Silent Friend

A film by Ildikó Enyedi. In German and English with German subtitles.

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In the heart of a bota­ni­cal gar­den in a medieval uni­ver­si­ty town in Germany stands a maje­s­tic gink­go tree. This silent wit­ness has obser­ved over a cen­tu­ry the quiet rhyth­ms of trans­for­ma­ti­on across three human lives.
2020, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist from Hong Kong, explo­ring the mind of babies, beg­ins an unex­pec­ted expe­ri­ment with the old tree.
1972, a young stu­dent is pro­found­ly chan­ged by the simp­le act of obser­ving and con­nec­ting with a gera­ni­um.
1908, the university’s first fema­le stu­dent dis­co­vers, through the lens of pho­to­gra­phy, sacred pat­terns of the uni­ver­se hid­den within the hum­blest of plants.
We fol­low their clum­sy, awk­ward attempts to con­nect — each one of them deep­ly roo­ted in their own pre­sent — as they are trans­for­med by the quiet, endu­ring, and mys­te­rious power of natu­re. The anci­ent gink­go tree brings us clo­ser to what it means to be human — to our lon­ging to belong.

Credits:

DE/HU/FR 2025, 147 Min., deutsch, eng­li­sche OmU
Regie: Ildikó Enyedi
Kamera: Gergely Pálos
Schnitt: Károly Szala
mit: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, Léa Seydoux

Trailer:
SILENT FRIEND I HD-Trailer I Ab15.01.2026 im Kino
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  • Silent Friend

    Silent Friend

    A film by Ildikó Enyedi. In German and English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]


    In the heart of a bota­ni­cal gar­den in a medieval uni­ver­si­ty town in Germany stands a maje­s­tic gink­go tree. This silent wit­ness has obser­ved over a cen­tu­ry the quiet rhyth­ms of trans­for­ma­ti­on across three human lives.
    2020, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist from Hong Kong, explo­ring the mind of babies, beg­ins an unex­pec­ted expe­ri­ment with the old tree.
    1972, a young stu­dent is pro­found­ly chan­ged by the simp­le act of obser­ving and con­nec­ting with a gera­ni­um.
    1908, the university’s first fema­le stu­dent dis­co­vers, through the lens of pho­to­gra­phy, sacred pat­terns of the uni­ver­se hid­den within the hum­blest of plants.
    We fol­low their clum­sy, awk­ward attempts to con­nect — each one of them deep­ly roo­ted in their own pre­sent — as they are trans­for­med by the quiet, endu­ring, and mys­te­rious power of natu­re. The anci­ent gink­go tree brings us clo­ser to what it means to be human — to our lon­ging to belong.

    Credits:

    DE/HU/FR 2025, 147 Min., deutsch, eng­li­sche OmU
    Regie: Ildikó Enyedi
    Kamera: Gergely Pálos
    Schnitt: Károly Szala
    mit: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, Léa Seydoux

    Trailer:
    SILENT FRIEND I HD-Trailer I Ab15.01.2026 im Kino
    nach oben
  • Ein einfacher Unfall

    Ein einfacher Unfall

    A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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    Vahid, who was once impri­so­ned and tor­tu­red by the Iranian aut­ho­ri­ties, meets a man he belie­ves to have been his most sadi­stic tor­tu­rer. He can’t be sure though, as he was blind­fold­ed during the inter­ro­ga­ti­ons. Intent on vio­lent reven­ge but afraid of hur­ting an inno­cent per­son, he kid­naps the man and asks ano­ther for­mer inma­te to cor­rob­ora­te his sus­pi­ci­on. Neither abso­lut­e­ly con­fi­dent, they deci­de to track down other sur­vi­vors. The group keeps gro­wing as they dri­ve around in Vahid’s van with their pri­soner in tow, despera­te­ly pur­suing a cer­tain­ty that remains just bey­ond reach. A taut thril­ler nuan­ced by an under­cur­rent of absur­dist far­ce, YEK TASADOF‑E SADEH, win­ner of this year’s Palme d’Or, is Jafar Panahi’s most out­spo­ken and expli­cit­ly poli­ti­cal film to date. That it was made after he was hims­elf released from Tehran’s noto­rious Evin Prison gives the sto­ry an obvious auto­bio­gra­phi­cal dimen­si­on. Yet its moral impli­ca­ti­ons extend bey­ond the per­so­nal to encom­pass all of Iranian socie­ty in the wake of the Woman, Life, Freedom pro­tests. Now that new free­doms have been achie­ved, ope­ning an unpre­ce­den­ted win­dow of oppor­tu­ni­ty, the film sets the desi­re for ven­ge­an­ce against the impe­ra­ti­ve to keep pushing for­ward. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

    Credits:

    Yek tasa­def sadeh یک تصادف ساده,
    IR/FR/LU 2025, 102 Min., far­si OmU
    Regie: Jafar Panahi
    Kamera: Amin Jafari
    Schnitt: Amir Etminan
    mit: Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten

    Trailer:
    EIN EINFACHER UNFALL Trailer OmU German | Deutsch
    nach oben
  • Die jüngste Tochter

    Die jüngste Tochter

    A film by Hafsia Herzi. In French and Arabic with German subtitles.

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    Fatima, 17, the youn­gest of three daugh­ters, treads careful­ly as she sear­ches for her own path, grap­pling with emer­ging desi­res, her attrac­tion to women, and her loyal­ty to her caring French-Algerian fami­ly. Starting uni­ver­si­ty in Paris, she dates, makes fri­ends, and explo­res a who­le new world, all while con­fron­ting a tim­e­l­ess and heart­ren­ding dilem­ma: How can one stay true to ones­elf when recon­ci­ling dif­fe­rent parts of one’s iden­ti­ty feels impossible?

    Credits:

    La peti­te der­niè­re
    DE/FR 2025, 106 Min., Französisch, Arabisch OmU
    Regie: Hafsia Herzi
    Kamera: Jérémie Attard
    Schnitt: Géraldine Mangenot
    mit Nadia Melliti, Ji-Min Park, Aloïse Sauvage, Nemo Schiffman, Sophie Garagnon

    Audiodeskriptionen, Untertitel und Hörverstärkung mit der Greta App

    Trailer:
    DIE JÜNGSTE TOCHTER | Trailer OmU | Ab 25.12. im Kino!
    nach oben
  • Schwesterherz

    Schwesterherz

    A film by Sarah Miro Fischer. In German and English with English and German subtitles.

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    Rose is very clo­se to her older brot­her Sam. When he is accu­sed of rape, Rose is asked to testi­fy against him as part of the inves­ti­ga­ti­on. This tests both their rela­ti­onship and Rose’s moral inte­gri­ty.
    In Schwesterherz, direc­tor Sarah Miro Fischer explo­res an inti­ma­te sibling rela­ti­onship and how it is that the clo­ser we are to ano­ther per­son, the har­der it might be to see them cle­ar­ly. What kind of events have the power to des­troy even the clo­sest of bonds? When working on her film with the actors, she pla­ced par­ti­cu­lar empha­sis on phy­si­cal expres­si­on in order to be able to tell sto­ries bey­ond the spo­ken word.

    Credits:

    DE/ES 2025, 96 Min., Deutsch, Englisch OmU
    Regie: Sarah Miro Fischer
    Kamera: Selma von Polheim Gravesen
    Schnitt: Elena Weihe
    mit: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chirwa

    Trailer:
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  • No Bears

    No Bears

    A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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    Iranian direc­tor Jafar Panahi, who has been bar­red from lea­ving the coun­try, arri­ves at a vil­la­ge on the Iran-Turkey bor­der to super­vi­se a film based on a real-life cou­ple see­king pass­ports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the pro­duc­tion run into trouble.

    Credits:

    Khers nist 
    IR 2022, 107 Min., far­si OmU
    Regie: Jafar Panahi
    Kamera: Amin Jafari
    Schnitt: Amir Etminan
    mit: Naser Hashemi, Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasheri
    , Mina Kavani

    Trailer:
    NoBears TLR AR de
    nach oben
  • Der Fremde

    Der Fremde

    A film by François Ozon. In French with German subtitles.

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    Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unas­sum­ing employee in his ear­ly thir­ties, attends his mother’s fun­e­ral wit­hout shed­ding a tear. The next day, he beg­ins a casu­al affair with Marie, a work col­le­ague, and quick­ly slips back into his usu­al rou­ti­ne.
    However, his dai­ly life is soon dis­rupt­ed by his neigh­bour, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings — until, on one blis­te­rin­gly hot day, a tra­gic event occurs on a beach.

    Credits:

    L’Étranger
    FR 2025, 120 Min., fran­zö­si­sche OmU
    Regie: François Ozon
    Kamera: Manu Dacosse
    Schnitt: Clément Selitzki
    mit: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant, Swann Arlaud

    Trailer:
    Der Fremde – Trailer OmU
    nach oben
  • Silent Friend

    Silent Friend

    A film by Ildikó Enyedi. In German and English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]


    In the heart of a bota­ni­cal gar­den in a medieval uni­ver­si­ty town in Germany stands a maje­s­tic gink­go tree. This silent wit­ness has obser­ved over a cen­tu­ry the quiet rhyth­ms of trans­for­ma­ti­on across three human lives.
    2020, a neu­ro­sci­en­tist from Hong Kong, explo­ring the mind of babies, beg­ins an unex­pec­ted expe­ri­ment with the old tree.
    1972, a young stu­dent is pro­found­ly chan­ged by the simp­le act of obser­ving and con­nec­ting with a gera­ni­um.
    1908, the university’s first fema­le stu­dent dis­co­vers, through the lens of pho­to­gra­phy, sacred pat­terns of the uni­ver­se hid­den within the hum­blest of plants.
    We fol­low their clum­sy, awk­ward attempts to con­nect — each one of them deep­ly roo­ted in their own pre­sent — as they are trans­for­med by the quiet, endu­ring, and mys­te­rious power of natu­re. The anci­ent gink­go tree brings us clo­ser to what it means to be human — to our lon­ging to belong.

    Credits:

    DE/HU/FR 2025, 147 Min., deutsch, eng­li­sche OmU
    Regie: Ildikó Enyedi
    Kamera: Gergely Pálos
    Schnitt: Károly Szala
    mit: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Marlene Burow, Léa Seydoux

    Trailer:
    SILENT FRIEND I HD-Trailer I Ab15.01.2026 im Kino
    nach oben
  • Ein einfacher Unfall

    Ein einfacher Unfall

    A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Vahid, who was once impri­so­ned and tor­tu­red by the Iranian aut­ho­ri­ties, meets a man he belie­ves to have been his most sadi­stic tor­tu­rer. He can’t be sure though, as he was blind­fold­ed during the inter­ro­ga­ti­ons. Intent on vio­lent reven­ge but afraid of hur­ting an inno­cent per­son, he kid­naps the man and asks ano­ther for­mer inma­te to cor­rob­ora­te his sus­pi­ci­on. Neither abso­lut­e­ly con­fi­dent, they deci­de to track down other sur­vi­vors. The group keeps gro­wing as they dri­ve around in Vahid’s van with their pri­soner in tow, despera­te­ly pur­suing a cer­tain­ty that remains just bey­ond reach. A taut thril­ler nuan­ced by an under­cur­rent of absur­dist far­ce, YEK TASADOF‑E SADEH, win­ner of this year’s Palme d’Or, is Jafar Panahi’s most out­spo­ken and expli­cit­ly poli­ti­cal film to date. That it was made after he was hims­elf released from Tehran’s noto­rious Evin Prison gives the sto­ry an obvious auto­bio­gra­phi­cal dimen­si­on. Yet its moral impli­ca­ti­ons extend bey­ond the per­so­nal to encom­pass all of Iranian socie­ty in the wake of the Woman, Life, Freedom pro­tests. Now that new free­doms have been achie­ved, ope­ning an unpre­ce­den­ted win­dow of oppor­tu­ni­ty, the film sets the desi­re for ven­ge­an­ce against the impe­ra­ti­ve to keep pushing for­ward. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

    Credits:

    Yek tasa­def sadeh یک تصادف ساده,
    IR/FR/LU 2025, 102 Min., far­si OmU
    Regie: Jafar Panahi
    Kamera: Amin Jafari
    Schnitt: Amir Etminan
    mit: Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten

    Trailer:
    EIN EINFACHER UNFALL Trailer OmU German | Deutsch
    nach oben