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UNSERE ZEIT WIRD KOMMEN (105 Min.) | 3:30 PM | CLUB 3
After years in exile, Siaka returns to Austria with Victoria to start a family. Ivette Löcker follows them for a year as they navigate bureaucracy, cultural differences, and social barriers. While Siaka struggles with precarious jobs, Victoria seeks normality. But past traumas resurface – and he refuses to stay silent.
In presence of Ivette Löcker (director), Victoria Preuer und Touray Siaska (protagonists).
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APRIL (134 Min.) | 6:30 PM | CAPITOL 1
Nina is a skilled obstetrician at a maternity hospital in Eastern Georgia. After a difficult delivery, an infant dies and the grief-racked father demands an inquiry into Nina’s methods. The resulting scrutiny threatens to bring to light Nina’s sideline—driving, through the stunningly beautiful countryside to the village homes of pregnant girls and women, to provide unsanctioned abortions.
Q&A online with Dea Kulumbegashvili (director)
Dag Johan Haugerud - Trilogie der Beziehungen
KJÆRLIGHET (Love/Amore) (119 Min.) | 6:45 PM | CAPITOL 2
Marianne, a pragmatic doctor, and Tor, a compassionate nurse, befriend each other at work and begin to confide in each other about their emotional and sexual liaisons: both wish to avoid conventional relationships, in search of greater freedom and authenticity. One evening Marianne meets Tor and he confesses to her that he often spends his nights looking for casual encounters with men.
Focus Taiwan
GAGA (112 Min.) | 9:15 PM | CAPITOL 2
At the end of September, the mist surrounds a mountain tribe. The smoke from the firewood shed signals the start of a day for Hayung’s big Atayal family which consists of three generations. Grandpa Hayung has for all of his life followed the Atayal tradition, GAGA, which younger generations no longer value. All he can do is try to teach his grandson Enoch.
In presence of Laha Mebow (director)
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PFAU (Peacock) (102 Min.) | 9:30 PM | CAPITOL 1
Matthias is a master of his profession. Do you need a ‘cultured boyfriend’ to impress your friends? A ‘perfect son’ to influence your business partners’ opinions of you? Or maybe just a sparring partner with whom to rehearse an argument? Whatever it is, you can rent Matthias! While he excels at pretending to be someone else every day, just being himself is the real challenge.
Q&A online with Bernhard Wenger (director)