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Montag, 18.10. 2021, 19:00 EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMM – [Tickets]
The Spot von Kani Kamil / 2:33’ / UK / 2015 Kooperationsprojekt zwi­schen Shero Abbas und Kani Kamil aus dem Jahr 2015 und Teil des Forschungsprojekts zur Not der Frauen im Südkurdistan. Die weib­li­che Hand behaup­tet sich als wahr­heits­ge­treu­er Geschichtenerzähler.
Personae von Havin al-Sindy/ DE / 2019/20/ 11’12“ Die Arbeit „Personae“ ist ein Prozess, wel­ches sich auf meh­re­ren Ebenen mit den Themen der Mehrsprachigkeit und der Beziehung beschäf­tigt und sich dabei per­for­ma­ti­ven und male­ri­schen Mittel bedient.
blue beard today’s tale von Khadija Baker / 15:00’ / CAN / 2021 Khadija Baker erzählt in ihrer Videoarbeit das fran­zö­si­sche Volksmärchen Blaubart aus femi­nis­ti­scher Perspektive, um den anhal­ten­den Missbrauch des weib­li­chen Körpers zu durch­bre­chen. 
Bad People, Bad News von Cemile Sahin / DE / ²⁰²¹⁄₄₀′ Historischer Ausgangspunkt für die essay­is­ti­sche Filminstallation Bad People, Bad News bil­det die Geschichte um das von Saddam Hussein 1989 errich­te­te Monument „Schwerter von Kadesia“. Ausgehend von der Entstehungsgeschichte des Monuments the­ma­ti­siert die Arbeit die Frage, wie Ideologien von Diktaturen ein Teil der Geschichtsschreibung wer­den.
Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue) von Hiwa K / ENG / 18 min / 2017
To remem­ber, some­ti­mes you need other archaeo­lo­gi­cal tools says the voice over in Hiwa K’s Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue). The video depicts the artist wal­king across fields, was­te­lands, estates, going from Turkey to Athens and then to Rome, a path that mir­rors his own jour­ney as a child, when he fled Iraqi Kurdistan and rea­ched Europe by foot. His “Pre-images” are frag­ments of a path who­se final desti­na­ti­on is uncertain.

Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2021, 19:00 Uhr Kurzfilmwettbewerb, Block II – [Tickets]
90 min Ausgewählte Kurzfilme von auf­stre­ben­den kur­di­schen und inter­na­tio­na­len Filmemacher*innen lau­fen in dem Kurzfilmwettbewerb des 11. Kurdischen Filmfestivals. Mit Filme von: Kardinal Hemn, Saman Mustefa, Mehmet Karagöz, Dana Karim, Jwan Abdo, Asghar Laei, Mohammad Farajzadeh 

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a film by Janna Ji Wonders. Starts October 21st at the fsk. In German & English with German subtitles.

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Director Janna Ji Wonders tells the sto­ry of the women in her fami­ly over the last cen­tu­ry. The film’s uni­fy­ing ele­ment and silent chro­nic­ler is Lake Walchensee in Bavaria, whe­re the fami­ly ope­ned a café in 1920 which still exists today. Its impres­si­ve foun­der Apa bequeaths the busi­ness to her first-born Norma who con­ti­nues to run it, even in her advan­cing years. Norma’s daugh­ters Anna and Frauke lea­ve the lake to libe­ra­te them­sel­ves and tra­vel the world as musi­ci­ans – only to return to live in a com­mu­ne set up by Rainer Langhans. Frauke pines for the love of her life, dies mys­te­rious­ly and beco­mes a shadowy figu­re for tho­se left behind. Restless Anna moves to the USA, whe­re she unex­pec­ted­ly falls pregnant and gives birth to a girl. Summoned by the shadows of her past, she returns with daugh­ter Janna to Walchensee whe­re Grandma Norma beco­mes an important figu­re for her grand­d­augh­ter. Filmmaker Janna is sear­ching for ans­wers to ques­ti­ons like: What is the mea­ning of home? To what ext­ent am I shaped by my ori­g­ins? What real­ly counts in the end? She finds clues in the bond bet­ween four gene­ra­ti­ons of women and their very dif­fe­rent approa­ches to life.

Credits:

DE 2020, 110 Min., dt, engl. OmU,
Regie: Janna Ji Wonders
Kamera: Janna Ji Wonders, Sven Zellner, Anna Werner
Schnitt: Anja Pohl

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a film by Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern. Starts October 28th at the fsk. In French with German subtitles.

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In a pro­vin­cial sub­urb, three neigh­bours come to terms with the con­se­quen­ces of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s fami­ly allo­wan­ce, is afraid of losing her son’s respect becau­se of a sex tape. Bertrand can’t say no to adver­ti­sing calls and is fight­ing to pro­tect his daugh­ter, who is being bul­lied online. Christine, after losing ever­y­thing becau­se of her addic­tion to TV series, won­ders why her rating as an Uber dri­ver is not taking off. These three lone figh­ters are inca­pa­ble of fin­ding a solu­ti­on to their pro­blems on their own – until they join forces to decla­re war on the tech giants. Ostensibly a sit­com, Effacer l’his­to­ri­que cap­tures our 21st cen­tu­ry rea­li­ty in a way few other films have: the­re is neither histo­ry nor are the­re sto­ries, neither left-wing nor right. Instead of a phy­si­cal boss who enforces our obe­dience, an invi­si­ble, data-spe­wing cloud con­trols us and devours our iden­ti­ties. This third Berlinale film by Delépine and Kervern is an empa­the­tic tri­bu­te to tho­se who are “left behind”, who hold up a mir­ror to us all and our per­cep­ti­ons of reality.

The Silver Bear – 70th Berlinale

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Effacer l’historique
FR 2020, 110 Min., frz. OmU,
Regie: Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern
Kamera: Hugues Poulain
Schnitt: Stéphane Guillot Elmadjian
mit: Blanche Gardin, Denis Podalydès, Corinne Masiero

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a film by Azra Deniz Okyay. In Turish with German subtitles.

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Paths of Iffet, Didem, Raşit and Ela
inter­sect at Istanbul’s Sucular street
in a day when the­re is a coun­try-wide power surge.

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Hayaletler
TK/FR 2020, 90 Min., türk. OmU
Regie & Buch: Azra Deniz Okyay
Darsteller: Dilayda Gunes, Nalan Kurucim, Beril Kayar, Emrah Ozdemir, Ahmet Turan, Ihsan Ozgen, Ekin Aribas

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a film by Julia Ducournau. In French with German subtitles.

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Following a series of unex­plai­ned cri­mes, a father is reu­ni­ted with the son who has been miss­ing for 10 years.
Titane : A metal high­ly resistant to heat and cor­ro­si­on, with high ten­si­le strength alloys.

Cannes 2021 – Palme d’or

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FR 2021, 108 Min., frz. OmU
Regie & Buch: Julia Ducournau
Kamera: Ruben Impens
Schnitt: Jean-Christophe Bouzy
mit: Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Bertrand Bonello, Dominique Frot

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a film by Lisa Bierwirth. In German, French, English and Lingala with German subtitles.

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In the midst of the noto­rious Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel, two peo­p­le encoun­ter who could not be more dif­fe­rent: Monika, mid-40s, works as a cura­tor and is the­r­e­fo­re part of the city’s art- and cul­tu­re sce­ne. As she unex­pec­ted­ly gets into a poli­ce raid, she encoun­ters Joseph, a Congolese busi­ness­man loo­king for inves­tors for a dia­mond mine in Congo and who keeps afloat by doing some Import/Export-deals every now and then. Eventually, their brief encoun­ter results in an inten­se love sto­ry. But while both of them belie­ve their rela­ti­onship to be strong enough to stand against the influence of pre­ju­di­ces, mis­trust slow­ly ari­ses bet­ween the two of them, until their rela­ti­onship beco­mes a batt­le­ground of post­co­lo­ni­al con­flicts. Eventually, they will have to ask them­sel­ves if it’s actual­ly pos­si­ble, to love at eye level? 

Inspired by the true sto­ry of her mother, Lisa Bierwirth ques­ti­ons how post­co­lo­ni­al struc­tures and power rela­ti­ons can take influence in an European-African rela­ti­onship. The sto­ry of her fea­ture debut obser­ves not only the pit­falls, but also the cou­ra­ge it takes to live a love life drawn bet­ween social con­ven­ti­ons and exhi­bits Frankfurt am Main – some­whe­re bet­ween a world metro­po­lis and a place of shady busi­ness deals – as the film’s ambi­guous third protagonist.

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DE 2021, 125 Min. OmU
Regie: Lisa Bierwirth
Drehbuch: Lisa Bierwirth, Hannes Held
Kamera: Jenny Lou Ziegel
Schnitt: Bettina Böhler
mit: Ursula Strauss, Passi Balende, Alex Brendemühl, Victoria Trauttmansdorff

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a film by Carsten Rau. In German.

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Germany is tur­ning away from nuclear power once and for all in 2022. The risk is too high, the tech­no­lo­gy unma­na­geable. Yet the nuclear night­ma­re goes on: with ump­teen thou­sands of ton­nes of radio­ac­ti­ve was­te, the sto­rage of which isn’t the least bit clear; with the hazar­dous dis­mant­ling of power plants which will take deca­des and gob­ble up many bil­li­ons of euros; and with neigh­bours who firm­ly hold on to mankind’s dream of ato­mic ener­gy – 13 of the 27 nati­ons in the EU ope­ra­te nuclear power plants and the deve­lo­p­ment the­reof con­ti­nues.
The fea­ture-length docu­men­ta­ry film Atomkraft Forever by Carsten Rau takes a pro­found as well as alar­ming look at the nuclear night­ma­re. In grand sce­nes unpre­ce­den­ted­ly por­tray­ed, and in six inter­wo­ven epi­so­des: about the absurd amount of effort invol­ved in demo­li­shing a gigan­tic nuclear power plant; about the quest for a final repo­si­to­ry that is sup­po­sed to wea­ther a mil­li­on years and the next ten ice ages; into the heart of the French ato­mic indus­try that ridi­cu­les the German opt-out as “ludicrous” and wants even more power plants.
Atomkraft Forever doesn’t lea­ve any argu­ments out, even though they may be unpo­pu­lar. In the end, the view­er can and must form their own impres­si­on of the mania cal­led nuclear power. That has no end.

Credits:

DE 2020, 94 Min.,
Buch und Regie: Carsten Rau
Schnitt: Stephan Haase
Kamera: Andrzej Krol

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a film by Uberto Pasolini. In English with German subtitles.

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John, a 35-year-old win­dow clea­ner, devo­tes his life to rai­sing his 4‑year-old son Michael, as the child’s mother left them imme­dia­te­ly after his birth. Their life is a simp­le one, made up of uni­ver­sal dai­ly ritu­als, a life of com­ple­te dedi­ca­ti­on and inno­cent love that reve­als the strength of their rela­ti­onship. But John only has a few months to live. Since he has no fami­ly to turn to, he will spend the days left to him loo­king for a new and per­fect one to adopt Michael, try­ing to pro­tect his child from the ter­ri­ble reality.

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UK, IT, RO 2020, 96 Min., engl. OmU
Buch und Regie Uberto Pasolini
Kamera Marius Panduru
Musik Andrew Simon Mcallister
Montage Masahiro Hirakubo, Saska Simpson
mit James Norton, Daniel Lamont, Eileen O‘Higgins

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Mit dem bun­des­wei­ten Festival Studio Bosporus rich­tet die Kulturakademie Tarabya vom 3. September bis 31. Oktober den Fokus auf den deutsch-tür­ki­schen Dialog. Sie nimmt die poli­ti­sche Situation in der Türkei eben­so in den Blick wie die plu­ra­le Gesellschaft Deutschlands. Anlass ist der 60. Jahrestag des Anwerbeabkommens zwi­schen Deutschland und der Türkei als zen­tra­les Erinnerungsdatum einer gesell­schaft­li­chen Vielfalt sowie das 10-jäh­ri­ge Bestehen der Künstlerresidenz am Bosporus.

Im Rahmen die­ses Programms zeigt das fsk Kino fol­gen­de Filme:

Aysun Bademsoy: Spuren – Die Opfer des NSU
Dokumentarfilm, 81 Min., anschlie­ßen­des Gespräch mit der Regisseurin
8.9. 20:15 [Tickets]

Miraz Bezar: Min dît – Die Kinder von Diyarbakir
102 Min., Kurdisch, Türkisch, Deutsch mit deut­schen und tür­ki­schen UT
15.9. 20:15 [Tickets]

Aslı Özarslan: Dil Leyla
Dokumentarfilm, 71 Min., Deutsch, Kurdisch, anschlie­ßen­des Gespräch mit der Regisseurin
23.9. 20:15 [Tickets]

Ezgi Kılınçaslan: Kurzfilme
30.9. 20:15 Anschließendes Gespräch mit der Regisseurin
30.9. 20:15

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian: Armenoscope, con­s­truc­ting belon­ging (2017)
Doku-Essay 62 Min., Armenisch mit eng­li­schen UT, anschlie­ßen­des Gespräch mit der Regisseurin
21.10. 20:15 [Tickets]

Ayşe Polat: Die Anderen (2016)
Dokumentarfilm 66 Min., Kurdisch, Türkisch mit eng­li­schen UT, anschlie­ßen­des Gespräch mit der Regisseurin
27.10. 20:15 [Tickets]

Neco Çelik: Urban Guerillas (2003)
Spielfilm 81 Min., Deutsch
27.10. 22:00 [Tickets]

A film by ​Philipp Reichenheim. Starts September 11th at the fsk. In English with Germen subtitles.

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The American indie rock band “Dinosaur Jr.” is a radi­cal group with an unmista­keable sound. The film tells the sto­ry the three cha­ris­ma­tic guys in the band: J. Mascis (vocals, gui­tar), Lou Barlow (bass) and Murph (drums).

Credits:

DE/US 2020, 82 Min.
Regie: Philipp Reichenheim
mit: J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Murph, Kim Gordon, Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Thurston Moore

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