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fsk KinoDas fsk Kino ist ein unab­hän­gi­ges Filmkunstkino in Berlin Kreuzberg

 

 


Zitty:
Berlins Beste 2012: Anspruchvollstes Kino
Richtiges, pures Arthouse – für Mainstream-Mätzchen ist im Kreuzberger fsk am Oranienplatz kein Platz. Das Namenskürzel steht übri­gens für Flugzeugsesselkino, die ers­te Bestuhlung stamm­te von aus­ge­mus­ter­ten Lufthansa-Maschinen. Wer also ech­te Entdeckungen machen möch­te, ist hier rich­tig, mit Filmen aus aller Welt, meist in der Originalfassung mit Untertiteln. Und die dür­fen ger­ne mal ele­gisch oder sper­rig sein, damit genug Raum für die Assoziationen des Zuschauers bleibt. (MS)


Die drei bes­ten Berliner Kinos sind …?
Das FSK am Oranienplatz. Da gehe ich zu Fuß hin und schaue an, was gera­de läuft. Das ist das Gegenteil von DVD. Ich tref­fe kei­ne Kaufentscheidung, ich ent­de­cke etwas. (…)
(Christian Petzold im Tagesspiegel Interview 2014)


 

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War and Justice

A film by Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile. Starts June 6th at the fsk. In English with German subtitles.

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War and Justice is the first and only true-life docu­men­ta­ry about the International Criminal Court (ICC), thanks to unpre­ce­den­ted access to Ben Ferencz, Luis Moreno Ocampo (ICC’s first pro­se­cu­tor), and Karim Khan (its cur­rent pro­se­cu­tor). Film direc­tors Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile fol­low Ocampo around the world as he enlists the sup­port of Academy Award-win­ning Angelina Jolie and as they join Ferencz in the uphill batt­le against wars in the Congo, Libya, Palestine, and Ukraine. In the cour­se of the film, the com­ple­xi­ties of inter­na­tio­nal law are given a face, and the view­er under­stands why tho­se who launch wars of aggres­si­on, the mother of all war cri­mes, can hard­ly be brought to jus­ti­ce while the world’s lar­gest mili­ta­ry powers — China, India, Russia, and the United States — remain unwil­ling to reco­gni­ze the ICC’s jurisdiction.Sadly, just as the film is about to debut, Ferencz dies at the age of 103. But Ocampo and Khan fight on in his honor, more deter­mi­ned than ever to put an end to all wars of aggres­si­on. Because war begets reven­ge; jus­ti­ce does not.

Credits:

DE 2023 96 Min., engl. OmU
Regie +Schnitt: Marcus Vetter und Michele Gentile

Kamera: Christian Haardt, Marcus Vetter, Michele Gentile

Trailer:
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Landshaft

A film by Daniel Kötter. Starts May 30th at the fsk. In Armenian with German and English subtitles.

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Landshaft sket­ches the psy­cho­geo­gra­phy of a geo­po­li­ti­cal­ly char­ged land­scape and its inha­bi­tants bet­ween extra­c­ti­vism, war and dis­pla­ce­ment. In the form of a jour­ney in eas­tern Armenia, the film fol­lows human and non-human actors as they make their way through the land­scape, from Lake Sevan to the Sotk gold mine, occu­p­ied by Azerbaijan sin­ce the Karabakh War in 2020.

Credits:

DE 2023 96 Min., arme­nisch mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln,
Regie, Buch, Kamera, Schnitt: Daniel Kötter 

Trailer:
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May December

A film by Todd Haynes. Starts May 30th at the fsk. In English with German subtitles.

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20 years ago, the love affair of Gracie Atherton-Yu (Julianne Moore) and her hus­band Joe (Charles Melton), 23 years her juni­or, was the talk of the nati­on. Today, the two actors are still mar­ried and their twins are about to gra­dua­te from high school. When Hollywood wants to make a film of her life, Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) arri­ves to rese­arch her role as Gracie. But soon the fami­ly idyll threa­tens to fall apart: Joe has never real­ly dealt with the scan­dal and the gos­sip – and the lon­ger Elizabeth and Gracie stu­dy each other, the more the simi­la­ri­ties and dif­fe­ren­ces bet­ween the two women begin to blur.

Credits:

US 2023, 113 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Todd Haynes
Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt
Schnitt: Affonso Gonçalves
mit Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Piper Curda, Elizabeth Yu, Gabriel Chung

Trailer:
MAY DECEMBER – Trailer OmU German | Deutsch
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Alle die Du bist

A film by Michael Fetter Nathansky. Starts May 30th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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Single mother Nadine lea­ves her home in Brandenburg at the age of 24 to take a job near Cologne in a fac­to­ry ser­ving the coal indus­try. There, she meets the impul­si­ve Paul who­se per­so­na­li­ty seems so mul­ti­face­ted to her that she lite­ral­ly sees him in many dif­fe­rent gui­ses. After a long time, she final­ly feels like hers­elf again. The two beco­me a cou­ple and a deep love deve­lo­ps bet­ween them. But, seven years later, her life is dif­fe­rent. Nadine’s job is threa­ten­ed by struc­tu­ral chan­ges in the indus­try and her view of Paul has also alte­red. She now only sees him in his “own” exter­nal form which is beco­ming incre­asing­ly ali­en to her. Although Paul is a devo­ted fami­ly man, Nadine’s love for him beg­ins to dis­in­te­gra­te. She deci­des to fight this fee­ling and to relo­ca­te the dif­fe­rent lay­ers of his being that she was once able to see. Set against the back­drop of one of the lar­gest open-cast mining are­as in Europe, Alle die Du bist is a social-rea­list and, at the same time, magi­cal love film. Aenne Schwarz and Carlo Ljubek vivid­ly embo­dy the cou­ple at the cent­re of this pas­sio­na­te, playful plea for the loving gaze.

Credits:

DE/ES 2024, 108 Min., Deutsch mit eng­li­schen UT
Regie: Michael Fetter Nathansky
Kamera: Jan Mayntz
Schnitt: Andrea Mertens
mit Aenne Schwarz, Carlo Ljubek, Youness Aabbaz, Sara Fazilat, Naila Schuberth

Trailer:
ALLE DIE DU BIST (Trailer) | Ab 30. Mai im Kino
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Showing up

A film by Kelly Reichardt. Starts May 9th at the fsk. In English.

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Films about artists and the art life rare­ly grapp­le with the ever­y­day busi­ness of what artists do – or, in their pro­cras­ti­na­ti­on, don’t do. That’s why Kelly Reichardt’s SHOWING UP is such a reve­la­ti­on – and, as a wry depar­tu­re in this writer-director’s care­er, such an out­right plea­su­re.
Reichardt’s films have often been touch­ed with humour, but here she has made an out-and-out come­dy – alt­hough cha­rac­te­risti­cal­ly, a phi­lo­so­phi­cal, laid­back, melan­cho­lic one. It’s set in Portland, Oregon – an endu­ring bas­ti­on of US coun­ter­cul­tu­re – whe­re strugg­ling sculp­tor Lizzy (Michelle Williams) is plan­ning her own show. Committed though she is, she is easi­ly dis­trac­ted by life’s incon­ve­ni­en­ces: her trou­bled brot­her (John Magaro); her cran­ky father (Judd Hirsch) and his freel­oa­ding house guests (a deli­cious comic turn by Amanda Plummer and Matt Malloy); an ego­tis­ti­cal, negli­gent land­la­dy and fel­low artist (Hong Chau); and a pige­on which enters Lizzy’s life at the worst pos­si­ble moment. As taci­turn, tight-wound Lizzy, Reichardt regu­lar Williams shows a who­le new dead­pan comic side to her talent, as the director’s focus on the ordi­na­ry and the uneventful opens up a rich vein of comic nuan­ce and even, at times, joy­ous far­ce. (Jonathan Romney)

Credits:

US 2022 | 108 Min., engl. OV
Regie & Schnitt: Kelly Reichardt
Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt
mit: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, André Benjamin, Heather Lawless, Amanda Plummer

Trailer:
Showing Up | Official Trailer HDA24
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Das leere Grab

A film by Agnes Lisa Wegner & Cece Mlay. Starts May 23rd at the fsk. In Swahili, German and English with German subtitles.

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Songea, Tanzania. John Mbano is on a mis­si­on to find the human remains of his gre­at-grand­fa­ther, Songea Mbano, who was exe­cu­ted by the German colo­ni­al army. The family’s mour­ning has been pas­sed down through the gene­ra­ti­ons at Songea’s gra­ve in which his head never found a res­t­ing place. Instead, it was ship­ped to Germany for racist rese­arch. John and his wife Cesilia embark on a life-chan­ging jour­ney. Buoyed by their resi­li­ence as they rese­arch, they final­ly deci­de to tra­vel to Berlin to find the remains of John’s ances­tor. There, they encoun­ter acti­vists who­se voices are fight­ing Germany’s cul­tu­re of deni­al. Along with them, the Mbanos con­front tho­se in power with their need to bring their ances­tor home. What fol­lows is a rol­ler­co­as­ter ride of new hopes and fami­li­ar dis­ap­point­ments. Even the his­to­ric visit of the German Federal President to John’s home­town fails to bring the bel­oved ances­tor back home. The family’s search con­ti­nues.
Das lee­re Grab offers a per­so­nal per­spec­ti­ve: behind the glo­bal deba­te about the return of ances­tral remains, we find real peo­p­le. People vio­la­ted by a colo­ni­al past and its after­math to this day. Their strugg­le paves a way to a future disen­tan­gled from a pain­ful past.

Credits:

DE/TZ 2023, 97 Min., Suaheli, Deutsch und Englisch OmU
Regie: Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay
Kamera: Marcus Winterbauer
Schnitt: Donni Schoenemond

Trailer:
DAS LEERE GRAB Trailer [HD]
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Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams

A film by Pablo Berger. Starts May 9th at the fsk. No dialogue.

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Dog orders a robot online to keep him com­pa­ny. The two beco­me best fri­ends. Pablo Berger’s (Fresh Blood win­ner 2012 for BLANCANIEVES) quir­ky ani­ma­ti­on film about the tou­ch­ing sto­ry of a fri­end­ship bet­ween Dog and his robot bud­dy, is an ode to old New York and recalls Stephen Spielberg’s A.I. It stuns us with a colorful and with much love for details visi­on that is enchan­ting in style and content.

Credits:

ES/FR 2023 | 102 Min., ohne Dialog
Regie: Pablo Berger
Schnitt: Fernando Franco

Trailer:
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Die Vision der Claudia Andujar

Die Vision der Claudia Andujar

A film by Heidi Specogna. Starts May 9th at the fsk. In Portugese and French with German subtitles.

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Claudia Andujar’s life has been shaped by num­e­rous dra­ma­tic events. From her escape from the Holocaust to her work in Brazil, whe­re she found her life’s mis­si­on: the pro­tec­tion of the Yanomami peo­p­le in the Amazon regi­on. In her docu­men­ta­ry „The Vision of Claudia Andujar”, German Film Award win­ner Heidi Specogna unfolds a mul­ti-face­ted por­trait of the renow­ned artist. Following in the foot­s­teps of her poli­ti­cal and poe­tic pho­to­graphs, we tra­vel to the high­ly end­an­ge­red rain­fo­rest regi­on – and dis­co­ver Andujar’s legacy.

The moving docu­men­ta­ry „The Vision of Claudia Andujar” covers the life and work of renow­ned pho­to­grapher, huma­nist and acti­vist Claudia Andujar. Since the 1950s, she has been pas­sio­na­te­ly com­mit­ted to the rights and pro­tec­tion of the indi­ge­nous Amazonian peo­p­les. With award-win­ning pho­to­graphs and a lifel­ong com­mit­ment, she fights against the bru­tal actions of gold dig­gers, militi­as, tim­ber com­pa­nies, catt­le ran­chers and their explo­ita­ti­on. Heidi Specogna’s film del­ves into Andujar’s life sto­ry, which is also shaped by her flight from the Holocaust and final­ly led her to her new home in Brazil. The film team visits the Amazon regi­on, which is now more threa­ten­ed than ever, and the Yanomami peo­p­le living the­re, to who­se pro­tec­tion Claudia Andujar has dedi­ca­ted her life. There we meet a young gene­ra­ti­on of indi­ge­nous peo­p­le who are informing the public about the acu­te thre­at to their habi­tat with films they have made them­sel­ves: Their docu­men­ta­ries report on the devas­ta­ting effects of slash-and-burn agri­cul­tu­re, loo­ting and envi­ron­men­tal des­truc­tion in the Amazon regi­on – and at the same time docu­ment the rich tra­di­ti­ons and uni­que habi­tat of their people.

»The open, undis­gu­i­sed gaze of the peo­p­le in the came­ra touch­ed me and arou­sed my curio­si­ty about Claudia Andujar.« Heidi Specogna

Credits:

DE/CH 2024, 88 Min., por­tu­gie­sisch, fran­zö­si­sche OmU
Regie: Heidi Specogna
Kamera: Johann Feindt
Schnitt: Kaya Inan

Trailer:
Die Vision der Claudia Andujar [Offizieller Trailer DEUTSCH HD] – Ab 9. Mai im Kino
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Eureka

A film by Lisandro Alonso. In Chatino, English, Lakota, Portuguese with German subtitles.

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Alaina is tired of the drea­ry tasks that come with her job as a poli­ce offi­cer on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and deci­des to stop ans­we­ring her radio. Her nie­ce spends a long night wai­ting for her to no avail, then deci­des that she, too, wants to dis­ap­pear. A magic poti­on made by her grand­fa­ther will allow her to tra­vel through space and time. EUREKA beg­ins as a wes­tern in black and white, with Viggo Mortensen in the role of a cow­boy, and turns into a cine­ma­tic flight to the indi­ge­nous peo­p­les of the Americas, from the United States to Mexico to the Amazon jungle.

Credits:

AR/DE/FR/MX/PT 2023, 146 Min., cha­ti­no, eng­lisch, lako­ta, por­tu­gie­sisch OmU
Regie: Lisandro Alonso
Kamera: Timo Salminen, Mauro Herce
Schnitt: Gonzalo Del Val

Mit: Alaina Clifford, Sadie Lapointe, Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Adanilo Costa, Rafi Pitts,

Trailer:
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