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A film by Radu Jude. In Romanian, Hungarian and German with German subtitles.

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Cluj, Transylvania. After being dri­ven from his shel­ter in a house cel­lar, a home­l­ess man com­mits sui­ci­de. Orsolya, the bai­liff who car­ri­ed out the evic­tion, is impel­led to make various attempts to address her fee­lings of guilt. Using a mix­tu­re of dra­ma and come­dy, topics as diver­se as the housing cri­sis, post-socia­list eco­no­mics, natio­na­lism and the power of lan­guage to main­tain social sta­tus are dis­sec­ted with a sharp, absur­dist scal­pel, in a movie-lite­ra­te nar­ra­ti­ve that plays part­ly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51 – not least in the mode­s­ty of this inde­pen­dent, low-bud­get production’s means. But while in Rossellini’s film a woman’s cri­sis of con­sci­ence leads to meaningful acti­vi­ty, here the prot­ago­nist facing the dilem­ma is unable to find any­bo­dy to under­stand her and beco­mes incre­asing­ly despe­ra­te for exter­nal reassu­rance and vali­da­ti­on, in a man­ner that would be easy to con­demn if Orsolya’s moral rela­ti­vism were not such an uncom­for­ta­b­ly accu­ra­te reflec­tion of a modern-day malai­se from which few of us are whol­ly immune.

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RO 2025, 109 Min., Rumänisch, Ungarisch, Deutsch OmU
Regie: Radu Jude
Schnitt: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Kamera: Marius Panduru
mit: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, Șerban Pavlu, Annamária Biluska, Ilinca Manolache

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A film by Christina Tournatzés. In German with English subtitles.

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1962 – Twelve-year-old Karla is a wit­ness in court. She files char­ges against the very per­son who was sup­po­sed to pro­tect her: Her father. Judge Lamy is the hope at her side.

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DE 2025, 104 Min., deut­sche Originalfassung mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Christina Tournatzés
Kamera: Florian Emmerich
Schnitt: Isabel Meier
mit: Elise Krieps, Rainer Bock, Imogen Kogge, Torben Liebrecht, Katharina Schüttler

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The Singaporean screen­wri­ter, direc­tor, and cur­rent DAAD fel­low Yeo Siew Hua (1985), has cho­sen ano­ther con­tem­po­ra­ry Asian cine­ma film along­side his third fea­ture STRANGER EYES (2024): POETRY (2010) by Lee Chang-dong. Both films boast renow­ned per­for­man­ces by lea­ding actres­ses: Lee Kang-sheng, the star from Tsai Ming-liang’s films in STRANGER EYES, and the legen­da­ry Yun Jung-hee, who has retur­ned from reti­re­ment for her role in POETRY.

The pre­sen­ta­ti­on of fel­lows from the Berlin Artists Program of the DAAD, which has tra­di­tio­nal­ly taken place at the Arsenal cine­ma for deca­des, will con­ti­nue as part of Arsenal on Location at fsk Kino at Oranienplatz.

Stranger Eyes
Di 14.10., 20 Uhr, anschlie­ßend Gespräch mit Yeo Siew Hua, Moderation: Birgit Kohler
• Yeo Siew Hua • Singapur/Taiwan/Frankreich/USA 2024 • DCP • OmeU 126′

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Dieses Programm ist Teil der vom Hauptstadtkulturfonds geförderten Veranstaltungsreihe Arsenal on Location:

A film by Kathryn Bigelow. In English with German subtitles.

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When a sin­gle, unat­tri­bu­ted mis­sile is laun­ched at the United States, a race beg­ins to deter­mi­ne who is respon­si­ble and how to respond.

Director’s Statement
I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was con­side­red the go-to pro­to­col for sur­vi­ving an ato­mic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the thre­at felt so imme­dia­te that such mea­su­res were taken serious­ly. Today, the dan­ger has only escala­ted. Multiple nati­ons pos­sess enough nuclear wea­pons to end civi­li­sa­ti­on within minu­tes. And yet, there’s a kind of coll­ec­ti­ve numb­ness — a quiet nor­ma­li­sa­ti­on of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defen­se” when the ine­vi­ta­ble out­co­me is total des­truc­tion?
I wan­ted to make a film that con­fronts this para­dox — to explo­re the mad­ness of a world that lives under the con­stant shadow of anni­hi­la­ti­on, yet rare­ly speaks of it.

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US 2025, 112 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Kathryn Bigelow
Kamera: Barry Ackroyd
Schnitt: Kirk Baxter
mit: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jason Clarke, Greta Lee, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram und Jonah Hauer-King

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