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A film by Angela Schanelec. In German with English subtitles.

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After having dis­ap­peared for a week, Astrid’s 13-year-old son Phillip returns home one day wit­hout say­ing a word. Both his mother and tea­chers suspect that his dis­ap­pearance may be rela­ted to the loss of his father. Only gra­du­al­ly does ever­y­day life get back on track. Astrid now finds hers­elf con­fron­ted with ques­ti­ons that pro­vi­de a who­le new per­spec­ti­ve on her midd­le-class exis­tence and her care­er in Berlin’s cul­tu­ral sec­tor. Her ide­as about art also begin to chan­ge. At home, it beco­mes more and more dif­fi­cult for this sin­gle mother to accept that her son is lea­ding his own life. And then Phillip is admit­ted to hos­pi­tal with blood poi­so­ning. Astrid is a ner­vous wreck, wiped out by worry, guilt and her fee­lings of fail­ure. But Phillip and his litt­le sis­ter do not turn away from her. The fami­ly may be dis­in­te­gra­ting, but only to form its­elf anew.
The came­ra in this film remains at a dis­crete distance, pro­vi­ding mother and child­ren with the space and time they need to redis­co­ver and reapp­rai­se their fee­lings. These sce­nes are framed by others depic­ting school rehear­sals of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, the purcha­se of a bro­ken bicy­cle and other loo­se sto­ry­li­nes that all echo each other.

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DE 2019, 105 Min., 
Regie, Schnitt & Buch: Angela Schanelec
Kamera: Ivan Marković
mit: Maren Eggert Jakob Lassalle, Clara Möller, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Alan Williams, Jirka Zett

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A film by Denys Arcand. In French with German subtitles.

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Denys Arcand’s the­ma­tic suc­ces­sor to The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions cen­tres on a young man who­se life is chan­ged when he finds two bags of cash after an armed robbery.

As its title indi­ca­tes, Denys Arcand’s new film con­ti­nues the inves­ti­ga­ti­on into modern socie­ty he began over 30 years ago with his remar­kab­le and for­ma­ti­ve Le Déclin de l’empire amé­ri­cain. If 2003’s Les Invasions bar­ba­res was a sequel of sorts, revi­si­ting many of the same cha­rac­ters, this new film is not. Nevertheless, it does com­ple­te a kind of infor­mal tri­lo­gy that looks deep into Quebec socie­ty, its values, and its mores.

La chu­te de l’empire amé­ri­cain is built around the con­cept of money: what it means, how it is used, what value it has in our world, and what it can do to peo­p­le. Arcand’s prot­ago­nist, Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry), is a 36-year-old with a PhD in phi­lo­so­phy who ends up dri­ving a cou­rier truck, a line of work he belie­ves he is too good for. A sin­gle event chan­ges Pierre-Paul’s life: he finds hims­elf with a lot of money in his hands – and a choice. This money can pro­vi­de him the life­style he wants, but it can also lead to num­e­rous hea­da­ches, name­ly in the form of ent­an­gle­ments with both poli­ce and the cri­mi­nal under­world. Pierre-Paul’s decis­i­ons take him on an unli­kely voya­ge whe­re he needs all his wits to out­fox his various pur­suers, among­st whom are two rather dif­fe­rent women: a young pro­sti­tu­te who can free him, and a young cop who can put him behind bars.

Arcand’s pro­bing intel­li­gence turns the film into a subt­le inves­ti­ga­ti­on of con­tem­po­ra­ry socie­ty, a socie­ty whe­re the old social con­tract that once under­pin­ned our inter­ac­tions pro­ves hol­low. Marcus Aurelius jos­t­les with Rousseau and Machiavelli in this wit­ty and sar­do­nic sati­re.   (TIFF)

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La chu­te de l’empire américain
CA 2018, 128 Min., frz. OmU
Buch und Regie: Denys Arcand
Kamera: Van Royko
Schnitt: Arthur Tarnowski
mit: Alexandre Landry, Maripier Morin, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi, Louis Morissette

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A film by Mariano Llinás.  In seve­ral lan­guages with German subtitles.

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A film that pays tri­bu­te to the histo­ry of cine­ma, via six epi­so­des inspi­red by the dif­fe­rent forms of cine­ma­tic art. Each epi­so­de has a gen­re. The first epi­so­de could be regard­ed as a B movie, the kind that Americans used to shoot with their eyes clo­sed and now just can’t shoot any­mo­re. The second epi­so­de is a sort of musi­cal with a touch of mys­tery. The third epi­so­de is a spy movie. The fourth epi­so­de is dif­fi­cult to descri­be. The fifth one is inspi­red by an old French film. The last one is about some cap­ti­ve women in the 19th cen­tu­ry who return from the desert, from the Indians, after many years.

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AR 2018,  808 Min.,  (Akt 1: 167 Min., Akt 2: 59 Min., Akt 3: 106 Min., Akt 4: 112 Min., Akt 5: 126 Min., Akt 6: 99 Min., Akt 7: 117 Min., Akt 8: 107 Min.), Spanisch/Französisch/Englisch/Russisch/Deutsch/Schwedisch/Italienische OmU,
Regie: Mariano Llinás
Kamera: Agustín Mendilaharzu
Schnitt: Alejo Moguillansky, Agustín Rolandelli

mit Elisa Carricajo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa, Laura Paredes

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A film by Carlos Reygadas. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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“Our Time gores mas­cu­li­ni­ty on its own horns. Carlos Reygadas lays bare mas­cu­li­ne patho­lo­gy with a typi­cal­ly bra­vu­ra and extra­or­di­na­ri­ly unspa­ring dis­sec­tion of love and mar­ria­ge, cas­ting hims­elf and his spou­se, Natalia López, at the heart of the pie­ce. Reygadas con­ducts exis­ten­ti­al inves­ti­ga­ti­ons into the human capa­ci­ty for altru­ism, the cor­re­la­ti­on bet­ween love and pos­ses­si­on, and the uni­ver­sal­ly devas­ta­ting rami­fi­ca­ti­ons of patri­ar­chal cul­tu­re. It makes for a relent­less, har­ro­wing vie­w­ing expe­ri­ence but also, ulti­m­ate­ly, a cathar­tic one. As such, Reygadas and López’s wil­ling­ness to lay them­sel­ves bare in this man­ner, wit­hout embel­lish­ment or faci­le abso­lu­ti­on, repres­ents a deep­ly gene­rous ges­tu­re.” (Giovanni Marchini Camia, Sight and Sound)

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Nuestro tiem­po
MX/FR/DE/DK/SE 2018, 175 Min., spa­ni­sche OmU
Regie, Buch: Carlos Reygadas
Kamera: Diego Garcia
Schnitt: Natalia López
mit: Carlos Reygadas, Natalia López, Phil Burgers, Yago Martinez, Eleazar Reygadas, Rut Reygadas

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A film by Vahid Jalilvand,  In Farsi with German subtitles.

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In the tried and tes­ted tra­di­ti­on of Iranian art­house cine­ma (think of the work of Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi), direc­tor and co-wri­ter Vahid Jalilvand gra­du­al­ly con­fronts the view­er with a moral dilem­ma. It’s undoub­ted­ly about the con­trast bet­ween good and evil, but that doesn’t make it imme­dia­te­ly clear what the best cour­se of action is.
A usual­ly strict coro­ner finds the body of an acquain­tance in the mor­tua­ry. His col­le­ague has alre­a­dy deter­mi­ned the cau­se of death, but he has ano­ther pos­si­ble expl­ana­ti­on. However, to reve­al the truth would mean beco­ming per­so­nal­ly invol­ved in the case. Moreover, it could have unjust con­se­quen­ces for tho­se involved.
Jalilvand uses a blea­ched colour palet­te, lea­ves ple­nty of room for his natu­ra­li­sti­cal­ly acting prot­ago­nists and builds the ten­si­on gra­du­al­ly with more and more new com­pli­ca­ti­ons. Best Film and Best Actor (Amir Aghaee) pri­ze­win­ner in the Orizzonti pro­gram­me at the Venice Film Festival.

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Bedoone tarikh, bedoo­ne emza 
IR 2017, 100 Min., Farsi OmU 
Regie: Vahid Jalilvand 
Kamera: Peyman Shadmanfar 
Schnitt: Vahid Jalilvand, Sepehr Vakili 
mit: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Agha’ee, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakiyeh Behbahani

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Im Kino in Farsi mit deut­schen Untertitlen.