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Gaspar Noé’s latest film, starring Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento, about an elderly couple in the autumn of their life is tonally very different for the director’s earlier work but formally – shot entirely in split screen – it is as daring as any of his films. Friday, 03.12.2021 – 10.00 pm, delphi LUX, theater [...]

A miraculous discovery could change the life of incarcerated Rahim forever: When his girlfriend finds a bag with valuable coins, there's finally hope for him to pay off his debt and reunite with his family. But his conscience is put to the test – and things don't go as planned. Friday, 03.12.2021 – 9:00 pm, [...]

A magical realism drama set in a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a withdrawn 40-year-old woman, experiences a sexual and mystical awakening as she begins a journey to free herself from the repressive religious and social conventions that have dominated her life and repress her individual development and rediscovery. Sunday, 05.12.2021 – 7.15 pm, [...]

When a magic trick goes awry at a children’s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into a chicken. An avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls everyone; the mother, whose mundane life was dedicated to her husband and children, is now urged to take care of her family. While moving heaven and earth to [...]

Originally planned as a joint train trip with her lover, the shy Finn Laura embarks on the journey to the arctic port of Murmansk to visit ancient rock paintings alone by herself. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment [...]

Based on real events, “A Hidden Life” is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife, Fani, and his [...]

Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on [...]

The first feature from Mounia Meddour stars Algerian-born French actress Lyna Khoudri (Wes Anderson's upcoming "The French Dispatch") in a harrowing tale set during the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s, also referred to as the "Black Decade", and was inspired by real events. It tells the story of a young woman obsessed with fashion [...]

Georges, 44 years old, and his jacket, 100% deerskin, have a plan. “The odd twist of Quentin Dupieux’s ‘Deerskin’ is its deceptive simplicity. Anyone familiar with the French director’s loopy, surrealist comedies — the killer tire saga ‘Rubber’ and Kafkaesque noir ‘Wrong’ among them — knows that his zany, paranoid characters speak in baffling monologues [...]

Amador Coro has been convicted and condemned for having set a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his hometown, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life goes by slowly, following the rhythm [...]