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A film by Igor Hauzenberger & Gabriela Schild. 

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The desert city of Agadez in Niger has been a hub of trade rou­tes sin­ce time imme­mo­ri­al. The local Tuareg popu­la­ti­on always ear­ned a good living by trans­port­ing goods and peo­p­le across the Sahara. But Agadez is also a place whe­re migrants pass through on their way to Europe.

Niger has been in direct talks with the European Union about this sin­ce 2012. The result is a law that cri­mi­na­li­zes ille­gal migra­ti­on and has made Agadez a High Risk Area, with cata­stro­phic con­se­quen­ces for the local eco­no­my. The ban on trans­port led to unem­ploy­ment, hig­her crime and a drug epidemic.

In On the Border, three resi­dents of Agadez talk about the decli­ne of their city. Salesman Ahmed Dizzi looks back with nost­al­gia to a time when lar­ge num­bers of European tou­rists used to visit the his­to­ric city and spend a lot of money. Radio repor­ter Tilla Amadou ques­ti­ons the effec­ti­ve­ness of European trai­ning pro­grams for bor­der guards. And for­mer mayor Rhissa Feltou argues that the new bor­der con­trols are a thre­at to the tra­di­tio­nal noma­dic exis­tence of the Tuareg.

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AT/DE/CH 2024, 103 Min., Tamascheq, Hausa, Fulah, Französisch, Deutsch. OmU
Regie: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger & Gabriela Schild
Kamera: Thomas Eirich-Schneider, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Hajo Schomerus, Joerg Burger
Schnitt: Nela Märki, Stefan Fauland

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A film by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne. In French with German subtitles.

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Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a shel­ter for young mothers. Five teen­agers hoping for a bet­ter life for them­sel­ves and their babies.

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BE 2025, 105 Min., franz. OmU
Regie: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Kamera: Benoît Dervaux
Schnitt: Tristan Meunier
mit: Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Lucie Laruelle, Samia Hilmi

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A film by Milena Aboyan and Constantin Hatz. 

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The paths of three women cross at a food dis­tri­bu­ti­on point. A woman on day release stands pro­tec­tively in front of a Kurdish woman who is being raci­al­ly insul­ted by a man. The con­fron­ta­ti­on escala­tes and a poli­ce­wo­man arri­ves. For a moment, the fates of the three women inter­sect and frag­ments come tog­e­ther to form a mosaic that reve­als each indi­vi­dual’s strugg­le for survival.

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DE 2025, 108 Min., Dt., Kurd., Engl., mit dt. UT
Regie: Milena Aboyan, Constantin Hatz 
Kamera: Rafael Starman
Schnitt: Elias Ben Engelhardt, Marco Rottig
mit: Lea van Acken, Luise Aschenbrenner, Bayan Layla, Valerie Tscheplanowa, Louis Nitsche

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A film by Richard Linklater. In English with German subtitles.

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“You know how in mar­ria­ge they say ‘for bet­ter or for worse’? I think, in terms of my life, I have ente­red the ‘for worse’ part, and it hap­pen­ed so quiet­ly I didn’t even reco­gni­ze it.”
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the sto­ry of the legen­da­ry lyri­cist Lorenz Hart bra­ve­ly facing the future as his pro­fes­sio­nal and pri­va­te life unra­vel during the ope­ning night par­ty for his for­mer part­ner Richard Rodgers’ hit show, “Oklahoma!”. In 100 minu­tes, the film uns­pools in real-time the events in Sardi’s bar on the evening of March 31, 1943. It is a medi­ta­ti­on on fri­end­ship, art and love, fea­turing a rich tapestry of wri­ters, actors, musi­ci­ans, fri­ends and pro­té­gés – a para­de of the famous and the soon-to-be-famous. By the time this night is over, Hart will have con­fron­ted both a world irre­vo­ca­bly chan­ged by the war, and the see­ming impos­si­bi­li­ty of love.
With powerful per­for­man­ces from Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Hart’s pro­té­gé Elizabeth and Bobby Cannavale as Hart’s bar­ten­der, bud­dy and con­fidan­te, the film per­fect­ly cap­tures, with Linklater’s deft, comic touch, a sin­gu­lar, asto­nis­hing moment in time.

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US/IE 2025, 100 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Richard Linklater 
Kamera: Shane F. Kelly
Schnitt: Sandra Adair
mit: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

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Kwiaty Ukrainy / Flowers Of Ukraine
am 25.2. 18:00 im fsk

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UKR/PL 2024
R: Adelina Borets
70 min, OmeU
K: Bohdan Rozumnyi & Bogdan Borysenko
S: Agata Cierniak & Mateusz Wojtyński
M: DakhaBrakha

Inmitten von rie­si­gen Beton-Wohnblöcken hat sich die 67-jäh­ri­ge Natalia ein grü­nes Refugium geschaf­fen. Der etwas strup­pi­ge, gelieb­te und gepfleg­te Garten ist nicht nur Nutzfläche, son­dern auch Rückzugsgebiet, Energietankstelle und Ort der Begegnung. Aber auch in Kyiw wird jedes freie Fleckchen bebaut und die Bauunternehmer haben die­ses Filetstück schon lan­ge für ihre Baupläne im Auge. Als sie Bagger anrol­len las­sen, gibt sich das Energiebündel Natalia nicht geschla­gen. Die agi­le Rentnerin orga­ni­siert den Widerstand und kann das kol­lek­ti­ve klei­ne Paradies ret­ten – vorerst.

Doch bald gibt es Wichtigeres als Unkrautjäten und Gemüseernte. Im März 2022 befin­det sich der Garten plötz­lich im Kriegsgebiet und Natalia muss neue Schwierigkeiten bewäl­ti­gen. Statt zwi­schen Stauden und Bäumen sitzt sie nun immer wie­der im Bunker, Verwandte und Freunde ver­las­sen das Land. Aber mit einer gehö­ri­gen Portion Galgenhumor, Erfindungsgeist und jeder Menge Lebensfreude meis­tert Natalia auch die­se Herausforderung – denn wie die Ukraine ist sie stolz, zäh, ideen­reich und soll­te nie unter­schätzt werden.

Adelina Borets ist ein stim­mi­ges, warm­her­zi­ges Sozialporträt gelun­gen, das trotz sei­nes erns­ten Themas durch eine hin­rei­ßen­de Protagonistin zum Feel-Good-Movie wird. [Rainer Mende]

wei­te­re filmPOLSKA Termine:

• Pociagi / Trains on Wed, 29. 4.: 18:00
• Travel Essentials on Wed, 27. 5.: 18:00

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Am 28.1. um 18:00. Einführung: Bartek Tesarz (Polnisches Institut Berlin)

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Zakopane in den Dreißigerjahren, hier leben die Góralen: Im süd­polni­schen Hochgebirge spricht man sei­ne eige­ne Sprache, pflegt sei­ne alpi­nen Traditionen und hält Abstand zu ande­ren – auch zu Polen. Hier fin­den zwei Familien zuein­an­der, die durch stra­te­gi­sche Heirat ihre Situation ver­bes­sern wol­len. Aber wie so oft sind Liebe und Heirat zwei ver­schie­de­ne Dinge – der älte­re, beson­ne­ne Maciek soll die schö­ne Bronka hei­ra­ten, obwohl sie ein Verhältnis mit sei­nem jün­ge­ren, unge­stü­men Bruder Jędrek hat und sogar ein Kind von ihm erwar­tet. Koszałka beschränkt sich nicht auf ein folk­lo­ris­ti­sches Kammerspiel um Liebe und Gehorsam. Vielmehr ent­wi­ckelt er die Geschichte über einen län­ge­ren Zeitraum und ver­leiht ihr damit auch eine poli­ti­sche Dimension. Denn 1939 mar­schiert die deut­sche Wehrmacht in der Hohen Tatra ein und die Góralen müs­sen sich ent­schei­den – kol­la­bo­rie­ren sie und sichern ihren Wohlstand oder blei­ben sie rebel­lisch und ris­kie­ren damit ihr Leben? [Rainer Mende]

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PL 2024
R/K: Marcin Koszałka
111 min, OmeU
B: Łukasz M. Maciejewski & Marcin Koszałka
S: Agnieszka Glińska
M: Jacek Grudzień
D: Filip Pławiak, Julian Świeżewski, Jakub Gierszał, Sandra Drzymalska, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja, Andrzej Konopka u. a.

A film by Nanni Moretti. In Italian with German subtitles.

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IL SOL DELL’AVVENIRE is a com­plex, mul­ti-laye­red film by Nanni Moretti about his past work and pre­sent-day poli­ti­cal life in Italy. Moretti’s new alter ego is named Giovanni, a left-wing film­ma­ker who is suf­fe­ring at home and at work in equal mea­su­re. While his screen­wri­ter wife is sum­mo­ning up the cou­ra­ge to lea­ve him, he hims­elf feels like a power­less wit­ness of the degra­da­ti­on of the Italian cine­ma he was once so proud of. The uto­pian film he’s shoo­ting, set in a popu­lar dis­trict of Rome during 1956 the Hungarian Uprising, is hal­ted for lack of funds and scor­ned by the strea­ming plat­form inves­tors who could save it. Perhaps Giovanni is an echo of Michele Apicella, that other famous Moretti alter ego who rea­ched the end of the road with his mas­ter­pie­ce PALOMBELLA ROSSA. He still sings Franco Battiato songs behind the wheel, swims in a pool and there’s even a cir­cus cal­led Budavari. Does Moretti at age 70 dream of who he was at 35, thus ris­king get­ting caught up in his own nost­al­gia? Did he ever accept the fact that peo­p­le are not what he wan­ted them to be? Nevertheless, he hasn’t aban­do­ned his ide­als in a coun­try now gover­ned by the extre­me right, even if defeat seems near. (Francisco Ferreira)

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l sol del­l’av­ve­ni­re
IT/FR 2023, 95 Min., ital. OmU
Regie: Nanni Moretti
Kamera: Michele D’Attanasio
Schnitt: Clelio Benevento
mit: Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova, Mathieu Amalric

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A film by Kristen Stewart. In English with German subtitles.

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Based on the bel­oved memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch and mar­king the direc­to­ri­al debut of Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water is a raw and unflin­ching por­trait of sur­vi­val, sexua­li­ty, and self-inven­ti­on. The film traces Lidia’s life from her ear­liest memo­ries in the Pacific Northwest, as a pro­mi­sing swim­mer, through frac­tu­red rela­ti­onships, near-mother­hood, addic­tion, and encoun­ters with artis­tic heroes. Told as a flu­id memo­ry wash, the sto­ry trans­forms trau­ma into art, embo­dy­ing Yuknavitch’s defi­ant voice that made her work a modern cult clas­sic. It is not only a chro­nic­le of a woman beco­ming a wri­ter, but a vis­ce­ral jour­ney through the wrecka­ge and resi­li­ence of a life lived against the grain.

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US/FR/LV 2025, 128 Min., engl. OmU
Regie: Kristen Stewart
Kamera: Corey C. Waters
Schnitt: Olivia Neergaard-Holm
mit: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Susannah Flood, Tom Sturridge, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Jim Belushi

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A film by Hayao Miyazaki. In Japanese with German subtitles.

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Princess Mononoke[a] is a 1997 Japanese ani­ma­ted his­to­ri­cal fan­ta­sy film writ­ten and direc­ted by Hayao Miyazaki. Set in the Muromachi peri­od of Japanese histo­ry, the film fol­lows Ashitaka, a young Emishi prin­ce who jour­neys west to cure his cur­sed arm and beco­mes embroi­led in the con­flict bet­ween the forest of the gods and a near­by town, as well as the feud bet­ween Lady Eboshi, the town’s lea­der, and San, a human girl rai­sed by wol­ves. Produced by Toshio Suzuki, ani­ma­ted by Studio Ghibli, and dis­tri­bu­ted by Toho, it stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijō, Akihiro Miwa, Mitsuko Mori, and Hisaya Morishige.

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Mononoke-hime
Japan 1997, 128 Min., japa­ni­sche OmU
Regie: Hayao Miyazaki
Kamera: Atsushi Okui
Schnitt: Hayao Miyazaki, Takeshi Seyama

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Im Kino mit deut­schen Untertiteln.

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