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For Achen, a young woman from Uganda, the invitation to a seminar on women's health at Johns Hopkins University in the USA is a long-awaited opportunity for a fresh start. During the seminar, she meets Kat, a white American and highly committed intern in the institute's health program, who wants nothing more than to travel to Achen's home country and help out there. At the end of the seminar, Kat is supposed to take the Ugandan participant to the airport for her journey home, but Achen has disappeared. Years will pass before the two women's paths cross again - with serious consequences. In «The Promised Land», Asiimwe Deborah Kawe tells of the lives of two women, of their hopes, disappointments, inner and outer struggles, and shows the gulf that exists between people with and without passports.

After a quarter of a century, the time has finally come: Brandner Kasper returns to the Residenztheater, where it has already been performed over 1000 times! Franz von Kobell's tale has been a cultural treasure with cult status in Bavaria since its publication in 1871. A 75-year-old sprightly locksmith and hunting assistant from Tegernsee is to be called away to heaven. However, Kasper defeats the Boanlkramer, whom St. Peter had commissioned to bring the old man to him, while playing cards and drinking Kerschgeists. «The story of Kasper Brandner» is a poignant play about the deeply human desire to confront one's own transience. Director Philipp Stölzl grew up with the material as a Munich resident and poses the most elementary question of humanity in his new old «Brandner Kasper»: How do I deal with my own mortality?