“A master class in how to adapt – and improve! – a fine original screenplay from one cultural setting to another. Ishiguro actually manages to make an already subtle, quiet drama even subtler, and more emotional.” – Cinema Scope. “An absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking piece of work.”
– Rolling Stone
Living Living
Living tells the story of a civil servant who has spent his entire working life buried under paperwork, but at the eleventh hour decides to turn his grey existence into something beautiful. This adaptation of Kurosawa’s Ikiru was written by Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day). Nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor.
cast Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke
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What's On
Festival of Migrant Film
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Premiere
Yunan Yunan
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Wednesday, 10. 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.
Additional Screening
The Penguin Lessons The Penguin Lessons
Peter Cattaneo
Thursday, 11. 09. 2025 / 16:10 / Main Hall
This moving dramedy about the unlikely friendship between a cynical Englishman and an adorable penguin was adapted by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) from a true story.
Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Thursday, 11. 09. 2025 / 18:30 / 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.