Watch and discuss film.
11.03.2021
On Thursday, the march 11th we will have the first 35K evening of 2021! We will stream Pelin Esmers debut film KOLEKSIYONCU - THE COLLECTOR. This is followed by a zoom talk with the
director.
Thursday, the 11th at 8 pm - Zoom talk with Pelin Esmer.
Two days before the event - streaming link available
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Synopsis: a passionate collector, Mithat Esmer, has been collecting everything one can imagine for over 70 years. He lives in his own house like a guest of his collections, and is forever on a quest for new discoveries. While witnessing Mr. Esmer´s edeavor to stop time, we get to know one of the most polite, passionate, and smart people in the world.
02.07.2020
35K goes digital! Our first online evening will take place on Thursday, July 2nd. Jan Bonny’s debut is being streamed. This is followed by a zoom talk with the director. 12 to 8 p.m. - streaming link available (max. 50 people). 8:15 p.m. - Zoom talk with Jan Bonny.
Synopsis: Patrolman Georg (Matthias Brandt) is appreciated by his colleagues. His younger partner Michael (Wotan Wilke Möhring) envies his harmonious marriage with the primary school teacher Anne (Victoria Trauttmannsdorff). But the conflicts that have determined the couple’s life for years gradually penetrate the beautiful facade. Anne’s desperate struggle for recognition, Georg’s efforts to please everyone, the helplessness of the adult children, the incomprehension of colleagues and the traces of physical violence that can hardly be hidden.
“This debut by a film student from Cologne is an extremely unusual drama. It reveals a hell behind the facade of a normal marriage. Matthias Brandt shines once again in the extremely multi-faceted depiction of a weak “strong man”, and Viktoria Trauttmannsdorff also impresses with intensity. A nervous hand-held camera reflects mental fragmentation. “- Rüdiger Suchsland
17.02.2020
BUNGALOW (D: Ulrich Köhler, 85 min, DE, 2002)
BUNGALOW will be screened at DFFB cinema. Director Ulrich Köhler will be present to discuss his first feature with the audience. Everyone is welcome and entrance will be donation-based. Admission 7:30pm. Film start 8pm.
Synopsis: On the way back from the manoeuvre to the barracks, recruit Paul remains unnoticed at a service station. The company leaves and Paul returns home to the bungalow of his absent parents.
His "vacation" quickly becomes complicated: The German Army is looking for him, his girlfriend Kerstin breaks up with him and unexpectedly his older brother Max and his Danish girlfriend Lene
turn up. At the place of his childhood, old role patterns resume and the brother conflict soon turns into a rivalry over a woman.
"When someone interests me, I look at how they behave, how they speak, how they move, how they are dressed. Often the person is the more interesting, the more surprising their behaviour is and
the less quickly I understand them. What I find exciting are films whose characters I get to know, how I get to know an unknown person - without a psychological explanation." - Ulrich Köhler.
09.01.2020
KLASSENFAHRT (D: Henner Winckler, S:Stefan Kriekhaus, Henner Winckler, 85 min, DE, 2002)
KLASSENFAHRT will be screened at DFFB cinema. Director Henner Winckler will be present to discuss his first feature with the audience. Co-writer Stefan Kriekhaus will join the talk. Everyone is welcome. Entrance will be donation-based. Admission 7:30pm. Film start 8pm.
Synopsis: A school class goes to the Polish Baltic Sea. The pupils don't find the holiday resort very exciting. The 16-year-old Ronny and his classmate Isa develop a discreet relationship between table tennis, day trips and alcohol excesses. During a disco visit they get to know the Pole Marek. On the way in threes, Ronny quickly notices that Marek is more interested in Isa than in him. Ronny begins to challenge Marek over and over again, until it finally comes to a test of courage.
"If KLASSENFAHRT were French, or rather Asian, the whole world would immediately throw itself on the ground and call out "masterpiece"," wrote Didier Péron for the French daily newspaper Libération. The film premiered in 2002 at the International Forum of the Berlinale.
28.11.2019
MY SISTER'S GOOD FORTUNE (D: Angela Schanelec, 84 min, DE, 1995)
MY SISTER'S GOOD FORTUNE will be screened at the DFFB cinema. Director Angela Schanelec will be present to discuss her graduation film with the audience. Everyone is welcome and entrance will be free of charge. Admission 7:30pm. Film start 8pm.
Synopsis: Photographer Christian loves two women - Isabel, a translator, and her half-sister Ariane, a gardener. His attempt to build a life with Isabel and to end the ménage à trois is boycotted by Ariane desperately fighting for him.
Angela Schanelec: "For me it was clear that the language in my film is artificial and written, but on the other hand I didn't want to manipulate space. I was interested in what would emerge from written language and artificial characters, who just don't sit there and improvise, but act and say what I wrote down in a documentary environment.". A considerable part of the dialogue-rich film was shot on the noisy and crowded streets of Berlin.
MY SISTER'S GOOD FORTUNE received the German Film Critic Award in 1996.
08.04.2019
THOSE WHO ARE FINE (D: Cyril Schäublin, 71 Min, CH, 2017)
In the cinema of the dffb we screen - in the presence of the director - DENE WOS GUET GEIT, the debut film of the former dffb student Cyril Schäublin. The jury of the Locarno Film Festival honored his work with the First Feature Award, after which the film travelled the world and was part of the exquisite program of the New Directors/New Films Festival in New York. Now Cyril Schäublin returns with his film to the dffb, his former film school, shows us his work and discusses it with us. The screening has English subtitles and the discussion will be held in German. Admission 19:30, film 20:00.
Synopsis: Alice works at a callcenter in the outskirts of Zürich. She sells internet and insurance to strangers over the the phone. After work she wanders around in a city, where everything seems to function perfectly. Using her skills of selling internet and insurance deals, young call center employee Alice calls up elderly strangers and pretends to be their granddaughter in urgent need of money. As this trick quickly makes her rich, the film observes people and places in Zurich, all mysteriously connected to Alice’s business.
With a sober aesthetic, laconic humour and set pieces of a crime novel Cyril Schäublin portrays the clinically clean city of Zurich, which functions as the backdrop for a precise depiction of a hyper-capitalist society.
07.03.2019
UNTEN MITTE KINN (D: Nicolas Wackerbarth, 90 min, DE, 2011)
In the cinema of dffb we screen UNTEN MITTE KINN. It is the debut film of Nicolas Wackerbarth, whose last film CASTING (2017) attracted a lot of attention in the landscape of German cinema. After the screening we'll have a talk with Wackerbarth, focusing mostly on his way to work with actors or, more precisely, improvisation. Admission 19:30, film 20:00.
Synopsis: In the acting milieu everyone wants to make it as early and as quickly as possible, but the final auditions of the acting school threatens to become a disaster. To save themselves, the graduating class rehearses intensely and becomes a plaything of rumors and intrigues, panic attacks and vanities.
UNTEN MITTE KIND is an improvised, snappy comedy about a generation of young actors fighting against art officialdom.
13.12.2018
HOTEL VERY WELCOME (D: Sonja Heiss, 89 min, DE, 2007)
In the cinema of the dffb we show - in the presence of director Sonja Heiss - HOTEL VERY WELCOME, her graduation film of HFF Munich. With subsequent discussion. Admission 19:30, film 20:00.
Five backpackers travel through the large, exotic amusement park of Asia to escape the European everyday life: Josh and Adam get caught up in the ecstasy of global beach parties. Svenja is stuck in a hotel room in Bangkok because she mist her flight. Meanwhile, Liam staggers through India with expanded consciousness to distract himself from his problems at home, while Marion tries to find a deeper connection to herself through meditation. At the end of the journey, some backpackers find a new start - and others, after all, just a connecting flight.
Sonja Heiss traveled with her protagonists through Asia for several months - a homage to all backpackers, that cleverly combines the authenticity of a documentary with the punchiness of a comedy.
22.11.18
MUXMÄUSCHENSTILL (D: Marcus Mittermeier, 89 min, DE, 2004)
In the cinema of the dffb we are screening MUXMÄUSCHENSTILL. The screening will take place in German with English subtitles and will be followed by a discussion with the screenwriter and leading actor Jan Henrik Stahlberg. Entrance 19:30, film 20:00.
Mux (Jan Henrik Stahlberg) has a mission: the self-proclaimed idealist wants to teach his fellows again a sense of responsibility. With an immaculately ironed shirt, “Mister Clean” tracks the fare dodgers, parking offenders and graffiti sprayers. Mux cleans up in the streets of Berlin, accompanied by his faithful assistant, the ex-long-term unemployed Gerd (Fritz Roth). He documents the heroic action with a video camera. But on his crusade against injustice and indifference, the amateur sheriff soon becomes a lawbreaker himself...
In their socially critical independent film, Jan Henrik Stahlberg and Marcus Mittermeier portray a self-righteous avenger of all social woes. The movie is a deep from the heart project has been precariously created over several years with private money from the makers and without film funding.
31.05.2018
FRANTA (D: Mathias Allary, 96 min, DE, 1989)
In the cinema of the dffb we are screening FRANTA, the debut film of Mathias Allary. The screening will take place in German and will be followed by a discussion with the director. Entrance 19:30, film 20:00.
As a young soldier Franta (Jan Kurbjuweit) is experiencing a deadly and hopeless war. The memories of Mascha, his young wife (Nicole Ansari) blend with the implacability of his enrironment. Frantas abdomen gets seriously injured during an attack. After awaking at a military hospital, people are laughing about the men, who´s manhood was shot away. Consequently, Fanta is dismissed from military services and returns injured and traumatized to his wife Mascha.
26.04.2018
OH BOY (D: Jan Ole Gerster, 95 min, DE, 2012)
In the cinema of the dffb we are screening OH BOY, the debut film of Jan Ole Gerster. The screening will take place in German and will be followed by a discussion with the director. Entrance 19:30, film 20:00.
Niko, in his late twenties, has recently quit his university studies. Now, he wanders around - sleepless – through the streets of Berlin and wonders about the people around him. With curiosity he observes them managing their daily lives, until this turbulant day: his girlfriend breaks up with him, his father cancels the financial support and a pychologist diagnosts emotional unstablilty.
OH BOY shot in a strong black and white aesthetic shifts between melancholy and humor and shows the search of the protagonist to find a place in a world, where everything is actually possible.
08.02.2018
In the cinema of the dffb we will be screening SGHWARZE, in the presence of Dito Tsintsadze, the director. The screening will take place in Georgian with German subtitles and will be followed by a discussion with the director.
Entrance 19:30, film 20:00.
Plot: A civil war is about to happen - the beginning of the armed conflict. A young physician (played by George Nakashidze) is trying to preserve his independence and isolates himself from his surrounding. Together with his girlfriend (played by Lika Guntsadze) he is planning to leave the country but can not escape from the political events.
Without any direct references to his own country of origin or regional conflicts of the 1990s, Dito Tsintsadze is creating a visual no-man's-land, about to be dissolved, while he is laconically telling the story of someone who wants to be neutral but has to face the fact that it is impossible.
11.01.2018
In the cinema of dffb we will be screening BE MY STAR, the debut film of Valeska Grisebach, which was her graduation piece for the Vienna Film Academy. She will be present for a following discussion. The film will be shown on 35 mm. Entrance 19:30. Film 20.00.
Plot: Nicole is fifteen years old and feels that something in her life is about to happen. She meets Christopher, who is also fifteen and one of the heroes of the backyard. They become a couple, which makes it convenient, that Nicole's mother temporarily took over nightshifts at work. Following the example of the adults around them, the young couple tries to realize their idea of love.
This film was realized by the filmmaker in a zone of transition between different concepts of naturalism, fiction and documentary. On the basis of a script outline Valeska Grisebach let her amateur actors improvise, while she followed the teenagers on the cautious approach towards love in Berlin Mitte.
30.11.2017
MILCHWALD (D: Christoph Hochhäusler, 87 min, DE, 2003)
In the cinema of dffb we will be screening MILCHWALD, the debut film of Christoph Hochhäusler, which was his graduation film for the HFF Munich. He will be present for a following discussion. The film will be shown on 35 mm. Entrance 19:30. Film 20.00.
Plot: On their way to go shopping in the close by country of Poland, Sylvia abandons her two rebellious stepchildren Lea (8) and Konstantin (7) on a rural road. After her return home alone, she does not dare to tell her husband, the father of the kids, the truth about their disappearance. Lost in the forest, the kids encounter a Polish man who promises to bring them back. Meanwhile the father, oblivious to the circumstances, and the stepmother go off in search of the supposedly kidnapped children.