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Sofia Exarchou GGR, AT, RO, CY, BG 2023 | 116 | Engl., Gr. OV Germ. ST | With Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Voodoo Jürgens | Best Actress Locarno | Nominated for the LUX Audience Award
Kalia is an entertainer in a Greek hotel complex. And she takes it to the pain threshold of merciless self-exploitation. Entertaining tourists as a horror trip that resembles a cut in the flesh.
Helin Çelik AT, ES 2023 | 91 min | Arab. OV Engl. ST | Best Documentary Diagonale Graz
Between trauma and phantasm. A remote refuge in Jordan. Three generations of women gradually reveal their experiences of violence.
Ben Rivers UK, DE, IS 2024 | 86 min | engl. OV | With Jake Williams | German Premiere
Bogancloch is Jake Williams’ home, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. Charting a subtly changing life in a radically changing world. Sequel of TWO YEARS AT SEA.
Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell DE, FR 2024 | 216 min | Engl., Arab., French OV Engl. ST | Berlinale Encounters Award
The eco-terrorists of the ZAD (zone à défendre) in western France prevented a mega airport by occupying land. The life of the community, whose deceleration is the most radical attack on capitalist business logic imaginable, unfolds in 41 shots.
cricri sora rens DE, RU, CN 2024 | 74 min | Engl. OV | German Premiere
What would a world created by artificial intelligence look like? Cricri sora ren, the duo of Christian von Borries and AI, penetrates the political fantasies of our world. The chosen locations are China, Berlin and Putin’s Russia after 2022 in times of war. We find ourselves in a dystopian historical hysteria, in a maelstrom of images, social media and video games.
Lucy Kerr USA 2023 | 75 min | Engl. OV | With Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust, Rachel Alig, Katie Folger, Robert Salas
The obligatory group photo at the end of a big family reunion turns into a choreographed line-up of a middle-class Texan family.
Fogo do vento (Fire of Wind)
sunday 13 oct 11.00 am theatiner | with „Nocturno para uma floresta” | modes of nature | awareness
Marta Mateus PT, CH, FR 2024 | 72 min | Port. OV Engl. ST | With Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata
Soraia saves herself from a mighty bull in the treetops. The ancestors who come to celebrate life are reminiscent of the years under dictator Salazar. An enchanted dream night that makes nature speak.
Miguel Gomes PT, IT, FR 2024 | 129 min | Port., Asian OV Engl. ST | With Crista Alfaiate, Gonçalo Waddington | Best Director Cannes
1918, the final phase of the British colonies begins. Molly travels by ship from London to Asia to meet her fiancé Edward, an official of the colonial empire. However, he no longer wants her and flees from her and the marriage across the continent. A train derails in the middle of the jungle. The story itself is the “Grand Tour”, the great journey of the bourgeoisie, which gets lost in labyrinthine movements across Asian languages and the continent. One of the most beautiful films of Cannes!
If I Fall, Don‘t Pick Me Up
friday 11 oct 6.30 pm werkstattkino | guest: Declan Clarke
followed by: receiption of the Irish Ambassy, Munich
Declan Clarke IE 2024 | 116 min | engl. OV | Special Mention FID Marseille | German Premiere
Berlin, 1974: theater director Walter Asmus assists Samuel Beckett in the production of “Waiting for Godot”. The stage is set with postcards of Beckett, scripts of his productions and the places he visited in Berlin and Stuttgart: studios, restaurants, parks. Everything is sobriety and objectivity. The archive material comes from Asmus.
Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias DO, FR, NA, DE 2024 | 122 min | span., afric. OV Germ. ST | Silver Bear Berlinale
The Namibian hippo Pepe escapes from the private zoo of drug lord Pablo Escobar in Colombia and tells a post-colonial ghost story. A beguiling film essay between documentary and fabulation.
Jiang Jin SG,CN 2023 | 107 min | Mandarin OV Engl. ST
With psychedelic music and mind-expanding drugs, hippiedom, capitalism and Xi Jinping can be reconciled on a sofa and mattress. Jin Jiang shows the radical attempt by young adults to get out as a tableau vivant in the middle of Beijing. Groupe maudit!
Schneewittchen
saturday 12 oct 6.00 pm filmmuseum | guests: Stanley Schtinter, Hanns Zischler, Joshua Bonnetta, Gareth Evans | awareness
Stanley Schtinter FR 2024 | 70 min | Engl. OV | With Julie Christie, Stephen Dillane, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Hanns Zischler | German Premiere
The queen, the huntsman, the prince and the king analyze how the attempted murder of Snow White came about. Based on the drama by Robert Walser and a tribute to the Portuguese master João César Monteiro, who accidentally hung his coat over the camera while shooting “Branca de Neve”.
Be aware: This movie can only be seen in the dark!
Katharina Huber DE 2023 | 108 min | Germ., Engl., It.
OmeU | With Clara Schwinning, Céline De Gennaro, Voodoo Jürgens | Best
Director Locarno, Best Actress Locarno (Clara Schwinning)
The exit from this world is imminent. But when the rocket that is supposed to take people into space is ignited, the radio fails. The radio waves break up. And anyway: There’s nothing out there.
Jonás Trueba ES, FR 2024 | 114 min | Span. OV Germ. ST | With Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz | Best European Film Cannes | German Premiere
Ale and Alex want to split up after 15 years because they’ve somehow run out of steam. Until the big break-up party, they have a lot of me-time and start to brood.