A film by Karim Aïnouz. In Portugese with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] The neon-hued Motel Destino is a roadsi­de sex hotel under the bur­ning blue ski­es of the coast of Northern Brazil, run by the boo­rish Elias and his frus­tra­ted, beau­tiful wife Dayana. When 21 year-old Heraldo finds hims­elf at the motel, […]

A film by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Basel Adra, a young Palestinian acti­vist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fight­ing the mass expul­si­on of his com­mu­ni­ty by Israel’s occu­pa­ti­on sin­ce child­hood. He docu­ments the slow-motion […]

A film by Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert. In Polish with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Set against the land­scape of the Polish trans­for­ma­ti­on from com­mu­nism to capi­ta­lism, Kobieta z… spans 45 years of the life of Aniela Wesoły and her jour­ney to find per­so­nal liber­ty as a trans woman. She faces hardships […]

A film by Mahad Ahmed & Vincenzo Cavallo. On November 14th at the fsk as part of the Afrikamera Festivals. English sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] Nairobi’s Eastleigh dis­trict is home to many exi­led Somalis who have fled the civil war in their home coun­try. Once a year, when the Kenyan US embas­sy opens […]