This Jungo Life (David Fedele, 2024)

By: börek - March 8th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 16, 2025, This Jungo Life, a film by David Fedele and the Jungo of Rabat * 2024 * 78 minutes * with English subtitles * door opens at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30 * free entrance.

This Jungo Life, a film by David Fedele and the Jungo of Rabat * 2024 * 78 minutes * with English subtitles. Door opens at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30 * free entrance

This Jungo Life is a collaboration between filmmaker David Fedele, and a group of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, who are living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco. They call themselves “Jungo” – A name traditionally given to seasonal agricultural workers from Sudan, which is now also adopted by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the road. Most have arrived in Morocco since 2020, forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, and unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. They are drawn to the capital city of Rabat, seeking to claim asylum with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and be granted refugee status. Most also dream of entering Europe, crossing the heavily militarised fences into the Spanish cities of Sebta (Ceuta) or Melilla, European enclaves on the African continent. This Jungo Life seeks to tell their story from the inside …. unfiltered, with authenticity and without sensationalism. A story of resilience in the face of suffering.

Synopsis – This Jungo Life takes us inside the lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan, living on the streets of Morocco. This Jungo Life takes us deep inside the hidden lives of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco; forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, and unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. Produced in collaboration with the refugees themselves, and filmed entirely using mobile phones, this film offers unique and intimate access, providing a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human spirit and innate drive for survival, as they fight for a better life for themselves and the families they left behind.

This Jungo Life is filmmaker David Fedele’s third in a trilogy of films exploring issues related to refugees, asylum seekers and migration between the African and European continents. Like all of David’s previous films, This Jungo Life has been independently produced and self-funded, outside the system of conventional film production and funding.

https://thisjungolife.com/
https://david-fedele.com/ […Lees verder]

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Solidarity VoKu for AstaroTheatro, Participatory and Community Theatre

By: börek - March 8th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday March 13, 2025, Solidarity VoKu for Participatory and Community Theatre. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Theatre as community experience, as a way to create awareness and support activism has been for years at the center of AstaroTheatro’s practice.
Various communities and collectives operate inside her space in a full participatory and grassroots way, challenging corporate mediocrity and creating truly authentic narratives and contra-culture in the context of defining political theatre.
This voku aims at supporting part of the current productions of our participatory theatre. AstaroTheatro is and will always be donation-based, but the costs and the financial challenges of our shared space are conspicuous. By coming and share a meal with us, you support our communities. Thank you!

AstaroTheatro, Sint Jansstraat 37, Amsterdam https://astarotheatro.com/
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/astarotheatro […Lees verder]

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Mn’Fa Queer Collective Fundraiser

By: börek - March 5th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday March 10, 2025, Mn’Fa Queer Collective Fundraiser. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Mn’Fa is a non-hierarchical collective of queer migrants and allies. We will make our first fundraiser on Mon. 10th March to raise funds for future events, support networks and mutual aid structures for queer refugees and undocumented people navigating the racist and queerphobic processes of the IND and COA.
Mn’Fa collective https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/mnfa-collective […Lees verder]

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Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Stars of the Roller State Disco (Alan Clarke, 1984)

By: börek - March 5th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday March 9, 2025, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984) * Directed by Alan Clarke * 72 minutes * In English * doors open at 20:00 * intro & film start at 20:30.

Back in England in 1984 there was a Prime Minister named Margaret Thatcher, who hurled the country into a dismal neo-liberal world, and attempted to make everybody into an entrepreneur. Those that didn’t fit in and couldn’t stand on their own feet were heavily attacked. Especially young people and minorities were the targets of her clampdown. Within that context this flick was televised, made by the maverick British filmmaker David Clarke. He was a maverick director of several of the most offbeat movies to come out of England during the 70s and 80s. This one is an oddball sci-fi dystopian movie about youth unemployment and how neoliberalism doesn’t only use police with clubs to beat people down – but also mindless entertainment.

Don’t look for any long-winded explanations or science-fiction gadgets in this movie – this is about a mood, and director Clarke simply throws this in the middle of it, and lets us contemplate the situation. In this future dystopia the unemployed youth are sent to a roller rink where they just rollerskate, going around in circles endlessly. There are distractions for them, a hermetic environment of junk food, junk entertainment, and sex. A movie like this shows how even something like sex can be hollowed out and exploited as a means of control. Around the time this film was made, many people were questioning the music industry and exposing the fake rebellion of rock music. I remember a punk band called the Poison Girls that knocked out the lyrics: “State control, and rock ‘n’ roll, are run by clever men…”

This movie is surreal, but not in a spectacular way… it’s a surrealism that has become a deadly routine reality. And for me, real science fiction isn’t about drama and huge special effects, but about the pettiness and dullness of a future that is becoming very real. The same unspectacularity goes with the acting and the video quality of the images – they’re all unpolished and they’re not meant to look like advertisements. Remember, this movie is a dystopian nightmare, but at the same time it would probably fit into our society today. It’s a movie about rigged games, and the cancelling of alternatives.

Even though Alan Clarke has become recognised as a beloved cult filmmaker over the years, this particular flick remains an outlier and is rarely ever seen.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Radical Sunday School: Open Session, Theory & Practice

By: börek - March 5th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday March 9, 2025, Radical Sunday School: Anarchism 101. From 18:00 till 20:00.Back by popular demand, this week at Radical Sunday School, we’ll be talking Anarchism 101! If you’ve ever had questions about what anarchism is, why people would choose to call themselves anarchists, or anything like that, this is the Sunday to come by! We won’t be reading Kropotkin or debating whether we’ll still use money after the capital R “revolution”; instead, we’ll be sitting down with long-time anarchist activists and people who’ve never heard of “the beautiful idea” to find out what anarchism actually means in practice. We’re going to focus on the experiences we’ve had with the problems of our world and how we’ve tried to fix them. So come with an open mind, a couple of friends, and a bit of hope – it’s time to learn and struggle together!

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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All Crafts Are Beautiful

By: börek - March 5th, 2025  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday March 9, 2025, All Crafts Are Beautiful, from 14:00 till 18:00.

Doe deze zondag met ons mee voor All Crafts Are Beautiful! Er is een tijd om samen de barricades op te gaan en er is een tijd om samen te komen om het samenkomen. Kom en breng je eigen handwerkproject mee of leer nieuwe vaardigheden van anderen zoals breien, haken, repareren enz. Vanaf 14:00 tot 18:00, elke tweede zondag van de maand. Joe’s Garage is op de begane grond en heeft een steile ramp bij de entree. De toilet is erg smal. Qua zitplekken is er 1 comfortabele bank en verder zijn er veel houten stoelen en tafels. Tijdens dit evenement wordt er binnen niet gerookt.

Join us this Sunday for All Crafts Are Beautiful! There is a time to go on the barricades together and the is a time to come together for the sake of coming together. Come and bring your own craft project or learn new skills from others like knitting, crocheting, repairing etc. All Crafts Are Beautiful is from 14:00-18:00 every second sunday of the month. Joe’s Garage is on the ground floor and has a very steep ramp at the entrance. The toilet is very narrow. There is one comfy couch and there are a lot of wooden chairs and tables. During this event there is no smoking inside.

All Crafts Are Beautiful https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/all-crafts-are-beautiful

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Parquet (Aleksandr Mindadze, 2020)

By: börek - March 5th, 2025  Filed under: Filmavond

Saturday March 8, 2025, Parquet (Aleksandr Mindadze, 2020) * Russian spoken, English subtitles * 90 minutes * Door opens at 20:00 * movie and presentation from 20:30 * Free entrance

Affairs may come and go, but we always hope to remain young at heart. The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. They are honoured to perform at their dance club’s anniversary; and propel themselves with a passion back into working up their number. The threesome are determined to take on the night as if they had never aged; but their resolve is undermined when their families arrive to join the audience. […Lees verder]

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10 years No Border Kitchen Lesvos Benefit

By: börek - March 4th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday March 6, 2025, 10 years No Border Kitchen Lesvos Benefit. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

No Border Kitchen Lesvos urgently needs funds to support people on the move against various systems of systematic and legal repression, ever-continuing push-backs etc. They (NBK Lesvos) help by offering meals, legal aid, housing (they have several houses for refugees), documentation and reporting on push-backs and the situation at the European borders. NBK continued their work continuously already for 10 years this year relying mostly on mutual aid and solidarity from groups, collectives and individuals. So let’s support them!! Some more info about No Border Kitchen Lesvos: “Through a praxis based on mutual aid and solidarity, we take a stand against border policies and the suffering they are causing.
Alongside providing basic needs, we are trying to offer a viable alternative to the way travelers are treated by mainstream NGO’s, governments, and local authorities, which is often characterised by condescension, coupled with a dehumanising and infantilising attitude. We also monitor and publish information about the ever-changing situation on Lesvos, to put the situation back into focus and to be able to maintain a flexible and responsive organisational structure.” […Lees verder]

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