programm-folder [DE]
catalogue [DE/EN]
country & artists in focus: LONDON ORBITAL
panel & films: ART & ARCHIVE
2551.03 – The End
friday 10 oct 10:00 p.m. werkstattkino
Norbert Pfaffenbichler AT 2025 | 80 min | With Manuela Deac, Stefan Erber, Ben Schidla | silent, engl. subtitles
A man wearing a monkey mask searches for a child in the literal and political underground, while the totalitarian security forces are after him. A revival of gore and dystopia about social unease that celebrates silent film.
Bad Painter
thursday 9 oct 7:00 p.m. filmmuseum münchen | opening film | guests: Albert Oehlen, Felix von Boehm
Albert Oehlen DE, USA 2025 | 80 min | With Udo Kier, Charlotte Taschen, Grace Zabriskie, Kim Gordon | engl. OV | German Premiere
The painter Albert Oehlen, with Udo Kier’s piercing gaze, stands in front of a white canvas. He applies a thick brushstroke. “A fleck is already a painting,” he triumphs.
Cobre (Copper)
monday 13 oct 8:30 p.m. theatiner
Nicolás Pereda MX, CA 2025 | 79 min | Mit Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Teresita Sánchez | span. OV engl. ST | Special Mention, FID Marseille
The sky hangs heavy over the copper mine. Lázaro waits in vain for an oxygen tank, passing the day. Then he discovers a dead body by the side of the road. Lies, rumours and jokes follow. Between truth and lies: life.
D is for Distance
tuesday 14 oct 8:30 p.m. theatiner | guest: Chris Petit
Chris Petit & Emma Matthews FI 2025 | 88 min | With Louis Petit | engl. OV | German Premiere
Louis Petit suffers from epilepsy, a complex condition that has been less researched than the universe itself. That’s why he prefers to drive along country roads or pick up his guitar to give his life its own soundtrack. A crossover between coming-of-age and road movie.
Dracula
wednesday 15 oct 8 p.m. werkstattkino | closing gaga | guest: Neil Young
Radu Jude RO, AT, LX 2025 | 170 min | Adonis Tanța | German Premiere
Filmed in Transylvania, the home of Dracula. A vampire hunt. Zombies, of course. Also a science fiction story about the return of Vlad the Impaler. Above all: an AI-generated, kitschy story glitch. And certainly this too: “An opera of the obscene, a single stroke of genius and undoubtedly the film that our time deserves.” – Benedikt Guntentaler
Dry Leaf
monday 13 oct 8:30 p.m. werkstattkino | guest: Alexandre Koberidze
Alexandre Koberidze DE, GE 2025 | 186 min | georg. OV engl. ST | Special Mention, Locarno
Photographer Lisa is missing. The last thing anyone knows about her is that she was photographing rural football stadiums in villages across Georgia. One of the most radical and fascinating experiments in form this year, and an ode to uncertainty, the transience of nature and the strength of family ties. Filmed using the low-tech capabilities of a Sony Ericsson phone.
As Estações (The Seasons)
wednesday 15 oct 6:00 p.m. theatiner | with INVENTORY | pre-closing
Maureen Fazendeiro PT/FR/ES/AT 2025 | 82 min | Port., Ger. OV Engl. ST
A poetic journey through Portugal’s Alentejo region, combining archaeology, folklore and landscapes. Memories of the past and the Portugal vazio of the present intermingle in the documentary images and reconcile in fiction.
In the Manner of Smoke
saturday 11 oct 6:30 p.m. werkstattkino
Armand Yervant Tufenkian USA, GB 2025 | 90 min | engl. OV
German Premiere
A fire watcher in California and a landscape painter in London engage in a multifaceted correspondence. The film is about observation, about the quiet calm of brushstrokes, about viewing blurred panoramas from a vantage point that no longer has anything soothing about it.
The Landscape and the Fury
saturday 11 oct 9:00 p.m. filmmuseum | guest: Nicole Vögele
Nicole Vögele CH 2024 | 138 min | bosn., pers., kurd. OV engl. ST
Doc Alliance Award
Cinematography of flight: in the Bosnian-Croatian border region, the paths of migrant families, mine clearers and locals cross. A film rooted in the earth, a kaleidoscope of landscapes, interwoven with the madness of the past and present.
little boy
friday 10 oct 6:30 p.m. werkstattkino
James Benning USA 2025 | 74 min | engl. OV
From dinosaurs to atomic bombs: James Benning explores the history of (American) civilization. The reference to the present day is frighteningly visionary. Accompanied by songs by Ricky Nelson, Pete Seeger, and Catpower. “A look into the past to warn of the future, from the perspective of a little boy.” – James Benning
Restitucija, ili, San i java stare garde (Eighty Plus)
friday 10 oct 9:00 p.m. filmmuseum | guest: Želimir Žilnik
Želimir Žilnik RS/SI 2025 | 118 min | Mit Milan Kovačević, Milivoj
Kiždobranski | Serb., Ger. OV Engl. ST | Fipresci Award, GoEast
Restitution of the family home expropriated during the Second World War to Stevan, the hunchback. A journey to the old Serbian homeland, into the future and into the past, where much remains open, but despite his advanced age, nothing is too late – a very special kind of coming-of-age film, balanced between the documentary it is and the fiction the film also is.
Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July)
friday 10 oct 8:00 p.m. werkstattkino
Julian Radlmaier DE 2025 | 90 min | With Clara Schwinning, Maral Keshavarz, Henriette Confurius, Paula Schindler | German OV
Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, feel trapped in their precarious lives. Chance brings them together on a ghost hunt in the mountains. A romantic adventure film about longing for a different life in a small town in Saxony-Anhalt.
El Tríptico de Mondongo
part 1: sunday 12 oct 5:00 p.m. filmmuseum | with MONDONGO II
part 2: sunday 12 oct 5:00 p.m. filmmuseum | with MONDONGO I
part 3: tuesday 14 oct 6:30 p.m. werkstattkino
El equilibrista (The tightrope walker) – Mondongo I
Mariano Llinás AR 2024 | 73 min | span. OV engl. ST | German Premiere
A monumental triptych from the makers of “La Flor”, which can be resumed as follows: What happens when a dedication turns into a dispute, an homage into a declaration of war? The beginning: a rather conventional documentary establishing shot. At the centre is the art collective Mondongo from Buenos Aires. It combines colourful plasticine in an infinite number of combinations until all shades of colour are present. Johannes Itten’s “The Art of Colour” is the inspiration.
Retrato de Mondongo (Portrait of Mondongo) – Mondongo II
Mariano Llinás AR 2024 | 122 min | span. OV span. ST | German Premiere
With increasing sensitivity, Llinás gives free rein to his desire to experiment and, in a staged cinéma vérité frenzy, even physically challenges the decades-old Mondongo friendship.
Kunst der Farbe – Mondongo III
Mariano Llinás AR 2024 | 90 min | span. OV engl. ST | German Premiere
Finally, liberation from the potlatch exchange of dedication and homage. Llinás hires an actress. Now the competition begins: who can produce the better adaptation of Johannes Itten’s “The Art of Colour”? The former friends compete with each other, just as fiction attempts to end the documentary film. An experimental film in many senses, a playful work that surrenders to mystery.
What Does That Nature Say to You
tuesday 14 oct 9:00 p.m. filmmuseum
Hong Sang-soo KR 2025 | 108 min | With Ha Seong-guk, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee | kor. OmeU
Drifter poet Donghwa meets his girlfriend Junhee’s family. After exchanging pleasantries, things start to get serious. Taking off his glasses and seeing the world through a soft focus lens doesn’t help anymore.
The Wild Death of Archie Peach
saturday 11 oct 8:30 p.m. + 10:00 p.m. werkstattkino | guests: LUZI, Paula Tschira, Marcel Ralle
LUZI DE 2025 | 69 min | engl. OV | World Premiere
LUZI’s first feature film takes us on a poetic, somnambulistic trip into the quarry of a dystopian world, oscillating like a dream between Kathy Acker and David Bowie, Maya Deren and Ira Cohen. A pirate film.
