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Helke Sander: Aufräumen

A film by Claudia Richarz. In German.

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The film sees Helke Sander, poli­ti­cal acti­vist and film-maker, having a clear-out, straigh­tening things out, remem­be­ring, and pre­sen­ting hers­elf and her artis­tic work in front of the came­ra. She remains a com­ba­ti­ve spi­rit who provokes—a thread that has run through her life and does so in this film too. When Willy Brandt spo­ke at the ope­ning of the German Film and Television Academy in 1966, Helke Sander was one of the first-year stu­dents to use films as a means of action and agi­ta­ti­on. Sander has been a pro­mi­nent figu­re in the public eye, at least sin­ce her »Tomato Speech« in 1968 in front of the Socialist German Student League (SDS) and has amas­sed a vast oeu­vre over the deca­des. Claudia Richarz is thus able to draw on a wealth of archi­ve mate­ri­al in her mon­ta­ge of the lega­cy of the second women’s movement.

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GB 2023, 101 Min.,
Regie: Claudia Richarz
Kamera: Claudia Richarz, Martin Gressmann, Volker Sattel
Schnitt: Martin Kayser-Landwehr, Magdolna Rokob

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Squaring the Circle - The Story of Hipgnosis

Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis

A film by Anton Corbijn. In English with German subtitles.

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Scourge of manage­ment, record com­pa­nies and album slee­ve prin­ters; Champion of bands, music, gre­at ide­as and high, infu­ria­tingly high stan­dards; Defender of the art over com­mer­ce at all times.” – Nick Mason, Pink Floyd on Hipgnosis

Celebrated pho­to­grapher, crea­ti­ve direc­tor and film­ma­ker Anton Corbijn’s first fea­ture docu­men­ta­ry SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the sto­ry of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the crea­ti­ve geni­u­ses behind the ico­nic album art design stu­dio, Hipgnosis, respon­si­ble for some of the most reco­gnizable album covers of all time. They for­med Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the fer­ment of the six­ties and beca­me rock royal­ty during the boom time of the seven­ties. They con­ju­red into exis­tence sights that no one had pre­vious­ly thought pos­si­ble, pro­du­ced visu­als which popu­la­ri­zed music that had pre­vious­ly been con­side­red frin­ge, and were at the white-hot cen­ter of the mad­dest, fun­niest and most crea­ti­ve era in the histo­ry of popu­lar music.

During this peri­od, record com­pa­nies didn’t dic­ta­te to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like – Storm and Po did. They made money; they lost money. They did gre­at things; they did sil­ly things. They fell out bit­ter­ly; they made up. They never play­ed a note, but they chan­ged music. The film fea­tures brand new inter­views with Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Noel Gallagher, and many more.

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GB 2022, 101 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Anton Corbijn
Kamera: Stuart Luck, Martijn van Broekhuizen
Schnitt: Andrew Hulme
mit: Paul McCartney, Aubrey Powell, Jimmy Page, Noel Gallagher, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, u.a.

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Wir waren Kumpel

Wir waren Kumpel

A film by Christian Johannes Koch & Jonas Matauschek.

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Black dust, shrill metal­lic noi­ses, dark tun­nels, mus­cu­lar bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extra­c­tion of coal throug­hout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emer­ging cli­ma­te pro­test move­ment Fridays for Future grew lou­der. Against the back­drop of the­se media and socio-poli­ti­cal events, the film fol­lows five miners on their tra­gic, humo­rous and heart­warm­ing search for a new role in life.

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DE 2023, 104 Min.,
Regie: Christian Johannes Koch & Jonas Matauschek
Kamera: Sebastian Klatt
Schnitt: Natali Barrey, Annette Brütsch, Jonas Matauschek

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Club Zero

A film by Jessica Hausner. In English with German subtitles.

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Miss Novak joins the staff of an inter­na­tio­nal boar­ding school to teach a con­scious eating class. She ins­tructs that eating less is healt­hy. The other tea­chers are slow to noti­ce what is hap­pe­ning and by the time the dis­trac­ted par­ents begin to rea­li­se, Club Zero has beco­me a reality.

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AT, UK, DE, FR, DK 2023, 110 Min., eng­li­sche OmU
Regie: Jessica Hausner
Kamera: Martin Gschlacht
Schnitt: Karina Ressler
mit: Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babette Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein, Lukas Turtur, Mathieu Demy, Amir El-Masry, Ksenia Devriendt, Luke Barker

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Slow

A film by Marija Kavtaradze. In Lithuanian with German subtitles.

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It would never have occur­red to the pas­sio­na­te dancer Elena to have a love affair wit­hout sex. But when she falls head over heels in love with sign lan­guage inter­pre­ter Dovydas, the­re is no way around it for the two of them. Because Dovydas is ase­xu­al. Is the emo­tio­nal con­nec­tion bet­ween them strong enough for a hap­py rela­ti­onship in which Dovydas is not sexu­al­ly attrac­ted to Elena? SLOW is a love sto­ry like you’­ve never seen befo­re. Marija Kavtaradze sen­si­tively and authen­ti­cal­ly tells the sto­ry of two peo­p­le who beco­me clo­se wit­hout slee­ping tog­e­ther. This roman­tic dra­ma is car­ri­ed by two cha­ris­ma­tic prot­ago­nists who cap­ti­va­te you from the very beginning.

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LT/ES/SE 2023, 108 Min., litaui­sche OmU
Regie: Marija Kavtaradze
Kamera: Laurynas Bareiša
Schnitt: Silvija Vilkaitė
mit: Greta Grinevičiūtė, Kęstutis Cicėnas

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Die Unschuld

A film by Hirokazu Kore-eda. In Japanese with German subtitles.

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A search for the truth on seve­ral levels, in which many things are not what they appear to be, recent­ly hono­red at Cannes.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s cen­tral the­me, the fami­ly, is once again his start­ing point in this magni­fi­cent­ly orchestra­ted nar­ra­ti­ve. And once again the Japanese mas­ter direc­tor demons­tra­tes his keen power of obser­va­ti­on. In a nuan­ced way, he addres­ses such the­mes as arson, bul­ly­ing, ali­en­ati­on, and pre­ju­di­ce, approa­ching them from mul­ti­ple per­spec­ti­ves and get­ting the audi­ence to think about them. What makes a per­son a mons­ter? And who gets to deter­mi­ne that?

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Kaibutsu (Monster)
Japan 2023, 127 Min., japan. OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Kamera: Kondo Ryuto
mit: Eita Nagayama, Sakura Ando, Soya Kurokawa, Yuko Tanaka, Hinata Hiragi, Mugino Saori

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Julie – eine Frau gibt nicht auf

A film by Eric Gravel. In French with German subtitles.

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After sepa­ra­ting from her hus­band, Julie has moved to a Paris sub­urb to rai­se their two child­ren on her own. Every day she takes them to an elder­ly nan­ny befo­re com­mu­ting to her stressful job in down­town Paris as a maid in a luxu­ry hotel. When a strike para­ly­zes the public trans­por­ta­ti­on sys­tem, com­mu­ting bet­ween home and work beco­mes much more dif­fi­cult. And when Julie final­ly gets an inter­view for a job she’d long been hoping for, she has no choice but to set off on a fran­tic race against time that will push her to her very limits as both her pro­fes­sio­nal and per­so­nal life hang in the balance.

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À plein temps
FR 2022, 88 Min., franz. OmU
Regie: Eric Gravel
Kamera: Victor Seguin
Schnitt: Mathilde Van de Moortel
mit: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi, Sasha Lemaitre Cremaschi, Cyril Gueï

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Kraft der Utopie – Leben mit Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

A film by Karin Bucher and Thomas Karrer. In English and German with German subtitles.

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With the con­s­truc­tion of the Indian plan­ned city of Chandigarh, the Swiss and French archi­tect Le Corbusier com­ple­ted his life’s work 70 years ago. Chandigarh is a con­tro­ver­si­al syn­the­sis of the arts, a bold uto­pia of moder­ni­ty. The film accom­pa­nies four cul­tu­ral workers who live in the plan­ned city and reflects on Le Corbusier’s lega­cy, uto­pian urban ide­as and the cul­tu­ral dif­fe­ren­ces bet­ween East and West in an atmo­sphe­ri­cal­ly den­se narrative.

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CH 2023, 84 Min., engl., deut­sche OmU
Regie & Kamera: Karin Bucher, Thomas Karrer
Schnitt: Fabian Kaiser, Thomas Karrer, Mirjam Krakenberger

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Die Unsichtbaren

A film by Matthias Freier. In German

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DOCU-FICTION Marianne Atzeroth-Freier once brought the »acid-bar­rel mur­de­rer« to jus­ti­ce. In a mix of archi­ve mate­ri­al and re-enac­ted sce­nes, the film recon­s­tructs the dif­fi­cult inves­ti­ga­ti­on Atzeroth-Freier had to pur­sue in a male-domi­na­ted envi­ron­ment. In the 1990s, as one of the first women in the Hamburg Police’s homic­i­de divi­si­on, Atzeroth-Freier sol­ved one of the most grue­so­me mur­ders in German histo­ry. If any­thing, by chan­ce. When approa­ched by a mother who­se daugh­ter has dis­ap­peared, she deci­des to get invol­ved. On the search for the miss­ing per­son, she repea­ted­ly comes across incon­sis­ten­ci­es within the police’s inves­ti­ga­ti­on. But she keeps going – until she achie­ves the breakthrough

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DE 2023, 97 Min.
Regie: Matthias Freier
Kamera: Kay Madsen
Schnitt: Marielle Pohlmann

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Einzeltäter (Teil 1–3)

Documentary series by Julian Vogel | 87min | 67min | 85min | DE 2023

Camera: Luise Schröder, Julian Vogel
Sound: Oscar Stiebitz, Julian Vogel
Editor: Gregor Bartsch, Sebastian Winkels

Munich 2016, Halle 2019 and Hanau 2020: three right-wing extre­mist attacks by so-cal­led „lone wol­ves: Alleged lone per­pe­tra­tors who, see­mingly wit­hout being part of clas­sic extre­mist struc­tures, radi­cal­i­zed them­sel­ves on the Internet and sud­den­ly struck in public spaces. These are sto­ries that now domi­na­te the head­lines: Right-wing ter­ror is curr­ent­ly con­side­red the grea­test thre­at to demo­cra­cy in Germany, accor­ding to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. And this despi­te the fact that until recent­ly such per­pe­tra­tors were often clas­si­fied as men­tal­ly ill, „con­fu­sed” lone per­pe­tra­tors and thus denied their racism. These times are over: After the attack in Hanau, Frank Walter Steinmeier spo­ke of an „attack on all of us”. But who are „all of us”?

The tri­lo­gy „EINZELTÄTER (Parts 1–3)” inde­pendent­ly takes the per­spec­ti­ve of the peo­p­le who­se rela­ti­ves were actual­ly the tar­get of the attacks and who­se lives will never be the same again.


EINZELTÄTER Part 1: MÜNCHEN

Arbnor lost his sis­ter in the 2016 attack at the Olympia shop­ping cen­ter, Hasan and Sibel lost their son. For a long time, the rela­ti­ves had to fight for the sta­te to reco­gni­ze the racist back­ground of the crime. Only after the attacks in Halle and Hanau did they succeed.


EINZELTÄTER Part 2: HALLE

EKarsten lost his only son Kevin in the Halle attack. While the public wat­ches the tri­al of the right-wing extre­mist per­pe­tra­tor, he strug­gles to deal with his grief. He finds sup­port in the Halle FC fan scene.


EINZELTÄTER Part 3: HANAU

The racist attack of February 19, 2020 has chan­ged Hanau-Kesselstadt. People of dif­fe­rent ori­g­ins live here, and six of the nine vic­tims died here. After the attack, peo­p­le here stick tog­e­ther, try to deal with the con­se­quen­ces of the act, and fight for cla­ri­fi­ca­ti­on. And this is whe­re the father of the per­pe­tra­tor and the sur­vi­ving rela­ti­ves of the vic­tims live in the imme­dia­te vicinity.


Director Notes:
Since 2018, I have been in cont­act with sur­vi­vors of the racist attack in Munich in 2016, which was initi­al­ly clas­si­fied by the inves­ti­ga­ting aut­ho­ri­ties as a non-poli­ti­cal ram­pa­ge. This chan­ged with the attack in Halle in 2019, in the wake of which the Munich act was clas­si­fied as right-wing vio­lence and right-wing extre­mism as the grea­test thre­at to the secu­ri­ty situa­ti­on. After the attack of Hanau 2020, which brought the pro­blem of right-wing „lone per­pe­tra­tors” ulti­m­ate­ly into public con­scious­ness, I deci­ded to make a docu­men­ta­ry film that accom­pa­nies the mour­ning work of the bere­a­ved and their rela­ti­onship to the social dimen­si­on of the­se three acts. The result was a tri­lo­gy. The fami­lies in Munich and Hanau are united by the fact that their mour­ning work is inter­wo­ven with the fight against racism. In Halle, the situa­ti­on is dif­fe­rent: Kevin’s father Karsten has to deal with the death of his child becau­se someone wan­ted to strike a mino­ri­ty to which he hims­elf does not belong. For me, his grief was no less tou­ch­ing than the grief of the other peo­p­le affec­ted. It was imortant to me to also dedi­ca­te mys­elf to his story