Lyz is a high-school student that has managed, with great dedication and hard work, to get into an excellent ski club. Under the guidance of her new coach Fred, a former ski champion, she is steeply climbing to the top of youth skiing and it seems a new star is being born. Their trainings become increasingly more demanding and, day by day, their relationship also gets more intense, with everything acquiring a touch of obsession. Soon after the initial triumph, the young skier is faced with the questions about where the boundaries – not only of physical capability, but also of personal space and the permissible – lie.
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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.
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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.