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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 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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A film by Martina Priessner. In German and Turkish with German and Turkish subtitles.

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In November 1992, a racist arson attack in Mölln shat­te­red the lives of İbrahim Arslan and his fami­ly. At just seven years old, İbrahim sur­vi­ved, but he lost his sis­ter, his cou­sin and his grand­mo­ther. In the after­math of the attacks, the city recei­ved hundreds of let­ters of soli­da­ri­ty which were igno­red for near­ly three deca­des. Woven into İbrahim’s poignant jour­ney of dis­co­very and his encoun­ters with three let­ter wri­ters, the­se redis­co­ver­ed let­ters form a visu­al and emo­tio­nal bridge bet­ween past and pre­sent. The film fol­lows İbrahim and his siblings, pain­ting a com­plex por­trait of the las­ting trau­ma that con­ti­nues to affect them to this day. While İbrahim has found a way to cope by fight­ing against racism and advo­ca­ting for a remem­brance cul­tu­re cent­red on the vic­tims’ per­spec­ti­ves, his brot­her Namik is still at the begin­ning of his jour­ney to come to terms with the trau­ma­tic expe­ri­en­ces.
The film not only ampli­fies the per­spec­ti­ves of the vic­tims and sur­vi­vors but also unco­vers the vibrant soli­da­ri­ty that once exis­ted – a soli­da­ri­ty of which the vic­tims and sur­vi­vors were pre­vious­ly una­wa­re. It offers a new per­spec­ti­ve on remem­brance – one that takes the voices of sur­vi­vors and their expe­ri­en­ces serious­ly and pro­vi­des them with the space and reco­gni­ti­on that they deserve.

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DE 2025, 96 Min., deutsch, tür­ki­sche Originalfassung mit deut­schen und tür­ki­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Martina Priessner 
Schnitt: Maja Tennstedt
Kamera: Ayşe Alacakaptan, Julia Geiß

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A film by Agnieszka Holland. Starts October 23th at the fsk. In German and Czech with German subtitles.

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There are seve­ral films about Kafka and adapt­a­ti­ons of his works, moun­ta­ins of Kafka bio­gra­phies and other secon­da­ry lite­ra­tu­re, humo­rous­ly illus­tra­ted in ‘Franz K.’ during one of the excur­si­ons into the bizar­re pre­sent. Agnieszka Holland and aut­hor Marek Epstein have cho­sen a very lively approach for their film ver­si­on, which appears like a coll­ec­tion of short sto­ries. The film repea­ted­ly jumps through time, show­ing excerp­ts and frag­ments of what is known about the life of the high­ly sen­si­ti­ve aut­hor. With a gre­at wil­ling­ness to expe­ri­ment, it allows us to par­ta­ke in his pri­va­te and pro­fes­sio­nal life and visual­ly inter­prets excerp­ts from his work wit­hout, howe­ver, ove­ru­sing ‘Kafkaesque’ imagery. It tells of fami­ly, fri­end­ship, pres­su­re and fear, inner and outer cons­traints, often in a playful man­ner, but also with appro­pria­te serious­ness, as in its tre­at­ment of the incre­asing­ly threa­tening situa­ti­on of Jews in Europe.

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DE CZ 2025, 127 Min. Deutsch, Tschechisch OmdU
Regie: Agnieszka Holland
Drehbuch: Marek Epstein
Kamera :Tomasz Naumiuk
mit: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Katharina Stark

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A film by Jonas Egert. Starts October 25th at the fsk. In German, English and Russian with German subtitles.

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The for­mer table ten­nis pro Dmitrij Mazunov is the coach at the new­ly foun­ded TTC Neu-Ulm, home to a world class inter­na­tio­nal team cent­red around the ping pong super­star Dimitrij Ovtcharov. In 2022, the club gets off to a fly­ing start in the Bundesliga and Champions League but, later, match bans are impo­sed. Can the club be saved? Superbly film­ed and extre­me­ly exci­ting. (Ysabel Fantou, DOK.fest München)

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DE 2025, 111 Min., English, German, Russian with German sub­tit­les
Director: Jonas Egert 

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A film by Agnieszka Holland. Starts October 23th at the fsk. In German and Czech with German subtitles.

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There are seve­ral films about Kafka and adapt­a­ti­ons of his works, moun­ta­ins of Kafka bio­gra­phies and other secon­da­ry lite­ra­tu­re, humo­rous­ly illus­tra­ted in ‘Franz K.’ during one of the excur­si­ons into the bizar­re pre­sent. Agnieszka Holland and aut­hor Marek Epstein have cho­sen a very lively approach for their film ver­si­on, which appears like a coll­ec­tion of short sto­ries. The film repea­ted­ly jumps through time, show­ing excerp­ts and frag­ments of what is known about the life of the high­ly sen­si­ti­ve aut­hor. With a gre­at wil­ling­ness to expe­ri­ment, it allows us to par­ta­ke in his pri­va­te and pro­fes­sio­nal life and visual­ly inter­prets excerp­ts from his work wit­hout, howe­ver, ove­ru­sing ‘Kafkaesque’ imagery. It tells of fami­ly, fri­end­ship, pres­su­re and fear, inner and outer cons­traints, often in a playful man­ner, but also with appro­pria­te serious­ness, as in its tre­at­ment of the incre­asing­ly threa­tening situa­ti­on of Jews in Europe.

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DE CZ 2025, 127 Min. Deutsch, Tschechisch OmdU
Regie: Agnieszka Holland
Drehbuch: Marek Epstein
Kamera :Tomasz Naumiuk
mit: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Katharina Stark

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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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