German Movie Nights: Game Changers

German Movie Nights are back! The German Film Office is pleased to present a free screening of Game Changers (2024), the latest entry in a thirty-year documentary project by Turkish-German filmmaker Aysun Bademsoy. Q&A with Bademsoy to follow.

In the early 1990s, Bademsoy first began chronicling the lives of the members of Berlin-Kreuzberg’s BSC Agrispor, the only Turkish women’s soccer club in Europe. Her observations became Girls on the Ball (1995), a look into how these 16- to 18-year-old players balanced tradition, prejudice, and self-determination with the usual tumults of adolescence.

After two more films—After the Game (1997) and In the Game (2008)—comes Game Changers. The members of BSC Agrispor now have daughters of their own, who were born and raised in Germany and grapple with similar questions of belonging. The players reminisce about their time on the team, the role of soccer in providing them with a sense of community, and how much, if anything, has really changed since then.

Game Changers made its world premiere at 2024 DOK Leipzig in the German Competition.

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