A search for the truth on several levels, in which many things are not what they appear to be, recently honored at Cannes.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s central theme, the family, is once again his starting point in this magnificently orchestrated narrative. And once again the Japanese master director demonstrates his keen power of observation. In a nuanced way, he addresses such themes as arson, bullying, alienation, and prejudice, approaching them from multiple perspectives and getting the audience to think about them. What makes a person a monster? And who gets to determine that?
After separating from her husband, Julie has moved to a Paris suburb to raise their two children on her own. Every day she takes them to an elderly nanny before commuting to her stressful job in downtown Paris as a maid in a luxury hotel. When a strike paralyzes the public transportation system, commuting between home and work becomes much more difficult. And when Julie finally gets an interview for a job she’d long been hoping for, she has no choice but to set off on a frantic race against time that will push her to her very limits as both her professional and personal life hang in the balance.
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À plein temps FR 2022, 88 Min., franz. OmU Regie: Eric Gravel Kamera: Victor Seguin Schnitt: Mathilde Van de Moortel mit: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi, Sasha Lemaitre Cremaschi, Cyril Gueï
With the construction of the Indian planned city of Chandigarh, the Swiss and French architect Le Corbusier completed his life’s work 70 years ago. Chandigarh is a controversial synthesis of the arts, a bold utopia of modernity. The film accompanies four cultural workers who live in the planned city and reflects on Le Corbusier’s legacy, utopian urban ideas and the cultural differences between East and West in an atmospherically dense narrative.
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CH 2023, 84 Min., engl., deutsche OmU Regie & Kamera: Karin Bucher, Thomas Karrer Schnitt: Fabian Kaiser, Thomas Karrer, Mirjam Krakenberger
DOCU-FICTION Marianne Atzeroth-Freier once brought the »acid-barrel murderer« to justice. In a mix of archive material and re-enacted scenes, the film reconstructs the difficult investigation Atzeroth-Freier had to pursue in a male-dominated environment. In the 1990s, as one of the first women in the Hamburg Police’s homicide division, Atzeroth-Freier solved one of the most gruesome murders in German history. If anything, by chance. When approached by a mother whose daughter has disappeared, she decides to get involved. On the search for the missing person, she repeatedly comes across inconsistencies within the police’s investigation. But she keeps going – until she achieves the breakthrough
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DE 2023, 97 Min. Regie: Matthias Freier Kamera: Kay Madsen Schnitt: Marielle Pohlmann
Documentary series by Julian Vogel | 87min | 67min | 85min | DE 2023
Camera: Luise Schröder, Julian Vogel Sound: Oscar Stiebitz, Julian Vogel Editor: Gregor Bartsch, Sebastian Winkels
Munich 2016, Halle 2019 and Hanau 2020: three right-wing extremist attacks by so-called „lone wolves: Alleged lone perpetrators who, seemingly without being part of classic extremist structures, radicalized themselves on the Internet and suddenly struck in public spaces. These are stories that now dominate the headlines: Right-wing terror is currently considered the greatest threat to democracy in Germany, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. And this despite the fact that until recently such perpetrators were often classified as mentally ill, „confused” lone perpetrators and thus denied their racism. These times are over: After the attack in Hanau, Frank Walter Steinmeier spoke of an „attack on all of us”. But who are „all of us”?
The trilogy „EINZELTÄTER (Parts 1–3)” independently takes the perspective of the people whose relatives were actually the target of the attacks and whose lives will never be the same again.
EINZELTÄTER Part 1: MÜNCHEN
Arbnor lost his sister in the 2016 attack at the Olympia shopping center, Hasan and Sibel lost their son. For a long time, the relatives had to fight for the state to recognize the racist background of the crime. Only after the attacks in Halle and Hanau did they succeed.
EINZELTÄTER Part 2: HALLE
EKarsten lost his only son Kevin in the Halle attack. While the public watches the trial of the right-wing extremist perpetrator, he struggles to deal with his grief. He finds support in the Halle FC fan scene.
EINZELTÄTER Part 3: HANAU
The racist attack of February 19, 2020 has changed Hanau-Kesselstadt. People of different origins live here, and six of the nine victims died here. After the attack, people here stick together, try to deal with the consequences of the act, and fight for clarification. And this is where the father of the perpetrator and the surviving relatives of the victims live in the immediate vicinity.
Director Notes: Since 2018, I have been in contact with survivors of the racist attack in Munich in 2016, which was initially classified by the investigating authorities as a non-political rampage. This changed with the attack in Halle in 2019, in the wake of which the Munich act was classified as right-wing violence and right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to the security situation. After the attack of Hanau 2020, which brought the problem of right-wing „lone perpetrators” ultimately into public consciousness, I decided to make a documentary film that accompanies the mourning work of the bereaved and their relationship to the social dimension of these three acts. The result was a trilogy. The families in Munich and Hanau are united by the fact that their mourning work is interwoven with the fight against racism. In Halle, the situation is different: Kevin’s father Karsten has to deal with the death of his child because someone wanted to strike a minority to which he himself does not belong. For me, his grief was no less touching than the grief of the other people affected. It was imortant to me to also dedicate myself to his story
Documentary series by Julian Vogel | 87min | 67min | 85min | DE 2023
Camera: Luise Schröder, Julian Vogel Sound: Oscar Stiebitz, Julian Vogel Editor: Gregor Bartsch, Sebastian Winkels
Munich 2016, Halle 2019 and Hanau 2020: three right-wing extremist attacks by so-called „lone wolves: Alleged lone perpetrators who, seemingly without being part of classic extremist structures, radicalized themselves on the Internet and suddenly struck in public spaces. These are stories that now dominate the headlines: Right-wing terror is currently considered the greatest threat to democracy in Germany, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. And this despite the fact that until recently such perpetrators were often classified as mentally ill, „confused” lone perpetrators and thus denied their racism. These times are over: After the attack in Hanau, Frank Walter Steinmeier spoke of an „attack on all of us”. But who are „all of us”?
The trilogy „EINZELTÄTER (Parts 1–3)” independently takes the perspective of the people whose relatives were actually the target of the attacks and whose lives will never be the same again.
EINZELTÄTER Part 1: MÜNCHEN
Arbnor lost his sister in the 2016 attack at the Olympia shopping center, Hasan and Sibel lost their son. For a long time, the relatives had to fight for the state to recognize the racist background of the crime. Only after the attacks in Halle and Hanau did they succeed.
EINZELTÄTER Part 2: HALLE
EKarsten lost his only son Kevin in the Halle attack. While the public watches the trial of the right-wing extremist perpetrator, he struggles to deal with his grief. He finds support in the Halle FC fan scene.
EINZELTÄTER Part 3: HANAU
The racist attack of February 19, 2020 has changed Hanau-Kesselstadt. People of different origins live here, and six of the nine victims died here. After the attack, people here stick together, try to deal with the consequences of the act, and fight for clarification. And this is where the father of the perpetrator and the surviving relatives of the victims live in the immediate vicinity.
Since 2018, I have been in contact with survivors of the racist attack in Munich in 2016, which was initially classified by the investigating authorities as a non-political rampage. This changed with the attack in Halle in 2019, in the wake of which the Munich act was classified as right-wing violence and right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to the security situation. After the attack of Hanau 2020, which brought the problem of right-wing „lone perpetrators” ultimately into public consciousness, I decided to make a documentary film that accompanies the mourning work of the bereaved and their relationship to the social dimension of these three acts. The result was a trilogy. The families in Munich and Hanau are united by the fact that their mourning work is interwoven with the fight against racism. In Halle, the situation is different: Kevin’s father Karsten has to deal with the death of his child because someone wanted to strike a minority to which he himself does not belong. For me, his grief was no less touching than the grief of the other people affected. It was imortant to me to also dedicate myself to his story
Blaga is a seventy-year-old recently widowed former teacher and a woman of firm morals. When telephone scammers con her out of the money that she had saved for her husband’s grave, her moral compass slowly begins to lose its bearings… Stephan Komandarev’s past films have systematically criticized the inauspicious social situation in post-communist Bulgaria, and Blaga’s Lessons is no different. In this evocative drama featuring a masterful performance from Eli Skorcheva as Blaga, Komandarev aims his lens at the lives of today’s senior citizens – a vulnerable group whom politicians so often promise the right to a dignified life… but reality is much different.
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BG/DE 2023, 119 Min., bulgarische OmU Regie: Stephan Komandarev Kamera: Vesselin Hristov Schnitt: Nina Altaparmakova mit Eli Skorcheva, Ivan Barnev, Gerasim Georgiev, Stefan Denolyubov, Rozalia Abgarian, Ivaylo Hristov
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Eine Frage der Würde (Blaga’s Lessons )| offizieller Trailer mit dt. Untertitel
The social media profile of a young woman includes pictures of her pets, her friends, and her exercise routine. But on June 2, 2017, the posts come to an end. This film begins on the following day and contains verbatim dialogue from the unedited transcript of an FBI audio recording. The audience witnesses the protagonist – played by Sydney Sweeney – arriving at her home in Georgia, only to be met by two men outside who politely inform her that they have a search warrant. What follows is a chamber piece focusing on the interrogation of whistle-blower Reality Winner and the search of her home. Director Tina Satter presents a snapshot of recent US history that derives all of its tension from the gravity of the situation. The strong imagery and subtle direction of the actors in this drama places it on the cusp of documentary. This enables an unobstructed view of the events of that day – before they became a case that was to polarise the press, the general public and politics.
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US 2023, 85 Min., englische OmU Regie: Tina Satter Kamera: Paul Yee Schnitt: Jennifer Vecchiarello, Ron Dulin mit Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
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REALITY (offizieller OmU Trailer) – mit Sydney Sweeney in einem Film von Tina Satter
A Syrian family leaves the violence of their country behind. Their goal is to get from Belarus to Poland and finally to the safe haven of Sweden. But while travelling through the Polish-Belarusian border region, they become a political plaything instrumentalised both by the Polish government and press for their own purposes. Polish master director Agnieszka Holland delivers a haunting and moving drama. Her complex political portrayal focuses on the interplay between officials, activists and civilians. An unsparing film that forces our society not to look away.
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PL, FR, CZ, BE 2023, 147 Min., polnisch, arabisch, englisch, französische OmU Regie: Agnieszka Holland Kamera: Tomek Naumiuk, Schnitt: Pavel Hrdlička mit: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous, Tomasz Włosok
Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
The Royal Hotel
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AU 2023, 91 Min., englische OmU Regie: Kitty Green Kamera: Michael Latham Schnitt: Kasra Rassoulzadegan mit Jessica Henwick, Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving, Bree Bain, Toby Wallace
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