20. UNDER|DOX 09-15 OKT 2025

ES 2020 | German Premiere
100 min | HD | Spanish
Sc: Rafa Alberola, Guillermo Benet | DOP: Giuseppe Truppi | E: Perig Guinamant | S+SD: Roberto Fernández, Óscar Vincentelli | M: Troia | P: Cristina Hergueta, Guillermo Benet, Rafa Alberola | Sales: Garde Films | With Pablo Gómez-Pando, Violeta Orgaz, Pilar Bergés, Raúl de la Torre, Susana Abaitua, Olivia Delcán

tuesday 12 oct 21.30 werkstattkino | guest: Guillermo BenetBenet

“Everything was very fast, I don’t remember well what happened.“ That is what six people have in mind during the course of a gloomy night in which their lives are brought together by a lurid incident. A puzzle that is reconstructed through the subjective vision and actions of each one of them during that night, which seemed like every other partying night. People from the so-called “correct side”, children of the 15-M that find themselves involved in an ethical dilemma that remains too big for them and that exposes the trench of individuality in which we live (and want to continue living in) comfortably. (Festival de Sevilla)

Guillermo Benet Born in 1984 in Salamanca. Studied audiovisual communication at the Complutense University of Madrid and screenwriting at the Madrid Film School ECAM. With Vermut Films, founded together with Rafa Alberola, he produced several short films. LOS INOCENTES is his feature film debut.

Filme Los inocentes 2020

CA 2021 | Best Director, Berlinale Encounters 2021
75 min | HD | French
Sc+P+Sales: Denis Côté | DOP: François Messier-Rheault | E: Nicolas Roy S: Jean-François Caissy | With Maxim Gaudette, Larissa Corriveau, Eleonore Loiselle, Eve Duranceau, Kathleen Fortin, Evelyne Rompré

monday 11 oct 18.00 theatiner filmkunst

Antonin stands in lovely grass fields and proclaims his dissent. The world, embodied by the three women in his life, want him to buckle under, get a decent job, remake his marriage or make the movie he’s always talking about. Another woman, dressed in pink, turns out to be his tax inspector. But Antonin’s having nothing of it. He prefers to sleep in a friend’s car and get by robbing tourists. I’m struggling with the idea that though it was written five years ago, it was already called “Social Hygiene,” and was planned to be shot in giant landscapes with actors five meters from each other and suddenly five years later it fits perfectly to the rules of shooting in a pandemic. I was not planning to write a real narrative film. I was completely intoxicated with Swiss author Robert Walser, who was a drifter writer, he just walked around with a very ironic way of looking at things and wrote about his observations, I was completely intoxicated by his style and I was talking like him in my head. (Denis Côté)

Denis Côté born 1973 in New Brunswick, Canada. As a producer and director, he initially realized low-budget short films. He also worked as a radio presenter and film critic for the weekly newspaper “Ici”. His feature film debut LES ETATS NORDIQUES was awarded the Golden Leopard in Locarno.

Films Les états nordiques 2005 | Nos vies privées 2007 | Elle veut le chaos 2008 | Carcasses 2009 | Curling 2012 | Bestiaire 2013 (7. UX) | Vic + Flo ont vu un ours 2014 | Boris sans Béatrice 2017 | Ta peau si lisse 2018 | Répertoire des villes disparues 2019 | Wilcox 2019 | Hygiène sociale 2021

USA 2020
93 min | HD | English
DOP+S: John Gianvito | E: John Gianvito, Eric P. Gulliver | M: Martin Marks | P+Sales: Traveling Light

sunday 10 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino

Nearly all of the film is taken from Keller’s public talks and handsomely transcribed in lengthy sequences featuring only white lettering against a black screen. Gianvito here places a primacy on language and clarity of thought to a degree previously unseen in his work. Arranged in chapters, the film tells Keller’s story in four distinct ways: through voiceover, archival materials, block text, and newly shot landscape footage. Read by poet Carolyn Forché, the narration was recorded in a studio in scenes filmed in black and white; with her beguiling cadence, Forché contextualizes Keller’s emergence as a political figure and the extent of the authorities’ inquiry into her activities. Aside from its historical import, Her Socialist Smile is a work of exceptional aesthetic beauty, all vivid landscapes, elegant typographies, and lovingly filmed objects and interiors. (Jordan Cronk, Cinema-Scope)

John Gianvito works as a filmmaker, curator, and teacher in Boston, Massachusetts. He was in charge of the film program at the Harvard Film Archive and is film curator at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. He teaches media arts at Emerson College.

Filme (Auswahl) The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein 2001 | Puncture Wounds 2002 | Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind 2007 (2. UX) | Far From Afghanistan 2012 (8., 16. UX) Wake 2015 | Her Socialist Smile 2021

DE 2021
71 min | HD | German
DOP: Markus Koob | S: Philipp Fröhlich, Shen Sum-Sum, Christian Obermaier, Jochen Jezussek | P: OKNO (Caroline Pitzen, Ljupcho Temelkovski, Philipp Fröhlich) | Sales: Caroline Pitzen

monday 11 okt 7.30 pm werkstattkino | guest: Caroline Pitzen

Berlin. Summer 2018. They are 17 years old. The diverse neighborhood they grew up in one big construction site, where people have to give way to the dreams of others. They drift through the city and wonder how anyone will be able to live in this city in the future. They are always in discussion: about everyday sexism, the individual’s responsibility for the system in which we live. What is happening and what should happen is in contradiction, but they keep faith.

Caroline Pitzen born 1986 in Berlin. Studied cultural studies in Frankfurt/Oder and Madrid, then art and media at the Berlin University of the Arts. Co-founder of Atelier Izola, a collective studio of female artists, writers and researchers, and OKNO, a collective platform for filmic art production and artistic collaborations. She lives and works in Berlin.

Films Out of Place 2017 | FREIZEIT oder: das gegenteil von nichtstun 2021

NL 2021
84 min | HD | Dutch
Sc: Tim Leyendekker, Gerardjan Rijnders | DOP: Benito Strangio, Adri Schrover, Reinier van Brummelen, Boris van Hoof, Claire Pijman, Aafke Beernink, Robijn Voshol | E: Matte Mourik, Tim Leyendekker | S: Gerben Kokmeijer, Jeroen Leemans | P: seriousFilm, absent without leave | Sales: Square Eyes | With Kuno Bakker, Oscar van den Boogaard, Sanne den Hartogh, Koen van Kaam, Trudi Klever, Eelco Smits, Maureen Teeuwen, Hans J., Bert Luppes, Katerina Seneti, Vincent van der Valk

monday 11 oct 21.30 werkstattkino | guest: Tim Leyendekker

Based on the infamous Groningen HIV case, in which three men drugged other men and infected them with their own HIV-infected blood, Feast is a bold and provocative film that skillfully reflects the questions of life, death and morality that have emerged from one of the most shocking stories in contemporary Dutch life. Unfolding over seven individual vignettes, each directed by Tim Leyendekker but shot in collaboration with a diverse range of cinematographers, Feast blends reportage and surrealism, disbelief and empathy to unpack the repercussions and reverberations of a singularly shocking series of events.

Tim Leyendekker born 1973 in Rotterdam. Studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The visual artist, filmmaker and photographer produces film and video art in which he explores the conceptual and formal boundaries of cinema as a narrative medium. FEAST is his feature film debut.

Filme still 2006 | Opening Night 2009 | The Healers 2010 | BLINDER 2015 (10. UX) | Feast 2021

MX/CA 2020
70 min | HD | Spanish
Sc+E+P: Nicolás Pereda | DOP: Mariel Baqueiro | Sales: INTERIOR X II I | With Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo, Francisco Barreiro, Teresita Sánchez

friday 8 oct 19.30 werkstattkino

A playful artist of the switch-up, Mexico-born filmmaker Nicolás Pereda creates shifting, often elusive fictions with a recurring troupe of actors. Staging much of the unpredictable action in nondescript and deserted locales, Pereda allows the strains of menace and even violence that can shadow ordinary life in Mexico to seep into his film. (Nicolas Rapold) Breezy and pitch perfect, FAUNA is a film about the power of the subconscious, told with uncanny humour and confidence. The film’s ingenious framing devices, elegant widescreen compositions, and dusty hues are perfectly attuned to its suspenseful yet playful stratagems. With his mischievous and nimble dissection of archetypal roles, Pereda proves there’s great pleasure in the telling, enlisting our imagination at each step of the way. (Andrea Picard)

Nicolás Pereda Born 1982 in Mexico. Studied film at York University in Toronto. His work explores everyday life as fractured and elliptical narratives through fictional and documentary means.

Films (selection) El palacio 2013 | Los ausentes 2014 | Minotauro  2015 | Historias de dos que soñaron  2016 | Mi piel, luminosa 2019 | Fauna 2020

USA 2020
272 min | HD | English
Sc+S+E: Frederick Wiseman | DOP: John Davey | P: Puritan Films | Sales: Zipporah Films | With Marty Walsh

sunday 10 okt 6.00 pm filmmuseum münchen

I made CITY HALL to illustrate why government is necessary for people to successfully live together. CITY HALL shows a city government offering a wide variety of important and necessary services to a major American city whose population exemplifies the history of diversity of America. The Boston city government is designed and strives to offer these services in a manner consistent with the Constitution and democratic norms. (Frederick Wiseman)

Wiseman’s work is preoccupied with what one could call spirit. With an intensity usually found only in fiction, Wiseman examines the moral and spiritual life of an institution, revealing the way people are mauled, pounded into shape, ignored, or even ennobled by passing through or working in one of these places; that is, the way people react to authority. (David Denby, The New York Review)

Frederick Wiseman born in 1930 in Boston. The veteran of Direct Cinema has been concerned primarily with American institutions since 1967. He is the legendary chronicler of the Western world, who has penetrated the DNA of legal, artistic, educational and erotic institutions.

Films (selection) Titicut Follies 1967 | Law and Order 1969 | Juvenile Court 1973 | Welfare 1975 | Adjustment and Work 1986 | Zoo 1993 | State Legislature 2006 | La Danse 2009 | Boxing Gym 2010 | Crazy Horse 2011 | At Berkeley 2013 | National Gallery 2014 | Ex Libris 2017 | City Hall 2021

DE 2021 | Lola Best Unfilmed Screenplay 2019
125 min | HD | German
B+S: Julian Radlmaier | DOP: Markus Koob | P: Kirill Krasovski | Sales: Grandfilm | With Alexandre Koberidze, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst, Corinna Harfouch, Andreas Döhler, Daniel Hoesl, Mareike Beykirch, Kyung-Taek Lie, Darja Lewin Chalem, Ludwig Sporrer

wednesday 13 oct 19.30 werkstattkino | closing film

August 1928: while workers and farmers search “Das Kapital” for answers to some mysterious vampire bite marks, a self-proclaimed baron enters the life of the charming heiress Miss Flambow-Jansen, as well as her luxury Baltic residence. As it turns out, he is actually a proletarian impostor, forced to escape from the Soviet Union because of a political incident involving no less than Sergei Eisenstein and Stalin himself.

Julian Radlmaier born 1984 in Nuremberg. Studied film studies and art history in Berlin and Paris, then film at the dffb Berlin. Translator and editor of film critical texts by Jacques Rancière.

Films The Tramp 2010 | Der Aufstand der Plebejer 2010 | Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa 2013 (9. UX) | Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen 2014 (10. UX) | Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes 2017 | Blutsauger 2021

DE 2021 | World Premiere
97 min | HD | German
Sc: Bear Boy & Groupe Maudit
DOP: Anna van den Wolken, Luce Fons de Cucumbre, Dr. Chico, Dr. Bear Boy u.a. | E: Bear Boy | Decor: Dr. Chico | Constructions + Robotic: Aikin Shin Maudit | Sculpture + plastic: Maudit A, Veit Kowald | Sales: Beastie Production & Groupe Maudit | With Dr. BB, Dr. Woodstacker, Dr. Ray, Dr. Bear Boy

mwednesday 13 oct 22.00 werkstattkino | closing night | guests: Bear Boy & Groupe Maudit

anus solaire is the celebration of subterranean way of life; far apart from the pharmaco-phallocratic complex there rises a healing culture which is based on music, poetry and transcending of the body. the body is nothing but a corpse to be left behind when the exstatic soul rejuvenated by melody emerges, saved, in bliss. pull the sticks out of your asses! balsam your bottoms with herbs and strong perfumes… bash the occult twisted economies that exploit the stricken and the poor. discover your own new ways of healing and jubilating… caress your sun asses with celestial melodies! (bear boy, july 2021)
(bear boy, july 2021)

Bear Boy feat. Groupe Maudit is a group of artists in Munich who, through numerous art actions, happenings and performances, re-capture the activist spirit of transcendental art gestures of the wild 1970s in Munich.

Films Notre Dame des Friches (for Piero Heliczer) 2017 (12. UX) | L´après-midi d´Augustine 2018 | Breath Death (disarmed) (13. UX) | Yoga für Frauen und Bären 2018 (13. UX) | Woher das Wort Luise kommt 2019 (14. UX) | Wubu Square 2020 (15. UX) | Anus Solaire 2021

AT 2020 | Best Cinematopgraphy, Diagonale Graz 2021
74 min | HD | English
Sc+P: Ludwig Wüst | E: Lukas J. Beck | With Andrew Brown, Markus Schramm

sunday 10 okt 9.30 pm werkstattkino | guest: Ludwig Wüst

Two friends, Martin and Anthony, meet after 15 years, share memories and reflect on their present lives. During their encounter, they go deep in the past of Martin’s childhood to reveal a traumatic experience.

Ludwig Wüst born 1965 in Vilseck, Bavaria. Studied acting and singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He is a theater director, author, actor and filmmaker.
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Filme (Auswahl)Ägyptische Finsternis 2002 (14. UX) | KOMA 2009 | Tape End 2011 | Das Haus meines Vaters 2013 | Abschied 2014 | Familienalbum 2015 (10. UX) | Aufbruch 2018 (13. UX) | 3.30 PM 2020