Die Einzelteile der Liebe

A film by Miriam Bliese. In German with English subtitles.

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Sophie and Georg meet and fall in love just after the hea­vi­ly-pregnant Sophie has been aban­do­ned by her boy­fri­end. To the new­ly born Jakob, Georg natu­ral­ly beco­mes his father. The patch­work fami­ly faces all the usu­al chal­lenges that beset modern par­ents: who should be allo­wed to work and who should take care of the child? How much free­dom is per­mis­si­ble and how much self-sacri­fice requi­red? And whe­re is the room for pas­si­on? A few years later, Georg and Sophie have split up. Jakob is six years old and his par­ents are grim­ly batt­ling for cus­t­ody. Sophie’s new part­ner, of all peo­p­le, tri­es to media­te bet­ween them. Played out in a series of indi­vi­du­al sce­nes that all take place out­side the same front door in Berlin, the film is an ellip­ti­cal por­trait of a fami­ly for whom the term ‚patch­work‘ is sim­ply a part of their ever­y­day lives. The prot­ago­nists nego­tia­te their anxie­ties and desi­res in front of house walls, in-bet­ween pil­lars and in car parks. Here, home is not a safe har­bour, but a place of tran­sit expo­sed to the wind. A laco­nic look at the unre­asonable mun­da­ni­ty of love.

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DE 2019, 97 Min.
Regie & Drehbuch: Miriam Bliese
Kamera: Markus Koob
Montage: Dietmar Kraus
mit: Birte Schöik, Ole Lagerpusch, Justus Fischer, Falk Rockstroh

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Acid

A film by Alexander Gorchilin.  In Russian with German subtitles.

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Stark naked, Vanya jumps to his death off a bal­c­o­ny. ‘If you want to jump, jump,’ Pete had told him. Before: a floo­ded apart­ment, a toi­let in the midd­le of the room, para­noia. Moby’s ‘Why does my heart feel so bad?’ on in the back­ground. Kislota (Acid), the sty­lish direc­to­ri­al debut of 26-year-old Russian actor Alexander Gorchilin, beg­ins like a trip and breathl­ess­ly con­ti­nues: Vanya’s fun­e­ral is fol­lo­wed by club­bing, drugs and the artist Vasilisk, who asks Sasha if he can pho­to­graph his cir­cumcis­ed penis. He may. Sasha beco­mes the focus of the film. The acid of the title first comes into play in the artist’s stu­dio when Vasilisk dis­sol­ves his father’s sculp­tures in it. Life is not bad in today’s Russia for the young, fat­her­less men at the cent­re of the film. They look good, but their lives have no sen­se of direc­tion. The bot­t­le of acid remains in the room the next mor­ning. It will con­ti­nue to play a role in the story.
Gorchilin finds powerful images for his depic­tion of a youth that seem to be losing their grip on life. And neither the cream-colou­red inte­ri­ors of their bour­geois homes, nor rhyth­mic gym­nastics or even the church seem to offer them any­thing to hold on to.

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Kislota
RU  2018,98 Min., russ. OmU,

Regie: Alexander Gorchilin
Buch: Valery Pecheykin
Kamera: Kseniya Sereda
Montage: Vadim Krasnitskiy
mit: Filipp Avdeev, Alexander Kuznetsov, Arina Shevtsova, Savva Saveliev 

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Acid (Trailer) from Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH on Vimeo.

 

In many imperfect ways: Anker der Liebe

A film by Marques-Marcet. In English with German subtitles.

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Eva and Kat’s hum­ble, yet care­free, life in their London canal boat is tur­ned upsi­de down when Eva gives Kat an ulti­ma­tum: she wants a child. Kat resists, kno­wing that it will end the bohe­mi­an life­style she’s always envi­sa­ged with Eva. When Kat’s best fri­end from Barcelona, Roger, stops by to par­ty with them, the three toy around with the idea of crea­ting a baby tog­e­ther. Feeling backed into a cor­ner, Kat cons­ents. Surprisingly, the unu­su­al do-it-yours­elf donor inse­mi­na­ti­on is suc­cessful. As Eva enjoys her pregnan­cy and Roger fan­ta­sizes about his role in the new fami­ly, Kat beg­ins to feel like a third wheel and starts to distance hers­elf. When Eva has an unex­pec­ted mis­car­ria­ge, ever­yo­ne’s true fee­lings are laid bare, lea­ding Eva and Kat to break up while Roger pre­pa­res to go back to Barcelona. The three soon rea­li­ze, howe­ver, that they can’t sur­vi­ve wit­hout each other, and a new jour­ney beg­ins to build a family.

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Anchor and Hope
GB 2017, 112 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Darsteller: Oona Chaplin, Natalie Tena, Geraldine Chaplin, David Verdaguer
Filmlänge: 112 Minuten

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ANKER DER LIEBE – Offizieller deut­scher Trailer

In many imperfect ways (Filmreihe)

Ein Punkt im Leben, an dem Entscheidungen und Auseinandersetzungen gefragt sind, wo der eige­ne Lebensentwurf in Frage gestellt wird und eine Verortung statt­fin­den muss oder eine plötz­li­che Erkenntnis bis­he­ri­ge Sicherheiten umwirft – genau hier sind die aus­ge­such­ten Filme die­ser klei­nen, fei­nen Reihe ange­sie­delt. Der Weg von hier führt über Unsicherheiten und Verletzungen, ohne Schrammen kommt da kei­ne so leicht durch.

Auch die Filme des Programms hat­ten bis­her in Berlin nur ein unvoll­kom­me­nes Kinoleben, man­chen wird der ein oder ande­re Titel geläu­fig sein, da die dazu­ge­hö­ri­gen Werke für Einzelvorstellungen bespro­chen wur­den, sei es für Mongay, L‑Filmnächte oder als regu­lä­rer Start mit nur weni­gen ein­zel­nen Vorstellungen. Wir fin­den, dass sie so sehens­wert sind, dass sie eine 2. Chance ver­die­nen, haben sie des­halb gebün­delt und bie­ten sie als klei­nes Paket vom 1.- 8. August (und noch 3 wei­te­re Vorstellungen an den fol­gen­den Wochenenden) im fsk-Kino an.

Außerhalb einer per­fek­ten Komfortzone befin­den sich unse­re fünf Protagonistinnen ebenfalls.

  • Rebecca, genannt Becks, wird von ihrer Freundin betro­gen und zieht, ganz klas­sisch, zurück zur Mutter. Sich dort auf die Couch zu legen und zu bemit­lei­den ist aber auf Dauer sicher kei­ne gute Idee, zumal sie aus­ge­zeich­net mit der Gitarre umzu­ge­hen weiß. [Becks]
  • Die jun­ge Romni Lola weiß, was sie will (Comics zeich­nen), und auch wen sie will (Carmen, die Braut ihres Cousins). Allerdings ist in ihrem Umfeld die Toleranzgrenze sexu­el­le Normabweichung betref­fend eher nied­rig. [Carmen y Lola]
  • Französischlehrerin Nina sucht ver­zwei­felt eine Leihmutter, die sie nicht fin­det, bis ihr Auto mit Magdas zusam­men­kracht. Des geplan­ten Kindes Vater ist nicht ent­zückt von der Frau, die ihr Baby aus­tra­gen soll, erst recht nicht, als sich sei­ne Frau in sie ver­liebt. [Nina]
  • Benny hat als Tochter eines streng­gläu­bi­gen jüdi­schen Gelehrten ähn­li­che Probleme wie Lola. Nur, dass sie dazu noch Verantwortung für eine Kalb und damit für die Erlösung tra­gen soll. [Red Cow – Das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren]
  • Dem anstren­gen­den Alltag mit ihrem depres­si­ven Vater ent­flieht die 16-jäh­ri­ge Cyd, indem sie im Sommer zu ihrer Autoren-Tante nach nach Chicago zieht. Dort könn­te sie dann den gan­zen Tag faul in der Sonne lie­gen, kreuz­te nicht eine toug­he Kellnerin namens Katie ihren Weg. [Princess Cyd]
  • Im lt. L‑Mag „klei­nem Wunderwerk” füh­ren Eva und Kat auf ihrem Londoner Hausboot ein unbe­schwer­tes Leben abseits aller sons­ti­gen Bindungen. Doch bei Eva gibt es die­sen laten­ten Kinderwunsch, der von ihrer Mutter unter­stützt wird, nicht aber von ihrer Partnerin. Als Kats bes­ter Freund Roger die bei­den besucht und als Samenspender in Frage kommt, ist es soweit – Kat muss sich ent­schei­den. [Anker der Liebe]

Aufmerksam lesen­den dürf­te es nicht ent­ge­hen, dass es bei der Auswahl stets um les­bi­sche Frauen geht – wobei man­che dar­un­ter dies erst im Lauf des Films erfah­ren. Aber über Genderfrage und mög­li­che kul­tu­rel­le Unterschieden hin­aus – wir befin­den uns in den USA, Spanien, Israel und Polen – ver­spre­chen die ange­spro­che­nen Topics der Reihe für alle, die sich mit Beziehungen im wei­tes­ten und auch per­sön­li­chen Sinne befas­sen, ein Kinoerlebnis.

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Ich war zuhause, aber …

A film by Angela Schanelec. In German with English subtitles.

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After having dis­ap­peared for a week, Astrid’s 13-year-old son Phillip returns home one day wit­hout say­ing a word. Both his mother and tea­chers suspect that his dis­ap­pearance may be rela­ted to the loss of his father. Only gra­du­al­ly does ever­y­day life get back on track. Astrid now finds hers­elf con­fron­ted with ques­ti­ons that pro­vi­de a who­le new per­spec­ti­ve on her midd­le-class exis­tence and her care­er in Berlin’s cul­tu­ral sec­tor. Her ide­as about art also begin to chan­ge. At home, it beco­mes more and more dif­fi­cult for this sin­gle mother to accept that her son is lea­ding his own life. And then Phillip is admit­ted to hos­pi­tal with blood poi­so­ning. Astrid is a ner­vous wreck, wiped out by worry, guilt and her fee­lings of fail­ure. But Phillip and his litt­le sis­ter do not turn away from her. The fami­ly may be dis­in­te­gra­ting, but only to form its­elf anew.
The came­ra in this film remains at a dis­crete distance, pro­vi­ding mother and child­ren with the space and time they need to redis­co­ver and reapp­rai­se their fee­lings. These sce­nes are framed by others depic­ting school rehear­sals of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, the purcha­se of a bro­ken bicy­cle and other loo­se sto­ry­li­nes that all echo each other.

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DE 2019, 105 Min., 
Regie, Schnitt & Buch: Angela Schanelec
Kamera: Ivan Marković
mit: Maren Eggert Jakob Lassalle, Clara Möller, Franz Rogowski, Lilith Stangenberg, Alan Williams, Jirka Zett

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Der unverhoffte Charme des Geldes

A film by Denys Arcand. In French with German subtitles.

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Denys Arcand’s the­ma­tic suc­ces­sor to The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions cen­tres on a young man who­se life is chan­ged when he finds two bags of cash after an armed robbery.

As its title indi­ca­tes, Denys Arcand’s new film con­ti­nues the inves­ti­ga­ti­on into modern socie­ty he began over 30 years ago with his remar­kab­le and for­ma­ti­ve Le Déclin de l’empire amé­ri­cain. If 2003’s Les Invasions bar­ba­res was a sequel of sorts, revi­si­ting many of the same cha­rac­ters, this new film is not. Nevertheless, it does com­ple­te a kind of infor­mal tri­lo­gy that looks deep into Quebec socie­ty, its values, and its mores.

La chu­te de l’empire amé­ri­cain is built around the con­cept of money: what it means, how it is used, what value it has in our world, and what it can do to peo­p­le. Arcand’s prot­ago­nist, Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry), is a 36-year-old with a PhD in phi­lo­so­phy who ends up dri­ving a cou­rier truck, a line of work he belie­ves he is too good for. A sin­gle event chan­ges Pierre-Paul’s life: he finds hims­elf with a lot of money in his hands – and a choice. This money can pro­vi­de him the life­style he wants, but it can also lead to num­e­rous hea­da­ches, name­ly in the form of ent­an­gle­ments with both poli­ce and the cri­mi­nal under­world. Pierre-Paul’s decis­i­ons take him on an unli­kely voya­ge whe­re he needs all his wits to out­fox his various pur­suers, among­st whom are two rather dif­fe­rent women: a young pro­sti­tu­te who can free him, and a young cop who can put him behind bars.

Arcand’s pro­bing intel­li­gence turns the film into a subt­le inves­ti­ga­ti­on of con­tem­po­ra­ry socie­ty, a socie­ty whe­re the old social con­tract that once under­pin­ned our inter­ac­tions pro­ves hol­low. Marcus Aurelius jos­t­les with Rousseau and Machiavelli in this wit­ty and sar­do­nic sati­re.   (TIFF)

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La chu­te de l’empire américain
CA 2018, 128 Min., frz. OmU
Buch und Regie: Denys Arcand
Kamera: Van Royko
Schnitt: Arthur Tarnowski
mit: Alexandre Landry, Maripier Morin, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi, Louis Morissette

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La Flor

A film by Mariano Llinás.  In seve­ral lan­guages with German subtitles.

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A film that pays tri­bu­te to the histo­ry of cine­ma, via six epi­so­des inspi­red by the dif­fe­rent forms of cine­ma­tic art. Each epi­so­de has a gen­re. The first epi­so­de could be regard­ed as a B movie, the kind that Americans used to shoot with their eyes clo­sed and now just can’t shoot any­mo­re. The second epi­so­de is a sort of musi­cal with a touch of mys­tery. The third epi­so­de is a spy movie. The fourth epi­so­de is dif­fi­cult to descri­be. The fifth one is inspi­red by an old French film. The last one is about some cap­ti­ve women in the 19th cen­tu­ry who return from the desert, from the Indians, after many years.

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AR 2018,  808 Min.,  (Akt 1: 167 Min., Akt 2: 59 Min., Akt 3: 106 Min., Akt 4: 112 Min., Akt 5: 126 Min., Akt 6: 99 Min., Akt 7: 117 Min., Akt 8: 107 Min.), Spanisch/Französisch/Englisch/Russisch/Deutsch/Schwedisch/Italienische OmU,
Regie: Mariano Llinás
Kamera: Agustín Mendilaharzu
Schnitt: Alejo Moguillansky, Agustín Rolandelli

mit Elisa Carricajo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa, Laura Paredes

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In many imperfect ways: Carmen y Lola

A film by Arantxa Echevarría. In Spanish with German subtitles.

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Carmen lives in a gypsy com­mu­ni­ty in the sub­urbs of Madrid. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is desti­ned to live a life that is repea­ted gene­ra­ti­on after gene­ra­ti­on: get­ting mar­ried and rai­sing as many child­ren as pos­si­ble. But one day she meets Lola, an uncom­mon gypsy who dreams about going to uni­ver­si­ty, draws bird graf­fi­ti and likes girls. Carmen quick­ly deve­lo­ps a com­pli­ci­ty with Lola and they dis­co­ver a world that, ine­vi­ta­b­ly, leads them to be rejec­ted by their families.

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Spanien 2018, 103 Min., span. OmU
Regie: Arantxa Echevarría
mit: Zaira Romero, Rosy Rodriguez, Moreno Borja, Rafela León, Carolina Yuste

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CARMEN & LOLA – Offizieller deut­scher Trailer

 

 

In many imperfect ways: Becks

A film by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh & Daniel Powell. In English with German subtitles.

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After a crus­hing break­up with her girl­fri­end, a Brooklyn musi­ci­an moves back in with her Midwestern mother. As she navi­ga­tes her home­town, play­ing for tip money in an old fri­en­d’s bar, an unex­pec­ted rela­ti­onship beg­ins to take shape.

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US 2017, 92 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Elizabeth Rohrbaugh & Daniel Powell
mit: Lena Hall, Mena Suvari, Christine Lahti u.a.

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Becks (Trailer) from Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH on Vimeo.

 

 

In many imperfect ways: Red Cow – Das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren

A film by Tsivia Barkai Yacov. In Hebrew with German subtitles.

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Benny’s hair is as red as the fur of her devout father’s tre­asu­red calf – which he belie­ves will bring sal­va­ti­on. But the 17-year-old feels as lonely and trap­ped as the calf in its enclo­sure. Benny’s mother died giving birth to her, and she grew up alo­ne with her caring yet patri­ar­chal father. He is a figu­re of aut­ho­ri­ty and a men­tor for many peo­p­le in their Jerusalem reli­gious com­mu­ni­ty. Benny beco­mes incre­asing­ly cri­ti­cal of her father’s reli­gious, uto­pian natio­na­lism and then there’s Yael, the self-con­fi­dent young woman who has set off a whirl­wind of lon­ging and emo­ti­ons in her. Avigayil Koevary powerful­ly por­trays the defi­ance and desi­re of a young woman in Tsivia Barkai Yacov’s debut fea­ture film.

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IL 2018, 90 min., hebräi­sche OF mit deut­schen UT
Regie: Tsivia Barkai Yacov
mit: Avigayil Koevary, Gal Toren, Moran Rosenblatt, Dana Sorin

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Das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren (Trailer) from Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH on Vimeo.