NOMADLAND

NOMADLAND Vorführung im Cinema Bad Saarow   Empire, Nevada. Die lokale Gipsmine wurde geschlossen und die Siedlung zur Geisterstadt. Die 60-jährige Fern hat vor kurzem ihren Mann verloren, nun auch Arbeit und Haus. Die Behörden wollen sie in den Vorruhestand schicken, Fern aber will arbeiten. Also verkauft sie fast all ihr Hab und Gut, erwirbt […]

SCHOOL CINEMA 2021

SCHOOL CINEMA 2021 As part of the FILM WITHOUT BORDERS youth program, on festival Thursday and Friday we are once again inviting students from the Oder-Spree district to film screenings followed by discussion sessions. In a workshop entitled „We Are the Jury,“ students from Beeskow, accompanied and guided by media artists Anna Faroqhi and Haim Peretz, watched and discussed films together for a week. The young people [...]

BAGHWAN - THE GERMANS AND THE GURU

BAGHWAN – THE GERMANS AND THE GURU The documentary tells the fascinating and equally disturbing story of the rise and fall of the Indian guru Bhagwan for the first time from the perspective of his German followers. What fascinated them about this man whom they called „Osho“ and whom they more than worshipped? And why did they give up everything to follow their [...]

FABIAN OR GOING TO THE DOGS

FABIAN: GOING TO THE DOGS Berlin 1931: German literature scholar and copywriter Jakob Fabian lets himself drift through life. By day working as a copywriter for a cigarette company, at night he roams Berlin's underworld bars, brothels, and artists' studios with his university friend Labude. The carefree life of the two young men is [disrupted] by a […]

AWARE - JOURNEY INTO CONSCIOUSNESS

AWARE – GLIMPSE INTO CONSCIOUSNESS What is consciousness? Where does it come from? Do all living creatures have it? Can one reach a mystical state of pure consciousness? And what happens when we die? AWARE follows six brilliant researchers who approach consciousness, which is still considered the universe's greatest mystery, from radically different perspectives: from [...]

ACASA, MY HOME

ACASA, MY HOME «Look, otter poop!» shouts one of the boys cruising through the moor in a small boat. The oldest of them is in the process of pulling a young swan out of the thicket. After pouncing on it, he lets it go again and surfaces a short time later with a freshly caught fish […]

HOCHWALD

HIGH FOREST The sensitive Mario lives in a small village in South Tyrol, he passionately loves to dance and dreams of a career as a dancer. He is viewed critically by the other residents. One day Mario meets his childhood friend Lenz again, the two have known each other since childhood days. Now they are 20 years old and on the verge of […]

JE SUIS KARL

I AM KARL Somewhere in Berlin. A package in the hallway. Alex, husband and father of three, forgets the wine in the car. A bomb tears him out of his routine. He loses his footing. Maxi, a self-confident young woman, wants to break away from her parents and stand on her own two feet. She had imagined her separation quite differently. […]

HIVE

HIVE Early Screening! Screening at the Kulturscheune Gut Eibenhof Followed by a Q&A with director Blerta Basholli and cinematographer Alexander Bloom Fahrije's husband has been missing since the end of the war, like many men in her village in Kosovo. In addition to this uncertainty, the family also has financial worries: their bees are barely producing any honey. Fahrije therefore decides, with homemade [...]

IVIE HOW IVIE

IVIE WIE IVIE The Afro-German Ivie lives with her best friend Anne in Leipzig and works temporarily in her ex-boyfriend's tanning salon while still looking for a permanent job as a teacher. Raised by her white mother, Ivie has never met her Senegalese father. The fact that she is asked about her „personal background“ in job interviews […]