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saturday 3 oct
7 pm werkstattkino | pole position 1
Grand Prix
John Frankenheimer USA 1966 | 176 min | Eng. OV
Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his racing team after injuring his British teammate Stoddard in a crash at Monaco. Aron joins a Japanese team and begins an affair with Stoddard’s ex-wife. Filmed during actual races at the circuits of Monte Carlo, Brands Hatch and Monza.
60 years later, Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Pfaffenbichler’s ADGIN PRRX reassembles GRAND PRIX – our second film in pole position!
Pole Position 2: ADGIN PRRX (Sunday, 11 October, 5 pm, Filmmuseum)
Pole Position Combo Ticket €14
thursday 8 oct
7 pm filmmuseum münchen | opening night
Everything Else is Noise (Lo demás es ruido)
Nicolás Pereda MX, DE, CA 2026 | 71 min | Span. OV Eng. subt.
The chamber pieces of Mexican filmmaker Nicolás Pereda have long been UNDERDOX favourites. This time, the focus is on a Mexican composer and cellist who is supposed to give a TV interview. But acoustic disruptions keep derailing her answers. Funny, ironic and laconic: an unusual spoof of the celebrity interview.
Insieme insieme | Artist in Focus
Bernardo Zanotta NL/BR/FR 2022 | 37min | German Premiere
A mysterious trio kidnaps an unsuspecting tourist while he is on vacation in Italy.
Guest: Bernardo Zanotta
Trip After | Archivio Aperto (Bologna)
Ukrit Sa-nguanhai NZ, TH 2022 | 10 min | OV Eng. subt.
In the 1960s, mobile film units from the United States Information Service (USIS) travelled throughout northeastern Thailand, showing propaganda films to the rural population. A travel vlog taking us back in time.
Guest: Stella Kluge (Young People’s Choice)
friday 9 oct
6 pm filmmuseum | theme: remembering
Archivio Aperto (Bologna)
Films by Isabelle Prim, Nicola Eddy, Oscar X. Illingworth, Maryam Tafakory, Nataliya Ilchuk Countries: FR, IT, EC, IR, UA | Length: 84 min
The Archivio Aperto Festival, held in Bologna since 2008, is dedicated to home movies. It focuses on making this small-format film heritage visible, reflecting on it, raising awareness, and reusing it in a contemporary context. We’re showcasing highlights from the Bologna festival program!
Guest: Nicola Eddy, Stella Kluge (Young People’s Choice)
6 pm werkstattkino | new avant-garde cinema
Afterlives
Kevin B. Lee DE, FR, BE 2025 | 88 min | Eng. OV | Desktop
The historical traces of extremist propaganda and its effects. How can we counter the violence embedded in the media? An encounter with an artist, an activist, and a researcher who seek to create new images and narratives. Created primarily on a desktop computer, the film moves between the virtual screen and the physical environment. A film that opens up new cinematic possibilities for the future.
8 pm werkstattkino | new narrative cinema
Auslandsreise (Foreign Travel)
Ted Fendt DE 2026 | 63 min | German, Ital., French OV Eng. subt.
Alejo came to Berlin from Argentina. He stayed because of the city’s greenery. Leonie reads: books by Anna Maria Ortese, in German translation, in Italian, in French. A book club forms. Reading weaves through this film and lends the 16-mm images a gentle intensity.
Guest: Ted Fendt
9 pm filmmuseum | filming architecture filming nature
Promised Spaces
Ivan Marković RS, FR, DE, KH 2026 | 76 min | Khmer OV Eng. subt.
The empty promises of the New Economy: In Cambodia, the gap between rich and poor, the successful and the workers, architecture and nature is evident along the unfinished structures of a gated community.
Guest: Ivan Marković
10:30 pm werkstattkino | artist talk
not cleared – HIDDEN track of a label history
The footage returns—not as mementoes, but as a question: What does authorship mean when the camera passed through many hands, and the final form was determined only during editing?
Guest: Angelika Lepper
saturday 10 oct
6 pm filmmuseum | theme: remembering
Holofiction
Michal Kosakowski DE, AT 2025 | 102 min | no dialogue
The iconography of the Holocaust in a montage of thousands of fictional after-images. A harrowing essay on collective memory, into which the documentary images of horror have been absorbed.
Guest: Michal Kosakowski
6 pm werkstattkino | filming architecture filming nature
Kukata Miti
Daniel Kötter DE, ID, CD 2026 | 79 min | German, Suaheli, Indon. OV Eng. subt.
The forests of Germany, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as seen through the practices, tools, and motives behind timber harvesting. The historical and economic inequalities between the West and the Global South become just as evident as the pervasive drive to exploit natural resources.
Guest: Daniel Kötter
8 pm werkstattkino | artist in focus: Bernardo Zanotta
The Cannibal Trilogy – The Common Roots of Cannibalism and Queerness
Heart of Hunger | In His Bold Gaze | Wild Fruits + Tragédia
Bernardo Zanotta NL 2018–2022 + NL/BR/FR 2025 | Total length 99 min
A tribute to the body as a narrative of the unspeakable, a story about a computer technician from Rothenburg who devoured a Berlin engineer in 2001, and a period drama based on Montaigne explore the shared roots of queerness and cannibalism. Also featured: an autofictional fantasy about a plot to murder one’s father, with which Zanotta began his filmmaking career at the age of 13.
Guest: Bernardo Zanotta
9 pm filmmuseum | theme: remembering
Last Movies
Stanley Schtinter GB 2026 | Voice: Jeremy Irons | 86 min | Eng. OV | German Premiere
The ultimate film history in the face of death. What were the last movies Franz Kafka, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergio Leone, John F. Kennedy, Olof Palme, and Kurt Cobain watched—before their memories were erased forever?
Guest: Stanley Schtinter
10:30 pm werkstattkino | midnight movie
The Thing in the Coffin
Péter Lichter HU 2026 | 62 min | no dialogue | German Premiere
Return from the liminal realm of images: Taking Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA as a starting point, countless “Dracula” adaptations are woven into an evocative montage.
sonntag 11 oct
1 pm theatiner | from brazil with love
Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love
Vivian Ostrovsky & Ruti Gadish USA 2025 | 67 min | Eng. OV
A chapter in the American poet’s life story—chronicling her years in Brazil—is composed entirely of archival images. Elizabeth Bishop lived with the architect Soares in the “Lota House,” where she wrote Questions of Travel and love poems that, through sensory imagery, embed the house directly within nature.
Guest: Vivian Ostrovsky
4 pm villa stuck | 16-mm Projector Performance
liminal light
Performance by Lichen Tsung (Visuals) and Robert Kroos (Sound)
16-mm projectors, Incense, overhead projector & fog machine
In the darkness, light, scent, visuals, and sound create a sensory space. The elements flow into one another. Images appear and disappear in the darkness, fading into white. A space between spaces emerges, formless and boundless.
4:30 pm werkstattkino | theme: remembering
Breaking the Silence: Nazi “Euthanasia” and Its Consequences
Preserving Memory: Film screening and discussions with relatives of victims of Nazi “euthanasia.” In cooperation with the Memorial Initiative for Victims of Nazi “Euthanasia.”
Guests: Barbara Baum, Margarete Flygt (relatives), Sibylle von Tiedemann (Memorial Initiative)
Breaking the Silence—Relatives of Victims of Nazi Euthanasia Tell Their Stories
Robert Domes DE 2025 | 30 min | German OV
Around 300,000 people fell victim to the “euthanasia” murders during the Nazi era. Yet they rarely feature in the culture of remembrance and commemoration. To this day, these crimes continue to influence discussions about inclusion and how society treats people with disabilities and marginalized groups. The killings of the sick have left a lasting trauma in the victims’ families. Many of the descendants are setting out to uncover the truth and are breaking the silence.
Actually, I didn’t mean to stay that long Andreas Grützner DE 2025 | 23 min | German Film Critics’ Award | German original version
How has the treatment of people in mental health and nursing facilities changed from the 1970s to the present day? Who were the people who lived in these institutions, and what was it like to work there as a young man in the 1970s? Confronted with a traumatic discovery in his family history, the filmmaker begins a reflection based on archival material.
5 pm filmmuseum | pole position 2
ADGIN PRRX
Norbert Pfaffenbichler AT 2026 | 167 min | Eng. OV | German Premiere
GRAND PRIX in the avant-garde filmmaker’s workshop: the film is broken down into its individual shots and re-edited according to the length of its takes. Now the vehicle can no longer drive. What fun!
Guest: Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Pole Position 1: GRAND PRIX (saturday 3 oct 7 pm werkstattkino)
Pole Position combi ticket 14€
8 pm werkstattkino | cine ibérico – filming nature filming architecture
Fourteen Nights (Hamalau Gau)
Oskar Alegria ES 2026 | German Premiere | 91 min | Bask., Span. OV Eng. subt.
A 14-night journey through the Basilica of Arantzazu, shaped by the artistic vision of Basque sculptors Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. In the Basilica of Arantzazu, the longest night unfolds beside the sanctuary’s organ, where filmmaker Oskar Alegria retreats to tell pianist Iñar Sastre about the nights he has spent there.
montag 12 oct
6 pm theatiner | theme: remembering
Sedimente
Laura Coppens CH, DE 2025 | 81 min | German OV Eng. subt.
The grandfather, born during the war, grew up in the GDR, trained as a doctor, and was later recruited by the Stasi as an informant. “We Are the People!”: Christa Wolf’s speech on November 4, 1989, in East Berlin. Super 8 memories of the young grandparents. A captivating film essay, awarded the Special Jury Prize at Visions du Réel.
Guest: Laura Coppens
6 pm werkstattkino | filming nature
Água Mãe
Hiroatsu Suzuki & Rossana Torres PT 2025 | 72 min | Port. OV Eng. subt. | Doclisboa Award
In the small southern Portuguese town of Mértola, many old water mills stand. The tides set the rhythm of life. The colour of the water and the appearance of the landscape change throughout the year. The town is also the birthplace of a poet, Manuela Ferreira. In “Alma,” she asks the important question: “Why do we gaze at the river?”—Winner of the Doclisboa Award
8 pm werkstattkino | short film reel
The B-Side of the Landscape
documents & experiments 1 114 min | short films | entrance fee: 10€
Electric Birds in the Anthropocene, Kenneth Anger & the Love of Wartburg, a Trip to Mars, Alfred Edel and the Legendary Flour Bags at a Rest Stop.
Films by Ulu Braun, Nicolás Zukerfeld, Julien Rivoire, Markus Mischkowski, Dagie Brundert, Rainer Knepperges, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Jan Soldat, Philipp Hartmann
Guests: Philipp Hartmann, Rainer Knepperges | Hosts: Benedikt Guntentaler & Timur Özkan (Young Curators)
tuesday 13 oct
6 pm theatiner | filming architecture filming nature
Eight Bridges
James Benning USA 2026 | 82 min | no dialogue
Eight bridges in the U.S. connect not only the banks but also the sky and the water.
“It seems it’s time to look at bridges.” — James Benning
Forever … Forever
Johann Lurf AT, FR 2026 | 21 min | no dialogue
Lake Spotting: using a homemade 65-mm camera over a period of 22 months. Subject of observation: the Ottenstein Reservoir. The result is an impressively monumental image of cosmic motion. The longer the exposure, the more the dimensions shift—rapidly.
6 pm werkstattkino | cine ibérico – new narrative cinema
The Mirage (El espejismo)
Bingham Bryant PT, US, DE 2026 | 70min | Port., Span., French OV Eng. subt. | German Premiere
Mirages along the Spanish coast led Anne to the island of Santa Clara. On the ferry ride to San Sebastián, she meets Margarida, a woman from Portugal. An enchanting story about seeing, desire, and optical illusions.
Guest: Bingham Bryant
8 pm werkstattkino | kurzfilmrolle
Munich Orbital
documents & experiments 2 81 min
A couch-potato rocker, the removal of diacritical marks from forms, a lovely trip, a dog, a backyard, the memory of a name.
Films by Okin Cznupolowsky (in memoriam), Claire Angelini, Mina Simendić, Myriam Arleth, Rainer Knepperges, LUZI, Benedikt Guntentaler, Noah Mrosczok, Amelie Hochhäusler, Dunja Bialas.
Guests: the filmmakers
9 pm filmmuseum | theme: remembering
Revolutionaries Never Die
Mohanad Yaqubi PS, BE, QA 2026 | 81 min | French, Eng., Arab. OV Eng. subt.
Two months before her death, Jocelyne Saab contacted the filmmaker about a joint project. His reply came too late. A lyrical journey through the artistic vision of the Lebanese documentary filmmaker, guided by archival footage and set against the backdrop of political upheavals in the Middle East.
wednesday 14 oct
6 pm theatiner | cine ibérico – theme: remembering
Letters from an Inner Exile (Todo es cárcel)
Eloy Enciso ES 2026 | 109 min | Span., Galic. OV Eng. subt. | German Premiere International Competition Award FID Marseille
Elsa, an artist from Berlin, travels through her Spanish homeland to trace her family history for a documentary about the Franco camps. The fictional narrative imagines correspondence between two lovers separated by political events. Their words evoke a time when any place could become a prison—even the movie theatre.
6 pm werkstattkino | theme: remembering
Active Vocabulary
Yulia Lokshina DE 2025 | 82 min | German, Eng., Russ., Kirgis. OV Eng. subt. | Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig
Sometimes it takes more than one’s own memories to come to terms with the past. A Russian teacher was denounced by a student for criticizing the war in Ukraine during class. Now in exile in Berlin, she reenacts her experience with a school class. An exploration of totalitarianism, betrayal, and resistance.
Guest: Yulia Lokshina
8 pm werkstattkino | theme: remembering
Peacemaker
Ivan Ramljak HR 2025 | 100 min | Kroat. OV Eng. subt. | Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig
In 1991, tensions between the Serbian minority and the Croats in Slavonia escalated. The police chief of Osijek, who was mediating between the opposing sides, was murdered. How did this charged atmosphere of fear come about? How did terror become part of everyday life? The historical records from that time allow for an unflinching, almost forensic analysis of the political circumstances.
9 pm filmmuseum | closing night
Roma Elastica
Bertrand Mandico FR, IT 2026 | Mit Marion Cotillard, Noémie Merlant
107 min | French, Eng., Ital. OV Eng. subt.
The early 1980s. American film icon Eddie learns that she will soon die. Accompanied by Valentina, her loyal makeup artist, she takes on the lead role in a science fiction film being shot in Rome. Excessive scenes of filming and partying create an intoxicating pull. Over-the-top, trashy, and hypnotic—the cinema in a state of ecstasy.
