Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
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DE 2023, 90 Min., engl. OmU Regie: Pedro Almodóvar Kamera: Eduard Grau Schnitt: Teresa Font mit: Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto
The Beast, Bertrand Bonello’s astonishing sci-fi drama, is a thrilling journey of the mind staged with visionary élan. Loosely adapting the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle (1903), Bonello tells the ill-fated story of Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and Louis (George MacKay), which is reconfigured over three points in time and space: Paris in 2044, in Los Angeles in 2014 and Paris once again in 1910. A dark cloud looms over the heroine’s troubled soul from the outset. In a near-future world dominated by AI where productivity is everything, she is restless, emotional and thus sub-optimal. Cleansing her “DNA” offers an apparent solution, whereby she is transported through a time portal where she experiences fragments of her past lives, which are deleted from her mind in the process. Gabrielle first meets Louis in 1910, who captures her heart and spirit, as a powerful bond is forged, full of melancholy and eternal longing. A poignant quest for deeper connection, LABÊTE follows two lovers who will never live out their mutual attraction. As we move with them from one epoch to the next, like in a hall of broken mirrors where memory and feelings merge into exciting but painful experiences, we realize that everything human is doomed to vanish. (Maria Giovanna Vagenas)
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FR/CA 2023, 146 Min., engl./frz. OmU Regie: Bertrand Bonello Kamera: Josée Deshaies Schnitt: Anita Roth mit: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova, Martin Scali, Elina Löwensohn
Trailer:
The Beast (offizieller Trailer) – mit Léa Seydoux & George MacKay
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, who supports him in his efforts. An unlikely alliance develops. But the relationship between the two is strained by the enormous inequality between them: Basel lives under military occupation while Yuval lives freely and without restrictions. This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice.
Set against the landscape of the Polish transformation from communism to capitalism, Kobieta z… spans 45 years of the life of Aniela Wesoły and her journey to find personal liberty as a trans woman. She faces hardships in family life and complicated attitudes in her environment. What choices will Aniela have to make to become who she truly is?
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Kobieta Z… PL/SE 2023, 132 Min., poln. OmU Regie: Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert Kamera: Michał Englert Schnitt: Jarosław Kamiński mit: Małgorzata Hajewska, Joanna Kulig, Mateusz Więcławek, Bogumiła Bajor
November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But what attitude to adopt to these ancestors’ homecoming in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.
Berlinale 2024: Golden Bear
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FR/SN/BJ 2024, 67 Min., Französisch, Fon, Englisch OmU Regie: Mati Diop Kamera: Josephine Drouin Viallard Schnitt: Gabriel Gonzalez
The construction site of a luxury building project at night: The ambitious construction manager Lutz has hired illegal construction workers to save costs. But a tragic accident occurs. The next day, a meeting with investors is suddenly disrupted by 14-year-old Irsa, who is looking for her father. While Lutz senses an opportunity to make his mark on a multi-million dollar project, Irsa’s desperation keeps driving her towards him. To keep her off his construction site, he decides to take her away. On their journey together, a bond develops, marked by closeness and distance, guilt and responsibility.
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DE 2023, 86 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Albanisch mit dt. UT Regie: Tuna Kaptan Kamera: Ben Bernhard Schnitt: Beatrice Babin mit: Angjela Prenci, Peter Schneider
Karen lives with her husband Markus and their children in her idyllic childhood home. Karen’s sister Jule and her family are visiting for Markus’ birthday. The two women could not be more different. Grim reminders of their deceased mother incite Jule’s rebellion against her domineering sister. As the house gradually fills with life and a sparrow in the chimney seeks a way out to freedom, Karen becomes increasingly tense – until it all comes to a head and the old is destroyed to make room for the new.
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CH 2024, 117 Min., deutsche Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln Regie & Schnitt: Ramon Zürcher Kamera: Alex Hasskerl Produzent: Silvan Zürcher mit: Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Luise Heyer, Andreas Döhler, Milian Zerzawy, Lea Zoe Voss, Ilja Bultmann, Paula Schindler, Luana Greco
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:
ELEMENTOFCRIME in ‚Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin‘ | TRAILER – Jetzt für zuhause
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:
SLEEPINGDOGS | Official Trailer (Russell Crowe) | Paramount Movies
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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