Die Kunst, Viele zu bleiben I Film von Felix Meyer-Christian im Auftrag des Fonds Darstellende Künste

In the organizer's words:

What is "The Art of Remaining Many" in times of social division? Actors Tina Pfurr and Hauke Heumann embark on a cinematic journey through eight cities and collect strong voices from the worlds of art, politics and science between Dresden, Erfurt and Berlin. Between market squares and box seats, new housing estates and Weimar Classicism, they search for what connects the arts in the past, present and future.

We are showing the film at E-WERK Freiburg.

In the summer of 2024, Forums for Art, Freedom and Democracy will be touring Germany for three months under the title DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN and will be making guest appearances in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Berlin, Potsdam, Erfurt, Weimar and Dresden. In these eight cities, a dense program of performing arts, discourse and workshops will blossom on market squares and theater forecourts, on festival stages and in lecture halls: A Taiwanese dance piece is performed here, two philosophers discuss a humanistic world there and next door, in the transcultural beauty salon, encounters in beauty are practiced.

The actors Tina Pfurr and Hauke Heumann are right in the middle of it all. They talk to politicians and international directors, artists and social workers: How do we argue properly again? What drives the people who are defending democracy here in the summer heat? What's the point of all this if there's going to be a safe, far-right summer festival in the same neighborhood square next week? And what role do the arts play in this - now and in the future?

DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN is a film by Felix Meyer-Christian commissioned by the Fonds Darstellende Künste, which brings together the many voices in the arts and summarizes their fight against exclusion and polarization in a discursive and poetic approach.

With

Şeyda Kurt, Sivan Ben Yishai, Sookee, Omri Boehm, Joana Tischkau, Rabih Mroué, Lina Majadalanie, Annett Gröschner, Luce deLire, Joe Chialo, Carsten Brosda, Awet Tesfaiesus and numerous other voices.

Premiere: March 12, 2025
Length: 90 minutes
Language: In German and English
Subtitles: In English and German, optional SDH subtitles for deaf people

Team:
Screenplay and director: Felix-Meyer Christian / With: Hauke Heumann & Tina Pfurr / First camera: Thomas Oswald / Second camera: Uli Decker & Eli Börnicke / Editing: Stéphanie Morin / Music: Marcus Thomas / Sound design: Martin Lutz / Sound: Martin Lutz and Marcus Thomas / Color grading Nour Yazbeck for PLANEMO / Director of photography, production manager, assistant director: Jana Cisar & Lotte Sagert / additional camera: Dorothea Pilz & Felix Meyer-Christian / additional editing: Roman Hagenbrock / assistant editor: Valentin Braun / lighting design & lighting master "Inflatable" shoot: Fabian Eichner / costume design & stage assistance "Inflatable" shoot: Zoë Sebanyiga / conversion Inflatable by atelier.lanika & Costa Compagnie / Editors: Steffen Klewar & Anna Kondring

A film by Felix Meyer-Christian commissioned by Fonds Darstellende Künste. Funded by: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.