Films 2021

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• A-Z feature films
• in focus: AFGHANISTAN
• LONG SHORTS: documents & experiments
• artist in focus: SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF

A-Z feature films

2551.01: The Kid Norbert Pfaffenbichler | AT 2021 | German Premiere | 65 min | HD | English Silent film in black and white that takes Charlie Chaplin’s THE KID and goes where Fritz Lang’sMetropolis looks the other way: to the lumpenproletariat, in the truest sense. Flawless gore! saturday 9 oct 21.30 uhr werkstattkino

3.30 PM Ludwig Wüst | AT 2020 | Best artistic image design, Diagonale Graz 2021 | 74 min | HD | English Two friends, Martin and Anthony, meet again after 15 years. They talk about shared memories and their current lives. sunday 10 oct 21.30 werkstattkino | guest: Ludwig Wüst

Anus Solaire Bear Boy feat. Groupe Maudit | DE 2021 | World Premiere | 97 min | HD | German Loosely based on Georges Bataille, “Sun March˝ promises transcendence and redemption by means of music therapy and oscillates blithely between excess and enlightenment. wednesday 13 oct 22.00 werkstattkino | closing night | guests: Bear Boy & Groupe Maudit

Blutsauger Julian Radlmaier | DE 2021 | Lola Best Script 2019 | 125 min | HD | German A summer romance on uncertain terrain, Vampire explores the physical and spiritual boundaries at the time of Eisenstein and Trotsky. wednesday 13 oct 19.30 werkstattkino | closing film

City Hall Frederick Wiseman | USA 2020 | 272 min | HD | English Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is the key figure in keeping Massachusetts’ largest city together. A film that watches city government at work. sunday 10 oct 18.00 filmmuseum münchen

Fauna Nicolás Pereda | MX/CA 2020 | 70 min | HD | Spanish A cast member of the series “Narcos” meets a literature obsessive with a yellow Reclam book when he goes to buy cigarettes in a village in Mexico. friday 8 oct 7.30 pm werkstattkino

Feast Tim Leyendekker | NL 2021 | 83 min | HD | Dutch Deconstruction of the sensational Groningen HIV case, in which infected blood was injected into gay men at sex parties. monday 11 oct 9.30 pm werkstattkino | guest: Tim Leyendekker

FREIZEIT oder: das gegenteil von nichtstun (FREIZEIT or: the opposite of nothing) Caroline Pitzen | DE 2021 | 71 min | HD | German Upheaval and change are in the air in Berlin. Cranes are rising into the sky, brutalism is spreading. It’s still better to occupy houses than foreign countries. monday 11 oct 19.30 werkstattkino | guest: Caroline Pitzen

Her Socialist Smile John Gianvito | USA 2020 | 93 min | HD | English Helen Keller (1880-1968), born deaf-blind, was one of the great anti-capitalist intellectuals of the United States. sunday 10 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino

Hygiène Sociale Denis Côté | CA 2021 | Beste Regie, Berlinale Encounters 2021 | 75 min | HD | French The eloquent andy Antonin, in his attempt to escape social constraints, engages in a brilliant battle of words with five women in a meadow, the classic site of the duel. monday 11 oct 18.00 theatiner filmkunst

Los inocentes Guillermo Benet | ES 2020 | 100 min | HD | Spanish When a concert in a squat is interrupted by police action, some of the young people get into a violent confrontation. tuesday 12 oct 21.30 werkstattkino | guest: Guillermo Benet

Landscapes of Resistance Marta Popivoda | RS 2021 | 95 min | HD | Serbian Multi-award winning cinematic memorial to one of the last Holocaust survivors. Sofija Sonja Vujanović becomes Serbia’s first partisan and leader of the resistance in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. donnerstag 7 oct 19.00 filmmuseum münchen | opening film | guest: Marta Popivoda, Ivan Marković

The Lobby Heinz Emigholz | DE/AR 2020 | German Premiere 76 min | HD | English Topography as Autobiography. An “Old White Male” inhabits the hotel lobbies in Buenos Aires. saturday 9 okt 19.30 werkstattkino

Outside Noise Ted Fendt | GE/SK/AT 2020 | German Premiere | 61 min | 35mm | German Daniela, just back from a trip abroad, drifts through Vienna with two friends. sunday 10 oct 19.30 werkstattkino | guest: Daniela Zahlner

Pebbles Vinothraj P.S. | IN 2021 | Tiger Award, Rotterdam 2021 | 75 min | HD | Tamil Everyday violence against women in India is the subject of this richly illustrated morality tale set in the desert-like landscape of the southern Indian village of Arittapatti and its environs. tuesday 12 oct 18.00 theatiner filmkunst

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces Zhu Shengze | USA 2021 | 87 min | HD | English Poetic meditation on the metropolis of Wuhan on the Yangtze River, first created under the impression of the brutal Chinese corona shutdown, then during the cautious resumption of life. wednesday 13 oct 18.00 theatiner filmkunst

Le temps des autres (The Time of Others) Claire Angelini | FR 2020 | German Premiere | 123 min | HD | French Archaeologists at Mont Beuvray in Burgundy are searching for traces of early mankind. The landscape bears multi-layered witness to cultural-historical migration. tuesday 12 oct 17.00 werkstattkino | guest: Claire Angelini

Über Deutschland (On Germany) Bernhard Sallmann | DE 2021 | 82 min | HD | German The Russian writer Marina Tsvetaeva came to Dresden in 1919. Her texts come to life on sublime sites of the city on the Elbe – a subtle, pictorial essay of tender topicality. sunday 10 oct 11.00 theatiner filmkunst | guest: Bernhard Sallmann

Ushiku Thomas Ash | JP 2021 | Asian Perspective Award, DMZ Docs Film Festival, Südkorea 2021 | 87 min | HD | Japanese, English The detainees of the Ushiku deportation prison near Tokyo hoped in vain for refuge in Japan. A ruthless appraisal of a rigorous refugee policy. monday 11 oct 17.00 werkstattkino

Was sehen wir, wenn wir zum Himmel schauen? (What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?) Alexandre Koberidze | DE/GE 2021 | 150 min | HD | Georgian It is love at first sight when Lisa and Giorgi meet for a brief moment in Kutaisi. They agree to meet the next day, but have no idea that they will fall victim to a curse. A film that is able to enchant unconditionally. saturday 9 oct 19.00 filmmuseum münchen | guest: Alexandre Koberidze

In Focus: AFGHANISTAN

Far From Afghanistan
John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Yoo Soon-mi, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson
USA / AF 2012
129 min | HD | English, Pashtu, Dari
wednesday 13 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | Solidarity Screening | Entrance fee: 10€
Revenues go to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) de.rescue.org

LONG SHORTS: documents & experiments