Film

What is a family? – The cinema of the Berlinale asks for

The ideas of what a family is, is changing the world. Gently here, radical there. The cinema of the Berlinale, tells the story of the upheavals. And asking a lot of questions it also.

Here to celebrate the men there dance to the women. The bride sits to one side. A wedding in a Bedouin village in the südisraelischen desert. Sulimann has a second, a younger woman. He has a beautiful new house built. Jalila wants to attitude. It is Sulimanns first wife, four daughters, she has him born. Your house looks shabby, the fridge is empty, the washing machine is broken. And Layla, the eldest daughter, makes you Worry. The lovely girl has turned into one of my classmates falls in love with. The father of this relationship is not tolerate, so not to use the mother Layla, the other dealing with the young man. What follows in this extraordinary directorial debut (“Sufat Chol”), the Israeli film Director Elite Zexer, is the attempt to outmoded traditions to overcome. Layla, the self-Confident, try it with anger and determination, her mother chooses the silent way. However, the solidified structures are strong. It needs more women like these two to really break up. At some point in the future.

Standstill or movement?

What do enrolled Familienkonstruktionen with people going their own way? The questions filmmakers all over the world. Some of your responses shows this year’s Panorama section of the Berlinale. “Nakom”, an American-Ghanaian co-production, is the intimate Portrait of a village in the countryside and its inhabitants, the Hand-to-mouth and from harvest to harvest life. Idrissu has left, he is studying in Accra, medicine. But after the sudden death of the father, he must come back and take responsibility for the large family, the fields, the fortunes of the village. For a year he remains, witnessed the changing of the seasons, the beauty of the landscape, the small happiness. But he also sees the limitations of life, rigid gender roles, hierarchical structures and the standstill. At the end he must decide. At the end, one could also say, he can decide. Because Idrissu is a man. He goes back to the University.

Idrissu – still in his village

Clash of the generations

Another Film casts a glance to China: A country with such breakneck speed that you can hardly follow. The Modern, so it seems, has at least the major cities are in the grip of. That the moral development of the economic, however, behind, shows a small Dutch production. In her documentary film, “Inside The Chinese Closet” is Sophia Luvarà Andy and Cherry. He is gay, you are lesbian. Officially should not be a Problem anymore, today will be in China any more because of his homosexuality in prison or in a psychiatric put. Nevertheless, every same-sex love a good challenge. Because of the dialogue between the cosmopolitan children and their communism socialized parents is complicated.

The young want love and happiness, the parents are pure pragmatists: they need someone who is of age to take care of her. And you want at least outwardly give the impression that with your child everything is “normal”. So are marriages of convenience are closed and in hospitals placed babies bought. Girls are cheaper, the wants, anyway, hardly anyone.

Sophia Luvarà told with a surprising sense of Humor about how Andy and Cherry are looking for a way to where they are to remain credible, without the expectations of the parents to disappoint.

Cherry, between its parents

Each culture is facing specific challenges. In the Western world called: How I realized myself? And what I catch at all with the idea of family? Precipices and pitfalls, shows, the cinema, from Comedy to Thriller.

Abby Abbasi plays in the Danish Film “Shelly” with the Horroridee that the belly growing Baby is a Monster, its mother eats. A bad movie, especially since in the body of Elena, the child of a other growing up. The Brazilian Anna Muylaert like it grounded. She tells in “Meso ha uma” (Don’t call me son), Pierre, with 17 learns that his supposed mother as a Baby has stolen. A skilful Reflection on the relationship between biological and actual maternity.

Please a child!

And then, there was still a Film that is just fun, “Maggie’s Plan” by Rebecca Miller, featured prominently occupied with Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore and Supported, Gerwig. A Film by Woody Allen, full of slapstick, with wonderful dialogue, a great Soundtrack, and a story from the New Yorker Here and Now. Maggie wants a child, but no husband. Because, with closer relations, it has only made bad experiences. So looking for a sperm donor with good genes, starts the fertilization, falls in love but suddenly, marries, gets a child. What the movie is by far not yet finished, but an egomaniac and chaotic pursuit of a controlled Patchwork happiness, only really picking up speed. The Moral of this story? Well-ordered designs are what for the drawer, life has its own rules.