“A form of second life pervades the entire film programme. It touches on one of the fundamental elements of the modern cinema: the question of how one deals with memory.” - Interview with Alexander Horwath
Alexander Horwath, Director of the Austrian Film
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Casting a glance
23 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
James Benning’s new film is dedicated to the Spiral Jetty, a giant earthwork realised by the artist Robert Smithson in 1970 at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. “Smithson described the surrounding salt
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Vertigo / La Jetée / The Spiral Jetty
22 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Chris Marker once described his favourite film as “a vertigo of space which is a vertigo of time”. This triple feature follows the twisted trail of three pivotal works of
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Dva vremena u jednom prostoru (Two times in one space)/Nouvelle Vague
21 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Nouvelle vague is the beginning of the fourth wave and the extreme ‘beauty spot’ within Jean-Luc Godard’s oeuvre, the majestic result of 40 years
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Hat Wolff von Amerongen Konkursdelikte begangen? (Did Wolff von Amerongen commit bankruptcy crime?)
20 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The most remarkable discovery in recent German-language cinema: Gerhard Friedl’s first feature is a hypnotic visual
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Okay Bye-Bye/S21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge
19 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
07 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A discarded piece of Super 8 footage showing an unidentified Cambodian man is the starting point for Rebecca Baron’s research on
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Profession: Reporter
18 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A swap of personalities: a journalist (Jack Nicholson) gets stuck in the African desert and decides to assume the identity of a dead man. From this point on he is his own doppelgänger, a burden that
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3/60 Bäume im Herbst / Ide.../I’m going... / Railroad Turnbridge / Serene Velocity / 37/78 Tree again / Bliss / The Hedge Theater / Ming Green / Pitcher of Colored Light
17 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Making sense of place”: For the
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Hat Wolff von Amerongen Konkursdelikte begangen? (Did Wolff von Amerongen commit bankruptcy crime?)
16 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The most remarkable discovery in recent German-language cinema: Gerhard Friedl’s first feature is a hypnotic visual
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Casting a glance
15 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
James Benning’s new film is dedicated to the Spiral Jetty, a giant earthwork realised by the artist Robert Smithson in 1970 at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. “Smithson described the surrounding salt
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3/60 Bäume im Herbst / Ide.../I’m going... / Railroad Turnbridge / Serene Velocity / 37/78 Tree again / Bliss / The Hedge Theater / Ming Green / Pitcher of Colored Light
14 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Making sense of place”: For the practitioners
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La Libertad/Ce vieux rêve qui bouge
13 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Lisandro Alonso’s debut feature follows one day in the life of Misael, a young woodcutter in the Argentine Pampa, condensed into 73 minutes. Hypnotic, sweeping, extended shots show
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Himatsuri (Fire Festival)
12 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
During the 1980s maverick Japanese director Yanagimachi Mitsuo made some of the most compelling films in the world. They are at once rugged and delicate, bitter and moving. His vast work
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Dva vremena u jednom prostoru (Two times in one space)/Nouvelle Vague
11 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Nouvelle vague is the beginning of the fourth wave and the ultimate “beauty spot” within Jean-Luc Godard’s oeuvre, the majestic result of 40 years
... more
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Vertigo / La Jetée / The Spiral Jetty
10 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Chris Marker once described his favourite film as “a vertigo of space which is a vertigo of time”. This triple feature follows the twisted trail of three pivotal works of
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Profession: Reporter
9 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A swap of personalities: a journalist (Jack Nicholson) gets stuck in the African desert and decides to assume the identity of a dead man. From this point on he is his own doppelgänger, a burden that
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Invasión
8 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The sound of marching boots and gunshots echo through the streets: an attack on the city is imminent. Underground fighters arm themselves against an intangible, superior enemy. They are prepared to fight to the
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Okay Bye-Bye/S21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge
7 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
07 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A discarded piece of Super 8 footage showing an unidentified Cambodian man is the starting point for Rebecca Baron’s research on
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Psalm III: Night of the Meek/Pasažerka/Machorka-Muff
6 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Between Phil Solomon’s fleeting evocation of images from early 1930s Germany, and Straub & Huillet’s scathing commentary on German remilitarisation in the 1950s
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Porto das caixas/Saute ma ville/Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter
05 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Cinema Novo is not about ideas. It’s about truths.” (Glauber Rocha) Similarly, women’s liberation is not necessarily born of ideas
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Crni Film/Sans toit ni loi
04 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Film – weapon or shit?” is the exhaustive (and exhausted) question asked by the final intertitle of Želimir Žilnik’s incisive short, a major work of Yugoslavian modernism. The director
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Rosetta
03 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Life in a trailer park on the outskirts of Liège: Rosetta, an unskilled teenage worker, loses her job. A young man who works at a waffle stand is lining his own pockets; Rosetta trusts no one but him. Everything
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Gently down the stream/Wanda
02 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Wanda is Barbara Loden’s first and only film. A former actress, unhappily married to director Elia Kazan, Loden dreamed up, penned, staged and starred in this desperate outcry that
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La Libertad/Ce vieux rêve qui bouge
01 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Lisandro Alonso’s debut feature follows one day in the life of Misael, a young woodcutter in the Argentine Pampa, condensed into 73 minutes. Hypnotic, sweeping, extended shots show
... more
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Himatsuri (Fire Festival)
31 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
During the 1980s maverick Japanese director Yanagimachi Mitsuo made some of the most compelling films in the world. They are at once rugged and delicate, bitter and moving. His vast work Himatsuri
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Sanshô dayû
30 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
During a period of political turmoil in the eleventh century, the wife and two children of a local official who has fallen out of favour with the ruling forces become the victims of feudal tyranny. The
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Psalm III: Night of the Meek/Pasažerka/Machorka-Muff
29 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Somewhere between Phil Solomon’s fleeting evocation of images from early 1930s Germany, and Straub & Huillet’s scathing commentary on German remilitarisation in the
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Invasión
28 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The sound of marching boots and gunshots echo through the streets: an attack on the city is imminent. Underground fighters arm themselves against an intangible, superior enemy. They are prepared to fight to the
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Halcion/O Fantasma
27 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Halcion is Dietmar Brehm’s pink-hued re-exploration of his masterpiece Schwarzer Garten (Black Garden, 1987–99), which mostly consisted of found footage from pornographic, medical and feature films.
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Porto das caixas/Saute ma ville/Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter
26 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Cinema Novo is not about ideas. It’s about truths.” (Glauber Rocha) Similarly, women’s liberation is not necessarily born of ideas
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Rosetta
25 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Life in a trailer park on the outskirts of Liège: Rosetta, an unskilled teenage worker, loses her job. A young man who works at a waffle stand is lining his own pockets; Rosetta trusts no one but him. Everything is a
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Crni film (Black Film)/Sans toit ni loi
24 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Film – weapon or shit?” is the exhaustive (and exhausted) question asked by the final intertitle of Želimir Žilnik’s incisive short, a major work of Yugoslavian modernism.
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Mouchette
23 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A film that runs the gauntlet towards an inevitably fatal end, in line with the stubborn gaze and obstinate gestures of its protagonist. Young Mouchette tears through the narrow-minded world of a rural village
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Gently down the stream/Wanda
22 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“Wanda is Barbara Loden’s first and only film. A former actress, unhappily married to director Elia Kazan, Loden dreamed up, penned, staged and starred in this desperate outcry that tells
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Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud Capped Star)
21 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Meghe Dhaka Tara tells the tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, living in the outskirts of Calcutta under modest circumstances.
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Killer
20 August, 20:30 Uhr, Gloria Kino
“Marat, a young chauffeur, crashes his employer’s car and damages a Mercedes belonging to one of the ‘nouveau riche’ who call the shots in Kazakhstan. In order to pay for the repairs, Marat borrows money at a
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Sanshô dayû (Sanshô the Bailiff)
19 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
During a period of political turmoil in the eleventh century, the wife and two children of a local official who has fallen out of favour with the ruling forces become the victims of
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Land of the Dead
18 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
George Romero’s fourth masterpiece in his zombie cycle, and his fourth statement on post-1960 U.S. society, on repression and the return of the repressed. Two decades after the gorily philosophical chamber
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Halcion/O Fantasma
17 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Halcion is Dietmar Brehm’s pink-hued re-exploration of his masterpiece Schwarzer Garten (Black Garden, 1987–99), which mostly consisted of found footage from pornographic, medical and feature films.
... more
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eXistenZ/The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes
16 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Leading bio-game designer Allegra Geller allows her fans to try out her new virtual reality game, but among those in the test group is a would-be assassin. The creator is
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Outer Space/Irma Vep
15 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Film within a film; film versus film. In each case, it’s an actress who leads the filmmaker to the material core of cinema: Olivier Assayas and Maggie Cheung, Peter Tscherkassky and Barbara Hershey. In
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Route One/USA
14 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“In the brooding, irresistible epic Route One/USA, Kramer and fellow expatriate Doc (Paul McIsaac) join in a trek from the beginning of Route 1 in Maine to its end in Florida. Doc enters, fleetingly, a
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Langsamer Sommer (Slow Summer)/The Present
13 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A personal and drily funny account of one summer in Vienna, made by (and starring) ex-pat Canadian John Cook. Organised around the interface between autobiography and fiction, Slow
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Film spricht viele Sprachen (Film Speaks Many Languages)/Dogfar nai mae marn (Mysterious Object at Noon)
12 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The first feature by a master poet of the cinema. Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon starts out in
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Touki Bouki
11 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s first feature-length film is one of the great works of African cinema and probably the most experimental. Having taken his cattle to the slaughterhouse, the young cowherd Mory drives
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Reisender Krieger
10 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A film about constant movement, about continuation: in keeping with the clever ambiguity of its title, Reisender Krieger (Travelling Warrior/Krieger on the Road) is the tale of a mythical figure in an
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Mouchette
9 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A film that runs the gauntlet towards an inevitably fatal end, in line with the stubborn gaze and obstinate gestures of its protagonist. Young Mouchette tears through the narrow-minded world of a rural village
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Killer
8 August, 20:30 Uhr, Gloria Kino
“Marat, a young chauffeur, crashes his employer’s car and damages a Mercedes belonging to one of the ‘nouveau riche’ who call the shots in Kazakhstan. In order to pay for the repairs, Marat borrows money at a
... more
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Land of the Dead
7 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
George Romero’s fourth masterpiece in his zombie cycle, and his fourth statement on post-1960 U.S. society, on repression and the return of the repressed. Two decades after the gorily philosophical chamber
... more
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eXistenZ/The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes
6 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Leading bio-game designer Allegra Geller allows her fans to try out her new virtual reality game, but among those in the test group is a would-be assassin. The creator is forced
... more
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Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud Capped Star)
5 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Meghe Dhaka Tara tells the tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, living in the outskirts of Calcutta under modest circumstances.
... more
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Outer Space/Irma Vep
4 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Film within a film; film versus film. In each case, it’s an actress who leads the filmmaker to the material core of cinema: Olivier Assayas and Maggie Cheung, Peter Tscherkassky and Barbara Hershey. In
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Zhantai (Platform)
3 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The second, and in many ways epochal, work by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, a key figure in contemporary cinema, Platform tells the story of a dance/theatre troupe from a remote Chinese province. In the
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Route One/USA
2 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“In the brooding, irresistible epic Route One/USA, Kramer and fellow expatriate Doc (Paul McIsaac) join in a trek from the beginning of Route 1 in Maine to its end in Florida. Doc enters, fleetingly, a
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Touki Bouki
1 August, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s first feature-length film is one of the great works of African cinema and probably the most experimental. Having taken his cattle to the slaughterhouse, the young cowherd Mory drives
... more
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Film spricht viele Sprachen/Dogfar nai mae marn (Mysterious Object at Noon)
31 July, 20:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The first feature by a master poet of the cinema. Weerasethakul’s Mysterious Object at Noon starts out in vérité style, but that’s the
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Reisender Krieger
30 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A film about constant movement, about continuation: in keeping with the clever ambiguity of its title, Reisender Krieger (Travelling Warrior/Krieger on the Road) is the tale of a mythical figure in an
... more
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Langsamer Sommer / The Present
29 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A personal and dryly funny account of one summer in Vienna, made by (and starring) ex-pat Canadian John Cook. Organised around the interface between autobiography and fiction, Slow Summer has no
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Opera Jawa
28 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A visionary hybrid, at its core a reinterpretation of the second Indian national epic, the Ramayana – the love story of Rama and Sita. Sita sacrifices herself in order to prove her fidelity to Rama after his rival
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Le baromètre/Beau travail
27 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Le Baromètre: a man gazes straight into the camera, held by a woman who stands before him but is invisible to us. Beau travail: a story of the Foreign Legion, loosely based on Melville’s Billy
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Velvet Goldmine
26 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Named after a David Bowie song and loosely based on Bowie’s relationship with Iggy Pop, Velvet Goldmine is a postmodern version of Citizen Kane. The story, centering on the glam-rock era of the early 1970s,
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Quixote/Shake!/Camp
25 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The year is 1967 and the United States are “speaking in tongues”: a society at war, armouring its “body”, but unable to fend off its demons and not fully recognising the good spirits in its midst.
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Zhantai (Platform)
24 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The second, and in many ways epochal, work by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, a key figure in contemporary cinema, Platform tells the story of a dance/theatre troupe from a remote Chinese province. In the
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Moolaadé
23 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Probably the most uplifting film ever about the practice of female genital mutilation: six little girls run away from this traditional “purification ceremony”; four of them seek refuge with Collé, a woman of
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Semiotic Ghosts/Leben - BRD
22 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A succession of images of the world, mysterious and beautiful like Super 8: accompanied by the dissonant sound of the First Egyptian Blind Girls’ Orchestra practising, Lisl Ponger’s Semiotic
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In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden
21 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Fassbinder’s most hysterical and desperate film might also be his greatest. It follows the last days in the life of an unhappy transsexual named Elvira (a tour-de-force performance by Volker
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Flaming Creatures/IXE
20 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
In Flaming Creatures New York performance artist (and proto-punk) Jack Smith stages his favourite Hollywood obsessions as an “impromptu” spectacle. Sternberg-inspired devices and the gaudy glamour of
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Star Spangled to Death, Part 2
19 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Ken Jacobs’ legendary magnum opus, a large part of which was shot between 1957 and 1960, was finished almost fifty years later – as a monumental collage about philosophical contradictions and
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Star Spangled to Death, Part 1
18 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Ken Jacobs’ legendary magnum opus, a large part of which was shot between 1957 and 1960, was finished almost fifty years later – as a monumental collage about philosophical contradictions and
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Les Maîtres fous/Bodybuilding/Coup de Boule/Community of Praise
17 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Nigerian immigrants in Ghana celebrate the great yearly Hauka ritual in reverence of the spirits of power and wind, which emerged around the same time as colonial
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Opera Jawa
16 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A visionary hybrid, at its core a reinterpretation of the second Indian national epic, the “Ramayana” – the love story of Rama and Sita. Sita sacrifices herself in order to prove her fidelity to Rama after his
... more
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Quixote/Shake!/Camp
15 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The year is 1967 and the United States are “speaking in tongues”: a society at war, armouring its “body”, but unable to fend off its demons and not fully recognising the good spirits in its midst.
... more
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Velvet Goldmine
14 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Named after a David Bowie song and loosely based on Bowie’s relationship with Iggy Pop, Velvet Goldmine is a postmodern version of Citizen Kane. The story, centering on the glam-rock era of the early 1970s,
... more
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Pyaasa (Thirst)
13 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
In 1964, Bengali actor and director Guru Dutt died from an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 39. He had brought a strong sense of social commitment to commercial Indian cinema and introduced major
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In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden
12 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Fassbinder’s most hysterical and desperate film might also be his greatest. It follows the last days in the life of an unhappy transsexual named Elvira (a tour-de-force performance by Volker
... more
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Le baromètre/Beau travail
11 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Le Baromètre: a man gazes straight into the camera, held by a woman who stands before him but is invisible to us. Beau travail: a story of the Foreign Legion, loosely based on Melville’s Billy
... more
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Flaming Creatures/IXE
10 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
In Flaming Creatures New York performance artist (and proto-punk) Jack Smith stages his favourite Hollywood obsessions as an “impromptu” spectacle. Sternberg-inspired devices and the gaudy glamour of
... more
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Semiotic Ghosts/Leben - BRD
9 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
A succession of images of the world, mysterious and beautiful like Super 8: accompanied by the dissonant sound of the First Egyptian Blind Girls’ Orchestra practising, Lisl Ponger’s Semiotic
... more
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Les Maîtres fous/Bodybuilding/Coup de Boule/Community of Praise
8 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Nigerian immigrants in Ghana celebrate the great yearly Hauka ritual in reverence of the spirits of power and wind, which emerged around the same time as colonial
... more
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Moolaadé
7 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Probably the most uplifting film ever about the practice of female genital mutilation: six little girls run away from this traditional “purification ceremony”; four of them seek refuge with Collé, a woman of their
... more
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The Sun shines bright/Jazz Dance/Lights
6 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
John Ford: “‘The Sun Shines Bright’ is my favourite picture – I love it. And it’s true to life, it happened.” Kentucky after the American Civil War. Verandas shaded by magnolia
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Mosaik im Vertrauen/Recreation /A Movie/Schwechater/Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps /The Cut-Ups
5 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
During the mid-to-late 1950s, young artists in Europe and the USA separately
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Mein Stern/Im Glück (Neger)
4 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“The whole period of growing up,” is the final title of Thomas Heise’s Im Glück (Lucky). It refers to the six years spent working on the film, which involved repeated approaches to and
... more
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Pyaasa (Thirst)
3 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
In 1964, Bengali actor and director Guru Dutt died from an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 39. He had brought a strong sense of social commitment to commercial Indian cinema and introduced major
... more
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L'Esquive
2 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Doubled-edged banlieue cinema – neither liberal lecturing nor an escalation of violence. Tunisian-born filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche avoids both traps and goes for the highly energetic fascination exerted by slang.
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En rachâchant/Poto and Cabengo
1 July, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Straub & Huillet’s most amusing film is their highly condensed adaptation of a children’s story by Marguerite Duras: seven brilliant minutes of film that tell the story of a seven-year-old
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De grote vakantie (The Long Holiday)
30 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“People living close to the abyss, using pretty, make-believe stories as a consolation in the face of nothingness.” Thus begins a deeply touching film about the fear of dying and the joy
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In the Street/Un giorno in Barbagia/Aufsätze/High School
29 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Is the real learning done while playing? Is life on the street better than training on campus to become a perfect adult? What is education? Is it all about learning to
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Viaggio in Italia
28 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders portray a British couple on a visit to Italy, trying to sell an inherited family house. It is a journey to the end of a marriage. In Pompeii they visit the ash-covered ruins,
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Va zendegi edameh darad (And Life Goes On)
27 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The disarming centerpiece of a trilogy of films by Abbas Kiarostami, this work heads towards the same place that Roberto Rossellini set out for in the 1950s. It takes a far-sighted
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Khaneh siah ast (The house is black)/…Remote…Remote… /Peggy and Fred in Hell
26 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967) is widely regarded as one of the great Persian poets. Her only film is a unique documentary about her stay in
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The Sun shines bright/Jazz Dance/Lights
25 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
John Ford: “‘The Sun Shines Bright’ is my favourite picture – I love it. And it’s true to life, it happened.” Kentucky after the American Civil War. Verandas shaded by
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Mosaik im Vertrauen/Recreation /A Movie/Schwechater/Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps /The Cut-Ups
24 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
During the mid-to-late 1950s, young artists in Europe and the USA separately
... more
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L'Esquive
23 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Doubled-edged banlieue cinema – neither liberal lecturing nor an escalation of violence. Tunisian-born filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche avoids both traps and goes for the highly energetic fascination exerted by slang.
... more
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Mein Stern/Im Glück (Neger)
22 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“The whole period of growing up,” is the final title of Thomas Heise’s Im Glück (Lucky). It refers to the six years spent working on the film, which involved repeated approaches to and
... more
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Khaneh siah ast (The house is black)/…Remote…Remote… /Peggy and Fred in Hell
21 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967) is widely regarded as one of the great Persian poets. Her only film is a unique documentary about her stay in
... more
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En rachâchant/Poto and Cabengo
20 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Straub & Huillet’s most amusing film is their highly condensed adaptation of a children’s story by Marguerite Duras: seven brilliant minutes of film that tell the story of a
... more
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In the Street/Un giorno in Barbagia/Aufsätze/High School
19 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Is the real learning done while playing? Is life on the street better than training on campus to become a perfect adult? What is education? Is it all about learning to
... more
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De grote vakantie (The Long Holiday)
18 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
“People living close to the abyss, using pretty, make-believe stories as a consolation in the face of nothingness.” Thus begins a deeply touching film about the fear of dying and the joy
... more
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Va zendegi edameh darad (And Life Goes On)
17 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
The disarming centerpiece of a trilogy of films by Abbas Kiarostami, this work heads towards the same place that Roberto Rossellini set out for in the 1950s. It takes a far-sighted
... more
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Viaggio in Italia
16 June, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino
Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders portray a British couple on a visit to Italy, trying to sell an inherited family house. It is a journey to the end of a marriage. In Pompeii they visit the ash-covered ruins,
... more
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documenta 12 trailer: Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside

It is rush hour: everyone is hurrying to work. And later to their homes.Shadows are the main actors in the pictures of everyday life recorded by artist and film-maker Mark Lewis in
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Second Lives - the documenta 12 film programme

It is doubtful if cinema is sufficient for this; but, if the world has become a bad cinema, in which we no longer believe, surely a true cinema can contribute to giving us back reasons to believe in the world
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