SANS ADIEU (NO FAREWELLS)
F 2017, 99 min, OV with English subtitles, D: Christophe Agou
The late French photographer turned filmmaker Christophe Agou’s posthumously completed documentary about France’s rural poor. Intimate, empathetic but admittedly episodic at times – with some jarring editing decisions and an excessive use of fade-to-black – SANS ADIEU– thrives because Agou didn’t simply drench his subjects in misery...
On October 28th in the presence of Stuart A. Staples (music).
Oct 24th, 6.30 pm, Urania
Oct 28th, 3.30 pm, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal
Tickets and info
TESNOTA (CLOSENESS)
RUS 2017, 118 min, OV with English subtitlesU, D: Kantemir Balagov,
C: Darya Zhovner, Olga Dragunova, Artem Tsypin, Nazir Zhukov
A Jewish family in Nalchik in Northern Caucasus, celebrates the engagement of the son David to a local Jewish girl. The tone is merry, but one family member seems more ambivalent...
Oct 24th, 8.30 pm, Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
Noc 2nd, 3.30 pm, Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
Tickets and info
DILLINGER È MORTO (DILLINGER IS DEAD)
I 1969, 95 min, OV with English subtitles, D: Marco Ferreri,
C: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot, Gigi Lavagetto
Ferreri invites us to observe a person alone in an apartement: Clauco is cooking his dinner and finds an old gun in the kitchen - the sick wife and the maid are upstairs...
Oct 25th, 3.30 pm, Gartenbaukino
Tickets and info
GEU-HU (THE DAY AFTER)
South Korea 2017, 92 min, OV with English subtitles, D: Hong Sangsoo,
C: Kwon Haehyo, Kim Minhee, Kim Saebyuk, Cho yun-hee
When his wife Haejoo is convinced her husband Bongwan is having an affair because it seems he’s recently lost weight, she stumbles upon a love poem evidently intended for his mistress...
Oct 25th, 8.30 pm, Stadtkino im Künstlerhausa
Oct 28th, 1.30 pm, Urania
Tickets and info
GRAVE (RAW)
F/B 2016, 99 min, OV with English subtitles, D: Julia Ducournau,
C: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella, Laurent Lucas
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. When Justine undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school in her first days, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her...
Oct 25th, 11 pm, Gartenbaukino
Oct 31th, 11pm, Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
Tickets and info
GOOD TIME
USA/LUX 2017, 100 min, OV with German subtitles, D: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie,
C: Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkad Abdi, Ben Safdie
The Safdie brothers continue the exploration of the social underbelly of New York. GOOD TIME is replete with drugs, crime and White Castle, and is propelled by both Sean Price Williams’ jolting cinematography and a pulsating electronic score...
Oct 24th, 9 pm, Urania
Oct 26th, 3.30 pm, Gartenbaukino
Tickets and info
L’ATELIER (THE WORKSHOP)
F 2017, 114 min, OV with english subtitles, D: Laurent Cantet,
C: Marina Foïs, Warda Rammach, Matthieu Lucci, Mamadou Doumbia
Despite their different origins the pupils, who gather in La Ciotat to write a collective novel under the supervision of an author, appear to like-minded at first. But soon their ideas and attitudes start to collide ...
Oct 26th, 8.30 pm, Gartenbaukino
Oct 27th, 11 am, Metro, Historischer Saal
Tickets and Info
GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI
IRL/GB/GER 2017, 115 Min, OV, D: Sophie Fiennes
This film is not a classic Rockumenatary where the story of success and fame of a star is described chronologically. Fiennes' film goes without archive material and talking heads but developes GRACE JONES as a concert film with long reports.
On Oct 26th in the presence of Sophie Fiennes.
Oct 26th, 11 pm, Gartenbaukino
Nov 2nd, 1.45 pm, Urania
Tickets and Info
DENK ICH AN DEUTSCHLAND IN DER NACHT (IF I THINK OF GERMANY AT NIGHT)
GER 2017, 105 Min, OV with english subtitles / OV with german subtitles, D: Romuald Karmakar
Once again – after 196 BPM, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE WIDE BLUE SEA and VILLALOBOS – Karmakar engages with Techno, related styles and the tradition of electronic music in Germany. He invites Ata Macias,
Roman Flügel, David Moufang, Ricardo Villalobos and Sonja Moonear – five protagonists of the scene – to talk about their work and listens to them philosophizing ...
In the presence of Romuald Karmakar.
Oct 27th, 11 pm, Gartenbaukino (OV with german subtitles)
Oct 29th, 3.30 pm, Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus (OV with english subtitles)
Tickets and Info