Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde (Eighty Plus)
Filmmaking in post socialist times, rethinking coming of age.
Director Želimir Žilnik, producer Sarita Matijević Žilnik and Paula Ruppert (moderation)
Munich, Filmmuseum, 10 Oct 2025
© Fotos & Video: Dunja Bialas
UNDERDOX country focus & artists in focus: LONDON ORBITAL
Walking & poetry, filmmaking as performance art
Director Andrew Kötting and Sven Koch, translator of the works of Iain Sinclair – film talk about BY OUR SELVES. Munich, Filmmuseum, 10 Oct 2025.
© Foto & Video: Dunja Bialas
DIE SCHÖNE REISE III and GERHARD
EVERYONE DESERVES A SLICE OF PIE
© Fotos: Florian Geisterstanger
15 positions of contemporary video art from Bavaria – the 6th VIDEODOX exhibition at the Galerie der Künstler*innen was officially opened last Tuesday!
Opening hours: Daily except Mon/Tues. Until 12 October!
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We’re swapping two films!
Želimir Žilnik, one of the leading directors of the Yugoslav Black Wave of the 1960s and 70s, will be guest at the Filmmuseum Munich on Friday, 10 October at 9 p.m. His film Eighty Plus (Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde) was awarded the Fipresci Prize at the GoEast Festival.
The most recent film from veteran Želimir Žilnik reflects on his own artistic journey by following the story of a man who moves back to his country to reclaim the home that had previously been owned by the government for decades, and now finally can be released to the remaining heirs. It takes the protagonist on a voyage into both the past and present, allowing him to cross paths with a range of characters, each one adding something new and compelling to his journey back home. A film that takes its time and invites us to take a memorable trip with a few fascinating characters, Eighty Plus is a solid, well-made work from a master who has rarely been more honest about many of the inevitabilities that we all have to face at one point or another. – International Cinephile Society
What Does That Nature Say to You by South Korean veteran director Hong Sang-soo will instead be shown on Tuesday, 14 October at 9 p.m. at the Filmmuseum.
The theme for our anniversary year: something to do with art. We have been involved with this since we founded UNDERDOX in 2006. We don’t want films to pass us by. We want to see them, we want to hear them, consciously, with our eyes and ears wide open. We celebrate film as art. And not as succinctly as our wording might suggest.
The painter Albert Oehlen, with Udo Kier’s piercing gaze, stands in front of a white canvas. He applies a thick brushstroke. ‘A fleck is already a painting,’ he triumphs. With Udo Kier, Charlotte Taschen, Grace Zabriskie, Kim Gordon. German premiere!
London filmmakers Andrew Kötting, Chris Petit, Emma Matthews and writer Iain Sinclair explore their surroundings through film and writing. They open up poetic perspectives on reality – on urbanity, marginality, the madness of the world.
A panel in cooperation with the NS Documentation Centre and the Goetz Collection on the representation of history in art is another highlight of this year’s programme.
On the panel: Ute Adamczewski, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko, Susanne Touw (Goetz Collection)
Exhibition, performance and award ceremony in the artists’ gallery.
The list of nominees for the VIDEODOX Award 2025.
Our selection jury, consisting of Dunja Bialas, Florian Geierstanger, Nora Moschüring, Anna Schellkopf and Matthias von Tesmar, nominated the following works from around 60 submissions for the VIDEODOX Award 2025:
| Ulu Braun | Pacific Vein | 2024 |
| Tobias Friedauer | A series of (moving) images following one from the other | 2025 |
| Theresa Gavin | Logik/Logica | 2024 |
| Kim Gündel | Bug Box | 2025 |
| Emilia Haar | Kami no Aika | 2025 |
| Stefan Hayn | »2024 (2023)« | 2024/25 |
| Seungyeon Jo | Token of One Hour | 2025 |
| Kunstkollektiv Hybris (Felizitas & Theresa Hoffmann, Natalia Jobe) | Ich lag noch nie so gut (I’ve never been so comfortable) | 2025 |
| Chaeeun Lee | We Don’t Know How To Cry | 2025 |
| Johnny Linder | Soft noise in darkness | 2024 |
| Ivan Paskalev | Sagabona Kunjani Weena | 2024 |
| Eva Schmeckenbecher | Drei Hauben (Three toques) | 2024 |
| Alexander Steig | finis horizontis (24/7) | 2024 |
| Franziska Unger, Marie Jaksch, Lotti Oeken | Leidende Frau (Woman suffering) | 2025 |
| Franz Wanner | Berlin-Lichtenberg | 2024 |
Elfi Mikesch, camerawoman and director, who has received several awards for her visual visions, is an early pioneer of feminist-queer film.
Born on May 31, 1940 in Judenburg, Styria, she started out as a photographer and painter.
painter. In the early 1960s, she met Rosa von Praunheim in Frankfurt am Main and went with him to West Berlin. and went to West Berlin with him. She worked closely with Praunheim, and soon after with Werner Schroeter (camera for MALINA) and Monika Treut, with whom she founded Hyäne-Filmproduktion in 1984. Her first own works were photo films, which she continues to this day as a chronicler of the hidden.
To mark the 85th birthday of this exceptional camerawoman, UNDERDOX is showing an excerpt from her work.
Elfi Mikesch is our guest.
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Starring: Bernd Brehmer und Tim Leyendekker
Shot on location: FIDMarseille, 2023
Music: Kiko El Crazy & Angel Dior with “Pa’Ti Ya”
Camera & editing: Dunja Bialas
© UNDERDOX 2024
18 feature-length films have made it into the official UNDERDOX selection this year. Among them are major titles such as GRAND TOUR by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Best Director, Cannes), PEPE by Colombian Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias (Silver Bear, Berlinale) and DIRECT ACTION by Frenchman and Berliner-by-choice Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau (Berlinale Encounters Award). But also the “unspectacular” award winners THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Spaniard Jonás Trueba (Best European Film, Cannes) (German premiere), EIN SCHÖNER ORT (A GOOD PLACE) by Cologne-based Katharina Huber (Best Director, Locarno, Best Actress Locarno for Clara Schwinning) and ANIMAL by Greece’s Sofia Exarchou (Best Actress Locarno for Dimitra Vlagopoulou).
This does not mean an esoteric or sensitive orientation. We are focusing our attention on what is happening on the screen. And on everything that heightens our awareness: that is the awareness we mean.
We often become conscious when something is missing. Stanley Schtinter brings the most radical version with his film SCHNEEWITTCHEN (German premiere). Based on the drama by Robert Walser, the film pays homage to the Portuguese master João César Monteiro, who accidentally hung his coat over the camera while shooting BRANCA DE NEVE. An illustrious cast investigates the attempted murder of Snow White. Hanns Zischler (the hunter), director Stanley Schtinter and Joshua Bonnetta (film editor) are present. (Saturday, 12 Okt 6pm, Filmmuseum München)
Basque director Oskar Alegria is a master at detecting nuances, the unspoken and the invisible. We are also showing his films under the theme of awareness, and he is also this year’s Artist in Focus. Our opening film ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ (German premiere) invites you on a journey full of memories, in search of an old shepherd’s path, with a Super 8 camera and a donkey as your companion. (Thursday, 10.10. 7 p.m., Filmmuseum Munich)
Also in the “Artist in Focus” program: THE SEARCH FOR EMAK BAKIA (2012), about the search for the location of Man Ray’s surrealist cine-poem EMAK BAKIA (1926).
(Friday 11.10. 9 pm, Werkstattkino) Oskar Alegria will be present at both screenings.
Filipino filmmaker KHAVN is the master of This is not. Therefore we deny that he is our second artist in focus, KHAVN is a musician as untamed as filmmaker. He unleashes Alexander Kluge and Lilith Stangenberg and scratches the picture while hammering into the piano keys. In our closing night he will give a ciné concert on the wing of the Filmmuseum accompanied by Babel Gun. Also running KLUGE’S 5TH BIRTHDAY 1937 (German premiere), and as a closing film we show MAKASIMA: PHANTASM OF REVENGE with Lilith Stangenberg. We are expecting Alexander Kluge and Lilith Stangenberg as guests (requested). Also in the program: MAKBETAMAXIMUS (2024), Monday 14.10., 9.30 pm, Werkstattkino. Khavn will be present at both screenings.
For the second time, we have invited the younger generation to curate a program of films by young filmmakers in the Young People’s Choice funding program. Vid Radičević (Belgrade) and Paula Ruppert (Munich) have also found two world premieres for their short film program Belgrade Youth, which consists of seven films. They will be present at the screening. (Tuesday, 7 p.m., Werkstattkino)
