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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.

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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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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)

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

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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.

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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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A film by Hlynur Pálmason. Starts June 18th at the fsk. In Icelandic with German subtitles.

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The Knight, a spe­cial exhi­bi­ti­on of pho­to­graphs from Hlynur Pálmason’s Joan of Arc, will be on dis­play in the Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater to cele­bra­te the release of The Love That Remains. Free to the public.

Charting the gra­du­al evo­lu­ti­on of a fami­ly in the midst of an irrepa­ra­ble frac­tu­re, The Love That Remains is a poignant, cris­ply poin­til­li­stic dome­stic dra­ma that obser­ves life’s chan­ges with humor and whim­sy, set against the maje­s­tic, ever-shif­ting Icelandic land­scape. Visual artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisher­man Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) were teenage swee­the­arts but have recent­ly grown apart, and Magnús has moved out of the house. As long as the new­ly estran­ged par­ents put on a good face, the children—and their ado­rable sheep­dog Panda (who won the pres­ti­gious Palme Dog award at Cannes)—seem to take the split in stri­de. Yet as Magnús beco­mes incre­asing­ly ali­en­ated from his dome­stic life, harsh rea­li­ty can’t help but bubble to the sur­face. Hlynur Pálmason’s fol­low-up to his aus­te­re 19th-cen­tu­ry dra­ma Godland is a con­stant­ly sur­pri­sing film with an imma­cu­la­te sen­se of framing and pacing—and an evo­ca­ti­ve, dul­cet pia­no score by Harry Hunt—dotted with idio­syn­cra­tic flights of fan­cy that never detract from the cen­tral emo­tio­nal authenticity.

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IS/FR/DK/SE 2025, 109 Min., islän­di­sche OmU
Regie & Kamera:  Hlynur Pálmason
Schnitt: Julius Krebs Damsbo
mit: Saga Garðarsdóttir, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Anders Mossling, Sverrir Gudnason

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A film by Till Harms. In German, English, Russian, Chinese with German subtitles.

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Spoonie, the Spoon-bil­led Sandpiper, would likely be alre­a­dy extinct wit­hout Dr. Christoph Zöckler and a group of dedi­ca­ted orni­tho­lo­gists. As if that was not bad enough, the fly­way rou­te of the spar­row-sized shore­bird with the pecu­li­ar bill, runs from Russia, via North Korea and China to Myanmar. In doing so, it tou­ch­es upon seve­ral are­as in cri­sis during the past deca­de. The work of the Spoon-bil­led Sandpiper Task Force ine­vi­ta­b­ly pro­vi­des a poli­ti­cal chall­enge and demands a diplo­ma­tic balan­cing act bet­ween the nati­ons along the fly­way. The tra­gi­co­me­dy about the fate of Spoonie is reflec­ting the threa­ten­ed diver­si­ty in an incre­asing­ly
beco­ming fra­gi­le world.

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DE 2025, 87 Min., dt. engl. rus­sisch, chin­se­si­sche OmU
Regie:  Till Harms
Kamera: Börres Weiffenbach
Schnitt: Natali Barrey

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A film by Angela Schanelec. In German with English subtitles.

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An ordi­na­ry work­day on a buil­ding site. Forty-year-old cra­ne ope­ra­tor Thomas recei­ves a call from his wife, Carla: he has to pick her up from the hos­pi­tal. Once the­re, he finds her crying and dis­co­vers that she has had a car crash. Carla tells him about her dance part­ner David, with whom she was going to view a house in the coun­try and who has died in the acci­dent. She tri­es to tell her hus­band ever­y­thing open­ly and honest­ly, but Thomas incre­asing­ly with­draws into hims­elf. They sim­ply do not under­stand each other. A film about the chall­enge that is life and about the search for a com­mon language.

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DE/FR 2026, 96 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie & Schnitt:  Angela Schanelec
Kamera: Marius Panduru
mit: Vladimir Vulević, Agathe Bonitzer, Birte Schnöink, Pauline Rebmann, Ben Carter

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