Heimatfilm vs. World Cinema 2

In the "Cinema Parlor" East of Vienna, South of the Sun established domestic filmmakers present their works and explain the complex fallouts of their own migration stories in their artistic works.

The Viennese filmmaker, Ascan Breuer, invites domestic colleagues, Kurdwin Ayub, Miriam Bajtala, Nina Kusturica and Mara Mattuschka, to the Schikaneder Cinema in order to present their personal migration stories on the big screen. The experience of migration is also the thematic starting point for concluding discussions with the filmmakers in the "Cinema Parlor", East of Vienna, South of the Sun.

In discussion with the film directors, Breuer, who comes from a German-Indonesian-Chinese family himself, traces the contradictions as well as opportunities they face as migrants within the society of immigration – from structural exclusions all the way to creating new forms of leeway within the scope of identity politics: How have the filmmakers experienced their own history of migration? Which biographical, social-economical and political fallouts can be found in their works? As a migrant artist, how do you deal with "not fitting in" or "belonging" – adapting, resisting or finding your own way?