Flow

A film by Gints Zilbalodis. Without dialogues.

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The world seems to be coming to an end, tee­ming with the ves­ti­ges of a human pre­sence. Cat is a soli­ta­ry ani­mal, but as its home is devas­ta­ted by a gre­at flood, he finds refu­ge on a boat popu­la­ted by various spe­ci­es, and will have to team up with them despi­te their dif­fe­ren­ces. In the lone­so­me boat sai­ling through mys­ti­cal over­flowed land­scapes, they navi­ga­te the chal­lenges and dan­gers of adap­ting to this new world.

Credits:

LV/FR/BE 2023, 84 Min., ohne Dialog
Regie: Gints Zilbalodis

Kamera: Léo Silly Pélissier
Schnitt: Gints Zilbalodis

Trailer:
FLOW l Kinotrailer
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  • Flow

    Flow

    A film by Gints Zilbalodis. Without dialogues.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    The world seems to be coming to an end, tee­ming with the ves­ti­ges of a human pre­sence. Cat is a soli­ta­ry ani­mal, but as its home is devas­ta­ted by a gre­at flood, he finds refu­ge on a boat popu­la­ted by various spe­ci­es, and will have to team up with them despi­te their dif­fe­ren­ces. In the lone­so­me boat sai­ling through mys­ti­cal over­flowed land­scapes, they navi­ga­te the chal­lenges and dan­gers of adap­ting to this new world.

    Credits:

    LV/FR/BE 2023, 84 Min., ohne Dialog
    Regie: Gints Zilbalodis

    Kamera: Léo Silly Pélissier
    Schnitt: Gints Zilbalodis

    Trailer:
    FLOW l Kinotrailer
    nach oben
  • Noch bin ich nicht, wer ich sein möchte

    Noch bin ich nicht, wer ich sein möchte

    A film by Klára Tasovská. 

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    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
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

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

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    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
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  • 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.

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    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., OmU
    Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer

    Musik: Fred Frith, gab­by flu­ke-mogul

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • Flow

    Flow

    A film by Gints Zilbalodis. Without dialogues.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    The world seems to be coming to an end, tee­ming with the ves­ti­ges of a human pre­sence. Cat is a soli­ta­ry ani­mal, but as its home is devas­ta­ted by a gre­at flood, he finds refu­ge on a boat popu­la­ted by various spe­ci­es, and will have to team up with them despi­te their dif­fe­ren­ces. In the lone­so­me boat sai­ling through mys­ti­cal over­flowed land­scapes, they navi­ga­te the chal­lenges and dan­gers of adap­ting to this new world.

    Credits:

    LV/FR/BE 2023, 84 Min., ohne Dialog
    Regie: Gints Zilbalodis

    Kamera: Léo Silly Pélissier
    Schnitt: Gints Zilbalodis

    Trailer:
    FLOW l Kinotrailer
    nach oben
  • Bird

    Bird

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

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    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
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  • September & July

    September & July

    A film by Ariane Labed. In English with German subtitles.

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    Sisters July and September are very clo­se, but very dif­fe­rent: September is pro­tec­ti­ve and dis­trustful; July, open and curious. An inci­dent in school forces them to flee to an old holi­day home with their mum, whe­re a series of sur­re­al events cau­se their bond to shift in ways July can­not comprehend.

    Credits:

    September Says
    FR/GR/IE/DE/UK 2023, 96 Min., engl. OmU
    Regie: Ariane Labed

    Kamera: Balthazar Lab
    Schnitt: Bettina Böhler
    mit: Mia Tharia, Pascale Kann, Rakhee Thakrar

    Trailer:
    September Says – Official Clip
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  • Die Unerwünschten

    Die Unerwünschten

    A film by Ladj Ly. In French with German subtitles.

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    When the mayor of a Paris sub­urb dies, Pierre, a doc­tor, agrees to fill the posi­ti­on. He intends to con­ti­nue the xeno­pho­bic poli­ci­es of his pre­de­ces­sor, who aimed to rede­ve­lop the­se pover­ty-stri­cken immi­grant neigh­bor­hoods. But Haby, an acti­vist resi­dent of immi­grant heri­ta­ge, refu­ses to be dri­ven out and mounts an escala­ting batt­le for the office.

    Credits:

    Bâtiment 5 / Les Indésirables
    FR 2023, 106 Min., frz. OmU
    Regie:
    Ladj Ly
    Kamera: Julien Poupard
    Schnitt: Flora Volpelière
    mit: Anta Diaw, Alexis Manenti, Aristote Luyindula, Steve Tientcheu, Aurélia Petit

    Trailer:
    BÂTIMENT 5 (Official Trailer, OV/d)
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  • 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
  • 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., OmU
    Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer

    Musik: Fred Frith, gab­by flu­ke-mogul

    Trailer:
    nach oben