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artist in focus | OSKAR ALEGRIA
not the artist in focus | KHAVN
young people’s choice | BELGRADE YOUTH
munich vibrations | 3 POSITIONS: Micha Purucker, Judith Hummel, Stephan Herwig
UNDERDOX halbzeit | TULA ROY, PEIDER A. DEFILLA – Gestures of the Avantgarde
In 1952, French oceanographer Anita Conti documents the turbulent life of a trawler crew. She returns with writings, photographs and 16mm films that recount the power of the ocean, the men’s hard labour and the slimy fish entrails.
Louise Hémon
FR 2024
German Premiere
38 min | French
Studied at the Bologna Art University and Femis, Paris.
Films
They Wanted to Be Loved 2022 | Those Next to Us 2023
Credits
B: L. Hémon, Aurélie Brousse | DOP: Anita Conti | E: Marie Bottois | S: Pablo Salaün | M: Julie Normal | P+Sales: Hutong Productions
On July 22, 2017, in a Walmart parking lot, Texas police discovered a truck with three dozen illegal immigrants in the back. The course of events is narrated offscreen by one of the survivors. The film juxtaposes the harrowing descriptions with long, static shots of locations.
Bernhard Hetzenauer
AT, DE, MX, CH 2023
Best Short Documentary Diagonale Graz
30 min | Spanish
Born 1981 in Innsbruck. Filmmaker, media artist and author. His films, mostly shot in Latin America, have won numerous awards.
Films
They Wanted to Be Loved 2022 | Those Next to Us 2023
Credits
B+K: B. Hetzenauer | P: B. Hetzenauer, Marko Mijatovic, Irene Hetzenauer | V: Sixpackfilm
From the series ”Festival Films”: Films are best made and made the best where other films are shown and seen.
Rainer Knepperges
DE 2023
World Premiere
3 min | German
Born 1965 in Korschenbroich, co-founder of the “Filmclub 813” in Cologne, part of the legendary “Kölner Gruppe”. He publishes texts on cinema in Cargo and Sigi Götz Entertainment, among others.
Films
Die Quereinsteigerinnen (with Christian Mrasek) 2005 | Die Zukunft des Körpers 2007 | Serge Rippenanker 2008 | Vielfalt erforschen (with Katrin Leuthe) 2008 (4. UX) | the mystery 2022 (17. UX)
Credits
DOP: Rainer Knepperges
A congregation of monks, a forest populated by female spirits and a Spanish painter from the 15th century are convoked in this unconventional courtroom drama.
Catarina Vasconcelos
PT 2023
16 min | Portuguese
Born 1986 in Lisbon. After studying at art school, she studied at the Royal College of Art in London. Her films have won numerous awards.
Films
Metaphor or Sadness 2014 | Inside Out 2014 | The Metamorphosis of Birds 2020
Credits
B: Catarina Vasconcelos | DOP: Paulo Menezes | E: Francisco Moreira | P: Primeira Idade | Sales: Portugal Film | Mit Paula Guedes
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.
Claire Angelini
FR 2023
German Premiere
30 min | French
Geb. 1969 in Nizza. Studium an der Kunstakademie und der Sorbonne in Paris. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Paris.
Filme u.a.
Le temps des autres 2020 (16. UX) | Jeanne fait des siennes 2023 (19. UX)
Credits
K+S+T+P+V: Claire Angelini | Mit Isabelle Joschke
For Fabian, it’s all a game: finding straight men who are curious, taking them home, undressing them one piece at a time. For Martin, everything is a health hazard. Until he meets Fabian.
Frédéric Jaeger, Nino Klingler
DE 2024
15 min | dt. OmeU
Born 1984, lives in Berlin. The ex-film critic (critic.de), ex-festival director (Woche der Kritik) and ex-programmer (Mannheim-Heidelberg) is now a filmmaker (UdK, Berlin).
Films (selection)
Aufklärung für Hönow 2020 (15. UX) | Ein Raum für Männer 2021 | Ununterbrochen reden 2021 (17. UX) | All We Ever Wanted 2024
Born 1984, collaborative filmmaker and film critic (critic.de), lives in Berlin. “The Debris” is his third collaboration with Frédéric Jaeger.
Credits
B: F. Jaeger, N. Klingler, Christoph Bach | K: Josefin Heinrich | T: Yankui Li | P+V: F. Jaeger | Mit Christoph Bach, Franziskus Claus
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Johannes Förster & Elkin Calderón Guevara DE, CO 2024 | 28 min | German, Spanish | German Premiere
saturday 12 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | guests: J. Förster & E. Calderón Guevara | with „Naviguer et tenir” & „Voyage de documentation” | expeditions
Frédéric Jaeger, Nino Klingler
DE 2024 | 15 min | German
monday 14 oct 6.00 pm theatiner | guest: Frédéric Jaeger | with „Volveréis”| relations
Claire Angelini
FR 2023 | German Premiere
30 min | French
saturday 12 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | guest: Claire Angelini | with „About Happy Hippos” & „Voyage de documentation” | expeditions
Catarina Vasconcelos
PT 2023 | 16 min | Portuguese
sunday 13 oct 11.00 am theatiner | with „Fogo do vento” | modes of nature | awareness
Rainer Knepperges
DE 2023 | World Premiere | 3 min | German
thursday 10 oct 19.00 filmmuseum | guest: Rainer Knepperges | opening
Bernhard Hetzenauer
AT, DE, MX, CH 2023 | Best Short Documentary Diagonale Graz | 30 min | Spanish
wednesday 16 oct 7.00 pm werkstattkino | with „Familiy Portrait” | americana
Louise Hémon
FR 2024 | German Premiere | 38 min | French
saturday 12 oct 5.00 pm werkstattkino | with „About Happy Hippos” & „Naviguer et tenir” | expeditions
How did peacocks, originally from India, end up on an island in Berlin in the 19th century, and hippopotamuses, a century later, on the banks of a river in Colombia? Their lives there appear to be “happy and free”. Decolonial fable that turns them into wild icons, bearing witness to the whims of the powerful.
Johannes Förster, Elkin Calderón Guevara
DE, CO 2024 | German Premiere
28 min | German, Spanish
Born 1985, lives and works in Berlin. His topic: The individual in the Anthropocene.
Films
Controlled Burn 2023
Born 1975 in Bogotá, Colombia, lives in Berlin and often works collectively.
Films
Ekobio 2021 | Hippos in gravitas 2023
Credits
B: E. Calderón Guevara | DOP: J. Förster | E: J. Förster, E. Calderón Guevara | M: Denise Onen | P+Sales: J. Förster
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Sofia Exarchou GGR, AT, RO, CY, BG 2023 | 116 | Engl., Gr. OV Germ. ST | With Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Flomaria Papadaki, Voodoo Jürgens | Best Actress Locarno | Nominated for the LUX Audience 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.
Helin Çelik AT, ES 2023 | 91 min | Arab. OV Engl. ST | Best Documentary Diagonale Graz
Between trauma and phantasm. A remote refuge in Jordan. Three generations of women gradually reveal their experiences of violence.
Ben Rivers UK, DE, IS 2024 | 86 min | engl. OV | With Jake Williams | German Premiere
Bogancloch is Jake Williams’ home, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. Charting a subtly changing life in a radically changing world. Sequel of TWO YEARS AT SEA.
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.
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.
Lucy Kerr USA 2023 | 75 min | Engl. OV | With Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust, Rachel Alig, Katie Folger, Robert Salas
The obligatory group photo at the end of a big family reunion turns into a choreographed line-up of a middle-class Texan family.
sunday 13 oct 11.00 am theatiner | with „Nocturno para uma floresta” | modes of nature | awareness
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.
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 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!
friday 11 oct 6.30 pm werkstattkino | guest: Declan Clarke
followed by: receiption of the Irish Ambassy, Munich
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.
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.
Jiang Jin SG,CN 2023 | 107 min | Mandarin OV Engl. ST
With psychedelic music and mind-expanding drugs, hippiedom, capitalism and Xi Jinping can be reconciled on a sofa and mattress. Jin Jiang shows the radical attempt by young adults to get out as a tableau vivant in the middle of Beijing. Groupe maudit!
saturday 12 oct 6.00 pm filmmuseum | guests: Stanley Schtinter, Hanns Zischler, Joshua Bonnetta, Gareth Evans | awareness
Stanley Schtinter FR 2024 | 70 min | Engl. OV | With Julie Christie, Stephen Dillane, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Hanns Zischler | German Premiere
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!
Katharina Huber DE 2023 | 108 min | Germ., Engl., It.
OmeU | With Clara Schwinning, Céline De Gennaro, Voodoo Jürgens | Best
Director Locarno, Best Actress Locarno (Clara Schwinning)
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.
Jonás Trueba ES, FR 2024 | 114 min | Span. OV Germ. ST | With Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz | Best European Film Cannes | German Premiere
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.
