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Die Verachtung – Le Mépris

A film by Jean-Luc Godard. Starts June 22nd at the fsk. In French with German subtitles.

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A 1963 French New Wave dra­ma film writ­ten and direc­ted by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprez­zo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia.[6] It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Giorgia Moll.
Plot

Paul Javal, a young French play­w­right who has found com­mer­cial suc­cess in Rome, accepts an offer from vul­gar American pro­du­cer Jeremy Prokosch to rework the script for German direc­tor Fritz Lang’s screen adapt­a­ti­on of the Odyssey.

Paul’s wife, Camille Javal, joins him on the first day of the pro­ject at Cinecittà. As the first dis­cus­sions are com­ple­ted, Prokosch invi­tes the crew to join him at his vil­la, offe­ring Camille a ride in his two-seat sports­car. Camille looks to Paul to decli­ne the offer, but he sub­mis­si­ve­ly with­draws to fol­low by taxi, lea­ving Camille and Prokosch alo­ne. Paul does not catch up with them until 30 minu­tes later, explai­ning that he was delay­ed by a traf­fic acci­dent. Camille grows unea­sy, secret­ly doubting his hones­ty and suspec­ting that he is using her to cement his ties with Prokosch. Her mis­gi­vings are heigh­ten­ed when she sees Paul gro­pe Prokosch’s secre­ta­ry, Francesca. Back at their apart­ment, Paul and Camille dis­cuss the subt­le unea­si­ness that has come bet­ween them in the first few hours of the pro­ject, and Camille sud­den­ly announ­ces to her bewil­de­red hus­band that she no lon­ger loves him.

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Le Mépris
Le Mépris
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FR. 1963, 105 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: J.-L. Godard
Kamera: Raoul Coutart
mit: Michel Piccoli, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Francesca Vanini, Georgia Moll

Trailer:
DIE VERACHTUNG – LE MÉPRIS | Trailer / Deutsch | Jean-Luc Godard | ARTHAUS
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Unser Fluss… Unser Himmel

A film by Maysoon Pachachi. Starts July 6th at the fsk. In Arabic with German subtitles

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In a resi­den­ti­al neigh­bour­hood in Baghdad, ordi­na­ry peo­p­le try to live their lives amidst the thre­at of unpre­dic­ta­ble violence.

UNSER FLUSS… UNSER HIMMEL
UNSER FLUSS… UNSER HIMMEL
UNSER FLUSS… UNSER HIMMEL
UNSER FLUSS… UNSER HIMMEL
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UK, FR, DE, KW 2021, 117 Min., arab.OmU
Regie: Maysoon Pachachi
Schnitt:Alexandre Donot
Kamera: Jonathan Bloom
mit: Darina Al Joundi, Zainab Joda, Basim Hajar, Labwa Arab, Amed Hashim

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Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.
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Thomas Schütte - Ich bin nicht allein

Thomas Schütte – Ich bin nicht allein

A film by Corinna Belz. Starts June 29th at the fsk. In German, English and French with German subtitles.

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Setting: a work­shop. When it comes to Thomas Schütte’s lar­ger than life sculp­tures, the work is hands on – and on an impres­si­ve sca­le. Sanding, sawing and mil­ling are the order of the day. The artist, with a ciga­ret­te han­ging out of his mouth, moulds the eyes of a figu­re with his own hands or some­ti­mes uses com­pu­ter simu­la­ti­on. Regardless of the machi­nery, tech­no­lo­gy or mate­ri­al, it beco­mes clear: art is hard work. Anja Klauck

Thomas Schütte - Ich bin nicht allein
Thomas Schütte - Ich bin nicht allein
Thomas Schütte - Ich bin nicht allein 
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DE 2023, 94 Min., engl., franz. deut­sche OmU
Regie: Corinna Belz
Schnitt: Rudi Heinen
Kamera: David Wesemann, Jule Katinka v. Cramer

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kommt noch.

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Nostalgia

Nostalgia

A film by Mario Martone. In Italian with German subtitles.

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After 40 years of abs­cence, Felice returns to his home­town : Naples.
He redis­co­vers the places, the rules of the city and a past that haunts him.

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IT / FR 2022, 118 Min., ital. OmU
Regie: Mario Martone
Kamera: Carmine Guarino
Schnitt: Jacopo Quadri
mit: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno

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How to Blow up a Pipeline

A film by Daniel Goldhaber. In English with German subtitles.

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Based on the epony­mous novel by Andreas Malm, this thril­ler revol­ves around the sabo­ta­ge car­ri­ed out by a group of mili­tant eco­lo­gi­cal acti­vists. People are gathe­ring in the desert. They’re the­re to prepa­re a mis­si­on: some have alre­a­dy felt the effects of envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­ti­on, others are frus­tra­ted cli­ma­te acti­vists for whom radi­cal methods appear the only means of pro­test­ing against the cli­ma­te cata­stro­phe. Their plan is to sabo­ta­ge a pipe­line to knock the oil busi­ness off balan­ce and thus ensu­re chan­ge, whe­re other forms of resis­tance have alre­a­dy exhaus­ted their useful­ness. The film is a varia­ti­on on a heist thril­ler and a psy­cho­lo­gi­cal stu­dy of acti­vists bet­ween per­so­nal con­cern, radi­cal­i­sa­ti­on and doubt.

How to Blow up a Pipeline
How to Blow up a Pipeline
How to Blow up a Pipeline
How to Blow up a Pipeline
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US 2022, 106 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Daniel Goldhaber
mit Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson , Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, Irene Bedard, Olive Jane Lorraine 

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Das Lehrerzimmer

A film by İlker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish and English with German subtitles. 

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“What hap­pens in the staff room stays in the staff room,” says Carla Nowak in an inter­view with the school news­pa­per. Even if that is purely wishful thin­king for the tea­cher at this point. This is her first job, and she is com­mit­ted to tea­ching mathe­ma­tics and phy­si­cal edu­ca­ti­on to her class of seventh gra­d­ers. Things are going well and she is able to moti­va­te the­se ado­le­s­cents. Then a series of thefts occur at school and one of her stu­dents is quick­ly suspec­ted. An outra­ged Carla deci­des to get to the bot­tom of the mat­ter hers­elf, but the case is not so easy to sol­ve and has reper­cus­sions. Quickly decried as idea­li­stic by the rest of the staff, Carla finds hers­elf having to ans­wer to angry par­ents and media­te bet­ween quar­rel­ling stu­dents. The more she tri­es to do ever­y­thing right, the more she – and others – are pushed to their limits, and the enti­re school sys­tem is thrown off balan­ce.
İlker Çatak mis­ses not­hing in his bril­li­ant­ly obser­ved film. In his unspa­ring dra­ma, the school is a micro­c­osm in which the out­side world no lon­ger exists and not­hing remains pri­va­te. Das Lehrerzimmer is a stu­dy in power rela­ti­ons that demons­tra­tes how indi­vi­du­als are worn down bet­ween ent­ren­ched positions.

Das Lehrerzimmer
Das Lehrerzimmer
Das Lehrerzimmer
Das Lehrerzimmer
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DE 2023, 94 min, Deutsch,  Türkisch,  Polnisch,  Englisch OmU
Regie: İlker Çatak
Schnitt: Gesa Jäger
Kamera: Judith Kaufmann
mit: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich

Trailer:
DAS LEHRERZIMMER | Trailer deutsch | Ab 04.05. im Kino!
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Bis ans Ende der Nacht

A film by Christoph Hochhäusler. Starts June 22nd at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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Robert wears a lea­ther jacket and his hair rather long. He is by no means your avera­ge cop – at least not the kind to be found in most German movies. As an under­co­ver inves­ti­ga­tor, he is tas­ked with gai­ning the trust of a cri­mi­nal, Victor, by faking a rela­ti­onship with Leni who has been released on paro­le to play along. They mana­ge to make cont­act with Victor at a dance class: Robert and Leni – he gay, she trans – make a gre­at cou­ple and soon have the cri­mi­nal on the hook. Or is it he who has ent­rap­ped them? And ulti­m­ate­ly, are the­re not more fee­lings at play in this sup­po­sedly fake love affair? We would not be in a film by Christoph Hochhäusler if the­re were any simp­le ans­wers or truths. His cle­ver plot is pure oscil­la­ti­on, and the result is an inge­nious por­trait of the emo­tio­nal intellect that is as wit­ty as it is tou­ch­ing. The film is a (not enti­re­ly drug-free) trip along the director’s trade­mark Möbius strip of gen­re and auteur cine­ma. Added into the mix is one of the most beau­tiful­ly nost­al­gic sound­tracks of the year, a worse-for-wear roman­tic atmo­sphe­re with a Fassbinder-like charm and, final­ly, an ensem­ble cast that brea­thes life into all of pup­pet mas­ter Hochhäusler’s decep­ti­ve mano­eu­vres, death wish included.

Bis ans Ende der Nacht
Bis ans Ende der Nacht
Bis ans Ende der Nacht
Bis ans Ende der Nacht
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DE 2023, 123 min, Deutsch OmeU
Regie: Christoph Hochhäusler
Schnitt: Stefan Stabenow
Kamera: Reinhold Vorschneider
mit: Timocin Ziegler, Thea Ehre, Michael Sideris, Ioana Iacob, Rosa Enskat

Trailer:
Bis ans Ende der Nacht (offi­zi­el­ler Trailer) – Ein Film von Christoph Hochhäusler mit Thea Ehre
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Miyama – Kyoto Prefecture

A film by Rainer Komers. In German and Japanese with German subtitles.

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There’s pro­ba­b­ly no other citi­zen of Gelsenkirchen who has ever mas­te­red Nō sin­ging and play­ing the Shakuhachi flu­te as authen­ti­cal­ly as Uwe Walter. He has lived in the moun­tain vil­la­ge of Miyama north of Kyoto for three deca­des and emu­la­tes the local resi­dents, whe­ther they earn their living on the fields, bree­ding catt­le or hun­ting. People tend their gar­dens, repair fen­ces to keep away the maca­ques and grow their own rice. Uwe has beco­me per­fect­ly Japanese, at one with his environment.

However well-sui­ted his Ruhr area wit makes him as a figu­re of iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on, the came­ra keeps a respectful distance, more reser­ved than Uwe hims­elf. Only at one point does it come tou­ch­in­gly clo­se: When he is forced to say good­bye to an essen­ti­al part of his past in the inte­rest of the vil­la­ge com­mu­ni­ty. But the real sub­ject of this film is not the German with his grey­ish blon­de curls but rather that very com­mu­ni­ty, por­tray­ed by Rainer Komers in bit­ters­weet poly­pho­ny. It emer­ges in the children’s games, the adults’ pur­suits and the old people’s tales, in the sum­mer down­pours of the rai­ny sea­son, the white moon over the noc­turnal vil­la­ge and the blood-red lea­ves of autumn.

Christoph Terhechte

Miyama - Kyoto Prefecture
Miyama - Kyoto Prefecture
Miyama - Kyoto Prefecture
Miyama - Kyoto Prefecture
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DE 2022, 97 min, Deutsch, Japanisch OmU
Regie & Kamera: Rainer Komers
Schnitt: Gregor Bartsch

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Fucking Bornholm

A film by Anna Kazejak. In Polish and Danish with German subtitles.

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On the Danish island of Bornholm, two fami­lies spend their tra­di­tio­nal short vaca­ti­on tog­e­ther. The cam­pers park at a prime beach loca­ti­on and pitch tent for the three boys – so far, so good. But an inci­dent with the child­ren upsets the idyll: What beg­ins as an imma­tu­re quar­rel gra­du­al­ly deve­lo­ps into a full-blown fight. Soon the pit­falls of rai­sing child­ren, mid­life cri­ses and marital pro­blems are ruthl­ess­ly expo­sed – and the ori­gi­nal­ly rela­xing vaca­ti­on turns into a puri­fy­ing pur­ga­to­ry. Director Anna Kazejak allows bour­geois fami­ly ide­als to col­l­i­de with for­mal sove­reig­n­ty in her come­dy dra­ma FUCKING BORNHOLM.

Fucking Bornholm
Fucking Bornholm
Fucking Bornholm
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PL 2022, 96 min, poln. dän. OmU
Regie: Anna Kazejak
Kamera: Jakub Stolecki
Schnitt: Maciej Pawlinski
mit Agnieszka Grochowska, Maciej Stuhr, Grzegorz Damięcki, Jasmina Polak and Magus Krepper

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Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln
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Die Linie

A film by Ursula Meier. In French with German subtitles

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Margaret, 35, has a histo­ry of vio­lent beha­viour which has cost her a roman­tic rela­ti­onship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fra­gi­le, imma­tu­re 55-year-old woman who bla­mes Margaret, her first­born, for rui­ning her dreams of a care­er as a con­cert pia­nist. In a sta­te of unbrid­led fury during an argu­ment, Margaret hits Christina. The law steps in, fur­ther com­pli­ca­ting fami­ly dyna­mics. As she awaits tri­al, Margaret is for­bidden from coming into cont­act with her mother or within 100 met­res of their home. This only inten­si­fies her desi­re to be clo­ser to her fami­ly. Every day, Margaret appears at this 100-met­re thres­hold to see her 12-year-old sis­ter Marion and give her music les­sons.
In La ligne, Ursula Meier con­ti­nues her explo­ra­ti­on of aty­pi­cal fami­ly con­stel­la­ti­ons, rede­fi­ning the idea of a fami­ly “cir­cle” to con­sider its topo­gra­phi­cal dimen­si­ons. Her asto­nis­hing lead actor is lite­ral­ly wren­ched from this cir­cle and from her mother in a man­ner remi­nis­cent of the pain of child­birth. One of the film’s remar­kab­le achie­ve­ments is its shif­ting mood which, echo­ing its prot­ago­nists’ emo­tio­nal inse­cu­ri­ties, slips back and forth bet­ween come­dy and dra­ma wit­hout war­ning. The tonal choices and direc­ting are assu­red and as striking as, well, a punch in the face.

Die Linie
Die Linie
Die Linie
Die Linie
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La Ligne
CH/FR/BE 2022, 104 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Ursula Meier
Kamera: Agnès Godard
Schnitt: Nelly Quettier
mit Stéphanie Blanchoud, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Elli Spagnolo 

Trailer:
DIE LINIE – offi­zi­el­ler OmU-Kinotrailer – ab 18.05.2023
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