Documentary Screening: In the Game / Ich gehe jetzt rein
Sun., March 29, 20266:00 - 8:00 pm ET (US)
Mandel G03, Mandel Center for Humanities, Brandeis University Campus
Screening followed by Q&A with the Director, Aysun Bademsoy.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis.
About the Event
CGES invites you to attend:
In the Game / Ich gehe jetzt rein
Director:Aysun Bademsoy, Germany, 2008 (75 min)
A Documentary Film About Women’s Soccer ,
German and Turkish with English Subtitles
Aysun Bademsoy’ documentaries Girls On The Pitch (Mädchen am Ball, 1995) and After the Game (Nach dem Spiel, 1997) followed five young Turkish girls from Berlin-Kreuzberg, who belonged to the successful Turkish football team “BSC Agrispor”. Thirteen years later, in 2008, she revisits Safiye, Arzu, Türkan, Nalan, and Nazan and their dreams to become professionals.
**Aysum Bademsoy will also be visiting German 106 on Monday, March 30 from 4:05 to 5:25pm (Shiffman 123) for further discussion in German. All German speakers welcome!
About the Speaker
Aysun Bademsoy was born in Mersin, Turkey, in 1960 and moved to West Berlin at the age of nine. She first encountered film as an actress. After studying theater and journalism at the Free University, she worked with renowned German filmmakers Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold. In her documentary films, she observes young people whose migrant perspective sheds light on social conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany.