Ghassan Saleh will present his film KANCHENJUNGA in the Cinema & Kurbelkiste (Warendorfer Str. 45, 48145 Münster) on 22 November 2025 at 10:15 pm.

Here is the link to ticket sales: https://www.cineplex.de/film/kanchenjunga/109481/muenster/.

Ticket is only for 3€.

Filmmaker Ghassan Saleh invites guests 15-30 minutes early to ensure that the event starts on time. For this event, guests are invited to arrive at 9:45pm.

The program will be as follows: 
10:15 pm – Movie Introduction by Dr. Judith Albrecht
10:20 pm – Movie starts
11:50 pm – Q&A with the filmmaker
12:30 am – End 

Film synopsis:
Shot across a span of more than 12 years and filmed in over 10 countries, Kanchenjunga is a poetic, deeply political documentary-essay that traces the intimate entanglements between labor, memory, and visual power. Set between the fog-laced tea plantations of Darjeeling and the war-torn hills of South Lebanon, the film follows the filmmaker’s personal and political journey to understand a single image: a smiling tea plucker in a blue dress.

What begins as a search for the woman in the photograph unfolds into a meditation on photography, violence, generational survival, and the ethics of seeing. Combining observational footage, personal narration, archival fragments, and stylized visual sequences, the film confronts how images aestheticize suffering, how memory is inherited, and how labor, especially by women, is rendered invisible by systems of capital and empire.

The narrative moves through various cinematic languages: from ethnographic realism to poetic essay, from family history to global critique. The film is structured like the tea leaf itself, plucked in one geography, processed in another, consumed in yet another, revealing a chain of interconnected lives and histories.

At its core, Kanchenjunga is a confrontation with the image itself. The mountain: elusive and omnipresent becomes both metaphor and mirror. This is a film about what we choose to frame, what we fail to see, and what happens when the camera turns inward.