Reza Dabui

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.

The film sheds light on the problems at school, the difficulties foreign youngsters have in finding their way between two cultures and languages, the impossibility of exercising the right to a good education.

Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics.

German agitprop film.

Documentary film about the suffering of Turkish girls and women due to patriarchal family structures.

Documentary film about the structural anchoring of racism in West Germany.

Two men chase one woman.

The coming-of-age story of a 23-year-old woman from West Berlin who, in particular, breaks free from her emotional dependence on her insensitive, selfish boyfriend, who doesn’t take her seriously. Due to her own relationship problems and depression, her mother attempts suicide. The young woman finds a new partner in an immigrant from Sudan.

Documentary film about the effects of the housing situation of Turkish foreign worker families on their children.

Pregnant Maria and her husband Josef are a Turkish guest worker couple in West Berlin who offer their labor to the S. company. In Turkey, like many others, they were unable to find work. In Germany, they exchange their slave-like dependence on large landowners for the hustle and bustle of work in a large German company.

A portrait of Turkish artists living and working in Berlin.