Tue 29.10.
20:30

Spielerinnen

#282
Regina Palast 1
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Regina Palast 1
#282

Spielerinnen

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Spielerinnen

Filmstill Game Changers
Spielerinnen
Aysun Bademsoy
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
After thirty years, Bademsoy returns to the former players of the first Turkish girls’ football team in Berlin. Many questions are still open, including the old ones about being German.
20:30

Creativity of Constructive Minds

#264
Passage Kinos Astoria
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Passage Kinos Astoria
#264

Creativity of Constructive Minds

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The Diffusion Pilot

Filmstill The Diffusion Pilot
The Diffusion Pilot
Aurelijus Čiupas
Estonia
International Competition Animated Film
The machine compares, sorts, mixes millions of images, creating and dissolving. An intellectual game and research project on the contradictory nature of AI-based animation.

Photosensitivity warning

Accidental Animals

Filmstill Accidental Animals
Accidental Animals
Leila Fatima Keita, Felix Klee
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Animals caught by chance by Google Maps car cameras disrupt the claim of capturing the world accurately. Their appearance in the image creates – involuntarily – funny situations.

Lines

Filmstill Lines
Lines
Martin Schmidt
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
Two colour surfaces battle, taking up more and more space in their contest to outdo each other, causing breathlessness. An abstract and yet physically tangible cinematic event – large and loud.

Photosensitivity warning

Aferrado

Filmstill Aferrado
Aferrado
Esteban Azuela
Mexico
International Competition Animated Film
Joel repairs engines, but now his own is overheating because of his side job as a gangster’s henchman. He must take a decision. A breathless ride through Mexico City begins.

Contains depictions of physical violence, murder, drug-use

Being John Smith

Filmstill Being John Smith
Being John Smith
John Smith
UK
International Competition Documentary Film
Saddled with one of the most generic names in the English language, British filmmaker John Smith takes a wry, deceptively straightforward look at how this has affected his life and career.

Die Stimme des Ingenieurs

Filmstill The Engineer’s Voice
Die Stimme des Ingenieurs
André Siegers
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
A man records words to preserve his voice. He finds it increasingly difficult to articulate. A film about voice and identity – and about what exists between the words.
21:00

Lapilli

#274
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
#274

Lapilli

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Lapilli

Filmstill Lapilli
Lapilli
Paula Ďurinová
Slovakia,
Germany
Camera Lucida
After the death of her grandparents, the director finds an expression for her grief in surreal rock and landscape formations. An associative, free-floating tour of inspection.
21:00

Im Prinzip Familie

#214
Cinestar 2

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Cinestar 2
#214

Im Prinzip Familie

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Im Prinzip Familie

Filmstill The Family Approach
Im Prinzip Familie
Daniel Abma
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
DOK im Knast
School Screening
Touching insights into the daily workings of the youth welfare system. Five boys in a rural residential group who long for a home. And the people who try to give it to them.

Contains mentions of child abuse, mental health conditions, racism

21:00

Taking Off the Rose-tinted Spectacles

#2C2
Cinémathèque in der Nato
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Cinémathèque in der Nato
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Taking Off the Rose-tinted Spectacles

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Bunnyhood

Filmstill Bunnyhood
Bunnyhood
Mansi Maheshwari
UK
International Competition Animated Film
In the middle of the night, Bobby is lured to the hospital by her mother, where terrifying horror bunnies anaesthetize her without her consent. A cryptic nightmare in sombre drawings.

Contains depictions of physical violence

In den Wohnungen meiner Mutter sind viele Türen

Filmstill There Are Many Doors in My Mother’s Home
In den Wohnungen meiner Mutter sind viele Türen
David Kind
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Family photos. A woman’s face is scratched out or overpainted. Fragmentary descriptions of the mother’s sudden outbursts are added. Approaching the trauma of an experience of violence.

Contains mentions of physical violence, mental health conditions, suicide, child abuse

Der König von Spanien

Filmstill The King of Spain
Der König von Spanien
Leonard Volkmer
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
A young man seems to get lost between his family home, Berlin darkrooms and a shared flat in Madrid. The clinical psychiatry reports are juxtaposed with heart-wrenching diary entries.

Contains mentions of mental health conditions, drug-use

Nine Easy Dances

Filmstill Nine Easy Dances
Nine Easy Dances
Nora Rosenthal
Canada
International Competition Documentary Film
The director stages her parents, dancing, in the family home. A playful approach to family, transience and to illness. Associative, loose and intelligent.

The Role

Filmstill The Role
The Role
Paolo Chianta
UK
International Competition Animated Film
Two filmmakers – brother and sister – hire a chef to play their father. The boundaries between the film and the reality of the single father’s life become increasingly blurred.

Pain That Comes in Waves

Filmstill Pain That Comes in Waves
Pain That Comes in Waves
Irem Schwarz
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Pregnancy – loaded with media clichés and optimisation measures. Each deviation from the “normal course” is suppressed. And what happens when things turn out differently?
21:00

Valentina and the MUOSters

#234
CineStar 5
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CineStar 5
#234

Valentina and the MUOSters

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Valentina and the MUOSters

Filmstill Valentina and the MUOSters
Valentina e i MUOStri
Francesca Scalisi
Switzerland,
Italy
International Competition Documentary Film
A US Navy satellite communication system on Sicily. Valentina lives here with her parents but wants to become more independent. A tender story of emancipation at a site of global politics.