Detention + Debate with Berlin Critics’ Week
Detention + Debate with Berlin Critics’ Week
Detention
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Detention + Debate with Berlin Critics’ Week#4A2
Schaubühne Lindenfels
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Schaubühne Lindenfels
#4A2
Detention + Debate with Berlin Critics’ WeekDetention
La Détention
Guillaume Massart
France
Positions
Aspiring prison guards in the classroom. Can there be such a thing as good training for a questionable system? How does a uniform form you? A disturbing dive into a grey area.
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kiss kiss bang bang + A Song Without HomePolnisches Institut
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Polnisches Institut
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Ollie Launspach
Netherlands
International Competition Documentary Film
Ollie is trans and in a relationship with Sterre. Together they experience Ollie’s transition, a time marked by doubt, vulnerability and sticking together. A radically honest dialogue.
Contains mentions of mental health conditions Contains depictions of nudity A Song Without Home
A Song Without Home
Rati Tsiteladze
Georgia
Doc Alliance
“My life is a prison”, says trans woman Adelina from Georgia. After eleven years of house arrest, she seeks a freer life in Vienna. An intimate, impressionistic long-term portrait.
Contains mentions of discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons Contains depictions of discrimination against LGBTQIA2S+ persons |
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Retrospective: Kino und Kampf 4#434
CineStar 5
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CineStar 5
#434
Retrospective: Kino und Kampf 4Herminda de la Victoria
Herminda de la Victoria
Douglas Hübner
Chile
Retrospective
The police clear land on the outskirts of Santiago that is occupied by homeless families. A girl dies. The settlement stays. It bears her name to this day: Herminda de la Victoria.
Abastecimiento
Abastecimiento
Raúl Ruiz
Chile
Retrospective
A woman from a bourgeois background and the socialist Minister for Economic Affairs talk to each other and at cross-purposes via tape: a snapshot of the deeply divided Chilean society.
Eine Minute Dunkel macht uns nicht blind
Eine Minute Dunkel macht uns nicht blind
Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann, Peter Hellmich
GDR
Retrospective
Two years after the military coup. People gather around the camera in the streets of Santiago. They say they can’t speak here. Everyone is afraid. And yet, Chile begins to speak.
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Garten der Hoffnung#464
Passage Kinos Astoria
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Passage Kinos Astoria
#464
Garten der HoffnungGarten der Hoffnung
Garten der Hoffnung
Dieter Schumann
Germany
Fokus Ost
In a pre-fab estate in Schwerin, people from five countries come together through gardening. Fighting loneliness, prejudice, poverty, and displacement. A small miracle of a film.
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Haus der Trinker#4B1
Schauburg
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Schauburg
#4B1
Haus der TrinkerHaus der Trinker
Haus der Trinker
Janis Westphal
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
DOK im Knast
A Berlin housing project for homeless men follows a different approach: acceptance, support, dignity instead of forced abstinence. A longitudinal observation of impressive horizontality.
Contains mentions of addiction, death, mental health conditions, drug-use Contains depictions of addiction |
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The Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys + Nicole Nicole#422
CineStar 4
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CineStar 4
#422
The Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys + Nicole NicoleThe Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys
Zamilovaná autoharfa na sexy kluky
Antonie Zavadilová, Lucie Krejčí
Czech Republic
International Competition Animated Film
What if there were a magical string instrument that could help people find a partner? At once similar and very different, two friends fantasise about a new conception of the family.
Contains mentions of mental health conditions Nicole Nicole
Nicole Nicole
Lauren Dällenbach
Switzerland,
France
Audience Competition
Nicole is 55 and still lives with her mother by Lake Geneva. Within this symbiotic family, the need for greater independence rears its head. A tender tale of connection and emancipation.
Contains depictions of mental health conditions |
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Bára - Diary of a Rockstar#454
CineStar 7
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CineStar 7
#454
Bára - Diary of a RockstarBára – Diary of a Rockstar
Bára Basiková
Helena Třeštíková
Czech Republic
International Competition Documentary Film
The portrait of a Czech rock icon over a period of 50 years. A true virtuoso of longitudinal observation, Helena Třeštíková shows Bára Basiková’s fast-paced life with all its ups and downs.
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Magic Atlas#444
CineStar 6
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CineStar 6
#444
Magic AtlasMagic Atlas
Magic Atlas
Xun Sun
Singapore
International Competition Animated Film
Working for 10 years, hundreds of animators have created a whole vast empire of history, philosophy and satire. A fictional dictatorship of camera mosquitos and imprisoned sorcerers.
Contains depictions of physical violence, drug-use, child abuse |
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Animation Perspectives: Anton Cla_Franz Impler#474
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
#474
Animation Perspectives: Anton Cla_Franz ImplerGum Bubble Buddy
Gum Bubble Buddy
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
A little big city rebel strolls casually through the streets. In love with himself, he blows gum bubbles bearing his own face. A quirky animation trick to amaze and amuse.
Valse Muziek: Electricity
Valse Muziek: Electricity
Anton Cla
Belgium
Animation Perspectives
A giant fluffy head squeezed into a dollhouse is headbanging to the driving, grinding punk riffs of the Belgian band Valse Muziek, grows heavier, and begins to shimmer in vivid colours.
Photosensitivity warning Dysphasia
Dysphasia
Anton Cla
Belgium
Animation Perspectives
When words fail, colours and shapes may speak: a man with dysphasia sits silently on a chair, his gaze untamed. We move closer and closer until the whirlpool pulls us in too.
Photosensitivity warning Joeri is verliefd (maar...) + Zijn hart ligt op de grond (maar...)
Joeri is verliefd (maar...) + Zijn hart ligt op de grond (maar...)
Anton Cla
Belgium
Animation Perspectives
Joeri is in love without being loved, a choir teases. The feelings of the boy, a curly-haired redhead in a colourful striped shirt, become a stage for strange dream images.
Breaking the Law
Breaking the Law
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
The playground is empty. Everyone is at home, in lockdown. Except for a pear-shaped 3D figure plodding through the gravelly sand on thin legs, wearing chunky sneakers, towing a balloon.
Changeover
Changeover
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
A devious blue Cheshire cat sets her own mischievous, magical rules of the game, driving a tennis player to despair. The court keeps rotating and turns him into his own opponent.
Out of Bounds
Out of Bounds
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
A journey of self-discovery outside the rules of the game. In a parallel world, a pathetic Roger Federer, rendered in polygon style, stumbles over glitches and rowdy side characters.
Hidden Message
Hidden Message
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
Strange animal-like creatures poke their heads out of neatly trimmed hedges and chant a bizarre hymn in unison. What a brief anarchic moment on such a lovely, bright day.
Elegy of Time
Elegy of Time
Anton Cla
Belgium
Animation Perspectives
An empty room floats weightlessly in the dark. Its three walls glow, displaying highly abstracted movements. Are they projected inventions, or is there a world behind them?
Photosensitivity warning Fiddlehead / Happy Mondays: Tart Tart [excerpt]
Fiddlehead / Happy Mondays: Tart Tart [excerpt]
Anton Cla
Belgium
Animation Perspectives
Somewhere between fascination and shock we gradually begin to recognise what is moving here. A bodyless, overgrown head sings with an otherworldly voice in a salmon-red universe.
Nothing to Expect
Nothing to Expect
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
A neglected plant, a flat coke, being all alone: boredom takes hold, despite online contacts with the outside world. Hope gradually fades. Will the next online order bring salvation?
Photosensitivity warning Cyclepaths
Cyclepaths
Anton Cla
Belgium
Animation Perspectives
A man on an e-scooter at the edge of the city. Only the gun slung over his shoulder irritates. The time for sounding the alarm is up. Disaster has already struck.
Contains depictions of murder, war scenes A Wish
A Wish
Franz Impler
Germany
Animation Perspectives
A kid sees a falling star and gets to make a wish. But how, considering their friends‘ reminder that the world has more important problems? Everything goes bitterly wrong, brightly coloured.
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Free Zone#482
UT Connewitz
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UT Connewitz
#482
Free ZoneFree Zone
Free Zone
Jasmine Alakari
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Exarchia, Athens. A place of left utopias and a fiercely contested site of gentrification. For the Iranian activist Abtin, the political struggle becomes a threat to his own freedom.
Contains depictions of physical violence |
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The Orbit of Minor Satellites#4C2
Cinémathèque in der naTo
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Cinémathèque in der naTo
#4C2
The Orbit of Minor SatellitesThe Orbit of Minor Satellites
The Orbit of Minor Satellites
Chris Sullivan
USA,
Japan
International Competition Animated Film
Rosemary is the patient and Dr. Richards is her psychiatrist – but who needs who here? A course of therapy that walks a fine line between imaginary worlds and session reality.
Contains mentions of death |