Film Screening : 23.03.2024, OYOYO by Chetna Vora (1980) & Man Sa Yay “Ich, deine Mutter“ (Was suchst du hier?) by Safi Faye (1980)

Oyoyo (1980) is a cine-portrait of an educational internationalism with students from Chile, Guinea-Bissau, the Mongolian Soviet Republic, Cuba and Bulgaria studying economy at the “Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin-Karlshorst” in the late 1970s. The director is the Indian filmmaker Chetna Vora who mobilizes the film-camera as a means to listen to the problems that the students encounter in their education, what they miss in the GDR, and how they imagine their future. The cand