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A film by Tarik Saleh. In Arabic with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Adam, the son of a fisher­man, is offe­red the ulti­ma­te pri­vi­le­ge to stu­dy at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epi­cen­ter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arri­val in Cairo the university’s hig­hest ran­king reli­gious lea­der, the Grand […]

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A film byAlice Diop. In French with German sub­tit­les [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] French direc­tor Alice Diop has explo­red intra­fa­mi­li­al frac­tures in Afro-European fami­lies in a series of nota­ble docu­men­ta­ries, most recent­ly NOUS (2021). SAINT OMER, her first work of fic­tion, is co-wri­t­­ten with acclai­med aut­hor Marie Ndiaye and con­ti­nues this pro­ject within the […]

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A film by Cem Kaya. In German Turkish and English with German sun­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] The German Federal Republic’s 1961 recruit­ment agree­ment with Turkey not only brought “guest workers” to Germany but also their music. Cem Kaya’s den­se docu­men­ta­ry film essay is a tuto­ri­al in Turkish-German recent histo­ry that tells a tale […]

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A film by Maryam Touzani. In Arabic with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] In their fami­ly tail­or shop in the midd­le of a Moroccan old town, Halim and Mina craft cere­mo­ni­al caft­ans. Business is good, but when Mina falls ill and Halim can no lon­ger hand­le the ons­laught of cus­to­mers on his own, […]

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A film by Hirokazu Kore-Eda. In Korean with German sun­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] A man and his fri­end occa­sio­nal­ly ste­al babies from the church’s baby box and sell them on the adop­ti­on black mar­ket. However, when a young mother comes back after having aban­do­ned her baby, she dis­co­vers them and deci­des to go […]

• Categories: Vorstellung

A film by Tarik Saleh. In Arabic with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Adam, the son of a fisher­man, is offe­red the ulti­ma­te pri­vi­le­ge to stu­dy at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epi­cen­ter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arri­val in Cairo the university’s hig­hest ran­king reli­gious lea­der, the Grand […]

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A film by Michal Blaško. In Ukrainian and Czech with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Irina (43), a sin­gle mother from Ukraine, lives with her son Igor (13) in a small Czech bor­der town. One night she dis­co­vers that Igor has been assaul­ted by three atta­ckers and her who­le world comes cras­hing down. […]

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A film by IAlejandro Loayza Grisi. In Spanish & Quechua with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] In the Bolivian high­lands, an elder­ly Quechua cou­ple has been living the same dai­ly life for years. When an uncom­mon­ly long drought threa­tens their enti­re way of life, Virginio and his wife Sisa face the dilem­ma of […]

• Categories: Vorstellung

A film by Tarik Saleh. In Arabic with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Adam, the son of a fisher­man, is offe­red the ulti­ma­te pri­vi­le­ge to stu­dy at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epi­cen­ter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arri­val in Cairo the university’s hig­hest ran­king reli­gious lea­der, the Grand […]

• Categories: Vorstellung

A film byAlice Diop. In French with German sub­tit­les [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] French direc­tor Alice Diop has explo­red intra­fa­mi­li­al frac­tures in Afro-European fami­lies in a series of nota­ble docu­men­ta­ries, most recent­ly NOUS (2021). SAINT OMER, her first work of fic­tion, is co-wri­t­­ten with acclai­med aut­hor Marie Ndiaye and con­ti­nues this pro­ject within the […]