In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
Credits:
US 2025, 110 Min., engl. OmU Regie & Schnitt: Kelly Reichardt Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt mit: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Bill Camp
Trailer:
THEMASTERMIND | Offizieller Trailer | Ab 16. Oktober im Kino
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
Credits:
US 2025, 110 Min., engl. OmU Regie & Schnitt: Kelly Reichardt Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt mit: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Bill Camp
Trailer:
THEMASTERMIND | Offizieller Trailer | Ab 16. Oktober im Kino
Cluj, Transylvania. After being driven from his shelter in a house cellar, a homeless man commits suicide. Orsolya, the bailiff who carried out the eviction, is impelled to make various attempts to address her feelings of guilt. Using a mixture of drama and comedy, topics as diverse as the housing crisis, post-socialist economics, nationalism and the power of language to maintain social status are dissected with a sharp, absurdist scalpel, in a movie-literate narrative that plays partly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51 – not least in the modesty of this independent, low-budget production’s means. But while in Rossellini’s film a woman’s crisis of conscience leads to meaningful activity, here the protagonist facing the dilemma is unable to find anybody to understand her and becomes increasingly desperate for external reassurance and validation, in a manner that would be easy to condemn if Orsolya’s moral relativism were not such an uncomfortably accurate reflection of a modern-day malaise from which few of us are wholly immune.
A film that is shot truly open-endedly, in the thick of it, even though – at the outset – it was impossible to predict what would happen. Liat is forcibly abducted from her kibbutz by members of Hamas on 7 October 2023 and shortly afterwards Brandon Kramer starts filming with her family. He’s right there with them, up close, as the parents Yehuda and Chaya try to deal with their fear – or to sway the fate of their adult daughter and her husband in dialogue with the authorities. As a US citizen, Yehuda flies to the USA, accompanied by Liat’s son, who is burdened by more than the public attention, and Liat’s sister, who will try to cushion Yehuda’s temper and anger. Because even within this family views are polarised: despite his pain, the father takes a critical view of Israel’s role in the Middle East conflict. He is a pacifist and will not be dissuaded from the path of reconciliation, even at the geopolitical epicentre of diplomacy and trauma. He persistently swims against the tide, takes issue with himself and everyone else and berates the Israeli government. A candid film of the hour. Insights don’t come from politics, but from Liat’s family.
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US 2025, 97 Min., Englisch, Hebräisch OmU Regie: Brandon Kramer Kamera: Yoni Brook, Omer Manor Schnitt: Jeff Gilbert
A street in central Warsaw is the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immigrated to the country a decade ago but still struggles to fit in. Ulica Wilcza, the street where he lives, has not really helped matters. In an attempt to accelerate his integration, he begins filming his neighbours, sounding out his relationships with them and seeking ways to overcome his own feelings of alienation. With the help of his friend Mo, another immigrant-turned-filmmaker, Arjun uncovers the hidden secrets of the street, revealing a host of charming inhabitants. He finds other people like himself who are living between the past and present, between an imagined homeland and the real one. The street connects them all like an invisible thread, offering solace in the melancholy of everyday life. Along this kilometre-long stretch, a picture of modern Europe emerges, exposing a kaleidoscope of contradictions and anxieties as a foreign filmmaker holds up a mirror to a country that is often perceived as homogeneous, unwelcoming and politically right-wing.
There are several films about Kafka and adaptations of his works, mountains of Kafka biographies and other secondary literature, humorously illustrated in ‘Franz K.’ during one of the excursions into the bizarre present. Agnieszka Holland and author Marek Epstein have chosen a very lively approach for their film version, which appears like a collection of short stories. The film repeatedly jumps through time, showing excerpts and fragments of what is known about the life of the highly sensitive author. With a great willingness to experiment, it allows us to partake in his private and professional life and visually interprets excerpts from his work without, however, overusing ‘Kafkaesque’ imagery. It tells of family, friendship, pressure and fear, inner and outer constraints, often in a playful manner, but also with appropriate seriousness, as in its treatment of the increasingly threatening situation of Jews in Europe.
Credits:
DECZ 2025, 127 Min. Deutsch, Tschechisch OmdU Regie: Agnieszka Holland Drehbuch: Marek Epstein Kamera :Tomasz Naumiuk mit: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Katharina Stark
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
Credits:
US 2025, 110 Min., engl. OmU Regie & Schnitt: Kelly Reichardt Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt mit: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Bill Camp
Trailer:
THEMASTERMIND | Offizieller Trailer | Ab 16. Oktober im Kino
A film that is shot truly open-endedly, in the thick of it, even though – at the outset – it was impossible to predict what would happen. Liat is forcibly abducted from her kibbutz by members of Hamas on 7 October 2023 and shortly afterwards Brandon Kramer starts filming with her family. He’s right there with them, up close, as the parents Yehuda and Chaya try to deal with their fear – or to sway the fate of their adult daughter and her husband in dialogue with the authorities. As a US citizen, Yehuda flies to the USA, accompanied by Liat’s son, who is burdened by more than the public attention, and Liat’s sister, who will try to cushion Yehuda’s temper and anger. Because even within this family views are polarised: despite his pain, the father takes a critical view of Israel’s role in the Middle East conflict. He is a pacifist and will not be dissuaded from the path of reconciliation, even at the geopolitical epicentre of diplomacy and trauma. He persistently swims against the tide, takes issue with himself and everyone else and berates the Israeli government. A candid film of the hour. Insights don’t come from politics, but from Liat’s family.
Credits:
US 2025, 97 Min., Englisch, Hebräisch OmU Regie: Brandon Kramer Kamera: Yoni Brook, Omer Manor Schnitt: Jeff Gilbert
A street in central Warsaw is the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immigrated to the country a decade ago but still struggles to fit in. Ulica Wilcza, the street where he lives, has not really helped matters. In an attempt to accelerate his integration, he begins filming his neighbours, sounding out his relationships with them and seeking ways to overcome his own feelings of alienation. With the help of his friend Mo, another immigrant-turned-filmmaker, Arjun uncovers the hidden secrets of the street, revealing a host of charming inhabitants. He finds other people like himself who are living between the past and present, between an imagined homeland and the real one. The street connects them all like an invisible thread, offering solace in the melancholy of everyday life. Along this kilometre-long stretch, a picture of modern Europe emerges, exposing a kaleidoscope of contradictions and anxieties as a foreign filmmaker holds up a mirror to a country that is often perceived as homogeneous, unwelcoming and politically right-wing.
There are several films about Kafka and adaptations of his works, mountains of Kafka biographies and other secondary literature, humorously illustrated in ‘Franz K.’ during one of the excursions into the bizarre present. Agnieszka Holland and author Marek Epstein have chosen a very lively approach for their film version, which appears like a collection of short stories. The film repeatedly jumps through time, showing excerpts and fragments of what is known about the life of the highly sensitive author. With a great willingness to experiment, it allows us to partake in his private and professional life and visually interprets excerpts from his work without, however, overusing ‘Kafkaesque’ imagery. It tells of family, friendship, pressure and fear, inner and outer constraints, often in a playful manner, but also with appropriate seriousness, as in its treatment of the increasingly threatening situation of Jews in Europe.
Credits:
DECZ 2025, 127 Min. Deutsch, Tschechisch OmdU Regie: Agnieszka Holland Drehbuch: Marek Epstein Kamera :Tomasz Naumiuk mit: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Katharina Stark
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
Credits:
US 2025, 110 Min., engl. OmU Regie & Schnitt: Kelly Reichardt Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt mit: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Bill Camp
Trailer:
THEMASTERMIND | Offizieller Trailer | Ab 16. Oktober im Kino
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