A film by Hannes Schilling. In German, English, Thai and Melayu with German subtitles

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The jour­na­list Leo hopes to final­ly make an inter­na­tio­nal breakth­rough with a report about a rebel group in Thailand. His fri­end Mawar helps him make local cont­acts. In return, Leo pro­mi­ses to sup­port him in start­ing over in Germany. But when the edi­tors sen­ding him the pho­to­grapher Julian wit­hout asking, Leo beco­mes incre­asing­ly ent­an­gled in a web of lies and moral­ly ques­tionable decisions.

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DE 2024, 75 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Thai und Melayu mit deut­schen Untertiteln,
Regie: Hannes Schilling
Schnitt: Marie Fontanel, Paul Gröbel
Kamera: Falco Seliger
mit: Ilja Stahl, Sabree Matming, Dennis Scheuermann

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A film by enni­fer Mallmann. In Greek, Farsi, German, English with German subtitles.

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There was an eery silence after a fire had des­troy­ed the Moria camp com­ple­te­ly in September 2020. Not just local­ly, but in public dis­cour­se. The world did not seem par­ti­cu­lar­ly con­cer­ned with the inhu­ma­ne con­di­ti­ons in other camps on Europe’s exter­nal bor­ders or the count­less push­backs in the Mediterranean. Nor did the arrest of six ado­le­s­cents who were accu­sed of arson reso­na­te in any audi­ble way – though even a second glan­ce at the cir­cum­s­tances of the inves­ti­ga­ti­on and the cri­mi­nal pro­cee­dings reve­a­led the actions of the Greek judi­cia­ry to be ques­tionable. Not to men­ti­on the under­ly­ing refu­gee poli­cy of the European Union.
Jennifer Mallmann dares to take this second glan­ce with her film. At its cent­re is her cor­re­spon­dence with Hassan, one of the con­vic­ted youths, who tells her of his ever­y­day life, his desi­res and fears from pri­son. Calm, pre­cis­e­ly framed images docu­ment “nor­ma­li­ty” on the frin­ges of Fortress Europe. They show how stra­te­gi­cal iso­la­ti­on and the ensuing struc­tu­ral exclu­si­on work. If you want to know how our com­mu­ni­ty of nati­ons ima­gi­nes its future you only need to look at the new­ly-built futu­ristic high-secu­ri­ty camps, whe­re new arri­vals are trea­ted like peo­p­le who have com­mit­ted serious cri­mes. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE 2024, 82 Min., OmU,
Regie: Jennifer Mallmann
Kamera: Sina Diehl
Schnitt: Maxie Borchert

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A film by Daniel Abma. Starts June 5th at the fsk. In German with English subtitles.

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When par­ents can no lon­ger ful­fil their duty of care, the children’s world often falls apart. Nothing stays as it was. Suddenly it is no lon­ger mum or dad who are in char­ge but the youth wel­fa­re sys­tem. Daniel Abma fol­lo­wed a youth housing group in a rural area over seve­ral years, show­ing pro­fes­sio­nal edu­ca­tors who want to give five boys bet­ween the ages of seven and four­teen what they need most urgen­tly, day by day: secu­ri­ty, ori­en­ta­ti­on, a home.
The docu­men­ta­ry focus is not on the child­ren but on tho­se who take the par­ents’ place. They some­ti­mes remind us of Don Quixote til­ting at the wind­mills, for the­re is a dif­fu­si­on of respon­si­bi­li­ty bet­ween school, youth wel­fa­re ser­vices, and absent mothers and fathers. Words fail when adults do not keep appoint­ments, when tho­se in char­ge capi­tu­la­te in the face of racist bul­ly­ing and pro­po­se some “time out” – for the bul­lied boy – in a psych­ia­tric faci­li­ty. It would be easy to denoun­ce the­se mecha­nisms, but that is not the point Daniel Abma wants to make. His obser­va­ti­on, both empha­tic and reser­ved, looks ques­tio­nin­gly into the gaps in the sys­tem – with tho­se who are in dan­ger of fal­ling through and tho­se who try to fill them with affec­tion. He makes us suspect that the ans­wer is not to clo­se all the system’s gaps. It is peo­p­le who are the­re for other peo­p­le and take respon­si­bi­li­ty. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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DE 2024, 91 Min., dt. OmeU
Regie: Daniel Abma
Kamera: Johannes Praus
Schnitt: Jana Dugnus 

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A film by Robert Guédiguian. In French with German subtitles.

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In the working-class dis­trict of old Marseilles, Rosa is the heart and soul of her com­mu­ni­ty, a nur­se and the matri­arch of a lar­ge and clo­se-knit fami­ly. But approa­ching reti­re­ment and sur­roun­ded by poli­ti­cal iner­tia, she is fee­ling dis­il­lu­sio­ned. Until she meets Henri and rea­li­ses it is never too late to ful­fil her own poli­ti­cal and per­so­nal dreams.

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Et la fête con­ti­nue ! 
FR/IT 2023, 106 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Robert Guédiguian
Kamera: Pierre Milon
Schnitt: Bernard Sasia
mit: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Lola Naymark, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Robinson Stévenin.

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A film by Reto Caduff. In German with English subtitles.

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„Don’t talk, do!” At the end of the 70s, punk pro­mi­sed rebel­li­on and self-empower­ment. Also for the women in the sce­ne. They fought for their place on stage bet­ween the domi­nant punk top dogs, play­ing against social norms and long-out­da­ted fema­le role models. This is their story.

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DE/CH 2024, 89 Min., deut­sche OmeU
Regie: Reto Caduff
Kamera: Roman Schauerte, Stephan Huwyler
Schnitt: Beatrice Babin, Ginés Olivares 

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A film by Jia Zhang-Ke. In Mandarin with German subtitles.

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An endu­ring but fra­gi­le love sto­ry shared by Qiaoqiao and Bin, set in China, from the ear­ly 2000s to the pre­sent day.
Caught up in each other, Qiaoqiao and Bin enjoy­ed all that the city had to offer, sin­ging and dancing. Until one day, Bin finds hims­elf wan­ting to try his luck in a big­ger place than Datong. He left wit­hout any noti­ce. Some time later, Qiaoqiao deci­des to go on a jour­ney to look for him.
Traversing all of his past films, Jia Zhangke deli­vers an epic look at the roman­tic desti­ny of his peren­ni­al heroi­ne, Qiaoqiao. Spanning 21 years of a coun­try going through pro­found trans­for­ma­ti­on, the film gives a new per­spec­ti­ve to look into the con­tem­po­ra­ry China as well as the indi­vi­du­al expe­ri­en­ces under the tur­bu­lent emo­tio­nal and social changes.

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Feng liu yi dai
CN 2024, 110 Min., chin. OmU
Regie: Jia Zhang-Ke
Kamera: Yu Lik-Wai, Eric Gautier
Schnitt: Yang Chao, Lin Xudong, Matthieu Laclau
mit: Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin, Pan Jianlin, Lan Zhou

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A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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Two chim­ney sweeps living in mono­ga­mous, hete­ro­se­xu­al mar­ria­ges both end up in situa­tions that chall­enge their views on sexua­li­ty and gen­der roles. One has a sexu­al encoun­ter with ano­ther man, wit­hout hims­elf expe­ri­en­cing it eit­her as an expres­si­on of homo­se­xu­al lon­gings or infi­de­li­ty. The other sud­den­ly expe­ri­en­ces noc­turnal dreams in which he is seen as a woman. This con­fu­ses and dis­turbs him. He beg­ins to won­der to what ext­ent the gaze of others shapes his per­so­na­li­ty and whe­ther the­re are aspects of hims­elf that he has sup­pres­sed, ther­eby limi­ting hims­elf.
In Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex, the chim­ney is swept befo­re we get down to busi­ness. Whether hete­ro or homo, wit­ty word­play chal­lenges nor­ma­ti­ve images of men and socie­ty in modern urban Norway.

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OT: Sex
DE 2023, 90 Min., norw. OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad
mit: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen

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A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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At 17, Johanne falls head over heels in love with her fema­le tea­cher. In an attempt to cap­tu­re this first crush, she pours her expe­ri­en­ces onto paper with raw hones­ty. When her mother and grand­mo­ther dis­co­ver her wri­tin­gs, their initi­al shock at the inti­ma­te descrip­ti­ons gives way to admi­ra­ti­on for their lite­ra­ry merit. The two older women begin to reflect on their own love lives, their plea­su­res and missed oppor­tu­ni­ties, and are remin­ded of the over­whel­ming sen­sa­ti­on of first love; and of the lon­ging for some­thing more. Johanne’s grand­mo­ther, an estab­lished poet hers­elf, feels both pri­de and unea­se at her granddaughter’s natu­ral talent. But ques­ti­ons lin­ger: What tru­ly hap­pen­ed bet­ween Johanne and her tea­cher? Where does rea­li­ty end and fic­tion begin? And should the­se deep­ly per­so­nal wri­tin­gs ever find their way to publication?

Golden Bear – Berlinale 2025

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NO 2024, 110 Min., nor­we­gi­sche OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad
mit: Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen

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