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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)

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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.

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A film by Leonardo van Dijl. In Dutch and French with German subtitles.

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As the star play­er at an eli­te ten­nis aca­de­my, Julie’s life revol­ves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under inves­ti­ga­ti­on and is sud­den­ly sus­pen­ded, all of the club­’s play­ers are encou­ra­ged to speak up. But Julie deci­des to keep quiet…

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Julie Keeps Quiet
BE/SE 2024, 100 Min., Niederländisch-fran­zö­si­sche OmU
Regie: Leonardo van Dijl
Kamera: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Schnitt: Bert Jacobs
mit: Tessa Van den Broeck, Grace Biot, Alyssa Lorette, Ruth Becquart, Koen De Bouw,
Pierre Gervais, Claire Bodson und Laurent Caron

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A film by Angelina Maccarone. In German, English and Arabic with German subtitles.

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Conservative poli­ti­ci­an Mathilda is actual­ly in favor of strict­ly guard­ed EU exter­nal bor­ders. Things beco­me all the more dif­fi­cult for her when she is asked to help her old fri­end Richard accom­mo­da­te Malik, who has ille­gal­ly ente­red the coun­try from Morocco. Mathilda’s second-gene­ra­ti­on assistant Amina also ques­ti­ons her own posi­ti­on when Malik beco­mes the tar­get of a ter­ro­rist inves­ti­ga­ti­on fol­lo­wing a bomb attack.

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DE 2024, 124 Min.,
Regie: Angelina Maccarone
Kamera: Florian Foest
Schnitt: Gergana Voigt
mit: Habib Adda, Lambert Wilson, Barbara Sukowa, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Katharina Schüttler 

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A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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A Utopian design for sexua­li­ty, rela­ti­onships and love in the 21st cen­tu­ry. Marianne is a doc­tor based in Oslo. She longs for clo­sen­ess with other peo­p­le, but she’s fed up with her sex life being con­stant­ly ana­ly­sed and ques­tio­ned by the expec­ta­ti­ons of others. One evening, she meets Tor, a nur­se and col­le­ague, on a fer­ry. He tells her of the fer­ry trips he takes when he can’t sleep and his chan­ce mee­tings with other men. Curious, Marianne starts explo­ring other designs for rela­ti­onships, off the bea­ten track.

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Love
NO 2024, 119 Min, Norwegische OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad,
mit: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad

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A film by Saulė Bliuvaitė. In Lithuanian with German subtitles.

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Dreaming of escape from the ble­ak­ne­ss of their indus­tri­al home­town, two 13-year-olds, Marija and Kristina, form a uni­que bond at a local mode­ling school, whe­re the pro­mi­se of a bet­ter life pushes girls to vio­la­te their bodies in incre­asing­ly extre­me ways.
„Through the sto­ry of young girls navi­ga­ting toxic land­scapes, I wan­ted to explo­re the con­cept of the human body – the body as a pro­ject, cur­ren­cy, an object of desi­re, the body as a source of pain and magic.” Saulė Bliuvaitė

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Akiplėša
LT 2024, 99 Min., Litauische OmU
Regie: Saulė Bliuvaitė
Kamera: Vytautas Katkus
Schnitt: Ignė Narbutaitė
mit: Ieva Rupeikaitė, Vesta Matulytė, Giedrius Savickas, Vilma Raubaitė, Eglė Gabrėnaitė 

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A film by Julia Groteclaes. Am 5.5. um 20:00 im fsk.
Anschließend Diskussion mit Julia Groteclaes, Moderation: Birgit Kohler

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The docu­men­ta­ry film pre­mie­res that have been pre­sen­ted in suc­ces­si­on over the past ten years at the Arsenal at Potsdamer Platz will now con­ti­nue as part of Arsenal on Location in and with the fsk cine­ma at Oranienplatz – an obvious col­la­bo­ra­ti­on, as con­tem­po­ra­ry docu­men­ta­ry film­ma­king also holds a regu­lar place in the pro­gram the­re. The series will con­ti­nue in May with HINTER DEN FARBEN (G 2024) by Julia Groteclaes. In a pared-down stu­dio set­ting – a chair in front of a neu­tral black back­ground – eight peo­p­le take turns in rea­ding out an account of an extre­me expe­ri­ence in the first per­son from a pie­ce of paper: after suf­fe­ring a fall while can­yo­ning, 25-year-old Micha was trap­ped for days in the hol­low behind a water­fall, invi­si­ble to the out­side world. The prot­ago­nists play his role in pro­xy with the film­ma­ker as a interlo­cu­tor, also com­men­ting on Micha’s sto­ry and incor­po­ra­ting their fee­lings and own expe­ri­en­ces into the pro­cess. (Birgit Kohler)

DE 2024, 61 Min., dt. OF
Regie: Julia Groteclaes
Kamera: Franziska Kabutke
Schnitt: Wolfgang Purkhauser

Dieses Programm ist Teil der vom Hauptstadtkulturfonds geförderten Veranstaltungsreihe Arsenal on Location:

A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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A Utopian design for sexua­li­ty, rela­ti­onships and love in the 21st cen­tu­ry. Marianne is a doc­tor based in Oslo. She longs for clo­sen­ess with other peo­p­le, but she’s fed up with her sex life being con­stant­ly ana­ly­sed and ques­tio­ned by the expec­ta­ti­ons of others. One evening, she meets Tor, a nur­se and col­le­ague, on a fer­ry. He tells her of the fer­ry trips he takes when he can’t sleep and his chan­ce mee­tings with other men. Curious, Marianne starts explo­ring other designs for rela­ti­onships, off the bea­ten track.

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Love
NO 2024, 119 Min, Norwegische OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad,
mit: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad

Trailer:

LOVE International Trailer

Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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