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A film by Julian Radlmaier. In German with English subtitles.

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Ursula and Neda, an East German wai­tress with a bro­ken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a bro­ken arm, both feel trap­ped and lonely in their pre­ca­rious lives. The win­ding paths of chan­ce draw the two women tog­e­ther on an unex­pec­ted ghost hunt in the moun­ta­ins. A roman­tic adven­ture film about an unli­kely fri­end­ship and the year­ning for ano­ther life.

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DE 2025, 90 Min., Deutsch mit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie & Schnitt: Julian Radlmaier
Kamera: Faraz Fesharaki
mit: Clara Schwinning, Maral Keshavarz, Henriette Confurius, Paula Schindler, Ghazal Shojaei, Kyung-Taek Lie, Buksori Lie, u.a.

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Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

Zum drit­ten Mal bei uns zu Gast ist ab 13.11. das Afrikamera-Festival, dies­mal mit vier aus­ge­such­ten Filmen. My Father’s Shadow [13.11. Tickets], der ers­te nige­ria­ni­sche Film, der jemals in der offi­zi­el­len Auswahl von Cannes gezeigt wur­de, ist eine semi-auto­bio­gra­fi­sche, impres­sio­nis­ti­sche Erinnerung an eine prä­gen­de Erfahrung und eine Zeit in Lagos. Ebenfalls dort kämpft Jawu in The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos [14.11. mit Q&A Tickets] für die Rettung der Gemeinschaft in den soge­nann­ten Waterfront-Communities. In ihrer Emanzipationsgeschichte Les Invertueuses [15.11., mit Q&A Tickets] kon­fron­tiert Regisseurin Aicha Chloé Boro die Teenagerin Nadie vor dem Hintergrund des Vormarsches der Dschihadisten in Burkina Faso mit den Normen einer kon­ser­va­ti­ven Gesellschaft. Der Krieg im Sudan erfor­der­te eine neue Form für den Dokumentarfilm über fünf Bewohner der titel­ge­ben­den Stadt Khartoum [16.11. Tickets]. “… ein lyri­sches, emo­tio­na­les Porträt ver­schie­de­ner Menschen aus Khartum in einem Schlüsselmoment der afri­ka­ni­schen Geschichte.” Berlinale

A film by Stefan Haupt. In German with English subtitles.

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“I’m not Stiller!” When an American named James Larkin White tri­es to enter Switzerland, he’s suspec­ted of being Anatol Stiller, a sculp­tor who had gone into hiding. Even Stiller’s wife Julika initi­al­ly belie­ves that this man is her hus­band. Yet he insists that he is someone else and starts tel­ling a dif­fe­rent story.

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CH DE 2025, 99 Min., Deutschmit eng­li­schen Untertiteln
Regie: Stefan Haupt
Kamera: Michael Hammon
Schnitt: Franziska Koeppel
mit: Paula Beer, Albrecht Schuch, Marie Leuenberger, Sven Schelker, Max Simonischek

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A film by Eva Libertad. Spanish and Spanish Sign Language with German Subtitles

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Ángela, a deaf woman, and Héctor, her hea­ring part­ner, are expec­ting a child. They are exci­ted about the pregnan­cy, alt­hough they do not yet know whe­ther the baby will be deaf or hea­ring. Despite both clai­ming they can hand­le wha­te­ver comes, their under­ly­ing con­cerns are evi­dent. After a com­pli­ca­ted and emo­tio­nal­ly inten­se labour, Ángela gives birth to their daugh­ter, but the pair will have to wait a cou­ple of months to learn if the baby is hea­ring or not. During this time, Héctor strug­gles to ful­ly grasp the chal­lenges Ángela is facing, while she must come to terms with rai­sing a daugh­ter who may not share her expe­ri­ence of the world. This jour­ney forces both of them to ques­ti­on their roles as part­ners and par­ents, as Ángela grapp­les with her iden­ti­ty in a socie­ty that does not ful­ly accept or under­stand her.

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ES 2025, 99 Min.,
Spanisch, span. Gebärden mit deut­schen Untertiteln
Regie, Buch: Eva Libertad
Kamera: Gina Ferrer García
Schnitt: Marta Velasco
mit: Miriam Garlo, Álvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, Joaquín Notario

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A film by Jonas Egert. In German, English and Russian with German subtitles.

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The for­mer table ten­nis pro Dmitrij Mazunov is the coach at the new­ly foun­ded TTC Neu-Ulm, home to a world class inter­na­tio­nal team cent­red around the ping pong super­star Dimitrij Ovtcharov. In 2022, the club gets off to a fly­ing start in the Bundesliga and Champions League but, later, match bans are impo­sed. Can the club be saved? Superbly film­ed and extre­me­ly exci­ting. (Ysabel Fantou, DOK.fest München)

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DE 2025, 111 Min., English, German, Russian with German sub­tit­les
Director: Jonas Egert 

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A film by Agnieszka Holland. In German and Czech with German subtitles.

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There are seve­ral films about Kafka and adapt­a­ti­ons of his works, moun­ta­ins of Kafka bio­gra­phies and other secon­da­ry lite­ra­tu­re, humo­rous­ly illus­tra­ted in ‘Franz K.’ during one of the excur­si­ons into the bizar­re pre­sent. Agnieszka Holland and aut­hor Marek Epstein have cho­sen a very lively approach for their film ver­si­on, which appears like a coll­ec­tion of short sto­ries. The film repea­ted­ly jumps through time, show­ing excerp­ts and frag­ments of what is known about the life of the high­ly sen­si­ti­ve aut­hor. With a gre­at wil­ling­ness to expe­ri­ment, it allows us to par­ta­ke in his pri­va­te and pro­fes­sio­nal life and visual­ly inter­prets excerp­ts from his work wit­hout, howe­ver, ove­ru­sing ‘Kafkaesque’ imagery. It tells of fami­ly, fri­end­ship, pres­su­re and fear, inner and outer cons­traints, often in a playful man­ner, but also with appro­pria­te serious­ness, as in its tre­at­ment of the incre­asing­ly threa­tening situa­ti­on of Jews in Europe.

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DE CZ 2025, 127 Min. Deutsch, Tschechisch OmdU
Regie: Agnieszka Holland
Drehbuch: Marek Epstein
Kamera :Tomasz Naumiuk
mit: Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan, Sandra Korzeniak, Katharina Stark

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A film by Max Ahrens & Maik Lüdemann

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When, at the begin­ning of 2025, a moti­on on migra­ti­on poli­cy is pas­sed in the Bundestag with the sup­port of the AfD, a par­ty clas­si­fied as right-wing extre­mist, the poli­ti­cal land­scape is shaken and a nati­on­wi­de wave of pro­tests is trig­ge­red. Nevertheless, the so-cal­led ‘migra­ti­on deba­te’ is in full swing and is incre­asing­ly domi­na­ted by right-wing posi­ti­ons that stir up fears and end­an­ger not only human lives at Europe’s exter­nal bor­ders. KEIN LAND FÜR NIEMAND (No Country for Anyone) sets out to inves­ti­ga­te the cau­ses of this development.

The film crew accom­pa­nies a civi­li­an res­cue mis­si­on in the Mediterranean, pro­vi­des insight into the tigh­tening of European asyl­um law, lets refu­gees descri­be their per­spec­ti­ves and, in dia­lo­gue with acti­vists, sci­en­tists and publi­cists, ana­ly­ses the dyna­mics behind the shift to the right.

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DE 2025, 111 Min., OmU
Regie: Max Ahrens & Maik Lüdemann
Kamera: Nils Kohstall, Maik Lüdemann
Schnitt: Lino Thaesler

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A film by Kathryn Bigelow. In English with German subtitles.

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When a sin­gle, unat­tri­bu­ted mis­sile is laun­ched at the United States, a race beg­ins to deter­mi­ne who is respon­si­ble and how to respond.

Director’s Statement
I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was con­side­red the go-to pro­to­col for sur­vi­ving an ato­mic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the thre­at felt so imme­dia­te that such mea­su­res were taken serious­ly. Today, the dan­ger has only escala­ted. Multiple nati­ons pos­sess enough nuclear wea­pons to end civi­li­sa­ti­on within minu­tes. And yet, there’s a kind of coll­ec­ti­ve numb­ness — a quiet nor­ma­li­sa­ti­on of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defen­se” when the ine­vi­ta­ble out­co­me is total des­truc­tion?
I wan­ted to make a film that con­fronts this para­dox — to explo­re the mad­ness of a world that lives under the con­stant shadow of anni­hi­la­ti­on, yet rare­ly speaks of it.

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US 2025, 112 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Kathryn Bigelow
Kamera: Barry Ackroyd
Schnitt: Kirk Baxter
mit: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jason Clarke, Greta Lee, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram und Jonah Hauer-King

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A film by Lynne Ramsay. In English with German subtitles.

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Grace, a wri­ter and young mother, is slow­ly slip­ping into mad­ness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting incre­asing­ly agi­ta­ted and erra­tic, lea­ving her com­pa­n­ion, Jackson, incre­asing­ly worried and helpless.

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CA 2024, 118 Min., Englisch OmU
Regie: Lynne Ramsay
Kamera: Seamus McGarvey
Schnitt: Toni Froschhammer
mit : Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek

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A film by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay. In German, English, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic with German subtitles.

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When a bur­ned Quran is found on a film set, the shoot takes a dark turn and the crew are thrown into turm­oil. Caught in the cross­fi­re, an intern, Elif, is drawn into a dan­ge­rous game of secrets, accu­sa­ti­ons and lies. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s ambi­guous, pro­vo­ca­ti­ve con­spi­ra­cy thril­ler plays with the film-within-a-film motif and is rich in unex­pec­ted twists. A pier­cing reflec­tion on the power of images and the dyna­mics of per­cep­ti­on, pro­jec­tion and socie­tal hysteria.

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DE 2025, 104 Min., Deutsch, Englisch, Türkisch, Kurdisch, Arabisch OmU
Regie: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Kamera: Christian Kochmann
Schnitt: Denys Darahan, Andreas Menn
mit Devrim Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar, Serkan Kaya, Nicolette Krebitz, Aziz Çapkurt, Nazmi Kırık

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