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“The United States of Fonda” is the motto of this three-hour autobiofilmographical monument, put together with cinematic passion and editing verve for a president that will only ever have existed on the big screen: Henry Fonda.
After German reunification, a young woman in Brandenburg falls victim to the economic crisis and becomes the target of xenophobic hostility. An intense depiction of social upheaval in the former East Germany – topical, authentic and poetic all at once.
Three sisters on the Canary Islands, their everyday lives infused with a magical, meditative lyricism. Three life strategies without a breadwinner, narrated via the body, a mix of staging, observation and memory. Before the volcano, serenity arrives.
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Apartment blocks with no future are being torn down in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Malaury Eloi Paisley follows those lost in the city through the empty streets. Their accounts form a valuable commodity, circulating in carefully developed relationships.
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Awarded this year’s Berlinale Honorary Golden Bear for a body of work that has redefined what cinema can do and achieve, Martin Scorsese joins British director Joanna Hogg to share his journey through films and selfless love for them.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
April 2020. The film director Etienne and his brother Paul, a music journalist, spend lockdown together in their childhood home with their new partners. A feeling of unreality slowly invades their daily lives.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
In the summer of 2001, 16-year-old Andoy searches for his long-lost father in the most unlikely of places: on VHS tapes. When two movie-like characters appear in his small hometown, his reality begins to falter.
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
HKW 1 - Miriam Makeba Auditorium
A brother and sister are hibernating. Only the sister wakes up. Human hibernation blurs the boundary between people and animals. A thought experiment equal parts sci-fi and meditation, shot in searing images.
Revered directors Eliza Hittman and Ira Sachs discuss their ways of establishing a language of trust with their cast and crew—an essential prerequisite for their visceral, intimate stories.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Free-floating yet rigorously structured, this essay film presents botanist and educationalist Catharina Helena Dörrien and her time in Orange-Nassau in the 18th century. Via regulations and floral formulas, nature philosophy and social policy converge.
HKW 2 - Safi Faye Hall
In 1981, Jeanine Meerapfel questioned Jews living in Berlin about whether it felt like home, and about their fears. All of them were the children of exiled and persecuted parents. What they talked about is alarmingly topical, even today.
The film tells the story of Hilde Coppi, a young resistance fighter against the Nazis – about a life cut short, about love and death.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a shocking parallel world. Sound and image stare each other in the face, stunned.
Cinema Betonhalle@Silent Green
Bhagole and Prabhata are an old couple, struggling with their farm’s debts. He decides to let himself be killed by a tiger to save his family. Their last night becomes a surreal love story. A mythological, expressionistic and deeply moving film.
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show – a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the TV, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.