SPECIAL SCREENING: Dokumentarfilm BELLEVILLE - BELLE ET REBELLE mit Gästen

Special screening of the documentary film "Belleville - belle et rebelle" by Daniela Abke.

Followed by a discussion with the director and guests from Paris.

Paris, Belleville: one last café musette. Charming, enchanting, idiosyncratic, just like the six characters whose paths cross here. Real poetry and popular chanson. Unyielding, irrepressible, timeless. French history that defies and endures. Based on a street corner, the film portrays a neighborhood that has become a home to foreigners. Shaped by the migrations of the last centuries, by craftsmanship and revolt, Belleville sings us its songs of love and struggle. Photography in black and white. Images like a chanson.

"Belleville, belle et rebelle" portrays six extraordinary inhabitants of Belleville, the Parisian immigrant quarter par excellence. The regulars of Le Vieux Belleville - charming and idiosyncratic - carry the film like a French film choral: Joseph, café owner and chronicler; Minelle, singer and accordionist with infectious energy; Robert Bober, Truffaut's assistant director, writer, photographer and filmmaker. Riton la Manivelle, baritone and barrel organ player; Steven, Scottish bistro and mural painter. And Lucio Urtubia, bricklayer, Basque and anarchist, check forger wanted by Interpol, who runs the Espace Louise Michel cultural center.

Le Vieux Belleville is a lieu authentique, out of fashion and out of time. Deeply rooted in the French soul, this culture attracts curious people from all over the world to sing songs by Fréhel, Piaf and Gainsbourg, to dance and to share the eternally modern idea of fraternity. These chansons represent the sediment of life, an essence that tells of revolution, uprising, world wars, May 1968, love and passion. But what makes a good chanson? Jeanne Moreau: "The energy. It's an immediate sensation, like a shock. The idea must meet an emotion."

"Belleville, belle et rebelle", another gem from director Daniela Abke, tells of a hidden side of France. La France caché, beyond the yellow vests, where society holds together at its core.

A film about civil courage, culture and political interference - belle et rebelle.