DJECA - CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO | DJECA – KINDER VON SARAJEVO | DJECA
Aida Begić | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey 2012 | 87 min
German Premiere
The two siblings Rahima and Nedim are living alone in Sarajevo, having lost their parents during the Bosnian War. The scars of war are still perceptible. When Nedim is picked on by a newly-rich minister's son, he resolves to fight back. That act has far reaching consequences and Rahima is obliged to make good the damage.
HALIMA‘S PATH | HALIMAS WEG | HALIMIN PUT
Arsen Anton Ostojić | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia 2012 | 95 min
German Premiere
Halima has lost her husband and son to Bosnian war. Both were abducted, their dead bodies could never be buried. When a new mass grave is discovered the Muslim hopes to put the death of her beloved behind herself. Intense drama about the emotional suffering of survivors.
IN THE FOG // IM NEBEL
Sergei Loznitsa | Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Belarus, Russia 2012 | 126 min
German Premiere
Summer 1942, Western Russia. On the front, in territories occupied by the Germans a man is wrongly accused of collaboration with the occupants. How will he and his family cope with the sense of guilt? How does the war turn humans into beasts? The new film by Sergei Loznitsa (SCHASTYE MOYE, 2010).
REDEMPTION STREET | STRAßE DER ERLÖSUNG | USTANICKA ULICA
Miroslav Terzić | Serbia 2011 | 99 min
German Premiere
Dušan, a talented yet inexperienced investigator at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has been charged with researching the fate of a paramilitary unit accused of involvement of acts of violence in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Thus however it is that hunter becomes the hunted in an intricate game of cat and mouse. A subtly filmed secret service thriller.
THE FIRST RAINS OF SPRING | ERSTER REGEN IM FRÜHLING | KOKTEMNIN BIRINSHI ZHANBYRY
Sano Shinju, Erlan Nurmuhambetov | Kazakhstan, Japan 2011 | 85 min
German Premiere
In a modest house far from the city, lives a herdsman's family with a shaman. When she dies the shepard and his wife are taking the corps back to her homeland. In the meantime a series of unusual incidents occur in the otherwise uneventful everyday lives of the children. A poetic piece of art with fascinating landscape shots.
KOKOKO
Avdotja Smirnova | Russia 2012 | 84 min
German Premiere
The film starts on a train, where two different women share a compartment: Lisa, a museum curator on her way back to St Petersburg; and Vika travelling the same journey in order to take in the raucous night-life of the northern capital. Nevertheless they become friends. Will it work out? Diverting Comedy from Russia.
KOLKA COOL
Juris Poškus | Latvia 2011 | 90 min
German Premiere
Kolka, a village close to the Baltic Sea. Simona hesitates in answering Andža’s marriage proposal. Still he’s just hanging around with his fellows and drinks way to much beer. Laconic portrait of modern man’s inability to engage in a meaningful way with society, rejecting values of work and family and capable only of meaningless acts and wasting time.
WOMEN’S DAY | FRAUENTAG | DZIEŃ KOBIET
Maria Sadowska | Poland 2012 | 96 min
International Premiere
Halina is promoted to store manager of the supermarket chain „Motylek“ („Butterfly“). But her life as chief is just transient when she finds herself being abandoned by the system for being overly humane. Social-critical feature film debut by the famous Polish musician Maria Sadowska.
YOU ARE GOD | DU BIST GOTT | JESTEŚ BOGIEM
Leszek Dawid | Poland 2012 | 114 min
1998, in the Silesian city of Katowice, Magik, Rahim and Fokus write Polish hip hop history. They are „Paktofonika“ and their song “Jestem Bogiem” (“I am God”) became a manifesto for a whole generation. This film tells their common story, which led to Magik’s suicide much too early. The latest blockbuster from Poland.