Spielerinnen

Followed by a talk with Aysun Bademsoy

The final event in the series builds a bridge to the first screening: Şerif Gören’s Almanya acı vatan. Documentary filmmaker Aysun Bademsoy’s work engages with the daily reality of workers from Turkey and their descendents in Germany, as well as the relation between the two countries shaped by labor migration. Her newest film Spielerinnen (Game Changers) continues a long-term documentary project, following the lives of members of the first Turkish-German women’s football club. While the women remember their lives as footballers in the 1990s and their participation in two of Bademsoy’s short films, the film is also interested in how their daughters negotiate questions of identity and the realities of structural racism in Germany. (TK + CK)

Aysun Bademsoy was born in Turkey and moved to Berlin at age nine. Starting in the 1990s, she made several documentaries on Germany from a migratory perspective, such as Am Rand der Städte (2005) and Spuren – Die Opfer des NSU (2019).