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A film by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with German subtitles.

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Basel Adra, a young Palestinian acti­vist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fight­ing the mass expul­si­on of his com­mu­ni­ty by Israel’s occu­pa­ti­on sin­ce child­hood. He docu­ments the slow-moti­on era­di­ca­ti­on of the vil­la­ges in his home regi­on whe­re sol­diers deploy­ed by the Israeli govern­ment are gra­du­al­ly demo­li­shing hou­ses and dri­ving out their resi­dents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli jour­na­list, who sup­ports him in his efforts. An unli­kely alli­ance deve­lo­ps. But the rela­ti­onship bet­ween the two is strai­ned by the enorm­ous ine­qua­li­ty bet­ween them: Basel lives under mili­ta­ry occu­pa­ti­on while Yuval lives free­ly and wit­hout rest­ric­tions.
This film by a Palestinian-Israeli coll­ec­ti­ve of four young acti­vists has been made as an act of crea­ti­ve resis­tance on the path to grea­ter justice.

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PS/NO 2024, 95 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch, Englisch OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Kamera: Rachel Szor 

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A film by Guan Hu. In Mandarin with German subtitles.

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On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his home­town after being released from jail. While working for the local dog pat­rol team to clear the town of stray dogs befo­re the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unli­kely con­nec­tion with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new jour­ney together.

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CN 2024, 110 Min., Mandarin OmU
Regie: Guan Hu
Kamera: Gao Weizhe
mit Eddie Peng, Zhangke Jia, Jing Liang

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A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German subtitles.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desi­res to manifest.

Competition Cannes Filmfestival 2024: Grand Prix.

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IN, FR, NL, LU 2024, 114 Min., Malayalam, Hindi OmU
Regie: Payal Kapadia
Kamera: Rabadir Das
Schnitt: Clément Pinteaux
mit Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon 

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A film by Nora Fingscheidt. In English with German subtitles.

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After an absence of more than ten years, Rona returns to her home on the remo­te Orkney Islands in Scotland. As she redis­co­vers the uni­que, wild land­scape in which she grew up, her child­hood memo­ries ming­le with tho­se from her more recent times as an addict. Her depar­tu­re for the city and sub­se­quent dis­so­lu­te years in London resul­ted in a pain­ful fall. But litt­le by litt­le, her encoun­ter with the enchan­ted, wind-bat­te­red coasts of the islands beco­mes a chan­ce for a new life.
Nora Fingscheidt’s adapt­a­ti­on of Amy Liptot’s auto­bio­gra­phi­cal best­sel­ler uses har­ro­wing flash­backs to depict Rona’s down­ward spi­ral in London and her time in a strict rehab pro­gram­me. However, the focus of the film is on her libe­ra­ti­on from per­so­nal demons through a con­nec­tion with the natu­re of her child­hood home.

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GB/DE 2024, 117 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Nora Fingscheidt
Kamera: Yunus Roy Imer
Schnitt: Stephan Bechinger
mit Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane, Saskia Reeves, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle 

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A film by Guan Hu. In Mandarin with German subtitles.

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On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his home­town after being released from jail. While working for the local dog pat­rol team to clear the town of stray dogs befo­re the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unli­kely con­nec­tion with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new jour­ney together.

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GOU ZHEN
CN 2024, 110 Min., Mandarin OmU
Regie: Guan Hu
Kamera: Gao Weizhe
mit Eddie Peng, Zhangke Jia, Jing Liang

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A film by Payal Kapadia. In Malayalam and Hindi with German subtitles.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s rou­ti­ne is trou­bled when she recei­ves an unex­pec­ted gift from her estran­ged hus­band. Her youn­ger room­ma­te, Anu, tri­es in vain to find a spot in the city to be inti­ma­te with her boy­fri­end. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desi­res to manifest.

Competition Cannes Filmfestival 2024: Grand Prix.

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IN, FR, NL, LU 2024, 114 Min., Malayalam, Hindi OmU
Regie: Payal Kapadia
Kamera: Rabadir Das
Schnitt: Clément Pinteaux
mit Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon 

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A film by Nora Fingscheidt. In English with German subtitles.

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After an absence of more than ten years, Rona returns to her home on the remo­te Orkney Islands in Scotland. As she redis­co­vers the uni­que, wild land­scape in which she grew up, her child­hood memo­ries ming­le with tho­se from her more recent times as an addict. Her depar­tu­re for the city and sub­se­quent dis­so­lu­te years in London resul­ted in a pain­ful fall. But litt­le by litt­le, her encoun­ter with the enchan­ted, wind-bat­te­red coasts of the islands beco­mes a chan­ce for a new life.
Nora Fingscheidt’s adapt­a­ti­on of Amy Liptot’s auto­bio­gra­phi­cal best­sel­ler uses har­ro­wing flash­backs to depict Rona’s down­ward spi­ral in London and her time in a strict rehab pro­gram­me. However, the focus of the film is on her libe­ra­ti­on from per­so­nal demons through a con­nec­tion with the natu­re of her child­hood home.

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GB/DE 2024, 117 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Nora Fingscheidt
Kamera: Yunus Roy Imer
Schnitt: Stephan Bechinger
mit Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane, Saskia Reeves, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle 

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A film by Charly Hübner. Starts October 1st at the fsk.

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A Film about the German Band Element of Crime throug­hout the centuries.

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DE 2024, 93 Min.,
Regie: Charly Hübner
Kamera: Casey Campbell
Schnitt: Christoph Brunner
mit: Sven Regener, Jakob Ilja, Richard Pappik und Maike Rosa Vogel, Florian
Horwarth, Isolation Berlin, Von wegen Lisbeth, Steiner & Madlaina, Ansa
Sauermann

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A film by Sabine Lidl. In English with German subtitles.

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“There is no sepa­ra­ti­on bet­ween me and what I pho­to­graph.” Nan Goldin views her per­so­nal and pro­fes­sio­nal lives as one inex­tri­ca­ble whole.This world-famous pho­to­grapher por­trays peo­p­le she comes across and tho­se who accom­pa­ny her through life to crea­te inti­ma­te and can­did visu­al tes­ti­mo­nies of life.

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DE 2023, 62 Min., engl. OmU
Regie & Kamera: Sabine Lidl
Schnitt: Barbara Gies
mit: Nan Goldin, Clemens Schick, Käthe Kruse, Joachim Sartorius, Piotr Nathan, Christine Fenzl, Guido Costa, Jack Ritchey, Thomas Dupal

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A film by Min Bahadur Bham. In Tibetian and Nepali with German and English subtitles

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In the heart of the Nepalese Himalayas, the spi­ri­ted Pema embraces a poly­and­rous mar­ria­ge with Tashi and his two youn­ger brot­hers. They initi­al­ly lead a har­mo­nious life, but when Tashi fails to return from a tra­ding trip to Lhasa, the legi­ti­ma­cy of Pema’s unborn child is ques­tio­ned by her com­mu­ni­ty. Determined to pro­ve her love and puri­ty, she embarks on a quest to find Tashi. Accompanied by her brot­her-in-law, her now de fac­to spou­se Karma, she goes into the wil­der­ness. Karma is a monk. After initi­al­ly resis­ting giving up his monastic life, he gra­du­al­ly comes to app­re­cia­te the simp­le exis­tence of a secu­lar life. However, urgent duties call him back to the monas­tery and Pema is left alo­ne. As she navi­ga­tes the harsh Himalayan ter­rain, her quest tran­s­cends the search for her miss­ing hus­band. Pema beco­mes incre­asing­ly immer­sed in a spi­ri­tu­al search for mea­ning in which every step brings her clo­ser to self-dis­co­very and liberation.

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NP/FR/NO/HK/CN/TK/TW/US/QA 2024, 150 Min.,
Tibetisch, Nepali Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Min Bahadur Bham
Kamera: Aziz Zhambakiyev
Schnitt: Liao Ching Sung, Kiran Shrestha
mit: Thinley Lhamo, Sonam Topden, Tenzin Dalha, Karma Wangyal Gurung, Karma Shakya, Loten Namling, Tsering Lhamo Gurung, Janga Bahadur Lama 

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