10 years at berlin's international film festival. and in our series 100 german mustering is cut tepid tosca yes quest to uncover her own family's fate during the holocaust becomes the moving memoir called maybe esther. well the title of his exhibition reads like poetry 6 songs swirling gracefully in the taut air but it's visual poetry and images that. create so masterfully the british nigerian photographer captures those fleeting moments of life all over the globe to show us just how similar we really are. from. the beach in lagos nigeria. photos by the border can be. jerry and has lived in berlin for 30 years. his work has already been shown of the document in kaesong but this is his 1st show in berlin.

dark images of big city life in africa and europe are can be has a playful approach he says you only have to look impressed the shots are at the right moment. his photos show people's everyday life they don't take strengths on the street. is very determined to move in the global south of the world but also in the in the global north and do not make a distinction between the kind of polarities that we otherwise see are forced on the communities politically socially. people and moments everything seemingly can surely captured. i kimba day i can be is here with me in the studio welcome and thank you so much for coming in very i'm captivated by this title of your of your exhibition because tell me more about it

these 6 songs swirling gracefully in the taut air because that despite the fact that we're talking about pictures here air and breath and breathing is very very important to work very very important this 6 songs 6 themes of the exhibition each one in one room and i chose. to try to stress to the businesses that i have not only a visual aspect of my photographs but if they really look at them carefully they'll hear something that you talked about singing and how it ties in very much to this idea. that you have a wandering being a wanderer through the world. that's very much a part of your artistic method you've made it into something of a philosophy. i call myself actually of the loss of philosophical photographer the idea is. in moving well constantly engaging with our environment the.

what is immediately around us and it's responding to it so the environment it's not just us we too have have to acknowledge the environment some very very. acute about this and you've even compared it to a dance now there are of course when you're on your wandering missions there are shots that you don't take perhaps out of out of respect or what is it that guides you not so much out of respect i was trying to be respectful everywhere i do go it's more a choice of some images some themes really draw me in a core out to meet others not so strong but i try to be aware of all these different. no sound is coming towards me ok so it's very auditory work as well for you know you love big cities speaking of sounds especially in mega cities and we see a number of them in your exhibition lagos cairo bamako a lot of the african megacities but also places like berlin and chicago so what is

it about these cities that is so compelling and what binds them together with unifying them i mean i grew up i was born in a small place of oxford in england but i love big cities and is the buzz the vibrancy the dynamism dynamism which really calls out to me i want to try to respond to some constantly trying to see trying to here trying to also if i may seem so into it to feel. one whole section of the exhibition is devoted to africa to berlin's african quarter which i didn't even know really existed it's actually just next door to us here in berlin in the district of reading what's your take on the african diaspora here in berlin and how has it changed the city and perhaps even the people in it in the time that you've been here. the african germans especially. germans have become much more. so what's the word i don't know how to say it they really want to get their message across more now less discrimination listen to us or against a more forceful about their role in q.

very much but at the same time the african court in itself is a very very conflict concept because african quarters were always in the colonies and this was where actually the natives africans was supposed to live but the african quarter here wasn't meant as that it was a residential area started about a 120 years ago before that somebody wanted to set up a zoo this with human beings and said but now it after was where to begin out there it really became a what you call it a residential area they kept the. idea of the theme of africa so they called ministries with african means and now it's a thriving place that you return to again and again. yes. you are a recipient of germany's prestigious for instance good to medal back in 2016 you give masterclasses quite often to younger artists and the younger generations and you told me i think you're off to tunisia very soon what's your main message to those younger people what is it from your vast experience we talked about this just

before coming in here that you like to give as a photographer always stress get to know your camera gets will your instruments literally like a musician play with it every day you know play or dates play with it so that constantly working working working you begin to find your own vision your own voice and you become a master at that instrument very truly eventually if you persist very very badly mastered yours. never stops the journey never. like him the day i can be your photographs are on show at the bar here in berlin until the 17th of may thank you very much for coming in and sharing some of your artistic process with us and these wonderful wonderful having me and good luck with all the best with all your future projects i know there's still many thank you. well to moving pictures now and it was in july 29000 that iranian director mohammad to us who was sentenced to a year in prison it was the latest in

a series of restrictions that has forced him like his colleague jeff and i he to find ever more ingenious ways of making films well his winning in absentia of the golden bear here in berlin this past weekend shines a light on the power of creative resistance in his home and. film goes to how microsoft another year another iranian winner of the golden mohammed rushed to find a filmmaker and to make is no evil and was not allowed to travel to his daughter who also stars in the film picked up the prize. obviously i'm very very overwhelmed and happy but this is war and at the same time i'm very sad because this is for a few may care who couldn't be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody and the team that this is for him. the film deals with the death penalty and how people can retain their integrity while living under

a repressive regime and. it's the 1st golden for an iranian film in just 10 years the golden bear for the best film goes to. one with a separation in 2011. 21st . he won the big prize for taxi tehran a film he also appeared in he was prevented from attending and had his niece pick up the prize. a 2nd iranian film this years but also check the death penalty in massoud back she. a night of forgiveness merriam's fate will be sealed on a bizarre t.v. show she's been sentenced to death for murdering her husband but could be pardoned

on the show. because you have to be sure this isn't over yet if you had spent years with. this is. all about medical rejoining shows like this really exist in iran this may be a sad time just exactly right for effect the film is also a portrait of women in the country paying tribute to the strengths. of. the film successfully shows how women from different social classes backgrounds how malays and education are very active in one way or the other that is. the film is due for release in iran soon the makers hope the success of the iranian film the building owner will give it. a lot of very strong cinematic voices coming out of iran and of course kudos to the 1000000000 dollar for making them her 12th finally this week's tips for german

books in english translation bears the any magic title may be esther author. endeavors to bring her family's fractured past to life and the result is a haunting exploration of how stories can sometimes be all that's left of history. how do you know your family tree are there any secrets stories no one wants to talk about and do you really want to know about them. maybe esther is a collection of stories about author culture patrol mission to uncover the past no one in her eastern european jewish family ever told her about her relatives who were murdered in the holocaust. i no longer understood how i ever could have imagined that i had been spared somehow i knew that my polish relatives had all

perished siblings his mother segment how lucky their family how else could this have ended but i had never thought about. it i was born in ukraine but she originally wrote the book in german a language she started learning in her mid twenty's you can feel how she's searching for the right words to describe her family's experiences with war displacement the holocaust and soviet gulags a lot of the places she's looking for in maybe esther no longer exist most of the time she says there's nothing left to see just stories to tell so who is this esther esther may have been picturesque i was great grandmother's name but no one knows any more for sure and that pretty much describes the book. starts each quest with a hunch or a doubt and then looks for witnesses who can fill in the blanks she doesn't always get an answer but she swears that nothing in the book is made up. maybe esther is

an unusual book about the holocaust and about the author's family who her storytelling brings back to life 'd 'd 'd. so much to read and so little time it's crazy but that's all for this edition don't forget about our website in the meantime d.w. dot com slash culture and we will be back tomorrow same time same place so until then i'll just go to as everyone says in a few dozen. soccer world's favorite sport. it's no wonder spectacular goals. plenty of emotion.

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