Wir wollen auch leben
German spoken, French subtitles
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
German spoken, French subtitles
Mehrangis Montazami-Dabui documentary examines structural racism in West Germany. Wir wollen auch leben the power that state and legal institutions such as the immigration authorities or the police exerted on foreign youths in the 1970s. It also addresses how this power, which can also hold the constant threat of deportation, for example, can trigger existential fear in young people which then leads to juvenile delinquency.