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Lapso | Songs of Love and Hate | Muna | Un invincible été
Two teenagers living in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte in Brazil meet while completing a socio-educational measure. Through their shared experiences of repression at the hands of the state authorities, they slowly draw closer together.
The sudden disappearance of the popular host of a relationship advice radio show leaves a vacuum. Listeners are uncertain about the direction their romantic endeavours should take.
Muna is desperate to go on the school trip but her parents aren’t so sure. When her grandfather back in Somalia dies and the UK-based family mourn someone Muna never really knew, she learns that more connects the two of them than she ever realised.
Sixteen-year-old Clément spends a hot summer evening home alone by the pool. Determined to lose his virginity, he swipes through guys’ profiles on Grindr...
International
Subtitles: English
Cubix 8
Subtitles: English
Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
Subtitles: English
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
The children transform into adults before our eyes. Yet they remain in limbo, haunted by memories of the war in Kosovo. Combining raw realism and staged performance, Afterwar is a meditation on the long-term repercussions of war.
The people of the forests pound their drums to keep their chants alive. Those of the city shriek of “Progress!” Still more rush in to seize the treasures of the land, only to be met by new voices shouting in defiance.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Subtitles: English
International
Subtitles: English
Cubix 5
Subtitles: German
Cineplex Titania
Subtitles: English
Cubix 5
Subtitles: English
Zoo Palast 2
Subtitles: English
A visually powerful journey into the realm of materials from which human dwellings are made: concrete and its predecessor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky’s cinematic essay explores the fundamental question: How will we inhabit the world of tomorrow?
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
A psychiatric clinic in Paris. Individual interviews and patient-carer meetings reveal a form of psychiatry that gives more space to the patients’ words. Little by little, the door to each of their worlds opens wider.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
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
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
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
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
Svitlana, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, examines the colonised part of her consciousness and tries to find answers to the question of how Soviet totalitarianism and Russification influenced the relationships within her family.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
As Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Quatriglio turns 90, his daughter starts filming him. When he dies, she keeps on filming. Boxes become archival materials, as journeys, women and post-war Europe come to the fore. And in the end, there is a father.
In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris to be returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from the ancestors, be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence?
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris to be returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from the ancestors, be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence?