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Do you have a film that opposes othering, shows acts of resistance or maybe even turns everything around into belonging? Or one that reveals discrimination? Maybe one that tells of your personal experiences with these mechanisms? Then you should become an OO! Ally: Send us your finished film, present it on our website and find support and like-minded filmmakers!



Sometimes, healing the wounds of your past can also heal the wounds of others. Film as a means of belonging for a lost family.

How can we change the field of the visible so that racist structures can be called out? How can (post)migrant realities and perspectives become visible and audible loudly and clearly?

Aljona is about to turn 23 and would like to spend her birthday with her girlfriend. But her hetero-normative surroundings don't know about her lover.

Zejd Coralić, a six-year-old boy from Sarajevo, couldn’t enjoy school because of his deafness. Bosnian government is supposed to support the education of children with special needs but it very often doesn’t and teachers are left alone in dealing with these delicate cases.

Tourists will come to visit a Roma village in Transylvania – Chuck, an American, is in love with this business idea of his. But what’s in it for each party?

Jožka has many problems. But his most important fight is the one to restore the memory of the Roma killed in the concentration camp at Lety.

Youth express their perception of media representation and tell their own stories in this hope-inspiring music video.

Malvina, Claudia and Sascha-Luis are transgender people living in Moscow and Berlin. We watch them as they find their own voices.

In this explanatory, introductory video TV presenter Miss Jessica Kellgren-Hayes talks about what othering is, how it evolves and lists some of its effects.

“If I is an other, then you are me.”

Greg de Cuir Jr., writer and film curator

A growing pool of socially engaged films, a network of festivals and organizations that have an ethical understanding of film, a website open to your contributions – this is OPPOSE OTHERING! Our name is our mission: We want to oppose othering and reverse its effects, foster empathy and inclusion. The task is to find new ways to approach filmmaking, by exposing and opposing discriminatory practices and representations – in a setting that enables exchange and dialogue among filmmakers in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe.


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OO! – Workshop Impressions

OPPOSE OTHERING!  happily introduces the participants of OO! 2018.