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A film by Ildikó Enyedi. In German and English with German subtitles.

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In the heart of a bota­ni­cal gar­den in a medieval uni­ver­si­ty town in Germany stands a maje­s­tic gink­go tree. This silent wit­ness has obser­ved over a cen­tu­ry the quiet rhyth­ms of trans­for­ma­ti­on across three human lives.
2020, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist from Hong Kong, explo­ring the mind of babies, beg­ins an unex­pec­ted expe­ri­ment with the old tree.
1972, a young stu­dent is pro­found­ly chan­ged by the simp­le act of obser­ving and con­nec­ting with a gera­ni­um.
1908, the university’s first fema­le stu­dent dis­co­vers, through the lens of pho­to­gra­phy, sacred pat­terns of the uni­ver­se hid­den within the hum­blest of plants.
We fol­low their clum­sy, awk­ward attempts to con­nect — each one of them deep­ly roo­ted in their own pre­sent — as they are trans­for­med by the quiet, endu­ring, and mys­te­rious power of natu­re. The anci­ent gink­go tree brings us clo­ser to what it means to be human — to our lon­ging to belong.

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DE/HU/FR 2025, 147 Min., deutsch, eng­li­sche OmU
Regie: Ildikó Enyedi
Kamera: Gergely Pálos
Schnitt: Károly Szala
mit: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, Léa Seydoux

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A film by Sarah Miro Fischer. In German and English with English and German subtitles.

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Rose is very clo­se to her older brot­her Sam. When he is accu­sed of rape, Rose is asked to testi­fy against him as part of the inves­ti­ga­ti­on. This tests both their rela­ti­onship and Rose’s moral inte­gri­ty.
In Schwesterherz, direc­tor Sarah Miro Fischer explo­res an inti­ma­te sibling rela­ti­onship and how it is that the clo­ser we are to ano­ther per­son, the har­der it might be to see them cle­ar­ly. What kind of events have the power to des­troy even the clo­sest of bonds? When working on her film with the actors, she pla­ced par­ti­cu­lar empha­sis on phy­si­cal expres­si­on in order to be able to tell sto­ries bey­ond the spo­ken word.

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DE/ES 2025, 96 Min., Deutsch, Englisch OmU
Regie: Sarah Miro Fischer
Kamera: Selma von Polheim Gravesen
Schnitt: Elena Weihe
mit: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chirwa

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A film by Ildikó Enyedi. In German and English with German subtitles.

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In the heart of a bota­ni­cal gar­den in a medieval uni­ver­si­ty town in Germany stands a maje­s­tic gink­go tree. This silent wit­ness has obser­ved over a cen­tu­ry the quiet rhyth­ms of trans­for­ma­ti­on across three human lives.
2020, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist from Hong Kong, explo­ring the mind of babies, beg­ins an unex­pec­ted expe­ri­ment with the old tree.
1972, a young stu­dent is pro­found­ly chan­ged by the simp­le act of obser­ving and con­nec­ting with a gera­ni­um.
1908, the university’s first fema­le stu­dent dis­co­vers, through the lens of pho­to­gra­phy, sacred pat­terns of the uni­ver­se hid­den within the hum­blest of plants.
We fol­low their clum­sy, awk­ward attempts to con­nect — each one of them deep­ly roo­ted in their own pre­sent — as they are trans­for­med by the quiet, endu­ring, and mys­te­rious power of natu­re. The anci­ent gink­go tree brings us clo­ser to what it means to be human — to our lon­ging to belong.

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DE/HU/FR 2025, 147 Min., deutsch, eng­li­sche OmU
Regie: Ildikó Enyedi
Kamera: Gergely Pálos
Schnitt: Károly Szala
mit: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, Léa Seydoux

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A film by Joachim Trier. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Festival, the spraw­ling inter­ge­ne­ra­tio­nal dra­ma AFFEKSJONSVERDI sees wri­ter-direc­tor Joachim Trier team­ing up once more with Renate Reinsve, the brea­kout star of his cele­bra­ted exis­ten­ti­al rom-com VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE (2021). Reinsve plays Nora, a gifted stage and tele­vi­si­on actress we first see having an uproa­rious back­stage break­down befo­re her ope­ning night per­for­mance of Chekhov’s The Seagull. When her estran­ged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), reap­pears, he offers her a part in film he’s writ­ten about his mother, who was tor­tu­red by Nazis and died by sui­ci­de. Nora refu­ses, lea­ding Gustav to cast a Hollywood actress (Elle Fanning) in her stead. By tur­ning their Oslo fami­ly home into his own film set, Gustav upen­ds not just Nora’s life but that of her more well-adjus­ted sis­ter (Inga Lilleaas), a for­mer child actor who star­red in one of Gustav’s ear­ly films. Brimming with fami­li­al resent­ments and artis­tic anxie­ties yet distin­gu­is­hed by an awk­ward, under­sta­ted sen­se of humour, AFFEKSJONSVERDI is an absor­bing ensem­ble pie­ce about explo­ita­ti­on, memo­ry and legacy—and the power of artis­tic crea­ti­on to both heal past wounds and defer hard truths. (Beatrice Loayza)

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Affeksjonsverdi
DK/DE/FR/NO 2025, 132 Min., Norwegisch mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie & Schnitt: Joachim Trier
Kamera: Kasper Tuxen
Schnitt: Olivier Bugge Coutté
mit: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas

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A film by Asaf Saban. In Polish, English, Hebrew with German subtitles.

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“They want you to say some­thing in Hebrew. Like a pray­er or bles­sing.” – “I don’t know what to say, so … like … I pre­fer not to do that.” – “Ok, but just some­thing short. And then they’ll lea­ve you alone.”

The end of school is approa­ching. Together with their class and a Shoah sur­vi­vor, Frisch, Nitzan and Ido embark on a bus trip through Poland to visit for­mer con­cen­tra­ti­on camps and memo­ri­als of the Shoah. The trip, which is cus­to­ma­ry for teen­agers in Israel, con­fronts them with their iden­ti­ty, some­ti­mes in a very emo­tio­nal way. Simultaneously, as on every school trip, group dyna­mics, emo­tio­nal con­fu­si­on and con­flicts of desi­re are also pre­sent. Ha’Mishlahat tells of a cul­tu­re of remem­brance from the per­spec­ti­ve of young Israelis, who­se lively ener­gy col­l­i­des with a sta­tic sys­tem of memo­ri­al sites and modes. tells of a cul­tu­re of remem­brance from the per­spec­ti­ve of young Israelis, who­se lively ener­gy col­l­i­des with a sta­tic sys­tem of memo­ri­al sites and modes.

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Ha’Mishlahat
IL/PL/DE 2023, 101 Min., Polish, English, Hebrew OmU
Regie: Asaf Saban
Kamera: Bogumił Godfrejów
Schnitt: Michal Oppenheim
mit: Neomi Harari, Yoav Bavly, Leib Lev Levin,
Ezra Dagan, Alma Dishy u. a.

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

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Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unas­sum­ing employee in his ear­ly thir­ties, attends his mother’s fun­e­ral wit­hout shed­ding a tear. The next day, he beg­ins a casu­al affair with Marie, a work col­le­ague, and quick­ly slips back into his usu­al rou­ti­ne.
However, his dai­ly life is soon dis­rupt­ed by his neigh­bour, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings — until, on one blis­te­rin­gly hot day, a tra­gic event occurs on a beach.

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L’Étranger
FR 2025, 120 Min., fran­zö­si­sche OmU
Regie: François Ozon
Kamera: Manu Dacosse
Schnitt: Clément Selitzki
mit: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant, Swann Arlaud

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A film by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter. In Russian, Belarusian, English, Mandarin with German subtitles.

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A Belarusian model dre­a­ming of a care­er in China finds hers­elf drawn to a mys­te­rious loner who works the night shift at a mor­gue. Their encoun­ter unsett­les her sen­se of body, beau­ty, and mor­ta­li­ty. The fra­gi­le love sto­ry of two out­si­ders who turn each other’s worlds upsi­de down and dis­co­ver that they are not alone.

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DE/AT 2025, 115 Min., Russian, Belarusian, English, Mandarin OmU
Regie: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
Kamera: Mikhail Khursevich
Schnitt: Stephan Bechinger
mit: Marya Imbro, Mikhail Senkov

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A film by Ildikó Enyedi. In German and English with German subtitles.

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In the heart of a bota­ni­cal gar­den in a medieval uni­ver­si­ty town in Germany stands a maje­s­tic gink­go tree. This silent wit­ness has obser­ved over a cen­tu­ry the quiet rhyth­ms of trans­for­ma­ti­on across three human lives.
2020, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist from Hong Kong, explo­ring the mind of babies, beg­ins an unex­pec­ted expe­ri­ment with the old tree.
1972, a young stu­dent is pro­found­ly chan­ged by the simp­le act of obser­ving and con­nec­ting with a gera­ni­um.
1908, the university’s first fema­le stu­dent dis­co­vers, through the lens of pho­to­gra­phy, sacred pat­terns of the uni­ver­se hid­den within the hum­blest of plants.
We fol­low their clum­sy, awk­ward attempts to con­nect — each one of them deep­ly roo­ted in their own pre­sent — as they are trans­for­med by the quiet, endu­ring, and mys­te­rious power of natu­re. The anci­ent gink­go tree brings us clo­ser to what it means to be human — to our lon­ging to belong.

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DE/HU/FR 2025, 147 Min., deutsch, eng­li­sche OmU
Regie: Ildikó Enyedi
Kamera: Gergely Pálos
Schnitt: Károly Szala
mit: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, Léa Seydoux

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A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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Vahid, who was once impri­so­ned and tor­tu­red by the Iranian aut­ho­ri­ties, meets a man he belie­ves to have been his most sadi­stic tor­tu­rer. He can’t be sure though, as he was blind­fold­ed during the inter­ro­ga­ti­ons. Intent on vio­lent reven­ge but afraid of hur­ting an inno­cent per­son, he kid­naps the man and asks ano­ther for­mer inma­te to cor­rob­ora­te his sus­pi­ci­on. Neither abso­lut­e­ly con­fi­dent, they deci­de to track down other sur­vi­vors. The group keeps gro­wing as they dri­ve around in Vahid’s van with their pri­soner in tow, despera­te­ly pur­suing a cer­tain­ty that remains just bey­ond reach. A taut thril­ler nuan­ced by an under­cur­rent of absur­dist far­ce, YEK TASADOF‑E SADEH, win­ner of this year’s Palme d’Or, is Jafar Panahi’s most out­spo­ken and expli­cit­ly poli­ti­cal film to date. That it was made after he was hims­elf released from Tehran’s noto­rious Evin Prison gives the sto­ry an obvious auto­bio­gra­phi­cal dimen­si­on. Yet its moral impli­ca­ti­ons extend bey­ond the per­so­nal to encom­pass all of Iranian socie­ty in the wake of the Woman, Life, Freedom pro­tests. Now that new free­doms have been achie­ved, ope­ning an unpre­ce­den­ted win­dow of oppor­tu­ni­ty, the film sets the desi­re for ven­ge­an­ce against the impe­ra­ti­ve to keep pushing for­ward. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

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Yek tasa­def sadeh یک تصادف ساده,
IR/FR/LU 2025, 102 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Jafar Panahi
Kamera: Amin Jafari
Schnitt: Amir Etminan
mit: Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten

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