DOK Diversity Day: SPIELERINNEN

In the organizer's words:

BRD 2024, documentary film, 86 min

Director: Aysun Bademsoy

Language: OmU (German and Turkish with German subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing viewers)

The long-term observation of Turkish female soccer players in Berlin-Kreuzberg focuses on the next generation 30 years after the first rapprochement. Referring back to the 1990s, their mothers reminisce about a youth in which the game of soccer provided the space for emancipation. Next to this is the world of daughters today: between Instagram, self-discovery and family responsibility.

Aysun Bademsoy shows people who remain seekers. Her documentary position not only develops a multi-layered portrait of the former footballers, but also raises questions about how life paths are shaped across generations. "Aysun Bademsoy succeeds in creating a finely layered work of German-Turkish perspectives in which female concepts of identity are reflected in a society that only formulates integration as an expectation. "If others don't accept that we are German, how are we supposed to accept it?" asks Selin, Türkan's daughter. You don't need to know the three earlier films to understand "Players" - and to appreciate the significance of this project, which will soon have spanned thirty years." (DOK Leipzig, Jan Kühnemund)

ENG: "You got to try to live your own life," Arzu, one of the football players from the Turkish-Kreuzberg girls' team Ağrı Spor, demanded in a 1995 film by Aysun Bademsoy. Today she is in her late forties and leads her own life, like her former teammates Türkan, Nalan and Nazan. Bademsoy visited the four of them for the fourth time, following their lives, recalling their visions for the future from back then. And this time she also talked to their daughters, some of whom on the brink of adulthood, who also think about adaptation, tradition, religion and culture. Little has changed between then and now, being German remains a difficult question to answer for every generation. (DOK Leipzig, Jan Kühnemund)
(German and Turkish with German subtitles for the Deaf and hard of hearing)

Price information:

- 7.00 € (regular) - 5.50 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus € 0.70 booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.