globale08

Filmfestival globale08 The 5th globale will take place from the 15th until 21st of Oktober 2008. Our main event location this year is the cinema Kino Moviemento in Kreuzberg/Neukölln, where also our festival centre will be located. The main themes of the globale08 are:

Migration: The precarious lot of migrants and the conditions under which they live in “Fortress Europe” – the historic connection between immigration, labour and population policies.

Food: Who’s really having a food crisis? Seed monopolies, the global fight of farmers for self-determination and the disastrous effects of biofuel production .

G8 and Protest: Being active in the G8 protests in Heiligendamm, the globale would like to invite self-reflexive discussion on the current state and future of the movement, the forms of protest and the effectiveness of media activism.

Gentrification and Lifestyle Apartheid Mediaspree Berlin, the Mission District in San Francisco, gated communities in Antalya and Alicante: Gentrification and the desire for distinctive lifestyles are not natural givens yet function according to market logic, are politically intended and forced.

Work, Precarity, Social Fabric: Work as exploitation, unemployment as a means to apply pressure – films and discussions about increasingly precarious existences including positions by labour activists, nonconformists and workers of a factory coop.