Programme 2014

Sunday | 13.04. |

Festivalzentrum

09:30
Lecture

Nouvelle Vague Polonaise

Lecture

Dr. Jakub Mikurda: The “Polish New Wave“ as Phantasmatic Criticism – Zuławski, Królikiewicz, Skolimowski

Caligari

11:00
WEST

Christian Schwochow

Germany 2013

WEST

East Berlin in the late 1970s. Nelly Senf, a doctor of chemistry, is allowed to leave the German Democratic Republic together with her son Alexey. After crossing the border, the mother and son land in Marienfelde refugee centre in Berlin, where she... > more

Festivalzentrum

11:00
Lecture

Nouvelle Vague Polonaise

Lecture

Dr. Elzbieta Ostrowska: Transgressions and Regressions. Gender images in Polish Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s

Festivalzentrum

13:00
Closing Panel

Nouvelle Vague Polonaise

Closing Panel

Was there a “Nouvelle Vague Polonaise“? And if so, how many?
with Krzysztof Zanussi, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Tadeusz Lubelski, Dr. Magarete Wach

Alpha

14:00
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM

Corneliu Porumboiu

Romania, France 2013

WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM

A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more

Murnau Filmtheater

14:00
THE CITY OF THE SUN

Martin Šulík

Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2005

THE CITY OF THE SUN

What’s the best course of action when your country’s in crisis and you’re not only stuck in a two-bit town but out of a job? Karel, Tomaś, Vinco and Milan decide to buy a delivery van and strike down the path of... > more

Caligari

14:30
ZELIM'S CONFESSION

Natalia Mikhaylova

Germany 2013

ZELIM'S CONFESSION

“Actually, I want to forget these things,” says Zelim at the start of the film. But then the young man begins to talk. For a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia, waiting at a bus-stop proved to be a bad idea: he was spotted by a passing police... > more

Alpha

16:00
SHAME

Yusup Razykov

Russia 2013

SHAME

In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more

Caligari

16:00
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

Andrei Gruzsniczki

Romania 2013

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

As the title suggests, the drama QUOD ERAT DEMOSTRANDUM displays a certain affinity with academia and advanced mathematics. As such, the film goes against the grain of the Romanian New Wave. The old-school patina, moreover, is deepened by the plain... > more

Festivalzentrum

16:00
JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY

Eszter Hajdú

Hungary, Germany 2013

JUDGMENT IN HUNGARY

In 2008 and 2009 several Roma villages in Hungary were attacked by far-right extremists. Six people died, among them a five-year-old child. The film documents the two-and-a-half-year trial of four suspects against whom a case was brought. Because... > more

Murnau Filmtheater

16:00
STRANGER

Małgorzata Szumowska

Poland, Germany 2004

STRANGER

Eva, a young woman who works in a petrol station, is pregnant. The father’s done a bunk. She intends to have an abortion, but a stranger steals her money on her way to the clinic. She happens to overhear a doctor telling a mother-to-be that... > more

Alpha

18:00
KERTU.LOVE IS BLIND

Ilmar Raag

Estonia 2013

KERTU.LOVE IS BLIND

Kertu is not like other people. As far as the locals on the Estonian island of Saaremaa are concerned, the shy postwoman with girlish features is slightly mad. During the summer solstice celebrations Kertu suddenly disappears. The next morning... > more

Caligari

18:00
FILM PRIZE OF THE ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG
FILM PRIZE OF THE ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG

some of the particular highlights from the past ten years and A presentation of three works in progress commenced during the past two years.

> more

Kino DFM, Frankfurt

18:00
SHAME

Yusup Razykov

Russia 2013

SHAME

In her fashionable blue coat, Lena doesn’t fit into the forbidding grey world of a dilapidated military base in northern Russia. It’s the height of polar winter and the Kola Peninsula a snowy wasteland. Lena is the new wife of a... > more

Murnau Filmtheater

18:00
THE CRUISE

Marek Piwowski

Poland 1970

THE CRUISE

A stowaway, of all people, is the activities co-ordinator who rules a cruise ship with a rod of iron. His activities reflect the behavioural stereotypes and ideologies of the communist system. The mood is grotesque, the dialogue surreal, the... > more

Festivalzentrum

18:30
VALLEY OF SIGHS

Mihai Andrei Leaha, Andrei Crişan, Iulia Elena Hossu

Romania 2013

VALLEY OF SIGHS

Transnistria was still part of the Soviet Union when German and Romanian troops invaded in 1941. Along with many Jewish deportees, some 25,000 Roma were transported there from Romania. The prisoners were interred in appalling conditions, for the... > more

Alpha

20:00
FOR MARX …

Svetlana Baskova

Russia 2012

FOR MARX …

A steelworks in the Russian provinces. Workers labouring under already dire conditions face wage cuts and pay-offs. A group of workers employees decide to form a trade union. The factory owner feels more irritated than alarmed – his main... > more

Caligari

20:00
FREE RANGE - BALLAD ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD

Veiko Õunpuu

Estonia 2013

FREE RANGE - BALLAD ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD

Fred, a film critic, finds himself out of a job: the editor-in-chief was not impressed by his hatchet job, richly punctuated with expletives, on Terrence Malick’s TREE OF LIFE. Fred’s not overly worried: he needs time for his own... > more

Festivalzentrum

20:00
ZELIM'S CONFESSION

Natalia Mikhaylova

Germany 2013

ZELIM'S CONFESSION

“Actually, I want to forget these things,” says Zelim at the start of the film. But then the young man begins to talk. For a Chechen refugee in Ingushetia, waiting at a bus-stop proved to be a bad idea: he was spotted by a passing police... > more

Murnau Filmtheater

20:00
THROUGH AND THROUGH

Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Poland 1972

THROUGH AND THROUGH

A socially disadvantaged couple murders two old-age pensioners on impulse. The protagonists’ sense of futility, of being despised by the world around them, rouses an unquenchable desire to perpetrate a crime that calls to mind the resolute... > more

Palatin, Mainz

20:00
ME TOO

Aleksey Balabanov

Russia 2012

ME TOO

IN MEMORIAM ALEKSEY BALABANOV
Aleksey Balabanov, one of the most wayward and controversial Russian directors of the post-Soviet era, died aged 54 in May 2013. After initially establishing his filmmaking reputation with literary... > more

Programmkino Rex

20:15
KNIFE IN THE WATER

Roman Polański

Poland 1961

KNIFE IN THE WATER

A chance encounter as starting point for a biting social analysis: a day out on the lake, two men and one woman desired by both her companions, a car made in the West, a yacht. Critics deemed that the embittered competition for status objects... > more

Kino DFM, Frankfurt

20:30
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM

Corneliu Porumboiu

Romania, France 2013

WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM

A blasé filmmaker, a young actress, an arduous shoot, a producer who is not amused: the plot of Porumboiu’s latest film is hardly new, the filmmaking process has been the subject of countless films. But the finely honed formal devices and... > more

Alpha

22:00
A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE

Julian Radlmaier

Germany 2012

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE

A prologue in which two French men meditate on art, on Marx’s Capital, on bygone revolutionary times. A Georgian eking out a precarious existence in Berlin is about to hang Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square on his kitchen wall when the... > more

Caligari

22:00
SLOVAK SHORTS
SLOVAK SHORTS

4 Short Films
83 min.
> more

Festivalzentrum

22:00
Film Discussions
Film Discussions

ZELIM’S CONFESSION / ZELIMS BEKENNTNIS / ZELIM’S CONFESSION
QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM / QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM / QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM
FREE RANGE – BALLAAD MAIILMA HEAKSIITMISEST / FREE RANGE – BALLADE VON DER... > more

Festivalzentrum

22:00
MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC

Arsen Oremović

Croatia 2013

MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC

The dream of home ownership suddenly seems less remote when banks are willing and eager to furnish a loan. For some 120,000 Croats, however, the sweet and simple deal turned out to be misleading if not to say deceptive. Encouraged by politicians and... > more

Murnau Filmtheater

22:00
THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT

Andrzej Żuławski

Poland 1971

THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT

This apocalyptic vision set in Lviv (Lemberg) under German occupation offers a highly idiosyncratic take on the authentic experiences of a writer who, recruited to play host for lice, contributes to the occupiers’ development of a vaccination... > more

Top of page