a film by Ramon und Silvan Zürcher

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Over the cour­se of two days and one night, as Lisa moves out of the apart­ment she has shared with Mara and into the one whe­re she will live alo­ne, many things will break and some will be repai­red.
Like the titu­lar spider’s web, the film has a per­fect, fra­gi­le geo­me­try. Set almost enti­re­ly in inte­ri­ors, it is also an invol­un­t­a­ry sum­ma­ry of the para­do­xi­cal age of the pan­de­mic. The tran­si­ti­on from one abo­de to ano­ther, and the ener­gy that is released bet­ween one sto­ry ending and ano­ther begin­ning, puts the enti­re ensem­ble into an alte­red sta­te of grace. This crea­tes a sort of seduc­ti­ve jam ses­si­on, rep­le­te with the evo­ca­ti­ve pre­sence of tot­emic ani­mals. It is, as they say at one point, “As if a secret force were hol­ding ever­y­thing tog­e­ther”. This weird magne­tism comes from the Zürcher brot­hers’ orga­nic wri­ting and direc­ting. Once again, framing, sca­le and deep focus are all essen­ti­al ele­ments of their cine­ma­tic lan­guage, while the editing orchestra­tes the­mes and figu­res at a relent­less pace. This leads to con­stant for­mal ten­si­on bet­ween move­ments, gazes, sounds, colours and details, which all sup­port each other as if part of a diz­zy­ing house of cards.

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CH 2021, 98 Min., deut­sche Fassung,
Regie: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher
Kamera: Alex Haßkerl
Schnitt: Ramon Zürcher, Katharina Bhend
mit: Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger, André M. Hennicke, Ivan Georgiev, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Lea Draeger, Sabine Timoteo, Birte Schnöink

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A film by Maria Speth. In German with English subtitles.

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Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a com­plex histo­ry of both exclu­ding and inte­gra­ting for­eig­ners, geni­al tea­cher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least fee­ling as if they are at home. Aged bet­ween twel­ve and four­teen, the­se pupils come from twel­ve dif­fe­rent nati­ons; some have not quite mas­te­red the German lan­guage. On the brink of reti­re­ment, Bachmann is eager to inspi­re the­se citi­zens-in-the-making with a sen­se of curio­si­ty for a wide ran­ge of crafts, sub­jects, cul­tures and opi­ni­ons. Watching this absor­bing, sen­si­ti­ve docu­men­ta­ry, one is over­whel­med with the rea­li­sa­ti­on that, if only all child­ren were bles­sed with such emo­tio­nal­ly intel­li­gent, ever-pati­ent edu­ca­tors, con­flict would be miti­ga­ted via dis­cus­sion and John Lennon’s “Imagine” could be our rea­li­ty. Those who, like film­ma­ker Maria Speth and her cine­ma­to­grapher Reinhold Vorschneider, are able to reco­g­ni­se and high­light so beau­tiful­ly not only the importance of edu­ca­ti­on but also what a quiet­ly spec­ta­cu­lar pro­cess it can be, are heroes in their own right, too.

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DE 2021, 217 Minuten, dt. OmeU
Regie: Maria Speth
Buch: Maria Speth, Reinhold Vorschneider
Kamera: Reinhold Vorschneider
Schnitt: Maria Spethm
mit: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar und den Schüler*innen der Klassen 6 b und 6 f

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A film by Emin Alper.

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The three sis­ters Reyhan (20), Nurhan (16) and Havva (13) all live with their father in a remo­te vil­la­ge in cen­tral Anatolia. One after the other they were sent away to town to work as house­maids, but each of them has now retur­ned. The last of the sis­ters to do so is Nurhan. She beat the local doctor’s son becau­se he wet his bed every night. When Reyhan retur­ned home pregnant, her father hasti­ly mar­ried her off to the she­p­herd, Veysel. One day, the ine­bria­ted Veysel rises up against the vil­la­ge elder; his actions have dra­ma­tic con­se­quen­ces. Even if the dream of a bet­ter future does not come true for any of the­se young women and they always seem to be get­ting into argu­ments with each other, they none­thel­ess stead­fast­ly stick tog­e­ther. While they wait for the snow-cover­ed roads to beco­me pas­sa­ble again, father and daugh­ters pass the time with stories.
Emin Alper, who grew up in the Anatolian moun­ta­ins hims­elf, unfolds his fairy tale in haun­ting images. He por­trays a socie­ty in which neither women nor men have a chan­ce to break their pre­de­ter­mi­ned cycle, and yet he still lea­ves room for hope

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Türkei/Deutschland/Niederlande/Griechenland 2019, 108 Min., tür­ki­sche OmU-Fassung
Buch und Regie: Emin Alper
Kamera: Emre Erkmen
Schnitt: Çiçek Kahraman
mit Cemre Ebüzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir, Kayhan Açıkgöz, Müfit Kayacan, Kubilay Tunçer

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Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

A film by Joshua Bonnetta. Soon at the fsk.

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The clo­sing titles say The Two Sights was “coll­ec­ted” on various islands of the Outer Hebrides from 2017–19, but what does the film gather? There are the images, cap­tu­red on 16mm, which sur­vey all this ravis­hing land­scape con­ta­ins, taking in its rocky cliffs, bea­ches and plains, ali­ght­ing on its flo­ra and fau­na and the hou­ses and ships sprink­led over it, picking out curr­ents, reflec­tions and shifts in light. Then the­re are the sounds, recor­ded with the mic visi­ble in the first shots, kee­ning birds, the roaring wind, the cras­hing, gurg­ling, trick­ling of the water. In voice­over, a who­le antho­lo­gy of tales can be heard, nar­ra­ted in both English and Gaelic, sto­ries of dog ske­le­tons, drow­ned vil­la­ges, and fami­ly mem­bers pas­sing away, alt­hough songs, silence and the ship­ping fore­cast are just as at home the­re. But like any gre­at coll­ec­tion, it’s not about the indi­vi­du­al ele­ments, but how they over­lap, about how the crow han­ging on bar­bed wire con­ju­res up ano­ther sto­ry never told, about how the ripp­les seem to rever­be­ra­te along with the woman’s har­mo­nies, about how each anec­do­te floats over the rus­hing air. Sight by eye, sight by ear, two sights that ripp­le and flow together.

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CA, UK 2020, 90 Min., gälisch, eng­li­sche OmU
Regie, Buch, Kamera, Ton, Schnitt, Musik, Sound Design: Joshua Bonnetta

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A film by Anne Fontaine.  In French with German subtitles.

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Virginie, Erik and Aristide are poli­ce offi­cers. All three try to keep their per­so­nal and emo­tio­nal lives tog­e­ther while deal­ing with dai­ly inci­dents of vio­lence in homes and on the streets. One night, they are assi­gned an unu­su­al mis­si­on: to dri­ve a migrant to the air­port for unspe­ci­fied reasons. On the way the­re, Virginie dis­co­vers that the man will be sen­ten­ced to death if he goes back to his coun­try. Faced with an unbe­ara­ble dilem­ma, she starts to ques­ti­on their mis­si­on. The trio has one night to deci­de a man’s fate. Prolific French film­ma­ker Anne Fontaine tack­les this dra­ma­tic and rele­vant topic with all the inten­si­ty and empa­thy it requi­res. Her stel­lar French actors are as com­mit­ted as the cha­rac­ters they embo­dy are hesi­tant. They are sup­port­ed by Iran’s Payman Maadi who gives a devas­ta­ting per­for­mance as the Tajikistani who can’t speak a word of his “host” country’s lan­guage. Their strugg­le to express a varie­ty of over­whel­ming emo­ti­ons reso­na­tes deep­ly and moves the view­er bey­ond words.

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FR 2019, 98 Min., frz. OmU
Regie: Anne Fontaine
Kamera: Yves Angelo
Schnitt: Fabrice Rouaud
mit: Omar Sy, Virginie Efira, Grégory Gadebois (ab 10.12.)

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A film by Ute Adamczewski. In German with English subtitles

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The title alre­a­dy indi­ca­tes that this is about two levels. History and the pre­sent, archi­ve and pre­sence – the­se are the terms Ute Adamczewski uses to descri­be the ten­si­on bet­ween sta­te and ter­rain. The series of dicho­to­mies could be con­tin­ued with “image and sound”. What we see in the­se two hours are towns, places and land­scapes in Saxony. They all have a con­nec­tion to events imme­dia­te­ly after the Nazis sei­zed power in 1933. At that time the hunt for poli­ti­cal oppon­ents began which affec­ted so many that num­e­rous, part­ly impro­vi­sed pri­sons and camps were built in the area.

An off-screen woman’s voice calm­ly reads from docu­ments of the peri­od, sup­ple­men­ted and expan­ded by memoirs of tho­se affec­ted from the post-war peri­od. Historical-poli­ti­cal aspects are added suc­ces­si­ve­ly. In the GDR, only tho­se who had fought against fascism were regard­ed as “vic­tims of fascism”. Jews were no vic­tims in that sen­se. This finds a remar­kab­le par­al­lel in the fact that even the Nazis in their attempts to bring order to the per­se­cu­ti­ons of 1933 (still) excluded the Jews: “Foreign des­cent is no reason for pro­tec­ti­ve detenti­on.” An impres­si­ve film about the pre­sence of the past, both in form and content.

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DE 2019, 118 Min., OmeU, 
Regie, Buch, Schnitt: Ute Adamczewski
Kamera: Stefan Neuberger

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Zustand und Gelände (offi­zi­el­ler Trailer) from Grandfilm on Vimeo.

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A film by Maura Delpero. In Spanish and Italian with German subtitles.

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In a coun­try whe­re abor­ti­on is not yet legal, Delpero’s first fic­tion film deals with a signi­fi­cant social issue by start­ing from an emble­ma­tic set­ting whe­re pregnant and often underage girls coha­bit with women who will never be mothers. The direc­tor subt­ly plays on this under­ly­ing ten­si­on, buil­ding a nar­ra­ti­ve brought to life by the prot­ago­nists’ glan­ces and silen­ces.
Daniela Persico

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IT/AR 2019, 91 Min., ital./span. OmU
Regie: Maura Delpero
Kamera: Soledad Rodriguez
Schnitt: Ilaria Fraioli, Luca Mattei
mit: Lidiya Liberman, Denise Carrizo, Agustina Malale, Isabella Cilia, Alan Rivas, Livia Fernán, Marta Lubos, Renata Palminiello

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A film by Bernd Schoch. In Romanian with German and English subtitles.

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A spraw­ling myce­li­um. The star­ry sky over the Romanian Carpathians. The first two images intro­du­ce the dimen­si­ons that are at the core of Olanda: details and fine struc­tures on the one hand, con­stel­la­ti­ons and the big­ger pic­tu­re on the other. The focus is on a sea­so­nal asset of the area – the mush­room. Amongst peo­p­le it is the fora­gers who are nea­rest to them and the focus of the film is on them: on walks through the forest, in the tent camp, during car rides and con­ver­sa­ti­ons. From here it fol­lows the rhi­zo­me-like rami­fi­ca­ti­ons that con­ti­nue to branch out in the form of money: to local and inter­na­tio­nal mer­chants, to an impro­vi­sed shoe mar­ket in a clea­ring, to gambling among col­le­agues. The film tells of the­se tra­ding cycles by assum­ing a mush­room-like struc­tu­re wit­hout ever losing its cent­re of thought. Beyond an ana­ly­sis of eco­no­mic struc­tures, howe­ver, it is also the sen­su­al docu­ment of a rhythm of ever­y­day life in the forest, as expe­ri­en­ced by fora­gers as the first link in the recy­cling chain. In the cine­ma, it can be expe­ri­en­ced as an audio­vi­su­al mush­room-trip into the magi­cal world of the Carpathian forests.

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DE 2019, 154 Min., rumä­ni­sche OmU
Regie: Bernd Schoch
Kamera: Simon Quack
Schnitt: Bernd Schoch, André Siegers

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OLANDA • Trailer EN subs from fuen­fer­film on Vimeo.

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