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Monday, May 11, 2025, 5 pm
Werkstattkino, Munich
The documentary Leaving Greece (2013) by Anna Brass follows three young Afghan Men stranded in Greece, hoping to continue their journey to Europe. The film offers a moving portrayal of waiting, resilience, and the longing for self-determination.
After the screening, our fellow Azadeh Sharifi will host an artist talk with the director Anna Brass.
Anna Brass (*1981) is a German documentary filmmaker and cinematographer whose work explores themes of social injustice and experiments with documentary storytelling across different media, from cinema to online formats. Her films have been shown at international festivals and on television. She has served on juries such as the Hof International Film Festival and the Biberach Film Festival and has been a research associate in the Documentary Film Department at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) since 2019.
Admission:
A limited number of 14 free tickets are reserved for global dis:connect fellows and team members.
Additional tickets can be purchased at the cinema box office for €6 (cash only). Continue Reading
11 may, Film Screening: Leaving Greece (2013)
Monday, May 11, 2025, 5 pm
Werkstattkino, Munich
The documentary Leaving Greece (2013) by Anna Brass follows three young Afghan Men stranded in Greece, hoping to continue their journey to Europe. The film offers a moving portrayal of waiting, resilience, and the longing for self-determination.
After the screening, our fellow Azadeh Sharifi will host an artist talk with the director Anna Brass.
Anna Brass (*1981) is a German documentary filmmaker and cinematographer whose work explores themes of social injustice and experiments with documentary storytelling across different media, from cinema to online formats. Her films have been shown at international festivals and on television. She has served on juries such as the Hof International Film Festival and the Biberach Film Festival and has been a research associate in the Documentary Film Department at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) since 2019.
Admission:
A limited number of 14 free tickets are reserved for global dis:connect fellows and team members.
Additional tickets can be purchased at the cinema box office for €6 (cash only). Continue Reading
3 January 2026
We are pleased to invite you to a special screening of the documentary 
On January 28 at 5:00 pm, we will screen the documentary 
On November 19, we open our film series “Dis:connection: Cinema and Globalization” with the impressive documentary 
In March Jie-Hyun Lim commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome.
Jie-Hyun Lim holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University.
At gd:c Jie-Hyun will work on multilingual versions of victimhood nationalism as a conceptual tool to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung across Europe and East Asia. 
Our associated fellow Kevin Ostoyich is celebrating a major achievement: The documentary film Gary’s Letter, which he helped inspire, recently premiered in Cuxhaven and has already been selected as a semi-finalist at the New York Indie Shorts Awards. Even more exciting, the film has won the L’Eclisse Award at the Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival in Chicago, USA. 🎉
The film tells the moving story of Gary Sternberg, who was born into a Jewish family in Nazi Germany, fled to Shanghai in 1940, and later built a new life in the United States. Decades later, he discovers stumbling stones (Stolpersteine) bearing his parents’ names in front of his childhood home in Cuxhaven. This unexpected discovery leads him to reach out to the house’s current residents, rekindling a connection to the country he left behind so many years ago.
The film originated from a conversation between Kevin Ostoyich and the director, who has spent years exploring her own family’s history. Gary’s Letter is a powerful testament to memory, reconciliation, and the forging of new connections across generations.
Additionally, Kevin Ostoyich has just published a new article about Gary with the Spungen Foundation. You can read it here: 
Artist Talk: Roma-non-Roma: in:visibilities and dis:connections
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (artist in residence, gd:c) in conversation with Sophie Eisenried (art cooperation, gd:c), Anna Fenia Schneider (curator, Haus der Kunst) and Wojciech Szymański (fellow, gd:c)
With an introduction by Burcu Dogramaci (director, gd:c)
The artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and the curator Wojciech Szymański will present some selected works and projects, including the project History of Art/History of Violence: From the Belle Èpoque to the Genocide, which they are pursuing at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect.
Afterwards, Anna Fenia Schneider and Sophie Eisenried will talk with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Wojciech Szymański. The panel is dedicated to the lack of knowledge about the lives, networks and spaces of Sinti:zze and Roma:nja in Munich and what role art and research can play in making this gap(s) visible.
Location: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Library, Maria-Theresia-Straße 21, 81675 Munich
Time: Monday, December 9, 2024, 7:00 p.m., registration by December 6, 2024