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Cinema: “24 Weeks” by Anne Zohra Berrached
2:11 CAT | 28 February 2019
Cinema: “24 Weeks” by Anne Zohra Berrached
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 5 2019 at 19h00
Entrance: Free
Duration: 102 minutes
Language: German with Portuguese subtitles
Address: Centro Cultural Franco Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
The movie will be followed by a conversation with psychologist Dália Matsinhe
About the movie:
The stage lights, the applause – Astrid loves being a cabaret performer, and loves her tolerant and supportive husband Markus. Every decision is taken together, and this one is no different: what will they do with the child that Astrid is carrying, now, six months into the pregnancy, that she learns it will be severely disabled? She and Marcus have a choice, but little time …
A strong nature with a witty answer to everything, Astrid now feels lost, on her own, impossible to continue her comedy routine. Ultimately only she who is bearing the child can take this weighty decision. What will she do? Who decides whether the child will have a life worth living?
About Anne Zohra Berrached
Anne Zohra Berrached (born 31 July 1982 in Erfurt) is a German film director and screenwriter.
The daughter of an Algerian father, Anne Zohra Berrached was born and raised in the GDR. Following specialised secondary school in art, she earned a university degree in social pedagogy. Anne Zohra Berrached worked for two years in London as a drama teacher before spending one year abroad in Cameroon and Spain.
In the year of 2009, Anne Zohra Berrached directed her debut short movie Der Pausenclown (The Class Clown) about a Lebanese neighbour and comedian who lived in Berlin-Neukölln. Later the movie was broadcast on the German television network WDR. In the same year, after an unsuccessful attempt to get in to Film University Potsdam, Anne Zohra Berrached started her education at one of the most famous film universities of Germany, Filmacademy Baden-Wurttemberg in Ludwigsburg.
Her first feature-length film Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers) is about a homosexual couple who audition men to collect their sperm to have a child. With Two Mothers, Anne Zohra Berrached received the main award of the section Perspective German Cinema at the 63rd Berlinale.
In February 2016 Anne Zohra Berrached presented her second film, 24 Wochen (24 Weeks), at competition of the 66th Berlinale. This was the first breach of the topic of legal late term abortion in cinema and was considered taboo for over 90% of women in Germany facing a similar situation.
24 Weeks was her final degree project before she graduated from film school. As being the only German film in competition, 24 Weeks received the award of Guild German Filmartist (Gilde Deutscher Filmkunsttheater) for best picture. 24 Weeks was also honoured with the Silver Lola of Best German Film 2017 at the German Film Awards.
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