Think German Wales Network: Visiting Film Director Hüseyin Tabak

Supported by the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London

 

The Think German Wales Network is delighted to welcome film director Hüseyin Tabak to Swansea and Bangor from 7-9 March 2018. Please do come along to the public events listed below!

 

Wednesday 7 March, 7.30pm

Presentation of Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert / Your Beauty is Worth Nothing at Cinema & Co, Swansea High Street, followed by Q and A.

 

Thursday 8 March, 7.30pm

Hüseyin Tabak in conversation at the Dylan Thomas Birthplace, 5 Cwmdonkin Drive.

 

Friday 9 March, 3pm

Workshop with Hüseyin Tabak: Making Film, Making Culture

Tricolore, Bangor University Main Arts Building (third floor), College Road, Bangor, LL57 2DG.

 

Friday 9 March, 5.30pm

Public Film Showing of Das Pferd auf dem Balkon, followed by Q&A with Hüseyin Tabak

Pontio Cinema, Deiniol Road, Bangor, LL57 2TQ.

 

 

Hüseyin Tabak (b.1981) is a German film director of Turkish-Kurdish heritage who has worked extensively in Austria. He has made three films to date, two of which will be presented on his visit to Wales.

 

Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert / Your Beauty is Worth Nothing (2013) won the Austrian Film Prize in 2014 and was acclaimed in both Germany and Turkey. It takes its title from a famous lyric by the Anatolian folk poet and singer Asik Veysel (1894-1973): ‘Your beauty is quite worthless unless I love you’. The film is about a Kurdish-Turkish family who have been living in Vienna for six months hoping to regularise their status and are struggling with the language and culture of their new environment. The film is about identity, the politics of belonging, and language.

 

Das Pferd auf dem Balkon / The Horse on the Balcony (2012) is an adaptation of the children’s novel of the same title by the Serbian-Austrian novelist Milo Dor (1923-2005). Set in Vienna it centres on a ten-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome named Mika who lives alone with his mother. The film is about identity and difference with the emphasis on the comic rather than the didactic. In 2015 Das Pferd auf dem Balkon was adopted on to the new syllabus of the Welsh Joint Examination Council (WJEC) and has so far proved popular with schools.

 

 

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Dr Anna Saunders

Head of School / Pennaeth yr Ysgol

Senior Lecturer in German / Uwch-ddarlithydd Almaeneg
School of Modern Languages / Ysgol Ieithoedd Modern
Bangor University / Prifysgol Bangor
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