program 2021 – UNDERDOX

thursday oct 7

7 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen
opening night

Landscapes of Resistance (Pejzaži otpora)
Marta Popivoda | RS 2021 | DOP: Ivan Marković | 95 min | Serbian
Multi-award winning cinematic memorial to one of the last Holocaust survivors.
guests: Marta Popivoda, Ivan Marković

Siegfried A. Fruhauf | artist in focus
Distance Film | AT 2020 | 18 sec | no dialogues
A trailer that celebrates the fragile sensuality of the cinematic medium as much as it is precisely appropriate to the present.
guest: Siegfried A. Fruhauf

friday oct 8

5 p.m.
werkstattkino
long shorts 1: mavericks

Mensch Horst
Mo Rhozyel, Christoph Philipp Gehl | DE 2020 | 44 min | German | Horst Baitz lives in a slab in Brandenburg. He appreciates the little things in life and goes about his daily life with a lot of heart, discipline and boundless optimism.
guests: Mo Rhozyel, Christoph Philipp Gehl, Sven Bratschke

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Mareike Wegener | DE 2020 | 29 min | German | A cinematic ancestral ritual in honor of the spirits of the Ruhr region, in which Crossroad motifs play a crucial role.
guest: Mareike Wegener

7 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen

SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF | artist in focus
AT 1997-2021 | 16mm, 35mm, HD | ca. 90 min | “The bodies of the viewers are the only real organisms in cinema. For me as a filmmaker, they become the object of influence through intense visual sensory overload. ̋ (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
guest: Siegfried A. Fruhauf

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino

Fauna
Nicolás Pereda | MX/CA 2020 | 70 min | Spanish | A cast member of the series “Narcos” meets a literature obsessive with a yellow Reclam book when he wants to buy cigarettes in a village in Mexico.

9.30 p.m.
werkstattkino

Dark Matter
Viktor Brim | DE 2020 | 20 min | no dialogues | The contours of the circular Kimberlit Pipe, a diamond mine in Siberia, get lost in the deep black of the abyss.

saturday oct 9

5 p.m.
werkstattkino
long shorts 3: analogue paradises

Flowers Blooming in Our Throats
Eva Giolo | IT 2020 | 9 min | no dialogues | 16mm | German Premiere | About the meaning of gestures and touches after the lockdown.

Casting into the lost form
Josef Graßl | DE 2021 | 14 min | German | 16mm | German premiere | A visit to the Bavarian Forest. Grandma Rita, the Bolex, asparagus, the stone rain barrel, hollow glasses and cast glass sculptures by Grandpa Bernhard – cast into the “lost mold”.
guest: Josef Grassl

Revue Automatique (the visitors)
Nicola Müller | DE 2021 | 7 min | no dialogues | S-8 / HD | World premiere | Brazil, the forests of the Amazon. Exotic ethnography, filmed by parents in 1972.
guest: Nicola Müller

All the Stops
Josef Dabernig | AT 2020 | 16 min | no dialogue | 16mm | A dominating woman directs several men who are renovating a villa in a small Hungarian town.

7 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen

What do we see when we look to the sky? (Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?)
Alexandre Koberidze | DE/GE 2020 | D: Giorgi Bochorishvili, Ani Karseladze | 150 min | Georgian | It is love at first sight when Lisa and Giorgi meet for a brief moment in Kutaisi. Love catches them so suddenly that they even forget to tell each other their names. Will they succeed in seeing each other again? A film that is able to enchant unconditionally.
guest: Alexandre Koberidze

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premieres

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

2551.01: The Kid
Norbert Pfaffenbichler | AT 2021 | 65 min | English | The Apocalyptic Exceeds Tod Browning’s Freaks have found refuge from the grasp of a despotic power in a convoluted sewer system. Flawless gore!

sunday oct 10

11 a.m.
theatiner

Über Deutschland (On Germany)
Bernhard Sallmann | DE 2021 | 82 min | German | The Russian writer Marina Zwetajewa came to Dresden in 1919. On sublime sites of the city on the Elbe, her texts come to life.
guest: Bernhard Sallmann

Supporting film: France Against Robots | Jean-Marie Straub | CH 2021 | Diptych after Georges Bernanos.

5 p.m.
werkstattkino

Her Socialist Smile
John Gianvito | USA 2020 | 93 min | English | Helen Keller (1880-1968), born deaf-blind, was one of the great anti-capitalist intellectuals of the United States. A dense portrait made of historical material.

6 p.m.
filmmuseum
münchen

City Hall
Frederick Wiseman | USA 2020 | 272 min | English| Boston’s mayor Marty Walsh is the key figure for the cohesion of Massachusetts’ largest city. A film that watches city government at work – from the 91-year-old legend of Direct Cinema.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premieres

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino

3.30 PM
Ludwig Wüst | AT 2020 | 74 min | English
Two friends, Martin and Anthony, come across a traumatic childhood experience after 15 years.
guest: Ludwig Wüst

monday oct 11

5 p.m.
werkstattkino

Ushiku
Thomas Ash | JP 2021 | 87 min | Japanese, English | The detainees of the Ushiku deportation prison near Tokyo hoped in vain for refuge in Japan. A ruthless examination of a rigorous refugee policy.

6:00 p.m.
theatiner

Hygiène Sociale (Social Hygiene)
Denis Côté | CA 2021 | 75 min | French | Best Director, Berlinale 2021 | The eloquent dandy Antonin engages in a brilliant battle of words with five women in a meadow in his attempt to escape social constraints.

Supporting film: Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | AT 2021 | 20 min | without dialogues | 35mm | The arrival of a train, again and again.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino

FREIZEIT or: the opposite of doing nothing
Caroline Pitzen | DE 2021 | K: Markus Koob | 70 min | German | Upheaval and change are in the air in Berlin. Cranes grow into the sky, brutalism spreads. It is still better to occupy houses than foreign countries.
guest: Caroline Pitzen

Supporting Film: A terra de não retorno (The Earth of No Return)
Patrick Mendes | PT 2020 | 20 min | no dialogues
You are invited to join the order of cinema.

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

Feast
Tim Leyendekker | NL 2021 | 84 min | Dutch | Deconstruction of the sensational Groningen HIV case, in which infected blood was injected into gay men at sex parties.
guest: Tim Leyendekker

tuesday oct 12

5 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

Le temps des autres (The Time of Others)
Claire Angelini | FR 2020 | 123 min | french. OmeU | Archaeologists at Mont Beuvray in Burgundy search for traces of early mankind.
guest: Claire Angelini

6:00 p.m.
theatiner

Pebbles (Koozhangal)
P.S. Vinothraj | IN 2021 | 74 min | Tamil | The everyday violence against women in India is the subject of this image-rich morality tale set in the desert-like landscape of the southern Indian village of Arittapatti and its surroundings.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
long shorts 4:
brex it!

Divided by Law
Katie Davies, Emma Agusita | GB 2021 | 26 min | English |
The bureaucratic challenges of binational families in the face of Britain’s tough migration laws.

Covid Messages
John Smith | GB 2020 | 22 min | English
The British government’s attempts to banish the Corona virus through spells and rituals.

Surviving You, Always
Morgan Quaintance | GB 2021 | 18 min | English | German Premiere
Psychologist Timothy Leary on the expansion of consciousness through psychedelic drugs and teenage life in 1990s London.

9:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
german premiere

Los inocentes (The Blameless)
Guillermo Benet | ES 2020 | 100 min | span. OmeU | When a concert in a squat is interrupted by police intervention, some of the young people get into a violent confrontation.
guest: Guillermo Benet

wednesday oct 13

5:00 p.m.
werkstattkino

Entrance fee 10 €
Proceeds go to the aid organization de.rescue.org

Far From Afghanistan
John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson USA/AF 2012 | 129 min | English | Following the example of the collective film “Loin du Vietnam” (1967), the film sees itself as a protest against the US presence. Critically, the effects of the war on the soul and the visible mutilations of the bodies, of children and adults are dealt with – ten years later, the film has new horrific relevance.

6 p.m.
theatiner

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces
Zhu Shengze | USA 2021 | 87 min | English | Poetic meditation on the metropolis of Wuhan on the Yangtze, which was initially created under the impression of the brutal Chinese Corona Shutdown.

7:30 p.m.
werkstattkino
closing film

Bloodsucker
Julian Radlmaier | DE 2021 | 125 min | German | In this Marxist vampire comedy, a summer romance is brewing on uncertain terrain: Vampires test the physical and spiritual limits at the time of Eisenstein and Trotsky.

10:00 p.m.
werkstattkino
closing night