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A film by Leonardo van Dijl. In Dutch and French with German subtitles.

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As the star play­er at an eli­te ten­nis aca­de­my, Julie’s life revol­ves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under inves­ti­ga­ti­on and is sud­den­ly sus­pen­ded, all of the club­’s play­ers are encou­ra­ged to speak up. But Julie deci­des to keep quiet…

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Julie Keeps Quiet
BE/SE 2024, 100 Min., Niederländisch-fran­zö­si­sche OmU
Regie: Leonardo van Dijl
Kamera: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Schnitt: Bert Jacobs
mit: Tessa Van den Broeck, Grace Biot, Alyssa Lorette, Ruth Becquart, Koen De Bouw,
Pierre Gervais, Claire Bodson und Laurent Caron

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A film by Saulė Bliuvaitė. In Lithuanian with German subtitles.

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Dreaming of escape from the ble­ak­ne­ss of their indus­tri­al home­town, two 13-year-olds, Marija and Kristina, form a uni­que bond at a local mode­ling school, whe­re the pro­mi­se of a bet­ter life pushes girls to vio­la­te their bodies in incre­asing­ly extre­me ways.
„Through the sto­ry of young girls navi­ga­ting toxic land­scapes, I wan­ted to explo­re the con­cept of the human body – the body as a pro­ject, cur­ren­cy, an object of desi­re, the body as a source of pain and magic.” Saulė Bliuvaitė

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Akiplėša
LT 2024, 99 Min., Litauische OmU
Regie: Saulė Bliuvaitė
Kamera: Vytautas Katkus
Schnitt: Ignė Narbutaitė
mit: Ieva Rupeikaitė, Vesta Matulytė, Giedrius Savickas, Vilma Raubaitė, Eglė Gabrėnaitė 

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A film by Angelina Maccarone. In German, English and Arabic with German subtitles.

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Conservative poli­ti­ci­an Mathilda is actual­ly in favor of strict­ly guard­ed EU exter­nal bor­ders. Things beco­me all the more dif­fi­cult for her when she is asked to help her old fri­end Richard accom­mo­da­te Malik, who has ille­gal­ly ente­red the coun­try from Morocco. Mathilda’s second-gene­ra­ti­on assistant Amina also ques­ti­ons her own posi­ti­on when Malik beco­mes the tar­get of a ter­ro­rist inves­ti­ga­ti­on fol­lo­wing a bomb attack.

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DE 2024, 124 Min.,
Regie: Angelina Maccarone
Kamera: Florian Foest
Schnitt: Gergana Voigt
mit: Habib Adda, Lambert Wilson, Barbara Sukowa, Banafshe Hourmazdi, Katharina Schüttler 

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A film by Tim Ellrich. In German.

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A the­ra­pist who­se inte­rests lie in alter­na­ti­ve ways to help the sick and infirm is forced to balan­ce the demands of her pro­fes­sio­nal life with tho­se of her age­ing par­ents and older brot­her, in Tim Ellrich’s sen­si­ti­ve but uncom­pro­mi­sing drama.

Holle works as a spi­ri­tu­al hea­ler, ten­ding to cli­ents with serious ill­nesses and chro­nic con­di­ti­ons. One of four siblings, she devo­tes much of her time to caring for her age­ing par­ents, a com­mit­ment that strains her rela­ti­onship with her part­ner. When her mother suf­fers a fall and is hos­pi­ta­li­sed, Holle faces moun­ting chal­lenges, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in rela­ti­on to her brot­her Sven, who has schi­zo­phre­nia and has lived a secluded life in their par­ents’ attic for years.

Inspired by film­ma­ker Tim Ellrich’s own fami­ly expe­ri­en­ces and shot on loca­ti­on at his child­hood home, Im Haus mei­ner Eltern is an incisi­ve explo­ra­ti­on of the toll care­gi­ving takes on fami­lies. Filmed in stark black and white, its visu­als cap­tu­re both the exhaus­ti­on of care­gi­ving and the claus­tro­pho­bia of lives bound by duty. Ellrich avo­ids easy judgments, ins­tead offe­ring a thoughtful reflec­tion on how socie­ty tre­ats the elder­ly and infirm and the fric­tion the­se respon­si­bi­li­ties crea­te within fami­lies – from tho­se who should­er the bur­den to tho­se who keep their distance. With empa­thy and an under­sta­ted approach, Im Haus mei­ner Eltern, exami­nes the uns­po­ken ten­si­ons and quiet sacri­fices that defi­ne fami­ly life under pressure.

Vanja Kaludjercic

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DE 2025, 95 Min,
Regie: Tim Ellrich
Kamera: Konstantin Pape
Schnitt: Tobias Wilhelmer
mit: Jenny Schily, Ursula Werner, Manfred Zapatka und Jens Brock 

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Sorry, this ent­ry is only available in Deutsch.

Am 27.5. um 18:00 im fsk. Einführung: Bartek Tesarz (Polnisches Institut Berlin)

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Rzeczy niez­będ­ne / Unverzichtbare Dinge
PL/D 2024
R: Kamila Tarabura
101 min, OmdU
B: Kamila Tarabura & Katarzyna Warnke
K: Tomasz Naumiuk
S: Alan Zejer
M: CEL
D: Dagmara Domińczyk, Katarzyna Warnke, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Andrzej Konopka u. a.

Eigentlich will sich die hoch­schwan­ge­re Kriegsjournalistin Ada eine Auszeit bei ihrem Partner in Hamburg gön­nen. Doch dann bekommt sie aus Polen ein Buch zuge­schickt, in dem eine Frau ihre Missbrauchserfahrungen als Kind schil­dert – ver­se­hen mit einer per­sön­li­chen Widmung und einer Telefonnummer.

Gegen jede Vernunft macht sich Ada auf den Weg in ihre alte Heimat. Dort trifft sie sich mit Roksana, der Autorin des Buchs. Diese bit­tet Ada, mit ihr in die pol­ni­sche Provinz zu fah­ren, wo bei­de auf­ge­wach­sen sind. Vielleicht kön­nen sie nach dem Tod von Roksanas Vater ihre Mutter dazu brin­gen, das Schweigen über die Ereignisse von damals zu bre­chen. Das odd cou­ple macht sich auf den Weg, um zu rekon­stru­ie­ren, was gesche­hen ist – oder ob sich Roksana die Geschichte viel­leicht nur aus­ge­dacht hat.

Kamila Taraburas Langfilm-Debüt ist eine fein­füh­li­ge Mischung aus Roadmovie, Thriller, Krimi und Psychoporträt, das vie­le über­ra­schen­de Wendungen nimmt, um par­al­lel meh­re­re Geschichten zu erzäh­len. Dabei kann sich die Regisseurin vor allem auf ihre traum­haft inter­agie­ren­den Hauptdarstellerinnen Dagmara Domińczyk (Ada) und Katarzyna Warnke (Roksana) ver­las­sen, deren Schweigen oft bered­ter ist als ihre Worte. [Rainer Mende]

Veranstalter: Polnisches Institut Berlin in Kooperation mit dem fsk Kino

A film by Federico Luis. Im Spanish with German subtitles.

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The film is far from a straight­for­ward por­tra­y­al of its sub­ject. It doesn’t just focus on good and noble fee­lings, nor does it fall into the sort of sim­pli­stic bina­ries that set the “puri­ty” of peo­p­le with disa­bi­li­ties against the cyni­cism of socie­ty. Simón is deceitful, more than hap­py to lie and una­fraid to get his fri­ends into trou­ble, yet they never judge or punish him nor label him as pro­ble­ma­tic. At home, whe­re his mother’s good­will has been exhaus­ted, a sen­se of apa­thy has set in that threa­tens to usurp the obvious love she feels for him. Luis’ film smart­ly refrains from jud­ging her, as she seems unable to find a solu­ti­on to her son’s unex­plai­ned anti­cs; she only wat­ches in sur­pri­se as Simón speaks less and less, imi­ta­tes phy­si­cal tics and retre­ats into his own per­so­nal ver­si­on of disa­bi­li­ty. Engrossing, and nar­ra­ted with gre­at intel­li­gence and subt­le­ty, the film lay­ers nuan­ce upon nuan­ce in its sui­ta­b­ly ambi­va­lent por­trait of the titu­lar cha­rac­ter. With ano­ther enig­ma­tic, yet empa­the­tic per­for­mance by up-and-coming actor Lorenzo Ferro, SIMÓN DE LA MONTAÑA is a remar­kab­le debut fea­ture that dares to explo­re the mur­ky waters of human beha­viour. (Diego Lerer)

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Argentinien, Uruguay, Chile 2024, 97 Min., span. OmU
Regie: Federico Luis
Kamera: Marcos Hastrup
Schnitt: Tomás Murphy, Andrés Medina
mit: Lorenzo Ferro, Pehuén Pedre, Kiara Supini, Laura Nevole, Agustín Toscano, Camila Hirane

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A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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Two chim­ney sweeps living in mono­ga­mous, hete­ro­se­xu­al mar­ria­ges both end up in situa­tions that chall­enge their views on sexua­li­ty and gen­der roles. One has a sexu­al encoun­ter with ano­ther man, wit­hout hims­elf expe­ri­en­cing it eit­her as an expres­si­on of homo­se­xu­al lon­gings or infi­de­li­ty. The other sud­den­ly expe­ri­en­ces noc­turnal dreams in which he is seen as a woman. This con­fu­ses and dis­turbs him. He beg­ins to won­der to what ext­ent the gaze of others shapes his per­so­na­li­ty and whe­ther the­re are aspects of hims­elf that he has sup­pres­sed, ther­eby limi­ting hims­elf.
In Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex, the chim­ney is swept befo­re we get down to busi­ness. Whether hete­ro or homo, wit­ty word­play chal­lenges nor­ma­ti­ve images of men and socie­ty in modern urban Norway.

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OT: Sex
DE 2023, 90 Min., norw. OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad
mit: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen

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A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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At 17, Johanne falls head over heels in love with her fema­le tea­cher. In an attempt to cap­tu­re this first crush, she pours her expe­ri­en­ces onto paper with raw hones­ty. When her mother and grand­mo­ther dis­co­ver her wri­tin­gs, their initi­al shock at the inti­ma­te descrip­ti­ons gives way to admi­ra­ti­on for their lite­ra­ry merit. The two older women begin to reflect on their own love lives, their plea­su­res and missed oppor­tu­ni­ties, and are remin­ded of the over­whel­ming sen­sa­ti­on of first love; and of the lon­ging for some­thing more. Johanne’s grand­mo­ther, an estab­lished poet hers­elf, feels both pri­de and unea­se at her granddaughter’s natu­ral talent. But ques­ti­ons lin­ger: What tru­ly hap­pen­ed bet­ween Johanne and her tea­cher? Where does rea­li­ty end and fic­tion begin? And should the­se deep­ly per­so­nal wri­tin­gs ever find their way to publication?

Golden Bear – Berlinale 2025

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NO 2024, 110 Min., nor­we­gi­sche OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad
mit: Ella Øverbye, Selome Emnetu, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Marit Jacobsen

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A film by Dag Johan Haugerud. In Norwegian with German subtitles.

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A Utopian design for sexua­li­ty, rela­ti­onships and love in the 21st cen­tu­ry. Marianne is a doc­tor based in Oslo. She longs for clo­sen­ess with other peo­p­le, but she’s fed up with her sex life being con­stant­ly ana­ly­sed and ques­tio­ned by the expec­ta­ti­ons of others. One evening, she meets Tor, a nur­se and col­le­ague, on a fer­ry. He tells her of the fer­ry trips he takes when he can’t sleep and his chan­ce mee­tings with other men. Curious, Marianne starts explo­ring other designs for rela­ti­onships, off the bea­ten track.

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Love
NO 2024, 119 Min, Norwegische OmU
Regie: Dag Johan Haugerud
Kamera: Cecilie Semec
Schnitt: Jens Christian Fodstad,
mit: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad

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A film by Assaf Lapid. In English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Dutch with German subtitles.

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A few months after his release from Auschwitz and still in his stri­ped jacket, Yechiel De-Nur sat down and star­ted wri­ting. After two weeks, he was reborn as Ka-Tzetnik, or “the man from the camps.” While the books that he wro­te were trans­la­ted into 32 lan­guages and sold mil­li­ons, the aut­hor hims­elf hid behind the pseud­onym. It wasn’t until the tri­al of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 that his true iden­ti­ty was reve­a­led during his reve­la­to­ry tes­tim­o­ny whe­re he descri­bed Auschwitz as “the other pla­net:” a place out­side of human judgment. Years later, under­go­ing an expe­ri­men­tal LSD tre­at­ment for trau­ma, he revi­sits his expe­ri­ence, ima­gi­ning hims­elf as an SS offi­cer, and that chan­ges ever­y­thing. In this affec­ting docu­men­ta­ry, the life of the mys­te­rious and elu­si­ve aut­hor and his views on human beha­vi­or are exami­ned in depth.

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The Return from the Other Plaent
DE/IL 2023, 81 Min., eng­lisch, hebrä­isch, jid­disch, nie­der­län­disch OmU
Regie: Assaf Lapid
Kamera: Talia Tulik Galon, Jörg Adams
Schnitt: Nohar Avigail Haseen, Assaf Lapid 

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