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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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filmPOLSKA 2024

Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

Vom 12.–18.09.2024 fin­det die­ses Jahr zum 19. Mal das größ­te pol­ni­sche Filmfestival außer­halb Polens statt (mehr, Katalog). Im fsk zei­gen wir alle sie­ben Wettbewerbsbeiträge und zwei Specials:


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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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Die Familie mit dem umgekehrten Düsenantrieb

Die Familie mit dem umgekehrten Düsenantrieb

A film by Sogo Ishi. In Japanese with German subtitles.

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The Kobayashi fami­ly final­ly are able to move out of their tiny, cram­ped Tokyo apart­ment to the sub­ur­ban house of their dreams. But things are not as per­fect as they seem: the house is infes­ted by ter­mi­tes and the fami­ly starts going cra­zy: Son Masaki is stu­dy­ing so obses­si­ve­ly for his exams that he’s losing his mind; daugh­ter Erika is obli­vious of all but her forth­co­ming record com­pa­ny audi­tion, grand­fa­ther Yasukuni starts get­ting World War II flash­backs and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family’s “sick­ness” that he thinks can only be cured by group sui­ci­de. As the Kobayashis’ house beg­ins to crum­ble, so does the sani­ty of its inha­bi­tants. Katsuhiko takes it upon hims­elf to keep them from the asylum…at any cost.

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Crazy Family
JP 1984, 106 Min., jap. OmU
Regie: Sogo Ishii
Kamera: Masaki Tamura
Schnitt: Junichi Kikuchi
mit: Katsuya Kobayashi, Mitsuko Baisho, Yoshiki Arizono, Youki Kudoh, Hitoshi Ueki u.a.

Trailer:
The Crazy Family (1984) Trailer
Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln
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Gagarin – Einmal schwerelos und zurück

Gagarin – Einmal schwerelos und zurück

A film by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh. In French with German subtitles.

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Gagarin erzählt die Geschichte von Youri (Alseni Bathily), der guten Seele einer Nachbarschaft, der an der Idee und an den Erinnerungen eines soli­da­ri­schen Zusammenlebens fest­hält, bis es nicht mehr geht.
Youri ist der selbst­er­nann­te Hausmeister einer 60er Jahre Siedlung in einer Vorstadt von Paris namens Gagarin. Obwohl er und sei­ne Freunde sich größ­te Mühe geben, kön­nen sie nicht ver­hin­dern, dass die Stadt beschließt, dass die Siedlung abge­ris­sen wer­den soll.
Nach und nach zie­hen alle weg, nur Youri hat für sich beschlos­sen zu blei­ben. Erst mal fin­det Youri neue Freunde. Das Roma Mädchen Diana (Lyna Khoudri, The French Dispatch) ist fas­zi­niert von sei­nem Einsiedlertum und der Dealer Dali (Finnegan Oldfield, Corsage) lebt auch noch irgend­wo im Gebäudekomplex. Dann aber wird die ille­ga­le Siedlung von Dianas Familie von der Stadt auf­ge­löst. Und auch Dali ver­schwin­det nach eine gewalt­tä­ti­gen Auseinandersetzung mit den Bauarbeitern, die Gagarin ver­sie­geln und für die Sprengung vor­be­rei­ten. Als letz­ter Bewohner lebt Youri in der Siedlung wie in einem Raumschiff. Youri weiß, dass er sich in eine Sackgasse manö­vriert hat, und dass sei­ne Umgebung immer lebens­feind­li­cher wird. Aber Youri ist stur, er will sei­ne Mission, wie einen Parabelflug been­den und so arbei­tet er an einem Countdown, an des­sen Ende die Hochhaussiedlung Gagarin für ihn um Hilfe rufen soll. Leider zählt wäh­rend­des­sen noch ein ande­rer Countdown von 10 bis 0.

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FR 2020, 95 Min., franz. OmU
Regie: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh

Kamera: Victor Seguin
Schnitt: Daniel Darmon
mit Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Farida Rahouadj, Denis Lavant

Trailer:
Gagarin – Einmal schwe­re­los und zurück TLR 24p OmU Trailer
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IM SCHATTEN

Im Schatten

A film by Thomas Arslan. On July 27th and 28th at the fsk. In German.

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Trojan is released from jail and goes straight back to his pro­fes­si­on as a cri­mi­nal. He gets hold of a wea­pon and looks out for new jobs. In just a few takes, Thomas Arslan sets up the anony­mous world of his gangs­ter prot­ago­nist by fal­ling back on motifs and cha­rac­ters from the gen­re. The back­room of a car work­shop, par­king lots, fur­nis­hed apart­ments. One meets men and women who dis­trust each other becau­se they are all out to line their own pockets. The set­ting chan­ges con­stant­ly, with sur­veil­lan­ce and cha­se sce­nes pro­vi­ding a dyna­mic nar­ra­ti­ve rhythm. Since crime makes up Trojan’s dai­ly exis­tence, the film con­cen­tra­tes enti­re­ly on the tech­ni­cal natu­re of a life out­side the law. The redu­ced and clear-cut images – shot with a Red came­ra – high­light the exact sequence of events. Im Schatten is a gen­re film that focu­ses con­sis­t­ent­ly on the mecha­nics and exter­nal pro­cess of a crime. It deve­lo­ps a sen­se of gre­at sus­pen­se, wit­hout bur­de­ning its figu­res with per­so­nal sto­ries. Each hand move­ment has to be right. All of a sud­den, the ques­ti­on of whe­ther Trojan will mana­ge to start the geta­way car on time beco­mes a gre­at movie moment.

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DE 2010, 85 Min., DF
Regie: Thomas Arslan
Kamera: Reinhold Vorschneider
Schnitt: Bettina Blickwede
mit Mišel Matičević, Karoline Eichhorn, Uwe Bohm, Rainer Bock, David Scheller, Peter Kurth

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