Section: Previews im Cinecittà

  • Little Sister, The

    Little Sister, The

    Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?

  • Solidarity

    Solidarity

    Solidarität ist eines der wertvollsten Prinzipien menschlicher Gemeinschaften – und zugleich ein zutiefst widersprüchliches. Sie kann als universeller Anspruch verstanden werden, sich um alles Lebendige zu kümmern, aber sie kann sich auch in eine Kraft der Ausgrenzung oder gar in einen Aufruf zu bestialischer Gewalt verwandeln. Die Protagonist:innen dieses Films sind Profis in der solidarischen Arbeit. Sie sind keine First Responder, sondern Menschen, die tief im humanitären System der „globalen Solidarität“ arbeiten. Sie agieren auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen, in regionalen Graswurzelstrukturen bis in den höchsten Ebenen der Vereinten Nationen: Eine Menschenrechtsaktivistin und eine Migrationsberaterin in Polen, Vertreter:innen des UNHCR (Flüchtlingshilfswerk der UNO) in Genf, sowie ein Philosoph in Beirut zeigen uns die hellen wie die dunklen Seiten der Solidarität. Der Film führt uns von der Migrationskrise an der belarussisch-polnischen Grenze über die Fluchtbewegung aus der Ukraine direkt nach der russischen Invasion schließlich in den Solidaritätsclash im Nahen Osten, wo die humanitären Menschenrechte ins Wanken geraten sind. „Globale Solidarität“ ist eine Errungenschaft der Weltgemeinschaft als Lehre aus den Zerstörungen des Zweiten Welktriegs und seitdem ein kompliziertes und sensibles Menschheitsprojekt. Muss diese Solidarität heute in einer Welt voller Krisen und Katastrophen neu erfunden werden?

  • Reading Lolita in Tehran

    Reading Lolita in Tehran

     As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of women’s resilience in revolutionary Iran. 

  • Secret Agent, The

    Secret Agent, The

    Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
    “An expert when it comes to cryptically preparing his playing field, the Brazilian filmmaker makes his unique voice resonate by masterfully amalgamating all the voices of his chorus of characters. Hiding emotion for a long time under a formal mask of entertainment and homage to the heritage of the 7th art, the film reveals itself to be a choice piece in the museum to the murderous memory of Brazil.“ (Cineuropa) 

  • Yes

    Yes

    Israel, in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls and bodies to the elite, and bring pleasure and consolation to a bleeding nation. Soon, Y. is given a mission of the highest importance: setting to music a new national anthem. 

  • Lesbian Space Princess

     A laugh-out-loud adventure through the far reaches of queer outer space, LESBI­AN SPACE PRINCESS follows the daughter to the flamboyant lesbian Queens of Planet Clitopolis: Introverted Prin­cess Saira is devastated when her bounty-hunter girlfriend, Kiki, suddenly breaks up with her for being too needy. After Kiki is kidnapped by forgotten incels of the future, the Straight White Ma­liens, Saira must leave the comforts of gay space to deliver their ransom: her royal labrys (the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind). Only problem is… she doesn’t have it!
    With just a 24-hour window to get her labrys and save Kiki, Princess Saira finds herself on an inter-gay-lactic journey of self-discovery that includes encounters with a problematic spaceship and a new-found friendship with gay-pop runaway Willow.
    An animated comedy like no other, LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS is a riotous, can­dy-coloured joy from start to finish: a locally-made animation by emerging cre­atives that embraces LGBTQIA+ and culturally diverse voices, on and off-screen. 

  • Gospel of Revolution, The

    The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much
    to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theology, they paid a heavy tribute for undermining the traditional relationship between Church and Power. Far from Marx’s idea that religion is the opium of the people, the film explores the experiences of men and women who believe to have witnessed in the revolution the advent of God’s Kingdom on earth, rather than in heaven.