Film

Char... the No Man’s Island

D: Sourav Sarangi, IND / J / I / DK / N 2013, 88 min, OV with English subtitles

Thu, Aug 3, 2017

10 pm

Admission: Evening ticket (2 concerts + film) 12–28€, Film only 6€/4€ (available at the evening box office)

Inside because of poor weather forecast

The microcosm of a river island between rice smuggling and the moods of the Ganges

Ten years ago the young boy Rubel lost his home to the Ganges which robbed the people between India and Bangladesh of their land. However, it also created something new—like the island of Char, the result of the construction of a dam, where Rubel now lives in a fragile no-man’s land. In order to make a living for his family he smuggles rice: a perilous job, with the Ganges already threatening to swallow up the little island again. Apocalyptic and enchanting images of life on a river which takes and seldom gives.

Aug 3, 2017

Tomorrow's Rivers

Blue lifelines: How can the inhabitants of the world’s metropolises re-experience their rivers? How do other city’s manage their rivers and what possible strategies are there for the recovery of these valuable living spaces? Examples from initiatives in Chicago and New Delhi – and their applicability to Berlin – are at the focus of the discussion with Nick Wesley from the Urban Rivers project for the reactivation of the Chicago River, Pankaj Vir Gupta from the Yamuna River Project, which aims to clean the holy river in New Delhi, and Jan Edler, co-author and chairman of the urban development project Flussbad Berlin, and Barbara Schindler, who is responsible for the projects’ public relations.

Char... the No Man’s Island

Tomorrow's Rivers