The Brazilian candidate for the Academy Awards nomination has received the main award in the Un Certain Regard category at the last Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmao
Rio de Janeiro in 1950. Sisters Eurídice and Guida live with their conservative parents and dream about a different life. Eurídice dreams of becoming a piano player and Guida seeks her great love. When Guida gets pregnant, their infuriated father breaks contacts between the two sisters. So commences the long separation of the two women who never lose hope to be reunited one day.
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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Monday, 15. 09. 2025 / 17:00 / Main Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.
Yunan Yunan
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Monday, 15. 09. 2025 / 20:30 / Main Hall
The Hamburg-based director of Palestinian-Syrian descent places the second instalment of his Homeland trilogy on a small, flood-prone island in the Wadden Sea. This melancholic, mood-driven film about exile and the scars it leaves behind features a charismatic performance by the legendary Hanna Schygulla.