November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But what attitude to adopt to these ancestors’ homecoming in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.
Berlinale 2024: Golden Bear
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FR/SN/BJ 2024, 67 Min., Französisch, Fon, Englisch OmU Regie: Mati Diop Kamera: Josephine Drouin Viallard Schnitt: Gabriel Gonzalez
The construction site of a luxury building project at night: The ambitious construction manager Lutz has hired illegal construction workers to save costs. But a tragic accident occurs. The next day, a meeting with investors is suddenly disrupted by 14-year-old Irsa, who is looking for her father. While Lutz senses an opportunity to make his mark on a multi-million dollar project, Irsa’s desperation keeps driving her towards him. To keep her off his construction site, he decides to take her away. On their journey together, a bond develops, marked by closeness and distance, guilt and responsibility.
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DE 2023, 86 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Albanisch mit dt. UT Regie: Tuna Kaptan Kamera: Ben Bernhard Schnitt: Beatrice Babin mit: Angjela Prenci, Peter Schneider
Karen lives with her husband Markus and their children in her idyllic childhood home. Karen’s sister Jule and her family are visiting for Markus’ birthday. The two women could not be more different. Grim reminders of their deceased mother incite Jule’s rebellion against her domineering sister. As the house gradually fills with life and a sparrow in the chimney seeks a way out to freedom, Karen becomes increasingly tense – until it all comes to a head and the old is destroyed to make room for the new.
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CH 2024, 117 Min., deutsche Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln Regie & Schnitt: Ramon Zürcher Kamera: Alex Hasskerl Produzent: Silvan Zürcher mit: Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Luise Heyer, Andreas Döhler, Milian Zerzawy, Lea Zoe Voss, Ilja Bultmann, Paula Schindler, Luana Greco
A Film about the German Band Element of Crime throughout the centuries.
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DE 2024, 93 Min., Regie: Charly Hübner Kamera: Casey Campbell Schnitt: Christoph Brunner mit: Sven Regener, Jakob Ilja, Richard Pappik und Maike Rosa Vogel, Florian Horwarth, Isolation Berlin, Von wegen Lisbeth, Steiner & Madlaina, Ansa Sauermann
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ELEMENTOFCRIME in ‚Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin‘ | TRAILER – Jetzt für zuhause
In this gripping crime thriller, Russell Crowe stars as Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, forced to revisit a case he can’t remember.
As a man’s life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past.
With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth – sometimes it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie.
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DE 2023, 90 Min., engl. OV Regie: Adam Cooper Kamera: Ben Nott Schnitt: Matt Villa mit: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Thomas M. Wright
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SLEEPINGDOGS | Official Trailer (Russell Crowe) | Paramount Movies
My Stolen Planet is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn’t know. Relying on these recordings from other people, she gains a new perspective on losing memories. Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and a story to one of the faces in her archive. Farah’s mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, motivates her to continue her fight against forgetting. In the autumn of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising becomes a turning point in Farah’s life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran. This is a homemade history.
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
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US, MX 2023, 103 Min., engl. OmU Regie: Michel Franco Kamera: Yves Cape Schnitt: Oscar Figueroa Jara, Michel Franco mit: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Brooke Timber, Josh Charles
“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 children and their dedicated teacher. We wanted to find out who they are and become familiar with their skills and strategies, their joys, fears and hardships,” says director Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 percent of all children in Viennese primary schools do not speak German as their first language. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of teachers and supervisors. Such adverse conditions are the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s documentary Favoriten, for which the Austrian filmmaker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher followed a Viennese primary school class for three years. The result is an astonishingly cheerful portrait of an unusual community. A film about teaching and learning and the often very surprising experiences somewhere in between.
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AT 2024, 118 Min., in deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln Regie: Ruth Beckermann Kamera: Johannes Hammel Schnitt: Dieter Pichler
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Favoriten (offizieller Trailer) – Ein Film von Ruth Beckermann
In Korntal, a small town of 9,000 souls in Baden-Württemberg, hundreds of children were abused in the homes of the Evangelical Brethren since the 1950s. Forced labour, physical punishment and sexualised violence were the order of the day. To date, more than 150 former children have broken their silence, more than 80 perpetrators have been identified. Because the latter covered for each other and the neighbours looked away, the children were defenceless against the abuse for decades. When the scandal was exposed in 2013, the community and the village were hostile at first: That which must not be cannot be. It was only when the pressure from the outside grew that the community initiated a process of dealing with the scandal. But it is controversial: victims are re-traumatised, their statements doubted. To this day the children from Korntal are fighting for investigation and compensation.
The film focuses on the victims and avoids all dramatisation. What happened was dramatic enough, after all. When testimonies are only played as audio-recordings to protect the speakers, a simple animation fills the visual gaps. When those responsible today speak, the camera stays restrained and does not judge. That is not necessary anyway, because the inconceivable relativisation of the crimes speaks loudly enough – in Korntal as elsewhere. Luc-Carolin Ziemann
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DE 2023, 90 Min., Deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln Regie: Julia Charakter Kamera: Jonas Eckert Schnitt: Jonas Eckert, Julia Charakter
An enthralling documentary about female art in a patriarchal arts scene. Five drama students haven’t seen each other in 36 years. Now reunited, these women share their stories. What experiences have they had? What have they accomplished? What would they rather not have done? Including young female students in their conversation makes this a contemplative cross-generational work.
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