After its outstanding debut last year, this new edition of the series BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS is expanding with live performances and an all-day screening commemorating Malcolm X’s birthday at the Hackesche Höfe Kino.

DECOLONIZING THE "COLD" WAR is the first Afropean performance showcase and will be accompanied by roundtable discussions on the aesthetic legacy of the Black Power movement in the radical imagination of Diaspora artists. Parallel to this, its influence in liberation and decolonization struggles in the Global South during the so-called "Cold" War will be approached from the continuities of coloniality. According to Enrique Dussel, a liberation philosopher and decolonial thinker, this war was never "cold" in the Global South.

|| Location: Ballhaus Naunynstraße || Starttime: 20.05.2013 10:00 || Price: 14/8 EUR ||
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In or out? That’s the eternal question when yet again the impartial referee didn’t see the ball properly. Sometimes the Beautiful Game can really drive you insane.

Unless of course you are a fan of Türkiyemspor and always stay focused on what is essential. For the last 35 years, left-footers willing to integrate, club officials sick of commerce, parents keen on mass sports, politicians hot for community, radical feminist football haters, nitpicking liquidators and last but not least highly gifted artists with the ball romp about on Kreuzberg’s turf and keep asking themselves over and over: torments of heaven or hell’s delight?

|| Location: Ballhaus Naunynstraße || Starttime: 23.05.2013 20:00 || Price: 14/8 EUR ||
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Goal, goaaaal, gooooaaaaaal!!! Riots, fanatism, mass movement. From couch potato to sporting ace – football enthusiasm unites people of all backgrounds and classes. Football is a significant part of everyday culture, a machine producing careers and ending them, a transcultural phenomenon where joint public viewing is virtually religious. What relevance does football have on a cultural, social and political level for young post-migrants in Berlin? Issue no. XVI of Kiez-Monatsschau with mentors Anne Misselwitz and Mıraz Bezar deals with the topic of football from the personal perspective of its protagonists.

|| Location: Ballhaus Naunynstraße || Starttime: 25.05.2013 19:00 || Price: 0 EUR ||
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"The holder of this passport is not entitled to travel to the occupied Palestine." Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, this is a reality for Iranian nationals. And having an Iranian name will guarantee being subjected to discriminating security checks at the airport in Israel. The route from Tel Aviv to Teheran cannot be calculated using regular route planners. It is almost impossible to get to know one another. It’s better for enemies to remain enemies in order to justify the irreconcilable attitude of both countries.

|| Location: Ballhaus Naunynstraße || Starttime: 28.05.2013 20:00 || Price: 14/8 EUR ||
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Asiye and İlyas Elevli and Füsun and Kubilay Erdemir are friends, neighbours and relatives. They eat together at least three times a week, shop together and have the same sofas and refrigerators.
Asiye feels trapped in this world. She dreams about skinny-dipping and not knowing which shore she swims to. Her wallpaper is a scene of Cuba. But Cuba is far away. And Asiye creates a fantastic alternative reality where she is a different, happier woman.

|| Location: Ballhaus Naunynstraße || Starttime: 04.06.2013 20:00 || Price: 14/8 EUR ||
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