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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 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 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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Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

Dziewczyńskie his­to­rie / Girls‘ Stories

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7.5.18:00, Einführung: Bartek Tesarz (Polnisches Institut Berlin)
PL 2023
R/B/S: Aga Borzym
60 min, OmeU
K: Kachna Baraniewicz
M: Barbara WrońskaJagoda
Jagoda und Zuzia gehö­ren zur TikTok-Generation, sind bes­te Freundinnen und ste­hen gera­de an der Schwelle zur Pubertät. Und sie sind Prototypen des­sen, was man gemein­hin als „früh­reif“ bezeich­net – sie sind umfas­send auf­ge­klärt und machen sich tief­grei­fen­de Gedanken über Partnerschaft und Lebensgestaltung, seh­nen aber immer noch ihre ers­te Periode her­bei, die sie end­lich zu Erwachsenen machen soll. Zwischen Spielplatz, Schule und sozia­len Medien beob­ach­ten wir über vie­le Monate hin­weg, wie der Übergang von der Kindheit ins Erwachsenenleben tat­säch­lich Fahrt auf­nimmt und über­ra­schend unter­schied­li­che Entwicklungen in Gang bringt. Denn der Blick auf sich selbst und die Umgebung ver­än­dert sich bei den bei­den Mädchen nicht so gleich­ar­tig, wie es die anfäng­li­che Harmonie ver­mu­ten lässt. Wie zwei Prototypen spie­geln die Charaktere mög­li­che Wege, die man in die­sem Alter ein­schla­gen kann – von frü­her Karriereplanung und bewuss­ter Arbeit am eige­nen Erscheinungsbild über resi­gnier­te Gleichgültigkeit bis zu Essstörungen und psy­chi­schen Problemen. In vie­len klei­nen, auf den ers­ten Blick unspek­ta­ku­lä­ren Szenen mit viel Wortanteil, unter­bro­chen von kur­zen Animationen, zeigt die Regisseurin, wie die Sehnsucht nach dem Erwachsensein lang­sam der puber­tä­ren Desillusionierung und Ratlosigkeit weicht. Dabei bleibt sie stets nah an ihren Protagonistinnen und gibt ihnen den Raum, sich so dar­zu­stel­len, wie sie es wol­len. [Rainer Mende]

Veranstalter: Polnisches Institut Berlin in Kooperation mit dem fsk Kino

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 

Trailer:

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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

Trailer:

nach oben

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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Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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A film by Rúnar Rúnarsson. In Icelandic with German subtitles.

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When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sun­set to ano­ther, Una, a young art stu­dent encoun­ters love, fri­end­ship, sor­row and beauty.

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Ljósbrot
IS/NL/HR FR 2024, 82 Min., islän­di­sche OmU
Regie: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Kamera: Sophia Olsson
Schnitt: Andri Steinn Guðjónsson
mit: Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir

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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 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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