GB/FR/CA 2025, D: Ben Rivers, A: Moon Guo Barker, 98′, OV with English subtitles, DCP
In MARE’S NEST, Ben Rivers tells the story of Moon, a child on the move. After Moon crashes a car to avoid running over a tortoise crossing the road, she continues on foot with the tortoise and encounters nothing but further children: straying, playing, carefree, strange, symbolic beings. The time in which they exist seems meaningless; the place they inhabit, a magical cinematic space: dusty, grainy, alternately bathed in golden light or atmospheric black and white. An anarchic cinematic poem, shot over two years in episodes during the school holidays at extraordinary locations. A ritual journey through a world that has finally cleansed itself of all adults. “We have myth to protect us when history goes mad.”
| Tue 15 September 2026 | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 7 PM | € 7,50 (6,50 reduced) |
GE/FR/QA, D: Tamar Kalandadze & Julien Pebrel, 104‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP “
“Kartli” not only refers to a medieval Georgian kingdom, but also to a former sanatorium in Tbilisi. In the wake of the Georgian-Abkhazian War (1992-1993), around 150 families who were displaced from Abkhazia now live there. What was initially intended as a short-term solution has become a permanent situation to this day. THE KARTLI KINGDOM is observational cinema that depicts the shared fate of the residents, who live in a dilapidated building and are beginning to organise for their right to decent housing. Over three decades, a warm-hearted microcosm has developed in Kartli, where people live and die, keep animals, and where everyday rituals shape communal life. Footage from the present is interwoven with VHS material and the stories of the elders, who help us to understand trauma, exile and their collective power of resistance.
| Mo 14 September 2026 | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 19:00 Uhr | € 7,50 (6,50 reduced) |
FINDING WORDS | The unadorned, humanistic documentaries of Nurith Aviv
“A given name is a gift, a choice, a message that can be questioned, interpreted and reinvented throughout one’s life.” (Text panel at the start of the film)
FR 2026, D: Nurith Aviv, 82‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP
With a mobile phone camera in one hand and a bouquet of flowers in the other, Nurith Aviv visits friends in their Parisian flats. Thirteen of them speak, in calm, static shots, about their first names – about origin and belonging, about name changes, memories and wounds. From these focused portraits emerges a polyphonic picture of contemporary France and Europe. Despite some painful stories, GIVEN NAMES never feels heavy, but rather like a gift of flowers: a quiet act of friendship, thoughtful, warm and full of great humanity.
| Tue 15 September 2026 | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 9 PM | € 7,50 (6,50 reduced) |
FINDING WORDS | The unadorned, humanistic documentaries of Nurith Aviv
SIGNING
FR/IL 2018, D: Nurith Aviv, 60‘, OV wit English subtitles, DCP
Unlike the majority of Nurith Aviv’s films, SIGNING does not focus on the spoken word, but rather on hands, arms and facial expressions. By exploring the theme of sign language, it opens up a world to hearing people that usually remains hidden from them. It tells of the everyday lives of deaf people, of ways of living together, and of the uniqueness of these languages. As always, Aviv combines intellectual curiosity with a simple, people-centred cinematic style. In the “silent” opening film HER PORTRAIT, MY PORTRAIT, Aviv observes the painter Liliane Klapisch as she attempts to paint her portrait – a quiet double portrait exploring creativity and friendship.
HER PORTRAIT, MY PORTRAIT
FR 2026, D: Nurith Aviv, 15‘, no dialogue, DCP
| Mon 14 September 2026 | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 9 PM | € 7,50 (6,50 reduced) |
FINDING WORDS | The unadorned, humanistic documentaries of Nurith Aviv
LOSS
FR/DE 2002, D: Nurith Aviv, 30‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP
Berlin, the birthplace of Nurith Aviv’s Jewish father: in LOSS, we see an unedited journey on the Ringbahn, the city gliding past the train window whilst the filmmaker’s friends discuss the void left there by the Shoah. The result, as Aviv puts it, is an “intellectual story” about loss – a quest in which urban landscape, language and memory intertwine. FROM LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE tells a similarly interwoven story – but from the other side of exile: of people who found a new home in Israel between Hebrew and their mother tongue.
FROM LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE
FR/DE/IL 2004, D: Nurith Aviv, 55‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP
| Mon 13 September 2026 | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 9 PM | € 7,50 (6,50 reduced) |
