Archives: Events

A film by Ido Fluk. In German and English with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Köln 75 tells the true sto­ry behind one of the best-sel­ling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s “Köln Concert” from 1975. The event almost fai­led to hap­pen – befo­re a for­mi­da­ble German teen­ager, the 18-year-old Vera Brandes, pulls out all the stops and arran­ges the con­di­ti­ons for the crea­ti­on of a mas­ter­pie­ce. Vera, who is still at school when she starts pro­du­cing and pro­mo­ting con­certs in Cologne, puts ever­y­thing on the line to stage this show. It looks like all the odds are against her, but Vera belie­ves in the power of music and has never seen anyo­ne play in the way that Keith Jarrett plays.

Credits:

DE/BE/PL 2024, 115 Min.,
Regie: Ido Fluk
Kamera: Jens Harant
Schnitt: Anja Siemens
mit Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer, Ulrich Tukur

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Jonathan Millet. In Arabic and French with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Hamid, is part of a secret group pur­suing the Syrian regime’s fugi­ti­ve lea­ders. His mis­si­on takes him to France, on the trail of his for­mer tor­tu­rer whom he must con­front. Based on true events.

Credits:

Les Fantômes FR 2024, 106 Min., Arab., Frz. OmU
Regie: Jonathan Millet
Kamera: Olivier Boonjing
Schnitt: Laurent Sénéchal
mit: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, Hala Rajab, Safiqa El Till 

Trailer:

nach oben

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:

nach oben

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

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

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:

nach oben

A film by Ido Fluk. In German and English with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Köln 75 tells the true sto­ry behind one of the best-sel­ling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s “Köln Concert” from 1975. The event almost fai­led to hap­pen – befo­re a for­mi­da­ble German teen­ager, the 18-year-old Vera Brandes, pulls out all the stops and arran­ges the con­di­ti­ons for the crea­ti­on of a mas­ter­pie­ce. Vera, who is still at school when she starts pro­du­cing and pro­mo­ting con­certs in Cologne, puts ever­y­thing on the line to stage this show. It looks like all the odds are against her, but Vera belie­ves in the power of music and has never seen anyo­ne play in the way that Keith Jarrett plays.

Credits:

DE/BE/PL 2024, 115 Min.,
Regie: Ido Fluk
Kamera: Jens Harant
Schnitt: Anja Siemens
mit Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer, Ulrich Tukur

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Jonathan Millet. In Arabic and French with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Hamid, is part of a secret group pur­suing the Syrian regime’s fugi­ti­ve lea­ders. His mis­si­on takes him to France, on the trail of his for­mer tor­tu­rer whom he must con­front. Based on true events.

Credits:

Les Fantômes FR 2024, 106 Min., Arab., Frz. OmU
Regie: Jonathan Millet
Kamera: Olivier Boonjing
Schnitt: Laurent Sénéchal
mit: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, Hala Rajab, Safiqa El Till 

Trailer:

nach oben

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

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

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:

nach oben

A film by Ido Fluk. In German and English with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Köln 75 tells the true sto­ry behind one of the best-sel­ling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s “Köln Concert” from 1975. The event almost fai­led to hap­pen – befo­re a for­mi­da­ble German teen­ager, the 18-year-old Vera Brandes, pulls out all the stops and arran­ges the con­di­ti­ons for the crea­ti­on of a mas­ter­pie­ce. Vera, who is still at school when she starts pro­du­cing and pro­mo­ting con­certs in Cologne, puts ever­y­thing on the line to stage this show. It looks like all the odds are against her, but Vera belie­ves in the power of music and has never seen anyo­ne play in the way that Keith Jarrett plays.

Credits:

DE/BE/PL 2024, 115 Min.,
Regie: Ido Fluk
Kamera: Jens Harant
Schnitt: Anja Siemens
mit Mala Emde, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Alexander Scheer, Ulrich Tukur

Trailer:

nach oben

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:

nach oben