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A film by Kevin Macdonald.

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An expan­si­ve and reve­la­to­ry insi­de look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the ear­ly 1970s, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO deli­vers an immersi­ve cine­ma­tic expe­ri­ence that brings to life elec­tri­fy­ing, never-befo­re-seen mate­ri­al and new­ly res­to­red foo­ta­ge of John and Yoko’s only full-length con­cert. Featuring mind-blo­wing music new­ly remi­xed and pro­du­ced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seis­mic reve­la­ti­on that will chall­enge pre-exis­ting noti­ons of the ico­nic couple.

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UK 2024, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Kevin Macdonald
Kamera: David Katznelson
Schnitt: Sam Rice-Edwards 

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A film by Kevin Macdonald.

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An expan­si­ve and reve­la­to­ry insi­de look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the ear­ly 1970s, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO deli­vers an immersi­ve cine­ma­tic expe­ri­ence that brings to life elec­tri­fy­ing, never-befo­re-seen mate­ri­al and new­ly res­to­red foo­ta­ge of John and Yoko’s only full-length con­cert. Featuring mind-blo­wing music new­ly remi­xed and pro­du­ced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seis­mic reve­la­ti­on that will chall­enge pre-exis­ting noti­ons of the ico­nic couple.

Credits:

UK 2024, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Kevin Macdonald
Kamera: David Katznelson
Schnitt: Sam Rice-Edwards 

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A film by Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó. In Dzongkha with German subtitles.

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The film fol­lows Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, two Bhutanese bureau­crats, in their tra­vels through the small Himalayan king­dom as cen­sus workers, mea­su­ring peo­p­le’s hap­pi­ness levels. They work for the Center for Gross National Happiness, a govern­ment insti­tu­ti­on which is tas­ked with coll­ec­ting data on the citi­zens‘ hap­pi­ness. This data is then used to inform the con­sti­tu­tio­nal­ly-man­da­ted goal of incre­asing natio­nal happiness.[5]

Along the way we meet Bhutan’s ever­y­day peo­p­le, such as a trans­gen­der bar sin­ger, a wealt­hy far­mer and his three wives, a teenage girl who worries about her mother’s alco­ho­lism, or a recent widower who finds solace in reli­gi­on. Through them we get a glim­pse into the Bhutanese socie­ty and their views on hap­pi­ness in face of adver­si­ty. We also explo­re Amber’s dreams and ambi­ti­ons, pri­ma­ri­ly among them the dream of fin­ding love.

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BT 2024, 94 Min., Dzongkha OmU
Regie: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
Kamera: Arun Bhattarai,
Schnitt: Péter Sass

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A film by Martín Rejtman. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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Gustavo loses the harm­o­ny in his life when his wife lea­ves him, he loses his home and an inju­ry pre­vents him from con­ti­nuing his work: tea­ching yoga. Between tre­mors, rob­be­ries, hos­pi­tals, motor­cy­cles, couple’s the­ra­py, yoga retre­ats, anti-inflamm­a­to­ries and anti­de­pres­sants, Gustavo will try to avo­id the fall. THE PRACTICE is a natu­ra­li­stic and deli­rious come­dy about the dra­ma of approa­ching 50.

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US/AR/CL/PT 2023, 93 Min. spa­ni­sche OmU,
Regie: Martín Rejtman
Kamera: Hugo Azevedo
Schnitt: Frederico Rotstein
mit: Esteban Bigliardi, Manuela Oyarzún, Amparo Noguera, Camila Hirane, Gabriel Cañas

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A film by Willy Hans. In German with English subtitles.

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After esca­ping from gym class, Simon finds hims­elf on the banks of a river with a group of teen­agers. Amidst the air mat­tres­ses and point­less chat­ter, time pas­ses as slug­gish­ly as the river water. Only when Marie appears and both are cata­pul­ted into the near­by river­si­de forest by an unex­pec­ted inci­dent they escape the lethar­gic group and enter the tim­e­l­ess realm of the enchan­ted landscape.

„I would like to give a glim­pse of some­thing that coun­ters the exis­ten­ti­al loneli­ne­ss of our human pre­sent. Ultimately, redemp­ti­on lies in the encoun­ter.” Willy Hans

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DE/CH 2024, 94 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie & Schnitt: Willy Hans
Kamera: Paul Spengemann
mit: Leo Konrad Kuhn, Alva Schäfer, Shadi Eck, Felix Maria Zeppenfeld, Darja Mahotkin, Marlene Becker u. a. 

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A film by Kevin Macdonald.

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An expan­si­ve and reve­la­to­ry insi­de look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the ear­ly 1970s, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO deli­vers an immersi­ve cine­ma­tic expe­ri­ence that brings to life elec­tri­fy­ing, never-befo­re-seen mate­ri­al and new­ly res­to­red foo­ta­ge of John and Yoko’s only full-length con­cert. Featuring mind-blo­wing music new­ly remi­xed and pro­du­ced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seis­mic reve­la­ti­on that will chall­enge pre-exis­ting noti­ons of the ico­nic couple.

Credits:

UK 2024, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Kevin Macdonald
Kamera: David Katznelson
Schnitt: Sam Rice-Edwards 

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó. In Dzongkha with German subtitles.

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The film fol­lows Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, two Bhutanese bureau­crats, in their tra­vels through the small Himalayan king­dom as cen­sus workers, mea­su­ring peo­p­le’s hap­pi­ness levels. They work for the Center for Gross National Happiness, a govern­ment insti­tu­ti­on which is tas­ked with coll­ec­ting data on the citi­zens‘ hap­pi­ness. This data is then used to inform the con­sti­tu­tio­nal­ly-man­da­ted goal of incre­asing natio­nal happiness.[5]

Along the way we meet Bhutan’s ever­y­day peo­p­le, such as a trans­gen­der bar sin­ger, a wealt­hy far­mer and his three wives, a teenage girl who worries about her mother’s alco­ho­lism, or a recent widower who finds solace in reli­gi­on. Through them we get a glim­pse into the Bhutanese socie­ty and their views on hap­pi­ness in face of adver­si­ty. We also explo­re Amber’s dreams and ambi­ti­ons, pri­ma­ri­ly among them the dream of fin­ding love.

Credits:

BT 2024, 94 Min., Dzongkha OmU
Regie: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó
Kamera: Arun Bhattarai,
Schnitt: Péter Sass

Trailer:

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A film by Martín Rejtman. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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Gustavo loses the harm­o­ny in his life when his wife lea­ves him, he loses his home and an inju­ry pre­vents him from con­ti­nuing his work: tea­ching yoga. Between tre­mors, rob­be­ries, hos­pi­tals, motor­cy­cles, couple’s the­ra­py, yoga retre­ats, anti-inflamm­a­to­ries and anti­de­pres­sants, Gustavo will try to avo­id the fall. THE PRACTICE is a natu­ra­li­stic and deli­rious come­dy about the dra­ma of approa­ching 50.

Credits:

US/AR/CL/PT 2023, 93 Min. spa­ni­sche OmU,
Regie: Martín Rejtman
Kamera: Hugo Azevedo
Schnitt: Frederico Rotstein
mit: Esteban Bigliardi, Manuela Oyarzún, Amparo Noguera, Camila Hirane, Gabriel Cañas

Trailer:

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A film by Willy Hans. In German with English subtitles.

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After esca­ping from gym class, Simon finds hims­elf on the banks of a river with a group of teen­agers. Amidst the air mat­tres­ses and point­less chat­ter, time pas­ses as slug­gish­ly as the river water. Only when Marie appears and both are cata­pul­ted into the near­by river­si­de forest by an unex­pec­ted inci­dent they escape the lethar­gic group and enter the tim­e­l­ess realm of the enchan­ted landscape.

„I would like to give a glim­pse of some­thing that coun­ters the exis­ten­ti­al loneli­ne­ss of our human pre­sent. Ultimately, redemp­ti­on lies in the encoun­ter.” Willy Hans

Credits:

DE/CH 2024, 94 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie & Schnitt: Willy Hans
Kamera: Paul Spengemann
mit: Leo Konrad Kuhn, Alva Schäfer, Shadi Eck, Felix Maria Zeppenfeld, Darja Mahotkin, Marlene Becker u. a. 

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A film by Daniel Abma. Starts June 5th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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When par­ents can no lon­ger ful­fil their duty of care, the children’s world often falls apart. Nothing stays as it was. Suddenly it is no lon­ger mum or dad who are in char­ge but the youth wel­fa­re sys­tem. Daniel Abma fol­lo­wed a youth housing group in a rural area over seve­ral years, show­ing pro­fes­sio­nal edu­ca­tors who want to give five boys bet­ween the ages of seven and four­teen what they need most urgen­tly, day by day: secu­ri­ty, ori­en­ta­ti­on, a home.
The docu­men­ta­ry focus is not on the child­ren but on tho­se who take the par­ents’ place. They some­ti­mes remind us of Don Quixote til­ting at the wind­mills, for the­re is a dif­fu­si­on of respon­si­bi­li­ty bet­ween school, youth wel­fa­re ser­vices, and absent mothers and fathers. Words fail when adults do not keep appoint­ments, when tho­se in char­ge capi­tu­la­te in the face of racist bul­ly­ing and pro­po­se some “time out” – for the bul­lied boy – in a psych­ia­tric faci­li­ty. It would be easy to denoun­ce the­se mecha­nisms, but that is not the point Daniel Abma wants to make. His obser­va­ti­on, both empha­tic and reser­ved, looks ques­tio­nin­gly into the gaps in the sys­tem – with tho­se who are in dan­ger of fal­ling through and tho­se who try to fill them with affec­tion. He makes us suspect that the ans­wer is not to clo­se all the system’s gaps. It is peo­p­le who are the­re for other peo­p­le and take respon­si­bi­li­ty. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE 2024, 91 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie: Daniel Abma
Kamera: Johannes Praus
Schnitt: Jana Dugnus 

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