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A film by Aysun Bademsoy. In German & Turkish with Turkish and German subtitles

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Aysun Bademsoy’s long-term obser­va­ti­on of Turkish fema­le soc­cer play­ers in Berlin-Kreuzberg focu­ses on the next gene­ra­ti­on 30 years after their first encoun­ter. Born and rai­sed in Germany, they still ask them­sel­ves the ques­ti­on: Do we real­ly feel accept­ed here? It seems as if a cul­tu­ral rift still defi­nes their lives. Referring back to the 1990s, their mothers today remi­nis­ce about a youth in which the game of soc­cer pro­vi­ded the space for emancipation.

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DE 2024, 86 Min., deutsch, tür­ki­sche OmU
Regie: Aysun Bademsoy
Kamera: Isabelle Casez, Ines Thomsen
Schnitt: Maja Tennstedt

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A film by Ina Weisse. In German.

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Isabell’s life takes a turn when she rea­li­ses that her elder­ly par­ents can no lon­ger live inde­pendent­ly. The search for carers is dif­fi­cult and the­re are also com­pli­ca­ti­ons in her mar­ria­ge to Philippe. She shut­tles bet­ween Berlin and her par­ents’ weekend house, a striking moder­nist buil­ding desi­gned by her pro­mi­nent father hims­elf in bet­ter days. There, Isabell repea­ted­ly encoun­ters the enig­ma­tic Anja, a sin­gle mother who is strugg­ling to make ends meet. An unex­pec­ted bond beg­ins to form. The more Anja and her daugh­ter Greta beco­me part of Isabell’s life, the more uncer­tain she feels about the exis­tence she has so careful­ly built for hers­elf. Isabell sen­ses the ground shif­ting beneath her feet as she incre­asing­ly loses control.

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DE/FR 2024, 100 Min.,
Regie:  Ina Weisse 
Kamera: Judith Kaufmann
Schnitt: Hansjörg Weißbrich
mit Nina Hoss, Saskia Rosendahl, Vincent Macaigne, Thorsten Merten

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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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A film by Robert Guédiguian. In French with German subtitles.

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In the working-class dis­trict of old Marseilles, Rosa is the heart and soul of her com­mu­ni­ty, a nur­se and the matri­arch of a lar­ge and clo­se-knit fami­ly. But approa­ching reti­re­ment and sur­roun­ded by poli­ti­cal iner­tia, she is fee­ling dis­il­lu­sio­ned. Until she meets Henri and rea­li­ses it is never too late to ful­fil her own poli­ti­cal and per­so­nal dreams.

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Et la fête con­ti­nue ! 
FR/IT 2023, 106 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Robert Guédiguian
Kamera: Pierre Milon
Schnitt: Bernard Sasia
mit: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Lola Naymark, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Robinson Stévenin.

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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 Reto Caduff. In German with English subtitles.

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„Don’t talk, do!” At the end of the 70s, punk pro­mi­sed rebel­li­on and self-empower­ment. Also for the women in the sce­ne. They fought for their place on stage bet­ween the domi­nant punk top dogs, play­ing against social norms and long-out­da­ted fema­le role models. This is their story.

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DE/CH 2024, 89 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Reto Caduff
Kamera: Roman Schauerte, Stephan Huwyler
Schnitt: Beatrice Babin, Ginés Olivares 

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

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For the first time in six years, Barbara Morgenstern, pio­neer of German-style elec­tro­nic inti­ma­te pop, works on a new album. Her lap­top sits on a shoe­box, in the pri­va­cy of her home she finds first lines and har­mo­nies: “I like to be alo­ne,” one song beg­ins. One by one, musi­ci­ans join her. Intuitive ide­as take shape. A win­dow has ope­ned. Arrangements, rehear­sals, recor­dings fol­low. Step by step, the music enters public space, images are pro­du­ced, vide­os, nar­ra­ti­ves. Questions ari­se: New begin­ning or back to the roots? New Biedermeier or tough poli­ti­cal com­ment? The big­ger the band, the ris­kier the boo­king. The more cri­sis-rid­den the envi­ron­ment, the more com­fort­ing the music-making.
Sabine Herpich shows the crea­ti­on of a pop album as a working pro­cess. Her view is as unpre­ten­tious as her prot­ago­nist, her quiet obser­va­ti­on not inte­res­ted in sto­ry and gla­mour, but in clo­sen­ess and com­pre­hen­si­on. We under­stand why someone works as an artist, even if it is never explai­ned. Barbara Morgenstern shares what moves her: “Labour of love / for the rest of the earth / I’m more than cer­tain / that this still has worth.”

Jan Künemund

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DE 2024, 109 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie, Kamera & Schnitt: Sabine Herpich
Ton: Sabine Herpich, Tobias Büchner
Produktion: Tobias Büchner

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A film by Jia Zhang-Ke. In Mandarin with German subtitles.

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An endu­ring but fra­gi­le love sto­ry shared by Qiaoqiao and Bin, set in China, from the ear­ly 2000s to the pre­sent day.
Caught up in each other, Qiaoqiao and Bin enjoy­ed all that the city had to offer, sin­ging and dancing. Until one day, Bin finds hims­elf wan­ting to try his luck in a big­ger place than Datong. He left wit­hout any noti­ce. Some time later, Qiaoqiao deci­des to go on a jour­ney to look for him.
Traversing all of his past films, Jia Zhangke deli­vers an epic look at the roman­tic desti­ny of his peren­ni­al heroi­ne, Qiaoqiao. Spanning 21 years of a coun­try going through pro­found trans­for­ma­ti­on, the film gives a new per­spec­ti­ve to look into the con­tem­po­ra­ry China as well as the indi­vi­du­al expe­ri­en­ces under the tur­bu­lent emo­tio­nal and social changes.

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Feng liu yi dai
CN 2024, 110 Min., chin. OmU
Regie: Jia Zhang-Ke
Kamera: Yu Lik-Wai, Eric Gautier
Schnitt: Yang Chao, Lin Xudong, Matthieu Laclau
mit: Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin, Pan Jianlin, Lan Zhou

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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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Sonntag 6.4. 16:00, Lukas Reiter, 110 Min., (Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm)
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In Lützerath ver­läuft für Blinker, Ronni und die Bundestagsabgeordnete Kathrin Henneberger die 1,5 Grad-Grenze. Auf unter­schied­li­che Art kämp­fen sie für den Erhalt des Dorfes im rhei­ni­schen Braunkohlerevier. Während Blinker auf Barrikaden setzt und Ronni sich auf die Medienstrategie der Besetzung kon­zen­triert, ver­sucht die ört­li­che Grünen-Abgeordnete den Protest zu unter­stüt­zen und muss eine schwe­re Niederlage ein­ste­cken, als die Ampelkoalition dem Kohlekompromiss mit RWE zustim­men – der zwar den Ausstieg bis 2030 fest­hält, aber Lützerath dem Konzern opfert. Nach der Räumung blei­ben Bilder der Zerstörung, Erinnerungen und erst lang­sam hei­len­de Wunden.

Deutschland | 2025 | 110 Min.
Deutsch mit eng­li­schen UT
Berlin-Premiere

Regie Lukas Reiter Buch Christoph Hans, Lukas Reiter Recherche Louise Wassermé Kamera Lukas Reiter Schnitt Christoph Hans

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