a film by Asghar Farhadi. Starts March 31st at the fsk. 

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Rahim is in pri­son becau­se of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day lea­ve, he tri­es to con­vin­ce his cre­di­tor to with­draw his com­plaint against the pay­ment of part of the sum. But things don’t go as planned …

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قهرمان Ghahreman, IR 2021, 127 Min., far­si OmU
Regie & Buch: Asghar Farhadi
Kamera: Ali Ghazi
Schnitt: Hayedeh Safiyari
mit: Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sarina Farhadi, Sahar Goldust

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a film by Nadav Lapid. Starts March 17th at the fsk. In Hebrew with German subtitles.

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Y., an Israeli film­ma­ker in his mid-for­ties, arri­ves in a remo­te vil­la­ge at the far end of the desert to pre­sent one of his films. There he meets Yahalom, an offi­cer for the Ministry of Culture, and finds hims­elf fight­ing two losing batt­les: one against the death of free­dom in his coun­try, the other against the death of his mother.

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Ha’berech
Israel/ Deutschland/ Frankreich 2021 ‚109 Min., hebr. OmU
Regie & Buch: Nadav Lapid
Kamera: Shaï Goldman
Schnitt: Nili Feller
mit: Avshalom Pollak, Nur Fibak, Yoram Honig, Lidor Ederi, Yonathan Kugler

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a film by Juho Kuosmanen. Starts March 31st at the fsk. In Finnish and Russian with German subtitles,

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Originally plan­ned as a joint train trip with her lover, the shy Finn Laura embarks on the jour­ney to the arc­tic port of Murmansk to visit anci­ent rock pain­tings alo­ne by hers­elf. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny slee­ping car with a Russian miner, the unex­pec­ted encoun­ter leads the occu­pants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own year­ning for human connection.

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Hytti nro 6, Compartment No. 6
FI/DE/EE/RU 2021, 107 Min., russ. finn. OmU
Regie: Juho Kuosmanen
Kamera: Jani-Petteri Passi
Schnitt: Jussi Rautaniemi
mit: Seidi Haarla, Jury Borisov, Yulija Aug

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A film by Kaouther Ben Hania. In Arabic, English and French with German subtitles

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Sam Ali, a young sen­si­ti­ve and impul­si­ve Syrian, left his coun­try for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to tra­vel to Europe and live with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tat­to­oed by one of by the World’s most sul­fu­rous con­tem­po­ra­ry artist. Turning his own body into a pres­ti­gious pie­ce of art, Sam will howe­ver come to rea­li­ze that his decis­i­on might actual­ly mean any­thing but freedom.

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TN/FR/BE 2020, 104‘ min., Arabisch/Englisch/Französisch OmU, Regie: Kaouther Ben Hania, Kamera: Nestor Salazar, Schnitt: Marie-Hélène Dozo, mit Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koen De Bouw, Monica Bellucci

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a film by Ali Vatansever. 

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The Fikirtepe dis­trict of Istanbul. Urban trans­for­ma­ti­on is swee­ping away the poor com­mu­ni­ties, and Syrian refu­gees take shel­ter in deser­ted buil­dings. Kamil and his wife Remziye risk losing their home. Unemployed for a long time, Kamil has no choice but to secret­ly accept a job on a con­s­truc­tion site. Not only is he taking the job from a Syrian refu­gee, he’s also working for the com­pa­ny tha­t’s des­troy­ing the area next door. Oppression and anxie­ty in his neigh­bor­hood and at work, whe­re he’s accept­ed the low wages paid to refu­gees, gra­du­al­ly trans­form him. When Kamil dis­ap­pears, Remziye has to face the con­se­quen­ces of his actions. (Cineuropa)enzen sei­ner Taten stellen.

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DE, RO, TR 2021, 108 min., Türkische OmU
Buch und Regie: Ali Vatansever
Kamera: Tudor Vladimir Panduru
mit Erol Afsin, Saadet Aksoy, Kida Khodr Ramadan

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80 Jahre alt wäre der Maler, Autor, Regisseur und poli­ti­sche Aktivist Derek Jarman am 31.1.22 gewor­den. Er starb 1986 an den Folgen sei­ner AIDS-Erkrankung, die er auch in sei­nen Filmen zur Sprache brach­te. BLUE, sein letz­ter und for­mal wohl extrems­ter Film, wur­de von der Krankheit, durch die er erblin­de­te, bestimmt. Die Ton- Musik- und Sprechcollage vor mono­chrom blau­er Leinwand ist poli­tisch und per­sön­lich, poe­tisch und dis­kur­siv zugleich.

Jarmans Filme gel­ten als radi­kal, zor­nig und enga­giert. Er führ­te einen ste­ti­gen Kampf gegen die Thatcher-Regierung und zeig­te sich hier­bei als Queer- und AIDS-Aktivist, aber sein Thema war vor allem auch die Liebe, beson­ders die ver­hin­der­te, und körperliche.

Wir zei­gen sechs sei­ner Werke, die neu restau­riert und digi­ta­li­siert wur­den. Dazu gibt eine Doku über ihn, von Regisseur Julien Isaac und Tilda Swinton, die ohne Jarman nicht zu den­ken wäre (und umge­kehrt), und in allen sechs Filme mitwirkt:

Caravaggio (1986, 93‘), der bio­gra­fi­sche Ausschnitt vom ita­lie­ni­schen Maler ist wohl sein bekann­tes­tes Werk. (21.1. 17:45) [Tickets]

The Garden (1990, 95‘) ist eine sinn­li­che, sub­jek­ti­ve, schwu­le Passionsgeschichte mit Garten-nahem Atomkraftwerk.(22.1. 17:45) [Tickets]

Edward II (1991, 90‘) hat bei Jarman einen etwas ande­ren Stand als bei Mel Gibson seinerzeit.(23.1. 17:45) [Tickets]

Wittgenstein (1993, 75‘) – „hei­te­re, dia­log­si­che­re, her­vor­ra­gend gespiel­te Gesamtschau auf das Leben eines phi­lo­so­phi­schen Außenseiters“ (Lexikon des intern. Films) (24.1. 17:45) [Tickets]

War Requiem (1989, 92‘) ist die fil­mi­sche Umsetzung Benjamins Brittons Musikstücks, mit Laurence Olivier in sei­ner letz­ten Rolle. (25.1. 17:45) [Tickets]

Blue DF (1993, 74‘), gespro­chen von Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, John Quentin, und in der deut­schen Fassung von Ulrich Matthes, Sylvester Groth, Wolfgang Condrus, Eva Mattes. (22. & 23.1. 15:45) Blue OV [Tickets]

Derek (2008, 76‘) – ein Brief, ein Interview, eine Rückschau und Hommage (26.1. 17:45) [Tickets]

• alle Filme lau­fen in Originalfassung mit deut­schen Untertiteln, Blue in dt. und engl. Fassung

a film by Elmar Imanov. In Azeri with German subtitles. 

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A fami­ly is coming apart: unem­ploy­ed actor Samir just wants to be left alo­ne; his wife Fidan thinks about taking on a job in Berlin and their son Mahmud just wants to get as far away from his par­ents as pos­si­ble. But then a dra­ma­tic inci­dent during a trip to the beach unco­vers the fami­ly’s weak spots pain­ful­ly. The film mas­terful­ly navi­ga­tes bet­ween the­se three cha­rac­ters and por­traits them as both stran­gers and accom­pli­ces at the same time. Cologne-based direc­tor Elmar Imanov’s film recei­ved the FIPRESCI Critics Award at this year’s International Film Festival in Rotterdam.

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DE/GE/AZ 2019, 92 Min., aze­ri OmU
Regie: Elmar Imanov
Kamera: Berta Valin Escofet und Driss Azhari
Schnitt: Ioseb „Soso” Bliadze
mit Rasim Jafarov, Zulfiyye Gurbanova, Mir-Mövsüm Mirzazade

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a film by Céline Sciamma. Starts March 17th at the fsk. In French with German subtitles. 

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Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her bel­oved grand­mo­ther and is hel­ping her par­ents clean out her mother’s child­hood home. She explo­res the house and the sur­roun­ding woods whe­re her mum, Marion, used to play and whe­re she built the tree­house Nelly has heard so much about. One day her mother sud­den­ly lea­ves. That is when Nelly meets a girl of her own age in the woods, buil­ding a tree­house. Her name is Marion.
Taking part in the Berlinale for the second time, Céline Sciamma’s fifth film is a work of gre­at inten­si­ty and matu­ri­ty. Expressed via Claire Mathon’s lumi­nous autum­nal cine­ma­to­gra­phy, the director’s gaze explo­res an important moment in the tran­si­ti­on to adult­hood with poe­tic pre­cis­i­on. Once again, Sciamma exami­nes the big ques­ti­ons in life from a reso­lut­e­ly fema­le per­spec­ti­ve. The power of memo­ry and ima­gi­na­ti­on are explo­red in a uni­que, emo­tio­nal­ly reso­nant experience.

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FR 2021, 72 Min., frz. OmU
Regie, Buch: Céline Sciamma
Kamera: Claire Mathon
Schnitt: Julien Lacheray
mit Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne, Margot Abascal

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a film by Antonia Kilian. In Arabic, Kurdish and German with German subtitles.

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Combat trai­ning ins­tead of forced mar­ria­ge and IS? 19-year-old Hala escapes from Minbij in North Syria across the Euphrates and ends up in the Kurdish mili­ta­ry. After her trai­ning she returns to her home­town as a poli­ce offi­cer with the inten­ti­on of saving her youn­ger sisters.

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DE/FI 2021, 92 Min., Arabisch, Kurdisch, Deutsch mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Antonia Kilian
Kamera: Antonia Kilian
Ton: Nadya Derwish
Schnitt: Arash Asadi

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a film by Wen Shipei . Starts janu­ary 27th at the fsk. In Mandarin with German subtitles.

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On a dark night, Xueming hits a pede­stri­an with his car and flees the sce­ne. Desperate to escape his fee­lings of guilt, he deci­des to approach the dead man’s wife, Mrs Liang. Meanwhile, the body is dis­co­ver­ed – ridd­led with bul­lets. Chen, the detec­ti­ve in char­ge of the inves­ti­ga­ti­on, beco­mes obses­sed with the case. Years later, all three remain caught in a tan­gled web of memo­ries and lies, despera­te­ly sear­ching for a truth that refu­ses to be revealed…

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Originaltitel: Re dai wang shi
CN 2021, 95 Min.,
Regie: Wen Shipei
Kamera: Cedric Cheung-Lau, Xiaosu Han, Zhang Heng, Andreas Thalhammer
Schnitt: Zhu Lin, Will Wei, Dong Jie, Noé Dodson, Cao Hangchen
mit: Eddie Peng, Peiyao Jiang, Zhang Yu, Sylvia Chang 

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