On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 8 pm<\/b>, AfricAvenir in cooperation with Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Dafrid, SODI and the Center for Research and Documentation Chile-Latin America (FDCL) invites you to the screening of the award-winning documentary \u201eFatal Assistance\u201c (Assistance Mortelle, German version) by Raoul Peck<\/b>. 12 January, 2010. A devastating earthquake shakes Haiti\u2019s capital. In an instant 250,000 people are killed and 1.2 million left homeless. NGOs from all over the world send experts for critical relief efforts. At first, everyone has high hopes: at an international donors\u2019 conference billions of dollars are pledged and the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), co-chaired by Bill Clinton, is created to oversee worldwide solidarity efforts. But, two-and-a-half years later, you only have to set foot in Port-au-Prince to see the international community has failed<\/b>. Hundreds of thousands are still living in tents; the IHRC is as good as dead and only a fraction of the funds pledged have arrived in Haiti. Filmed over two years, Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck\u2019s documentary tries to find out how, in spite the international community\u2019s promises, the needs of ten million people in the Caribbean came to be met in such a paltry fashion. He questions political decision-makers, private contractors and engineers \u2013 and of course ordinary Haitian people, who have begun a painstaking reconstruction of their own.n\u201cPeck does not criticise the helpers, mostly motivated and intelligent experts. It is the absurd structures in which they are captured. Peck has added radical poetic lyrics to his images (\u2026)\u201c Der Tagesspiegel<\/p>\n
\u201cDirect and indirect power relations between North and South are the core topics of most of Raoul Peck\u2019s movies. (\u2026) And it is always about dignity. Fatal Assistance, too, is the appeal to meet Haitians, and not only them, with solidarity instead of paternalism.\u201c DIE ZEIT<\/i><\/p>\n
Following the screening there will be an open discussion with Demba Moussa Dembele<\/b> (Forum Africain des Alternatives) as well as a small reception in the foyer.<\/p>\n
This screening is jointly organised by AfricAvenir and Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Dafrid and SODI and in cooperation with Center for Research and Documentation Chile-Latin America, Africin\u00e9, SEV-Magazin, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Club der Freunde von RFI, Berlin Poche, rendez-vous-cine.de, Exberliner, radio multicult.fm, Art Labour Archives, Plan\u00e8te M\u00e9tis, ISD, Berlinda, AfroHeat, Contemporary& and Latein Amerika Forum (LAF).<\/p>\n
Director<\/b>
Born 153 in Haiti, grown up in Zaire, vocational training in France, USA and studies at the TU Berlin (1974 \u2013 1982), then at the DFFB where he graduated in 1988. The best-known of his movies are \u201cL\u2019homme sur les Quais\u201d, \u201cLumumba\u201d, \u201cSometimes in April\u201d on the genocide in Rwanda. His most recent movie \u201cMoloch Tropical\u201d was shown 2009 in Berlin and Toronto. From 1996 \u2013 1997 Raoul Peck was minister for culture in Haiti. 2002, he was member of the International Berlinale-Jury, 2012 of the competition jury of Cannes. For his complete works he received the Irene Diamond Award, presented by Human Rights Watch. Since 2010 he is the head of the board of the film school La F\u00e9mis in Paris.<\/p>\n
Fatal Assistance (Assistance Mortelle)
Haiti, France, USA, Belgium 2013, 99 min.
D. Raoul Peck
DCP, original with German commentary, partly subtitled<\/p>\n
Friday, 23 May 2014
8 pm
Admission: 7,50\u20ac
Reduced: Berlinpass, collective tickets for 5 or 10 visits can be used by two,
Gildepass, Heavy User Card<\/b><\/p>\n
Hackesche H\u00f6fe Kino<\/b>
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