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A conversation with Pia Frankenberg and Michael Brynntrup about their Retrospective films.
Deutsche Kinemathek - 4th Floor
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
Aya, a woman from the Ivory Coast in her early thirties, says “No” on her wedding day. She emigrates to China and falls in love with Cai, the owner of a tea boutique. Can their relationship survive other people’s prejudices and the turmoil of Aya’s past?
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
More than fifty costumes were especially created for and displayed during Peaches' latest tour, and of course that's just the tip of the iceberg. The iconic musician and her costume and hair designer Charlie Le Mindu discuss their wildly original creations, and what they mean to Peaches.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
There are projects some might find impossible to pull off, and then there’s David and Nathan Zellner, the sibling duo and iconoclast indie directors behind Sasquatch Sunset, a Bigfoot arthouse drama (yes, you read that right) the Zellners will discuss in this lively talk on their films and cinema.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Nina Kern has her children taken away by a court order after being accused of “neglect”. The court grants Nina one last chance, with two neighbours appointed as her guarantors. Will Nina be able to prove herself a fit parent?
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.
A bankrupt young industrialist goes all out on the idea of the “leisure society”. In his artfully run-down villa in leafy Berlin, he enjoys and preaches the “right to idleness”. A pleasant, frivolous summer étude that takes a few satirical potshots.
Frantz Fanon was a renowned politician and decolonialisation activist. This feature focuses on his visionary social therapy methods during his time as a psychiatrist in Algeria from 1953 to 1956. A piece of sober anti-racism.
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Two tales of migration, memories and ghosts. After a disaster floods her land, Joana moves to São Paulo and tries to restart her life. Following the death of her father, Flavia moves to his farm in the country with her wife Mara.
Akademie der Künste
A pioneer of African and world cinema, Abderrahmane Sissako joins us for a candid and eye-opening talk around his poetic approach to the medium, and the many languages — verbal and visual — of his luminous films.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Lunchtime at The Grill in New York. Money has gone missing from the till. All the undocumented cooks are questioned; Pedro is the prime suspect. Upset that his lover Julia has had an abortion, he plans to halt the kitchen production line once and for all.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Documentarians Oksana Karpovych and Roman Bondarchuk join Kyiv Critics' Week co-curator Daria Badior to reflect on their political and aesthetic approaches to collecting other people's voices in times of war - and, as creatives, safeguard their own.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Seventeen-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max’s family to stay with them at the wilderness lodge of film director Blake Cadieux.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
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