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A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German subtitles.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desi­res to manifest.

Competition Cannes Filmfestival 2024: Grand Prix.

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IN, FR, NL, LU 2024, 114 Min., Malayalam, Hindi OmU
Regie: Payal Kapadia
Kamera: Rabadir Das
Schnitt: Clément Pinteaux
mit Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon 

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A film by Mohammad Rasoulof. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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A tar­get of Iran’s hard­li­ne con­ser­va­ti­ve govern­ment for his films’ cri­ti­cism of the sta­te, direc­tor Mohammad Rasoulof fled his home coun­try to avo­id an eight-year pri­son sen­tence, though he hadn’t finis­hed editing his latest film yet. His sea­ring dra­ma The Seed of the Sacred Fig won a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards on its pre­mie­re at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is every bit as urgent and grip­ping as its real-life back­story would por­tend: long­time govern­ment worker Iman (Missagh Zareh) has just recei­ved a major pro­mo­ti­on to the role of judge’s inves­ti­ga­tor, to the hop­eful delight of his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani); at the same moment, a series of stu­dent pro­tests against the govern­ment have explo­ded in the streets, sto­king the sym­pa­thies of their inde­pen­dent-min­ded daugh­ters Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). The gro­wing wedge bet­ween pro­gres­si­ve child­ren and tra­di­tio­nal par­ents inten­si­fies through a series of unsett­ling events that put Iman’s future in jeo­par­dy. Both para­noia thril­ler and dome­stic dra­ma, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is abo­ve all an epic of anti-patri­ar­chal poli­ti­cal conviction.

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IR, DE, FR 2024, 168 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
Kamera: Pooyan Aghababaei
Schnitt: Andrew Bird
mit Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi

Trailer:

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A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German subtitles.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desi­res to manifest.

Competition Cannes Filmfestival 2024: Grand Prix.

Credits:

IN, FR, NL, LU 2024, 114 Min., Malayalam, Hindi OmU
Regie: Payal Kapadia
Kamera: Rabadir Das
Schnitt: Clément Pinteaux
mit Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon 

Trailer:

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A film by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with German subtitles.

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Basel Adra, a young Palestinian acti­vist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fight­ing the mass expul­si­on of his com­mu­ni­ty by Israel’s occu­pa­ti­on sin­ce child­hood. He docu­ments the slow-moti­on era­di­ca­ti­on of the vil­la­ges in his home regi­on whe­re sol­diers deploy­ed by the Israeli govern­ment are gra­du­al­ly demo­li­shing hou­ses and dri­ving out their resi­dents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli jour­na­list, who sup­ports him in his efforts. An unli­kely alli­ance deve­lo­ps. But the rela­ti­onship bet­ween the two is strai­ned by the enorm­ous ine­qua­li­ty bet­ween them: Basel lives under mili­ta­ry occu­pa­ti­on while Yuval lives free­ly and wit­hout rest­ric­tions.
This film by a Palestinian-Israeli coll­ec­ti­ve of four young acti­vists has been made as an act of crea­ti­ve resis­tance on the path to grea­ter justice.

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PS/NO 2024, 95 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch, Englisch OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Kamera: Rachel Szor 

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A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German subtitles.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desi­res to manifest.

Competition Cannes Filmfestival 2024: Grand Prix.

Credits:

IN, FR, NL, LU 2024, 114 Min., Malayalam, Hindi OmU
Regie: Payal Kapadia
Kamera: Rabadir Das
Schnitt: Clément Pinteaux
mit Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon 

Trailer:

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A film by Mohammad Rasoulof. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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A tar­get of Iran’s hard­li­ne con­ser­va­ti­ve govern­ment for his films’ cri­ti­cism of the sta­te, direc­tor Mohammad Rasoulof fled his home coun­try to avo­id an eight-year pri­son sen­tence, though he hadn’t finis­hed editing his latest film yet. His sea­ring dra­ma The Seed of the Sacred Fig won a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards on its pre­mie­re at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is every bit as urgent and grip­ping as its real-life back­story would por­tend: long­time govern­ment worker Iman (Missagh Zareh) has just recei­ved a major pro­mo­ti­on to the role of judge’s inves­ti­ga­tor, to the hop­eful delight of his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani); at the same moment, a series of stu­dent pro­tests against the govern­ment have explo­ded in the streets, sto­king the sym­pa­thies of their inde­pen­dent-min­ded daugh­ters Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). The gro­wing wedge bet­ween pro­gres­si­ve child­ren and tra­di­tio­nal par­ents inten­si­fies through a series of unsett­ling events that put Iman’s future in jeo­par­dy. Both para­noia thril­ler and dome­stic dra­ma, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is abo­ve all an epic of anti-patri­ar­chal poli­ti­cal conviction.

Credits:

IR, DE, FR 2024, 168 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
Kamera: Pooyan Aghababaei
Schnitt: Andrew Bird
mit Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German subtitles.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desi­res to manifest.

Competition Cannes Filmfestival 2024: Grand Prix.

Credits:

IN, FR, NL, LU 2024, 114 Min., Malayalam, Hindi OmU
Regie: Payal Kapadia
Kamera: Rabadir Das
Schnitt: Clément Pinteaux
mit Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon 

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A film by Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz. In German.

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In 1968, a class­room in a girls’ high school in Munich is trans­for­med into a film stu­dio under the direc­tion of the young Edgar Reitz. The film les­son beg­ins: the first docu­men­ted attempt in cine­ma histo­ry to teach film aes­the­tics as a stand-alo­ne sub­ject. In 2023, Edgar Reitz, now world-famous as the direc­tor of the film epic Heimat, is approa­ched by an elder­ly woman who iden­ti­fies hers­elf as one of his pupils from 1968. The two arran­ge a class reuni­on. Compiled from a docu­men­ta­ry made about the pro­ject at the time, the Super 8 films shot by the pupils and the film­ed reuni­on in 2023, a kind of long expo­sure of the last 55 years of film histo­ry is crea­ted. Are the per­so­na­li­ties of the pupils alre­a­dy evi­dent in the exer­cise films? And what do the women have to say now about con­tem­po­ra­ry film cul­tu­re? Filmstunde_23 is a decla­ra­ti­on of love for filmmaking.

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DE 2024, 89 Min.,
Regie: Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz
Kamera: Matthias Reitz-Zausinger, Markus Schindler, Daniel Schönauer, Thomas Mauch (1968), Dedo Weigert (1968)
Schnitt: Jörg Adolph, Anja Pohl

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A film by Guan Hu. In Mandarin with German subtitles.

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On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his home­town after being released from jail. While working for the local dog pat­rol team to clear the town of stray dogs befo­re the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unli­kely con­nec­tion with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new jour­ney together.

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GOU ZHEN
CN 2024, 110 Min., Mandarin OmU
Regie: Guan Hu
Kamera: Gao Weizhe
mit Eddie Peng, Zhangke Jia, Jing Liang

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A film by Mohammad Rasoulof. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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A tar­get of Iran’s hard­li­ne con­ser­va­ti­ve govern­ment for his films’ cri­ti­cism of the sta­te, direc­tor Mohammad Rasoulof fled his home coun­try to avo­id an eight-year pri­son sen­tence, though he hadn’t finis­hed editing his latest film yet. His sea­ring dra­ma The Seed of the Sacred Fig won a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards on its pre­mie­re at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is every bit as urgent and grip­ping as its real-life back­story would por­tend: long­time govern­ment worker Iman (Missagh Zareh) has just recei­ved a major pro­mo­ti­on to the role of judge’s inves­ti­ga­tor, to the hop­eful delight of his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani); at the same moment, a series of stu­dent pro­tests against the govern­ment have explo­ded in the streets, sto­king the sym­pa­thies of their inde­pen­dent-min­ded daugh­ters Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). The gro­wing wedge bet­ween pro­gres­si­ve child­ren and tra­di­tio­nal par­ents inten­si­fies through a series of unsett­ling events that put Iman’s future in jeo­par­dy. Both para­noia thril­ler and dome­stic dra­ma, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is abo­ve all an epic of anti-patri­ar­chal poli­ti­cal conviction.

Credits:

IR, DE, FR 2024, 168 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof
Kamera: Pooyan Aghababaei
Schnitt: Andrew Bird
mit Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi

Trailer:

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