Author: fsk

  • Bitteres Fest

    Bitteres Fest

    A film by Pedro Almodóvar. Starts July 30th at the fsk. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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    Raúl is a cult film­ma­ker in the midst of a crea­ti­ve cri­sis.
    When tra­ge­dy strikes one of his clo­sest col­la­bo­ra­tors, he draws inspi­ra­ti­on from it to wri­te his next film. Little by litt­le, he ima­gi­nes Elsa, a film­ma­ker in the midst of wri­ting a script, who­se jour­ney beg­ins to mir­ror his own.
    The two film­ma­kers beco­me two sides of the same cha­rac­ter, in a game of mir­rors whe­re the raw hones­ty of auto­fic­tion reve­als as much as it des­troys. But how far can one go to tell a story?

    Credits:

    Amarga Navidad
    Spain 2026, 111 mins, Spanish with German sub­tit­les
    Director: Pedro Almodóvar
    Cinematography: Adrian Campean
    Editing: Laura Lauzemis
    star­ring Frida Hornemann, Max Riemelt, Eva Löbau, Gina Henkel, Rahel Ohm, Peter René Lüdecke, Florian Geißelmann, Yvon Sable Moltzen, Ida Fischer, Florian Lukas, Thomas Schubert, Kara Schröder, Anne Kulbatzki, Nairi Hadodo

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  • filmPOLSKA reloaded – Briefe aus der Wilcza – Listy z Wilczej

    filmPOLSKA reloaded – Briefe aus der Wilcza – Listy z Wilczej

    A film by Arjun Talwar. In Polish with German and English subtitles.

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    A street in cen­tral Warsaw is the focus of this wit­ty and per­so­nal por­trait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immi­gra­ted to the coun­try a deca­de ago but still strug­gles to fit in. Ulica Wilcza, the street whe­re he lives, has not real­ly hel­ped mat­ters. In an attempt to acce­le­ra­te his inte­gra­ti­on, he beg­ins film­ing his neigh­bours, sound­ing out his rela­ti­onships with them and see­king ways to over­co­me his own fee­lings of ali­en­ati­on. With the help of his fri­end Mo, ano­ther immi­grant-tur­ned-film­ma­ker, Arjun unco­vers the hid­den secrets of the street, reve­al­ing a host of char­ming inha­bi­tants. He finds other peo­p­le like hims­elf who are living bet­ween the past and pre­sent, bet­ween an ima­gi­ned home­land and the real one. The street con­nects them all like an invi­si­ble thread, offe­ring solace in the melan­cho­ly of ever­y­day life. Along this kilo­met­re-long stretch, a pic­tu­re of modern Europe emer­ges, expo­sing a kalei­do­scope of con­tra­dic­tions and anxie­ties as a for­eign film­ma­ker holds up a mir­ror to a coun­try that is often per­cei­ved as homo­ge­neous, unwel­co­ming and poli­ti­cal­ly right-wing.

    Credits:

    PL/DE 2025, 97 Min., pol­ni­sche Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
    Regie & Kamera: Arjun Talwar
    Schnitt: Bigna Tomschin, Arjun Talwar & Sabina Filipowicz

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  • Persepolis

    Persepolis

    A film by Marjane Satrapi. Starts June 20th at the fsk. In French with German subtitles.

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    PERSEPOLIS was one of the most suc­cessful films shown in our cine­ma. Last week, the aut­hor and direc­tor, Marjane Satrapi, pas­sed away at the age of just 56. For this reason, we are brin­ging the film back into our pro­gram­me after 19 years.

    The film adapt­a­ti­on of the comic book of the same name.
    “The film tells the sto­ry, in simp­le, almost enti­re­ly black-and-white images, of the litt­le girl Marjane, who grows up in Tehran, goes to school in Austria, returns to Iran for a while, and then goes into exi­le in Paris for good. The sto­ry beg­ins with the ous­ting of the Shah, con­ti­nues through the betray­ed hopes of the revo­lu­ti­on to the war bet­ween Iran and Iraq, and ends with the tyran­ni­cal rule of the mul­lahs – all seen through the eyes of the ado­le­s­cent.
    It is the author’s per­spec­ti­ve, as she tells her own sto­ry in her immense­ly suc­cessful comics: cle­ver, wit­ty, self-depre­ca­ting, and at times deep­ly sad. Instead of using digi­tal ani­ma­ti­on tech­ni­ques, the film was drawn enti­re­ly by hand. That is why it actual­ly looks like Marjane Satrapi’s books in moti­on.” Verena Lueken

    In the 1980s, when Iran was fight­ing Iraq, many upper-midd­le-class par­ents sent their child­ren from Tehran to the West for their edu­ca­ti­on, inclu­ding my fami­ly. In Austria, my first stop, I often had to explain that my father didn’t have three wives and why I didn’t ride a camel at home. They were sur­pri­sed that I’d alre­a­dy been ski­ing and had drunk alco­hol. Just ima­gi­ne: you come from Tehran, which was alre­a­dy very modern at the time, to a small Austrian vil­la­ge – and here they explain moder­ni­ty to you. They didn’t even have a cine­ma in the vil­la­ge!”
    Marjane Satrapi

    Credits:

    Fr 2007, 96 Min., frz. OmU
    Regie: Marjane Satrapi / Vincent
    Paronnaud
    Nach den gleich­na­mi­gen Comics von Marjane Satrapi
    Originalstimmen: Gabrielle Lopes, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, François Jerosme

    Preis der Jury“ – Cannes 2007

    Trailer:
    PERSEPOLIS 4K Restaurierung | Trailer Deutsch | Neu auf 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD und Digital!
    Im Kino in fran­zö­sisch mit deut­schen Untertitlen.
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  • To my Sisters

    To my Sisters

    A film by Faek Falak. Starts July 23rd at the fsk.

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    A young Kurdish woman in Syria leads a women’s unit into batt­le against ISIS—fighting for free­dom and women’s rights. Her strugg­le is nar­ra­ted by a Yazidi sur­vi­vor who was ens­laved by ISIS as a child and makes clear what is at sta­ke if this fight is lost. And while she sur­vi­ved the hor­ror, a German woman vol­un­t­a­ri­ly joi­n­ed ISIS—and is now at the mer­cy of the con­se­quen­ces of her decis­i­on. Three women, three decis­i­ons, a reflec­tion of cou­ra­ge, suf­fe­ring, and dan­ge­rous delusion.

    Credits:

    DE 2026, 96 Min., OmU
    Regie:  Faek Falak
    Kamera: Noah Schuller
    Schnitt: Kristina Bogen

    Trailer:
    TO MY SISTERS // Offizieller Trailer // Demnächst im Kino
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  • Etwas ganz Besonderes

    Etwas ganz Besonderes

    A film by Eva Trobisch. Starts July 9th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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    Lea hat sich bei einer Gesangs-Castingshow bewor­ben. Der Redakteur fragt: „Wer bist du und was macht dich aus?“ Lea weiß es nicht. Und beginnt, nach einem pas­sen­den Ich zu suchen. In ihrem thü­rin­gi­schen Heimatort wird gera­de das Museum kost­spie­lig aus EU-Töpfen saniert und die Pension im Besitz ihrer Familie kämpft ums wirt­schaft­li­che Überleben. Leas Familie, das sind ihre Eltern Matze und Rieke – frisch getrennt, da Rieke von einem ande­ren Mann schwan­ger ist, und noch recht unge­übt in den neu­en Familienverhältnissen. Und ihre Großeltern, die eben­falls genug Probleme mit­ein­an­der und mit ihrem Waldhotel haben, das in der besu­cher­ar­men Region mehr Geld ver­schlingt, als es ein­bringt. Dann ist da noch ihre Tante Kati, die in ihrer Unabhängigkeit ein Vorbild für Lea ist, sich als Museumsleiterin aber gera­de kei­ne Freunde in der klei­nen Provinzstadt macht. Leas bes­te Freundin Bonny ist ganz woan­ders mit dem Kopf, denn sie ist frisch ver­liebt in Leas Cousin, den Aktivisten Edgar. Wer also ist die Kandidatin Lea? Welche Homestory lässt sich aus die­ser Familiengeschichte machen?

    Credits:

    DE 2026, 116 Min., deut­sche Originalfassung mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
    Regie: Eva Trobisch
    Kamera: Adrian Campean
    Schnitt: Laura Lauzemis
    mit  Frida Hornemann, Max Riemelt, Eva Löbau, Gina Henkel, Rahel Ohm, Peter René Lüdecke, Florian Geißelmann, Yvon Sable Moltzen, Ida Fischer, Florian Lukas, Thomas Schubert, Kara Schröder, Anne Kulbatzki, Nairi Hadodo

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  • Sechswochenamt

    Sechswochenamt

    A film by Jacqueline Jansen. Starts June 18th at the fsk. In German with English subtiles.

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    The film opens with death, por­tray­ed with com­ple­te calm and wit­hout sen­ti­men­ta­li­ty. Then the grie­ving pro­cess beg­ins, depic­ted with sen­si­ti­vi­ty, not wit­hout moments of appa­rent call­ous­ness, which are not, howe­ver, taken amiss, but rather – like ever­y­thing else, in fact – told with infi­ni­te ten­der­ness. The over­whel­ming sen­se of being over­whel­med, the loneli­ne­ss, the unre­asonable demands: “This exis­ten­ti­al fee­ling of being aban­do­ned by the world and lost in it, of being cut off” (Joachim Kurz) This uni­que film also deals with this – on its meta-level, so to speak.
    Lore accom­pa­nies her mother as she dies. She returns to the small town of her child­hood, Erkelenz, whe­re many acquain­tances and rela­ti­ves still live who speak the Rhineland dialect. Dealing with death and the grie­ving pro­cess are the film’s cen­tral the­mes. Yet it is the way the sto­ry is told that makes this film tru­ly out­stan­ding. Naturally, melan­cho­ly sets the tone, but any poten­ti­al for sen­ti­men­ta­li­ty is com­ple­te­ly under­mi­ned by the neo­rea­list nar­ra­ti­ve style, to which the endea­ring per­for­man­ces of the many ama­teur actors also con­tri­bu­te.
    Alongside this, and in a com­ple­te­ly unob­tru­si­ve man­ner, the sto­ry is set during the pan­de­mic. Embedded within the nar­ra­ti­ve, it forms a kind of back­ground noi­se, fur­ther rein­for­cing the sen­se of loneli­ne­ss and aban­don­ment and thus reflec­ting the gene­ral sta­te of socie­ty.
    P.S. According to the Catholic Church, a ‘six-week mass’ is a ser­vice cele­bra­ted six weeks after a death, mar­king the end of the first pha­se of mour­ning for the bereaved.

    Credits:

    DE 2025, 98 Min., In German with English sub­ti­les
    Regie:  Jacqueline Jansen
    Kamera:Markus Ott
    Schnitt: Simon Dopslaf, Jacqueline Jansen
    mit Magdalena Laubisch, Gerta Gormanns, Lola Klamroth, Olga Prokot, Suzanne Ziellenbach, Marc Fischer,

    Trailer:
    Trailer SECHSWOCHENAMT – ab 18. Juni im Kino
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  • Donkey Days

    Donkey Days

    A film by Rosanne Pel. Starts June 25th at the fsk. Original ver­si­on in German, English, and Dutch, some with German subtitles

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    Anna and Charlotte are con­stant­ly com­pe­ting with each other. At least, that’s how their mother, Ines, wants it—she favors one over the other and makes sure the other one knows it. Nevertheless, the dis­si­mi­lar sisters—one que­er and non­con­for­mist, the other a sup­po­sedly tough, suc­cessful woman—return to their child­hood home in nor­t­hern Germany. Old wounds are reope­ned and well-kept secrets come to light: Whose ashes is their mother hiding? What con­nects her to a Hungarian don­key farm? In their search for ans­wers, the dis­si­mi­lar sis­ters find new trust in one another.

    A black come­dy of the pet­ty nas­ti­nes­ses found only within fami­lies. In her second fea­ture film, direc­tor Rosanne Pel explo­res with subt­le humor the often pro­ble­ma­tic rela­ti­onships bet­ween mothers, sis­ters, and daughters—and the socie­tal role models that under­lie them. “Donkey Days” is a modern, begui­lingly absurd fami­ly film brim­ming with empa­thy for its characters.

    Credits:

    NL/DE 2025, 108 Min., Original ver­si­on in German, English, and Dutch, some with German sub­tit­les
    Regie:  Rosanne Pel
    Kamera: Aafke Beernink
    Schnitt: Xander Nijsten
    mit Jil Krammer, Susanne Wolff, Hildegard Schmahl, Amke Wegner, Carla Juri

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  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war

    Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war

    A film by Regina Schilling. In German with English subtitles.

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    Sandra Hüller por­trays Ingeborg Bachmann on an ima­gi­na­ry day in Rome. Regina Schilling’s hybrid film wea­ves tog­e­ther ree­nact­ments, archi­val foo­ta­ge, and Bachmann’s own wri­tin­gs into a por­trait that offers a refres­hing new per­spec­ti­ve on the aut­hor and posi­ti­ons her wri­tin­gs as a refe­rence point in cur­rent deba­tes on gen­der rela­ti­ons and power. P.B (DOKFest München)

    Credits:

    DE/AT 2026, 95 Min., deut­sche OmeU
    Regie:  Regina Schilling
    Kamera: Johann Feindt
    Schnitt: Carina Mergens
    mit: Sandra Hüller 

    Trailer:
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der ein­mal ich war | Offizieller Trailer | Ab 25. Juni im Kino
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  • Godland

    Godland

    A film by Hlynur Pálmason. In Icelandic with German subtitles.

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    The strugg­le bet­ween the stric­tures of reli­gi­on and our own bru­te ani­mal natu­re plays out amid the beau­tiful­ly for­bid­ding land­scapes of remo­te Iceland in this stun­ning psy­cho­lo­gi­cal epic from direc­tor Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nine­te­enth cen­tu­ry, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the peri­lous trek to Iceland’s sou­the­as­tern coast with the inten­ti­on of estab­li­shing a church. There, the arro­gant man of God finds his resol­ve tes­ted as he con­fronts the harsh ter­rain, tempt­a­ti­ons of the fle­sh, and the rea­li­ty of being an intru­der in an unf­or­gi­ving land. What unfolds is a trans­fi­xing jour­ney into the heart of colo­ni­al dark­ness attu­n­ed to both the majes­ty and ter­ri­fy­ing power of the natu­ral world.

    Credits:

    IS/FR/DK/SE 2022, 135 Min., islän­di­sche OmU
    Regie :  Hlynur Pálmason

    Kamera: Maria von Hausswolff
    Schnitt: Julius Krebs Damsbo
    mit:
    Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann

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  • DAO

    DAO

    A film by Alain Gomis. In seve­ral lan­guages with German subtitles.

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    The film beg­ins with a defi­ni­ti­on of its title: “DAO is a per­pe­tu­al and cir­cu­lar move­ment which flows in ever­y­thing and unites the world.” And then it pro­ceeds to take us to the cas­ting of Gloria, a cha­rac­ter who­se daugh­ter is about to be mar­ried. An off-screen voice direc­ting the cas­ting ses­si­on tells us that “the first step is to make this fami­ly”. Actors and non-actors are cast and brought tog­e­ther to beco­me rela­ti­ves who will all cele­bra­te a wed­ding in Paris and com­me­mo­ra­te the loss of their patri­arch in Guinea-Bissau. Their indi­vi­du­al sto­ries and their com­mon threads of heri­ta­ge are woven tog­e­ther with fact and fic­tion as they tra­vel bet­ween the­se two worlds; love, laugh­ter, ritu­al, pain and histo­ry intert­wi­ned. Perpetual cir­cu­lar move­ment framing reality.

    Credits:

    FR/SN/GW 2026 , 185 Min., Französisch, Wolof, Manjak, Guineabissauisches Kreol OmU
    Regie: Alain Gomis
    Kamera: Céline Bozon, Amath Niane, Mabeye Deme
    Montage: Alain Gomis, Fabrice Rouaud, Assetou Koné, Dimitri Ouedraogo, Elizabeth Ndiaye, Moustapha Mbalo Dieng
    mit Katy Correa, D’Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis, Fara Baco Gomis, Poundo Gomis

    Trailer:
    DAO (Berlinale Wettbewerb) | Deutscher Trailer
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