Catholic Secondary School Marl
Cinema really different!
“Cinema – really different”: Young people from three Marl schools watch and discuss two excellent films, OBON and JOE BOOTS, at the Grimme Institute. This year’s 19th Abraham Festival, with the overall theme “Peace – of cultures, religions and peoples”, stopped off at the Grimme Academy on November 19th.
The large hall in the Grimme Institute Marl was full and full of excited anticipation; at the invitation of the film expert Aycha Riffi and the film expert Stefan Schröer from the Grimme Academy in the Grimme Institute, around 90 young people from grades 10, 11 and 12 from three schools came: from the ASGSG=Albert Schweitzer-Geschwister Scholl-Gymnasium, from the Martin Luther King School and from the Catholic secondary school.
The two films OBON and JOE BOOTS were announced. These films were moving and thought-provoking. In a very sensitive and knowledgeable presentation by Aycha Riffi - supported by Stefan Schröer - there were in-depth insights into OBON on the topic of "mass deaths due to the
Detonation of the first atomic bomb in human history on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima”, and JOE BOOTS on the topic of “Lifelong trauma in the Iraq war”. Questions about film art were also not neglected, after all the two films were very different.
Thanks to the collaboration between Grimme professionals Riffi and Schroer and the Duisburg film festival doxs!, these films made it to the 19th Abraham Festival Marl, at “Cinema – really different”, which has been running very successfully since 2017 and will be continued in 2020 at the upcoming 20th Abraham Festival and its overall theme “Youth – between the chairs/active”.
Signed Hartmut Dreier
