Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Coming-of-Age // 95 minutes // 2020 // Director: Leonie Krippendorff Rating R16 Berlin-Kreuzberg is Nora’s microcosm. Nora, the silent observer, is always tagging along: At parties, at school, at the pool, on rooftops and in apartments. Nora drifts around the monotonous housing blocks with her big […]
Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Coming-of-Age // 92 minutes // 2020 // Director: Faraz Shariat Rating R18 – Viewer discretion advised. Contains scenes of a sexual nature. High-cut trousers, skin-tight t-shirt, short, peroxide-blond hair. Parvis, the son of Iranian parents, has established himself in the attic of his parents’ house in […]
Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Drama // 117 minutes // 2016 // Director: Soleen Yusef Three siblings, born in Kurdistan but raised in Stuttgart, return to their country of origin to fulfil the wish of their deceased mother. She wanted to be buried in her home village next to her husband, […]
Part of the "Berlinale Selection 2020" film series programme. Drama // 93 minutes // 2020 // Director: Daphne Charizani Rojda is a young German soldier with Kurdish-Iraqi roots who has lived in Germany since childhood. She is now looking for her mother Ferhat in a Greek refugee camp to take her to Germany. When the […]
An uplifting Swiss comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy with jazz music by the siblings Baldenweg (Great Garbo). At the age of 89, Gertrud Foster is enviably energetic and independent with only one thing in mind when she smiles at the elegant Englishman, who she apparently found on a dating platform, even though she has no […]
Joana and Valentin Dorek are a married couple going through a crisis. This prompts them to take a trial session with a couple’s therapist. In the therapist’s consulting room they start off with their standard programme: she won’t stop talking and he isn’t even listening. The broken communication between the couple is a real challenge […]
"I always confuse south to north, north to south." This residency exhibition examines the topics media and conflict narratives as part of the Visual Voices project Falling Walls: Looking through conflict narratives. Over a period of three months, eleven artists from across the island participated in an artist residency to deal with the opposing societal […]
