Giovannella Rendi (Ferrara) p.78-93
2006 Issue 3
Abstract
Thanks to German-Turkish filmmakers the German Cinema has overcome the dark decade of the 1980s and is alive again. Strongly influenced by popular film genres, the second generation of migrants refuses to be victimized, claiming, on the contrary, a new multicultural identity, and asserting a pride in being “Kanak”. In a panorama strongly dominated by male film directors, female filmmakers attest to the parallel existence of a different language, one in which they try more critically to reconcile their Turkish roots with their German present. Particularly Ayse Polat and Seyhan Derin show a new way to overcome the “cinema of duty” re-elaborating in an original way the theme of the journey and redefining the enclosed space of the Kammerspiel.