Category: Vorstellung

A film by Kathryn Bigelow. In English with German subtitles.

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When a sin­gle, unat­tri­bu­ted mis­sile is laun­ched at the United States, a race beg­ins to deter­mi­ne who is respon­si­ble and how to respond.

Director’s Statement
I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was con­side­red the go-to pro­to­col for sur­vi­ving an ato­mic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the thre­at felt so imme­dia­te that such mea­su­res were taken serious­ly. Today, the dan­ger has only escala­ted. Multiple nati­ons pos­sess enough nuclear wea­pons to end civi­li­sa­ti­on within minu­tes. And yet, there’s a kind of coll­ec­ti­ve numb­ness — a quiet nor­ma­li­sa­ti­on of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defen­se” when the ine­vi­ta­ble out­co­me is total des­truc­tion?
I wan­ted to make a film that con­fronts this para­dox — to explo­re the mad­ness of a world that lives under the con­stant shadow of anni­hi­la­ti­on, yet rare­ly speaks of it.

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US 2025, 112 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Kathryn Bigelow
Kamera: Barry Ackroyd
Schnitt: Kirk Baxter
mit: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jason Clarke, Greta Lee, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram und Jonah Hauer-King

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A film by Marie Luise Lehner. Starts October 2nd at the fsk. In German, German Sign Language & English with German subtitles.

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Slowly, 12-year-old Anna and her deaf mum are start­ing to feel a bit cram­ped in their flat. It’s not just the lack of pri­va­cy that’s caus­ing fric­tion – Anna has just star­ted secon­da­ry school and quick­ly rea­li­ses what’s important now: brand-name clo­thes and a sen­se of belon­ging. She quick­ly gets hold of a fake Ralph Lauren jum­per, but money’s still tight. In her debut, direc­tor and aut­hor Marie Luise Lehner stages a con­fron­ta­ti­on with clas­sist struc­tures, which Anna tack­les with a mix­tu­re of shame and grit. She finds an ally in Mara, who chal­lenges others with femi­nist issues and who also lives alo­ne with her que­er father. Lehner stands by her heroes uncon­di­tio­nal­ly, giving them space for intro­s­pec­tion and out­bursts, allo­wing them to row back and recon­ci­le. Not fit­ting in allows them to get to know and app­re­cia­te who they are. Lehner flies the flag of soli­da­ri­ty, quite natu­ral­ly and with ple­nty of refe­ren­ces to pop cul­tu­re. And clo­ses with a libe­ra­ting “Fuck you, Vienna”, high abo­ve the city’s rooftops.

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AT 2025, 87 Min., Deutsch, Deutsche Gebärdensprache, Englisch OmU
Regie: Marie Luise Lehner
Kamera: Simone Hart
Schnitt: Jana Libnik, Joana Scrinzi, Alexandra Schneider
mit: Siena Popović, Mariya Menner, Jessica Paar, Daniel Sea

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A film by Martina Priessner. In German and Turkish with German and Turkish subtitles.

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In November 1992, a racist arson attack in Mölln shat­te­red the lives of İbrahim Arslan and his fami­ly. At just seven years old, İbrahim sur­vi­ved, but he lost his sis­ter, his cou­sin and his grand­mo­ther. In the after­math of the attacks, the city recei­ved hundreds of let­ters of soli­da­ri­ty which were igno­red for near­ly three deca­des. Woven into İbrahim’s poignant jour­ney of dis­co­very and his encoun­ters with three let­ter wri­ters, the­se redis­co­ver­ed let­ters form a visu­al and emo­tio­nal bridge bet­ween past and pre­sent. The film fol­lows İbrahim and his siblings, pain­ting a com­plex por­trait of the las­ting trau­ma that con­ti­nues to affect them to this day. While İbrahim has found a way to cope by fight­ing against racism and advo­ca­ting for a remem­brance cul­tu­re cent­red on the vic­tims’ per­spec­ti­ves, his brot­her Namik is still at the begin­ning of his jour­ney to come to terms with the trau­ma­tic expe­ri­en­ces.
The film not only ampli­fies the per­spec­ti­ves of the vic­tims and sur­vi­vors but also unco­vers the vibrant soli­da­ri­ty that once exis­ted – a soli­da­ri­ty of which the vic­tims and sur­vi­vors were pre­vious­ly una­wa­re. It offers a new per­spec­ti­ve on remem­brance – one that takes the voices of sur­vi­vors and their expe­ri­en­ces serious­ly and pro­vi­des them with the space and reco­gni­ti­on that they deserve.

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DE 2025, 96 Min., deutsch, tür­ki­sche Originalfassung mit deut­schen und tür­ki­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Martina Priessner 
Schnitt: Maja Tennstedt
Kamera: Ayşe Alacakaptan, Julia Geiß

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A film by Christian Petzold. In German with English subtitles.

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On a weekend trip to the coun­try­si­de, Laura mira­cu­lous­ly sur­vi­ves a car crash. Physically unhurt but deep­ly shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who wit­nessed the acci­dent and now cares for Laura with mother­ly devo­ti­on. When her hus­band and adult son also give up their initi­al resis­tance to Laura’s pre­sence, the four of them slow­ly build up some fami­ly-like rou­ti­ne. But soon they can no lon­ger igno­re their past…

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DE 2025, 86 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Christian Petzold
Schnitt:  Bettina Böhler
Kamera: Hans Fromm
mit: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs

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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.

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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

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A film by Christina Tournatzés. In German with English subtitles.

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1962 – Twelve-year-old Karla is a wit­ness in court. She files char­ges against the very per­son who was sup­po­sed to pro­tect her: Her father. Judge Lamy is the hope at her side.

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DE 2025, 104 Min., deut­sche Originalfassung mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Christina Tournatzés
Kamera: Florian Emmerich
Schnitt: Isabel Meier
mit: Elise Krieps, Rainer Bock, Imogen Kogge, Torben Liebrecht, Katharina Schüttler

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A film by Radu Jude. In Romanian, Hungarian and German with German subtitles.

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Cluj, Transylvania. After being dri­ven from his shel­ter in a house cel­lar, a home­l­ess man com­mits sui­ci­de. Orsolya, the bai­liff who car­ri­ed out the evic­tion, is impel­led to make various attempts to address her fee­lings of guilt. Using a mix­tu­re of dra­ma and come­dy, topics as diver­se as the housing cri­sis, post-socia­list eco­no­mics, natio­na­lism and the power of lan­guage to main­tain social sta­tus are dis­sec­ted with a sharp, absur­dist scal­pel, in a movie-lite­ra­te nar­ra­ti­ve that plays part­ly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51 – not least in the mode­s­ty of this inde­pen­dent, low-bud­get production’s means. But while in Rossellini’s film a woman’s cri­sis of con­sci­ence leads to meaningful acti­vi­ty, here the prot­ago­nist facing the dilem­ma is unable to find any­bo­dy to under­stand her and beco­mes incre­asing­ly despe­ra­te for exter­nal reassu­rance and vali­da­ti­on, in a man­ner that would be easy to con­demn if Orsolya’s moral rela­ti­vism were not such an uncom­for­ta­b­ly accu­ra­te reflec­tion of a modern-day malai­se from which few of us are whol­ly immune.

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RO 2025, 109 Min., Rumänisch, Ungarisch, Deutsch OmU
Regie: Radu Jude
Schnitt: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Kamera: Marius Panduru
mit: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, Șerban Pavlu, Annamária Biluska, Ilinca Manolache

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A film by Kathryn Bigelow. In English with German subtitles.

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When a sin­gle, unat­tri­bu­ted mis­sile is laun­ched at the United States, a race beg­ins to deter­mi­ne who is respon­si­ble and how to respond.

Director’s Statement
I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was con­side­red the go-to pro­to­col for sur­vi­ving an ato­mic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the thre­at felt so imme­dia­te that such mea­su­res were taken serious­ly. Today, the dan­ger has only escala­ted. Multiple nati­ons pos­sess enough nuclear wea­pons to end civi­li­sa­ti­on within minu­tes. And yet, there’s a kind of coll­ec­ti­ve numb­ness — a quiet nor­ma­li­sa­ti­on of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defen­se” when the ine­vi­ta­ble out­co­me is total des­truc­tion?
I wan­ted to make a film that con­fronts this para­dox — to explo­re the mad­ness of a world that lives under the con­stant shadow of anni­hi­la­ti­on, yet rare­ly speaks of it.

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US 2025, 112 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Kathryn Bigelow
Kamera: Barry Ackroyd
Schnitt: Kirk Baxter
mit: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jason Clarke, Greta Lee, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram und Jonah Hauer-King

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A film by Max Ahrens & Maik Lüdemann

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When, at the begin­ning of 2025, a moti­on on migra­ti­on poli­cy is pas­sed in the Bundestag with the sup­port of the AfD, a par­ty clas­si­fied as right-wing extre­mist, the poli­ti­cal land­scape is shaken and a nati­on­wi­de wave of pro­tests is trig­ge­red. Nevertheless, the so-cal­led ‘migra­ti­on deba­te’ is in full swing and is incre­asing­ly domi­na­ted by right-wing posi­ti­ons that stir up fears and end­an­ger not only human lives at Europe’s exter­nal bor­ders. KEIN LAND FÜR NIEMAND (No Country for Anyone) sets out to inves­ti­ga­te the cau­ses of this development.

The film crew accom­pa­nies a civi­li­an res­cue mis­si­on in the Mediterranean, pro­vi­des insight into the tigh­tening of European asyl­um law, lets refu­gees descri­be their per­spec­ti­ves and, in dia­lo­gue with acti­vists, sci­en­tists and publi­cists, ana­ly­ses the dyna­mics behind the shift to the right.

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DE 2025, 111 Min., OmU
Regie: Max Ahrens & Maik Lüdemann
Kamera: Nils Kohstall, Maik Lüdemann
Schnitt: Lino Thaesler

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A film by Kathryn Bigelow. In English with German subtitles.

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When a sin­gle, unat­tri­bu­ted mis­sile is laun­ched at the United States, a race beg­ins to deter­mi­ne who is respon­si­ble and how to respond.

Director’s Statement
I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was con­side­red the go-to pro­to­col for sur­vi­ving an ato­mic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the thre­at felt so imme­dia­te that such mea­su­res were taken serious­ly. Today, the dan­ger has only escala­ted. Multiple nati­ons pos­sess enough nuclear wea­pons to end civi­li­sa­ti­on within minu­tes. And yet, there’s a kind of coll­ec­ti­ve numb­ness — a quiet nor­ma­li­sa­ti­on of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defen­se” when the ine­vi­ta­ble out­co­me is total des­truc­tion?
I wan­ted to make a film that con­fronts this para­dox — to explo­re the mad­ness of a world that lives under the con­stant shadow of anni­hi­la­ti­on, yet rare­ly speaks of it.

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US 2025, 112 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Kathryn Bigelow
Kamera: Barry Ackroyd
Schnitt: Kirk Baxter
mit: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jason Clarke, Greta Lee, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram und Jonah Hauer-King

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