FF 2020 | Germany, Italy 2020 | 82 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Ulrich Waller, Eduard Erne, Dania Hohmann
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Docudrama about the first generation of so-called Gastarbeiter in Germany. Carla and Maria Grazia meet for the first time outside the crematorium, …
FF 2020 | Denmark 2020 | 117 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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Would being born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood allow us to be more open to the world? In Thomas Vinterberg's new film, four friends …
FF 2020 | Canada 2019 | 109 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Sophie Deraspe
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[⏵] A young migrant woman’s fight against an inhuman immigration system: a provocative adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy with an …
FF 2020 | Greece, Poland, Slovakia 2020 | 90 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Christos Nikou
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[⏵] In the midst of a pandemic which leads to memory loss, a man takes part in a test programme for a new treatment. An intelligent and at the …
FF 2020 | Philippines, Germany, Qatar, Norway, France, Denmark 2019 | 85 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Alyx Ayn Arumpac
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[⏵] DOCUMENTARY In his war on drugs, the Philippine crypto-dictator Duterte has turned the streets of Manila into a battlefield, setting his …
FF 2020 | Germany 2019 | 49 Min. | OV Director: Karsten Krause
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[⏵] The South-West of Texas was once part of the sea bed and has over time become mountains, prairie and desert. With almost archaeological …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 90 Min. | OV Director: Klaus Lemke
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[⏵] Hamburg has him to thank for formative Kiez classics like Rocker and Paul. Klaus Lemke, the Wild One of German cinema, turns 80 – and …
FF 2020 | Ukraine 2020 | 105 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Natalya Vorozhbit
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[⏵] Four short stories from the streets of Donbass. An introduction to a world in which chaos rules and humanity has capitulated. East Ukraine …
FF 2020 | United Kingdom 2019 | 97 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: James Erskine
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[⏵] DOCUMENTARY Billie Holiday was one of the great voices of jazz. Billie presents hitherto unpublished recordings and shows the singer for …
FF 2020 | Brazil 2020 | 60 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Renan Rovida
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[⏵] ESSAY The daily bread of the oppressed: the film puts an artistic, combative finger in the wound of capitalism. Brazil is marked by social …
FF 2020 | Switzerland, Germany 2020 | 118 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Oliver Rihs
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[⏵] Walter Stürm is seen as the break-out king of Switzerland and was an idol of the left. The film portrays the criminal legend – and the very …
FF 2020 | Central African Republic, Italy, Argentina 2020 | 72 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino
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[⏵] DOCUMENTARY Everyone should have the right to go to school! Two young Aka pygmies in Central Africa fight against the discrimination of their …
FF 2020 | Bolivia, Argentina 2020 | 80 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Diego Mondaca
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[⏵] An army in inhospitable territory between Bolivia and Paraguay seeks the enemy – and finds the biggest adversary in itself. A war film …
FF 2020 | USA 2020 | 272 Min. | OV Director: Frederick Wiseman
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DOCUMENTARY For the good of the people: in his new film, doyen Frederick Wiseman observes the complex work of the city administration in Boston …
FF 2020 | China, Hong Kong 2020 | 101 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Zheng Lu Xinyuan
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A fascinating debut which illustrates with poetic brutality the condition in which the world continues to turn, even when one is not yet ready to let …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 97 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Moritz Bleibtreu
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Two men, two lives, one fateful encounter: Moritz Bleibtreu’s directorial debut, for which he also wrote the screenplay, is a tense, labyrinthine …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 108 Min. | OV Director: Johannes Naber
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[⏵] To know more than the CIA for a change! This biting spy satire is based on real events and lampoons the German intelligence agency BND, which …
FF 2020 | USA 2019 | 126 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Todd Haynes
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[⏵] A tense industrial thriller tells the true story of lawyer Rob Bilott, who takes on one of the biggest chemical companies in the world. …
FF 2020 | Germany 2019 | 90 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Sven Bohse
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A three-parter with an excellent cast about one of the most mysterious criminal cases in German post-war history. In the summer of 1989, the …
FF 2020 | Belgium 2020 | 63 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Isabelle Ingold, Vivianne Perelmuter
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[⏵] DOCUMENTARY The collected documents of a young Iranian man reveal the facts of a real migration – and the fiction of a success story. A …
FF 2020 | Chile 2019 | 107 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Pablo Larraín
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[⏵] Pablo Larraín powerfully tests the limits of modern cinema. Ema is the portrait of a woman in flames. Their lives are as experimental and …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 134 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Oskar Roehler
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Oskar Roehler’s homage to film icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder can rely 100% on its charismatic leading actor: Oliver Masucci doesn’t just play …
FF 2020 | USSR 1931 | 65 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Dziga Vertov
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In 1931, the first Soviet sound film was shown in full: Vertov, who also gave a speech in Yiddish, put Enthusiasm on for an audience of 1800 workers …
FF 2020 | Bulgaria, Greece, Italy 2019 | 87 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
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[⏵] A Bulgarian family story about loss, mourning and guilt reminiscent of the absurd comedy of Toni Erdmann. Vasil has just lost his wife. At …
FF 2020 | USA 2019 | 122 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Kelly Reichardt
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[⏵] Once again, Kelly Reichardt offers us her take on the Western and counterposes a sensitive story of male friendship with the mythology of …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 97 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
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[⏵] Between tower block and orbit: the story of a young fan of space travel from the banlieue is an expedition into the power of the imagination …
FF 2020 | France, Germany, Portugal 2020 | 87 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser
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[⏵] An absurd comedy from Gaza. At the centre: an old man in love and the god of male beauty. A Hamburg co-production which ran in Venice in …
FF 2020 | Philippines 2020 | 146 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Lav Diaz
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[⏵] An in-depth study of human nature, a possible evolution of our animalistic urges. Hugaw is a god-forsaken island in the Philippine …
FF 2020 | South Korea 2020 | 75 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Kim Mi-jo
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[⏵] In her impressive debut film, director Kim Mijo takes on a subject that in South Korea is a highly controversial taboo: #metoo in Seoul. Obok …
FF 2020 | USA, Norway 2020 | 93 Min. | Director: Victor Kossakovsky
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DOCUMENTARY Burrowing in mud, looking for worms, flicking away insects: Gunda captures the reality of the animals we eat every day. A warm, visually …
FF 2020 | Thailand 2019 | 113 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
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A clear-out becomes a melancholic reflection on keeping hold and letting go. Jean has a new philosophy: long live minimalism! She plans to radically …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 90 Min. | OV Director: Oliver Schwabe
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Moving portrait of an extraordinary woman. In the 1960s, Helga Feddersen became known as a comedy actress far beyond the borders of Hamburg. But …
FF 2020 | United Kingdom 2019 | 100 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: William Nicholson
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[⏵] Scenes from a marriage: Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star in a razor-sharp drama about a couple united in the pain of separation. It's …
FF 2020 | Sweden 2020 | 98 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Nathan Grossman
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From a cardboard sign in the street to the podium of the UN Climate Summit: a portrait of Greta Thunberg. »Skolstrejk för klimatet« – school …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 82 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Patric Chiha
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[⏵] How do you transform a dance performance of layered movements and time shifts into a kind of loose literary adaptation for the cinema? …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 90 Min. | OV Director: Klaus Brinkbäumer, Stephan Lamby
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DOCUMENTARY Chrononology of a current nightmare. The USA are experiencing several levels of catastrophe: no country has been harder hit by the Corona …
FF 2020 | France 2019 | 75 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Frank Beauvais
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Loneliness at the end of a relationship. Withdrawal into the smallest space. 400 films accompanied by depression, drug consumption, mid-life crisis. …
FF 2020 | USA 2020 | 115 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Miranda July
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[⏵] The new film from multimedia artist Miranda July is a comedy about a family of tricksters, as original as it is moving. Petty criminals Theresa …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 88 Min. | OV Director: Sebastian Ko
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Psychothriller about a couple in crisis who, faced with a crime, close ranks. A man (Sebastian Becker) is dead, killed by the woman (Laura …
FF 2020 | Austria, Germany 1997 | 35 Min. | OV Director: Gerhard Benedikt Friedl
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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "GERHARD FRIEDL. EIN ARBEITSBUCH" AND FILM SCREENING The narrator tells the story of the Pritz family, a narrative that …
FF 2020 | Canada 2019 | 117 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Myriam Verreault
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[⏵] A declaration of love to Quebec‘s Innu community: the adaptation of the eponymous novel is a humorous and moving coming-of-age story …
FF 2020 | Germany 1998 | 100 Min. | OF Director: Fatih Akin
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In his brilliant debut, Fatih Akin brought the American gang film to Hamburg. 22 years after its premiere at FILMFEST HAMBURG, Kurz und …
FF 2020 | Hong Kong 2020 | 114 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Wang Xiaozhen
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HYBRID A drama about a messed-up marriage – or a meta-film about filmic truth and the staging of a private life? Father, mother, baby. A car. …
FF 2020 | Germany, Belgium, France 2019 | 91 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Reiner Holzemer
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[⏵] DOCUMENTARY Belgian designer Martin Margiela is the »Banksy of Fashion«. 12 years after his departure from the world stage, he reveals …
FF 2020 | Palestine, USA 2020 | 88 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: David Osit
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[⏵] DOCUMENTARY When local politics dictate world events– and vice versa: welcome to Ramallah! Musa Hadid shares similar worries to millions …
FF 2020 | USA 2010 | 104 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Kelly Reichardt
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[⏵] In her fourth film, Kelly Reichardt returns to the early days of the USA and gives the Western a female makeover. 1845, Oregon. Three …
FF 2020 | Turkey 2019 | 98 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Rodi Güven Yalçınkaya
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[⏵] A Kurdish woman is suspected of being a terrorist: a tense political thriller that goes deep into Turkey‘s paranoid surveillance …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 80 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Adrià Garcia
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[⏵] 9-year old Hugo is spending the summer holidays with his Granny Sara, who is celebrating her 80th birthday. The whole family has made the …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 20 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Steffen Goldkamp
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[⏵] Rituals of waiting: sitting on the bed, lying, sleeping. Routines of vigilance: searching cisterns, opening presents, reading letters. A …
FF 2020 | Germany, Poland 2020 | 113 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert
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[⏵] A profound Polish social satire about a masseur who becomes a guru for Warsaw’s high society. The Ukrainian migrant Zhenia works as …
FF 2020 | Chile, Mexico, USA 2012 | 117 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Pablo Larraín
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[⏵] »Chile, joy awaits us!« Pablo Larraín’s third film on the Pinochet regime is a witty David-vs-Goliath story. In 1988, Chilean dictator …
FF 2020 | USA 2020 | 108 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Chloé Zhao
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A woman loses everything and leaves her old life behind. A fascinating road movie on the dark side of the American dream with Frances McDormand in …
FF 2020 | United Kingdom, Italy, Romania 2020 | 90 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Uberto Pasolini
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A heart-rending drama in which single Dad James Norton seeks a new family for his young son. John (James Norton) is 35 and loves his 4-year old …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 99 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Alexander Kluge, Khavn de la Cruz
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[⏵] ESSAY The second collaboration between Kluge and Khavn is an aesthetic mash-up – with a wonderful accomplice in Lilith Stangenberg. While in …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 29 Min. | OV Director: Andrea Katzenberger
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Old Frau Lüders collapses and Lou saves her life. Jonny is impressed. Wouldn’t Lou make a brilliant Pfefferkorn? The first case for the new …
FF 2020 | Germany 2019 | 29 Min. | no subs Director: Andrea Katzenberger
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The young refugee Femi is accused of theft at the Miniaturwunderland model railway exhibition and is summarily sacked by Jon. When the truth comes …
FF 2020 | United Kingdom 2019 | 83 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Eva Riley
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[⏵] Leigh lives with her father on the outskirts of Brighton. A talented gymnast, the 14-year old is busy preparing for her first tournament. …
FF 2020 | Germany, Mauritius 2019 | 84 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Kate Tessa Lee, Tom Schön
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[⏵] Marie Louise Édouard lives on the island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean. She’s stopped diving for octopus, which used to be her …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 89 Min. | OV Director: Lars-Gunnar Lotz
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The drama of a young mother in the face of an inconceivable loss. A few days before the return of her husband Ludger (Hanno Koffler) from a training …
FF 2020 | South Africa 2020 | 95 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Christiaan Olwagen
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[⏵] In the film version of the novel by author Elsa Joubert, a mother gets caught up in the machinery of the apartheid system. South Africa 1976. …
FF 2020 | USA, Hong Kong 2019 | 124 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Regie Shengze Zhu
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[⏵] Live streaming has been huge in China since 2016, a market worth billions. In so-called showrooms, self-publicists known as anchors …
FF 2020 | Germany 2019 | 67 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed
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[⏵] The boat has sunk, people are in the water. Only occasionally does the camera briefly surface, as if coming up for air – only to then …
FF 2020 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Norway 2020 | 101 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Jasmila Žbanić
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[⏵] After her harrowing drama about systematic rape in the Bosnian war, Jasmila Žbanić’s new film deals with the massacre of Srebrenica …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 95 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Peter Dourountzis
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[⏵] With a Satanic main character, this remarkable debut film portrays the destructive fascination of evil. Djé is a man without a history, a …
FF 2020 | Israel, Germany 2019 | 108 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Yaron Shani
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[⏵] Three women carry the wounds and scars of their lives. An intense Israeli drama. Avigail had her first child much too young and is …
FF 2020 | Russia, France, Switzerland, Germany 2020 | 60 Min. | Director:
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[⏵] Die Decke (Blanket)RUS 2020, 5 min., directed and written by Marina MoshkovaFar, far up in the North lives a very, very moody polar …
FF 2020 | USA 1994 | 76 Min. | OV Director: Kelly Reichardt
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[⏵] Kelly Reichardt's »amazing first film« (Todd Haynes). In her debut film, which was rarely shown in Germany, the director returns to the …
FF 2020 | Sweden 2020 | 77 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Henrik Schyffert
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[⏵] Suddenly it’s Parkinson's: Uje Brandelius, singer of the Stockholm pop band Doktor Kosmos, plays himself in this moving Swedish comedy. Uje …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 77 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Nathan Nicholovitch
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[⏵] Faces full of sadness, faces full of anger. A very topical political drama. “Macron demission” – “Macron, resign”. Two words …
FF 2020 | Iran 2019 | 102 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Mahnaz Mohammadi
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[⏵] A piercing Iranian social drama in which a single mother is faced with an impossible choice. The screenplay is by Mohammad Rasoulof. Leila …
FF 2020 | USA, Belgium 2019 | 120 Min. | OV with German subtitles + subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Director: Darius Marder
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A musician loses his most essential sense: his hearing. Noise is their life. Ruben is touring the USA in a camper van with his girlfriend Lou. She …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 73 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Suzanne Lindon
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[⏵] The debut film of this 20-year old director and lead actor Suzanne Lindon is a tender amour fou between a schoolgirl and an actor. Crackling, …
FF 2020 | Brazil 2019 | 94 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Jo Serfaty
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[⏵] HYBRID In her semi-documentary film, director Jo Serfaty accompanies her main characters through the shimmering heat of Rio de Janeiro. …
FF 2020 | Sweden 2020 | 90 Min. | OV with German voice over Director: Jon Holmberg
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Sune just cannot make up his mind: his class is planning an exciting trip, but on the same weekend his Grandpa Helmer is getting married again. …
FF 2020 | Poland, Sweden 2020 | 106 Min. | OV with German and English subtitles Director: Magnus von Horn
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[⏵] 600,000 followers and one stalker: in this Instagram drama from Poland, staged life collides with unvarnished reality. Sylwia lives …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 89 Min. | OV Director: Bjarne Mädel
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From crime-scene cleaner to CID Chief Inspector: Bjarne Mädel assembles a star ensemble in Katenbüll. Because of an anxiety disorder, CID Chief …
FF 2020 | Iran, Germany, Czech Republic 2020 | 150 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
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Only in China are more people executed every year than in Iran. In four haunting episodes, Mohammad Rasoulof portrays people who are part of the …
FF 2020 | Nigeria 2020 | 110 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
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[⏵] The chronology of a yearning: two moving episodes about two people in the Nigerian capital Lagos and their longing for a new life in Europe. …
FF 2020 | Lesotho, Italy, South Africa 2019 | 120 Min. | OV with German & French subs Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
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The grapes of wrath: a visually stunning drama from Lesotho which poses questions about grief, ecological destruction and religion. Christmas in the …
FF 2020 | Brazil, Chile 2008 | 98 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Pablo Larraín
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[⏵] In his disturbing study of a loner, Pablo Larraín links the trauma of the Pinochet dictatorship with the disco craze of the 1970s. Santiago, …
FF 2020 | Mexico, France, Colombia 2020 | 96 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Yulene Olaizola
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[⏵] Jungle, demons and a mysterious yong woman: the new film from Mexican director Yulene Olaizola plunges deep into the mythological world of the …
FF 2020 | France 2019 | 114 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Éric Baudelaire
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In this film, camera and mike are operated by children, form and content discovered bit by bit. Over four years, the members of the Film Club at the …
FF 2020 | Romania 2020 | 128 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Radu Jude
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[⏵] Based on a true story, Radu Jude’s filmi tells of the demoralizing state propaganda and everyday surveillance of the Ceausescu regime. …
FF 2020 | France 2020 | 85 Min. | Director: Pascal Rabaté
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[⏵] A chance for waste: a dialogue-free comedy of the grotesque in which the happiness of a drop-out community depends on the future of a …
FF 2020 | Lebanon, Syria 2019 | 51 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Marwa Arsanios
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[⏵] »The destruction of nature is an integral part of the politics of assimilation and incorporation as practised by the dominant states of …
FF 2020 | Germany 2020 | 88 Min. | OV Director: Alexander Dierbach
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How much change can one marriage take? »The most harmonious couple in the Western hemisphere« is how friends describe Agnes (Ulrike Tscharre) …
FF 2020 | Germany, New Zealand 2019 | 15 Min. | Director:
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FF 2020 | Spain, Switzerland 2020 | 200 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Luis López Carrasco
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[⏵] HYBRID In 1992, it wasn’t just the Olympic flame burning in Spain: a film that reawakens a forgotten past and plays with the conventions of …
FF 2020 | Germany 2019 | 118 Min. | OV with English subtitles Director: Ute Adamczewski
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There are traces of Germany’s Nazi past everywhere, but Ute Adamczewski sets out to uncover them in exemplary fashion. Starting in Sachsen, where …
FF 2020 | Germany, Brazil 2020 | 85 Min. | OV with German subtitles Director: Philipp Hartmann, Danilo Carvalho
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[⏵] HYBRID With docu-fictional elements, the film creates an associative picture of water as a both physical and metaphysical basis for human …
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