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Am 28.1. um 18:00. Einführung: Bartek Tesarz (Polnisches Institut Berlin)

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Zakopane in den Dreißigerjahren, hier leben die Góralen: Im süd­polni­schen Hochgebirge spricht man sei­ne eige­ne Sprache, pflegt sei­ne alpi­nen Traditionen und hält Abstand zu ande­ren – auch zu Polen. Hier fin­den zwei Familien zuein­an­der, die durch stra­te­gi­sche Heirat ihre Situation ver­bes­sern wol­len. Aber wie so oft sind Liebe und Heirat zwei ver­schie­de­ne Dinge – der älte­re, beson­ne­ne Maciek soll die schö­ne Bronka hei­ra­ten, obwohl sie ein Verhältnis mit sei­nem jün­ge­ren, unge­stü­men Bruder Jędrek hat und sogar ein Kind von ihm erwar­tet. Koszałka beschränkt sich nicht auf ein folk­lo­ris­ti­sches Kammerspiel um Liebe und Gehorsam. Vielmehr ent­wi­ckelt er die Geschichte über einen län­ge­ren Zeitraum und ver­leiht ihr damit auch eine poli­ti­sche Dimension. Denn 1939 mar­schiert die deut­sche Wehrmacht in der Hohen Tatra ein und die Góralen müs­sen sich ent­schei­den – kol­la­bo­rie­ren sie und sichern ihren Wohlstand oder blei­ben sie rebel­lisch und ris­kie­ren damit ihr Leben? [Rainer Mende]

Biała odwa­ga
PL 2024
R/K: Marcin Koszałka
111 min, OmeU
B: Łukasz M. Maciejewski & Marcin Koszałka
S: Agnieszka Glińska
M: Jacek Grudzień
D: Filip Pławiak, Julian Świeżewski, Jakub Gierszał, Sandra Drzymalska, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja, Andrzej Konopka u. a.

BIAŁA ODWAGA – Zwiastun PL (Official Trailer)

A film by Asaf Saban. In Polish, English, Hebrew with German subtitles.

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“They want you to say some­thing in Hebrew. Like a pray­er or bles­sing.” – “I don’t know what to say, so … like … I pre­fer not to do that.” – “Ok, but just some­thing short. And then they’ll lea­ve you alone.”

The end of school is approa­ching. Together with their class and a Shoah sur­vi­vor, Frisch, Nitzan and Ido embark on a bus trip through Poland to visit for­mer con­cen­tra­ti­on camps and memo­ri­als of the Shoah. The trip, which is cus­to­ma­ry for teen­agers in Israel, con­fronts them with their iden­ti­ty, some­ti­mes in a very emo­tio­nal way. Simultaneously, as on every school trip, group dyna­mics, emo­tio­nal con­fu­si­on and con­flicts of desi­re are also pre­sent. Ha’Mishlahat tells of a cul­tu­re of remem­brance from the per­spec­ti­ve of young Israelis, who­se lively ener­gy col­l­i­des with a sta­tic sys­tem of memo­ri­al sites and modes. tells of a cul­tu­re of remem­brance from the per­spec­ti­ve of young Israelis, who­se lively ener­gy col­l­i­des with a sta­tic sys­tem of memo­ri­al sites and modes.

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Ha’Mishlahat
IL/PL/DE 2023, 101 Min., Polish, English, Hebrew OmU
Regie: Asaf Saban
Kamera: Bogumił Godfrejów
Schnitt: Michal Oppenheim
mit: Neomi Harari, Yoav Bavly, Leib Lev Levin,
Ezra Dagan, Alma Dishy u. a.

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Delegation | Trailer [HD]

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A film by Aslı Özge. In Turkish with German subtitles.

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Faruk, a man in his nine­ties, incre­asing­ly beco­mes the prot­ago­nist in the film his daugh­ter is making about the impen­ding demo­li­ti­on of his block of flats in Istanbul. In the hope of delay­ing the demo­li­ti­on of a buil­ding he has been living in for deca­des, Faruk regu­lar­ly attends buil­ding manage­ment mee­tings. As the daugh­ter films her father, the boun­da­ries bet­ween rea­li­ty and fic­tion begin to blur.
Shot in authen­tic loca­ti­ons and based on real cha­rac­ters and events, Aslı Özge’s new film offers an insight into the life of an elder­ly man in the bust­ling metro­po­lis of Istanbul. Alongside explo­ring the impli­ca­ti­ons of gen­tri­fi­ca­ti­on, the work also del­ves into the com­ple­xi­ties of a father-daugh­ter relationship.

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DE/TR/FR 2024, 97 Min., tür­ki­sche OmU
Regie: Aslı Özge
Kamera: Emre Erkmen
Schnitt: Andreas Samland, Aslı Özge
mit: Faruk Özge, Derya Erkenci, Gönül Gezer, Nurdan Çakmak, Semih Arslanoğlu, Fikret Özge

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A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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Iranian direc­tor Jafar Panahi, who has been bar­red from lea­ving the coun­try, arri­ves at a vil­la­ge on the Iran-Turkey bor­der to super­vi­se a film based on a real-life cou­ple see­king pass­ports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the pro­duc­tion run into trouble.

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Khers nist 
IR 2022, 107 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Jafar Panahi
Kamera: Amin Jafari
Schnitt: Amir Etminan
mit: Naser Hashemi, Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasheri, Mina Kavani

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NoBears TLR AR de

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A film by Sarah Miro Fischer. In German and English with English and German subtitles.

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Rose is very clo­se to her older brot­her Sam. When he is accu­sed of rape, Rose is asked to testi­fy against him as part of the inves­ti­ga­ti­on. This tests both their rela­ti­onship and Rose’s moral inte­gri­ty.
In Schwesterherz, direc­tor Sarah Miro Fischer explo­res an inti­ma­te sibling rela­ti­onship and how it is that the clo­ser we are to ano­ther per­son, the har­der it might be to see them cle­ar­ly. What kind of events have the power to des­troy even the clo­sest of bonds? When working on her film with the actors, she pla­ced par­ti­cu­lar empha­sis on phy­si­cal expres­si­on in order to be able to tell sto­ries bey­ond the spo­ken word.

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DE/ES 2025, 96 Min., Deutsch, Englisch OmU
Regie: Sarah Miro Fischer
Kamera: Selma von Polheim Gravesen
Schnitt: Elena Weihe
mit: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chirwa

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A film by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter. In Russian, Belarusian, English, Mandarin with German subtitles.

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A Belarusian model dre­a­ming of a care­er in China finds hers­elf drawn to a mys­te­rious loner who works the night shift at a mor­gue. Their encoun­ter unsett­les her sen­se of body, beau­ty, and mor­ta­li­ty. The fra­gi­le love sto­ry of two out­si­ders who turn each other’s worlds upsi­de down and dis­co­ver that they are not alone.

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DE/AT 2025, 115 Min., Russian, Belarusian, English, Mandarin OmU
Regie: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
Kamera: Mikhail Khursevich
Schnitt: Stephan Bechinger
mit: Marya Imbro, Mikhail Senkov

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WHITE SNAIL – Offizieller Trailer

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A film by Jafar Panahi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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Vahid, who was once impri­so­ned and tor­tu­red by the Iranian aut­ho­ri­ties, meets a man he belie­ves to have been his most sadi­stic tor­tu­rer. He can’t be sure though, as he was blind­fold­ed during the inter­ro­ga­ti­ons. Intent on vio­lent reven­ge but afraid of hur­ting an inno­cent per­son, he kid­naps the man and asks ano­ther for­mer inma­te to cor­rob­ora­te his sus­pi­ci­on. Neither abso­lut­e­ly con­fi­dent, they deci­de to track down other sur­vi­vors. The group keeps gro­wing as they dri­ve around in Vahid’s van with their pri­soner in tow, despera­te­ly pur­suing a cer­tain­ty that remains just bey­ond reach. A taut thril­ler nuan­ced by an under­cur­rent of absur­dist far­ce, YEK TASADOF‑E SADEH, win­ner of this year’s Palme d’Or, is Jafar Panahi’s most out­spo­ken and expli­cit­ly poli­ti­cal film to date. That it was made after he was hims­elf released from Tehran’s noto­rious Evin Prison gives the sto­ry an obvious auto­bio­gra­phi­cal dimen­si­on. Yet its moral impli­ca­ti­ons extend bey­ond the per­so­nal to encom­pass all of Iranian socie­ty in the wake of the Woman, Life, Freedom pro­tests. Now that new free­doms have been achie­ved, ope­ning an unpre­ce­den­ted win­dow of oppor­tu­ni­ty, the film sets the desi­re for ven­ge­an­ce against the impe­ra­ti­ve to keep pushing for­ward. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)

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Yek tasa­def sadeh یک تصادف ساده,
IR/FR/LU 2025, 102 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Jafar Panahi
Kamera: Amin Jafari
Schnitt: Amir Etminan
mit: Vahid Mobasseri, Maryam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten

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EIN EINFACHER UNFALL Trailer OmU German | Deutsch

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A film by Eliza Petkova. In Bulgarian with German subtitles.

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In a remo­te Bulgarian moun­tain vil­la­ge, six ani­mals reve­al the mys­te­rious world of supers­ti­ti­on. A cat is con­side­red a vam­pi­re, a don­key is thought to be bewit­ched, and a dog is seen as a chi­cken hun­ter. Through sen­si­ti­ve obser­va­ti­on, we wit­ness the dwind­ling hopes of the vil­la­ge through the eyes of its four-leg­ged inha­bi­tants. Time seems to stand still, yet tran­si­ence remains the only constant.

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DE/BG 2024, 95 Min., bul­ga­ri­sche OmU
Regie: Eliza Petkova
Kamera: Constanze Schmitt
Schnitt: Eliza Petkova, Hannes Marget

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A film by Edward Yang. Re-release. In Mandarin and Japanese with German subtitles.

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The Taiwanese film­ma­ker Edward Yang shows in his film Yi Yi – A One and a Two the life of a fami­ly in modern Taipei. NJ is a man in his mid-for­ties. He is mar­ried, a father of two child­ren and suc­cessful in his job – still he is no lon­ger hap­py with hims­elf and with his life.

While NJ starts seing his old fla­me again his mother-in-law is in a coma. It is NJ’s eight year old son who gui­des us through ever­y­day life of the fami­ly and who asks cri­ti­cal ques­ti­ons and sur­pri­ses the spec­ta­tors with his expe­ri­ments in the water. The older sis­ter has her first expe­ri­en­ces with love and lear­ns that one can not force felicity.

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Yi Yi – A One and a Two
TW/JP 2000, 173 Min., Taiwanesisches Mandarin, Japanisch OmU
Regie: Edward Yang
Kamera: Weihan Yang
Schnitt: Bowen Chen
mit Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Niazhen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata

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Yi Yi – Trailer OV/d/f

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A film by Hafsia Herzi. In French and Arabic with German subtitles.

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Fatima, 17, the youn­gest of three daugh­ters, treads careful­ly as she sear­ches for her own path, grap­pling with emer­ging desi­res, her attrac­tion to women, and her loyal­ty to her caring French-Algerian fami­ly. Starting uni­ver­si­ty in Paris, she dates, makes fri­ends, and explo­res a who­le new world, all while con­fron­ting a tim­e­l­ess and heart­ren­ding dilem­ma: How can one stay true to ones­elf when recon­ci­ling dif­fe­rent parts of one’s iden­ti­ty feels impossible?

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La peti­te der­niè­re
DE/FR 2025, 106 Min., Französisch, Arabisch OmU
Regie: Hafsia Herzi
Kamera: Jérémie Attard
Schnitt: Géraldine Mangenot
mit Nadia Melliti, Ji-Min Park, Aloïse Sauvage, Nemo Schiffman, Sophie Garagnon

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DIE JÜNGSTE TOCHTER | Trailer OmU | Ab 25.12. im Kino!

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