Film + Gespräch: "KISMET II"

In the organizer's words:

Germany's post-war history is indisputably linked to the tens of millions of guest workers. This makes it all the more important to tell and know their stories. Because their stories are also our stories. Two of these stories are told in the documentary film "KISMET II - Do you know what it's like to dream for a lifetime?" .

Yes, the movie this evening is a sequel, but don't worry, it is not compulsory or mandatory to watch the first part "Kısmet - A story between fate and longing." (released in 2020, freely available on YouTube) beforehand. Both documentaries are by the Mannheim filmmaker Merve Uslu-Ersoy. In the first part, she was on an exchange and time travel with her two grandfathers. In KISMET II, on the other hand, she devotes herself to her grandmothers and shows us another, very personal picture from the heart of a family, of two women who came to Germany from Turkey in the course of the guest worker migration of the 1960s.

The film conveys in an atmospheric and direct way what it means to build a new everyday life as a woman in a foreign country, to emancipate oneself financially and emotionally, to preserve one's dreams and ultimately to pass them on to the following generations. The trailer for the film shows a situation in which Merve asks her grandmother: "What would you have been if you had gone to school?", to which she replies: "If I had gone to school... I would have liked to be a teacher." and smiles so lovingly and graciously at her granddaughter. Merve Uslu-Ersoy studied ethnology and now works as a film educator and anti-racism trainer, among other things. She will be present on this evening and will be available to answer questions from the audience.

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The SAYKO SESSIONS event series has found a partner in the RAUPE IMMERSATT team to present the story of Merve's grandmothers and migrant workers. The foodsharing café on Hölderlinplatz has been a pioneer in so many areas since its first day and has thus become an important part of Stuttgart's colorful everyday life. The evening is supported by the International Music & Culture Association KlangOase e. V. and the Stuttgart Cultural Office.

Price information:

We are dependent on your support so that we artists can cover a fee as well as all costs for technology, GEMA & Co. As we want to handle this in a spirit of solidarity, you can choose your contribution individually. With your voluntary cultural donation, you make it possible for us to continue our idealistic association work and such events in the Raupe in the future.