A film by Neo Sora. No Dialogue.

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On March 28th 2023, legen­da­ry com­po­ser Ryuichi Sakamoto pas­sed away after his strugg­le against can­cer. In the years lea­ding up to his death, Sakamoto could no lon­ger per­form live. Single con­certs, not to men­ti­on spraw­ling glo­bal tours, were too taxing. Despite this, in late 2022, Sakamoto mus­te­red all of his ener­gy to lea­ve the world with one final per­for­mance: a con­cert film, fea­turing just him and his pia­no.
Curated by Sakamoto hims­elf and pre­sen­ted in his cho­sen order, the twen­ty pie­ces per­for­med in the film word­less­ly nar­ra­te his life through his music. The sel­ec­tion spans his enti­re care­er, from his pop­star Yellow Magic Orchestra peri­od, to his magni­fi­cent Bertolucci film scores, to music from his medi­ta­ti­ve final album, 12.
Intimately film­ed in a space he knew well, sur­roun­ded by his most trus­ted col­la­bo­ra­tors, Sakamoto bares his soul through his music, kno­wing this may be the last time that he can pre­sent his art.
A cele­bra­ti­on of an artis­t’s life in the purest sen­se, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is the defi­ni­ti­ve swan song of the bel­oved maestro.

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JP 2023, 103 Min.,
Regie: Neo Sora
Kamera: Bill Kirstein
Schnitt: Takuya Kawakami

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A film by Claudia Richarz. In German.

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The film sees Helke Sander, poli­ti­cal acti­vist and film-maker, having a clear-out, straigh­tening things out, remem­be­ring, and pre­sen­ting hers­elf and her artis­tic work in front of the came­ra. She remains a com­ba­ti­ve spi­rit who provokes—a thread that has run through her life and does so in this film too. When Willy Brandt spo­ke at the ope­ning of the German Film and Television Academy in 1966, Helke Sander was one of the first-year stu­dents to use films as a means of action and agi­ta­ti­on. Sander has been a pro­mi­nent figu­re in the public eye, at least sin­ce her »Tomato Speech« in 1968 in front of the Socialist German Student League (SDS) and has amas­sed a vast oeu­vre over the deca­des. Claudia Richarz is thus able to draw on a wealth of archi­ve mate­ri­al in her mon­ta­ge of the lega­cy of the second women’s movement.

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GB 2023, 101 Min.,
Regie: Claudia Richarz
Kamera: Claudia Richarz, Martin Gressmann, Volker Sattel
Schnitt: Martin Kayser-Landwehr, Magdolna Rokob

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A film by Anton Corbijn. In English with German subtitles.

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“Scourge of manage­ment, record com­pa­nies and album slee­ve prin­ters; Champion of bands, music, gre­at ide­as and high, infu­ria­tingly high stan­dards; Defender of the art over com­mer­ce at all times.” – Nick Mason, Pink Floyd on Hipgnosis

Celebrated pho­to­grapher, crea­ti­ve direc­tor and film­ma­ker Anton Corbijn’s first fea­ture docu­men­ta­ry SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the sto­ry of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the crea­ti­ve geni­u­ses behind the ico­nic album art design stu­dio, Hipgnosis, respon­si­ble for some of the most reco­gnizable album covers of all time. They for­med Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the fer­ment of the six­ties and beca­me rock royal­ty during the boom time of the seven­ties. They con­ju­red into exis­tence sights that no one had pre­vious­ly thought pos­si­ble, pro­du­ced visu­als which popu­la­ri­zed music that had pre­vious­ly been con­side­red frin­ge, and were at the white-hot cen­ter of the mad­dest, fun­niest and most crea­ti­ve era in the histo­ry of popu­lar music.

During this peri­od, record com­pa­nies didn’t dic­ta­te to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like – Storm and Po did. They made money; they lost money. They did gre­at things; they did sil­ly things. They fell out bit­ter­ly; they made up. They never play­ed a note, but they chan­ged music. The film fea­tures brand new inter­views with Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Noel Gallagher, and many more.

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GB 2022, 101 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Anton Corbijn
Kamera: Stuart Luck, Martijn van Broekhuizen
Schnitt: Andrew Hulme
mit: Paul McCartney, Aubrey Powell, Jimmy Page, Noel Gallagher, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, u.a.

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A film by Christian Johannes Koch & Jonas Matauschek.

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Black dust, shrill metal­lic noi­ses, dark tun­nels, mus­cu­lar bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extra­c­tion of coal throug­hout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emer­ging cli­ma­te pro­test move­ment Fridays for Future grew lou­der. Against the back­drop of the­se media and socio-poli­ti­cal events, the film fol­lows five miners on their tra­gic, humo­rous and heart­warm­ing search for a new role in life.

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DE 2023, 104 Min.,
Regie: Christian Johannes Koch & Jonas Matauschek
Kamera: Sebastian Klatt
Schnitt: Natali Barrey, Annette Brütsch, Jonas Matauschek

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A film by Jessica Hausner. In English with German subtitles.

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Miss Novak joins the staff of an inter­na­tio­nal boar­ding school to teach a con­scious eating class. She ins­tructs that eating less is healt­hy. The other tea­chers are slow to noti­ce what is hap­pe­ning and by the time the dis­trac­ted par­ents begin to rea­li­se, Club Zero has beco­me a reality.

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AT, UK, DE, FR, DK 2023, 110 Min., eng­li­sche OmU
Regie: Jessica Hausner
Kamera: Martin Gschlacht
Schnitt: Karina Ressler
mit: Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babette Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein, Lukas Turtur, Mathieu Demy, Amir El-Masry, Ksenia Devriendt, Luke Barker

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A film by Marija Kavtaradze. In Lithuanian with German subtitles.

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It would never have occur­red to the pas­sio­na­te dancer Elena to have a love affair wit­hout sex. But when she falls head over heels in love with sign lan­guage inter­pre­ter Dovydas, the­re is no way around it for the two of them. Because Dovydas is ase­xu­al. Is the emo­tio­nal con­nec­tion bet­ween them strong enough for a hap­py rela­ti­onship in which Dovydas is not sexu­al­ly attrac­ted to Elena? SLOW is a love sto­ry like you’­ve never seen befo­re. Marija Kavtaradze sen­si­tively and authen­ti­cal­ly tells the sto­ry of two peo­p­le who beco­me clo­se wit­hout slee­ping tog­e­ther. This roman­tic dra­ma is car­ri­ed by two cha­ris­ma­tic prot­ago­nists who cap­ti­va­te you from the very beginning.

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LT/ES/SE 2023, 108 Min., litaui­sche OmU
Regie: Marija Kavtaradze
Kamera: Laurynas Bareiša
Schnitt: Silvija Vilkaitė
mit: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas

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