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Sirāt

A film by Oliver Laxe. In Spanish and French with German subtitles.

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A father (Sergi López) and his son arri­ve at a rave deep in the moun­ta­ins of sou­thern Morocco. They’re sear­ching for Mar — daugh­ter and sis­ter — who vanis­hed months ago at one of the­se end­less, slee­p­less par­ties. Surrounded by elec­tro­nic music and a raw, unfa­mi­li­ar sen­se of free­dom, they hand out her pho­to again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and fol­low a group of ravers hea­ding to one last par­ty in the desert. As they ven­ture deeper into the bur­ning wil­der­ness, the jour­ney forces them to con­front their own limits.

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ES/FR 2025, 120 Min., span., frz. OmU
Regie: Oliver Laxe
Kamera:  Mauro Herce
Schnitt: Cristóbal Fernández

Musik: Kangding Ray
mit: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Henderson

Trailer:
Sirât | Trailer | Oliver Laxe | Sergi López | Bruno Nuñez
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Milch ins Feuer

Milch ins Feuer

A film by Justine Bauer. In German.

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Milk has been an unpro­fi­ta­ble com­mo­di­ty for a while now. Farming in gene­ral is suf­fe­ring, and more and more farms are having to clo­se. But Katinka is hol­ding on to the fami­ly busi­ness, is being trai­ned in far­ming, and is see­king her future in a place that remem­bers how things once were.

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DE 2024, 78 Min., deut­sche Fassung
Regie: Justine Bauer

Kamera:  Pedro Carnicer
Schnitt: Semih Korhan Güner, Justine Bauer
mit: Johanna Wokalek, Pauline Bullinger, Anne Nothacker, Sara Nothacker, Lore Bauer

Trailer:
MILCH INS FEUER | Trailer | FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2024
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Vermiglio

A film by Maura Delpero. In Italian with German subtitles.

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In four sea­sons natu­re com­ple­tes its cycle. A girl can beco­me a woman. A bel­ly can swell and beco­me a crea­tu­re.
One can lose the path that led safe­ly home, one can sail seas towards unknown lands.
In four sea­sons one can die and be reborn.
Vermiglio tells of the last year of the Second World War in a lar­ge fami­ly and how, by a para­dox of fate, with the arri­val of a refu­gee sol­dier it loses its peace at the very moment in which the world finds its own.

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IT/FR/BE 2024, 119 Min., ital. OmU
Regie: Maura Delpero

Kamera:  Mikhail Krichman
Schnitt: Luca Mattei
mit: Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba

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Agent of Happiness

A film by Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó. In Dzongkha with German subtitles.

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The film fol­lows Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, two Bhutanese bureau­crats, in their tra­vels through the small Himalayan king­dom as cen­sus workers, mea­su­ring peo­p­le’s hap­pi­ness levels. They work for the Center for Gross National Happiness, a govern­ment insti­tu­ti­on which is tas­ked with coll­ec­ting data on the citi­zens‘ hap­pi­ness. This data is then used to inform the con­sti­tu­tio­nal­ly-man­da­ted goal of incre­asing natio­nal happiness.[5]

Along the way we meet Bhutan’s ever­y­day peo­p­le, such as a trans­gen­der bar sin­ger, a wealt­hy far­mer and his three wives, a teenage girl who worries about her mother’s alco­ho­lism, or a recent widower who finds solace in reli­gi­on. Through them we get a glim­pse into the Bhutanese socie­ty and their views on hap­pi­ness in face of adver­si­ty. We also explo­re Amber’s dreams and ambi­ti­ons, pri­ma­ri­ly among them the dream of fin­ding love.

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BT 2024, 94 Min., Dzongkha OmU
Regie: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó

Kamera: Arun Bhattarai,
Schnitt: Péter Sass

Trailer:
Agent Of Happiness – Unterwegs im Auftrag des Glücks | Kinotrailer OmdU | ab 03.07.25 im Kino
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Der Fleck

A film by Willy Hans. In German with English subtitles.

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After esca­ping from gym class, Simon finds hims­elf on the banks of a river with a group of teen­agers. Amidst the air mat­tres­ses and point­less chat­ter, time pas­ses as slug­gish­ly as the river water. Only when Marie appears and both are cata­pul­ted into the near­by river­si­de forest by an unex­pec­ted inci­dent they escape the lethar­gic group and enter the tim­e­l­ess realm of the enchan­ted landscape.

I would like to give a glim­pse of some­thing that coun­ters the exis­ten­ti­al loneli­ne­ss of our human pre­sent. Ultimately, redemp­ti­on lies in the encoun­ter.” Willy Hans

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DE/CH 2024, 94 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie & Schnitt: Willy Hans
Kamera: Paul Spengemann
mit: Leo Konrad Kuhn, Alva Schäfer, Shadi Eck, Felix Maria Zeppenfeld, Darja Mahotkin, Marlene Becker u. a. 

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Step across the border

Step across the border

A film by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Prenzel. In English with German subtitles.

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In this film two forms of artis­tic expres­si­on, impro­vi­sed music and cine­ma direct, are inter­re­la­ted. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intui­ti­ve sen­se for what is hap­pe­ning in a space. Music and film come into exis­tence out of an inten­se per­cep­ti­on of the moment, not from the trans­for­ma­ti­on of a preor­da­i­ned plan. In impro­vi­sa­ti­on the plan is reve­a­led only at the end. One finds it. The other con­nec­tion con­cerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musi­ci­ans com­mu­ni­ca­te via the music, our work, too, was rea­li­zed within a very small and fle­xi­ble team of equ­als. What mat­te­red was exch­an­ge. And move­ment. Sometimes we star­ted film­ing in the midd­le of the night, respon­ding to a new idea that had ari­sen only minu­tes befo­re. We had a fun­da­men­tal fee­ling for what we wan­ted to do, for what kind of film this should be. And we fol­lo­wed that fee­ling. It was all very instinctive.

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CH/DE 1989, 90 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Nicolas Humbert, Werner Prenzel
Kamera: Oscar Salgado
mit den Musiker*innen: Fred Frith, Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Pavel Fajt, Eitetsu Hayashi, Zeena Parkins, Tim Hodgekison, Arto Lindsey, Bob Ostertag, John Zorn u.v.a.

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One to One: John & Yoko

A film by Kevin Macdonald. Starts June 26th at the fsk. Cineville Preview on June 25th. In English with German subitles

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An expan­si­ve and reve­la­to­ry insi­de look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the ear­ly 1970s, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO deli­vers an immersi­ve cine­ma­tic expe­ri­ence that brings to life elec­tri­fy­ing, never-befo­re-seen mate­ri­al and new­ly res­to­red foo­ta­ge of John and Yoko’s only full-length con­cert. Featuring mind-blo­wing music new­ly remi­xed and pro­du­ced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seis­mic reve­la­ti­on that will chall­enge pre-exis­ting noti­ons of the ico­nic couple.

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UK 2024, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Kevin Macdonald

Kamera: David Katznelson
Schnitt: Sam Rice-Edwards 

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Archiv der Zukunft

A film by Joerg Burger. In German.

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Armies of moun­ted beet­les, arran­ged in rank and file. In dra­wers and glass con­tai­ners, rep­ti­les and birds sor­ted in the most magni­fi­cent forms. An almost macab­re beau­ty is found in the cata­logued sub-uni­ver­ses of the Natural History Museum Vienna: sub-uni­ver­ses that stand for the who­le ran­ge of evo­lu­ti­on and are part of the immense, expert­ly pre­pared coll­ec­tion of this world-renow­ned insti­tu­ti­on of know­ledge. With an appro­pria­te­ly curious atti­tu­de, Joerg Burger devo­tes gre­at atten­ti­on to this cumu­la­ti­ve archi­ve of pure rese­arch for its own sake, its exhi­bits and under­ly­ing craft­work, but first and fore­most to the peo­p­le who work there,…

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AT 2023, 92 Min., Deutsch
Regie & Kamera: Joerg Burger
Schnitt: Dieter Pichler

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ARCHIV DER ZUKUNFT – Offizieller Trailer
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Good News

A film by Hannes Schilling. In German, English, Thai and Melayu with German subtitles

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The jour­na­list Leo hopes to final­ly make an inter­na­tio­nal breakth­rough with a report about a rebel group in Thailand. His fri­end Mawar helps him make local cont­acts. In return, Leo pro­mi­ses to sup­port him in start­ing over in Germany. But when the edi­tors sen­ding him the pho­to­grapher Julian wit­hout asking, Leo beco­mes incre­asing­ly ent­an­gled in a web of lies and moral­ly ques­tionable decisions.

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DE 2024, 75 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Thai und Melayu mit deut­schen Untertiteln,
Regie: Hannes Schilling
Schnitt: Marie Fontanel, Paul Gröbel
Kamera: Falco Seliger

mit: Ilja Stahl, Sabree Matming, Dennis Scheuermann

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GOOD NEWS (2024) TRAILER
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Copa 71

A film by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine. In English/Spanish/Italian/French with German subtitles..

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»Why haven’t I seen this befo­re?« In the first sce­ne of Copa 71, American inter­na­tio­nal foot­bal­ler Brandi Chastain sta­res at her tablet in ama­ze­ment. She is wat­ching foo­ta­ge of the first ever inter­na­tio­nal women’s foot­ball tour­na­ment in Mexico City in 1971, Copa 71. Why is it that one of the best-atten­ded women’s sport­ing events of all time has been forgotten?

In 1970, the first European tour­na­ment took place in Italy; SC 07 Bad Neuenahr repre­sen­ted Germany. A year later, inter­na­tio­nal teams from Argentina, England, France, Denmark and Mexico com­pe­ted against each other in Mexico. This purely com­mer­cial event, which was not backed by FIFA, pro­ved a huge suc­cess, attrac­ting crowds of 100,000 to the sta­di­ums. Yet what could have been the launch pad for women’s foot­ball world­wi­de fai­led to attract any sup­port. Another ten years would pass befo­re the next inter­na­tio­nal tour­na­ment. In Taipei, Taiwan, SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach beca­me world cham­pi­ons in 1981. This also paved the way for the for­ma­ti­on of an offi­ci­al women’s natio­nal team in Germany in 1982. One thing to note though: women’s foot­ball was offi­ci­al­ly ban­ned until 1970. Perhaps not sur­pri­sing then that ano­ther deca­de pas­sed befo­re the first FIFA Women’s World Cup was held, in China. The final saw Brandi Chastain score the win­ning penal­ty to help the US take the tro­phy home.

The film pres­ents archi­ve foo­ta­ge of the tour­na­ment, plus inter­views with the play­ers of the time – impres­si­ve per­so­na­li­ties who pro­vi­de vivid accounts of the pre­pa­ra­ti­ons and the tour­na­ment its­elf. A threa­ten­ed walk-out by the Mexican team over pay at one point put the tour­na­ment in jeo­par­dy, as did the ten­se atmo­sphe­re bet­ween the teams, still tan­gi­ble when wat­ching the film in the cinema.

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GB 2023, 91 Min., Englisch/Spanisch/Italienisch/Französisch mit deut­schen Untertiteln, Regie: Rachel Ramsay und James Erskine
Schnitt: Arturo Calvete und Mark Roberts
Kamera: Angela Neil

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