A film by Mario Martone. In Italian with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

After 40 years of abs­cence, Felice returns to his home­town : Naples.
He redis­co­vers the places, the rules of the city and a past that haunts him.

Credits:

IT / FR 2022, 118 Min., ital. OmU
Regie: Mario Martone
Kamera: Carmine Guarino
Schnitt: Jacopo Quadri
mit: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Daniel Goldhaber. In English with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Based on the epony­mous novel by Andreas Malm, this thril­ler revol­ves around the sabo­ta­ge car­ri­ed out by a group of mili­tant eco­lo­gi­cal acti­vists. People are gathe­ring in the desert. They’re the­re to prepa­re a mis­si­on: some have alre­a­dy felt the effects of envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­ti­on, others are frus­tra­ted cli­ma­te acti­vists for whom radi­cal methods appear the only means of pro­test­ing against the cli­ma­te cata­stro­phe. Their plan is to sabo­ta­ge a pipe­line to knock the oil busi­ness off balan­ce and thus ensu­re chan­ge, whe­re other forms of resis­tance have alre­a­dy exhaus­ted their useful­ness. The film is a varia­ti­on on a heist thril­ler and a psy­cho­lo­gi­cal stu­dy of acti­vists bet­ween per­so­nal con­cern, radi­cal­i­sa­ti­on and doubt.

Credits:

US 2022, 106 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Daniel Goldhaber
mit Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson , Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, Irene Bedard, Olive Jane Lorraine 

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by İlker Çatak. In German, Turkish, Polish and English with German subtitles. 

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

“What hap­pens in the staff room stays in the staff room,” says Carla Nowak in an inter­view with the school news­pa­per. Even if that is purely wishful thin­king for the tea­cher at this point. This is her first job, and she is com­mit­ted to tea­ching mathe­ma­tics and phy­si­cal edu­ca­ti­on to her class of seventh gra­d­ers. Things are going well and she is able to moti­va­te the­se ado­le­s­cents. Then a series of thefts occur at school and one of her stu­dents is quick­ly suspec­ted. An outra­ged Carla deci­des to get to the bot­tom of the mat­ter hers­elf, but the case is not so easy to sol­ve and has reper­cus­sions. Quickly decried as idea­li­stic by the rest of the staff, Carla finds hers­elf having to ans­wer to angry par­ents and media­te bet­ween quar­rel­ling stu­dents. The more she tri­es to do ever­y­thing right, the more she – and others – are pushed to their limits, and the enti­re school sys­tem is thrown off balan­ce.
İlker Çatak mis­ses not­hing in his bril­li­ant­ly obser­ved film. In his unspa­ring dra­ma, the school is a micro­c­osm in which the out­side world no lon­ger exists and not­hing remains pri­va­te. Das Lehrerzimmer is a stu­dy in power rela­ti­ons that demons­tra­tes how indi­vi­du­als are worn down bet­ween ent­ren­ched positions.

Credits:

DE 2023, 94 min, Deutsch,  Türkisch,  Polnisch,  Englisch OmU
Regie: İlker Çatak
Schnitt: Gesa Jäger
Kamera: Judith Kaufmann
mit: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Anna Kazejak. In Polish and Danish with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

On the Danish island of Bornholm, two fami­lies spend their tra­di­tio­nal short vaca­ti­on tog­e­ther. The cam­pers park at a prime beach loca­ti­on and pitch tent for the three boys – so far, so good. But an inci­dent with the child­ren upsets the idyll: What beg­ins as an imma­tu­re quar­rel gra­du­al­ly deve­lo­ps into a full-blown fight. Soon the pit­falls of rai­sing child­ren, mid­life cri­ses and marital pro­blems are ruthl­ess­ly expo­sed – and the ori­gi­nal­ly rela­xing vaca­ti­on turns into a puri­fy­ing pur­ga­to­ry. Director Anna Kazejak allows bour­geois fami­ly ide­als to col­l­i­de with for­mal sove­reig­n­ty in her come­dy dra­ma FUCKING BORNHOLM.

Credits:

PL 2022, 96 min, poln. dän. OmU
Regie: Anna Kazejak
Kamera: Jakub Stolecki
Schnitt: Maciej Pawlinski
mit Agnieszka Grochowska, Maciej Stuhr, Grzegorz Damięcki, Jasmina Polak and Magus Krepper

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Laura Poitras. In English with German subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emo­tio­nal and inter­con­nec­ted sto­ry about inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned artist and acti­vist Nan Goldin told through her slide­shows, inti­ma­te inter­views, ground-brea­king pho­to­gra­phy, and rare foo­ta­ge of her per­so­nal fight to hold the Sackler fami­ly accoun­ta­ble for the opio­id crisis.

Directed by Academy Award®-winning film­ma­ker Laura Poitras, the film inter­wea­ves Goldin’s past and pre­sent, the deep­ly per­so­nal and urgen­tly poli­ti­cal, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renow­ned art insti­tu­ti­ons to Goldin’s pho­to­gra­phy of her fri­ends and peers through her epic “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and her legen­da­ry 1989, NEA-cen­so­red AIDS exhi­bi­ti­on, “Witness: Against Our Vanishing.”

The sto­ry beg­ins with P.A.I.N., a group Goldin foun­ded to shame muse­ums into rejec­ting Sackler money, destig­ma­ti­ze addic­tion and pro­mo­te harm reduc­tion. Inspired by Act Up, they orchestra­ted pro­tests to call atten­ti­on to the toxic phil­an­thro­py of the Sackler fami­ly, who­se com­pa­ny, Purdue Pharma, igni­ted the opio­id epi­de­mic with its block­bus­ter drug, OxyContin.

At the core of the film are Goldin’s art works “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”; “The Other Side”; “Sisters, Saints and Sibyls”; and “Memory Lost.” In the­se works, Goldin cap­tures her fri­end­ships with beau­ty and raw ten­der­ness. These fri­end­ships, and the lega­cy of her sis­ter Barbara, anchor all of Goldin’s art.

Credits:

US 2022, 117 Min., engl. OmU,
Regie: Laura Poitras
Kamera: Nan Goldin
mit: Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Marina Berio 

Trailer:

nach oben

A fillm by Makoto Shinkai. In Japanese with German subtitles

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

In a small, peaceful town on Japan’s sou­thern island of Kyushu, 17-year-old Suzume has lived with her aunt ever sin­ce she lost her mother as a litt­le girl. One day on her way to school, she meets a mys­te­rious young man named Souta who is in search of a door. She fol­lows him into the moun­ta­ins and finds a dila­pi­da­ted old door stan­ding alo­ne among ruins. On an impul­se, Suzume turns the hand­le, and at once sets free all the cala­mi­ties the por­tal was meant to con­tain. All around Japan other doors open, threa­tening a popu­la­ti­on una­wa­re of the loo­ming dan­ger. Together, Suzume and Souta set out on a jour­ney to clo­se them all again.
Written and direc­ted by ani­me auteur Makoto Shinkai, this epic adven­ture takes us across the length and breadth of Japan, ven­tu­ring out­side metro­po­li­tan hubs to seek doors of dis­as­ter in the aban­do­ned infra­struc­tures of depo­pu­la­ted rural are­as. As we fol­low this young woman in her fran­tic search, we rea­li­se that she is also enga­ged in a per­so­nal quest for matu­ri­ty and free­dom. An inti­ma­te por­trait that is also a stu­dy of a vul­nerable yet com­ba­ti­ve nati­on, Suzume is a sign of resi­li­ence at a time when Mother Earth is sen­ding human­kind evi­dence of her fury.

Credits:

JP 2022, 122 Min., Japanisch mit dt. und engl. UT,
Regie & Schnitt: Makoto Shinkai
Character Design: Masayoshi Tanaka
Animation Director: Kenichi Tsuchiya

Trailer:

nach oben

A film by Christian Petzold. In German with English subtitles.

[Credits] [Tickets & Termine] [Trailer]

Leon and Felix’s plan was to spend the sum­mer tog­e­ther in a holi­day home on the Baltic coast. They wan­ted to be the­re as fri­ends but also to work – one on his second book, the other assembling his art port­fo­lio. But Nadja and Devid are also the­re, and they bring lots of posi­ti­ve vibes with them. Four young peo­p­le expe­ri­men­ting with love, even though this does not come easy to Leon. His unfi­nis­hed manu­script haunts him whe­re­ver he goes, whe­ther he is at the sum­mer­house or the beach. The others’ good mood often cau­ses his to plum­met. A visit from his publisher is immi­nent. But, as the lat­ter arri­ves in his nif­ty small car, the forest beg­ins to bla­ze. It rains ash, the sky turns red, and a rela­ti­onship-dra­ma that mer­ges phy­si­cal inten­si­ty and artis­tic sub­li­ma­ti­on takes a turn into a new dimen­si­on.
This second part of Christian Petzold’s tri­lo­gy begun in 2020 with Undine, is about not being able to sleep and wan­ting to love; about wri­ting and being read; about being in the world and yet pos­si­bly allo­wing life to slip by. A film that is sus­pen­ded bet­ween sym­bo­lism and rea­lism, both fun­ny and deep­ly tragic.

Berlinale 2023 – Competition

Credits:

DE 2023, 103 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Christian Petzold
Kamera: Hans Fromm
Schnitt: Bettina Böhler
mit Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs, Matthias Brandt

Trailer:

nach oben