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KITA Discourse Series 10/2017
Title: CINEMA JENIN: The Story of a Dream – Screening and Dialogue with Filmmaker, Marcus Vetter
Tentative Programme:
- 9.20am – 9.30am: Registration
- 9.30am – 9.40am: Welcoming Remarks by Prof. Dr. Ong Puay Liu, Principal Research Fellow, KITA
- 9.40am – 11.30am: Screening of “CINEMA JENIN: The Story of a Dream”
- 11.30am – 12.50pm: Dialogue with Filmmaker, Marcus Vetter (Germany)
- 1.00pm: Closing & End
Cinema Jenin follows an ambitious initiative to re-open a previously abandoned cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin. Founded in the 1960s, it was once the largest cinema in Palestine. Today it stands as a hollow echo of its society. Re-building the cinema, Germans and Palestinians come together evoking often comedic but always political and cultural ramifications. Cinema Jenin witnessed an intimate, nuanced and textured view into the city and its domestic affairs as well as the journey of a dedicated, loyal, often conflicted group of people who hope that the re-building of the cinema will be a bridge to peace, freedom and Palestinian self-government. (source: http://www.cinemajenin.org/)
Presenter's Profile
MARCUS VETTER (born 1967), graduated in Economics (1991) and Media Theory and Practice (1994). Since 1994, he has been working as a TV editor, producer and director at ARD/ SWR in Baden-Baden and Stuttgart, Germany. His films have received attention at national and international film festivals and won numerous prizes, among which are 3 Adolf Grimme Awards – the German Oscar and the German Academy Award. Among his portfolio of films and documentations are “The Tunnel” (1999, 90 min.), “My father the Turk” (2006, 90 min), “Heart of Jenin” (2008, 90 min), “Hunger” (2009, 90 min), “Cinema Jenin” (2011, 90 min), “The Court” (2012, 90 min), The Promise (2016, 131 min.) and The Forecaster (2014, 94 min.).
