Motel Destino

A film by Karim Aïnouz. In Portugese with German subtitles.

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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, after mes­sing up a hit and going on the run from both the poli­ce and the gang he let down, Dayana finds hers­elf intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navi­ga­te a dance of power, desi­re and libe­ra­ti­on, a dan­ge­rous plan for free­dom emer­ges. In this tro­pi­cal noir, loyal­ties and desi­res intert­wi­ne, reve­al­ing that desti­ny has its own enig­ma­tic design.

Credits:

BR/DE/FR 2024, 115 Min., Portugiesisch OmU
Regie: Karim Aïnouz
Kamera: Hélène Louvart
Schnitt: Nelly Quettier
mit: Fábio Assunção, Nataly Rocha, Iago Xavier

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  • Motel Destino

    Motel Destino

    A film by Karim Aïnouz. In Portugese with German subtitles.

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    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, after mes­sing up a hit and going on the run from both the poli­ce and the gang he let down, Dayana finds hers­elf intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navi­ga­te a dance of power, desi­re and libe­ra­ti­on, a dan­ge­rous plan for free­dom emer­ges. In this tro­pi­cal noir, loyal­ties and desi­res intert­wi­ne, reve­al­ing that desti­ny has its own enig­ma­tic design.

    Credits:

    BR/DE/FR 2024, 115 Min., Portugiesisch OmU
    Regie: Karim Aïnouz
    Kamera: Hélène Louvart
    Schnitt: Nelly Quettier
    mit: Fábio Assunção, Nataly Rocha, Iago Xavier

    Trailer:
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  • Unlawful Memories – Kurzfilmprogramm

    Unlawful Memories – Kurzfilmprogramm

    [Tickets]

    Plakat

    Introduction of the scree­ning event:
    „The histo­ry of the com­bat against the pan­de­mic should not be tain­ted by lies and mis­lea­ding infor­ma­ti­on; it should be recor­ded with the CORRECT COLLECTIVE MEMORY of all man­kind. ” Said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chun-Ying.
    „抗疫叙事不能被谎言误导玷污,而应留下正确的人类集体记忆。„中国外交部发言人 华春莹。
    „In the gre­at flood of the times, per­so­nal memo­ry is often regard­ed as the super­fluous foam, waves and clamor of the times, and will be weed­ed out, thrown
    away or flung asi­de by the times; it will be ren­de­red as silent and speechl­ess as if it had never exis­ted, and thus the gre­at obli­vi­on arri­ves at the pas­sing of an age of run­ning wheels and water. Flesh and blood with a soul are gone. All is well and quiet, and the small and true ful­crum that could pry the earth is gone. Thus, histo­ry beco­mes a legend, a for­getful­ness and an ima­gi­na­ti­on wit­hout any basis. ” Said Yan
    Lian-Ke.
    „在巨大的时代洪流中,个人记忆往往被视为是时代多余的泡沫、浪花和喧嚣,会被时
    代剔除、扔掉或甩到一边去;会让它无声、无言如同从未存在过,从而在一个⻋轮流
    水的时代过去时,巨大的遗忘到来了。有灵魂的血肉没有了。一切都安泰静好了,能
    够撬动地球那个小而有小的真实支点不在了。如此着,历史就成了无依无据的传说、
    遗忘和想像。„阎连科。
    In this Chinese Independent Short Film Screening, we hope that the­se pre­cious
    per­so­nal memo­ries can be pre­ser­ved, even though per­so­nal memo­ries can’t make a
    dif­fe­rence in the world, they can make us have a true heart.
    在这次中国独立短片放映会上,我们希望可以让这些宝贵的个人记忆得以保留,即便
    个人记忆改变不了世界,但它可以让我们拥有真实的内心。

    The films:

    The Memo 备忘录
    Produced by Badlands Film Group
    制作方:穷山恶水电影小组
    Run time: 30min
    片⻓:30 分钟
    Country: China
    国家:中华人⺠共和国
    Language: Mandarin, with English and sim­pli­fied Chinese sub­tit­les.
    语言:普通话,配有英文和简体中文字幕
    Awards & Festivals: Best Documentary Short Film at the 60th Taiwan Golden Horse
    Awards.
    获奖情况:第 60 届台湾金⻢奖最佳纪录短片奖
    Synopsis:
    This is a video dia­ry of the sur­re­al lock­down made by the film­ma­ker cou­ple who were
    trap­ped in a small, ren­ted apart­ment in Shanghai. In the face of end­less mad­ness,
    the came­ra gra­du­al­ly breaks free from the win­dow and obser­ves a vast social
    iso­la­ti­on unpre­ce­den­ted in the coun­try­’s histo­ry.
    剧情:
    这是一部记录了一对电影导演夫妇在上海被困在一间小租公寓中的超现实封锁生活的
    视频日记。面对无尽的疯狂,摄影机逐渐突破窗户的束缚,观察到了中国历史上前所
    未有的广泛社会隔离。

    2023 金馬影展 TGHFF | 備忘錄 The Memo

    My Quarantine Bear 我的隔离熊
    Director: Weijia Ma
    导演:⻢维佳
    Run time: 35min
    片⻓:35 分钟
    Country: China, France
    国家:中国,法国
    Language: Mandarin, with English sub­tit­le.
    语言:普通话,配有英文字幕
    Awards & Festivals: Special Mention, Visions du Réel 2021 (World Premiere)
    获奖情况:入围第 52 届瑞士真实影展
    Synopsis:
    Weijia Ma was working on an ani­ma­ti­on film in Strasbourg when COVID des­cends
    on France. She very quick­ly fled to Lyon befo­re retur­ning to Shanghai. From the
    flight to her qua­ran­ti­ne in a hotel on arri­val, this film­ed dia­ry with its airs of roman­tic
    come­dy uses humour and gre­at for­mal inven­ti­on to retrace the expe­ri­ence of this
    jour­ney.
    剧情:
    当导演⻢维佳正在法国斯特拉斯堡工作时,收到了朋友的信息提醒,斯特拉斯堡即将
    封城。她很快就逃到了里昂,买了张机票终于回到了上海,在酒店开始了 14 天的隔离
    生活。她用自己的镜头记录下了这一路的旅程。

    [SIWFF2021] 나의 전염병 검역 곰 / My Quarantine Bear Trailer

    Hwarenheit 911 华式 911
    Director: Feng Cong 导演:丛峰
    Run time: 20min
    片⻓:20 分钟
    Country: China
    国家:中华人⺠共和国
    Language: Mandarin, with English sub­tit­le.
    语言:普通话,配有英文字幕
    Synopsis:
    Taking „911” inci­dent as a clue, Hwarenheit 911 deve­lo­ps asso­cia­ti­ons with real-life
    sce­nes, whe­ther clo­se or far, to explo­re the “ter­ro­rism” in ever­y­day life.
    剧情:
    从“911”事件出发,展开与现实场景的或近或远的联想,以此来探讨日常生活中的“恐怖
    主义”。


    Shanghai Reset 二次校准
    Director: Qiao Hu
    导演:胡峤
    Run time: 5min
    片⻓:5 分钟
    Country: China
    国家:中华人⺠共和国
    Language: Mandarin, with English and sim­pli­fied Chinese sub­tit­les.
    语言:普通话,配有英文和简体中文字幕
    Synopsis:
    The sys­tem appears to be dis­cus­sing opi­ni­ons with humans about some­thing. The
    film came from three days of free tra­vel per­mis­si­on and was shot on the streets of
    Shanghai at the end of April 2022.
    剧情:
    系统似乎正在与人类探讨关于一些事物的看法。2022 年 4 月底的上海,当导演被允许
    三天自由出行时,他在街头拍摄了这段影片。

    《二次校準》預告片|影片拍攝於封城的上海街頭,三天允許自由出行的日子|Giloo紀實影音
  • Reas + panel talk in cooperation with Spinnboden Lesbian archive

    Reas + panel talk in cooperation with Spinnboden Lesbian archive

    Reas” (2024, 90 Min.) am 26.1.2025, 15.00 Uhr, with English sub­tit­les. [Tickets]

    Filmscreening „Reas” + panel talk in coope­ra­ti­on with Spinnboden Lesbian archive

    After the film the­re will be a panel dis­cus­sion about the film with Lola Arias.

    Reas” is an extra­or­di­na­ry docu­men­ta­ry and musi­cal by Lola Arias set in a women’s pri­son in Argentina. Yoseli has a tat­too of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wan­ted to tra­vel to Europe, but she was arres­ted at the air­port for drug traf­fi­cking. Nacho is a trans­man who was arres­ted for swind­ling and star­ted a rock band in jail. Gentle or rough, blon­de or shaved, cis or trans, long-term inma­tes or new­ly admit­ted: in this hybrid musi­cal, they all re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison.

    Reas” is a coll­ec­ti­ve work that reinvents the musi­cal gen­re: the per­for­mers dance and sing about their past in pri­son, reli­ve their life as fic­tion, and invent, through fan­ta­sy and ima­gi­na­ti­on, a pos­si­ble future for themselves.

  • Shambhala

    Shambhala

    A film by Min Bahadur Bham. In Tibetian and Nepali with German and English subtitles

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    In the heart of the Nepalese Himalayas, the spi­ri­ted Pema embraces a poly­and­rous mar­ria­ge with Tashi and his two youn­ger brot­hers. They initi­al­ly lead a har­mo­nious life, but when Tashi fails to return from a tra­ding trip to Lhasa, the legi­ti­ma­cy of Pema’s unborn child is ques­tio­ned by her com­mu­ni­ty. Determined to pro­ve her love and puri­ty, she embarks on a quest to find Tashi. Accompanied by her brot­her-in-law, her now de fac­to spou­se Karma, she goes into the wil­der­ness. Karma is a monk. After initi­al­ly resis­ting giving up his monastic life, he gra­du­al­ly comes to app­re­cia­te the simp­le exis­tence of a secu­lar life. However, urgent duties call him back to the monas­tery and Pema is left alo­ne. As she navi­ga­tes the harsh Himalayan ter­rain, her quest tran­s­cends the search for her miss­ing hus­band. Pema beco­mes incre­asing­ly immer­sed in a spi­ri­tu­al search for mea­ning in which every step brings her clo­ser to self-dis­co­very and liberation.

    Credits:

    NP/FR/NO/HK/CN/TK/TW/US/QA 2024, 150 Min.,
    Tibetisch, Nepali Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
    Regie: Min Bahadur Bham
    Kamera: Aziz Zhambakiyev
    Schnitt: Liao Ching Sung, Kiran Shrestha
    mit: Thinley Lhamo, Sonam Topden, Tenzin Dalha, Karma Wangyal Gurung, Karma Shakya, Loten Namling, Tsering Lhamo Gurung, Janga Bahadur Lama 

    Trailer:
    SHAMBHALA l OmU Trailer
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  • Element of Crime in Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin

    Element of Crime in Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin

    A film by Charly Hübner. Starts October 1st at the fsk.

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    A Film about the German Band Element of Crime throug­hout the centuries.

    Credits:


    DE 2024, 93 Min.,
    Regie: Charly Hübner

    Kamera: Casey Campbell
    Schnitt: Christoph Brunner
    mit: Sven Regener, Jakob Ilja, Richard Pappik und Maike Rosa Vogel, Florian
    Horwarth, Isolation Berlin, Von wegen Lisbeth, Steiner & Madlaina, Ansa
    Sauermann

    Trailer:
    ELEMENT OF CRIME in ‚Wenn es dun­kel und kalt wird in Berlin‘ | TRAILER – Jetzt für zuhause
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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    A film by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with German subtitles.

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    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 era­di­ca­ti­on of the vil­la­ges in his home regi­on whe­re sol­diers deploy­ed by the Israeli govern­ment are gra­du­al­ly demo­li­shing hou­ses and dri­ving out their resi­dents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli jour­na­list, who sup­ports him in his efforts. An unli­kely alli­ance deve­lo­ps. But the rela­ti­onship bet­ween the two is strai­ned by the enorm­ous ine­qua­li­ty bet­ween them: Basel lives under mili­ta­ry occu­pa­ti­on while Yuval lives free­ly and wit­hout rest­ric­tions.
    This film by a Palestinian-Israeli coll­ec­ti­ve of four young acti­vists has been made as an act of crea­ti­ve resis­tance on the path to grea­ter justice.

    Credits:

    PS/NO 2024, 95 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch, Englisch OmU
    Regie & Schnitt: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

    Kamera: Rachel Szor 

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  • Togoland Projektionen

    Togoland Projektionen

    A film by Jürgen Ellinghaus.

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    Following in the foot­s­teps of the Hamburg film direc­tor Hans Schomburgk who tra­vel­led through the German colo­ny of Togo from Lomé to the north with his com­pa­n­ion and actress Meg Gehrts in 1913, Jürgen Ellinghaus screens the foo­ta­ge shot then at its loca­ti­ons in modern-day Togo. Schomburgk’s affir­ma­ti­ve images show slave labour, humi­lia­ti­on and the arro­gan­ce of the colo­ni­al power. The mate­ri­al is con­tras­ted by Gehrts’ roman­ti­cis­ing dia­ry ent­ries and other colo­ni­al reports which often testi­fy to a hor­ri­fy­ing coldness.

    The scree­nings of this mate­ri­al, which has never been shown in Togo befo­re, prompt the audi­en­ces to reflect on tra­di­ti­on, ste­reo­ty­pes, the “white gaze.” In the vil­la­ges, the colo­ni­al images con­ju­re up memo­ries of han­ded down sto­ries. In the metro­po­lis of Lomé, young film enthu­si­asts deplo­re that the­se images were kept from them until today and dis­cuss in which con­texts they should be scree­ned. But “Togoland Projections” not only shows how much the­se pain­ful docu­ments and texts are nee­ded in con­tem­po­ra­ry Togo, becau­se they are part of the country’s histo­ry. The film also demons­tra­tes that they are nee­ded in Germany so we can take respon­si­bi­li­ty for our sup­pres­sed histo­ry and face our own racism – past and pre­sent.
    Christoph Terhechte

    Credits:

    DE 2023, 96 Min., div. OmU
    Regie: Jürgen Ellinghaus
    Kamera: Rémi Jennequin
    Schnitt: Nina Khada 

    Trailer:
    Togoland Projektionen (Trailer HD deutsch)
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  • Shambhala

    Shambhala

    A film by Min Bahadur Bham. In Tibetian and Nepali with German and English subtitles

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    In the heart of the Nepalese Himalayas, the spi­ri­ted Pema embraces a poly­and­rous mar­ria­ge with Tashi and his two youn­ger brot­hers. They initi­al­ly lead a har­mo­nious life, but when Tashi fails to return from a tra­ding trip to Lhasa, the legi­ti­ma­cy of Pema’s unborn child is ques­tio­ned by her com­mu­ni­ty. Determined to pro­ve her love and puri­ty, she embarks on a quest to find Tashi. Accompanied by her brot­her-in-law, her now de fac­to spou­se Karma, she goes into the wil­der­ness. Karma is a monk. After initi­al­ly resis­ting giving up his monastic life, he gra­du­al­ly comes to app­re­cia­te the simp­le exis­tence of a secu­lar life. However, urgent duties call him back to the monas­tery and Pema is left alo­ne. As she navi­ga­tes the harsh Himalayan ter­rain, her quest tran­s­cends the search for her miss­ing hus­band. Pema beco­mes incre­asing­ly immer­sed in a spi­ri­tu­al search for mea­ning in which every step brings her clo­ser to self-dis­co­very and liberation.

    Credits:

    NP/FR/NO/HK/CN/TK/TW/US/QA 2024, 150 Min.,
    Tibetisch, Nepali Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
    Regie: Min Bahadur Bham
    Kamera: Aziz Zhambakiyev
    Schnitt: Liao Ching Sung, Kiran Shrestha
    mit: Thinley Lhamo, Sonam Topden, Tenzin Dalha, Karma Wangyal Gurung, Karma Shakya, Loten Namling, Tsering Lhamo Gurung, Janga Bahadur Lama 

    Trailer:
    SHAMBHALA l OmU Trailer
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  • Das Imperium

    Das Imperium

    A film by Bruno Dumont. In French with German subtitles.

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    The Opal Coast, nor­t­hern France. In a quiet and pic­tures­que fishing vil­la­ge, some­thing final­ly hap­pens: a spe­cial baby is born. A child so uni­que and pecu­li­ar that it unleas­hes a secret war bet­ween extra­ter­restri­al forces of good and evil.

    Ausgezeichnet mit dem Silbernen Bären — Preis der Jury auf der Berlinale 2024

    Credits:

    L’Empire
    FR/ DE/ IT/ BE/ PT 2024, 110 Min. fran­zö­si­sche OmU
    Regie: Bruno Dumont
    Kamera: David Chambille
    Schnitt: Desideria Rayner, Bruno Dumont
    mit: Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri, Fabrice Luchini, Anamaria Vartolomei, Bernard Pruvost

    Trailer:
    DAS IMPERIUM | Trailer | Film von Bruno Dumont (2024) [OmU DE] ᴴᴰ
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