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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A film by Pawo Choyning Dorji. Starts August 1st at the fsk. In Dzongkha and English with German subtitles.

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Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has final­ly arri­ved. Bhutan beco­mes the last coun­try in the world to con­nect to the inter­net and tele­vi­si­on, and now the big­gest chan­ge of all: demo­cra­cy. To teach the peo­p­le how to vote, the aut­ho­ri­ties orga­ni­ze a mock elec­tion, but the locals seem uncon­vin­ced. Traveling to rural Bhutan whe­re reli­gi­on is more popu­lar than poli­tics, the elec­tion super­vi­sor dis­co­vers that a monk is plan­ning a mys­te­rious cerem­o­ny for the elec­tion day.

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The Monk and the Gun
BT 2023, 107 Min., Dzongkha, Englisch OmU
Regie: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Kamera: Jigme Tenzing
Schnitt: Hsiao-Yun Ku
mit: Tandin Wangchuk, Deki Lhamo, Pema Zangmo Sherpa, Tandin Sonam, Harry Einhorn, Choeying Jatsho, Tandin Phubz, Yuphel Lhendup Selden, Kelsang Choejay

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A film by Thomas Arslan. In German with English subtitles.

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Following In the Shadows, the film Scorched Earth is the second part of Thomas Arslan’s Trojan tri­lo­gy. Twelve years after care­er cri­mi­nal Trojan was forced to flee Berlin, the search for con­tracts leads him back to the city. Trojan is bro­ke and urgen­tly needs a new job. But Berlin has chan­ged and his old cont­acts are no lon­ger of much use. Plus, Trojan’s maxim of only ever working for cash is hard to fol­low in an incre­asing­ly digi­ta­li­sed world. So it takes some time befo­re the midd­le­wo­man Rebecca final­ly offers him the pro­s­pect of a lucra­ti­ve con­tract: a pain­ting by Caspar David Friedrich is to be sto­len from a muse­um. The heist unites Trojan with geta­way dri­ver Diana, his for­mer mate Luca and the young Chris. Everything looks pro­mi­sing, but the shadowy cli­ent and his hench­man Victor have their own plans for the pain­ting. Soon it beco­mes less about the money and more about get­ting out alive.

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DE 2024, 101 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie: Thomas Arslan
Kamera: Reinhold Vorschneider
Schnitt: Reinaldo Pinto Almeida
mit Mišel Matičević, Marie Leuenberger, Alexander Fehling, Tim Seyfi, Bilge Bingül, Marie-Lou Sellem, Katrin Röver, Anja Schneider, Tamer Yiğit

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A Film by Jonathan Schörnig. On July 20th an 21st at the fsk. In German and English with German subtitles.

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How a sea res­cue can take place is bey­ond ima­gi­na­ti­on. The real-time docu­men­ta­ry “One Hundred Four” (German ori­gi­nal title: “Einhundertvier“) brings this dra­ma­tic situa­ti­on clo­ser. The film shows how ago­ni­s­in­gly long it takes to res­cue 104 peo­p­le from a sin­king rub­ber ding­hy. Person by per­son, step by step, the action is accom­pa­nied by seve­ral par­al­lel came­ras. The situa­ti­on comes to a head when the Libyan coast­guard appears. The res­cued peo­p­le and the crew wait for days on the high seas, as no Mediterranean coun­try allows them to dock. Only after a ter­ri­ble storm does the ship reach a European harbour.

Every year, the world’s most dan­ge­rous escape rou­te claims thou­sands of lives. In the first half of 2023 alo­ne, almost 2,000 peo­p­le died in the Mediterranean becau­se the European Union‘s bor­der poli­cy sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly vio­la­tes exis­ting rights. Instead of hel­ping the ship­w­re­cked, Frontex car­ri­es out ille­gal push­backs, sup­ports the vio­lent actions of the Libyan coast­guard and mas­si­ve­ly com­bats pri­va­te sea res­cue mis­si­ons that inter­ve­ne whe­re the EU fails. Despite media evi­dence, it remains incom­pre­hen­si­ble to tho­se who have not expe­ri­en­ced this situa­ti­on them­sel­ves: why are hundreds of peo­p­le in mor­tal dan­ger being denied help and the civi­li­an hel­pers even threa­ten­ed and criminalised?

Jonathan Schörnig was affec­ted by the dilem­ma of lack of awa­re­ness and deci­ded to bring a sea res­cue to the screen as a real-time docu­men­ta­ry to show how ago­ni­s­in­gly long it takes to res­cue 104 peo­p­le from a sin­king rub­ber boat. The film accom­pa­nies the action per­son by per­son, step by step, with seve­ral par­al­lel cameras.

The situa­ti­on comes to a head when the Libyan coast­guard turns up. The res­cued peo­p­le and the crew wait for days on the high seas, as no Mediterranean coun­try allows them to dock. Only after a ter­ri­ble storm does a har­bour grant them ent­ry. What sounds like a bad film script is actual­ly the dai­ly reality.

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DE 2023, 93 Min., engl., dt. OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Jonathan Schörnig
Kamera: Jonathan Schörnig, Johannes Filous

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Einhundertvier | Kinotrailer ᴴᴰ | NONFY Documentaries

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A film by Nicolas Philibert. In French with German subtitles.

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“Averroès” and “Rosa Parks” are two psych­ia­tric units at the Esquirol Hospital in Paris. They belong to the same net­work as the “Adamant”, the floa­ting day cli­nic on the river Seine at the heart of Nicolas Philibert’s film Sur l’Adamant, win­ner of the Golden Bear at the 2023 Berlinale. In Averroès & Rosa Parks, Philibert con­ti­nues his explo­ra­ti­on of this topic. From indi­vi­du­al inter­views to mee­tings bet­ween pati­ents and carers, the film­ma­ker focu­ses on show­ing a form of psych­ia­try that con­ti­nu­al­ly stri­ves to make room for and reha­bi­li­ta­te the pati­ents’ words. Little by litt­le, each one eases open the door to their world. But within an incre­asing­ly worn-out health sys­tem, how can the for­sa­ken be given a place in socie­ty among the rest?

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FR 2024, 143 Min., franz. OmU
Regie & Kamera: Nicolas Philibert
Schnitt: Nicolas Philibert, Janusz Baranek
mit: den Patient:innen und den Betreuer:innen der Averroès und Rosa Parks Krankenhauseinheiten im Esquirol Krankenhaus, Charenton-le-Pont, Paris.

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A film by Levan Akin. In Georgian, Turkish and English with German subtitles.

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Lia, a reti­red tea­cher, has made a pro­mi­se to find out what hap­pen­ed to her long-lost nie­ce, Tekla. When Lia lear­ns from a neigh­bour, Achi, that Tekla might have left their Georgian home­land and be living in Turkey, Lia and Achi set off tog­e­ther to find her. Arriving in Istanbul, they dis­co­ver a beau­tiful city full of con­nec­tions and pos­si­bi­li­ties. But sear­ching for someone who never inten­ded to be found is har­der than they expec­ted – until they meet Evrim, a lawy­er fight­ing for trans rights. As Lia and Achi wea­ve their way through the city’s back­streets, Tekla starts to feel clo­ser than ever.
Levan Akin’s fourth fea­ture film is fil­led with an impres­si­ve emo­tio­nal imme­dia­cy. Two initi­al­ly hesi­tant stran­gers over­co­me not only ideo­lo­gi­cal but also inter­nal boun­da­ries on their mis­si­on and join forces. The topo­gra­phy of the city plays just as important a role in this ode to huma­ni­ty as the array of cha­rac­ters that live within it.

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SE/DK/FR/TR/GE 2023, 105 Min., geor­gisch, tür­kisch, engl. OmU
Regie: Levan Akin
Kamera: Lisabi Fridell
Schnitt: Emma Lagrelius, Levan Akin
mit: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanlı 

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A film by Mohamed Kordofani . Starts hop­eful­ly soon at the fsk.
In Arabic with German subtitles.

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Wracked by guilt after cove­ring up a mur­der, Mona a nor­t­hern Sudanese reti­red sin­ger in a ten­se mar­ria­ge tri­es to make amends by taking in the deceased’s sou­thern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to con­fess her trans­gres­si­ons to Julia, Mona deci­des to lea­ve the past behind and adjust to a new sta­tus quo, una­wa­re that the country’s turm­oil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.

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SD/SE/DE/SA/FR/EG 2023, 120 Min., arab. OmU,
Regie: Mohamed Kordofani
Kamera: Pierre de Villiers
mit: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Gomaa, Ger Duany 

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