Category: Vorstellung

A film by Daniel Abma. Starts June 5th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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When par­ents can no lon­ger ful­fil their duty of care, the children’s world often falls apart. Nothing stays as it was. Suddenly it is no lon­ger mum or dad who are in char­ge but the youth wel­fa­re sys­tem. Daniel Abma fol­lo­wed a youth housing group in a rural area over seve­ral years, show­ing pro­fes­sio­nal edu­ca­tors who want to give five boys bet­ween the ages of seven and four­teen what they need most urgen­tly, day by day: secu­ri­ty, ori­en­ta­ti­on, a home.
The docu­men­ta­ry focus is not on the child­ren but on tho­se who take the par­ents’ place. They some­ti­mes remind us of Don Quixote til­ting at the wind­mills, for the­re is a dif­fu­si­on of respon­si­bi­li­ty bet­ween school, youth wel­fa­re ser­vices, and absent mothers and fathers. Words fail when adults do not keep appoint­ments, when tho­se in char­ge capi­tu­la­te in the face of racist bul­ly­ing and pro­po­se some “time out” – for the bul­lied boy – in a psych­ia­tric faci­li­ty. It would be easy to denoun­ce the­se mecha­nisms, but that is not the point Daniel Abma wants to make. His obser­va­ti­on, both empha­tic and reser­ved, looks ques­tio­nin­gly into the gaps in the sys­tem – with tho­se who are in dan­ger of fal­ling through and tho­se who try to fill them with affec­tion. He makes us suspect that the ans­wer is not to clo­se all the system’s gaps. It is peo­p­le who are the­re for other peo­p­le and take respon­si­bi­li­ty. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE 2024, 91 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie: Daniel Abma
Kamera: Johannes Praus
Schnitt: Jana Dugnus 

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A film by  Ina Weisse. In German.

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Isabell’s life takes a turn when she rea­li­ses that her elder­ly par­ents can no lon­ger live inde­pendent­ly. The search for carers is dif­fi­cult and the­re are also com­pli­ca­ti­ons in her mar­ria­ge to Philippe. She shut­tles bet­ween Berlin and her par­ents’ weekend house, a striking moder­nist buil­ding desi­gned by her pro­mi­nent father hims­elf in bet­ter days. There, Isabell repea­ted­ly encoun­ters the enig­ma­tic Anja, a sin­gle mother who is strugg­ling to make ends meet. An unex­pec­ted bond beg­ins to form. The more Anja and her daugh­ter Greta beco­me part of Isabell’s life, the more uncer­tain she feels about the exis­tence she has so careful­ly built for hers­elf. Isabell sen­ses the ground shif­ting beneath her feet as she incre­asing­ly loses control.

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DE/FR 2024, 100 Min.,
Regie:  Ina Weisse 
Kamera: Judith Kaufmann
Schnitt: Hansjörg Weißbrich
mit Nina Hoss, Saskia Rosendahl, Vincent Macaigne, Thorsten Merten

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Der Alexander Verlag Berlin lädt zu einem »Mobilitätsnachmittag« ein:

Wo kom­men bloß die vie­len Autos her und wie wer­den wir sie wie­der los?

Zur Zukunft der Mobilität

Wann: 19. Juli 2025, 15:00 Uhr und 17:00 Uhr

Wo: fsk Kino am Oranienplatz, Segitzdamm 2, 10969 Berlin

15 Uhr: Buchvorstellung & Gespräch / Eintritt frei!

Fast 50 Millionen Pkw sind bun­des­weit zuge­las­sen, so vie­le wie nie zuvor. Allerdings machen immer mehr Staus und eine maro­de Infrastruktur die »freie Fahrt für freie Bürger« zuneh­mend beschwer­lich. Läuft beim Auto viel­leicht längst schon der Abspann, ohne dass wir es bemer­ken? Wie könn­te über­haupt die Zukunft des Autos aus­se­hen? Welche Rolle spielt Berlin dabei?

Der Soziologe und Mobilitätsforscher Andreas Knie, der zuletzt im Alexander Verlag Berlin das Buch »Wo kom­men bloß die vie­len Autos her und wie wer­den wir sie wie­der los?« ver­öf­fent­licht hat, dis­ku­tiert mit Thomas Mohnke (SafeDriver Group GmbH/ Uber) und Philipp Reth (Chef des Programms Autonomes Fahren bei VW).

17 Uhr: Berliner Filmpremiere / Eintritt: 10 Euro (ermä­ßigt 8 Euro). Tickets unter: xxx

Der Film »Der auto­mo­bi­le Mensch –Irrwege einer Gesellschaft und mög­li­che Auswege« (A 2024, 90 min.) des Stadtplaners Reinhard Seiß reflek­tiert das gegen­wär­ti­ge Verkehrsgeschehen in all sei­nen räum­li­chen, öko­lo­gi­schen, öko­no­mi­schen und gesell­schaft­li­chen Ausprägungen und ent­larvt die direk­ten und indi­rek­ten Treiber des »Systems Auto«.

Reinhard Seiß ist ein ehe­ma­li­ger Student des Wiener Verkehrsplaners Hermann Knoflacher, des­sen Buch »VIRUS AUTO 4.0 Lebensraum für Mensch und Natur in Stadt und Land« 2023 im Alexander Verlag Berlin erschie­nen ist.

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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A film by Kevin Macdonald.

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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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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

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A film by Martín Rejtman. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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Gustavo loses the harm­o­ny in his life when his wife lea­ves him, he loses his home and an inju­ry pre­vents him from con­ti­nuing his work: tea­ching yoga. Between tre­mors, rob­be­ries, hos­pi­tals, motor­cy­cles, couple’s the­ra­py, yoga retre­ats, anti-inflamm­a­to­ries and anti­de­pres­sants, Gustavo will try to avo­id the fall. THE PRACTICE is a natu­ra­li­stic and deli­rious come­dy about the dra­ma of approa­ching 50.

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US/AR/CL/PT 2023, 93 Min. spa­ni­sche OmU,
Regie: Martín Rejtman
Kamera: Hugo Azevedo
Schnitt: Frederico Rotstein
mit: Esteban Bigliardi, Manuela Oyarzún, Amparo Noguera, Camila Hirane, Gabriel Cañas

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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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A film by  Ina Weisse. In German.

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Isabell’s life takes a turn when she rea­li­ses that her elder­ly par­ents can no lon­ger live inde­pendent­ly. The search for carers is dif­fi­cult and the­re are also com­pli­ca­ti­ons in her mar­ria­ge to Philippe. She shut­tles bet­ween Berlin and her par­ents’ weekend house, a striking moder­nist buil­ding desi­gned by her pro­mi­nent father hims­elf in bet­ter days. There, Isabell repea­ted­ly encoun­ters the enig­ma­tic Anja, a sin­gle mother who is strugg­ling to make ends meet. An unex­pec­ted bond beg­ins to form. The more Anja and her daugh­ter Greta beco­me part of Isabell’s life, the more uncer­tain she feels about the exis­tence she has so careful­ly built for hers­elf. Isabell sen­ses the ground shif­ting beneath her feet as she incre­asing­ly loses control.

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DE/FR 2024, 100 Min.,
Regie:  Ina Weisse 
Kamera: Judith Kaufmann
Schnitt: Hansjörg Weißbrich
mit Nina Hoss, Saskia Rosendahl, Vincent Macaigne, Thorsten Merten

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A film by Robert Guédiguian. In French with German subtitles.

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In the working-class dis­trict of old Marseilles, Rosa is the heart and soul of her com­mu­ni­ty, a nur­se and the matri­arch of a lar­ge and clo­se-knit fami­ly. But approa­ching reti­re­ment and sur­roun­ded by poli­ti­cal iner­tia, she is fee­ling dis­il­lu­sio­ned. Until she meets Henri and rea­li­ses it is never too late to ful­fil her own poli­ti­cal and per­so­nal dreams.

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Et la fête con­ti­nue ! 
FR/IT 2023, 106 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Robert Guédiguian
Kamera: Pierre Milon
Schnitt: Bernard Sasia
mit: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Lola Naymark, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Robinson Stévenin.

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Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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