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A film by Arjun Talwar. In Polish with German and English subtitles.

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A street in cen­tral Warsaw is the focus of this wit­ty and per­so­nal por­trait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immi­gra­ted to the coun­try a deca­de ago but still strug­gles to fit in. Ulica Wilcza, the street whe­re he lives, has not real­ly hel­ped mat­ters. In an attempt to acce­le­ra­te his inte­gra­ti­on, he beg­ins film­ing his neigh­bours, sound­ing out his rela­ti­onships with them and see­king ways to over­co­me his own fee­lings of ali­en­ati­on. With the help of his fri­end Mo, ano­ther immi­grant-tur­ned-film­ma­ker, Arjun unco­vers the hid­den secrets of the street, reve­al­ing a host of char­ming inha­bi­tants. He finds other peo­p­le like hims­elf who are living bet­ween the past and pre­sent, bet­ween an ima­gi­ned home­land and the real one. The street con­nects them all like an invi­si­ble thread, offe­ring solace in the melan­cho­ly of ever­y­day life. Along this kilo­met­re-long stretch, a pic­tu­re of modern Europe emer­ges, expo­sing a kalei­do­scope of con­tra­dic­tions and anxie­ties as a for­eign film­ma­ker holds up a mir­ror to a coun­try that is often per­cei­ved as homo­ge­neous, unwel­co­ming and poli­ti­cal­ly right-wing.

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PL/DE 2025, 97 Min., pol­ni­sche Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie & Kamera: Arjun Talwar
Schnitt: Bigna Tomschin, Arjun Talwar & Sabina Filipowicz

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A film by Brandon Kramer. In English and Hebrew with German subtitles.

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A film that is shot tru­ly open-endedly, in the thick of it, even though – at the out­set – it was impos­si­ble to pre­dict what would hap­pen. Liat is for­ci­b­ly abduc­ted from her kib­butz by mem­bers of Hamas on 7 October 2023 and short­ly after­wards Brandon Kramer starts film­ing with her fami­ly. He’s right the­re with them, up clo­se, as the par­ents Yehuda and Chaya try to deal with their fear – or to sway the fate of their adult daugh­ter and her hus­band in dia­lo­gue with the aut­ho­ri­ties. As a US citi­zen, Yehuda flies to the USA, accom­pa­nied by Liat’s son, who is bur­den­ed by more than the public atten­ti­on, and Liat’s sis­ter, who will try to cushion Yehuda’s tem­per and anger. Because even within this fami­ly views are pola­ri­sed: despi­te his pain, the father takes a cri­ti­cal view of Israel’s role in the Middle East con­flict. He is a paci­fist and will not be dis­sua­ded from the path of recon­ci­lia­ti­on, even at the geo­po­li­ti­cal epi­cent­re of diplo­ma­cy and trau­ma. He per­sis­t­ent­ly swims against the tide, takes issue with hims­elf and ever­yo­ne else and bera­tes the Israeli govern­ment. A can­did film of the hour. Insights don’t come from poli­tics, but from Liat’s family.

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US 2025, 97 Min., Englisch, Hebräisch OmU
Regie: Brandon Kramer
Kamera: Yoni Brook, Omer Manor
Schnitt: Jeff Gilbert

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A film by Kelly Reichardt. In English with German subtitles.

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In a seda­te cor­ner of Massachusetts cir­ca 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unem­ploy­ed car­pen­ter tur­ned ama­teur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go hay­wire, his life unravels.

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US 2025, 110 Min., engl. OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Kelly Reichardt
Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt
mit: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Bill Camp

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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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Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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