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Zwei Frauen mit Masken in der Hand lächeln in die Kamera.

17. January - 31. January 2025

Documentary Positions: Wiltrud Baier & Sigrun Köhler

The inspiration came from an exclamation on New Year's Eve: Bread instead of Böller (firecrackers). "We want - in a figurative sense - both humor and seriousness, light and shadow for our film work: Böller UND Brot." What documentary filmmaker Wiltrud Baier, who together with Sigrun Köhler forms the unique directing duo "Böller und Brot", anecdotally formulates, touches on a concern that is rarely found in documentary film.

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Eine Frau bemalt das Gesicht eines Jungen.

12. January - 23. March 2025

Kästner's Cinema

Erich Kästner (1899-1974) is one of the most popular German-language authors. The retrospective brings together first film adaptations of his novels in which the writer himself took part, as well as remakes since the 1970s. Also shown are films from the National Socialist era whose screenplays were written by Kästner, who was banned from publishing in Germany after 1933 and from 1943 onwards, under a pseudonym or completely unnamed.

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Hände, die ein Buch halten an einem Tisch mit mehreren historischen Büchern.

11. January - 25. February 2025

Enlightened!

Working women, female citizens and queens of the 18th century

The retrospective focuses on women of the 18th century who thought, felt and acted in various enlightened ways and brings together feature and essay films from the silent era to the present day.

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