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Cura sana | Last Swim
Spain during the Noche de San Juan festival. Sisters Jessica and Alma are once again on their way to pick up food stamps from the Caritas charity. Although they have experienced violence at home, they both try to break the cycle and treat each other with love.
A-levels results day. An ambitious and brainy Iranian-British teenager embarks on a journey across London with her friends, while secretly grappling with a life-changing decision.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Subtitles: English, German
Papillon | It’s Okay!
A man swims in the sea. This brings back memories. They are all connected to water, from his early childhood to his adult life. This will be the story of his last swim.
One year after the tragic loss of her mother, In-young finds herself without a home. She takes shelter in the building of her dance school, but her secret sanctuary is in peril when the choreographer, Seol-ah, discovers her.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Subtitles: English
Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the artist Jürgen Baldiga who sensitively and authentically captured the West Berlin queer scene of the 1980s and early 1990s with his camera.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
In 1970s East Berlin, two teenagers rebel against pervasive paternalism. In settling accounts with everyday and cultural life in East Germany, this film farce from the environs of Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre tried out a new cinematic language.
A provocative and visually stunning appraisal of Mexican society’s social divide. After causing the death of a baby, a kidnapper seeks redemption in sex and Catholicism.
Akademie der Künste
“Monster Cop” Ma Seok-do is investigating an illegal online gambling organisation. As he begins to hunt down the criminals, he proposes an unexpected alliance.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Stadtmuseum / Moi Rai | Circle | Adieu tortue | Oiseau de passage
An essay film that describes the city as a subjective paradise in which systems of order and chaos constantly override each other. An ode to chaos, hidden signs and the city as an eternal palimpsest.
A girl draws a circle on the ground. Passers-by step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people.
Five-year-old Inci wanders alone through the vast hilly landscape by the Black Sea. Her mother has just died. When she meets the adult Zeynep, she decides to follow her.
A body is floating in the water. A strange bird is calling and memories come alive again. “Where were you when I was in despair?”, asks the friend.
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Subtitles: English
Colosseum 1
Subtitles: English
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
Re tian wu hou | Kaalkapje | Al sol, lejos del centro | Jing guo
China at the end of the 1990s, lunch in an extended family. The father works in distant Shenzhen and is rarely home. The grandmother cooks and keeps an eye on the children. The air is filled with levity, longing and exhaustion.
Through the lens of her father’s camera, she looks back at a period of her childhood of which she can remember nothing. Twenty years after surviving cancer, she searches for traces of the illness between scars and desires.
Santiago in the shimmering summer heat. High-res images undergo a digital zoom which transforms spaces into surfaces and houses into textures. In between, there are the small gestures of everyday urban life. And two women in search of a place for their love.
He pays him a visit during his work trip to Europe. They have not seen each other since 2015, back in Beijing. This might be the last time they meet.
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Subtitles: English
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Colosseum 1
Subtitles: English
Kawauso | The Moon Also Rises | Ungewollte Verwandtschaft | Preoperational Model
A girl is strolling through the fields when a Japanese river otter catches up with her. The two try in vain to communicate while all the junk of humanity rains down around them.
Artificial moons are going to be launched into space to eliminate the difference between day and night. An elderly couple retreats into the increasing darkness of their apartment, illuminated by digital devices.
Using the streets of his Berlin neighbourhood as a backdrop, a filmmaker from Belarus investigates the systematic nature of Russian and Belarusian war crimes in Ukraine and explores his own responsibility for this war.
Princess Sophie and her maid Jessica prepare for the new day at the royal court. Sophie’s struggle with her future existence as queen turns hierarchies, role assignments and timelines upside down. A disempowerment story from the perspective of the powerful.
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Subtitles: English
Colosseum 1
Subtitles: English
That’s All from Me | Un movimiento extraño | Pacific Vein | Les animaux vont mieux
A fictitious video correspondence between a filmmaker and an author about correlations between motherhood and artistic work. One of them is in a crisis, the other one has a helpful idea.
Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who works as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with the employee of a currency exchange office.
The endless tracking shot through a picturesque US panorama allows the American Dream to slide into ghostly auto-suggestion while Assange and Bezos ponder life.
A mysterious community of animals has chosen to live self-sufficiently in the basement of a church. Sheltered from humans, they engage in various rituals.
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Subtitles: English
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Subtitles: English
Colosseum 1
Subtitles: English
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Tako Tsubo | We Will Not Be the Last of Our Kind | City of Poets | Shi ri fang gu
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed to free himself from his complicated emotions. The doctor assures him that, in this day and age, this procedure no longer poses a problem.
What if the famous biblical ark, the last refuge of humankind and the animal kingdom during the great flood, was not merely an act of divine intervention but, instead, a meticulously planned programme for professional reintegration?
In a small, semi-utopian city, all the streets are named after poets. When war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accommodate the refugees. Now, the streets are named after soldiers.
An elaborate fashion shoot is planned on the beach, but the backdrop built in advance has been swallowed by the sea overnight. While the young assistant tries every means possible to find it again, the film slowly slips into the magical.
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Colosseum 1
Subtitles: English
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Subtitles: English
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Subtitles: English
That’s All from Me | Re tian wu hou | Un movimiento extraño
A fictitious video correspondence between a filmmaker and an author about correlations between motherhood and artistic work. One of them is in a crisis, the other one has a helpful idea.
China at the end of the 1990s, lunch in an extended family. The father works in distant Shenzhen and is rarely home. The grandmother cooks and keeps an eye on the children. The air is filled with levity, longing and exhaustion.
Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who works as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with the employee of a currency exchange office.
Cubix 9
Subtitles: English
Tako Tsubo | Jing guo | Circle | City of Poets | Ungewollte Verwandtschaft
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed to free himself from his complicated emotions. The doctor assures him that, in this day and age, this procedure no longer poses a problem.
He pays him a visit during his work trip to Europe. They have not seen each other since 2015, back in Beijing. This might be the last time they meet.
A girl draws a circle on the ground. Passers-by step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people.
In a small, semi-utopian city, all the streets are named after poets. When war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accommodate the refugees. Now, the streets are named after soldiers.
Using the streets of his Berlin neighbourhood as a backdrop, a filmmaker from Belarus investigates the systematic nature of Russian and Belarusian war crimes in Ukraine and explores his own responsibility for this war.
Sinema Transtopia
Subtitles: English
After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her remote village. She moves near the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses in northern Brazil and ventures a new beginning.
The world of a Jewish cantor in the midst of a crisis of faith is turned completely upside down when his primary school music teacher comes back into his life as his new, later-life Bat Mitzvah student.