Films 2021

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• 107 Mothers

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  Director: Péter KerekesCountry: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine

  2021 | 90 min. | Russian, UkrainianSubtitles: English, German

  The award-winning documentary filmmaker Péter Kerekes excels in his narrative debut, crafting a prison film of a special kind.

• A Child in the Crowd

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  Director: Gérard BlainCountry: France

  1976 | 85 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German

  Drawing from his own experiences, Gérard Blain tells of growing up in occupied France. A forgotten masterpiece of French cinema.

• A Man and a Woman

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  Director: Claude LelouchCountry: France

  1966 | 107 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  One of the most timeless love stories ever told: Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant on a cautious quest for new love.

• A Night of Knowing Nothing

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  Director: Payal KapadiaCountry: India, France

  2021 | 96 min. | Hindi, BengaliSubtitles: English, German

  A hypnotic dream in black and white: This essayistic documentary interweaves intimate love letters with the chronology of student protests in India.

• A School in Cerro Hueso

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  Director: Betania CappatoCountry: Argentina

  2021 | 70 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German SDH

  Little gestures as opposed to big words: Betania Cappato gently guides us through the world of her autistic protagonist and demonstrates the value of quiet impartiality.

• Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 09.12.67

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  Director: Adolf WinkelmannCountry: Germany

  1968 | 8 min. | no dialogueSubtitles: No Subtitles

  This Film is part of our short film programme ›Five German short films made between 1967 and 1970‹.

• Ahed's Knee

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  Director: Nadav LapidCountry: France, Israel, Germany

  German Premiere
  2021 | 109 min. | HebrewSubtitles: English, German

  Nadav Lapid won the Golden Bear with ›Synonymes‹. He returns to Israel in ›Ahed's Knee‹, delivering a furious autofiction and a political warning.

• Another World

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  Director: Stéphane BrizéCountry: France

  German Premiere
  2021 | 97 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  Senior managers in moral conflict: painfully accurate and penetrating observation of an inhumane system.

• Antichrist

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  Director: Lars von TrierCountry: Denmark, Germany

  2009 | 108 min. | EnglishSubtitles: GermanFSK 18

  A hallucination between depression, death and violence: Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist' is an associative journey into the darkness of the unconscious.

• Any Day Now

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  Director: Hamy RamezanCountry: Finland

  2020 | 82 min. | Farsi, Finnish, EnglishSynchronization in German

  Light-hearted, empathetic story about a family of refugees who try to lead a regular family life in spite of their extreme situation.

• Award Ceremony

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  2021 | 80 min. |

  Four juries will award five IFFMH prizes. We look forward to a welcoming address from the State Minister for Science, Research and the Arts, Theresia Bauer.  The AWARD CEREMONY will be moderated by Romy Straßenburg.  Admission free! Reservations are possible below.

• Blue Moon

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  Director: Alina GrigoreCountry: Romania

  German Premiere
  2021 | 84 min. | RomanianSubtitles: English, German

  A young woman breaks away from her patriarchal family. Told in a manner as dense and suspenseful as it is true to life, this is a debut that builds up tremendous power.

• Brighton 4th

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  Director: Levan KoguashviliCountry: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Monaco, USA

  2021 | 95 min. | Georgian, English, RussianSubtitles: English, German

  A father tries to give his son a second chance in this award-winning motion picture from Georgia.

• Calamity

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  Director: Rémi ChayéCountry: France, Denmark

  2020 | 85 min. | FrenchSynchronization in German

  Calamity Jane is considered the first heroine of the American West. Hand-drawn images bring her childhood and her early adventures to life.

• Centauress

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  Director: Deniz ŞimşekCountry: Germany

  2020 | 8 min. | no dialogueSubtitles: English, German

  How can maximal meaning be derived from a minimal use of forms? This clever film about the interplay of norms, media and memory shows how.

• Cow

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  Director: Andrea ArnoldCountry: United Kingdom

  2021 | 94 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

  Empathy and no-frills poetry: in her first documentary, Andrea Arnold follows the life of a dairy cow.

• Das höchste Gut einer Frau ist ihr Schweigen

  Il valore della donna è il suo silenzioread moreOnline
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  Director: Gertrud PinkusCountry: Switzerland, Germany

  1980 | 95 min. | Italian, GermanSubtitles: German

  Work and life in a foreign country – a masterful study of immigration.

• Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter

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  Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle HuilletCountry: Germany

  1969 | 23 min. | GermanSubtitles: German

  This Film is part of our short film programme ›Five German short films made between 1967 and 1970‹.

• Destello Bravío

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  Director: Ainhoa RodríguezCountry: Spain

  German Premiere
  2021 | 98 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German

  The Spanish province depicted as a bizarrely beautiful nightmare. Atmospherically dense and fascinating, this debut paints a portrait of a patriarchal world in decay.

• Diamonds of the Night

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  Director: Jan NěmecCountry: Czechoslovakia

  1964 | 68 min. | Czech, GermanSubtitles: English, German

  The struggle for survival and the preservation of human dignity: Jan Němec's award-winning debut.

• Dustin

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  Director: Naïla GuiguetCountry: France

  2020 | 20 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  The end of a romance – ›Dustin‹ reveals a new talent in French queer cinema.

• Earwig

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  Director: Lucile HadžihalilovićCountry: United Kingdom, France, Belgium

  German Premiere
  2021 | 114 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

  Ice teeth and piercing gazes: ›Earwig‹ is a surreal horror tale set within the misty gloom of the last century.

• El Fulgor

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  Director: Martín FarinaCountry: Argentina

  World Premiere
  2021 | 65 min. | no dialogueSubtitles: No Subtitles

  A symphony of reality and delusion: transcending all genres, 'El Fulgor' entangles local traditions and human desires in Argentinian carnival.

• El Gran Movimiento

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  Director: Kiro RussoCountry: Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland

  2021 | 85 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German

  Workers who dance like Michael Jackson: In Kiro Russo’s La Paz, the devil must be at work.

• Escape Route to Marseille

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  Director: Ingemo Engström, Gerhard TheuringCountry: Germany

  1977 | 217 min. | GermanSubtitles: English

  ›Escape Route to Marseille‹ follows the traces of German emigrants with great formal freedom. A restoration of a rarely seen film.

• Feathers

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  Director: Omar El ZohairyCountry: France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece

  2021 | 112 min. | ArabicSubtitles: English, German

  Fairy-tale emancipation: when a father is accidentally turned into a chicken, an Egyptian family is forced to regroup.

• FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset - VIOLET]

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  Director: Nicolaas SchmidtCountry: Germany

  2021 | 50 min. | no dialogueSubtitles: No Subtitles

  No words, hardly more than a single composition, and yet what is at stake is one of the big questions of the contemporary human condition. Is it a flirtation? Or are we just imagining it?

• Fish Tank

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  Director: Andrea ArnoldCountry: United Kingdom

  2009 | 123 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

  A teenager torn between her dreams and a lack of perspective – Andrea Arnold’s second feature chronicles an attempt at escape from the stigma of social housing. Wild, raw and authentic.

• Fractured

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  Director: Fikret ReyhanCountry: Turkey

  International Premiere
  2020 | 82 min. | TurkishSubtitles: English, German

  An extended family struggles for cohesion in this stirring multilayered portrait of Turkey.

• FREIZEIT or: the opposite of doing nothing

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  Director: Caroline PitzenCountry: Germany

  2021 | 71 min. | GermanSubtitles: English

  A Berlin neighbourhood and its young people, who are totally committed to political activism. A film made not about them, but with them.

• Future Is a Lonely Place

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  Director: Martin Hawie, Laura HarwarthCountry: Germany

  2021 | 101 min. | GermanSubtitles: English

  Dark, gripping and uncompromising: a melancholic study in the guise of a thriller about revenge.

• Girls Go Movie Special

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  Director: VariousCountry: Germany

  2021 | 90 min. | VariousSubtitles: German

• Great Freedom

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  Director: Sebastian MeiseCountry: Austria, Germany

  2021 | 117 min. | GermanSubtitles: EnglishFSK 16

  Franz Rogowski and Georg Friedrich in a yearning drama about a forbidden love between men that survives three decades in prison.

• Hannah Arendt

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  Director: Margarethe von TrottaCountry: Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel

  2012 | 113 min. | German, English, French, HebrewSubtitles: English, GermanFSK 6

  "All arrogance and no feeling" – Margarethe von Trotta portrays a thinker who, in the midst of entrenched opinion, remained committed to the exercise of critical judgment.

• Haruhara-san's Recorder

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  Director: Kyoshi SugitaCountry: Japan

  German Premiere
  2021 | 120 min. | JapaneseSubtitles: English, German

  Formally uncompromising and emotionally sensitive: a cinematic meditation on loss and bereavement in suburban Tokyo.

• Hold Me Tight

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  Director: Mathieu AmalricCountry: France, Germany

  2021 | 98 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German

  Ghostly: Vicky Krieps shines in an artfully staged meditation on the act of saying goodbye.

• Home Sweet Home

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  Director: Franck MokaCountry: Congo-Kinshasa

  2020 | 15 min. | French, Swahili, LingalaSubtitles: English, German

  How does one dream of the future when the present is shaky? Franck Moka examines the uncertainty of the pandemic experience from a Congolese perspective

• I Am Guilty

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  Director: Christoph HochhäuslerCountry: Germany

  2005 | 94 min. | GermanSubtitles: EnglishFSK 12

  Life as a façade: in ›I Am Guilty‹, Christoph Hochhäusler delves deep into the psyche of the teenage Armin.

• I Want to Talk About Duras

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  Director: Claire SimonCountry: France

  German Premiere
  2021 | 95 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  How fascinating modern love is! This dramatized interview with Marguerite Duras’ final companion is as profound as it is entirely credible.

• Il buco

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  Director: Michelangelo FrammartinoCountry: Italy, France, Germany

  German Premiere
  2021 | 93 min. | ItalianSubtitles: English, German

  Endless depths, majestic mountains and a curious donkey: Michelangelo Frammartino returns with a cinematic tour de force.

• Jimmy Orpheus

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  Director: Roland KlickCountry: Germany

  1966 | 52 min. | GermanSubtitles: English

  St. Pauli at night and the decline of a brick factory in small-town GDR: two early films by Roland Klick and Volker Koepp.

• La Jetée

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  Director: Chris MarkerCountry: France

  1962 | 28 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

• Les uns et les autres

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  Director: Claude LelouchCountry: France

  1981 | 190 min. | French, English, German, RussianSubtitles: English, GermanFSK 12

  Claude Lelouch's star-studded masterpiece follows three generations of artists through the 20th century.

• Lesung mit Ingo Siegner - Reading with Ingo Siegner

  Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss und die Drachenprüfung: Lesung mit Ingo Siegnerread more
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  2021 | 60 min. | GermanAge recommendation: 6

  Who doesn‘t know him, the curious Little Dragon Coconut? The creator of this popular children‘s book character is coming to Mannheim – to read aloud and draw.

• Louloute

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  Director: Hubert VielCountry: France

  German Premiere
  2020 | 87 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  In search of lost innocence: ›Louloute‹ transports us to the realm of childhood and sensitively chronicles the loss of carefreeness.

• Love Is a Funny Thing

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  Director: Claude LelouchCountry: France, Italy

  1969 | 112 min. | French, EnglishSubtitles: German

  Romance, affair, or actually true love? Belmondo and Girardot have to make a fateful decision.

• Love Is Better Than Life

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  Director: Claude LelouchCountry: France

  International Premiere
  2021 | 115 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  The best way to live is in the present: in his 50th film, Claude Lelouch focuses on serene moments of old age and divine intervention.

• Mahlzeiten

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  Director: Edgar ReitzCountry: Germany

  1967 | 95 min. | GermanSubtitles: EnglishFSK 12

  ›Mahlzeiten‹ tells the story of a failing marriage and, in doing so, considers its own medium. A key film of the New German Cinema.

• Mass

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  Director: Fran KranzCountry: USA

  German Premiere
  2021 | 110 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

  How to speak about the unspeakable? How to forgive the unforgivable? In this nuanced chamber play, the bereaved negotiate over guilt and atonement.

• Masterclass: A Conversation with Andrea Arnold

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  2021 | 60 min. | English

• Masterclass: A Conversation with Bettina Brokemper

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  2021 | 60 min. | German

• Masterclass: A Conversation with Claude Lelouch

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  2021 | 60 min. | French, German

• Masterclass: A Conversation with Guillaume Nicloux

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  2021 | 60 min. | French, English

• Medium Cool

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  Director: Haskell WexlerCountry: USA

  1969 | 111 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

  The year 1968 – numerous riots shake the USA. Haskell Wexler's feature is a unique contemporary document and a key work of New Hollywood.

• Memoria

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  Director: Apichatpong WeerasethakulCountry: Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Mexico, France, Germany

  2021 | 136 min. | English, SpanishSubtitles: English, German

  A woman in Colombia is haunted by mysterious hallucinations. Palme d’Or winner Weerasethakul takes us on an intense contemplation and exploration of the world.

• My Night

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  Director: Antoinette BoulatCountry: France, Belgium

  German Premiere
  2021 | 87 min. | FrenchSubtitles: German, English

  A romantic drama, somnambulistic, immediate and whimsical like the French New Wave: Marion stays out late and knows what she doesn’t want.

• Märkische Ziegel

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  Director: Volker KoeppCountry: DDR

  1989 | 33 min. | GermanSubtitles: EnglishFSK 0

  St. Pauli at night and the decline of a brick factory in small-town GDR: two early films by Roland Klick and Volker Koepp.

• Nelly Rapp - Monster Agent

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  Director: Amanda AdolfssonCountry: Sweden

  2020 | 93 min. | SwedishSynchronization in GermanFSK 12

  Vegan vampires are a thing. Based on a popular series of Swedish children’s books, this film offers a spirited mixture of spookiness and refreshing humour.

• Neun Leben hat die Katze

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  Director: Ula StöcklCountry: Germany

  1968 | 91 min. | GermanSubtitles: English, German

  The first feminist film of the FRG – in ›Neun Leben hat die Katze‹, five women share their everyday experiences, sexual fantasies and longings.

• No One's With the Calves

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  Director: Sabrina SarabiCountry: Germany

  2021 | 116 min. | GermanSubtitles: EnglishFSK 16

  With the visual grandeur of a western, this film gives an eye-opening look at a farm in provincial north-eastern Germany.

• On the Job: The Missing 8

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  Director: Erik MattiCountry: Philippines

  2021 | 208 min. | Filipino, Tagalog, EnglishSubtitles: English

  Corruption. Violence. Betrayal. An epic reckoning with the Duterte government in the Philippines.

• Opening Night

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  Festival opening ceremony and screening of You Resemble Me on Thursday, 11 November at 8pm at Cinemaxx, Cinema 10 (Mannheim).

• Pather Panchali

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  Director: Satyajit RayCountry: India

  1955 | 125 min. | BengaliSubtitles: English, German

  One of the most influential filmmakers with one of the most beautiful feature debuts in film history: Satyajit Ray's trilogy opener ›Pather Panchali‹.

• Petite Maman

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  Director: Céline SciammaCountry: France

  2021 | 72 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, GermanFSK 0

  A tree house becomes the setting of a fantastical encounter in this comforting, fairy-tale-like story of bereavement and mourning by Céline Sciamma.

• Rehana

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  Director: Abdullah Mohammad SaadCountry: Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar

  German Premiere
  2021 | 97 min. | BengaliSubtitles: English, German

  A woman refuses to follow the rules of patriarchal society in Bangladesh.

• Rhino

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  Director: Oleg SentsovCountry: Ukraine, Poland, Germany

  German Premiere
  2021 | 101 min. | Ukrainian, Russian, GermanSubtitles: English, German

  After the collapse of the Soviet Union, only the strongest survive. ›Rhino‹ portrays an anti-hero of organised crime who pays the price of a violent life.

• Rohfilm

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  Director: Birgit Hein, Wilhelm HeinCountry: Germany

  1968 | 20 min. | no dialogueSubtitles: No Subtitles

  This film is part of our short film programme ›Five German short films made between 1967 and 1970‹.

• Salesman

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  Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte ZwerinCountry: USA

  1969 | 91 min. | EnglishSubtitles: German

  Who sells the most Bibles? A masterful close-up of the USA at the end of the 1960s.

• Same Player Shoots Again

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  Director: Wim WendersCountry: Germany

  1968 | 12 min. | no dialogueSubtitles: No Subtitles

  This Film is part of our short film programme ›Five German short films made between 1967 and 1970‹.

• Shen Kong

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  Director: Chen GuanCountry: Macau

  German Premiere
  2021 | 103 min. | Mandarin, Hunan DialectSubtitles: English, German

  Somewhere between euphoria, insecurity and ecstasy: a film about the lockdown and young people’s outlook on life.

• Short Vacation

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  Director: Han-Sol Seo, Kwon Min-pyoCountry: South Korea

  2020 | 79 min. | KoreanSubtitles: English, German

  Their assignment for the holidays: take a picture of the end of the world! In this road movie, four friends look beyond the extent of what’s familiar.

• Short Vacation: Workshop

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  2021 | 60 min. | German

  How are films made and what would I bring in front of the lens as a filmmaker? Let’s find out in a workshop together with GIRLS GO MOVIE.

• Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers

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  Director: Arild Østin Ommundsen, Silje SalomonsenCountry: Norway

  2020 | 78 min. | NorwegianSynchronization in German

  To save their father, two sisters embark on an adventure across the Norwegian wilderness. In the process, they overcome their fears and discover their superpowers.

• Something Different

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  Director: Věra ChytilováCountry: Czechoslovakia

  1963 | 82 min. | CzechSubtitles: German, English

  One of the main works of the Czechoslovak New Wave, ›Something Different‹ was awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Mannheim in 1963.

• Spaceboy

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  Director: Olivier PairouxCountry: Belgium

  2021 | 100 min. | FrenchSynchronization in German

  A film like a countdown, with a little boy as a cosmic explorer and a call for children to never give up on their dreams.

• Story Time with Mehrdad Zaeri

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  2021 | 60 min. | German

  Every story is unique: the stories of Mannheim-based storyteller and illustrator Mehrdad Zaeri will be created interactively with the audience.

• The Black Stallion

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  Director: Carroll BallardCountry: USA

  1979 | 118 min. | EnglishSynchronization in GermanFSK 6Age recommendation: 8

  Boy meets horse. An ode to the friendship between man and animal, whose lyrical images of nature and landscapes rank among the most beautiful in US cinema.

• The Employer and the Employee

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  Director: Manuel Nieto ZasCountry: Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, France

  German Premiere
  2021 | 106 min. | Spanish, Portuguese, FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  Two fathers in an asymmetrical relationship of dependence. Free of pathos and emotionally nuanced, this drama from Uruguay turns into a menacing thriller.

• The Experience

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  Director: Abbas KiarostamiCountry: Iran

  1973 | 59 min. | PersianSubtitles: English, German

  The dream of a different life: Abbas Kiarostami and Chris Marker tell of escape and falling in love.

• The First Fallen

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  Director: Rodrigo de OliveiraCountry: Brazil

  World Premiere
  2021 | 107 min. | PortugueseSubtitles: English, German

  A film about nameless heroes in a war the world has wanted to ignore for too long. ›The First Fallen‹ celebrates life in the face of a deadly disease.

• The Innocents

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  Director: Eskil VogtCountry: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, USA

  2021 | 117 min. | NorwegianSubtitles: English, German

  When children discover they have supernatural powers, anger and curiosity become deadly weapons – a riveting mystery thriller that ventures into eerie territory.

• The Movement of Things

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  Director: Manuela SerraCountry: Portugal

  1985 | 89 min. | PortugueseSubtitles: English, German

  Manuela Serra's poetic documentary ›O Movimento Das Coisas‹ is one of the great discoveries of this year's retrospective.

• The Noise of Engines

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  Director: Philippe GrégoireCountry: Canada

  German Premiere
  2021 | 79 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  One man takes on the whole world. Philippe Grégoire's subversive offbeat grotesque dissects notions of morality.

• The Replacement

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  Director: Óscar AibarCountry: Spain

  International Premiere
  2021 | 115 min. | SpanishSubtitles: English, German

  Cops, Nazis, murder and conspiracy – Oscar Aibar mixes motifs from pulp and genre with a classical mise-en-scène and political-historical analysis.

• The Sleeping Negro

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  Director: Skinner MyersCountry: USA

  German Premiere
  2021 | 73 min. | EnglishSubtitles: English, German

  Anger, alienation and everyday racism: a young African-American man falls into an existential crisis in the space of 24 hours – and meets his other self.

• The Tsugua Diaries

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  Director: Miguel Gomes, Maureen FazendeiroCountry: Portugal

  German Premiere
  2021 | 102 min. | Portuguese, RomanianSubtitles: English, German

  Who gets to kiss whom in the summer of 2020? In search of mindfulness, community and joie de vivre, this cinematic diary follows a trio of characters backwards through time.

• To Kill the Beast

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  Director: Agustina San MartínCountry: Argentina

  German Premiere
  2021 | 79 min. | Spanish, PortugueseSubtitles: German, English

  Tropical Gothic: A village is terrified of a monster in the jungle and a young woman confronts her budding sexuality.

• To the Ends of the World

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  Director: Guillaume NiclouxCountry: France

  2018 | 103 min. | French, VietnameseSubtitles: English, German

  Gaspard Ulliel and Gérard Depardieu search for humanity in the tropical humidity of a war zone. An exclamation mark in the radical oeuvre of director Guillaume Nicloux.

• Vera Dreams of the Sea

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  Director: Kaltrina KrasniqiCountry: Kosovo, North Macedonia , Albania

  German Premiere
  2021 | 87 min. | AlbanianSubtitles: English, German

  Women do not inherit houses. In this extraordinary thriller, the threat springs directly from the corrupt heart of male-dominated Kosovar tradition.

• Vortex

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  Director: Gaspar NoéCountry: France, Belgium

  2021 | 142 min. | FrenchSubtitles: English, German

  What is dignity and what is autonomy in a day-to-day life that is fully medicated? In ›Vortex‹, a clever split screen presents two lives that are no longer completely in sync.

• What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?

  Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?read moreOnline
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  Director: Alexandre KoberidzeCountry: Germany, Georgia

  2021 | 150 min. | GeorgianSubtitles: English, German

  A love letter to cinema and football: Alexandre Koberidze draws from film history’s bag of tricks in this romantic fairy tale.

• Wintermärchen

  Germany. A Winter's Taleread more
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  Director: Jan BonnyCountry: Germany

  2018 | 125 min. | GermanSubtitles: English

  Jan Bonny's Neo-Nazi fantasy stages a more painful confrontation with the failures of state and society than any other recent film.

• Women Do Cry

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  Director: Mina Mileva, Vesela KazakovaCountry: Bulgaria, France

  German Premiere
  2021 | 106 min. | BulgarianSubtitles: English, German

  They love each other, and they love to challenge each other: in ›Women Do Cry‹, five women fight each other before taking on the Bulgarian patriarchy.

• You Resemble Me

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  Director: Dina AmerCountry: France, Egypt, USA

  German Premiere
  2021 | 90 min. | French, ArabicSubtitles: English, German SDH

  The dream of an independent life: a girl flees from home, grows up, threatens to lose herself. A rousing plea against prejudices.

• Zero Fucks Given

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  Director: julie lecoustre, Emmanuel MarreCountry: France, Belgium

  German Premiere
  2021 | 110 min. | French, EnglishSubtitles: English, German

  Adèle Exarchopoulos, winner of the Palme d’Or for ›La vie d’Adèle‹, shines in this tragicomic character study of a flight attendant in free fall.

• Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

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  Director: Günter Peter StraschekCountry: Germany

  1970 | 18 min. | GermanSubtitles: English

  This film is part of our short film programme ›Five German short films made between 1967 and 1970‹.

• Întregalde

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  Director: Radu MunteanCountry: Romania

  2021 | 104 min. | RomanianSubtitles: English, German

  A charity expedition turns into a nightmare. IFFMH alumnus Radu Muntean once again proves himself to be one of the most interesting storytellers of the Romanian New Wave.