Bird

A film by Andrea Arnold. In English with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

12 year old Bailey lives with her sin­gle dad Bug and brot­her Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approa­ching puber­ty seeks atten­ti­on and adven­ture elsewhere.

Credits:

GB 2023, 119 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Andrea Arnold
Kamera: Robbie Ryan
Schnitt: Joe Bini
mit: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Edward Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce
Kayleigh Frankie Box

Trailer:
BIRD l Deutscher OmU Trailer
nach oben

Archives: Events

  • Bird

    Bird

    A film by Andrea Arnold. In English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    12 year old Bailey lives with her sin­gle dad Bug and brot­her Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approa­ching puber­ty seeks atten­ti­on and adven­ture elsewhere.

    Credits:

    GB 2023, 119 Min., engl. OmU,
    Regie: Andrea Arnold
    Kamera: Robbie Ryan
    Schnitt: Joe Bini
    mit: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Edward Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce
    Kayleigh Frankie Box

    Trailer:
    BIRD l Deutscher OmU Trailer
    nach oben
  • Tracing Light – Die Magie des Lichts

    Tracing Light – Die Magie des Lichts

    A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer. In English and German with German and English subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Light is a fasci­na­ting phe­no­me­non. Without light, the­re would be no cine­ma, no film – and no life. So light is at the ori­gin of ever­y­thing, and yet it remains invi­si­ble to the eye until it hits mat­ter. This moment is – quite lite­ral­ly – the start­ing point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the spring­time spec­ta­cle of rain­bow shreds in the cine­ma­to­grapher and docu­men­ta­ry filmmaker’s flat beca­me the start­ing point of a search for the ori­gin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two sphe­res that seem to fol­low dif­fe­rent laws but always stri­ve to fathom the magi­cal: phy­sics and art.
    An intellec­tu­al and poe­tic ping pong game evol­ves bet­ween rese­ar­chers from the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen and the “Extreme Light Group” of the University of Glasgow as well as inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned artists such as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. In its cour­se, the various per­spec­ti­ves on light lead to new insights on all sides that would hard­ly have been achie­ved wit­hout this metho­di­cal cross-over: about laser power and colour pig­ments, about black holes and floa­ting sculp­tures. In brief moments, the unin­itia­ted may even get some idea of the laws of quan­tum phy­sics, gene­ral­ly con­side­red impos­si­ble to visualise.

    Luc-Carolin Ziemann

    Credits:

    DE/GB 2024, 99 Min., engl./dt. Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
    Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer

    Musik: Fred Frith, gab­by flu­ke-mogul

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • filmPOLSKA reloaded: Imago

    filmPOLSKA reloaded: Imago

    Gdańsk in den Achtzigerjahren – graue Industriemetropole und Fenster zur Welt, Hort katho­li­scher Familientraditionen und Hotspot einer alter­na­ti­ven Jugendkultur, die der New Wave aus Manchester viel näher steht als dem sozia­lis­ti­schen Mainstream aus Warschau. In die­ser explo­si­ven Mischung schlägt sich Ela durch ihr jun­ges Erwachsenenleben. Doch irgend­wie scheint ihr frei­er Geist nicht kom­pa­ti­bel mit dem tra­di­tio­nel­len Erwartungen ihrer Familie zu sein.
    Elas Fluchtwege sind die Musik, die Kunst, die Drogen, der Sex. Wie im Rausch treibt sie aktiv und pas­siv durch die Subkultur der Dreistadt, schein­bar los­ge­löst von Raum und Zeit – die doch ihre Grenzen haben, denn der kom­mu­nis­ti­sche Staat hat Erwartungen in sei­ne Staatsbürgerinnen, vor allem in ihre Rolle als berufs­tä­ti­ge Mütter und Ehefrauen. Die passt nicht zu einer Frau, die Kette raucht, als Sängerin einer Indie-Band näch­te­lang durch die Clubs tin­gelt, an Performances mit­wirkt und deren Leben selbst eine Performance ist.
    In ihrem Zweitwerk taucht Olga Chajdas mit dezi­diert weib­li­chem Fokus tief in das Lebensgefühl der Achtzigerjahre ein, das sie kon­ge­ni­al zitiert – u. a. durch den Retro-Soundtrack von Andrzej Smolik und die kör­nig-ana­lo­gen Bildern von Tomasz Naumiok. Hauptdarstellerin und Co-Autorin Lena Góra schlüpft mit Bravour in ihre bis­her ver­mut­lich schwie­rigs­te Rolle – die ihrer Mutter, die als Sängerin die nord­pol­ni­sche Kulturszene der Achtzigerjahre präg­te und mit der sie sich durch die­sen Rollentausch aus­söhnt.
    „Imago“ lief im September 2024 im Wettbewerb des 19. pol­ni­schen Filmfestivals filmPOLSKA in Berlin und Potsdam.

    B: Lena Góra & Olga Chajdas
    K: Tomasz Naumiuk
    S: Pavel Hrdlička
    M: Andrzej Smolik
    D: Lena Góra, Bogusława Schubert, Mateusz Więcławek, Wacław Warchoł, Michał Balicki, Wojciech Brzeziński u. a.
    Veranstalter: Polnisches Institut Berlin in Kooperation mit dem fsk Kino

  • Bird

    Bird

    A film by Andrea Arnold. In English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    12 year old Bailey lives with her sin­gle dad Bug and brot­her Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approa­ching puber­ty seeks atten­ti­on and adven­ture elsewhere.

    Credits:

    GB 2023, 119 Min., engl. OmU,
    Regie: Andrea Arnold
    Kamera: Robbie Ryan
    Schnitt: Joe Bini
    mit: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Edward Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce
    Kayleigh Frankie Box

    Trailer:
    BIRD l Deutscher OmU Trailer
    nach oben
  • A real Pain

    A real Pain

    A film by Jesse Eisenberg. In English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    A Real Pain fol­lows mis­mat­ched cou­sins David and Benji who reu­ni­te for a tour through Poland to honor their bel­oved grand­mo­ther. The adven­ture takes a turn when the odd cou­ple’s old ten­si­ons resur­face against the back­drop of their fami­ly history.

    Credits:

    US/PL 2024, 90 Min., engl. OmU
    Regie: Jesse Eisenberg
    Kamera: Michael Dymak
    Schnitt: Robert Nassau
    mit Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, Daniel Oreskes 

    Trailer:
    A REAL PAIN | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures

    Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

    nach oben
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

    A film by Johan Grimonprez. In French and English with German subtitles

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Artist Johan Grimonprez’s new film essay stems from detail­ed rese­arch about some of the machi­na­ti­ons the Western colo­ni­al powers, such as his nati­ve Belgium or the US, came up with to under­mi­ne the African deco­lo­niza­ti­on move­ment. It spe­ci­fi­cal­ly reex­ami­nes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) and its strugg­le for inde­pen­dence in the con­text of the CIA’s histo­ry of arts patro­na­ge, tel­ling how the US Foreign Intelligence agen­cy sent Louis Armstrong as a jazz ambassa­dor to dis­tract from their invol­vement in the ass­as­si­na­ti­on of new­ly elec­ted Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Nina Simone was sent on a simi­lar tour of Nigeria by a CIA front orga­niza­ti­on, yet other jazz gre­ats got invol­ved less unwit­tingly. Dizzy Gillespie brief­ly ran for pre­si­dent in 1964 and pro­mi­sed that the White House would be ren­a­med the Blues House, while Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach cra­s­hed the UN Security Council to pro­test Lumumba’s ass­as­si­na­ti­on. Both a his­to­ri­cal pam­phlet and a swin­ging musi­cal com­po­si­ti­on, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT unfolds like a record’s exten­si­ve slee­ve notes, as the jazz sounds pro­pel and car­ry along facts, figu­res and foot­no­tes of major and minor his­to­ries with them at diz­zy­ing speed. (Antoine Thirion)

    Credits:


    BE/FR/NL 2024, 150 Min., engl., frz. OmU, 

    Regie: Johan Grimonprez, 

    mit: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, Nina Simone, Nikita Krutschev, Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Duke Elligton

    Trailer:
    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat – Official Trailer
    nach oben
  • Noch bin ich nicht, wer ich sein möchte

    Noch bin ich nicht, wer ich sein möchte

    A film by Klára Tasovská. 

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Libuše Jarcovjáková docu­ments her life with ana­lo­gue pho­tos and dia­ry ent­ries. Her Czechoslovakian home­land is in the repres­si­ve pha­se of “nor­ma­li­sa­ti­on” after the sup­pres­si­on of the Prague Spring in 1968. The young pho­to­grapher sear­ches for islands of free­dom in Prague as well as her sexu­al iden­ti­ty; her came­ra is her con­stant com­pa­n­ion. One of the­se islands is the T‑Club, a mee­ting place for the que­er sce­ne. When a mur­der is com­mit­ted and the poli­ce beco­me inte­res­ted in Libuše’s pho­tos from the club, her per­so­nal jour­ney of eman­ci­pa­ti­on is abrupt­ly cut short. She enters into a mar­ria­ge of con­ve­ni­ence and moves to West Berlin. But this new world is also fil­led with obs­ta­cles. Using the last of her money, she flies to Tokyo and, for a short time, beco­mes a sought-after fashion pho­to­grapher the­re. Continuing to search for the life she wants to live, Libuše’s path leads her back to Prague via Berlin after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Using only pho­to­graphs and the dia­ry ent­ries she reads out hers­elf, the artist – tog­e­ther with the film­ma­ker – inti­m­ate­ly rela­tes her search for iden­ti­ty, ever­y­day strug­gles, phy­si­cal­i­ty, rela­ti­onships and emotions

    Credits:

    Ještě nej­sem, kým chci být
    CZ/SK/AU 2024, 90 Min., tsche­chi­sche Originalfassung mit deut­schen Untertiteln
    Regie:
    Klára Tasovská
    Schnitt: Alexander Kashcheev

    Trailer:
    NOCH BIN ICH NICHT, WER ICH SEIN MÖCHTE Trailer Deutsch | German [HD]

    nach oben
  • Die Saat des heiligen Feigenbaums

    Die Saat des heiligen Feigenbaums

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

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    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:
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Trailer OV/d
    nach oben
  • Bird

    Bird

    A film by Andrea Arnold. In English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    12 year old Bailey lives with her sin­gle dad Bug and brot­her Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approa­ching puber­ty seeks atten­ti­on and adven­ture elsewhere.

    Credits:

    GB 2023, 119 Min., engl. OmU,
    Regie: Andrea Arnold
    Kamera: Robbie Ryan
    Schnitt: Joe Bini
    mit: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Edward Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce
    Kayleigh Frankie Box

    Trailer:
    BIRD l Deutscher OmU Trailer
    nach oben
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

    A film by Johan Grimonprez. In French and English with German subtitles

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Artist Johan Grimonprez’s new film essay stems from detail­ed rese­arch about some of the machi­na­ti­ons the Western colo­ni­al powers, such as his nati­ve Belgium or the US, came up with to under­mi­ne the African deco­lo­niza­ti­on move­ment. It spe­ci­fi­cal­ly reex­ami­nes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) and its strugg­le for inde­pen­dence in the con­text of the CIA’s histo­ry of arts patro­na­ge, tel­ling how the US Foreign Intelligence agen­cy sent Louis Armstrong as a jazz ambassa­dor to dis­tract from their invol­vement in the ass­as­si­na­ti­on of new­ly elec­ted Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Nina Simone was sent on a simi­lar tour of Nigeria by a CIA front orga­niza­ti­on, yet other jazz gre­ats got invol­ved less unwit­tingly. Dizzy Gillespie brief­ly ran for pre­si­dent in 1964 and pro­mi­sed that the White House would be ren­a­med the Blues House, while Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach cra­s­hed the UN Security Council to pro­test Lumumba’s ass­as­si­na­ti­on. Both a his­to­ri­cal pam­phlet and a swin­ging musi­cal com­po­si­ti­on, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT unfolds like a record’s exten­si­ve slee­ve notes, as the jazz sounds pro­pel and car­ry along facts, figu­res and foot­no­tes of major and minor his­to­ries with them at diz­zy­ing speed. (Antoine Thirion)

    Credits:


    BE/FR/NL 2024, 150 Min., engl., frz. OmU, 

    Regie: Johan Grimonprez, 

    mit: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, Nina Simone, Nikita Krutschev, Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Duke Elligton

    Trailer:
    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat – Official Trailer
    nach oben