In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a seasoned sailor wakes up to find his yacht leaking after a collision with a floating container. He needs all his experience, knowledge, creativity and imagination to stay afloat.
All Is Lost is as much a gripping action movie as it is a metaphorical existential drama. With an extraordinary near wordless performance by Robert Redford, it is a movie that simply begs to be seen under the stars. (English spoken)
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.
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.