France, Greece, Italy 2022 – Director: Giulia Amati – School or shepherding: What will Kristos, the last primary school child on the Island of Arki, choose?
Monopol Kino

Germany 2018 – Director: Dirk Heth, Olaf Winkler, Dirk Lienig – The town of Hoyerswerda is emblematic of the demise of the GDR. Everything that this town represented was swallowed up by the fall of communism. The people were left without any market worth. A citizens’ dance project helps them to live with the shame. A sensually choreographed, empathetic film.
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Germany 2024 – Director: Narges Kalhor – What do you do with an unwanted surname? An exploration of the complexity of forming an identity as a migrant.
City Kinos

Germany, Iran, United States 2021 – Director: Sarvnaz Alambeigi – Sheherazade had to tell stories to stay alive – we have to dance!
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Germany 2024 – Director: Narges Kalhor – What do you do with an unwanted surname? An exploration of the complexity of forming an identity as a migrant.
Theatiner Kino

Austria 2023 – Director: Kurt Langbein – From a risqué election campaign to the Chancellery then the dock. A marvellous political satire made in Austria.
City Kinos

Germany 2024 – Director: Günter Atteln – ​​Joana Mallwitz finds crowds unsettling but still she leads large orchestras as a principal conductor.
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China, United States 2014 – Director: J.P. Sniadecki – Journeys, carriages and protagonists that come and go – the train is a microcosm and a location for trade, exchange and mobility. We witness everyday occurrences, listen to intimate exchanges, both loud and quiet and follow people’s discussions. In this way the film presents us with a potpourri of impressions of China.
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France 2017 – Director: Hendrick Dusollier – In the shadows of a Chinese metropolis lies the old quarter of Shibati, which is due to be demolished. The remaining inhabitants are astonished that a European filmmaker is taking interest in their disappearing world.
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Denmark 2024 – Director: Max Kestner – What separates man from other life forms? An examination of the question of consciousness.
Stiftung Kunst und Natur – Nantesbuch

China, Germany 2017 – Director: Tian Dong – Kung Fu Football – the “Chinese dream.” In a Deng Feng Shaolin boarding school some of the 10,000 pupils learn to play football alongside the traditional martial arts – to complete exhaustion. China’s next generation captured in insightful sequences.
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Switzerland 2017 – Director: Luc Schaedler – Based on their own family history, five Chinese artists explore the upheavals of Chinese history – they are part of a fragile yet courageous counterculture.
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