Title: Children of the Revolution Film Screening
Location: Kebele Events Room
Description: After Sunday dinner (food at 6.30pm), there will be a film screening of Children of the Revolution at 7.30pm. It is a 2010 documentary about Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu, of the German Red Army Faction and the Japanese Red Army.
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968 and appalled by the killing in Vietnam, Meinhof and Shigenobu set out to destroy capitalist power through world revolution.
Authors and journalists Bettina Röhl and Mei Shigenobu explore the lives of their mothers, Ulrike and Fusako, providing a unique perspective on their mothers. On the run or kidnapped when their mothers went underground, May and Bettina emerged from difficult childhoods to lead their own extraordinary lives. With capitalism once more in crisis, they reflect on their mother’s actions as the film asks: what were they fighting for and what have we learned?
Shot in Tokyo, Beirut, Jordan and Germany, the film tells the stories of Meinhof and Shigenobu through the eyes of May and Bettina, using rare archive footage of student protests and guerilla training camps in Germany, Japan and the Middle East.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2012-07-01