19. UNDER|DOX 10-16 OKT

artist in focus: Oskar Alegria
Zinzindurrunkarratz

Oskar Alegria ES 2023 | 89 min | bask., span. OmeST | German Premiere

With his family’s old Super 8 camera, which no longer records sound after 41 years of inactivity, Oskar Alegria and his donkey Paolo set off in search of the old shepherd’s path in the mountains that shepherds used to take with their goats and sheep. The forgotten path, the silent camera and the helpless donkey become the protagonists of a journey full of memories, question marks and silence: the film generates subtle attention on the threshold of awareness of our world.

Guest: Oskar Alegria

Eine schöne Reise 2

Rainer Knepperges DE 2023 | 3 min | dt.OV

Another tribute to Munich’s most courageous film festival.

Guest: Rainer Knepperges

Jeanne fait des siennes (Jeanne is acting up)

Claire Angelini FR 2023 | 92 min | French OV Engl ST | German Premiere

Jeanne Barret set off on a world tour with the Bougainville expedition in 1767. The film brings them together with their contemporary sisters, a “Malagasy”, a Mauritian and a Mexican who made the journey in the opposite direction as migrants.

Guest: Claire Angelini

If I Fall, Don‘t Pick Me Up
Samuel Beckett

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.

Guest: Declan Clarke

Afterwards: Reception of the Irish Embassy

Pepe

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.

artist in focus: Oskar Alegria
Emak Bakia baita (The Search for Emak Bakia)

Oskar Alegria ES 2012 | 84 min | bask., Span., French OV Engl. ST

In 1926, Man Ray made the surrealist cine-poem “Emak Bakia” (Basque for “Give me a break”) in a house of the same name in Biarritz. Oskar Alegria goes in search of the film location.

Guest: Oskar Alegria

About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks

Johannes Förster & Elkin Calderón Guevara DE/CO 2024 | 28 min | Germ., Span. OV Engl. ST | German Premiere

Animal fable set against the colonial backdrop of magnificent peacocks on an island in Spandau and hippos in Colombia, following in the footsteps of the Novara expedition. The animals can of course speak.

Guest: Johannes Förster & Elkin Calderón Guevara

Voyage de documentation de Madame Anita Conti (The Documentary Journey of Madame Anita Conti)

Louise Hémon FR 2024 | 38 min | French OmeU | German Premiere

Atlantic Ocean, 1952. Spectacular 16mm archive footage by oceanographer Anita Conti documents the hard work of deep-sea fishermen on the open sea.

Guest: Aurélie Brousse

Naviguer et tenir (Sail and Hold)

Claire Angelini FR 2023 | 30 min | franz. OmeU | Deutsche Premiere

In Lorient, a young woman is training for the Vendée Globe, a regatta that goes around the globe along the Southern Ocean in the Roaring Forties.

Guest: Claire Angelini

Schneewittchen | awareness
Robert Walser

Stanley Schtinter FR 2024 | 70 min | Engl. OV | With Julie Christie, Stephen Dillane, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Hanns Zischler

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!

Guest: Stanley Schtinter, Hanns Zischler, Joshua Bonetta, Gareth Evans

Grand Tour
James Joyce

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, the revenant of Molly from “Ulysses”, 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!

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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.

Zu Gast: Vladimir Nadein

Family Portrait

Lucy Kerr USA 2023 | 75 min | Engl. OV | With Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust, Rachel Alig, Katie Folger, Robert Salas

The obligatory family photo at the end of a big family reunion turns into a choreographed line-up of a middle-class Texan family.

Munich Vibrations: 3 Positions

What does dance do to film? Munich-based choreographers Stephan Herwig, Judith Hummel and Micha Purucker transform moves into movies.

Guest: Stephan Herwig, Judith Hummel, Micha Purucker

Direct Action

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.

Ein schöner Ort (A Good Place)

Katharina Huber DE 2023 | 108 min | Germ., Engl., It. OmeU | With Clara Schwinning, Céline De Gennaro, Voodoo Jürgens | Best Director Locarno

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.”

Guest: Katharina Huber

Volveréis (The Other Way Around)

Jonás Trueba ES, FR 2024 | 114 min | Span. OV Germ. ST | With Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz

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.

Endlich wieder möglich (The Debris)

Frédéric Jaeger  DE 2024 | Germ. OV Engl. ST | With Christoph Bach, Franziskus Claus

For Fabian, it’s a game: Finding curious straight men and undressing them, piece by piece. Martin sees health risks everywhere. Until he meets Fabian.

Guest: Frédéric Jaeger

Makbetamaximus
William Shakespeare 

KHAVN PH 2024 | 80 min | tagalog OmeU

Theater of Destruction: “Macbeth” as an opus maximum for our chaotic, fragmented times.
The royal drama is set in the Philippine community of Marcos, in Khavn’s own Burroughsian interzone Mondomanila. The result is an exuberant, cacophonous and irrepressibly fiery work.

Guest: KHAVN

Animal

Sofia Exarchou  GR, AT, RO, CY, BG 2023 | 116 | Engl., Gr. OV Germ. ST | With Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Voodoo Jürgens | Best Actress Locarno, Nominated for LUX Film 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.

Those Next to Us

Bernhard Hetzenauer AT/DE/MX/CH 2023 | 30 min | Span. OV Engl. ST | Best Short Documentary Diagonale Graz

Germán López Rosales tells the story of illegal immigration across the US-Mexican border: he survived, others did not. His harrowing account meets perfectly framed images of empty places, the banal scenes of the monstrous.

Garden Cadences

Dane Komljen DE 2024 | 62 min | Germ., Engl., Fin., Serb. OV Engl. ST

Letzter Sommer des queer-feministischen Kollektivs Mollies. Der Trailerpark am Ostkreuz in Berlin soll geräumt werden. Ein Leben an den Rändern: Aalo, Jone, Aoife, Neo driften durch die Tage, Selbstverständlichkeiten lösen sich auf, auch für den Filmemacher, der Zeit mit ihnen verbringt.

Fogo do vento (Fire of Wind)

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.

Nocturno para uma floresta (Nocturne for a Forest)

Catarina Vasconcelos  PT 2023 | 16 min | Port. OV Engl. ST | With Paula Guedes

In 1628, Carmelite monks erected a wall around their monastery complex and forbade women from entering. Inside: the breastfeeding mother Mary. The invisible image becomes a symbol of women made invisible.

Belgrade Youth

Connecting Futures, 2nd season: What began last year as a trinational exchange program continues this year on a binational basis. Two young curators have put together a program of new short films from young Belgrade.

Zu Gast: Vid Radičević (Belgrad), Paula Ruppert (München)

Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
José Rizal

KHAVN PH/DE 2024 | 73 min | silent | With Lilith Stangenberg

Hand-colored 35 mm silent film about the colonial history of the Filipino people, inspired by José Rizal’s unfinished third novel. The time of action: the surreal turn of the 20th century, including the turbulent transition between the Spanish and American colonial powers.

Guests: KHAVN, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Kluge

This Is Not a Lost Film

KHAVN PH 2013-18 | 20 min | Ciné-Concert

The first Filipino silent movie, the first Filipino horror movie and the first Filipino science fiction movie – from the Imaginarium of KHAVN.

Live-Musik: KHAVN (Klavier) und Babel Gun (Drum-Set)

Kluge‘s 5th Birthday 1937

KHAVN PH 2004 | 3 min | silent

Start of creative engagement with Alexander Kluge.