A Film by Jonathan Schörnig. On July 20th an 21st at the fsk. In German and English with German subtitles.

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How a sea res­cue can take place is bey­ond ima­gi­na­ti­on. The real-time docu­men­ta­ry “One Hundred Four” (German ori­gi­nal title: “Einhundertvier“) brings this dra­ma­tic situa­ti­on clo­ser. The film shows how ago­ni­s­in­gly long it takes to res­cue 104 peo­p­le from a sin­king rub­ber ding­hy. Person by per­son, step by step, the action is accom­pa­nied by seve­ral par­al­lel came­ras. The situa­ti­on comes to a head when the Libyan coast­guard appears. The res­cued peo­p­le and the crew wait for days on the high seas, as no Mediterranean coun­try allows them to dock. Only after a ter­ri­ble storm does the ship reach a European harbour.

Every year, the world’s most dan­ge­rous escape rou­te claims thou­sands of lives. In the first half of 2023 alo­ne, almost 2,000 peo­p­le died in the Mediterranean becau­se the European Union‘s bor­der poli­cy sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly vio­la­tes exis­ting rights. Instead of hel­ping the ship­w­re­cked, Frontex car­ri­es out ille­gal push­backs, sup­ports the vio­lent actions of the Libyan coast­guard and mas­si­ve­ly com­bats pri­va­te sea res­cue mis­si­ons that inter­ve­ne whe­re the EU fails. Despite media evi­dence, it remains incom­pre­hen­si­ble to tho­se who have not expe­ri­en­ced this situa­ti­on them­sel­ves: why are hundreds of peo­p­le in mor­tal dan­ger being denied help and the civi­li­an hel­pers even threa­ten­ed and criminalised?

Jonathan Schörnig was affec­ted by the dilem­ma of lack of awa­re­ness and deci­ded to bring a sea res­cue to the screen as a real-time docu­men­ta­ry to show how ago­ni­s­in­gly long it takes to res­cue 104 peo­p­le from a sin­king rub­ber boat. The film accom­pa­nies the action per­son by per­son, step by step, with seve­ral par­al­lel cameras.

The situa­ti­on comes to a head when the Libyan coast­guard turns up. The res­cued peo­p­le and the crew wait for days on the high seas, as no Mediterranean coun­try allows them to dock. Only after a ter­ri­ble storm does a har­bour grant them ent­ry. What sounds like a bad film script is actual­ly the dai­ly reality.

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DE 2023, 93 Min., engl., dt. OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Jonathan Schörnig
Kamera: Jonathan Schörnig, Johannes Filous

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A film by Bahar Bektaş. In German and Turkish with German subtitles.

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“The lon­ging for your home­land never goes away,” says the film­ma­ker Bahar Bektaş. Her brot­her is in pri­son in Germany. He is sup­po­sed to be depor­ted and is wai­ting for the ear­ly trans­fer to Turkey he has reques­ted. Because the­re seems to be no end to the wai­ting, Bahar turns her came­ra on her Alevi Kurdish fami­ly and exami­nes the con­se­quen­ces of being uproo­ted. Ina Borrmann

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DE 2024, 100 Min., Deutsch, Türkisch mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Bahar Bektaş.
Kamera: Antonia Kilian und Meret Madörin
Schnitt: Arash Asadi

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A film by Daniele Luchetti. In Italian with German subtitles.

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Naples, ear­ly 1980s: Aldo and Vanda’s mar­ria­ge finds its­elf on the rocks when Aldo falls in love with the young Lidia. Thirty years later, Aldo and Vanda are still mar­ried. A thril­ler about emo­ti­ons, a sto­ry of loyal­ty and infi­de­li­ty, of ran­cor and shame. A betra­y­al, suf­fe­ring, a secret box, a devas­ta­ted home, a cat, the voice of the lovers and that of the estranged.

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Lacci
IT 2020, 100 Min., ital. OmU
Regie: Daniele Luchetti
Kamera: Ivan Casalgrandi
Schnitt: Aël Dallier Vega · Daniele Luchetti
mit Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

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A film by Eva Trobisch. In German with English subtitles.

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Ivo works as a pal­lia­ti­ve home-care nur­se. Every day, she visits fami­lies, cou­ples and sin­gle peo­p­le. They live in small flats and lar­ge hou­ses. They all have dif­fe­rent lives and deaths. They all have dif­fe­rent ways of deal­ing with the time that remains. At home, Ivo’s teenage daugh­ter has long sin­ce beco­me inde­pen­dent. From mor­ning to night, Ivo dri­ves around in her old Skoda which she has made into her per­so­nal living space. Here, she eats her meals, works, sings, swears and dreams. One of her pati­ents, Solveigh, has beco­me a clo­se fri­end. Ivo has also for­med a rela­ti­onship with Solveigh’s hus­band, Franz. Day after day, the two work tog­e­ther to care for Solveigh. And they sleep with each other. Solveigh’s strength is dimi­nis­hing and she soon has to rely on sup­port for the simp­lest tasks. She wants the final decis­i­on to be her own: she wants Ivo to help her die.

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DE 2024, 104 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Eva Trobisch
Kamera: Adrian Campean
Schnitt: Laura Lauzemis
mit Minna Wündrich, Pia Hierzegger, Lukas Turtur

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A film by Joachim Lafosse. In French with German subtitles.

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Astrid, the wife of a renow­ned lawy­er, has been silen­ced for 25 years. Her fami­ly’s equi­li­bri­um sud­den­ly col­lap­ses when her child­ren start loo­king for justice.

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Un Silence
FR 2023, 99 Min., franz. OmU
Regie: Joachim Lafosse
Kamera: Jean-Francois Hensgens
Schnitt: Damien Keyeux
mit Emmanuelle Devos, Daniel Auteuil, Matthieu Galloux

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A film by Nele Wohlatz. In Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, English with Geramn subtitles.

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A coas­tal city in Brazil. Kai arri­ves on holi­day from Taiwan with a bro­ken heart. A mal­func­tio­ning air con­di­tio­ner leads her to end up in Fu Ang’s umbrel­la shop. He could beco­me a fri­end, but then the rai­ny sea­son fails to arri­ve and the shop clo­ses. While sear­ching for Fu Ang, Kai comes across Xiao Xin and a group of Chinese workers in a fan­cy high-rise buil­ding. Kai finds hers­elf stran­ge­ly mir­rored in Xiao Xin’s sto­ry.
This quiet come­dy of misun­derstan­dings does not fol­low a tra­di­tio­nal dra­ma­tur­gy. The prot­ago­nists, per­for­med by an ensem­ble of first-time actors and pro­fes­sio­nals, come and go unex­pec­ted­ly. From one unknown city to the next, they fol­low the demands of their work. But over the cour­se of a hot, slow sum­mer, deli­ca­te bonds grow bet­ween them like islands in a sea full of sharks.

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Dormir de olhos aber­tos
Brazil / Taiwan / Argentina / Germany 2024, 97 Min., Mandarin, Portugiesisch, Spanisch, Englisch OmU
Regie: Nele Wohlatz
Kamera: Roman Kasseroller
Schnitt: Yann-shan Tsai, Ana Godoy
mit Chen Xiao Xin, Wang Shin-Hong, Liao Kai Ro, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lu Yang Zong

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A film by Shinji Sōmai. In Japanese with German subtitles.

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Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is wide­ly regard­ed as the semi­nal film of direc­tor Shinji Somai’s care­er. A work of raw, ele­men­tal power, it fol­lows an ensem­ble of juni­or high stu­dents in a pro­vin­cial town, beset by a summer‑y malai­se as a typho­on looms in the air. When the storm makes land­fall, the teens hole up in their school unsu­per­vi­sed, while ano­ther class­ma­te (Yuki Kudo) dis­ap­pears alo­ne on a har­ro­wing trek to the big city. Set adrift in a world sud­den­ly unmoo­red, the stu­dents let loo­se their pent-up angst and bur­geo­ning pas­si­ons in a series of pro­pul­si­ve, phan­tas­mic scenes—part apo­ca­lyp­se, part utopia—as the delu­ge rages on into the night.
Observed in dar­ing long takes, direc­tor Somai gives mate­ri­al form to the stu­dents’ tur­bu­lent inner lives. When day breaks and the rains let up, the youngs­ters open their eyes to a world in ruins—or a world rene­wed. The 10th best Japanese film of all time, accor­ding to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.

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JP 1985, 115 Min., japan. OmU
Regie: Shinji Sōmai
Kamera: Akihiro Ito
Schnitt: Isao Tomita
mit: Yuichi Mikami, Yūki Kudō, Tomokazu Miura

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A film by Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile. In English with German subtitles.

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War and Justice is the first and only true-life docu­men­ta­ry about the International Criminal Court (ICC), thanks to unpre­ce­den­ted access to Ben Ferencz, Luis Moreno Ocampo (ICC’s first pro­se­cu­tor), and Karim Khan (its cur­rent pro­se­cu­tor). Film direc­tors Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile fol­low Ocampo around the world as he enlists the sup­port of Academy Award-win­ning Angelina Jolie and as they join Ferencz in the uphill batt­le against wars in the Congo, Libya, Palestine, and Ukraine. In the cour­se of the film, the com­ple­xi­ties of inter­na­tio­nal law are given a face, and the view­er under­stands why tho­se who launch wars of aggres­si­on, the mother of all war cri­mes, can hard­ly be brought to jus­ti­ce while the world’s lar­gest mili­ta­ry powers — China, India, Russia, and the United States — remain unwil­ling to reco­gni­ze the ICC’s jurisdiction.Sadly, just as the film is about to debut, Ferencz dies at the age of 103. But Ocampo and Khan fight on in his honor, more deter­mi­ned than ever to put an end to all wars of aggres­si­on. Because war begets reven­ge; jus­ti­ce does not.

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DE 2023 96 Min., engl. OmU
Regie +Schnitt: Marcus Vetter und Michele Gentile
Kamera: Christian Haardt, Marcus Vetter, Michele Gentile

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A film by Daniel Kötter. In Armenian with German subtitles.

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Landshaft sket­ches the psy­cho­geo­gra­phy of a geo­po­li­ti­cal­ly char­ged land­scape and its inha­bi­tants bet­ween extra­c­ti­vism, war and dis­pla­ce­ment. In the form of a jour­ney in eas­tern Armenia, the film fol­lows human and non-human actors as they make their way through the land­scape, from Lake Sevan to the Sotk gold mine, occu­p­ied by Azerbaijan sin­ce the Karabakh War in 2020.

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DE 2023 96 Min., arme­nisch mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln,
Regie, Buch, Kamera, Schnitt: Daniel Kötter 

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A film by Todd Haynes. In English with German subtitles.

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20 years ago, the love affair of Gracie Atherton-Yu (Julianne Moore) and her hus­band Joe (Charles Melton), 23 years her juni­or, was the talk of the nati­on. Today, the two actors are still mar­ried and their twins are about to gra­dua­te from high school. When Hollywood wants to make a film of her life, Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) arri­ves to rese­arch her role as Gracie. But soon the fami­ly idyll threa­tens to fall apart: Joe has never real­ly dealt with the scan­dal and the gos­sip – and the lon­ger Elizabeth and Gracie stu­dy each other, the more the simi­la­ri­ties and dif­fe­ren­ces bet­ween the two women begin to blur.

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US 2023, 113 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Todd Haynes
Kamera: Christopher Blauvelt
Schnitt: Affonso Gonçalves
mit Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Piper Curda, Elizabeth Yu, Gabriel Chung

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