A film by Ferit Karahan. In Turkish and Kurdish with German subtitles.

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Strict rules pre­vail at a remo­te boar­ding school in the moun­ta­ins of Anatolia whe­re Turkish tea­chers edu­ca­te gifted Kurdish pupils from the sur­roun­ding area. Once a week, the boys are allo­wed to show­er and, like ever­y­thing else here, this pro­cess is moni­to­red. One night, twel­ve-year-old Memo asks his fri­end Yusuf if he can sleep in his bed. But, afraid of gos­sip, Yusuf refu­ses. The next mor­ning, Memo is sick and can­not attend class. The school’s hea­ting has bro­ken down and an icy winter’s day takes its cour­se. Memo’s con­di­ti­on wor­sens. He is no lon­ger respon­si­ve and Yusuf is only allo­wed to talk when prompt­ed. Gradually, the events of the pre­vious night are reve­a­led.
Ferit Karahan’s fine­ly spun dra­ma illu­mi­na­tes a micro­c­osm mark­ed by pover­ty and fear. Surrounded by snow and frost, the emo­tio­nal cold­ness which pre­vails bet­ween tea­chers and pupils in this aut­ho­ri­ta­ri­an edu­ca­tio­nal insti­tu­ti­on beco­me almost phy­si­cal­ly tangible.

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Okul Tıraşı
TR 2021, 85 Min., Türk., kurd. OmU
Regie: Ferit Karahan
Kamera: Türksoy Gölebeyi
Schnitt: Sercan Sezgin, Hayedeh Safiyari, Ferit Karahan
mit: Samet Yıldız, Ekin Koç, Mahir İpek, Melih Selçuk, Cansu Fırıncı, Nurullah Alaca

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A film by Nicolas Philibert. In French with German subtitles.

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The Adamant is a uni­que day-care cent­re. A floa­ting struc­tu­re loca­ted on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it wel­co­mes adults suf­fe­ring from men­tal dis­or­ders, offe­ring the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to reco­ver or keep up their spi­rits. The team run­ning it tri­es to resist the dete­rio­ra­ti­on and dehu­ma­ni­sa­ti­on of psych­ia­try as best as they can.
One of the gre­at docu­men­ta­ry film­ma­kers working today, Nicolas Philibert’s approach has ever­y­thing to do with get­ting clo­se to his sub­ject. Whether it is an indi­vi­du­al such as the oran­gut­an of Nénette (Forum, 2010), or a group of peo­p­le as in La mai­son de la radio (Panorama, 2013), his obser­va­ti­on over an exten­ded peri­od of time is moti­va­ted by a genui­ne and con­ta­gious inte­rest in all that moves within a com­mu­ni­ty. The ques­ti­on of trust is always cen­tral to a docu­men­ta­ry filmmaker’s work and Philibert’s stance is per­fect in that regard, espe­ci­al­ly for tho­se who might have reason to mis­trust their fel­low humans. This gent­le, enligh­tening film invi­tes us to join the wel­co­ming micro­c­osm of the Adamant. In their com­pa­ny we may, as one pati­ent sug­gests, deci­de in the mor­ning to make sure that we will have a good day.

Berlinale 2023: Golden Bear

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Sur l’Adamant
FR/JP 2022, 109 Min., frz. OmU
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Nicolas Philibert,
Regie unter Mitwirkung von Linda De Zitter

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A film by Markus CM Schmidt. In German, French, Bambara, English with German subtitles.

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In the 1970s, the­re was a vibrant big band music sce­ne in Mali that mixed Afro-Cuban jazz with tra­di­tio­nal music. The Berlin band Omniversal Earkestra redis­co­ver­ed the sound and set off on a jour­ney to meet the legends of the time and record an album with them that ends up being more of a cul­tu­re clash than expec­ted. An into­xi­ca­ting music film. Ysabel Fantounem Roadmovie durch Mali.

(DOK.fest München 2023, Ysabel Fantou)

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DE 2022, 92 Min., German, French, Bambara, English OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Markus CM Schmidt
Kamera: Martin Langner

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A film by Aki Kaurismäki. In Finnish with German subtitles.

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FALLEN LEAVES tells the sto­ry of two lonely peo­p­le (Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen) who meet each other by chan­ce in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ulti­ma­te love of their lives. Their path towards this hono­ura­ble goal is clou­ded by the man’s alco­ho­lism, lost pho­ne num­bers, not kno­wing each other’s names or addres­ses, and life’s gene­ral ten­den­cy to place obs­ta­cles in the way of tho­se see­king their happiness.

This gent­le tra­gi­co­me­dy, pre­vious­ly thought to be lost, is the fourth part of Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class tri­lo­gy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl).

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Kuolleet leh­det
FI 2023, 81 Min., finn. OmU
Regie: Aki Kaurismäki
Kamera: Timo Salminen
Schnitt: Samu Heikkilä
mit: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen

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A film by Jenna Hasse. In French with German subtitles.

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“What do you like over the­re?” – “That it’s 100,000 km from here.”

Fourteen-year-old Margaux drifts dre­a­mi­ly bet­ween her father’s new flat and the children’s group home whe­re she is spen­ding her sum­mer as an intern. To the dis­con­tent of the adults, she strikes an unu­su­al but ten­der bond with seven year old half-orphan Juliette. When the two meet local fisher­man Joël during one of their secret strolls, Margaux expe­ri­en­ces the enig­ma­tic fee­ling of an inten­se lon­ging for dis­co­ve­ring the world. Modestly reser­ved, howe­ver atten­ti­ve, she expe­ri­en­ces the first traces of attrac­tion. Among the reflec­tions of Lake Geneva, the three unli­kely com­pa­n­ions will learn more about fishing, Indonesian legends and herons, and about how fri­end­ship can unfold in unex­pec­ted ways.

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CH 2023, 76 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Jenna Hasse
Kamera: Valentina Provini
Schnitt: Noémie Fy
mit: Clarisse Moussa, Esin Demircan, Marc Oosterhoff, Adèle Vandroth, Pierre Mifsud, Mélanie Doutey, Filipe Vargas, Théo Rossi, Hadrien Motta, Elias Alves, Maël Ney

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A film by Andrea Segre. In Italian with German subtitles.

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Pietro and Alvise come from a long line of fishing fami­lies from Giudecca, Venice’s most ‚working-class‘ island. But they don’t see eye to eye on the see­mingly unstoppable trans­for­ma­ti­on of the lives of the Venetians and the city­’s very iden­ti­ty. Indeed, the far-rea­ching impact of glo­bal tou­rism has chan­ged the rela­ti­onship bet­ween Venice and its resi­dents, and the pan­de­mic has only thrown this cri­ti­cal situa­ti­on into reli­ef. Pietro would just like to keep fishing the typi­cal crabs found in the Lagoon, lonely as that life­style is, while Alvise belie­ves their home on the Giudecca its­elf is the ticket to joi­ning the eli­te mana­ging the city­’s real estate assets, hence run­ning Venice. This clash of views will invol­ve the enti­re fami­ly, in an ensem­ble film about how our world is changing.

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IT 2021, 100 Min.,
Regie: Andrea Segre
Kamera: Matteo Calore
Schnitt: Chiara Russo
mit: Paolo Pierobon, Andrea Pennacchi, Ottavia
Piccolo, Roberto Citran, Sara Lazzaro

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A film by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. In French with German subtitles.

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It’s the end of the 80s in Paris, a young trou­pe of come­di­ans have just been admit­ted to Les Amandiers, the pres­ti­gious thea­ter school hea­ded by Patrice Chéreau. They set out in life and in their ear­ly care­er. Along the way, they will learn, act, love, fear, live to the ful­lest and also expe­ri­ence their first tragedies.

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Les Amandiers
FR 2022, 126 Min, frz. OmU
Regie: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Kamera: Julien Poupard
Schnitt: Anne Weil
mit: Louis Garrel, Sofiane Bennacer, Nadia
Tereszkiewicz, Micha Lescot, Clara Bretheau

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A film by Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi.

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Shemroon, north of Tehran. Iman and his youn­ger brot­her, Payar, live tog­e­ther with their father. After the death of their mother, Iman seeks for a way out of an uproo­ted life. Thanks to his con­nec­tions with the gild­ed youth of the city, he starts a busi­ness to make some quick pro­fit. What seems at first an oppor­tu­ni­ty for a new begin­ning turns into a twis­ted cycle affec­ting the family’s destiny.

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A Tale of Shemroon
FR/DE/IR/IT 2022, 102 Min. far­si OmU
Regie: Marion Desseigne Ravel
Kamera: Amin Jafari
Schnitt: Félix Rehm
mit: Iman Sayad Borhani, Payar Allahyari, Masoumeh Beygi, Ehzad Dorani

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A film by Marion Desseigne Ravel. In French with German subtitles.

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Nedjma and Zina belong to rival girl gangs in the Parisian Banlieue. Ever sin­ce Zina sang at the youth cen­ter, 18 year old Nedjma finds hers­elf gra­vi­ta­ting towards her. Nedjma and Zina secret­ly get closer.

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Les meil­leu­res
FR 2021, 80 Min. frz. OmU
Regie & Buch: Marion Desseigne Ravel
Kamera: Lucile Mercier
Schnitt: Julie Picouleau, Elif Uluengin
mit: Lina El Arabi, Esther Rollande, Leila, Mahia Zrouki, Tasnim Jamlaoui

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A film by Volker Koepp.

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In Uwe Johnson’s last stu­dy in the English town of Sheerness, the­re was a map of Mecklenburg on the wall – the regi­on of his child­hood to which he never retur­ned after his emi­gra­ti­on to the West and could only recon­s­truct in the lite­ra­ry sen­se after­wards. Volker Koepp’s film is con­cei­ved as a geo­bio­gra­phy: he tra­vels with Johnson’s texts to places from the author’s life, fin­ding peo­p­le and land­scapes con­nec­ted to his work and his per­son, some­ti­mes clo­se­ly, some­ti­mes more loo­se­ly. Koepp’s and Johnson’s poe­tic pro­jects intert­wi­ne: their land­scapes and bio­gra­phies resist line­ar pro­gres­si­on; histo­ry remains stored in them only to reve­al its­elf again and again. For Johnson, when he swims in the Baltic Sea, the dead are pre­sent, floa­ting in the Bay of Lübeck after the 1945 sin­king of the Cap Arcona. Koepp speaks with a woman who recalls how holi­day­ing in Italy evo­ked thoughts of tho­se fle­e­ing across the Mediterranean by boat. Johnson’s sor­row at the inva­si­on of Prague by Warsaw Pact tro­ops is mir­rored in Russia’s ongo­ing attack on Ukraine, which affects the film­ing. When a river flows slow­ly, it can chan­ge direc­tion with even just a litt­le wind and return to its source.

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DE 2023, 168 Min. deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Volker Koepp
Schnitt: Christoph Krüger
Kamera: Uwe Mann
mit Stuart Roberts, Judith Zander, Erhard Siewert, Peter Kurth, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Helga Elisabeth Syberberg, Aukje Dijkstra, Undine Spillner, Fritz Rost, Heinz Lehmbäcker, Hanna Lehmbäcker, Dietrich Sagert, Kristian Wegscheider, Christian Höser, Thomas Irmer, Uta Löber, Erdmut Wizisla, Karin Bosinski, Hartmut Bosinski

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