Category: Filme 2021
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Oeconomia
Oeconomia Oeconomia DIRECTED BY: Carmen Losman COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English, German SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 89 min SECTION: Open Eyes 2021 SYNOPSISWhat is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In Oeconomia, Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands…
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Nowhere Special
Nowhere Special Nowhere Special DIRECTED BY: Uberto Pasolini COUNTRY: United Kingdom, Italy, Romania YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English SUBTITLES: RUNNING TIME: 96 min SECTION: Previews at Cinecittà SCREENINGS SYNOPSIS John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth.…
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Notturno
Notturno Notturno DIRECTED BY: Gianfranco Rosi COUNTRY: Italy, France, Germany YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Arabic, Kurdish SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 100 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISFilmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, NOTTURNO captures the everyday life that lies behind the continuing tragedy of civil wars, ferocious dictatorships,…
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Nothing but the Sun
Nothing but the Sun Apenas el sol DIRECTED BY: Arami Ullón COUNTRY: Switzerland, Paraguay YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Ayoreo, Spanish SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 74 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSIS Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, Mateo Sobode Chiqueno has been recording stories, songs, and testimonies of his Ayoreo people since the sixties.…
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Mother-Child
Mother-Child Niña Mamá DIRECTED BY: Andrea Testa COUNTRY: Argentina YEAR: 2019 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Spanish SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 66 min SEECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISIn Argentina, every three hours a girl under the age of 15 is forced to give birth. While activists work toward the legalization of safe and free abortion, many young women,…
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Non Western
Non Western Non Western DIRECTED BY: Laura Plancarte COUNTRY: Mexico, United Kingdom, United States YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 93 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISSeated in their car, a man and a woman talk about gender roles among the Cheyenne people. He’s Cheyenne, but she is not. It’s a topic…
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Der Mann, der seine Haut verkaufte
Man Who Sold His Skin, The homme qui a vendu sa peau, L’ DIRECTED BY: Kaouther Ben Hania COUNTRY: France, Tunisia, Belgium, Sweden, Germany YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Arabic, English SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 104 min SECTION: Previews at Cinecitta SCREENINGS SYNOPSISSam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to…
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Landscapes of Resistance
Landscapes of Resistance Pejzaži otpora DIRECTED BY: Marta Popivoda COUNTRY: Serbia, Germany YEAR: 2021 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Serbo-Croatian SUBTITLES: English, German RUNNING TIME: 95 min SECTION: International Competition SCREENINGS SYNOPSIS Sonja was one of the first female partisan in Serbia and helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz. When we initially encounter her in LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE,…
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Kabul, City in the Wind
Kabul, City in the Wind Kabul, City in the Wind DIRECTED BY: Aboozar Amini COUNTRY: Afghanistan, Netherlands, Germany, Japan YEAR: 2018 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Dari SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 88 min SECTION: Open Eyes 2021 SYNOPSISAfshin and his younger brother Benjamin live at the hillside of the Chil Dokhtaran mountains. Grown up next to the city…
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Just a Movement
Just a Movement Juste un mouvement DIRECTED BY: Vincent Meessen COUNTRY: Belgium, France YEAR: 2021 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): French, Mandarin Chinese, Wolof SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 110 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSIS«Omar is dead!», a voice cried out in Dakar, 11 May 1973. The eldest of the Blondin Diop family, a young militant philosopher, and…
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In the Name of Scheherazade
In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran DIRECTED BY: Narges Kalhor COUNTRY: Iran, Germany YEAR: 2019 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English, German, Persian SUBTITLES: RUNNING TIME: 75 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISForget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get…
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I am not your Negro
I am not your Negro I am not your Negro DIRECTED BY: Raoul Peck COUNTRY: United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland YEAR: 2016 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 93 min SECTION: Previews at Cinecittà SCREENINGS SYNOPSISIn 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The…
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Hotel Astoria
Hotel Astoria Hotel Astoria DIRECTED BY: Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): German SUBTITLES:RUNNING TIME: 28 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS Leipzig, 1996. The receptionist shows the White Suite at the Hotel Astoria. She says she still has hope that a guardian angel will save the Astoria. But seven years…
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Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse
Mr. Bachmann and His Class Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse DIRECTED BY: Maria Speth COUNTRY: Germany YEAR: 2021 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Bulgarian, German, Turkish SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 217 min SECTION: International Competition SCREENINGS SYNOPSISWhere does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial…
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Her Socialist Smile
Her Socialist Smile Her Socialist Smile DIRECTED BY: John Gianvito COUNTRY: United States YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 93 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISAn experimental documentary essay on the political imagination of iconic humanitarian, author, and advocate for the blind Helen Keller. World famous by the age of 8 for…
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Great Freedom
Great Freedom Große Freiheit DIRECTED BY: Sebastian Meise COUNTRY: Austria, Germany YEAR: 2021 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): German SUBTITLES: RUNNING TIME: 116 min SECTION: Previews at Cinecittà SCREENINGS SYNOPSISIn post-war Germany Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. Due to paragraph 175 his desire for freedom is systematically destroyed. The one steady relationship in his…
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Genus Pan
Genus Pan Lahi, hayop DIRECTED BY: Lav Diaz COUNTRY: Philippines YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): Tagalog SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 157 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISThree illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the sea, the mountains and the forest until they…
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Eyimofe – This Is My Desire
Eyimofe – This Is My Desire Eyimofe – This Is My Desire DIRECTED BY: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri COUNTRY: Nigeria YEAR: 2019 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English SUBTITLES: German RUNNING TIME: 116 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSISTragedy and fate intervene as two Nigerians try to better the lives of their families. Eyimofe (This is My Desire)…
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Elsewhere, Everywhere
Elsewhere, Everywhere Ailleurs, partout DIRECTED BY: Isabelle Ingold, Vivianne Perelmuter COUNTRY: Belgium YEAR: 2020 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): English, Farsi, French, Persian SUBTITLES: RUNNING TIME: 63 min SECTION: International Competition SCREENINGS SYNOPSISA young man in a room somewhere in England. On a computer screen, images from all over the world. One click is all it takes to…
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Delphine’s Prayers
Delphine’s Prayers Prières de Delphine, Les DIRECTED BY: Rosine Mbakam COUNTRY: Belgium, Cameroon YEAR: 2021 SPOKEN LANGUAGE(S): French, Pidgin SUBTITLES: English RUNNING TIME: 91 min SECTION: International Forum SCREENINGS SYNOPSIS Delphine’s Prayers is the story of Delphine – a young Cameroonian woman – and her life in Belgium. Through a series of confessions from Delphine,…