Cinerevolt: Here and Elsewhere (Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976)

Sunday March 23, 2025, Cinerevolt: Here and Elsewhere (Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1976) * 53 minutes * In German with English Subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.

Commissioned by the Arab League to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution, Godard and Gorin’s plans were upended by the Black September. Godard, now working with Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique—paralleling the lives of a French and a Palestinian family.

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

This Jungo Life (David Fedele, 2024)

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]

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

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

Parquet (Aleksandr Mindadze, 2020)

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]

Solidarity Week with Ukraine – Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives + screening: “Where Russia Ends” (Oleksiy Radynski, 2024)

Solidarity Week with Ukraine, February 24 – March 3, 2025

Monday March 3, 2025,Voku Benefit for Solidarity Collectives & screening of “Where Russia Ends” by Oleksiy Radynski (2024). Volkseten Vegazulu, food served from 7pm, no reservation. Movie from 21:30.

Solidarity Collectives call out: As we enter the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the urgency to act has never been greater. The situation grows increasingly dire, with the toll of the war deepening both on the battlefield and within the fabric of Ukrainian society. So today we need your voices, your solidarity, and your actions to amplify our actions for justice and resistance.

From 24 February we call on all our friends, partners and all anti-authoritarian groups in all parts of the world for a week of action! We encourage you to organise rallies, fundraisers, and public events that draw attention to the Ukrainian resistance struggle against Russian imperialism. Whether it’s a public demonstration, a direct action (the case of squatting in a Russian oligarch’s mansion inspires us), a music concert, a movie screening or an art exhibition, a fundraising campaign or a panel discussion, your efforts are vital to keep Ukrainians’ struggle visible and supported. The topic of the Russian shadow fleet and its environmental impact or international security challenges could be topics of such discussions. You could paint graffiti in the street of your city and send us a picture of it or even make a series of photos. We would be grateful for any kind of participation.

The alarming rise of far-right movements around the world demands that we stand together to counter these forces to fight imperialism and oppression. Supporting Ukrainians fighting Russian imperialism should be one of the priorities of the anti-authoritarian movement, and this goes hand in hand with supporting all refugees and immigrants in the West.

We believe that we should exchange practices and ideas internationally in order to develop our common struggles. And our team is ready to participate in your events, exchange knowledge, discuss difficult issues and assist in any way we can to make your initiatives impactful. Together, we can build a global network of solidarity that echoes beyond borders and languages.

Where Russia Ends by Oleksiy Radynski – Ukraine | 2023 | Short film / Documentary | 25’
In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers undertook several film expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. Their forgotten film rolls were rediscovered in Kyiv in 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This fascinating archive is the starting point for a cinematic essay that addresses Russian imperialism, the exploitation of raw materials, environmental destruction, and the ongoing oppression and extermination of indigenous peoples in the remote areas of Siberia.

Solidarity Collectives
https://radar.squat.net/en/solidarity-collectives
https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/ […Lees verder]

Solidarity Week with Ukraine, movie night: Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa, 2018)

Sunday March 2, 2025, Solidarity Week with Ukraine, movie night: Donbass * fiction by Sergei Loznitsa * 2018 * in Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles * doors open at 20:00 * film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.

In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.

Solidarity Week with Ukraine, Week of action, February 24 — March 3: https://squ.at/r/b2j6 […Lees verder]

Cinerevolt: Commando 52 (1965) & The Laughing Man (1966) by Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann

Sunday February 23, 2025, Cinerevolt #2: Commando 52 (1965, 37 min) & The Laughing Man (1966, 66 min), two films by Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann * doors open at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30.

Today we hear of the Congo by means of its minerals first, and its people second. One determines the other: cobalt means poverty, gold means war, diamonds mean repression. There was a time when this dynamic was challenged, as Patrice Lumumba did when he asked “all Congolese citizens, men, women and children, to set themselves resolutely to the task of creating a national economy and ensuring our economic independence”. Nominal independence is no problem, economic independence is unforgivable. Mere months after taking office, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was removed from office, kidnapped, and eventually assassinated with the support of the American, British, and Belgian intelligence agencies. In the imperialist war on Congolese self-determination, brutal merdenaries came down upon the Lumumbaist rebels of the Simba and Kwilu rebellions. It is upon these agents of destruction, the mercenaries, that Heynowski and Scheumann train their lens. The two East-German filmmakers first made Commando 52, a short documentary combining still photographs taken of the mercenaries in Congo with interviews and voice over narration. The second film, The Laughing Man, was made by posing as West-German journalists in order to interview Siegfried Muller. The film consists of this single interview with Muller, a Nazi-turned-mercenary charged with the destruction of Lumumbaist rebels. Together these two films paint a sinister portrait of the perpetrators of these atrocities and the narratives they live in, and demonstrate clearly the direct translation of Nazism into American & NATO imperialism.

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

Aki Kaurismäki night: Shadows in Paradise (1986) & Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)

Saturday February 22, 2025, Aki Kaurismäki night: Shadows in Paradise (1986) & Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994) * doors open at 19:00 * first film starts at 19:30 * second film starts at 21:00 * free entrance.

Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa, by Aki Kaurismäki, 1986, 1h 14m, in Finnish with English subtitles) – movie effectively set the template for the maestro’s singular style. Punctuated with bursts of primary colors, this beautiful wisp of a film finds a delicately negotiated optimism amid the ruins of its dashed dreams… An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.

Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana, by Aki Kaurismäki, 1994, 1h 5m, in Finnish with English subtitles) – Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana – who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking?

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