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Dahomey

Dahomey

A film by Mati Diop.

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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

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Rohbau

A film by Tuna Kaptan. Starts September 26th at the fsk. In German, English and Albanian with German subtitles.

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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

Trailer:
ROHBAU | Trailer | Kinostart: 26. September 2024
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Der Spatz im Kamin

Der Spatz im Kamin

A film by Ramon Zürcher. In German with English subtitles.

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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

Trailer:
DER SPATZ IM KAMIN Trailer Deutsch | German [HD]
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Element of Crime in Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin

A film by Charly Hübner. Starts October 1st at the fsk.

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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

Trailer:
ELEMENT OF CRIME in ‚Wenn es dun­kel und kalt wird in Berlin‘ | TRAILER – Jetzt für zuhause
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Sleeping Dogs – Manche Lügen sterben nie

A film by Adam Cooper. In English.

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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

Trailer:
SLEEPING DOGS | Official Trailer (Russell Crowe) | Paramount Movies
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My Stolen Planet

A film by Farahnaz Sharifi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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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.

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Sayyareye doz­di­de sho­deye man
DE/IR 2024, 82 Min., far­si OmU
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Farahnaz Sharifi 

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Memory

A film by Michel Franco.

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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

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Favoriten

A film by Ruth Beckermann. In German with English subtitles.

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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 

Trailer:
Favoriten (offi­zi­el­ler Trailer) – Ein Film von Ruth Beckermann
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Korntal

Die Kinder aus Korntal

A film by Julia Charakter. Starts September 26th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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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 

Trailer:
DIE KINDER AUS KORNTAL Trailer Deutsch | German [HD]
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Die Schule der Frauen

A film by Marie-Lou Sellem. In German.

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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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DE 2024, 108 Min.,
Regie: Marie-Lou Sellem

Kamera: Jens Harant
Schnitt: Sonja Baeger
mit: Karoline Eichhorn, Cornelia Felden, Jacqueline Kornmüller, Katharina
Linder Kerstin Weiss, Linette Arndt, Lena-Sophie Baer, Sarah
Flechtker, Paula Julie Pitsch, Anna-Tabea Stockbrügger, Salome Zehnder
Sophie Wolf, Asimina Sideris, Hannah Weiss

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