A film by Max Ahrens & Maik Lüdemann

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When, at the begin­ning of 2025, a moti­on on migra­ti­on poli­cy is pas­sed in the Bundestag with the sup­port of the AfD, a par­ty clas­si­fied as right-wing extre­mist, the poli­ti­cal land­scape is shaken and a nati­on­wi­de wave of pro­tests is trig­ge­red. Nevertheless, the so-cal­led ‘migra­ti­on deba­te’ is in full swing and is incre­asing­ly domi­na­ted by right-wing posi­ti­ons that stir up fears and end­an­ger not only human lives at Europe’s exter­nal bor­ders. KEIN LAND FÜR NIEMAND (No Country for Anyone) sets out to inves­ti­ga­te the cau­ses of this development.

The film crew accom­pa­nies a civi­li­an res­cue mis­si­on in the Mediterranean, pro­vi­des insight into the tigh­tening of European asyl­um law, lets refu­gees descri­be their per­spec­ti­ves and, in dia­lo­gue with acti­vists, sci­en­tists and publi­cists, ana­ly­ses the dyna­mics behind the shift to the right.

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DE 2025, 111 Min., OmU
Regie: Max Ahrens & Maik Lüdemann
Kamera: Nils Kohstall, Maik Lüdemann
Schnitt: Lino Thaesler

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A film by  Emanuel Pârvu. In Romanian with German subtitles.

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Adi (17) is spen­ding the sum­mer in his home vil­la­ge in the Danube Delta. One night he is bru­t­ally atta­cked on the street, the next day his world is tur­ned upsi­de-down. His par­ents no lon­ger look at him as they did, and the see­ming tran­qui­li­ty of the vil­la­ge starts to crack.

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TREI KILOMETRI PÂNĂ LA CAPĂTUL LUMII
RO 2024, 105 Min., rumä­ni­sche OmU
Regie: Emanuel Pârvu
Kamera: Silviu Stavilã
Schnitt: Mircea Olteanu
mit: Ciprian Chiujdea) · Bogdan Dumitrache · Laura Vasiliu · Valeriu Andriutâ · Ingrid Micu-Berescu 

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A film by Christina Tournatzés. In German with English subtitles.

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1962 – Twelve-year-old Karla is a wit­ness in court. She files char­ges against the very per­son who was sup­po­sed to pro­tect her: Her father. Judge Lamy is the hope at her side.

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DE 2025, 104 Min., deut­sche Originalfassung mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Christina Tournatzés
Kamera: Florian Emmerich
Schnitt: Isabel Meier
mit: Elise Krieps, Rainer Bock, Imogen Kogge, Torben Liebrecht, Katharina Schüttler

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A film by Marie Luise Lehner. Starts October 2nd at the fsk. In German, German Sign Language & English with German subtitles.

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Slowly, 12-year-old Anna and her deaf mum are start­ing to feel a bit cram­ped in their flat. It’s not just the lack of pri­va­cy that’s caus­ing fric­tion – Anna has just star­ted secon­da­ry school and quick­ly rea­li­ses what’s important now: brand-name clo­thes and a sen­se of belon­ging. She quick­ly gets hold of a fake Ralph Lauren jum­per, but money’s still tight. In her debut, direc­tor and aut­hor Marie Luise Lehner stages a con­fron­ta­ti­on with clas­sist struc­tures, which Anna tack­les with a mix­tu­re of shame and grit. She finds an ally in Mara, who chal­lenges others with femi­nist issues and who also lives alo­ne with her que­er father. Lehner stands by her heroes uncon­di­tio­nal­ly, giving them space for intro­s­pec­tion and out­bursts, allo­wing them to row back and recon­ci­le. Not fit­ting in allows them to get to know and app­re­cia­te who they are. Lehner flies the flag of soli­da­ri­ty, quite natu­ral­ly and with ple­nty of refe­ren­ces to pop cul­tu­re. And clo­ses with a libe­ra­ting “Fuck you, Vienna”, high abo­ve the city’s rooftops.

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AT 2025, 87 Min., Deutsch, Deutsche Gebärdensprache, Englisch OmU
Regie: Marie Luise Lehner
Kamera: Simone Hart
Schnitt: Jana Libnik, Joana Scrinzi, Alexandra Schneider
mit: Siena Popović, Mariya Menner, Jessica Paar, Daniel Sea

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A film by Scandar Copti. In Arabic and Hebrew with German subtitles.

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A midd­le-class Palestinian fami­ly in Haifa sees life spi­ral out of con­trol under the oppres­si­ve rea­li­ty of con­tem­po­ra­ry Israeli society.

The daugh­ter, Fifi, is stu­dy­ing in Jerusalem and gets into a car acci­dent; the son, Toufic, is invol­ved in secret roman­tic liai­sons and must con­t­end with an unwan­ted pregnan­cy; and the father is embroi­led in what could amount to insu­rance fraud. 

Oscar nomi­nee Scandar Copti (Ajami, 2009) pres­ents a grip­ping fami­ly dra­ma as his second fea­ture film. Led by an ensem­ble of non-pro­fes­sio­nal actors, it inter­wea­ves the sto­ries of mul­ti­ple cha­rac­ters who­se fates are unde­ni­ably – and res­entful­ly – inter­lin­ked. The cha­rac­ters in this mas­terful­ly writ­ten screen­play, groun­ded in inti­ma­te por­tra­yals of moral rela­ti­vism, walk a fine line bet­ween con­ce­ding to and resis­ting the sta­tus quo of Israeli sta­te vio­lence. The film pre­mie­red at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay.

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PS/DE/FR/IT/QT 2025, 123 Min., Arabisch, Hebräisch OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Scandar Copti
Kamera: Tim Kuhn
mit: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Meirav Memorsky, Toufic Danial

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A film by Marcin Wierzchowski. In various lan­guages with German subtitles.

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The film tells the sto­ry of the 2020 racist attack in the city of Hanau in the German sta­te of Hesse from the per­spec­ti­ve of the bere­a­ved rela­ti­ves and the sur­vi­vors. Within the space of just a few minu­tes, the per­pe­tra­tor shot nine young peo­p­le dead becau­se he did not con­sider them to be German. What are the direct and long-term con­se­quen­ces of such an attack on peo­p­le and their city? Director Marcin Wierzchowski accom­pa­nied the prot­ago­nists for four years as they faced their grief and stri­ved to come to terms with the loss of a loved one. But the film also reve­als their strugg­le for reco­gni­ti­on and a sen­se of belon­ging in the coun­try they call home. The rela­ti­ves feel aban­do­ned by the aut­ho­ri­ties and poli­ti­ci­ans ali­ke becau­se, despi­te many words of sym­pa­thy, they them­sel­ves are left to unco­ver the cir­cum­s­tances of the crime. In the pro­cess, they encoun­ter the cold bureau­cra­cy of a sys­tem that is woeful­ly unpre­pared for such an attack – even though right-wing ter­ror is a tra­gi­cal­ly com­mon­place part of German history.

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DE 2025, 132 Min., Deutsch, Rumänisch, Türkisch, Englisch OmU
Regie: Marcin Wierzchowski
Schnitt: Stefan Oliveira-Pita
Kamera: Marcin Wierzchowski, Peter Peiker

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Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

Vom 10. –  17. September fin­det die­ses Jahr zum 20. Mal das größ­te pol­ni­sche Filmfestival außer­halb Polens statt (mehr, Katalog). Im fsk zei­gen wir alle sie­ben Wettbewerbsbeiträge und zwei Specials:

• filmPOLSKA rel­oa­ded – Glorious Summer um 18:00

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A film by Christian Petzold. In German with English subtitles.

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On a weekend trip to the coun­try­si­de, Laura mira­cu­lous­ly sur­vi­ves a car crash. Physically unhurt but deep­ly shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who wit­nessed the acci­dent and now cares for Laura with mother­ly devo­ti­on. When her hus­band and adult son also give up their initi­al resis­tance to Laura’s pre­sence, the four of them slow­ly build up some fami­ly-like rou­ti­ne. But soon they can no lon­ger igno­re their past…

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DE 2025, 86 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Christian Petzold
Schnitt:  Bettina Böhler
Kamera: Hans Fromm
mit: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs

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A film by Juan Francisco Olea. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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Set in the extinct world of arti­san mining in North Chile, this neo wes­tern cen­ters the strug­gles and empower­ment of a young woman, fight­ing to keep the fami­ly busi­ness against patri­ar­chal struc­tures and the law of the jungle.

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CL/MX/UY/DE 2024, 83 Min., span. OmU
Regie: Juan Francisco Olea
Kamera: Sergio Armstrong
mit: Katalina Sánchez, Francisco Melo, Michael Silva

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A film by François Ozon. In French with German subtitles.

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Michelle, a model grand­mo­ther, is enjoy­ing peaceful reti­re­ment in a Burgundy vil­la­ge, clo­se to her best fri­end Marie-Claude. On All Saints‘ Day, her daugh­ter Valérie arri­ves to drop off her grand­son Lucas for the school holi­day week. But not­hing will go to plan.

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Quand vient l’au­t­om­ne
FR 2024, 102 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: François Ozon
Kamera: Jérôme Alméras
Schnitt: Anita Roth
mit: Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier

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