A film by Nanni Moretti. Starts February 12th at the fsk. In Italian with German subtitles.

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IL SOL DELL’AVVENIRE is a com­plex, mul­ti-laye­red film by Nanni Moretti about his past work and pre­sent-day poli­ti­cal life in Italy. Moretti’s new alter ego is named Giovanni, a left-wing film­ma­ker who is suf­fe­ring at home and at work in equal mea­su­re. While his screen­wri­ter wife is sum­mo­ning up the cou­ra­ge to lea­ve him, he hims­elf feels like a power­less wit­ness of the degra­da­ti­on of the Italian cine­ma he was once so proud of. The uto­pian film he’s shoo­ting, set in a popu­lar dis­trict of Rome during 1956 the Hungarian Uprising, is hal­ted for lack of funds and scor­ned by the strea­ming plat­form inves­tors who could save it. Perhaps Giovanni is an echo of Michele Apicella, that other famous Moretti alter ego who rea­ched the end of the road with his mas­ter­pie­ce PALOMBELLA ROSSA. He still sings Franco Battiato songs behind the wheel, swims in a pool and there’s even a cir­cus cal­led Budavari. Does Moretti at age 70 dream of who he was at 35, thus ris­king get­ting caught up in his own nost­al­gia? Did he ever accept the fact that peo­p­le are not what he wan­ted them to be? Nevertheless, he hasn’t aban­do­ned his ide­als in a coun­try now gover­ned by the extre­me right, even if defeat seems near. (Francisco Ferreira)

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l sol del­l’av­ve­ni­re
IT/FR 2023, 95 Min., ital. OmU
Regie: Nanni Moretti
Kamera: Michele D’Attanasio
Schnitt: Clelio Benevento
mit: Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova, Mathieu Amalric

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A film by Kristen Stewart. Starts March 5th at the fsk. Preview on February 3rd. In English with German subtitles.

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Based on the bel­oved memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and mar­king the direc­to­ri­al debut of Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water is a raw and unflin­ching por­trait of sur­vi­val, sexua­li­ty, and self-inven­ti­on. The film traces Lidia’s life from her ear­liest memo­ries in the Pacific Northwest, as a pro­mi­sing swim­mer, through frac­tu­red rela­ti­onships, near-mother­hood, addic­tion, and encoun­ters with artis­tic heroes. Told as a flu­id memo­ry wash, the sto­ry trans­forms trau­ma into art, embo­dy­ing Yuknavitch’s defi­ant voice that made her work a modern cult clas­sic. It is not only a chro­nic­le of a woman beco­ming a wri­ter, but a vis­ce­ral jour­ney through the wrecka­ge and resi­li­ence of a life lived against the grain.

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US/FR/LV 2025, 128 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Kristen Stewart
Kamera: Corey C. Waters
Schnitt: Olivia Neergaard-Holm
mit: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Susannah Flood, Tom Sturridge, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Jim Belushi

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A film by Hayao Miyazaki. Starts February 12th at the fsk. In Japanese with German subtitles.

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Princess Mononoke[a] is a 1997 Japanese ani­ma­ted his­to­ri­cal fan­ta­sy film writ­ten and direc­ted by Hayao Miyazaki. Set in the Muromachi peri­od of Japanese histo­ry, the film fol­lows Ashitaka, a young Emishi prin­ce who jour­neys west to cure his cur­sed arm and beco­mes embroi­led in the con­flict bet­ween the forest of the gods and a near­by town, as well as the feud bet­ween Lady Eboshi, the town’s lea­der, and San, a human girl rai­sed by wol­ves. Produced by Toshio Suzuki, ani­ma­ted by Studio Ghibli, and dis­tri­bu­ted by Toho, it stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijō, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori, and Hisaya Morishige.

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Mononoke-hime
Japan 1997, 128 Min., japa­ni­sche OmU
Regie: Hayao Miyazaki
Kamera: Atsushi Okui
Schnitt: Hayao Miyazaki, Takeshi Seyama

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A film by Lauro Cress. Starts Frbruary 5th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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What beg­ins as a ges­tu­re of com­pas­si­on beco­mes a dan­ge­rous tempt­a­ti­on to feel like a savi­or. In Ungeduld des Herzens (Impatience of the Heart), direc­tor Lauro Cress trans­po­ses Stefan Zweig’s tim­e­l­ess sto­ry of com­pas­si­on and moral over­load into the pre­sent day – an inten­se psy­cho­lo­gi­cal dra­ma about the lon­ging for clo­sen­ess, the limits of empa­thy, and the impos­si­bi­li­ty of living for others. Winner of the Max Ophüls Prize 2025 (Best Feature Film, Best Young Actor), the film is an out­stan­ding exam­p­le of new German auteur cine­ma – powerful, tou­ch­ing, and with gre­at emo­tio­nal clarity.

A bow­ling night, a misunderstanding—and a moment that chan­ges two lives. Young sol­dier Isaac wants to impress his sis­ter when he asks the grum­py Edith to play. Only when she slumps to the flo­or does he noti­ce the wheel­chair bes­i­de her. Driven by shame, Isaac seeks out the woman he has hurt. An unu­su­al rela­ti­onship deve­lo­ps bet­ween the two – full of com­pas­si­on, hope and gro­wing depen­dence. But the more Isaac tri­es to “heal” Edith, the deeper they both beco­me ent­an­gled in a web of guilt, self-decep­ti­on and longing.

With impres­si­ve images and gre­at emo­tio­nal pre­cis­i­on, Ungeduld des Herzens tells of the dan­ge­rous line bet­ween love and pity – and how easi­ly help can turn into paternalism.

Freely adapt­ed from the novel by Stefan Zweig.

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DE 2015, 104 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie Lauro Cress
Kamera Jan David Gunther
Schnitt Ilya Gavrilenkov
mit: Giulio Brizzi, Ladina von Frisching, Thomas Loibl, Livia Matthes, Jan Fassbender 

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A film by Asaf Saban. In Polish, English, Hebrew with German subtitles.

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“They want you to say some­thing in Hebrew. Like a pray­er or bles­sing.” – “I don’t know what to say, so … like … I pre­fer not to do that.” – “Ok, but just some­thing short. And then they’ll lea­ve you alone.”

The end of school is approa­ching. Together with their class and a Shoah sur­vi­vor, Frisch, Nitzan and Ido embark on a bus trip through Poland to visit for­mer con­cen­tra­ti­on camps and memo­ri­als of the Shoah. The trip, which is cus­to­ma­ry for teen­agers in Israel, con­fronts them with their iden­ti­ty, some­ti­mes in a very emo­tio­nal way. Simultaneously, as on every school trip, group dyna­mics, emo­tio­nal con­fu­si­on and con­flicts of desi­re are also pre­sent. Ha’Mishlahat tells of a cul­tu­re of remem­brance from the per­spec­ti­ve of young Israelis, who­se lively ener­gy col­l­i­des with a sta­tic sys­tem of memo­ri­al sites and modes. tells of a cul­tu­re of remem­brance from the per­spec­ti­ve of young Israelis, who­se lively ener­gy col­l­i­des with a sta­tic sys­tem of memo­ri­al sites and modes.

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Ha’Mishlahat
IL/PL/DE 2023, 101 Min., Polish, English, Hebrew OmU
Regie: Asaf Saban
Kamera: Bogumił Godfrejów
Schnitt: Michal Oppenheim
mit: Neomi Harari, Yoav Bavly, Leib Lev Levin,
Ezra Dagan, Alma Dishy u. a.

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Ein Film von Boris Lojkine. Starts February 19th at the fsk. In French, Pular, Maninka with German subtitles.

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As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deli­ver meals, Souleymane repeats his sto­ry. In two days, he has to go through his asyl­um appli­ca­ti­on inter­view, the key to obtai­ning papers. But Souleymane is not ready.

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L’Histoire de Souleymane
FR 2024, 93 Min., Französisch, Pular, Maninka OmU
Regie: Boris Lojkine
Kamera: Tristan Galand
Schnitt: Xavier Sirven
mit: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow, Emmanuel Yovanie, Younoussa Diallo, Ghislain Mahan, Mamadou Barry, Yaya Diallo, Keita Diallo

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A film by Koya Kamura. Starts February 5th at the fsk. In French and Korean with German subtitles.

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Soo-Ha isn’t too busy in win­ter, as hard­ly anyo­ne visits her coas­tal town of Sokcho in South Korea. But this time it’s dif­fe­rent: French comic-book artist Yan Kerrand has che­cked into the hotel whe­re she works. She dutiful­ly looks after him. But in the pro­cess, the boun­da­ries bet­ween per­so­nal and pro­fes­sio­nal mat­ters beco­me blur­red as he unwit­tingly trig­gers an unp­lea­sant memory. 

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FR 2024, 105 Min., Französisch, Koreanisch, Englisch OmU
Regie: Koya Kamura
Kamera: Élodie Tahtane
Schnitt: Antoine Flandre
mit: Bella Kim & Roschdy Zem

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A film by Jim Jarmusch. Starts February 26th at the fsk. Preview on January 1st.
In English with German subtitles. 

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Father Mother Sister Brother is a fea­ture film, though careful­ly con­s­truc­ted in the form of a tri­ptych. The three sto­ries all con­cern the rela­ti­onships bet­ween adult child­ren, their some­what distant parent (or par­ents) and each other. Each of the three chap­ters takes place in the pre­sent, and each in a dif­fe­rent coun­try.
Father is set in the north-east US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France. The film is a series of cha­rac­ter stu­dies: quiet, obser­va­tio­nal and non-jud­ge­men­tal — a come­dy, but inter­wo­ven with threads of melancholy.

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US,FR,IT,DE,IR 2025, 101 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Jim Jarmuch
Kamera: Frederick Elmes, Yorick Le Saux
Schnitt: Affonso Gonçalves
mit: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun

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