Documentary Film Festival 2018

In the Intense Now No intenso agora

João Moreira Salles / Brazil / 2017 / 127 min / Portuguese

Between 1966 and 1968, the world was faced with revolutionary movements in France, Czechoslovakia, Brazil and China. While their success was limited, the people who took part and devoted themselves to the cause came away with life-defining experiences, the kind they would find hard to reproduce throughout the rest of their lives.

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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.

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The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast

Forough Farrokhzad

Monday, 15. 09. 2025 / 19:00 / Main Hall

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.