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Am Rande der Städte (In the Outskirts)
Director: Aysun Bademsoy, 2005
"Deutschländer" are Turkish people, which removed back to Turkey after decades in Germany. For many of them their assumed home dismantles as strange: Insular from the environment, they live in apartment- complexes in the outskirts like all-inclusive-tourists. The German-Turkish filmmaker Aysun Bademsoy explores the living-conditions in this colonies and creates a film diary. The results of the research show a video-installation and a documentary movie in the end.

Anam
Germany 2000/2001
The Turkish Anam, the German Rita and the Southafrican Didi are working in Berlin as cleaners. Working togehter they become even though theirs characters are very different.

Angekommen-Hiergeblieben-Abgeschoben
Director: Ralf Jesse, Natascha Breuers, Germany 2007
In this film project young migrants from Germany tell about their experiences regarding their residence permits.

Angst essen Seele auf (Fear Eats the Soul)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1973/74;
Sixty-year-old Emmi has three grown children and works as a housekeeper to supplement her retirement check. She meets and falls in love with young Moroccan man named Ali. When they decide to marry, everything and everyone turns against them.

Armin
Director: Ognjen Svilicic, HR/D/BiH 2007,dF, 82 min.
Empathetic Father-Son Story from the Balkans
The 14-years-old Armin and his father Ibro are travelling from their little town in Bosnia to Zagreb, capital of Croatia. Ibro is taking Armin on audition for a film about war in Bosnia, produced by a German film company. For Ibro it's important that this journey ends with success. After a journey with many exertions they arrive and are confrontated with a world which rules they don`t know and can`t handle.

Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Director: Fatih Akin, Germany/ Turkey, 2007, 122min.
Akin's latest movie is about a father and son, and a mother and a daughter; it's also about the gulf and gap between Europe and Turkey, between the West and Islam, between repentance and forgiveness.

Aventura Alemania – Abenteuer Deutschland
Director: Initiative Wiesbadener Medienzentrum e.V./ Manuel Ibarz
documentary, 11 min
The Manuel Ibarz of Spanish origin tells about his emigration 1959 to Germany. He remembers his hopes and dreams and reports about his experiences and draws a balance 45 years after.

Dann lieber gleich ins falsche Paradies (Than rather directly in the wrong paradise)
Director: Imad Karim, Germany 1993;
A documentary about a group of asylum seekers during their first three months in Germany.

Der Test (The test)
Director: Güclü Yaman, Germany 2007
A satirical short story about the test for naturalization in Germany.

Elephantenherz (Elephant Heart)
Director: Züli Aladag, Germany 2001/02
Once you're in, you gotta win. Marco was born into a world that never really left him much of a chance. The young man is the offspring of a low social class, broken family living in the ugly suburban environment of a German ex-coalminer's city.

Gegen die Wand (Against the wall)
Director: Fatih Akin, Germany 2004;
The film deals with the problems of a young Turkish-German woman attempting to free herself from the confining moral universe of her conservative family.

Heimat in der Fremde (Home in foreign land)
Director: Fabian Gießler, Germany, documentary, 22 min
Different generations of so called “Russia-Germans” tell about their memories, dreams and their current life: About the problems and hopes in search of their identity in the German society.

Jannan - Die Abschiebung (The deportation)
Director: Tim van Beveren, Germany 1984-1986, 102 min.
Inspired by several real single destinies of in Germany living foreigners and asylum seekers the film tells the story of the young Kurd Jannan, which takes refuge to Germany, to get away from the political persecution in his Turkish homeland.

Kanak Attak
Director: Lars Becker, Germany 1999/2000;
Ertan Ongun is a 25-year-old Turk living in Kiel in Germany. His parents own a snack stand, but his real family has been the local Turkish gangs. His life - like those of his friends - is characterized by the daily fight for respect and acceptance, growing up in a country he can never call home.

Kurz und Schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock)
Director: Fatih Akin, Germany 1998
Costa, a Greek; Bobby, a Serb; Gabriel, a Turk: they used to be a neighborhood gang in Hamburg Altona. One for all, all for one. But much has changed since Gabriel went to prison. He has decided to grow up, but his buddies are holding him back.

Rosalinds Elefant
Director: Thomas Draeger, Germany 1988, 40 min.
In 1951 refugees from Silisian get accommodation in the house of family Berger. They live in the attic: Grandmother Libudka, her stepdaughter Grete and Edel, her daughter. The refugees are treated as unwelcomed guests by family Berger.

Schwarzfahrer (Fare Dodger)
Director: Pepe Danquart, Germany 1992, 12 min.
In the tram an old lady is sitting next to a man with black skin. She takes this opportunity to blame him with several popular prejudices against asylum seekers. The surrounding passengers remain passive, just as the victim, who listens the reproaches motionless, until… a ticket inspection is taking place. In the end, the inspection shows which of the both is the black sheep.

Yasemin
Director: Hark Bohm, Germany 1987/1988, 86 min.
The film tells the love story between the 17-year old girl Yasemin, daughter of a Turkish immigrant, and Jan, a 20-year old student from Hamburg-Altona.

40qm Deutschland ("Forty Square Meters of Germany")
Director: Tevfik Baser, Germany 1985/86;
Film about the conditions of the migrants lives ‘on foreign soil,’: the foreigner was depicted as little more than a tolerated and exploited, oppressed and humiliated guest worker in an arrogant, ignorant, and prejudiced society.

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