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
“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
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Favoriten (offizieller Trailer) – Ein Film von Ruth Beckermann
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
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.
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:
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
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
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.
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
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Gagarin – Einmal schwerelos und zurück TLR 24p OmU Trailer
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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