A film by Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz. In German. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] In 1968, a class­room in a girls’ high school in Munich is trans­for­med into a film stu­dio under the direc­tion of the young Edgar Reitz. The film les­son beg­ins: the first docu­men­ted attempt in cine­ma histo­ry to teach film aes­the­tics as […]

A film by Guan Hu. In Mandarin with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his home­town after being released from jail. While working for the local dog pat­rol team to clear the town of stray dogs befo­re the Olympic Games, he […]

A film by Mohammad Rasoulof. In Farsi with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] A tar­get of Iran’s hard­li­ne con­ser­va­ti­ve govern­ment for his films’ cri­ti­cism of the sta­te, direc­tor Mohammad Rasoulof fled his home coun­try to avo­id an eight-year pri­son sen­tence, though he hadn’t finis­hed editing his latest film yet. His sea­ring dra­ma The […]

A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German sub­tit­les. [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer] In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A […]