| Thu 8.09 Luru Kino | |
| 8 pm | OPENING FILM NEPTUNE FROST RW/US 2021, D: Anisia Uzeyman & Saul Williams, A: Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire, Dorcy Rugamba, 105‘, OV with English subtitles, Sprachen: Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English, DCP |
| DEAD FLASH FR 2021, R: Bertrand Mandico, A: Elina Löwensohn, Christophe Bier, Ekaterina Ozhiganova, 37‘, OV with English subtitles, 35mm |
| Fri 9.09. Luru Kino | |
| 8 pm | CINEMA SPACE & DESIRE VARIETY US/BRD/GB 1983, D: Bette Gordon, A: Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Luis Guzman, Nan Goldin, Richard Davidson, 97‘, OV, 35mm |
| 10 pm | CINEMA SPACE & DESIRE SIMON BARBÉS OU LA VERTU F 1980, D: Marie-Claude Treilhou, A: Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Michel Delahaye, 77‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| Sat 10.09. UT Connewitz | |
| 7:30 pm | LIVE SCORE KATAOKA – Vinyl project |
| 9 pm | LIVE SCORE Ichiro Kataoka und Reiko Emura vertonen A PAGE OF MADNESS JP 1926, D: Kinugasa Teinosuke, A: Inoue Masao, Nakagawa Yoshie, 71‘, silent, DCP |
| Sun 11.09. UT Connewitz | |
| 7 pm | Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann SONNTAG, BÜSCHERHÖFCHEN 2 GER 2014, 13‘, without Dialogue, HD DESERT MIRACLES GER/US 2015, 12‘, engl OV, HD EDIFICE US 2018, 4‘, without Dialogue, HD OCEAN HILL DRIVE GER 2016, 21‘, engl. OV, HD ONE HOUR REAL GER/NL 2017, 12‘, without Dialogue, HD CHINA LIGHT GER 2019, 4‘ without Dialogue, HD SOUVENIR GER/NL 2019, 20‘, engl. OV, HD |
| 9 pm | DISTRUKTUR EL MERAYA EG/GER/BR 2018, D: Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn, OV, + german live score, 20‘, 16mm A MÁQUINA DO TEMPO / TIME MACHINE BR/DE 2015, D: Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn, german live score, 5‘, 16mm DON’T LOOK BACK / LABIRINTO BR/DE 2012, D: Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn, without Dialogue, 6‘, 16mm ÉTERNAU BR 2006, D: Gustavo Jahn, OV with English subtitles, 22‘, 16mm FOTOKINO BR/DE 2012, D: Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn, without Dialogue, 3‘, 16mm KINOGRAPH FR/BR/DE 2020, without Dialogue, 2’, 16mm |
| Labor Berlin e.V. HLBC 16 GER 2021, D: Luisa Greenfield, engl. Live-Text, 15‘, 16mm IN MEMORY / GEDENKEN GER 2018, D: Katrin Eissing, Melina Pafundi, without Dialogue, 9‘, 16mm MOONLESS / SANS LUNE CH/DE 2017, D: Sophie Watzlawick, with präludium & live translation, 12‘, 16mm |
| Mon 12.09. Schaubühne Lindenfels | |
| 7 pm | ELES TRANSPORTAN A MORTE / THEY CARRY DEATH ES/CO 2021, D: Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado, A: Nuria Lestegás, Sara Ferro, Xoán Reices, Valentín Estévez, 75‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| 9 pm | RE GRANCHIO / THE TALE OF KING CRAB IT/AR/FR 2021, D: Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis, A: Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Severino Sperandio, 106‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| Tue 13.09 Luro Kino | |
| 7 pm | WITH PYRAMIDS GER 1990, D: Renate Sami, Doc, 93‘, OV with german subtitles, 16mm |
| 9 pm | WHITE RAVENS – NIGHTMARE CHECHNYA GER/FR 2005, D: Johann Feindt & Tamara Trampe, Doc, 92‘, OV with german voiceover, Digi Beta |
| Wed 14.09. UT Connewitz | |
| 7 pm | GOTTESZELL– A WOMENS PRISON GER 2001, D: Helga Reidemeister, Doc, 104‘, OV with English subtitles, 35mm |
| 9 pm | DER SCHWARZE KASTEN GER 1992, D: Johann Feindt & Tamara Trampe, Doc, 95‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| Thu 15.09. Luru Kino | |
| 7 pm | WE ALL DIE HOWEVER THE MAIN THING IS HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES (HOLGER MEINS) BRD 1976, D: Renate Sami, 51‘, OV, 16mm DIARIES 1975-1985 (STREIFZÜGE) GER 2005, D: Renate Sami, 32‘, OV, MiniDV |
| 9 pm | THE PURCHAISED DREAM. LIFE OF A WORKING FAMILY BRD 1977, D: Helga Reidemeister, Eduard Gernart, in Cooperation with Family Bruder, Doc, 84‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| Fri 16.09. Schaubühne Lindenfels | |
| 8 pm | A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING FR/IN 2021, D: Payal Kapadia, Doc, 96‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| 10 pm | ESPÍRITU SAGRADO / THE SACRED SPIRIT ES/FR/TR 2021, D: Chema García Ibarra, A: Llum Arques, Nacho Fernández, Rocío Ibáñez, 97’, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| Sat 17.09. Schaubühne Lindenfels | |
| 7 pm | BRUNO SUKROW – THE FILM TINKELER SATURNUS GER 2011, D: Bruno Sukrow, 30‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP MARTINS FEUER GER 2013, D: Bruno Sukrow, 44‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP VERGISSMEINNICHT GER 2021, D: Robert Sukrow, 18‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| 9:30 pm | JERK FR 2021, D: Gisèle Vienne, A: Jonathan Capdevielle, 60‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP GERMAN PREMIERE STAGING DEATH AT/D 2022, D: Jan Soldat, 8‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP GERMAN PREMIERE ASMODEUS CA 2021, D: Éric Falardeau, A: Éric Falardeau, Stéphanie Cadieux, Annaëlle Winand, 11‘, without Dialogue, DCP |
| Sun 18.09 UT Connewitz | |
| 2 pm | GEGENkinderkino HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE JP 2004, D: Hayao Miyazaki, 119‘, german Version, DCP, approved for 6 ages and older |
| 7 pm | SUPER NATURAL PT 2022, D: Jorge Jácome, A: Alexis Fernandez, Bárbara Matos, Celestine Ngantonga Ndzana, 85‘, OV with English subtitles, DCP |
| 9 pm | BEATRIX AT 2021, D: Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner, A: Eva Sommer, Katharina Farnleitner, Marthe de Crouy-Chanel, 95‘, OV with English subtitles, 35mm |
PT 2022, D: Jorge Jácome, A: Alexis Fernandez, Bárbara Matos, Celestine Ngantonga Ndzana, 85′, OV with English subtitles, DCP
“I am so glad you made it.” With this friendly invitation and gentle sounds from a cosmos of electronic cricket chirping, an artificial voice welcomes us. “Our images are moving.” Who does it mean by “we” and where are we moving to? We can neither ask nor answer, but only let the changing colour and sound surfaces affect us. Cyber-meditation. The cinema becomes a collective oasis. SUPER NATURAL is an experimental film that moves back and forth between fiction and documentary elements, as well as different film materials and image manipulations. And goes to the ground with us. “Where do I end and you begin?” – we cannot tell with certainty where the moving worlds of SUPER NATURAL will accompany us. Perhaps all the way into our own dreams.
| Sun 18 Sept | UT Connewitz |
| 7 pm | regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
AT 2021, D: Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner, A: Eva Sommer, Katharina Farnleitner, Marthe de Crouy-Chanel, 95′, OV with English subtitles, 35mm
Beatrix is house-sitting for a friend in the countryside. Watering the flowers. Feeding the cat. Her detoxing from the decision-making pressure of the big city is only occasionally disturbed by the visit of friends. She occupies the time of her self chosen isolation with her phone or in front of the fridge during the night. Cleaning, vacuuming, masturbating. The teletext proclaims something about migrants. And Trump has cancelled his trip to Denmark. Shortly after nine, there is Dawson’s Creek on TV. Somewhere along the line then: the (hair) cut! But actually, with her new flatmate, all is going along ritualised paths, too. Until, well, the budding homoerotic desire, previously only alive during intoxicated states, demands an existential frankness. That forces a jump out of the almost square picture. A wonderfully witty, intimate portrait of a woman on the edge of her own solitude.
| Sun 18 Sept | UT Connewitz |
| 9 pm | regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
JP 2004, D: Hayao Miyazaki, 119′, German version, DCP, approved for ages 6 and older
In HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE we see everything that makes Studio Ghibli’s animated films so adorable: a love story against all odds, a venerable Europe with giant gadgetry, amiable monsters and tragic heroes, sweeping fighting and food feast. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE tells of the love between Sophie and Hauro. She is a hatter, turned into an old mummy by an evil witch, he is the beautiful wizard, travelling through no-man’s-land with his moving castle. There, Sophie signs up for housekeeping and now has enough time to approach her heartthrob, who yet has to find out that she is actually as young as he is. And then, there is a war to stop…
| Sun 18 Sept | UT Connewitz |
| 14:00 Uhr | 2€ |
Originally published as a novel by Dennis Cooper, JERK refers to the authentic story of sexual criminal and mass murderer Dean Corll, who abused, tortured and killed more than 20 young men at the beginning of the 1970ies. David Brooks, one of his accessories, put an end to the horror and killed Corll.
JERK
FR 2021, D: Gisèle Vienne, A: Jonathan Capdevielle, 60′, OV with English subtitles, DCP
In the fictional continuation of this story, David Brooks – sentenced to life imprisonment – looks back on the incidents and reappraises it as a therapeutic measure. The killer turns into the narrator and reconstructs the crimes in the form of a puppet theatre show. In this, setting and film language are minimized: only Brooks, performing with a couple of hand puppets, giving them – embodying perpetrators and victims alike – a voice. The horror of the crimes saturated with violence is accompanied by a sadist narrative. Within an aesthetic situation multiply broken by the theatre setting and the usage of puppets, Brooks’ imagination and the representation of his corporeality are completely absorbed in an extremely distance-free and what is for him a lustful reenactment of the killings.
| Sat 17 Sept | Schaubühne Lindenfels |
| 9:30 pm | In the presence of Jan Soldat With an audience discussion after JERK regular: 6,5€ / reduced 5,5€ |
STAGING DEATH | German Premiere
AT/GER 2022, D: Jan Soldat, 8′, OV with English subtitles, DCP
During his acting career that started in the middle of the 1960ies, Udo Kier worked hard for the presumably longest records in the usual film databases. Beside engagements by cinematic artists including Lars von Trier, he is frequently booked for remote trash and low-budget productions. Here and there, the characters played by him are very often sent to kingdom come. In STAGING DEATH, Jan Soldat collects a selection of the more than 70 deaths that Kier has died in front of the camera. In the montage, iconic episodes are assembled, like Dracula being impaled, a moon-nazi being squashed by a T-Rex and the physical disappearance of Jason whose body can hardly be detected in the billowing reed. At the same time, the juxtaposition of scenes from over 50 years gives an entertaining insight into the evolution of special effects. One thing is for sure: Kier gives his unmistakable peculiarity even to his playful deaths – from falling asleep peacefully to being massacred.
ASMODEUS | German Premiere
CA 2021, D: Éric Falardeau, A: Éric Falardeau, Stéphanie Cadieux, Annaëlle Winand, 11′, no dialogue, DCP
In the form of an occult ritual, ASMODEUS depicts the invocation and awakening of three female incarnations of the eponymous demon of lust and wrath. In this, director Éric Falardeau, who plays the male protagonist, orients himself at the principles of the affective transgressions of gore and splatter: down with good taste! During the ceremony, blood and other body fluids are flowing, ecstasy lends the power to the people (men) to turn into a higher self, to get rid of handles and constraints of morality.
