Panel discussion #free SZFE
Panel Discussion #free SZFE It was the longing for artistic and academic freedom that prompted students at the Budapest University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE) to launch their protest in September 2020. A protest against the sudden and abrupt stripping of their university’s autonomy by the right-wing nationalist Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán. Since then, the actions of the Hungarian students […]
Festival theme 2021: Longing
Festival theme 2021: Longing Who hasn't often felt this uncertain and bittersweet feeling in their life? This tugging in the chest that can be painful yet exhilarating at the same time. Our festival theme this year is LONGING. „There was a longing for something that was lost, a longing for something that had not been fulfilled, a longing to [...]
WALCHENSEE FOREVER
WALCHENSEE FOREVER In her debut film, which received the Bavarian Film Award this year and was honored at the Berlinale, Janna Ji Wonders tells the story of her family spanning an entire century. The director takes us from the family café at the Bavarian Walchensee via Mexico and San Francisco to the „Hippie Summer of Love,“ to Indian ashrams, to the so-called harem [...]
FATHER (OTAC)
FATHER (OTAC) A man like a tree – the story of a family man who fights quietly and relentlessly for his children. After Nikola’s wife attempts suicide, social workers take notice of the family, and the two children are placed with foster parents. Getting custody of the children back seems hopeless, especially since the reserved father is hindered by the corruption […]
Trading Happiness + Masks for all
Trading Happiness + Masks for All Trading Happiness The graduation film by Duc Ngo Ngoc at the Film University Babelsberg is a sensitive short film about a mother's decision to marry off her daughter to a rich Chinese man for financial reasons. But on her daughter's wedding day, the Vietnamese woman Nghi is overcome by a bad feeling. 17-year-old Phuong […]
The unheard of
The Unheard Of In West Prignitz, five men are competing for the direct mandate for the next Brandenburg state parliament. Each of the candidates from the SPD, CDU, The Left, Greens, and AfD tries in their own way to find a hearing based on or in opposition to the policies made in Potsdam or Berlin. Not an easy task, because standardized streets, wind turbines in front […]
PRESENTATION HAUS AM SEE Scholarship 2020
PRESENTATION HAUS AM SEE Fellowship 2020 The international material development fellowship HAUS AM SEE – supported by LUPA Film, Antonius Stiftung and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg – supports young filmmakers in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. This year's workshop discussion will take place with the current fellow Diana Naecke. Free event! Age rating: FSK 0 (unrated / suitable for all ages)
The brilliance of the invisible
Invisible Sue A documentary by French director Claire Lajeunie about female the homeless sparked the interest of director Louis-Julien Petit in these women who live among us, but who make themselves as invisible as possible day after day out of shame and fear of violence. He did research for a year and decided to make a feature film that […]
OpenAir Cinema - PERSIAN HOURS
Open-Air Cinema – PERSIAN LESSONS The film Persian Lessons, which premiered this year at the Berlinale, is a successful and sensitive film adaptation of Wolfgang Kohlhaase's short story „The Invention of a Language“. 1942 in occupied France: The Belgian Jew Gilles Crémier is arrested by the SS and taken to a concentration camp in Germany. There he [...]
Workshops / School cinema 2020
Workshops / School Cinema 2020 We are very pleased that we were able to make it possible, even in times of Corona, to invite students from the Oder-Spree district to the school cinema. Two films were shown that were selected for the first time as part of a FILM WITHOUT BORDERS workshop by a youth jury made up of students from the Maxim Gorki School Bad Saarow. The winning films CHUSKIT [...]