Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein

Section: Regionaler Langfilmwettbewerb

direction: Oliver Wörner

Documentary, D 2019

playtime: 79 min

A regional film of the special kind: A small piece of land in the Odenwald region with less than 300 inhabitants seems to be suspended in time. Here, three farmers still perform their agricultural work in the same way as 50 years ago – recorded with a handheld camera in unobtrusive images and in a loving manner and produced by the film professor (emeritus) Helmut Herbst from Offenbach.

Thursday, 23. April 2020, 18:00, Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

Knuckle City

Section: International Program Power

direction: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka

Drama/Crime, SA 2019

playtime: 120 min

Dudu, a washed-up boxer, is in search for „the one fight“ for his comeback to get his career back on track. Although newly released from prison, his little brother Duke does not even think of giving up his racketeering and pulls Dudu right into it. Angry at first, Dudu soon gets a long-forgotten opportunity.

Thursday, 23. April 2020, 20:00, Harmonie Kinos

Bacurau (Nighthawk)

Section: International Program Power

direction: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles

Drama, BRA 2019

playtime: 132 min

A young woman returns home to attend the funeral of her hometown's matriarch. Still mourning their loss, the inhabtiants of the small and remote town Bacurau suddenly notice that their community has vanished from most maps. When a group of mysterious foreigners appear to disturb the peace and threaten the villagers’ lives with violence, the already tense situation in Bacurau takes on apoclyptic dimensions...

Friday, 24. April 2020, 18:00, Volksbühne im Großen Hirschgraben

Black China

Section: Regionaler Langfilmwettbewerb

direction: Inigo Westmeier

Documentary, D 2018

playtime: 69 min

Friday, 24. April 2020, 20:00, naxos.Kino im Theater Willy Praml

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

Section: International Program Power

direction: Zacharias Kunuk

Drama, CAN 2019

playtime: 111 min

Saturday, 25. April 2020, 18:00, Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

Love Sarah (Love Sarah - Liebe ist die wichtigste Zutat)

Section: Regionaler Langfilmwettbewerb

direction: Eliza Schroeder

Tragic Comedy, UK 2020

playtime: 100 min

Sarah’s dream is about to come true: Opening her own bakery. When she dies unexpectedly, her best friend and business partner Isabella, her daughter Clarissa and her mother Mimi are left behind. Three women for whom suddenly nothing is the same as it was. Until they decide to keep Sarah’s legacy alive together.

Saturday, 25. April 2020, 20:00, Volksbühne im Großen Hirschgraben

Midnight Family

Section: International Program Power

direction: Luke Lorentzen

Documentary, MEX/ USA 2019

playtime: 81 min

Saturday, 25. April 2020, 20:00, naxos.Kino im Theater Willy Praml

Papicha

Section: International Program Power

direction: Mounia Meddour

Drama, F/ALG/B/KAT 2019

playtime: 105 min

Algeria in the 1990s. For years, a bloody civil war between the military and the radical Islamists, attacks and many victims have been omnipresent in the news. The eighteen-year old Nedjma and her friends do not want to have their everyday life ruined by the rising tensions. However, soon enough the brutalization cannot be ignored any longer and even banal events such as a private fashionshow become a dangerous political statement.

Sunday, 26. April 2020, 16:00, Volksbühne im Großen Hirschgraben