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A film by Guillaume Senez. In French with German subtitles.

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A father’s despe­ra­te quest to reu­ni­te with his daugh­ter beco­mes the source of rising ten­si­on and heart-ren­ding poignan­cy in this sen­si­tively ren­de­red third fea­ture by Belgian film­ma­ker Guillaume Senez.
Reuniting with direc­tor Guillaume Senez after their very suc­cessful col­la­bo­ra­ti­on on 2018’s Our Struggles, Romain Duris gives a won­derful­ly lived-in per­for­mance as Jay, a French man now living in Tokyo and making a living as a dri­ver for a pri­va­te car ser­vice. Through Jay’s encoun­ters with Jessica (Judith Chemla), ano­ther French expat, and his con­ver­sa­ti­ons with others sym­pa­the­tic to his plight, Senez’s film gra­du­al­ly reve­als the cir­cum­s­tances that have kept him in the coun­try. Like others who share his plight, Jay is sub­ject to a legal sys­tem that pro­vi­des few rights to for­eign par­ents in cus­t­ody con­flicts. As a result of Japan’s “clean break” approach to fami­ly law, a parent may be unable to even cont­act their child after a divorce. After nine pain­ful years, Jay is on the ver­ge of giving up on the pos­si­bi­li­ty he might ever see his daugh­ter Lily again. But then one mor­ning, a new pas­sen­ger in his car takes his sto­ry in ano­ther direction.By groun­ding the nar­ra­ti­ve in small details and never resort­ing to easy sen­ti­men­ta­li­ty, even in its most char­ged moments, Senez imbues his film with gre­at authen­ti­ci­ty and huma­ni­ty. Likewise, the director’s empha­sis on the quo­ti­di­an helps it avo­id exo­ti­ci­zing Jay’s expe­ri­ence or per­spec­ti­ve as an out­si­der in Japan. Through the­se quiet, careful methods, Senez has craf­ted an unu­sual­ly thoughtful fami­ly sto­ry that con­ta­ins a rare wealth of fee­ling. JASON ANDERSON | TIFF

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Une part man­quan­te
FR/BE 2024, 98 Min., franz. OmU
Regie: Guillaume Senez
Kamera: Elin Kirschfink
Schnitt: Julie Brenta
mit:  Romain Duris, Judith Chemla, Mei Cirne-Masuki, Tsuyu

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A film by Julia Ducournau. In French with German subtitles.

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Alpha, a trou­bled 13-year-old lives with her sin­gle mom. Their world col­lap­ses the day she returns from school with a tat­too on her arm.

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FR/BE 2025, 128 Min., fran­zö­si­che OmU
Regie: Julia Ducournau
Kamera: Ruben Impens
Schnitt: Jean-Christophe Bouzy
mit: Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Faharani, Mélissa Boros, Finnegan Oldfield, Emma Mackey

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A film by Igor Hauzenberger & Gabriela Schild. 

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The desert city of Agadez in Niger has been a hub of trade rou­tes sin­ce time imme­mo­ri­al. The local Tuareg popu­la­ti­on always ear­ned a good living by trans­port­ing goods and peo­p­le across the Sahara. But Agadez is also a place whe­re migrants pass through on their way to Europe.

Niger has been in direct talks with the European Union about this sin­ce 2012. The result is a law that cri­mi­na­li­zes ille­gal migra­ti­on and has made Agadez a High Risk Area, with cata­stro­phic con­se­quen­ces for the local eco­no­my. The ban on trans­port led to unem­ploy­ment, hig­her crime and a drug epidemic.

In On the Border, three resi­dents of Agadez talk about the decli­ne of their city. Salesman Ahmed Dizzi looks back with nost­al­gia to a time when lar­ge num­bers of European tou­rists used to visit the his­to­ric city and spend a lot of money. Radio repor­ter Tilla Amadou ques­ti­ons the effec­ti­ve­ness of European trai­ning pro­grams for bor­der guards. And for­mer mayor Rhissa Feltou argues that the new bor­der con­trols are a thre­at to the tra­di­tio­nal noma­dic exis­tence of the Tuareg.

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AT/DE/CH 2024, 103 Min., Tamascheq, Hausa, Fulah, Französisch, Deutsch. OmU
Regie: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger & Gabriela Schild
Kamera: Thomas Eirich-Schneider, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Hajo Schomerus, Joerg Burger
Schnitt: Nela Märki, Stefan Fauland

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A film by Richard Linklater. In French with German subtitles.

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This is the sto­ry of Godard making “Breathless”, told in the style and spi­rit in which Godard made “Breathless”.

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FR 2025, 105 Min., franz. OmU
Regie: Richard Linklater
Kamera: David Chambille
Schnitt: Catherine Schwartz
mit: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson, Jodie Ruth Forest

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A film by Richard Linklater. In English with German subtitles.

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“You know how in mar­ria­ge they say ‘for bet­ter or for worse’? I think, in terms of my life, I have ente­red the ‘for worse’ part, and it hap­pen­ed so quiet­ly I didn’t even reco­gni­ze it.”
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the sto­ry of the legen­da­ry lyri­cist Lorenz Hart bra­ve­ly facing the future as his pro­fes­sio­nal and pri­va­te life unra­vel during the ope­ning night par­ty for his for­mer part­ner Richard Rodgers’ hit show, “Oklahoma!”. In 100 minu­tes, the film uns­pools in real-time the events in Sardi’s bar on the evening of March 31, 1943. It is a medi­ta­ti­on on fri­end­ship, art and love, fea­turing a rich tapestry of wri­ters, actors, musi­ci­ans, fri­ends and pro­té­gés – a para­de of the famous and the soon-to-be-famous. By the time this night is over, Hart will have con­fron­ted both a world irre­vo­ca­bly chan­ged by the war, and the see­ming impos­si­bi­li­ty of love.
With powerful per­for­man­ces from Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Hart’s pro­té­gé Elizabeth and Bobby Cannavale as Hart’s bar­ten­der, bud­dy and con­fidan­te, the film per­fect­ly cap­tures, with Linklater’s deft, comic touch, a sin­gu­lar, asto­nis­hing moment in time.

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US/IE 2025, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Richard Linklater 
Kamera: Shane F. Kelly
Schnitt: Sandra Adair
mit: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

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Ein Film von Boris Lojkine. Starts February 19th at the fsk. Preview on Feb 9th. In French, Pular, Maninka with German subtitles.

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As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deli­ver meals, Souleymane repeats his sto­ry. In two days, he has to go through his asyl­um appli­ca­ti­on inter­view, the key to obtai­ning papers. But Souleymane is not ready.

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L’Histoire de Souleymane
FR 2024, 93 Min., Französisch, Pular, Maninka OmU
Regie: Boris Lojkine
Kamera: Tristan Galand
Schnitt: Xavier Sirven
mit: Abou Sangare, Nina Meurisse, Alpha Oumar Sow, Emmanuel Yovanie, Younoussa Diallo, Ghislain Mahan, Mamadou Barry, Yaya Diallo, Keita Diallo

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A film by Jim Jarmusch.
In English with German subtitles.

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Father Mother Sister Brother is a fea­ture film, though careful­ly con­s­truc­ted in the form of a tri­ptych. The three sto­ries all con­cern the rela­ti­onships bet­ween adult child­ren, their some­what distant parent (or par­ents) and each other. Each of the three chap­ters takes place in the pre­sent, and each in a dif­fe­rent coun­try.
Father is set in the north-east US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France. The film is a series of cha­rac­ter stu­dies: quiet, obser­va­tio­nal and non-jud­ge­men­tal — a come­dy, but inter­wo­ven with threads of melancholy.

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