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
nach oben

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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
  • Simón de la montaña

    Simón de la montaña

    A film by Federico Luis. Im Spanish with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    The film is far from a straight­for­ward por­tra­y­al of its sub­ject. It doesn’t just focus on good and noble fee­lings, nor does it fall into the sort of sim­pli­stic bina­ries that set the “puri­ty” of peo­p­le with disa­bi­li­ties against the cyni­cism of socie­ty. Simón is deceitful, more than hap­py to lie and una­fraid to get his fri­ends into trou­ble, yet they never judge or punish him nor label him as pro­ble­ma­tic. At home, whe­re his mother’s good­will has been exhaus­ted, a sen­se of apa­thy has set in that threa­tens to usurp the obvious love she feels for him. Luis’ film smart­ly refrains from jud­ging her, as she seems unable to find a solu­ti­on to her son’s unex­plai­ned anti­cs; she only wat­ches in sur­pri­se as Simón speaks less and less, imi­ta­tes phy­si­cal tics and retre­ats into his own per­so­nal ver­si­on of disa­bi­li­ty. Engrossing, and nar­ra­ted with gre­at intel­li­gence and subt­le­ty, the film lay­ers nuan­ce upon nuan­ce in its sui­ta­b­ly ambi­va­lent por­trait of the titu­lar cha­rac­ter. With ano­ther enig­ma­tic, yet empa­the­tic per­for­mance by up-and-coming actor Lorenzo Ferro, SIMÓN DE LA MONTAÑA is a remar­kab­le debut fea­ture that dares to explo­re the mur­ky waters of human beha­viour. (Diego Lerer)

    Credits:

    Argentinien, Uruguay, Chile 2024, 97 Min., span. OmU
    Regie: Federico Luis

    Kamera: Marcos Hastrup
    Schnitt: Tomás Murphy, Andrés Medina
    mit: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuén Pedre, Kiara Supini, Laura Nevole, Agustín Toscano, Camila Hirane

    Trailer:
    Simón de la Montana ab 27.03.25 im Kino
    nach oben
  • Mond

    Mond

    A film by Kurdwin Ayub. In German, Arabic and English with German subtitles.

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    Kurdwin Ayub elec­trified with her wide­ly-lau­ded fea­ture debut SONNE (2022), depic­ting a Muslim girl’s expe­ri­en­ces gro­wing up in Vienna. She flips the per­spec­ti­ve in MOND, fol­lo­wing an Austrian woman on a work trip to Jordan. In an inspi­red cas­ting choice, cho­reo­grapher and per­for­mance artist Florentina Holzinger plays Sarah, a reti­red mixed mar­ti­al arts figh­ter hired as a per­so­nal trai­ner by a wealt­hy fami­ly in Amman. What initi­al­ly appears like a dream job—swanky hotel, pri­va­te driver—quickly turns troubling. The teenage sis­ters she is sup­po­sed to train show no inte­rest in the sport. Their pala­ti­al home is always deser­ted, apart from the clea­ning staff and seve­ral body­guards, who pat­rol the house as if it were a pri­son. The girls aren’t allo­wed to access the WiFi net­work and seem shut off from the out­side world. When Sarah enqui­res about the iden­ti­ty of her employ­ers at the hotel bar and men­ti­ons their fami­ly name, the pre­vious­ly fri­end­ly bar­man abrupt­ly ends the con­ver­sa­ti­on. While kee­ping the sto­ry in a rea­list regis­ter, Ayub bor­rows tro­pes from the thril­ler and hor­ror gen­res to gene­ra­te moun­ting sus­pen­se and upend the arche­ty­pe of the white saviour, thus for­cing view­ers to con­front their own pre­con­cep­ti­ons. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

    Credits:

    AU 2024, 93 Min, deutsch/arabisch/englische OmU
    Regie: Kurdwin Ayub
    Kamera: Klemens Hufnagl,
    Schnitt:
    Roland Stöttinger,
    mit: Florentina Holzinger, Andria Tayeh, Celina Antwan, Nagham Abu Baker, u.a.

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • Köln 75

    Köln 75

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

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    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.

    Köln 75
    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
  • 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
  • Simón de la montaña

    Simón de la montaña

    A film by Federico Luis. Im Spanish with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    The film is far from a straight­for­ward por­tra­y­al of its sub­ject. It doesn’t just focus on good and noble fee­lings, nor does it fall into the sort of sim­pli­stic bina­ries that set the “puri­ty” of peo­p­le with disa­bi­li­ties against the cyni­cism of socie­ty. Simón is deceitful, more than hap­py to lie and una­fraid to get his fri­ends into trou­ble, yet they never judge or punish him nor label him as pro­ble­ma­tic. At home, whe­re his mother’s good­will has been exhaus­ted, a sen­se of apa­thy has set in that threa­tens to usurp the obvious love she feels for him. Luis’ film smart­ly refrains from jud­ging her, as she seems unable to find a solu­ti­on to her son’s unex­plai­ned anti­cs; she only wat­ches in sur­pri­se as Simón speaks less and less, imi­ta­tes phy­si­cal tics and retre­ats into his own per­so­nal ver­si­on of disa­bi­li­ty. Engrossing, and nar­ra­ted with gre­at intel­li­gence and subt­le­ty, the film lay­ers nuan­ce upon nuan­ce in its sui­ta­b­ly ambi­va­lent por­trait of the titu­lar cha­rac­ter. With ano­ther enig­ma­tic, yet empa­the­tic per­for­mance by up-and-coming actor Lorenzo Ferro, SIMÓN DE LA MONTAÑA is a remar­kab­le debut fea­ture that dares to explo­re the mur­ky waters of human beha­viour. (Diego Lerer)

    Credits:

    Argentinien, Uruguay, Chile 2024, 97 Min., span. OmU
    Regie: Federico Luis

    Kamera: Marcos Hastrup
    Schnitt: Tomás Murphy, Andrés Medina
    mit: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuén Pedre, Kiara Supini, Laura Nevole, Agustín Toscano, Camila Hirane

    Trailer:
    Simón de la Montana ab 27.03.25 im Kino
    nach oben
  • Achtung Berlin: Barbara Morgenstern und die Liebe zur Sache

    Achtung Berlin: Barbara Morgenstern und die Liebe zur Sache

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    Sonntag 6.4., 18:30 Sabine Herpich, 109 Min. (Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm)
    [Tickets]

    Barbara Morgenstern, Pionierin des lyri­schen Elektro-Pop, arbei­tet an einem neu­en Album. In ihrer Wohnung ent­ste­hen ers­te Texte und Harmonien. Bei den Proben mit ihrer Band feilt sie an Arrangements. Dann sehen wir Aufnahmen der legen­dä­ren Berliner Hansa-Studios, Pressefotos, die Gestaltung des Plattencovers, ein ers­tes Musikvideo, die Tourplanung. Im Hintergrund gibt es Fragen: Wie expe­ri­men­tell darf das Album wer­den, wie poli­tisch soll es sein, in wel­chem Format kann es live prä­sen­tiert wer­den? Am Ende steht Morgenstern auf der Bühne, um das ers­te Mal für ihre Fans die Lieder von ihrem neu­en Album„In ande­rem Licht“ zu spie­len.
    Uraufführung 67. DOK Leipzig

    Deutschland | 2024 | 109 Min.
    Deutsch mit eng­li­schen UT
    Berlin-Premiere

    Regie Sabine Herpich mit Barbara Morgenstern Kamera, Schnitt Sabine Herpich

    BARBARA MORGENSTERN UND DIE LIEBE ZUR SACHE Trailer Deutsch | German [HD]

    wei­te­re Achtung Berlin Termine:

  • Mond

    Mond

    A film by Kurdwin Ayub. In German, Arabic and English with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    Kurdwin Ayub elec­trified with her wide­ly-lau­ded fea­ture debut SONNE (2022), depic­ting a Muslim girl’s expe­ri­en­ces gro­wing up in Vienna. She flips the per­spec­ti­ve in MOND, fol­lo­wing an Austrian woman on a work trip to Jordan. In an inspi­red cas­ting choice, cho­reo­grapher and per­for­mance artist Florentina Holzinger plays Sarah, a reti­red mixed mar­ti­al arts figh­ter hired as a per­so­nal trai­ner by a wealt­hy fami­ly in Amman. What initi­al­ly appears like a dream job—swanky hotel, pri­va­te driver—quickly turns troubling. The teenage sis­ters she is sup­po­sed to train show no inte­rest in the sport. Their pala­ti­al home is always deser­ted, apart from the clea­ning staff and seve­ral body­guards, who pat­rol the house as if it were a pri­son. The girls aren’t allo­wed to access the WiFi net­work and seem shut off from the out­side world. When Sarah enqui­res about the iden­ti­ty of her employ­ers at the hotel bar and men­ti­ons their fami­ly name, the pre­vious­ly fri­end­ly bar­man abrupt­ly ends the con­ver­sa­ti­on. While kee­ping the sto­ry in a rea­list regis­ter, Ayub bor­rows tro­pes from the thril­ler and hor­ror gen­res to gene­ra­te moun­ting sus­pen­se and upend the arche­ty­pe of the white saviour, thus for­cing view­ers to con­front their own pre­con­cep­ti­ons. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

    Credits:

    AU 2024, 93 Min, deutsch/arabisch/englische OmU
    Regie: Kurdwin Ayub
    Kamera: Klemens Hufnagl,
    Schnitt:
    Roland Stöttinger,
    mit: Florentina Holzinger, Andria Tayeh, Celina Antwan, Nagham Abu Baker, u.a.

    Trailer:
    nach oben
  • Simón de la montaña

    Simón de la montaña

    A film by Federico Luis. Im Spanish with German subtitles.

    [Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

    The film is far from a straight­for­ward por­tra­y­al of its sub­ject. It doesn’t just focus on good and noble fee­lings, nor does it fall into the sort of sim­pli­stic bina­ries that set the “puri­ty” of peo­p­le with disa­bi­li­ties against the cyni­cism of socie­ty. Simón is deceitful, more than hap­py to lie and una­fraid to get his fri­ends into trou­ble, yet they never judge or punish him nor label him as pro­ble­ma­tic. At home, whe­re his mother’s good­will has been exhaus­ted, a sen­se of apa­thy has set in that threa­tens to usurp the obvious love she feels for him. Luis’ film smart­ly refrains from jud­ging her, as she seems unable to find a solu­ti­on to her son’s unex­plai­ned anti­cs; she only wat­ches in sur­pri­se as Simón speaks less and less, imi­ta­tes phy­si­cal tics and retre­ats into his own per­so­nal ver­si­on of disa­bi­li­ty. Engrossing, and nar­ra­ted with gre­at intel­li­gence and subt­le­ty, the film lay­ers nuan­ce upon nuan­ce in its sui­ta­b­ly ambi­va­lent por­trait of the titu­lar cha­rac­ter. With ano­ther enig­ma­tic, yet empa­the­tic per­for­mance by up-and-coming actor Lorenzo Ferro, SIMÓN DE LA MONTAÑA is a remar­kab­le debut fea­ture that dares to explo­re the mur­ky waters of human beha­viour. (Diego Lerer)

    Credits:

    Argentinien, Uruguay, Chile 2024, 97 Min., span. OmU
    Regie: Federico Luis

    Kamera: Marcos Hastrup
    Schnitt: Tomás Murphy, Andrés Medina
    mit: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuén Pedre, Kiara Supini, Laura Nevole, Agustín Toscano, Camila Hirane

    Trailer:
    Simón de la Montana ab 27.03.25 im Kino
    nach oben
  • Achtung Berlin: Spielerinnen

    Achtung Berlin: Spielerinnen

    Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

    Montag 7.4., 18:30, Aysun Bademsoy, 86 Min. (Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm)
    [Tickets]

    Eine fil­mi­sche Langzeitbeobachtung tür­ki­scher Fußballspielerinnen in Berlin-Kreuzberg: 30 Jahre nach MÄDCHEN AM BALL nimmt die Regisseurin die nächs­te Generation in den Blick. In Deutschland gebo­ren und auf­ge­wach­sen, fra­gen auch sie sich, ob sie hier wirk­lich ange­nom­men wer­den. Auch ihr Leben scheint von einem kul­tu­rel­len Riss bestimmt. Während wir einer­seits die Welt der Töchter heu­te erle­ben – zwi­schen Instagram, Selbstfindung und fami­liä­rer Verantwortung – zeigt das viel­schich­ti­ge Portrait in Rückbezügen auf die 1990er Jahre auch, wie die älte­re Generation in Erinnerungen an eine Jugend schwelgt, in der das Fußballspiel ihnen Raum für Emanzipation bot.

    Deutschland | 2024 | 86 Min.
    Türkisch, Deutsch mit eng­li­schen UT
    Berlin-Premiere

    Regie Aysun Bademsoy mit Arzu Çalkılıç, Türkan Çelik, Nalan Keleş, Nazan Yavaş, Selina Çelik, Duygu Yavaş, Defne Yavaş u.v.a. Kamera Isabelle Casez, Ines Thomsen Schnitt Maja Tennstedt

    SPIELERINNEN Trailer – DOK Leipzig

    wei­te­re Achtung Berlin Termine: