Tolerant Film Summer starts on 24 June in Obernburg
The "Tolerant Film Summer" of the Network for Tolerance Waldeck-Frankenberg was already held successfully last year. This summer, the Network for Tolerance will again - together with the Willingen cinema and local cooperation partners - show current films on the topic of tolerance and diversity. The cinema screenings take place as open air events at unusual locations. All events of the Film Summer are free of charge as part of the SummerWanderKinos Hessen 2022 funded by the state programme "INS FREIE".
It all starts on Friday, 24 June, from 8 p.m. with the film "Beckenrand Sheriff" in Vöhl-Obernburg. The Obernburg Aktiv e.V. association invites all cinema enthusiasts to the "Nickesfrase" festival site for a culinary pre-programme. At nightfall, the open-air cinema show begins. The comedy "Beckenrand Sheriff" from 2021 deals with a problem that is well-known in many places: the local open-air swimming pool has to be closed because the renovation costs are too high. The lifeguard and uncompromising sheriff of the open-air pool, Karl Kruse (played by Milan Peschel), outdoes himself trying to prevent the pool from being demolished. He receives support from the Nigerian refugee Sali, who has been assigned to him as an assistant.
As the second film in the series "Tolerant Film Summer", the multiple award-winning film "Rabiye Kurnaz against George W. Bush" will be shown in Lichtenfels-Rhadern at the sports field on Saturday, 30 July. The film tells the true story of a German-Turkish mother who is fighting for the release of her son who was unjustly imprisoned in Guantanamo. A difficult subject, but one that is lightened up by a lot of wit and the great talent of comedienne Meltem Kaptan as the leading actress. Here, the Network for Tolerance is working together with the Lichtenfels church community and the Spielgemeinschaft Lichtenfels, who are also offering a pre-programme before the film begins.
Other special cinema screening locations will be the Falkenhof in Korbach-Strothe on Wednesday, 24 August and the Protestant church in Volkmarsen on Thursday, 22 September. In Strothe, the Network for Tolerance together with the association Weites Feld e.V. will show the film "Garagenvolk", a documentary about the diverse and creatively used garage settlements in Russia. The director of the film, Natlija Yefimkina, is invited to an audience discussion.
The Network for Tolerance is funded as a Partnership for Democracy within the framework of the federal programme "Live Democracy!" by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs and within the framework of the state programme "Hesse Active for Democracy, Against Extremism" by the state of Hesse.