Family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict-or free-the wrong killer.
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US 2024, 114 Min., engl. OmU Regie: Clint Eastwood Kamera: Yves Bélanger Schnitt: Joel Cox, David Cox mit: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, Francesca Eastwood, Chris Messina
Artist Johan Grimonprez’s new film essay stems from detailed research about some of the machinations the Western colonial powers, such as his native Belgium or the US, came up with to undermine the African decolonization movement. It specifically reexamines the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) and its struggle for independence in the context of the CIA’s history of arts patronage, telling how the US Foreign Intelligence agency sent Louis Armstrong as a jazz ambassador to distract from their involvement in the assassination of newly elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Nina Simone was sent on a similar tour of Nigeria by a CIA front organization, yet other jazz greats got involved less unwittingly. Dizzy Gillespie briefly ran for president in 1964 and promised that the White House would be renamed the Blues House, while Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crashed the UN Security Council to protest Lumumba’s assassination. Both a historical pamphlet and a swinging musical composition, SOUNDTRACKTO A COUP D’ETAT unfolds like a record’s extensive sleeve notes, as the jazz sounds propel and carry along facts, figures and footnotes of major and minor histories with them at dizzying speed. (Antoine Thirion)
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BE/FR/NL 2024, 150 Min., engl., frz. OmU,
Regie: Johan Grimonprez,
mit: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, Nina Simone, Nikita Krutschev, Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Duke Elligton
In 1968, a classroom in a girls’ high school in Munich is transformed into a film studio under the direction of the young Edgar Reitz. The film lesson begins: the first documented attempt in cinema history to teach film aesthetics as a stand-alone subject. In 2023, Edgar Reitz, now world-famous as the director of the film epic Heimat, is approached by an elderly woman who identifies herself as one of his pupils from 1968. The two arrange a class reunion. Compiled from a documentary made about the project at the time, the Super 8 films shot by the pupils and the filmed reunion in 2023, a kind of long exposure of the last 55 years of film history is created. Are the personalities of the pupils already evident in the exercise films? And what do the women have to say now about contemporary film culture? Filmstunde_23 is a declaration of love for filmmaking.
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DE 2024, 89 Min., Regie: Jörg Adolph, Edgar Reitz Kamera: Matthias Reitz-Zausinger, Markus Schindler, Daniel Schönauer, Thomas Mauch (1968), Dedo Weigert (1968) Schnitt: Jörg Adolph, Anja Pohl
“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
Light is a fascinating phenomenon. Without light, there would be no cinema, no film – and no life. So light is at the origin of everything, and yet it remains invisible to the eye until it hits matter. This moment is – quite literally – the starting point of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest work, for the springtime spectacle of rainbow shreds in the cinematographer and documentary filmmaker’s flat became the starting point of a search for the origin of the images we form of this world. For this quest he dived deep into two spheres that seem to follow different laws but always strive to fathom the magical: physics and art. An intellectual and poetic ping pong game evolves between researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Erlangen and the “Extreme Light Group” of the University of Glasgow as well as internationally renowned artists such as Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt, Julie Brook, Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz. In its course, the various perspectives on light lead to new insights on all sides that would hardly have been achieved without this methodical cross-over: about laser power and colour pigments, about black holes and floating sculptures. In brief moments, the uninitiated may even get some idea of the laws of quantum physics, generally considered impossible to visualise.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann
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DE/GB 2024, 99 Min., engl./dt. Originalfassung mit deutschen und englischen Untertiteln Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Thomas Riedelsheimer Musik: Fred Frith, gabby fluke-mogul
A target of Iran’s hardline conservative government for his films’ criticism of the state, director Mohammad Rasoulof fled his home country to avoid an eight-year prison sentence, though he hadn’t finished editing his latest film yet. His searing drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig won a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards on its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is every bit as urgent and gripping as its real-life backstory would portend: longtime government worker Iman (Missagh Zareh) has just received a major promotion to the role of judge’s investigator, to the hopeful delight of his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani); at the same moment, a series of student protests against the government have exploded in the streets, stoking the sympathies of their independent-minded daughters Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). The growing wedge between progressive children and traditional parents intensifies through a series of unsettling events that put Iman’s future in jeopardy. Both paranoia thriller and domestic drama, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is above all an epic of anti-patriarchal political conviction.
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IR, DE, FR 2024, 168 Min., farsi OmU Regie: Mohammad Rasoulof Kamera: Pooyan Aghababaei Schnitt: Andrew Bird mit Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi
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
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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GOUZHEN CN 2024, 110 Min., MandarinOmU Regie: Guan Hu Kamera: Gao Weizhe mit Eddie Peng, Zhangke Jia, Jing Liang
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BLACKDOG – WEGGEFÄHRTEN | offizieller Trailer mit Dt. Untertiteln | ab 12. Dezember im Kino
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
Following in the footsteps of the Hamburg film director Hans Schomburgk who travelled through the German colony of Togo from Lomé to the north with his companion and actress Meg Gehrts in 1913, Jürgen Ellinghaus screens the footage shot then at its locations in modern-day Togo. Schomburgk’s affirmative images show slave labour, humiliation and the arrogance of the colonial power. The material is contrasted by Gehrts’ romanticising diary entries and other colonial reports which often testify to a horrifying coldness.
The screenings of this material, which has never been shown in Togo before, prompt the audiences to reflect on tradition, stereotypes, the “white gaze.” In the villages, the colonial images conjure up memories of handed down stories. In the metropolis of Lomé, young film enthusiasts deplore that these images were kept from them until today and discuss in which contexts they should be screened. But “Togoland Projections” not only shows how much these painful documents and texts are needed in contemporary Togo, because they are part of the country’s history. The film also demonstrates that they are needed in Germany so we can take responsibility for our suppressed history and face our own racism – past and present. Christoph Terhechte
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DE 2023, 96 Min., div. OmU Regie: Jürgen Ellinghaus Kamera: Rémi Jennequin Schnitt: Nina Khada
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