This screening is part of: POLITICS OF THE IMAGE: COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND THE TWO GERMANIES
For the PLO, international networks were vitally important. Its institutions regularly invited delegations from all over the world, among them filmmakers. The PLO’s United Information section was responsible for the shooting permits, chose the camps in which to shoot, and selected the interview partners. The GDR film THE CHILDREN OF PALESTINE (Kurt Tetzlaff, 1980) was produced in the framework of the same cooperation agreement as FROM PALESTINE (Program 3). FREEDOM – WHAT DO I MEAN? (1981) – a collective work by West Germans who came to Lebanon as part of a political exchange on the invitation of the DFLP – focuses on forms of self-organization and discussions around the revolutionary “new Palestinian”.
Kurt Tetzlaff
THE CHILDREN OF PALESTINE / DIE KINDER PALÄSTINAS
1980, 54 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.
Wolfgang Bienek, Robert Krieg, Thomas Reuter, Brigitte Schulz
FREEDOM – WHAT DO I MEAN? / FREIHEIT – WIE MEINE ICH DAS?
1981, 42 min, video. In German with English subtitles.
Total running time: ca. 100 min.