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 Stephanie Allynne & Tig Notaro. In English.

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Lucy is a 32-year-old woman living in Los Angeles with her best fri­end Jane and working as a recep­tio­nist at a spa. She finds litt­le satis­fac­tion in her roman­tic life, inclu­ding with her fri­end Ben, who beco­mes frus­tra­ted at her con­tin­ued avo­id­ance of his advan­ces. Jane recei­ves a work pro­mo­ti­on that will requi­re her to relo­ca­te to London, and goes out for drinks with Lucy and Jane’s boy­fri­end Danny to cele­bra­te. After Jane con­fes­ses to kis­sing a fema­le fri­end as a teen­ager, Lucy drun­ken­ly tells her that she thinks she might be a les­bi­an. Jane encou­ra­ges her to explo­re her fee­lings, sug­gest­ing that Lucy should pur­sue her flir­ta­tious mas­sa­ge the­ra­pist co-worker Brittany.

Lucy invi­tes Brittany to her house for din­ner, but recei­ves mixed signals as Brittany shares about her ex-boy­fri­end, but also decla­res her sexua­li­ty to be „on the spec­trum” and kis­ses her befo­re lea­ving. Jane brings Lucy to a les­bi­an bar, but Lucy is shy and soon lea­ves after see­ing Jane kis­sing other women on the dance flo­or; the two fight and stop spea­king. Lucy meets up with Brittany again. The two have sex, but Brittany quick­ly lea­ves the fol­lo­wing mor­ning and beco­mes distant, later recon­ci­ling with her ex-boy­fri­end. Meanwhile, Jane deals with the pres­su­res of her upco­ming move, inclu­ding her self-absor­bed co-worker Kat and Danny’s con­fes­si­on that he does not want to join Jane in London as she assu­med he would.

Lucy quits her job to return to her pas­si­on of pain­ting, and beg­ins mee­ting other women on dating apps. She comes out to Ben, and the two recon­ci­le as fri­ends. After going on a „ham­mock retre­at” with Kat, Jane makes up with Lucy, exci­ted­ly offe­ring sup­port for the chan­ges in her life. Lucy offers to dri­ve Jane to the air­port as she heads to London, only to reve­al that she will be joi­ning her on the trip to help ease her transition.

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US 2022, 86 Min., engl., OV
Regie & Schnitt: Stephanie Allynne & Tig Notaro
Kamera: Cristina Dunlap
Schnitt: Kayla Emter · Glen Scantlebury
mit: Dakota Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jermaine Fowler, Kiersey Clemons, Molly Gordon

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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 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 Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha. In Farsi with German subtitles.

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The 70-year-old Mahin has been living alo­ne in Tehran sin­ce her hus­band died and her daugh­ter left for Europe. One after­noon, tea with fri­ends leads her to break her soli­ta­ry rou­ti­ne and revi­ta­li­se her love life. But as Mahin opens hers­elf up to a new romance, what beg­ins as an unex­pec­ted encoun­ter quick­ly evol­ves into an unpre­dic­ta­ble, unfor­gettable evening.

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Keyke mah­boo­be man / My favou­ri­te cake
IR/FR/SE/DE 2024, 97 Min., far­si OmU
Regie: Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Kamera: Mohammad Haddadi
Schnitt: Ata Mehrad, Behtash Sanaeeha, Ricardo Saraiva
mit: Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi, 

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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 Wim Wenders. In Japanses with German subtitles.

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Wim Wenders’ first films were cha­rac­te­ri­sed by the the­me of move­ment, and so it is no coin­ci­dence that the German filmmaker’s latest fic­tion fea­ture is remi­nis­cent of that lumi­nous peri­od in his fil­mo­gra­phy. The life of the mys­te­rious man who cle­ans public toi­lets in Tokyo (play­ed by Yakusho Koji) is defi­ned by quo­ti­di­an move­ment and obser­va­ti­on. The pro­di­gious secret of PERFECT DAYS lies in how it heigh­tens our per­cep­ti­on of all the tran­si­tio­nal acts that deter­mi­ne his working rou­ti­ne; dis­trac­tion is for­bidden here. Everything indi­ca­tes that clea­ning toi­lets and uri­nals is an unde­si­ra­ble task, but in Japan this task appears like an appro­pria­te pro­ce­du­re for a veri­ta­ble sci­ence of cle­an­li­ne­ss. And while it seems theo­re­ti­cal­ly implau­si­ble that a man with such a job reads Faulkner at night, is a music lover and pays atten­ti­on to the trees in order to pho­to­graph them with the sharp­ness of a pro­fes­sio­nal, such qua­li­ties and pas­si­ons can be seen as legi­ti­ma­te based on the other cha­rac­ters that appear in the film who duly reve­al some­thing of his past. Beauty and won­der are in equi­li­bri­um in all the sequen­ces, and sub­li­me­ly so when the dreams of this man who cle­ans bath­rooms are depic­ted. (Roger Koza)

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JP 2023, 124 Min., japan. OmU
Regie: Wim Wenders
Kamera: Franz Lustig
Schnitt: Toni Froschhammer
mit: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada, Yumi Aso, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura as Tomoyama

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PERFECT DAYS | TRAILER (OmdU)

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