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A film by Eva Libertad. Spanish and Spanish Sign Language with German Subtitles

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Ángela, a deaf woman, and Héctor, her hea­ring part­ner, are expec­ting a child. They are exci­ted about the pregnan­cy, alt­hough they do not yet know whe­ther the baby will be deaf or hea­ring. Despite both clai­ming they can hand­le wha­te­ver comes, their under­ly­ing con­cerns are evi­dent. After a com­pli­ca­ted and emo­tio­nal­ly inten­se labour, Ángela gives birth to their daugh­ter, but the pair will have to wait a cou­ple of months to learn if the baby is hea­ring or not. During this time, Héctor strug­gles to ful­ly grasp the chal­lenges Ángela is facing, while she must come to terms with rai­sing a daugh­ter who may not share her expe­ri­ence of the world. This jour­ney forces both of them to ques­ti­on their roles as part­ners and par­ents, as Ángela grapp­les with her iden­ti­ty in a socie­ty that does not ful­ly accept or under­stand her.

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ES 2025, 99 Min.,
Spanisch, span. Gebärden mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie, Buch: Eva Libertad
Kamera: Gina Ferrer García
Schnitt: Marta Velasco
mit: Miriam Garlo, Álvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Joaquín Notario

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A film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay. In German, English, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic with German subtitles.

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When a bur­ned Quran is found on a film set, the shoot takes a dark turn and the crew are thrown into turm­oil. Caught in the cross­fi­re, an intern, Elif, is drawn into a dan­ge­rous game of secrets, accu­sa­ti­ons and lies. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s ambi­guous, pro­vo­ca­ti­ve con­spi­ra­cy thril­ler plays with the film-within-a-film motif and is rich in unex­pec­ted twists. A pier­cing reflec­tion on the power of images and the dyna­mics of per­cep­ti­on, pro­jec­tion and socie­tal hysteria.

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DE 2025, 104 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Türkisch, Kurdisch, Arabisch OmU
Regie: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Kamera: Christian Kochmann
Schnitt: Denys Darahan, Andreas Menn
mit Devrim Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar, Serkan Kaya, Nicolette Krebitz, Aziz Çapkurt, Nazmi Kırık

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A film by Rebecca Hirneise. On Nov, 12th 8pm at the im fsk.

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The docu­men­ta­ry film pre­mie­res that have been pre­sen­ted in suc­ces­si­on over the past ten years at the Arsenal at Potsdamer Platz will now con­ti­nue as part of Arsenal on Location in and with the fsk cine­ma at Oranienplatz – an obvious col­la­bo­ra­ti­on, as con­tem­po­ra­ry docu­men­ta­ry film­ma­king also holds a regu­lar place in the pro­gram the­re. The series con­ti­nues on 12 November with ZWISCHEN UNS GOTT (God Between Us, Austria 2024) by Rebecca Hirneise.
In a small town in Southern Germany, a dis­cus­sion group sits in a cir­cle of chairs, initia­ted by Rebecca Hirneise for her debut film: it con­sists of her mother, uncle and aunts. After years of silence and deli­be­ra­te distancing, she, the non-belie­ver, wants to talk to her devout rela­ti­ves (except for her mother) about their respec­ti­ve inter­pre­ta­ti­ons of the Christian faith in her dual role as film­ma­ker and fami­ly mem­ber. The calm obser­va­ti­on of ten­se con­ver­sa­ti­on con­stel­la­ti­ons, sup­ple­men­ted by Hirneise’s dia­ry notes from off-screen and Super 8 film foo­ta­ge of her grand­fa­ther, pro­vi­des insight into a world that knows God, con­flicts and hurt, but no doubts. (Birgit Kohler) The film scree­ning will be fol­lo­wed by a dis­cus­sion with direc­tor Rebecca Hirneise, mode­ra­ted by Birgit Kohler (Arsenal).

AT 2024, 90 min, OmeU
Regie: : Rebecca Hirneise
Kamera: Tilmann Rödiger
Schnitt: Florian Kecht

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

A film by Stefan Haupt. In German with English subtitles.

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“I’m not Stiller!” When an American named James Larkin White tri­es to enter Switzerland, he’s suspec­ted of being Anatol Stiller, a sculp­tor who had gone into hiding. Even Stiller’s wife Julika initi­al­ly belie­ves that this man is her hus­band. Yet he insists that he is someone else and starts tel­ling a dif­fe­rent story.

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CH DE 2025, 99 Min., Deutsch mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Stefan Haupt
Kamera: Michael Hammon
Schnitt: Franziska Koeppel
mit: Paula Beer, Albrecht Schuch, Marie Leuenberger, Sven Schelker, Max Simonischek

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