Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Cannes 2025 – Jury Prize
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DE 2024, 149 Min., Regie: Mascha Schilinski Kamera: Fabian Gamper Schnitt: Evelyn Rack Darsteller*innen: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt
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Kinotrailer „In die Sonne schauen” – Kinostart 28. August 2025
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.
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
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:
Cluj, Transylvania. After being driven from his shelter in a house cellar, a homeless man commits suicide. Orsolya, the bailiff who carried out the eviction, is impelled to make various attempts to address her feelings of guilt. Using a mixture of drama and comedy, topics as diverse as the housing crisis, post-socialist economics, nationalism and the power of language to maintain social status are dissected with a sharp, absurdist scalpel, in a movie-literate narrative that plays partly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51 – not least in the modesty of this independent, low-budget production’s means. But while in Rossellini’s film a woman’s crisis of conscience leads to meaningful activity, here the protagonist facing the dilemma is unable to find anybody to understand her and becomes increasingly desperate for external reassurance and validation, in a manner that would be easy to condemn if Orsolya’s moral relativism were not such an uncomfortably accurate reflection of a modern-day malaise from which few of us are wholly immune.
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
In November 1992, a racist arson attack in Mölln shattered the lives of İbrahim Arslan and his family. At just seven years old, İbrahim survived, but he lost his sister, his cousin and his grandmother. In the aftermath of the attacks, the city received hundreds of letters of solidarity which were ignored for nearly three decades. Woven into İbrahim’s poignant journey of discovery and his encounters with three letter writers, these rediscovered letters form a visual and emotional bridge between past and present. The film follows İbrahim and his siblings, painting a complex portrait of the lasting trauma that continues to affect them to this day. While İbrahim has found a way to cope by fighting against racism and advocating for a remembrance culture centred on the victims’ perspectives, his brother Namik is still at the beginning of his journey to come to terms with the traumatic experiences. The film not only amplifies the perspectives of the victims and survivors but also uncovers the vibrant solidarity that once existed – a solidarity of which the victims and survivors were previously unaware. It offers a new perspective on remembrance – one that takes the voices of survivors and their experiences seriously and provides them with the space and recognition that they deserve.
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DE 2025, 96 Min., deutsch, türkische Originalfassung mit deutschen und türkischen Untertiteln Regie: Martina Priessner Schnitt: Maja Tennstedt Kamera: Ayşe Alacakaptan, Julia Geiß
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
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.
United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history. While exploring the house, left untouched since the 1940s, they excavate the life of their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard, a 20 year old woman who lived there in 1895. The end of the 19th century saw the birth of both photography and the Impressionist movement, which profoundly changed painting. Through back-and-forth journeys between 1895 and 2025, they find in the relics of the past what will help them better envision their own future.
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La venue de l’avenir FR 2024, 124 Min., französische OmU Regie: Cédric Klapisch Kamera: Alexis Kavyrchine Schnitt: Anne-Sophie Bion mit: Suzanne Lindon, Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Paul Kircher, Julia Piaton, Vassili Schneider, Vincent Perez
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