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“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 [...]

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in their garden. They share household routines, day after day and are not the only ones. To surrender oneself, fully, to the flow of time; to surrender oneself with delight to the majestic power of the river Chronos – such is the incomparable, unparalleled [...]

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Joanna Hogg’s shimmering story of first love and a young woman’s formative years is a portrait of the artist that [...]

Tensions rise between the restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their tranquil yet isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from this influential visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over a weekend laid bare [...]

Somewhere in Kosovo, in a small remote village, three young women see their dreams and ambitions stifled. In their quest for independence, nothing can stop them. Time to let the lionesses roar. An impressive directorial debut from actress Luàna Bajrami (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, L’évènement/Das Ereignis). Thursday, 09.12.2021 – 7.15 pm, delphi LUX, [...]

Y., an Israeli filmmaker in his mid-forties, arrives in a remote village at the far end of the desert to present one of his films. There he meets Yahalom, an officer for the Ministry of Culture, and finds himself fighting two losing battles: one against the death of freedom in his country, the other against [...]

A chaotic, tender family is on a road trip across the rugged landscape, but to where? Dad has a broken leg, but is it really broken? Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back tears. The youngest son keeps exploding into choreographed car karaoke. And all of them are fussing over the sick dog. [...]

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, unable to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past get unveiled and heartfelt confessions are uttered. [...]