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  • La Maman et la Putain

    La Maman et la Putain

    A film by Jean Eustache. On 26 July at the fsk. In French with German subtitles.

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    An aim­less flâ­neur (Jean-Pierre Léaud) spends his days divi­ded bet­ween two women, end­less con­ver­sa­ti­ons in Parisian cafés and a search for his true self. At the heart of the film is a love tri­ang­le in the after­math of the uphe­avals of 1968, which unfolds with direct can­dour, navi­ga­ting the ter­rain bet­ween self-pre­sen­ta­ti­on, desi­re and emo­tio­nal cruel­ty. A work that remains chal­len­ging to this day, explo­ring love, lan­guage and the impos­si­bi­li­ty of fin­ding com­mon ground.

    Credits:

    FR 1973, 215 mins, French with ori­gi­nal sub­tit­les
    Director: Jean Eustache
    Cinematography: Pierre Lhomme
    Editing: Jean Eustache, Denise de Casabianca
    Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont, Isabelle Weingarten

    Trailer:
    LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN – Ein Film von Jean Eustache
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  • Films by Jean Eustache

    Films by Jean Eustache

    Jean Eustache, a trai­ned elec­tri­ci­an and self-taught film­ma­ker, was, as the son of a working-class fami­ly, an excep­tio­nal figu­re within the other­wi­se bour­geois Nouvelle Vague. His life is reflec­ted in his films in an almost auto­bio­gra­phi­cal way. With a pre­cise atten­ti­on to lan­guage, ges­tu­res and social rea­li­ties, Eustache’s cine­ma ope­ra­tes within the realm of docu­men­ta­ry fic­tion. Thanks to the Re:Visted series from Grand film dis­tri­bu­tors, we are able to offer two of his classics:

    LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN from 1973, in which Jean-Pierre Léaud plays Alexandre, a flâ­neur caught bet­ween two women and end­less con­ver­sa­ti­ons in Parisian cafés as he sear­ches for his true self. 26 July [Tickets]

    In the auto­bio­gra­phi­cal­ly inspi­red 1974 film MES PETITES AMOUREUSES, 13-year-old Daniel is torn from his shel­te­red coun­try life and thrust into the con­fi­nes of the city and the harsh­ness of the adult world. 25 July [Tickets]

  • Transit Times

    Transit Times

    A film by Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu. In Romanian with German subtitles.

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    Moldova, 1997. Six years after the col­lap­se of the USSR, the initi­al eupho­ria has faded, lea­ving behind a coun­try sin­king into a deep and per­sis­tent cri­sis. Amidst this harsh rea­li­ty, a fami­ly strug­gles to sur­vi­ve. Zina, a set desi­gner at a once-vibrant children’s theat­re, has not been paid for months, yet con­ti­nues to try to keep her fami­ly tog­e­ther and put food on the table. Her hus­band Victor, an artist left behind by histo­ry, is sin­king into melan­cho­ly and is unable to adapt to the new rea­li­ty. Their daugh­ter Eva, a gifted pia­no stu­dent, is lea­ving child­hood behind as she sear­ches for her place in a world that seems to be fal­ling apart around her. Whilst fri­ends and neigh­bours quiet­ly aban­don the sin­king ship in search of a bet­ter life abroad, despe­ra­ti­on dri­ves Zina to rent out the fami­ly home. This decis­i­on tears the fami­ly apart and plun­ges them into a peri­lous jour­ney, caught bet­ween sur­vi­val, flee­ting hope and the fra­gi­le dream of a life that may never be theirs.

    Credits:

    Înstrăinare
    DE/RO/MD 2026, 133 mins, Romanian with German sub­tit­les
    Director: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu
    Cinematography: Javier Palicio
    Editing: Ecaterina Iaschevici, sup­port­ed by Dana Bunescu
    Starring: Marina Palii, Arina Mura, Ion Munteanu, Pauli
    na Zavtonii, Ion Liulica, Marina Weis

    Trailer:
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  • Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction

    Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction

    A film by Lotta Schwerk. In German with English sub­tit­les. With Q&A on Sunday, 19th 20:30

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    A long-term cine­ma­tic stu­dy that fol­lows Leonie’s coming of age over eight years: Leonie and Marlene are 18 years old, best fri­ends, and con­vin­ced that not­hing can sepa­ra­te them. But Leonie falls in love with Naomi, devo­tes hers­elf enti­re­ly to her gre­at love, and drifts fur­ther and fur­ther away from Marlene. Over time, it beco­mes clear that Naomi suf­fers from depres­si­on, which incre­asing­ly over­w­helms Leonie. It is only when the rela­ti­onship final­ly breaks down that Leonie rea­li­ses just how much she has iso­la­ted hers­elf. She lea­ves Berlin and beg­ins an app­ren­ti­ce­ship as a gar­de­ner in Brandenburg, which helps her to make sen­se of the world around her once more. With new­found strength, she plucks up the cou­ra­ge to reach out to her child­hood fri­end Marlene after years of estran­ge­ment.
    “When I began shoo­ting this film in 2017, I lon­ged for a space in cine­ma whe­re a young fema­le or que­er body could grow up free from the male gaze during the vul­nerable peri­od bet­ween the ages of 18 and 25. ‘Ninja Motherf*cking Destruction’ is a film about inti­ma­cy, about sexua­li­ty and about bodies that chan­ge over the cour­se of eight years. And about the loving, pain­ful, ambi­va­lent web of rela­ti­onships bet­ween (que­er) women.”
    Lotta Schwerk

    Credits:

    DE 2025 79 mins, German with English sub­tit­les,
    Director: Lotta Schwerk
    Cinematography: Fion Mutert
    Starring: Emma Suthe, Marie Tragousti, Merle von Mach, Yildiz Tiryakioglu

    Trailer:
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  • Dry Leaf

    Dry Leaf

    A film by Alexandre Koberidze. From 2 July at the fsk. In Geogian with German subtitles.

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    When Lisa, a young sports pho­to­grapher, goes miss­ing, her father deci­des to search for her and sets off on a jour­ney through Georgia with her best fri­end, the mys­te­rious Levani. Lisa had most recent­ly been pho­to­gra­phing foot­ball sta­di­ums across the coun­try. As the land­scape pas­ses by and they move from one foot­ball pitch to the next, the peo­p­le and their sto­ries chan­ge. Yet with every foot­ball pitch and every vil­la­ge, the chan­ces of fin­ding Lisa seem to dwindle…

    With his new road movie, Alexandre Koberidze con­ti­nues his poe­tic explo­ra­ti­on of his home­land, Georgia, fol­lo­wing on from WAS SEHEN WIRWENN WIR ZUM HIMMEL SCHAUEN?

    Credits:

    DE/GE 2025, 186 mins, Georgian ver­si­on with German sub­tit­les
    Director, cine­ma­to­gra­phy, editing: Alexandre Koberidze
    star­ring: David Koberidze, Otar Nijaradze, Irina Chelidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Vakhtang Panchulidze, Manu Tavadze

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  • Dreams – Gefährliches Verlangen

    Dreams – Gefährliches Verlangen

    A film by Michel Franco. In Englisch and Spanish with English subtitles, 

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    Fernando, a young bal­let dancer from Mexico, dreams of inter­na­tio­nal fame and a life in the USA. Hoping that his lover Jennifer, a wealt­hy socia­li­te hei­ress and phil­an­thro­pist, will sup­port him finan­ci­al­ly, he lea­ves ever­y­thing behind and near­ly loses his life whilst crossing the bor­der. But his arri­val throws the world Jennifer has so careful­ly built around hers­elf into dis­ar­ray. She will do any­thing to save their future tog­e­ther – but also the life she has built for herself.

    Credits:

    MX 2025, 100 mins, English, Spanish with English sub­tit­les,
    Director: Michel Franco
    Cinematography: Yves Cape
    Editing: Michel Franco, Oscar Figueroa Jara
    star­ring Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Eligio Meléndez, Mercedes Hernández 

    Trailer:
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  • Little boy

    Little boy

    A film by James Benning. In English with German subtitles.

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    A film that looks back at the past to warn of the future, from the per­spec­ti­ve of a litt­le boy.’ – James Benning

    Little Boy’ – that was the name the Americans gave to the Hiroshima ato­mic bomb. But litt­le boys also play with toys such as the model kits that play a cen­tral role in Benning’s film. For the dura­ti­on of each pop song – which comm­ents on the film’s the­mes – dif­fe­rent hands paint the model parts, fol­lo­wed by a shot of the finis­hed model: pre­do­mi­nant­ly small indus­tri­al buil­dings, who­se com­pa­ny signs refer to US defence con­trac­tors. Political spee­ches are also heard; among other things, they deal with rear­ma­ment, envi­ron­men­tal des­truc­tion and the nuclear arse­nal. “It’s late,” sings Ricky Nelson. Benning hopes, more cle­ar­ly than ever befo­re, that it is not yet too late.”
    (Lars Penning)

    Credits:

    US 2025, 74 mins, English with German sub­tit­les
    Directed by James Benning
    star­ring Johnan Jahromi, Alessandro Streccioni, Yusef Ferguson, Yuan Gao, Nelson De Los Santos, Calum Walter, Nathan Meier, James Benning

    Trailer:
    Berlinale 2025 – Q&A about LITTLE BOY

    No trai­ler, but the Q&A from the forum premiere.

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  • Bitteres Fest

    Bitteres Fest

    A film by Pedro Almodóvar. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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    Raúl is a cult film­ma­ker in the midst of a crea­ti­ve cri­sis.
    When tra­ge­dy strikes one of his clo­sest col­la­bo­ra­tors, he draws inspi­ra­ti­on from it to wri­te his next film. Little by litt­le, he ima­gi­nes Elsa, a film­ma­ker in the midst of wri­ting a script, who­se jour­ney beg­ins to mir­ror his own.
    The two film­ma­kers beco­me two sides of the same cha­rac­ter, in a game of mir­rors whe­re the raw hones­ty of auto­fic­tion reve­als as much as it des­troys. But how far can one go to tell a story?

    Credits:

    Amarga Navidad
    ES 2026, 111 Min., spa­ni­sche OmU
    Regie: Pedro Almodóvar
    Kamera: Pau Esteve Birba
    Schnitt: Teresa Font
    mit Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón und Victoria Luengo.

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  • Briefe aus der Wilcza – Listy z Wilczej

    Briefe aus der Wilcza – Listy z Wilczej

    A film by Arjun Talwar. In Polish with German and English subtitles.

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    A street in cen­tral Warsaw is the focus of this wit­ty and per­so­nal por­trait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immi­gra­ted to the coun­try a deca­de ago but still strug­gles to fit in. Ulica Wilcza, the street whe­re he lives, has not real­ly hel­ped mat­ters. In an attempt to acce­le­ra­te his inte­gra­ti­on, he beg­ins film­ing his neigh­bours, sound­ing out his rela­ti­onships with them and see­king ways to over­co­me his own fee­lings of ali­en­ati­on. With the help of his fri­end Mo, ano­ther immi­grant-tur­ned-film­ma­ker, Arjun unco­vers the hid­den secrets of the street, reve­al­ing a host of char­ming inha­bi­tants. He finds other peo­p­le like hims­elf who are living bet­ween the past and pre­sent, bet­ween an ima­gi­ned home­land and the real one. The street con­nects them all like an invi­si­ble thread, offe­ring solace in the melan­cho­ly of ever­y­day life. Along this kilo­met­re-long stretch, a pic­tu­re of modern Europe emer­ges, expo­sing a kalei­do­scope of con­tra­dic­tions and anxie­ties as a for­eign film­ma­ker holds up a mir­ror to a coun­try that is often per­cei­ved as homo­ge­neous, unwel­co­ming and poli­ti­cal­ly right-wing.

    Credits:

    PL/DE 2025, 97 Min., pol­ni­sche Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
    Regie & Kamera: Arjun Talwar
    Schnitt: Bigna Tomschin, Arjun Talwar & Sabina Filipowicz

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  • Persepolis

    Persepolis

    A film by Marjane Satrapi. Starts June 20th at the fsk. In French with German subtitles.

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    PERSEPOLIS was one of the most suc­cessful films shown in our cine­ma. Last week, the aut­hor and direc­tor, Marjane Satrapi, pas­sed away at the age of just 56. For this reason, we are brin­ging the film back into our pro­gram­me after 19 years.

    The film adapt­a­ti­on of the comic book of the same name.
    “The film tells the sto­ry, in simp­le, almost enti­re­ly black-and-white images, of the litt­le girl Marjane, who grows up in Tehran, goes to school in Austria, returns to Iran for a while, and then goes into exi­le in Paris for good. The sto­ry beg­ins with the ous­ting of the Shah, con­ti­nues through the betray­ed hopes of the revo­lu­ti­on to the war bet­ween Iran and Iraq, and ends with the tyran­ni­cal rule of the mul­lahs – all seen through the eyes of the ado­le­s­cent.
    It is the author’s per­spec­ti­ve, as she tells her own sto­ry in her immense­ly suc­cessful comics: cle­ver, wit­ty, self-depre­ca­ting, and at times deep­ly sad. Instead of using digi­tal ani­ma­ti­on tech­ni­ques, the film was drawn enti­re­ly by hand. That is why it actual­ly looks like Marjane Satrapi’s books in moti­on.” Verena Lueken

    In the 1980s, when Iran was fight­ing Iraq, many upper-midd­le-class par­ents sent their child­ren from Tehran to the West for their edu­ca­ti­on, inclu­ding my fami­ly. In Austria, my first stop, I often had to explain that my father didn’t have three wives and why I didn’t ride a camel at home. They were sur­pri­sed that I’d alre­a­dy been ski­ing and had drunk alco­hol. Just ima­gi­ne: you come from Tehran, which was alre­a­dy very modern at the time, to a small Austrian vil­la­ge – and here they explain moder­ni­ty to you. They didn’t even have a cine­ma in the vil­la­ge!”
    Marjane Satrapi

    Credits:

    Fr 2007, 96 Min., frz. OmU
    Regie: Marjane Satrapi / Vincent
    Paronnaud
    Nach den gleich­na­mi­gen Comics von Marjane Satrapi
    Originalstimmen: Gabrielle Lopes, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, François Jerosme

    Preis der Jury“ – Cannes 2007

    Trailer:
    PERSEPOLIS 4K Restaurierung | Trailer Deutsch | Neu auf 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD und Digital!
    Im Kino in fran­zö­sisch mit deut­schen Untertitlen.
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