self-determination. Team: Screenwriter and director: Uli Bez in close cooperation with the group Camera: Schokofeh Kamiz, Sound: Ruth Krause Sound: Ruth Krause Assistant of the director: Jan Philip Weyl, Editor & Postproduction: Uli Bez Music: Ebow X (Ebru Düzgün), Production: Frauennotruf München Graphics: Dagmar Ammon Press: Dietlind Klemm Translater: Maria Cincotta Players: Hayfa Ahmed/Iraq Zaara Araar/Tunisia, Roula Balhas/Lebanon Etsegenet Dawit/Ethiopia Ebru Düzgün/Germany, Saime Kilic Düzgün/Turkey Tatiana Franke/Ukraine Stavroula Kling/Greece Inciser Kurt/Turkey Angelina Majkic/Ex-Yugoslavia Francesca Melis/Italy Elena Tsakmakis/Germany Eleni Tsakmaki/Greece Sula Zamani/Greece Technical features: Lenght: 80 min., HD, 16:9, DVD, Colour Original languages: German, Greek, Arab, Italian, Kurdish with English subtitle Biography: Uli Bez worked as a filmeditor at BR (the Bavarian TV station) for more than 12 years before she started to make her own documentaries. In Germany her film `From Today on!´ became well known in the feminist scene. It is a portrait of Anke Schäfer, an early founder of the feminist and lesbian movement of the sixties. Uli Bez loves to make vintage documentaries for cinema, not features or reportages for TV. Vintage documentary for her means to create a setting with the players being on par with the public. This is a challenge for the filmmaker and the editor as it desires to offer an encounter with publics creativeness. Contact details: ulrike@bezmedien, bezmedien
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:14:45 +0000
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