From noon to late night documentary films were screened here.
In between, some activist groups had presentations and discussions took place.
A women's group from Argentine presented a film about a controversial police raid during the recent Berlin Carnival of Cultures. For political reasons, members of a participating truck were arrested. A following film documented racist incidents against Africans in Germany, this then lead to a discussion of possible cooperation between the two groups.
A Swiss filmmaker presented her film "Voices in Transit" - a portrait of immigrants having to cope with racism in Switzerland.
The Berlin activist project Megaspree presented an animation film. The campaign is calling for alternatives in opposition of the so called Mediaspree project that plans for mega-office towers to be build along the Spree river in downtown Berlin. This causes large scale gentrification and removal of important parts of the Berlin subculture and infrastructure. A large coalition of businesses and social activist groups is united in opposition to these plans.
Numerous films about globalization, surveillance and ecology were screened during the 3 days of the festival.
Another important film was "Deadly Dust" which was screened at the Berlinale Film festival in 2007, but has since been rarely shown. The film covers the use of Depleted Uranium, nuclear waste that is used in munitions and appears to be a slowly, progressively working Weapon of Mass Destruction. Viewers were shocked to realize this kind of weapon has been excessively used in a war, that itself was started on the pretext to find WMD.
A series of films covered various aspects of staged terrorism, the 9/11 terror attacks and the consequences of illegal wars, which are initiated by False Flag Operations and which lead ultimately to the death of millions and the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Outstanding was a film by Alan Greenberg, that was screened on Friday night Open Air on the huge wall of an adjacent office building. The filmmaker, who worked together with the prominent German director Werner Herzog with "Land of Look Behind" won the Gold Hugo Prize of the Chicago International Film Festival. It features footage of the funeral of reggae musician Bob Marley in 1981. A number of Rastafarians are interviewed, and performers Gregory Isaac and Mutabaruka are also featured in the film. US-director Jim Jarmusch writes that Land of Look Behind is "striking...beautiful...near-perfect."
After this film especially tuned for the reggae community of YAAM a 9/11 documentary was screened open air.
The association AfricAvenir in a small backstage room of YAAM presented a part of an exhibition "Protagonists of Resistance", that was first shown last year in Berlin commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the official Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
One of the greatest atrocities in the history of mankind, the "Transatlantic Slave Trade", was a highly profitable business. Without forced labor, the economic value of the Americas could never have been realized. The European trade with human beings led to the devastation and depopulation of Africa, and enabled the wealth and development of Europe.
Saturday the Festival became part of the campaign "Mobilize you" of the "Activist alliance Freedom not Fear" For the third time this year the network had organizes a "Night of Surveillance" in which several clubs and locations in Berlin participated with info table to mobilize for the September demonstration.
At the entrance of the festival everyone could pick up a free copy of the "Newspaper Against War" and a DVD with new documentaries on 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan and on the consequences of Depleted Uranium munitions as well as important international petitions against the war and for a new 9/11 investigation. The same free DVD that has been distributed by free911video.de in different versions in Berlin through a network of supporting shops, pubs, cafes an other locations.
One of these shops delivered every day fresh flowers for the festival, that were given away to visitors.
Delicious food was prepared by an international team of the People's Kitchen.
Outside the YAAM, on the wall facing the street a group of graffiti artists created some outstanding murals.
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