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Sandra, a young mother who raises her daughter alone, pays regular visits to her sick father. While she and her family fight tooth and nail to get him the care he requires, Sandra reconnects with Clément, a friend she hasn’t seen in a while. Although he is married, a passionate relationship begins. Thursday, 01.12.2022 – [...]

Leila, 40, has spent her whole life taking care of her parents and four brothers. The family argues constantly and is crushed by debts, in a country caught in the grip of international economic sanctions. As her brothers are trying to make ends meet, Leila formulates a plan: to start a family business that would [...]

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she [...]

WAR PONY follows the interlocking stories of two young Oglala Lakota men growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill just wants to make something of himself. Whether it’s delivering goods or breeding Poodles, he is determined to hustle his way to the “American Dream”. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Matho can’t wait to become a [...]

In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality. Monday, 05.12.2022 – 7.45 pm, delphi LUX, theater 4 Friday, 09.12.2022 [...]

Hot tempered and fiercely independent, Julia finds escape in a passion for motorcycles and the high-octane world of urban ‘Rodeos’ - illicit gatherings where riders show off their bikes and their latest daring stunts. After a chance meeting at a Rodeo Julia finds herself drawn into a clandestine and volatile clique and, striving to prove [...]

A flu-ridden family of nobodies in post-Soviet Russia lives out their ordinary days with extraordinary secrets- the husband is a plumber that transforms humdrum moments into wonderfully weird Japanese comic strips whenever things excite him and the wife is a librarian who has a thing for killing abusive men with a kitchen knife. Tuesday, 06.12.2022 [...]

“For a long time I have wanted to make a film about love. One that goes a bit deeper than normal onscreen love stories, where everything is so simple.... A film that will look seriously at the difficulties of meeting someone … at how irresolute and uncertain even the most rational and otherwise self-confident people [...]

The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine) starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, is a darkly funny, raw and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him. Saturday, 04.12.2021 – 10.15 pm, Kino in der KulturBrauerei, theater 4 Monday, 06.12.2021 – 10:00 [...]

On the outskirts of N'djamena, Chad, Amina’s fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her 15-year-old daughter Maria is pregnant. The teenager does not want this pregnancy. But in a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost from the [...]