Happy Holidays

A film by Scandar Copti. In Arabic and Hebrew with German subtitles.

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A midd­le-class Palestinian fami­ly in Haifa sees life spi­ral out of con­trol under the oppres­si­ve rea­li­ty of con­tem­po­ra­ry Israeli society.

The daugh­ter, Fifi, is stu­dy­ing in Jerusalem and gets into a car acci­dent; the son, Toufic, is invol­ved in secret roman­tic liai­sons and must con­t­end with an unwan­ted pregnan­cy; and the father is embroi­led in what could amount to insu­rance fraud. 

Oscar nomi­nee Scandar Copti (Ajami, 2009) pres­ents a grip­ping fami­ly dra­ma as his second fea­ture film. Led by an ensem­ble of non-pro­fes­sio­nal actors, it inter­wea­ves the sto­ries of mul­ti­ple cha­rac­ters who­se fates are unde­ni­ably – and res­entful­ly – inter­lin­ked. The cha­rac­ters in this mas­terful­ly writ­ten screen­play, groun­ded in inti­ma­te por­tra­yals of moral rela­ti­vism, walk a fine line bet­ween con­ce­ding to and resis­ting the sta­tus quo of Israeli sta­te vio­lence. The film pre­mie­red at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay.

Credits:

PS/DE/FR/IT/QT 2025, 123 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Scandar Copti
Kamera:
Tim Kuhn
mit: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Meirav Memorsky, Toufic Danial

Trailer:
nach oben

Category: Vorstellung

  • Happy Holidays

    Happy Holidays

    A film by Scandar Copti. In Arabic and Hebrew with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    A midd­le-class Palestinian fami­ly in Haifa sees life spi­ral out of con­trol under the oppres­si­ve rea­li­ty of con­tem­po­ra­ry Israeli society.

    The daugh­ter, Fifi, is stu­dy­ing in Jerusalem and gets into a car acci­dent; the son, Toufic, is invol­ved in secret roman­tic liai­sons and must con­t­end with an unwan­ted pregnan­cy; and the father is embroi­led in what could amount to insu­rance fraud. 

    Oscar nomi­nee Scandar Copti (Ajami, 2009) pres­ents a grip­ping fami­ly dra­ma as his second fea­ture film. Led by an ensem­ble of non-pro­fes­sio­nal actors, it inter­wea­ves the sto­ries of mul­ti­ple cha­rac­ters who­se fates are unde­ni­ably – and res­entful­ly – inter­lin­ked. The cha­rac­ters in this mas­terful­ly writ­ten screen­play, groun­ded in inti­ma­te por­tra­yals of moral rela­ti­vism, walk a fine line bet­ween con­ce­ding to and resis­ting the sta­tus quo of Israeli sta­te vio­lence. The film pre­mie­red at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay.

    Credits:

    PS/DE/FR/IT/QT 2025, 123 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch OmU
    Regie & Schnitt: Scandar Copti
    Kamera:
    Tim Kuhn
    mit: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Meirav Memorsky, Toufic Danial

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • In die Sonne schauen

    In die Sonne schauen

    A film by Mascha Schilinski. In German.

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    Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in nor­t­hern Germany. As the home evol­ves over a cen­tu­ry, echo­es of the past lin­ger in its walls. Though sepa­ra­ted by time, their lives begin to mir­ror each other.

    Cannes 2025 – Jury Prize

    Credits:

    DE 2024, 149 Min.,
    Regie: Mascha Schilinski
    Kamera: Fabian Gamper

    Schnitt: Evelyn Rack
    Darsteller*innen: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt

    Trailer:
    Kinotrailer „In die Sonne schau­en” – Kinostart 28. August 2025
    nach oben

  • Wenn der Herbst naht

    Wenn der Herbst naht

    A film by François Ozon. In French with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Michelle, a model grand­mo­ther, is enjoy­ing peaceful reti­re­ment in a Burgundy vil­la­ge, clo­se to her best fri­end Marie-Claude. On All Saints‘ Day, her daugh­ter Valérie arri­ves to drop off her grand­son Lucas for the school holi­day week. But not­hing will go to plan.

    Credits:

    Quand vient l’au­t­om­ne
    FR 2024, 102 Min., frz. OmU
    Regie: François Ozon
    Kamera: Jérôme Alméras
    Schnitt: Anita Roth
    mit: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier

    Trailer:
    Wenn der Herbst naht | Teaser OmU HD | Im Kino – Regie: François Ozon
    nach oben
  • Happy Holidays

    Happy Holidays

    A film by Scandar Copti. In Arabic and Hebrew with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    A midd­le-class Palestinian fami­ly in Haifa sees life spi­ral out of con­trol under the oppres­si­ve rea­li­ty of con­tem­po­ra­ry Israeli society.

    The daugh­ter, Fifi, is stu­dy­ing in Jerusalem and gets into a car acci­dent; the son, Toufic, is invol­ved in secret roman­tic liai­sons and must con­t­end with an unwan­ted pregnan­cy; and the father is embroi­led in what could amount to insu­rance fraud. 

    Oscar nomi­nee Scandar Copti (Ajami, 2009) pres­ents a grip­ping fami­ly dra­ma as his second fea­ture film. Led by an ensem­ble of non-pro­fes­sio­nal actors, it inter­wea­ves the sto­ries of mul­ti­ple cha­rac­ters who­se fates are unde­ni­ably – and res­entful­ly – inter­lin­ked. The cha­rac­ters in this mas­terful­ly writ­ten screen­play, groun­ded in inti­ma­te por­tra­yals of moral rela­ti­vism, walk a fine line bet­ween con­ce­ding to and resis­ting the sta­tus quo of Israeli sta­te vio­lence. The film pre­mie­red at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay.

    Credits:

    PS/DE/FR/IT/QT 2025, 123 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch OmU
    Regie & Schnitt: Scandar Copti
    Kamera:
    Tim Kuhn
    mit: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Meirav Memorsky, Toufic Danial

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • Wenn der Herbst naht

    Wenn der Herbst naht

    A film by François Ozon. In French with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Michelle, a model grand­mo­ther, is enjoy­ing peaceful reti­re­ment in a Burgundy vil­la­ge, clo­se to her best fri­end Marie-Claude. On All Saints‘ Day, her daugh­ter Valérie arri­ves to drop off her grand­son Lucas for the school holi­day week. But not­hing will go to plan.

    Credits:

    Quand vient l’au­t­om­ne
    FR 2024, 102 Min., frz. OmU
    Regie: François Ozon
    Kamera: Jérôme Alméras
    Schnitt: Anita Roth
    mit: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier

    Trailer:
    Wenn der Herbst naht | Teaser OmU HD | Im Kino – Regie: François Ozon
    nach oben
  • 35k: Jessica Forever

    35k: Jessica Forever

    A scree­ning and dis­cus­sion in coope­ra­ti­on with 35k Guests: Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel. September 11th at 8pm at the fsk.

    [Credits] [Tickets] [Trailer]

    In a near-future world whe­re orpha­ned boys are hun­ted and sta­te vio­lence is omni­pre­sent, Jessica offers sanc­tua­ry. She is beau­tiful, mys­te­rious, and unwa­ve­ring in her mis­si­on to save and care for a band of lost young men, all of them vio­lent out­casts see­king a new kind of ten­der­ness. Together they form a fra­gi­le fami­ly, hiding out in sub­ur­ban vil­las, wan­de­ring through forests and emp­ty par­king lots, year­ning for peace in a world that has no space for soft­ness. Blending fairy tale and dys­to­pia, video game aes­the­tics and quiet melan­cho­ly, Jessica Forever tells a radi­cal sto­ry of care and cho­sen fami­ly, whe­re vio­lence and vul­nerabi­li­ty con­stant­ly col­l­i­de. Poggi and Vinel’s film is a poe­tic, gen­re-defy­ing visi­on of youth on the edge.

    ABOUT
    Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel are French film­ma­kers who have work­ed tog­e­ther sin­ce their stu­dies at La Fémis in Paris. Known for their distinc­ti­ve visu­al lan­guage blen­ding inter­net aes­the­tics, ado­le­s­cent lon­ging, and cine­ma­tic lyri­cism, they first gai­ned reco­gni­ti­on with their short film Tant qu’il nous res­te des fusils à pom­pe, which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale in 2014. Jessica Forever is their debut fea­ture and pre­mie­red at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. Their films con­ti­nue to screen suc­cessful­ly at inter­na­tio­nal fes­ti­vals — inclu­ding Rotterdam, Locarno, and IndieLisboa — and span across for­mats such as shorts, music vide­os, and video instal­la­ti­ons. Their work per­sis­t­ent­ly explo­res the­mes of vio­lence, ten­der­ness, and uto­pian longing.

    Credits:

    Fr 2018, 97 Min., frz. OmeU
    Regie:
    Caroline Poggi und Jonathan Vinel
    Kamera: Marine Atlan
    Schnitt: Vincent Tricon
    mit: Aomi Muyock, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Augustin Raguenet, Lukas Ionesco, Eddy Suiveng, Paul Hamy, Maya Coline, Angelina Woreth

    Trailer:
    Jessica Forever (2020) Official Trailer
    nach oben
  • filmPOLSKA – Under The Volcano

    filmPOLSKA – Under The Volcano

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    Pod wul­ka­nem / Under The Volcano / Unter dem Vulkan

    [Tickets]

    PL 2024
    R: Damian Kocur
    105 min, OmdU
    B: Damian Kocur & Marta Konarzewska
    K: Nikita Kuzmenko
    S: Alan Zejer
    D: Sofiia Berezovska, Anastasia Karpenko, Roman Lutskyi, Fedir Pugachov u. a.
    Eine Patchwork-Familie aus der ukrai­ni­schen Hauptstadt Kyiw macht Urlaub auf Teneriffa. Kurz vor der Heimreise erreicht sie die Nachricht, dass zu Hause Krieg ist, ihr Flug wur­de gecan­celt. Auf den ers­ten Blick ist die Familie im Paradies gestran­det. Sie darf sogar kos­ten­los im Hotel blei­ben. Aber nie­mand kann fröh­lich Urlaub machen, wenn die Heimatstadt bom­bar­diert wird und Verwandte und Freunde in einem Zug nach Westen oder im Bunker sit­zen. Wie wird es wei­ter­ge­hen? Warum inter­es­siert sich hier eigent­lich kein Mensch dafür, was in Osteuropa pas­siert? Sollen sie heim­keh­ren oder blei­ben?
    Über die­se Fragen und über aller­lei Kleinigkeiten gera­ten die Eltern immer wie­der in Streit. Währenddessen kap­selt sich die 15-jäh­ri­ge Tochter zuneh­mend ab und geht ihren eige­nen Weg. Über der Szenerie thront der ruhen­de Vulkan Pico del Teide. Er ver­deut­licht einer­seits, wie weit ent­fernt vom Grauen die Familie schein­bar (noch) ist, und sym­bo­li­siert ande­rer­seits, wie sehr es unter der Oberfläche mit Sonne, Strand und Straßenfesten bro­delt.
    Wie bereits in sei­nem Debüt „Chleb i sól / Brot und Salz“ erzählt Damian Kocur
    hoch­kon­zen­triert und mit doku­men­ta­ri­schem Duktus in bei­läu­fi­gen Szenen ohne Übergänge, Kunstlicht und auf­wän­di­ge Effekte eine Geschichte über Menschen wie du und ich, die durch ihre Alltäglichkeit unter die Haut geht. [Rainer Mende]
    Vorführungen in Kooperation mit dem FilmFestival Cottbus

    11.09. / 20:00 / fsk Kino / zu Gast: Damian Kocur

    wei­te­re filmPOLSKA Termine:

    • vorbei 
    UNDER THE VOLCANO by Damian Kocur (2024) – TRAILER
  • Wenn der Herbst naht

    Wenn der Herbst naht

    A film by François Ozon. In French with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Michelle, a model grand­mo­ther, is enjoy­ing peaceful reti­re­ment in a Burgundy vil­la­ge, clo­se to her best fri­end Marie-Claude. On All Saints‘ Day, her daugh­ter Valérie arri­ves to drop off her grand­son Lucas for the school holi­day week. But not­hing will go to plan.

    Credits:

    Quand vient l’au­t­om­ne
    FR 2024, 102 Min., frz. OmU
    Regie: François Ozon
    Kamera: Jérôme Alméras
    Schnitt: Anita Roth
    mit: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier

    Trailer:
    Wenn der Herbst naht | Teaser OmU HD | Im Kino – Regie: François Ozon
    nach oben
  • Happy Holidays

    Happy Holidays

    A film by Scandar Copti. In Arabic and Hebrew with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    A midd­le-class Palestinian fami­ly in Haifa sees life spi­ral out of con­trol under the oppres­si­ve rea­li­ty of con­tem­po­ra­ry Israeli society.

    The daugh­ter, Fifi, is stu­dy­ing in Jerusalem and gets into a car acci­dent; the son, Toufic, is invol­ved in secret roman­tic liai­sons and must con­t­end with an unwan­ted pregnan­cy; and the father is embroi­led in what could amount to insu­rance fraud. 

    Oscar nomi­nee Scandar Copti (Ajami, 2009) pres­ents a grip­ping fami­ly dra­ma as his second fea­ture film. Led by an ensem­ble of non-pro­fes­sio­nal actors, it inter­wea­ves the sto­ries of mul­ti­ple cha­rac­ters who­se fates are unde­ni­ably – and res­entful­ly – inter­lin­ked. The cha­rac­ters in this mas­terful­ly writ­ten screen­play, groun­ded in inti­ma­te por­tra­yals of moral rela­ti­vism, walk a fine line bet­ween con­ce­ding to and resis­ting the sta­tus quo of Israeli sta­te vio­lence. The film pre­mie­red at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay.

    Credits:

    PS/DE/FR/IT/QT 2025, 123 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch OmU
    Regie & Schnitt: Scandar Copti
    Kamera:
    Tim Kuhn
    mit: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Meirav Memorsky, Toufic Danial

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • filmPOLSKA – Glorious Summer

    filmPOLSKA – Glorious Summer

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    [Tickets]

    PL 2025
    R/B: Helena Ganjalyan & Bartosz Szpak
    89 min, OmeU
    K: Tomasz Woźniczka
    S: Alan Zejer
    M: Bartosz Szpak
    D: Magdalena Fejdasz-Hanczewska, Helena Ganjalyan, Daniela Komędera, Weronika
    Humaj u. a.

    Irgendwo im Nirgendwo, jen­seits von Raum und Zeit, brö­ckelt ein Schloss vor sich hin. Es hat nur drei Bewohnerinnen, die bei per­ma­nent som­mer­li­chem Wetter in leich­te Bekleidung und blen­den­des Licht gehüllt ein auf den ers­ten Blick sorg­lo­ses Leben füh­ren. Doch da ist noch etwas. Eine Stimme, die aus jedem Winkel des Hauses den Takt angibt – sie erklärt, wie gut es die Mädchen haben, wäh­rend die­se regel­mä­ßig Rechenschaft able­gen müs­sen.
    Aber in den weni­gen Momenten, in denen sich die jun­gen Frauen unbe­ob­ach­tet füh­len, üben sie für den Ernstfall – für den Moment, in dem sie die­sen Ort ver­las­sen. Denn trotz aller Idylle ist nicht ersicht­lich, ob es sich um das Paradies oder ein streng kon­trol­lier­tes Gefängnis han­delt – Gehirnwäsche inklu­si­ve.
    In for­mal redu­zier­ten, erst nach und nach ihre Geheimnisse preis­ge­ben­den Szenen kippt die schein­ba­re Utopie lang­sam in eine Dystopie und ent­wi­ckelt sich damit zur Parabel über Zuckerbrot und Peitsche, Methoden der Bestrafung und die sub­ti­le Installation eines tota­li­tä­ren Apparats. [Rainer Mende]

    12.09. / 20:00 / fsk Kino / zu Gast: Helena Ganjalyan & Bartosz Szpak

    wei­te­re filmPOLSKA Termine:

    • vorbei 
    GLORIOUS SUMMER | offi­ci­al inter­na­tio­nal trai­ler | ofic­jal­ny trai­ler międzynarodowy