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
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  • No Bears

    No Bears

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

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    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
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  • filmPOLSKA reloaded – White Courage

    filmPOLSKA reloaded – White Courage

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    Am 28.1. um 18:00. Einführung: Bartek Tesarz (Polnisches Institut Berlin)

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    Zakopane in den Dreißigerjahren, hier leben die Góralen: Im süd­polni­schen Hochgebirge spricht man sei­ne eige­ne Sprache, pflegt sei­ne alpi­nen Traditionen und hält Abstand zu ande­ren – auch zu Polen. Hier fin­den zwei Familien zuein­an­der, die durch stra­te­gi­sche Heirat ihre Situation ver­bes­sern wol­len. Aber wie so oft sind Liebe und Heirat zwei ver­schie­de­ne Dinge – der älte­re, beson­ne­ne Maciek soll die schö­ne Bronka hei­ra­ten, obwohl sie ein Verhältnis mit sei­nem jün­ge­ren, unge­stü­men Bruder Jędrek hat und sogar ein Kind von ihm erwar­tet. Koszałka beschränkt sich nicht auf ein folk­lo­ris­ti­sches Kammerspiel um Liebe und Gehorsam. Vielmehr ent­wi­ckelt er die Geschichte über einen län­ge­ren Zeitraum und ver­leiht ihr damit auch eine poli­ti­sche Dimension. Denn 1939 mar­schiert die deut­sche Wehrmacht in der Hohen Tatra ein und die Góralen müs­sen sich ent­schei­den – kol­la­bo­rie­ren sie und sichern ihren Wohlstand oder blei­ben sie rebel­lisch und ris­kie­ren damit ihr Leben? [Rainer Mende]

    Biała odwa­ga
    PL 2024
    R/K: Marcin Koszałka
    111 min, OmeU
    B: Łukasz M. Maciejewski & Marcin Koszałka
    S: Agnieszka Glińska
    M: Jacek Grudzień
    D: Filip Pławiak, Julian Świeżewski, Jakub Gierszał, Sandra Drzymalska, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja, Andrzej Konopka u. a.

    BIAŁA ODWAGA – Zwiastun PL (Official Trailer)
  • Silent Friend

    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.

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    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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  • 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
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