In 2020, the open girls’ film club of Mpower e.V. resides in the Berlinische Galerie. Every Friday afternoon, starting at 4:30 p.m., girls ages 12 and up meet to conceive and realize films together. Mpower is a project that aims to promote individual educational and professional opportunities for girls and young women with refugee and migration experience(s) and to open up a participatory space in which new networks can form.

Inspired by the collection and exhibitions at the Berlinische Galerie and supported by artists and art educators, different film techniques are learned and tried out. The meetings are intended as a space for solidarity-based action that questions various topics such as art and media, the potential of museums as places of social cohesion, identity issues, images of women and women’s rights, and political education. The program is open to girls with and without basic filmmaking skills.

Concept and direction: Mervete Bobaj (Mpower), Nossa Schäfer (Mpower) and Barbara Antal (Atelier Bunter Jakob)