Blue Moon

A film by Richard Linklater. Starts March 26th at the fsk. In English with German subtitles.

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“You know how in mar­ria­ge they say ‘for bet­ter or for worse’? I think, in terms of my life, I have ente­red the ‘for worse’ part, and it hap­pen­ed so quiet­ly I didn’t even reco­gni­ze it.”
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the sto­ry of the legen­da­ry lyri­cist Lorenz Hart bra­ve­ly facing the future as his pro­fes­sio­nal and pri­va­te life unra­vel during the ope­ning night par­ty for his for­mer part­ner Richard Rodgers’ hit show, “Oklahoma!”. In 100 minu­tes, the film uns­pools in real-time the events in Sardi’s bar on the evening of March 31, 1943. It is a medi­ta­ti­on on fri­end­ship, art and love, fea­turing a rich tapestry of wri­ters, actors, musi­ci­ans, fri­ends and pro­té­gés – a para­de of the famous and the soon-to-be-famous. By the time this night is over, Hart will have con­fron­ted both a world irre­vo­ca­bly chan­ged by the war, and the see­ming impos­si­bi­li­ty of love.
With powerful per­for­man­ces from Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Hart’s pro­té­gé Elizabeth and Bobby Cannavale as Hart’s bar­ten­der, bud­dy and con­fidan­te, the film per­fect­ly cap­tures, with Linklater’s deft, comic touch, a sin­gu­lar, asto­nis­hing moment in time.

Blue Moon
Blue Moon
Blue Moon
Blue Moon
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US/IE 2025, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Richard Linklater 
Kamera: Shane F. Kelly
Schnitt: Sandra Adair
mit: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

Trailer:
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  • Blue Moon

    Blue Moon

    A film by Richard Linklater. Starts March 26th at the fsk. In English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    “You know how in mar­ria­ge they say ‘for bet­ter or for worse’? I think, in terms of my life, I have ente­red the ‘for worse’ part, and it hap­pen­ed so quiet­ly I didn’t even reco­gni­ze it.”
    Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the sto­ry of the legen­da­ry lyri­cist Lorenz Hart bra­ve­ly facing the future as his pro­fes­sio­nal and pri­va­te life unra­vel during the ope­ning night par­ty for his for­mer part­ner Richard Rodgers’ hit show, “Oklahoma!”. In 100 minu­tes, the film uns­pools in real-time the events in Sardi’s bar on the evening of March 31, 1943. It is a medi­ta­ti­on on fri­end­ship, art and love, fea­turing a rich tapestry of wri­ters, actors, musi­ci­ans, fri­ends and pro­té­gés – a para­de of the famous and the soon-to-be-famous. By the time this night is over, Hart will have con­fron­ted both a world irre­vo­ca­bly chan­ged by the war, and the see­ming impos­si­bi­li­ty of love.
    With powerful per­for­man­ces from Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Hart’s pro­té­gé Elizabeth and Bobby Cannavale as Hart’s bar­ten­der, bud­dy and con­fidan­te, the film per­fect­ly cap­tures, with Linklater’s deft, comic touch, a sin­gu­lar, asto­nis­hing moment in time.

    Blue Moon
    Blue Moon
    Blue Moon
    Blue Moon
    Credits:

    US/IE 2025, 100 Min., engl. OmU
    Regie: Richard Linklater 
    Kamera: Shane F. Kelly
    Schnitt: Sandra Adair
    mit: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

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  • filmPOLSKA reloaded – Flowers Of Ukraine

    filmPOLSKA reloaded – Flowers Of Ukraine

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    Kwiaty Ukrainy / Flowers Of Ukraine
    am 25.2. 18:00 im fsk

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    UKR/PL 2024
    R: Adelina Borets
    70 min, OmeU
    K: Bohdan Rozumnyi & Bogdan Borysenko
    S: Agata Cierniak & Mateusz Wojtyński
    M: DakhaBrakha

    Inmitten von rie­si­gen Beton-Wohnblöcken hat sich die 67-jäh­ri­ge Natalia ein grü­nes Refugium geschaf­fen. Der etwas strup­pi­ge, gelieb­te und gepfleg­te Garten ist nicht nur Nutzfläche, son­dern auch Rückzugsgebiet, Energietankstelle und Ort der Begegnung. Aber auch in Kyiw wird jedes freie Fleckchen bebaut und die Bauunternehmer haben die­ses Filetstück schon lan­ge für ihre Baupläne im Auge. Als sie Bagger anrol­len las­sen, gibt sich das Energiebündel Natalia nicht geschla­gen. Die agi­le Rentnerin orga­ni­siert den Widerstand und kann das kol­lek­ti­ve klei­ne Paradies ret­ten – vorerst.

    Doch bald gibt es Wichtigeres als Unkrautjäten und Gemüseernte. Im März 2022 befin­det sich der Garten plötz­lich im Kriegsgebiet und Natalia muss neue Schwierigkeiten bewäl­ti­gen. Statt zwi­schen Stauden und Bäumen sitzt sie nun immer wie­der im Bunker, Verwandte und Freunde ver­las­sen das Land. Aber mit einer gehö­ri­gen Portion Galgenhumor, Erfindungsgeist und jeder Menge Lebensfreude meis­tert Natalia auch die­se Herausforderung – denn wie die Ukraine ist sie stolz, zäh, ideen­reich und soll­te nie unter­schätzt werden.

    Adelina Borets ist ein stim­mi­ges, warm­her­zi­ges Sozialporträt gelun­gen, das trotz sei­nes erns­ten Themas durch eine hin­rei­ßen­de Protagonistin zum Feel-Good-Movie wird. [Rainer Mende]

     

    wei­te­re filmPOLSKA Termine:

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    Flowers of Ukraine 2024 ｜ Documentary Trailer
  • filmPOLSKA reloaded – White Courage

    filmPOLSKA reloaded – White Courage

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    Am 28.1. um 18:00. Einführung: Bartek Tesarz (Polnisches Institut Berlin)

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    Zakopane in den Dreißigerjahren, hier leben die Góralen: Im süd­polni­schen Hochgebirge spricht man sei­ne eige­ne Sprache, pflegt sei­ne alpi­nen Traditionen und hält Abstand zu ande­ren – auch zu Polen. Hier fin­den zwei Familien zuein­an­der, die durch stra­te­gi­sche Heirat ihre Situation ver­bes­sern wol­len. Aber wie so oft sind Liebe und Heirat zwei ver­schie­de­ne Dinge – der älte­re, beson­ne­ne Maciek soll die schö­ne Bronka hei­ra­ten, obwohl sie ein Verhältnis mit sei­nem jün­ge­ren, unge­stü­men Bruder Jędrek hat und sogar ein Kind von ihm erwar­tet. Koszałka beschränkt sich nicht auf ein folk­lo­ris­ti­sches Kammerspiel um Liebe und Gehorsam. Vielmehr ent­wi­ckelt er die Geschichte über einen län­ge­ren Zeitraum und ver­leiht ihr damit auch eine poli­ti­sche Dimension. Denn 1939 mar­schiert die deut­sche Wehrmacht in der Hohen Tatra ein und die Góralen müs­sen sich ent­schei­den – kol­la­bo­rie­ren sie und sichern ihren Wohlstand oder blei­ben sie rebel­lisch und ris­kie­ren damit ihr Leben? [Rainer Mende]

    Biała odwa­ga
    PL 2024
    R/K: Marcin Koszałka
    111 min, OmeU
    B: Łukasz M. Maciejewski & Marcin Koszałka
    S: Agnieszka Glińska
    M: Jacek Grudzień
    D: Filip Pławiak, Julian Świeżewski, Jakub Gierszał, Sandra Drzymalska, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja, Andrzej Konopka u. a.

    BIAŁA ODWAGA – Zwiastun PL (Official Trailer)
  • Das Beste liegt noch vor uns

    Das Beste liegt noch vor uns

    A film by Nanni Moretti. 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)

    Das Beste liegt noch vor uns
    Das Beste liegt noch vor uns
    Das Beste liegt noch vor uns
    Das Beste liegt noch vor uns
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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

    Trailer:
    DAS BESTE LIEGT NOCH VOR UNS I OmU-Trailer, deutsch I Ab 12. Februar im Kino!
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  • The Chronology of Water

    The Chronology of Water

    A film by Kristen Stewart. 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.

    The Chronology of Water
    The Chronology of Water
    The Chronology of Water
    The Chronology of Water
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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

    Trailer:
    THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER – Kristen Stewarts radi­ka­les Regiedebüt | Trailer | OmdU

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  • Prinzessin Mononoke

    Prinzessin Mononoke

    A film by Hayao Miyazaki. 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.

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

    Trailer:
    PRINCESS MONONOKE | Official Trailer

    Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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  • Ungeduld des Herzens

    Ungeduld des Herzens

    A film by Lauro Cress. 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.

    Ungeduld des Herzens
    Ungeduld des Herzens
    Ungeduld des Herzens
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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 

    Trailer:
    Ungeduld des Herzens [Offizieller Trailer DEUTSCH HD] – Ab 5. Februar im Kino
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  • Delegation

    Delegation

    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.

    Ha’Mishlahat
    Ha’Mishlahat
    Ha’Mishlahat
    Ha’Mishlahat
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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.

    Trailer:
    Delegation | Trailer [HD]
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  • Faruk

    Faruk

    A film by Aslı Özge. In Turkish with German subtitles.

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    Faruk, a man in his nine­ties, incre­asing­ly beco­mes the prot­ago­nist in the film his daugh­ter is making about the impen­ding demo­li­ti­on of his block of flats in Istanbul. In the hope of delay­ing the demo­li­ti­on of a buil­ding he has been living in for deca­des, Faruk regu­lar­ly attends buil­ding manage­ment mee­tings. As the daugh­ter films her father, the boun­da­ries bet­ween rea­li­ty and fic­tion begin to blur.
    Shot in authen­tic loca­ti­ons and based on real cha­rac­ters and events, Aslı Özge’s new film offers an insight into the life of an elder­ly man in the bust­ling metro­po­lis of Istanbul. Alongside explo­ring the impli­ca­ti­ons of gen­tri­fi­ca­ti­on, the work also del­ves into the com­ple­xi­ties of a father-daugh­ter relationship.

    Faruk
    Faruk
    Faruk
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    DE/TR/FR 2024, 97 Min., tür­ki­sche OmU
    Regie: Aslı Özge
    Kamera: Emre Erkmen
    Schnitt: Andreas Samland, Aslı Özge
    mit: Faruk Özge, Derya Erkenci, Gönül Gezer, Nurdan Çakmak, Semih Arslanoğlu, Fikret Özge

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  • No Bears

    No Bears

    A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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    Iranian direc­tor Jafar Panahi, who has been bar­red from lea­ving the coun­try, arri­ves at a vil­la­ge on the Iran-Turkey bor­der to super­vi­se a film based on a real-life cou­ple see­king pass­ports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the pro­duc­tion run into trouble.

    No Bears
    No Bears
    No Bears
    No Bears
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    Khers nist 
    IR 2022, 107 Min., far­si OmU
    Regie: Jafar Panahi
    Kamera: Amin Jafari
    Schnitt: Amir Etminan
    mit: Naser Hashemi, Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasheri    , Mina Kavani

    Trailer:
    NoBears TLR AR de
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