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Element of Crime in Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin

A film by Charly Hübner. Starts October 1st at the fsk.

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A Film about the German Band Element of Crime throug­hout the centuries.

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DE 2024, 93 Min.,
Regie: Charly Hübner

Kamera: Casey Campbell
Schnitt: Christoph Brunner
mit: Sven Regener, Jakob Ilja, Richard Pappik und Maike Rosa Vogel, Florian
Horwarth, Isolation Berlin, Von wegen Lisbeth, Steiner & Madlaina, Ansa
Sauermann

Trailer:
ELEMENT OF CRIME in ‚Wenn es dun­kel und kalt wird in Berlin‘ | TRAILER – Jetzt für zuhause
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Sleeping Dogs – Manche Lügen sterben nie

A film by Adam Cooper. In English.

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In this grip­ping crime thril­ler, Russell Crowe stars as Roy Freeman, an ex-homic­i­de detec­ti­ve with a frac­tu­red memo­ry, forced to revi­sit a case he can’t remember.

As a man’s life hangs in the balan­ce on death row, Freeman must pie­ce tog­e­ther the bru­tal evi­dence from a deca­de-old mur­der inves­ti­ga­ti­on, unco­ve­ring a sinis­ter web of buried secrets and betra­yals lin­king to his past.

With only instincts to trust, he faces a chil­ling truth – some­ti­mes it’s best to let slee­ping dogs lie.

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DE 2023, 90 Min., engl. OV
Regie: Adam Cooper

Kamera: Ben Nott
Schnitt: Matt Villa
mit: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Thomas M. Wright

Trailer:
SLEEPING DOGS | Official Trailer (Russell Crowe) | Paramount Movies
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My Stolen Planet

A film by Farahnaz Sharifi. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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My Stolen Planet is a dia­ry-style nar­ra­ti­ve by Farah, an Iranian film­ma­ker. Born during the Islamic revo­lu­ti­on in Iran in 1979, she cap­tures moments of joy and defi­ance in her dai­ly life, navi­ga­ting the con­trast bet­ween dome­stic free­dom and exter­nal oppres­si­on. Simultaneously, she coll­ects 8mm archi­ves from peo­p­le she doesn’t know. Relying on the­se recor­dings from other peo­p­le, she gains a new per­spec­ti­ve on losing memo­ries. Her con­nec­tion with Leyla, an Iranian pro­fes­sor who left Iran during the revo­lu­ti­on, adds a name and a sto­ry to one of the faces in her archi­ve. Farah’s mother, who is suf­fe­ring from Alzheimer’s, moti­va­tes her to con­ti­nue her fight against for­get­ting. In the autumn of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom upri­sing beco­mes a tur­ning point in Farah’s life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran. This is a home­ma­de history.

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Sayyareye doz­di­de sho­deye man
DE/IR 2024, 82 Min., far­si OmU
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Farahnaz Sharifi 

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Memory

A film by Michel Franco.

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Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simp­le and struc­tu­red life: her daugh­ter, her job, her AA mee­tings. This is blown open when Saul fol­lows her home from their high school reuni­on. Their sur­pri­se encoun­ter will pro­found­ly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

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US, MX 2023, 103 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Michel Franco
Kamera: Yves Cape
Schnitt: Oscar Figueroa Jara, Michel Franco
mit: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Merritt Wever, Brooke Timber, Josh Charles

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Favoriten

A film by Ruth Beckermann. In German with English subtitles.

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Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 child­ren and their dedi­ca­ted tea­cher. We wan­ted to find out who they are and beco­me fami­li­ar with their skills and stra­te­gies, their joys, fears and hard­ships,” says direc­tor Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 per­cent of all child­ren in Viennese pri­ma­ry schools do not speak German as their first lan­guage. At the same time, the­re is an acu­te shorta­ge of tea­chers and super­vi­sors. Such adver­se con­di­ti­ons are the start­ing point of Ruth Beckermann’s docu­men­ta­ry Favoriten, for which the Austrian film­ma­ker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher fol­lo­wed a Viennese pri­ma­ry school class for three years. The result is an asto­nis­hin­gly cheerful por­trait of an unu­su­al com­mu­ni­ty. A film about tea­ching and lear­ning and the often very sur­pri­sing expe­ri­en­ces some­whe­re in between.

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AT 2024, 118 Min., in deutsch mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Ruth Beckermann
Kamera: Johannes Hammel
Schnitt: Dieter Pichler 

Trailer:
Favoriten (offi­zi­el­ler Trailer) – Ein Film von Ruth Beckermann
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Korntal

Die Kinder aus Korntal

A film by Julia Charakter. Starts September 26th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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In Korntal, a small town of 9,000 souls in Baden-Württemberg, hundreds of child­ren were abu­sed in the homes of the Evangelical Brethren sin­ce the 1950s. Forced labour, phy­si­cal punish­ment and sexua­li­sed vio­lence were the order of the day. To date, more than 150 for­mer child­ren have bro­ken their silence, more than 80 per­pe­tra­tors have been iden­ti­fied. Because the lat­ter cover­ed for each other and the neigh­bours loo­ked away, the child­ren were defen­ce­l­ess against the abu­se for deca­des. When the scan­dal was expo­sed in 2013, the com­mu­ni­ty and the vil­la­ge were hosti­le at first: That which must not be can­not be. It was only when the pres­su­re from the out­side grew that the com­mu­ni­ty initia­ted a pro­cess of deal­ing with the scan­dal. But it is con­tro­ver­si­al: vic­tims are re-trau­ma­tis­ed, their state­ments doub­ted. To this day the child­ren from Korntal are fight­ing for inves­ti­ga­ti­on and compensation.

The film focu­ses on the vic­tims and avo­ids all dra­ma­tis­a­ti­on. What hap­pen­ed was dra­ma­tic enough, after all. When tes­ti­mo­nies are only play­ed as audio-recor­dings to pro­tect the spea­k­ers, a simp­le ani­ma­ti­on fills the visu­al gaps. When tho­se respon­si­ble today speak, the came­ra stays res­trai­ned and does not judge. That is not neces­sa­ry any­way, becau­se the incon­ceiva­ble rela­ti­vi­sa­ti­on of the cri­mes speaks loud­ly enough – in Korntal as else­whe­re.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE 2023, 90 Min., Deutsch mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Julia Charakter

Kamera: Jonas Eckert
Schnitt: Jonas Eckert, Julia Charakter 

Trailer:
DIE KINDER AUS KORNTAL Trailer Deutsch | German [HD]
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Die Schule der Frauen

A film by Marie-Lou Sellem. In German.

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An enthr­al­ling docu­men­ta­ry about fema­le art in a patri­ar­chal arts sce­ne. Five dra­ma stu­dents haven’t seen each other in 36 years. Now reu­ni­ted, the­se women share their sto­ries. What expe­ri­en­ces have they had? What have they accom­plished? What would they rather not have done? Including young fema­le stu­dents in their con­ver­sa­ti­on makes this a con­tem­pla­ti­ve cross-gene­ra­tio­nal work.

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DE 2024, 108 Min.,
Regie: Marie-Lou Sellem

Kamera: Jens Harant
Schnitt: Sonja Baeger
mit: Karoline Eichhorn, Cornelia Felden, Jacqueline Kornmüller, Katharina
Linder Kerstin Weiss, Linette Arndt, Lena-Sophie Baer, Sarah
Flechtker, Paula Julie Pitsch, Anna-Tabea Stockbrügger, Salome Zehnder
Sophie Wolf, Asimina Sideris, Hannah Weiss

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Ellbogen

Ellbogen

A film by Aslı Özarslan. In German and Turkish with German and English subtitles.

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Hazal’s grea­test wish is to have a life. In spi­te of many appli­ca­ti­ons, she isn’t invi­ted to a sin­gle job inter­view. Instead, she is stuck in a Job Centre trai­ning pro­gram that fails to open up any new oppor­tu­ni­ties for her. But on her 18th bir­th­day, Hazal feels powerful. It is like the old days when she and her fri­ends belie­ved they could achie­ve any­thing as long as they stuck tog­e­ther. It’s only when they’re queu­e­ing to get into a hip club that Hazal feels they don’t belong the­re. And she’s right. The boun­cer refu­ses to let them in. On their way home, they’re ver­bal­ly abu­sed by an arro­gant stu­dent. The situa­ti­on escala­tes, Hazal’s frus­tra­ti­on about all the rejec­tions erupts into a fatal act. Hazal flees head­long to Istanbul, a stran­ge city in a coun­try unknown to her. There, she has to sur­vi­ve on her own, no mat­ter what the cost.
Ellbogen tells the sto­ry of a young woman who is pushed out of socie­ty and has to reset the cour­se of her life. We want to run through the night with her; we want to know what hap­pens next – for her, and for us all.

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DE/TK/FR 2024, 86 Min., Deutsch, Türkisch Originalfassung mit deut­schen und eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Aslı Özarslan

Kamera: Andac Karabeyoglu-Thomas
Schnitt: David J. Achilles, Ana Branea
mit: Melia Kara, Doğa Gürer, Jale Arıkan, Haydar Şahin, Orhan Kiliç, Jamilah Bagdach, Asya Utku, Mina Sağdıç 

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Sad Jokes

Sad Jokes

A film by Fabian Stumm. In German with English subtitles.

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Joseph and Sonya share an inti­ma­te fri­end­ship and their young son, whom they’re rai­sing tog­e­ther. While Joseph, a film direc­tor, is dou­bly preoc­cu­p­ied with a new idea for a film and with the after­math of a pre­vious rela­ti­onship, Sonya suf­fers from depres­si­on. When she is hos­pi­ta­li­zed, Joseph must jugg­le both his ever­y­day com­mit­ments and his artis­tic ambitions.

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DE 2024, 96 Min., in deutsch mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Fabian Stumm
Kamera: Michael Bennett

Schnitt: Kaspar Panizza
mit Fabian Stumm, Haley Louise Jones, Justus Meyer, Ulrica Flach, Jonas Dassler, Godehard Giese, Marie-Lou Sellem

Trailer:
SAD JOKES Trailer Deutsch | German [HD]
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