Sun 03.11.
20:30

Objects Are Closer Than They Appear

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Kinobar Prager Frühling
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Objects Are Closer Than They Appear

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What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move

Filmstill What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move
Afto pou zitame apo ena agalma ine na min kinite
Daphné Hérétakis
Greece,
France
International Competition Documentary Film
An Athens filmmaker wants to understand the paradox of contemporary Greece: Fossilised monuments to past glory here – the stagnation of the present day there.

Hauspausen

Filmstill Houseprints
Hauspausen
Biko Erki, Stefan Koutzev, Nathalie Bailoukova
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
As Johannes Kloosterhuis meticulously paints his miniature houses with a paintbrush and stencil, the reclusive artist muses on different forms of dwelling and being.

Gut Ding will Weile haben

Filmstill Good Things Take Time
Gut Ding will Weile haben
Jens Franke
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
Do you think of what a memorial is meant to remind you of? An enlightening tour of Leipzig, “City of Heroes” of the Peaceful Revolution, and the grey areas of a contemporary culture of remembrance.

Haunted House

Filmstill Haunted House
Haunted House
Ayden Lamb
Canada,
USA
International Competition Animated Film
The dark confines of a flat, light still burning in the kitchen. Ghostlike apparitions mingle with old video recordings. This was the home of a loved one who lived in two worlds.

Contains mentions of death

Where the Jasmine Always Blooms

Filmstill Where the Jasmine Always Blooms
Where the Jasmine Always Blooms
Husein Bastouni
Germany
International Competition Animated Film
A Palestinian neighbourhood in southern Damascus. The memory of a lost home is patched together from pictures of a life between the debris of war, constant threats, youth and jasmine.

Contains depictions of war scenes

21:00

I Shall Not Hate

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Cinestar 2
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I Shall Not Hate

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I Shall Not Hate

Filmstill I Shall Not Hate
I Shall Not Hate
Tal Barda
Canada,
France
Audience Competition
Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian doctor in Israel, loses three of his daughters in an attack. With unbelievable strength he remains convinced that only mutual understanding can bring peace.

Contains mentions of Physical Injuries, death, war scenes

Contains depictions of war scenes

21:00

Lichter der Straße

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Lichter der Straße

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Lichter der Straße

Filmstill The Vagabond’s Garden
Lichter der Straße
Anna Friedrich
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
School Screening
What does it mean to lead a nomadic life in Germany today? This film explores the potentials of a vagabond existence in a world of settlement permits and garden fences.

Contains mentions of racism

21:00

Body Politics

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Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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Body Politics

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Crushed

Filmstill Crushed
Crushed
Camille Vigny
Belgium
Doc Alliance Award
A stock car race that leaves only the carcasses of cars in the end. From offscreen, the director talks about a violent relationship. A metaphor, as precise as knife stabs.

Contains mentions of physical violence

You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer

Filmstill You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
Max Ferguson
Belgium
International Competition Animated Film
Rough poetry in images, words and sounds. Full of emotional power, this film uses photography, painting, collage and video to negotiate the tipping point between physical desire and emotional injury.

Photosensitivity warning

Hun Tun

Filmstill Hun Tun
Hun Tun
Magdalena Hejzlarová
Czech Republic,
France
International Competition Animated Film
An encounter with the King of Chaos: Hun Tun drives you on, Hun Tun gives you the strength for countless hours of overtime and all-nighters – and in return robs you of your sleep and changes you.

Photosensitivity warning

I Stumble Every Time I Hear from Kyiv

Filmstill I Stumble Every Time I Hear from Kyiv
I Stumble Every Time I Hear from Kyiv
Daryna Mamaisur
Ukraine,
Belgium,
Portugal,
Hungary
Doc Alliance Award
The director experiences Russia’s attack on her home country from abroad. In visual correspondence with a friend in Kyiv, she searches for a way to express her helplessness and shock.

Contains mentions of war scenes

Dolores

Filmstill Dolores
Dolores
Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo
Mexico
International Competition Animated Film
When Dolores falls into a deep hole while playing in a cornfield, the boundaries between this world and the next blur. A magical and dark puppet animation oscillating between reality and dream.

A Move

Filmstill A Move
Khune
Elahe Esmaili
Iran,
UK
International Competition Documentary Film
Family discussions flare up against the backdrop of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement in Iran: Elahe does not want to wear a hijab. An intimate and honest discussion.
21:00

Peaches and Oranges

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Cinémathèque in der Nato
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Peaches and Oranges

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Birthday Cakes from China

Filmstill Birthday Cakes from China
Shēng rì dàn gāo gōng zhù nǐ fú shòu yǔ tiān qí
Shengjia Zhang
China
International Competition Documentary Film
Why do we love to celebrate birthdays with cakes? A witty exploration of a specific culinary cultural history, with surprising parallels to fast food and propaganda.

Extremely Short

Filmstill Extremely Short
Totemo mijikai
Koji Yamamura
Japan,
USA
International Competition Animated Film
The last syllable on the lips of a dying man is “da”. Koji Yamamura translates a short story by author Hideo Furukawa into a thrilling and highly dynamic film.

What Goes Up

Filmstill What Goes Up
What Goes Up
Samar Al Summary
Saudi Arabia,
USA
International Competition Documentary Film
A Saudi artist is trampolining at a military airfield in Arizona. She would have to lift off to get home. A struggle not just with gravity, but with the patriarchy.

Photosensitivity warning

My Therapist Said, I Am Full of Sadness

Filmstill My Therapist Said, I Am Full of Sadness
My Therapist Said, I Am Full of Sadness
Monica Tedja
Indonesia
International Competition Documentary Film
Monica scours archive material for answers to the question of how queer life in Berlin and the wish to be accepted by their Christian-Indonesian parents can be reconciled.

Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen

Filmstill Sky like Silk. Full of Oranges
Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
Betina Kuntzsch
Germany
German Competition Documentary Film
This cheerful animated collage recalls the first Interflug flight to Majorca in spring 1990. The sea may shine ever so blue, the GDR travellers remain mere onlookers in this holiday paradise.