31. March – 7. April 2017
Screenings at the fsk:
✪ = With Guests
Monday, 3.4.
20:00 Uhr
BEZNESS AS USUAL (92′) ✪
22:00 Uhr
SPEED SISTERS (80′)
Tuesday, 4.4.
20:00 Uhr
BLESSED BENEFIT (85′) ✪
22:00 Uhr
SHORTS PROGRAM II – TIME ✪
Wednesday, 5.4.
20:00 Uhr
THE BEACH HOUSE (75′) ✪
22:00 Uhr
ASPHALT (69′)
Thursday, 6.4.
20:00 Uhr
SAMIR IN THE DUST (61′) ✪
22:00 Uhr
CLASH (98′)
A Laura Israel film. In english with german subtitles.
Robert Frank is reluctant to allow himself to be wired up to a microphone; one of the world’s most renowned photographers does not want to pose in front of another person’s lens – and simply leaves the frame. This scene from an early interview already reveals much about his personality and his understanding of art. Bent over his early photographs, which capture daily life on the margins of American society, he explains his approach. ‘It’s best’ he says, ‘if people don’t notice that you are photographing them.’ His portraits are snapshots that capture the moment – in the truest sense of the term – whether they depict the lives of London bankers, Welsh miners or rock stars like the Stones. Robert Frank opens up in front of the camera of his long-standing collaborator and editor Laura Israel and looks back, self-confidently but also self-deprecatingly, at his life and work. The film shows us an artist in action; the witness of an era who remembers the years with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg – with whom he made films in the cadences of the Beat generation. Robert Frank: always a maverick and anarchist – in any situation that life throws at him. (Berlinaletext)
USA/Frankreich 2015, 82 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Laura Israel
Kamera: Lisa Rinzler, Ed Lachman
Schnitt: Alex Bingham
A film by Antje Hubert.
The residents of Oberndorf could no longer stand passively by as their village went further and further into decline. The first action was a café run by volunteers. But when the school closes down, the locals and people who had moved there later realised they were facing a much greater challenge. The town needed to make money to keep young families from moving away. With the help of a project developer, they come up with a bold plan and set up a public limited company. They business model is based on liquid manure, which is available in vast quantities. The idea is to build a biogas plant. With the energy, they would raise African catfish – a tasty fish – and build greenhouses to grow exotic fruits like bananas, all in a closed, waste-free system. The idea takes off. But there’s a long way to go before the first fish are ready for market.
D 2016 92 Min. German Version
B., R.: Antje Hubert
K.: Andreas Stonawski
S.:Magdolna Roko
mit den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern von Oberndorf und Projektentwicklern aus Berlin
An Anna Zamecka film. Starts 4. May.
When the adults are ineffective, the children have to grow up more quickly. Ola is 14 and has to take care of her dysfunctional father, her autistic brother and her mother who lives away from home. Dreaming about reuniting the family, she plans the celebration of her brother’s First Communion.
Young Eyes Film Award | Dok Leipzig 2016
Best Documentary | Polish Film award 2017
Best Documentary | European Film award 2017
OT: Komunia
Polen 2016, 72 Min., polnische OmU
Regie & Buch: Anna Zamecka
Produktion: Anna Wydra, Anna Zamecka, Zuzanna Król, Hanka Kastelicova, Izabela Łopuch
Kamera: Małgorzata Szyłak
Schnitt: Agnieszka Glińska, Anna Zamecka, Wojciech Janas
Verleih unterstützt von:
Trailer zum Film Kommunion from Peripher Filmverleih on Vimeo.
A Film by Martin Butler & Bentley Dean. In Nauvhal language with german subtitles.
In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an intertribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.
Australien/ Vanuatu 2015, 100 Min., Nauvhal OmU
Regie: Martin Butler & Bentley Dean
Buch: Martin Butler, John Collee & Bentley Dean
Kamera: Bentley Dean
Schnitt: Tania Nehme
Darsteller: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit, Chief Charlie Kahla, Albi Nangia, Lingai Kowia, Dadwa Mungau, Linette Yowayin, Kapan Cook, Chief Mungau Yokay, Chief Mikum Tainokou
A Benedict Andrews film. In english with german subtitles.
A young woman arrives unexpectedly at an older man’s workplace looking for answers as to their shared past in an abusive sexual relationship.
Una & Ray is based upon on the play Blackbird by David Harrower, who also wrote the film’s screenplay.
OT: Una
GB 2016, 94 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Benedict Andrews
Drehbuch: David Harrower
Kamera: Thimios Bakatakis
Schnitt: Nick Fenton
mit: Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Tara Fitzgerald, Riz Ahmed, Tobias Menzies
A film by Raoul Peck. In english with german subtitles.
In June 1979 renowned US writer James Baldwin began work on his last, unfinished text ‘Remember this House’. His personal memories of his three murdered civil rights friends Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King and his reflections on his own painful experiences as a black American serve to re-write American history.
Raoul Peck has turned these thirty hitherto unpublished pages into a powerful collage of archive photographs, excerpts from films and newsreel footage: the boycotts and the resistance against racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, the invisibility of black Americans in Hollywood’s legendary works, the Afro-American protests against white police brutality that continue to take place even today, Baldwin’s complex relationship with the Black Power Movement and one FBI report’s paranoid view of Baldwin’s homosexuality. A trenchant and disturbing essay about the reality of the lives of African Americans – lives that are still largely ignored by America’s mainstream. Samuel L Jackson’s voice lends Baldwin’s poetic, meditative language suitable expression.
Frankreich / USA / Belgien / Schweiz 2016, 93 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Raoul Peck
Buch: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
Kamera: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Schnitt: Alexandra Strauss
Mit
James Baldwin
Samuel L. Jackson (Erzähler)
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Medgar Evers
Lorraine Hansberry
A film by André Téchiné. Starts 16.3. at the fsk. In french with german subtitles.
Damien and Thomas attend the same grammar school class. They cannot stand each other and whenever verbal insults fail to do enough damage they take a swing at each other. Yet they could just as easily be friends. Damien’s mother Marianne is a country doctor and his father a military pilot on a tour of duty abroad. Thomas is of Maghrebi descent and is the adopted son of a farming family living on a remote farm in the mountains. After several miscarriages the farmer’s wife is expecting again and, since her pregnancy promises to be a difficult one, Marianne invites the withdrawn boy to come and stay with them for a while. Damien and Thomas find themselves having to live under the same roof …
André Techiné has already taken part in the Berlinale Competition several times with films such as Les temps qui changent (2005) and Les témoins (2007). In Quand on a 17 ans he explores what it is like to grow up in different social environments in this portrait of two confused youths trying to govern their emotions. A rugged village in the mountains of south-western France as the seasons pass becomes the psychological landscape of the relationship between two young men which vacillates between disdain and attraction.
Quand on a 17 ans
Frankreich 2016, 116 Min., fr OmU
Regie: André Téchiné
Buch André Téchiné, Céline Sciamma
Kamera Julien Hirsch
Schnitt Albertine Lastera
Darsteller: Corentin Fila, Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Alexis Loret, Jean Fornerod
For eight-year-old Djaner, his first day at school in Hamburg seems like wonderland. It’s classmate Lena’s birthday; she gets presents and the whole class sings for her. Djaner, a Roma from Macedonia, has only known school as a place to fear a beating and he’s speechless. The traumatised young boy has migrated to Hamburg with his brother and mother; the family hopes to finally live in peace. Meanwhile, 11-year-old Ghofran just wants to go home at first. She listens to Arabic rap and, in her head, she still lives in Syria, while her father Adel is busy fighting for them to be able to stay in Hamburg. At the school where she’s learning German, Ghofran meets other girls who are allowed to do everything – wear make-up, swim … it’s a completely new experience and initially, she rejects it out of hand. With each day that passes, Ghofran becomes more and more confident and secure, while Djaner struggles with his pent-up rage.
D 2016, 95 Min.
Buch, Regie, Kamera und Ton: Pia Lenz
Montage: Stephan Haase
Musik: The Notwist
A film by Michael Koch.
Michael Koch’s keenly observed and beautifully acted milieu study has the ructious and vulnerable Marija at the epicenter, whose dream of owning her own hair salon becomes a distant prospect when she loses her job as a hotel cleaning woman.
D, CH 2016, 101 Min.
Regie: Michael Koch
Kamera: Bernhard Keller
Schnitt: Florian Riegel
Mit: Margarita Breitkreiz, Georg Friedrich, Olga Dinnikova, Sahin Eryilmaz u.a.
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