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Lia, a retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
Gretchen travels to the German Alps with her father and stepmother. In the resort town where they are staying, she comes across some dark secrets. She hears strange noises and is plagued by frightening visions of a woman chasing her.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
Akademie der Künste
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?
During a fictional road movie, women from the director’s circle talk about relationships and ideal love. The director’s thesis film for the Munich film school HFF, it represents an early example of taking stock of feminist positions.
With this film version of the book that was a movie industry takedown in the 1930s, New Hollywood used grand sets and costumes to bring the glamour of the “dream factory” to the screen – before letting it all go down in flames in an apocalyptic finale.
Akademie der Künste
Greatness paired with modesty: 93 years old and a daughter, world-famous director Lana remembers her mother Nutsa, Georgia’s first female filmmaker. A cinema legacy that revolves around being human in dark times: feminist, loving, critical of violence.
Arsenal 1
Subtitles: English
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Subtitles: English
Delphi Filmpalast
Subtitles: German
Demba is about to retire. He realises he is unable to simply “shake off” his wife’s death. As he awkwardly tries to deal with his conflicting emotions, he discovers a new connection with his son.
Akademie der Künste
In Weimar, a self-confessed rowdy butts heads with the school, state and Communist Party authorities, becoming a marginalised outsider in East Germany. This provocative coming-of-age drama was initially banned and first shown in 1990.
Boston, Massachusetts. A gangster is chosen to infiltrate the police force and a young cop goes undercover in the Irish mafia. When the two moles uncover each other’s identity, the battle begins.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
A straightforward thriller about three young men and a young woman engaged in armed robbery in Madrid. A testimony of the era after the Franco dictatorship and a classic of the cine quinqui genre, the film won the 1981 Golden Bear.
Akademie der Künste
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
In her search for a suitable man, “Lieschen Müller” interviews politicians and passers-by in the then German capital Bonn about their masculine self-image. Male violence is also on the tantalising list of survey questions in this satirical documentary.
Lebanon, 2018. War, politics or revolution: these are the choices faced by Georges, Joumana and Perla Joe. Three destinies and a shared desire to rebuild a troubled country. How is it possible to continue to dream when everything around is falling apart?