Filmblock "Exceptional Circumstance"
Thursday, April 23 - 20.00h Thalia 1
Schlaraffenland
Semeyna Terapia
Family Therapy
Feature Film | Bulgaria | 2008 | Petar Valtchanov | 13'
For choice, an old married couple passes its days with squabbling. Two plastered young burglars, whom the couple overpower and mistreat, give them a first lesson in life, as gruesome as it is valuable. A perturbing psychothriller with its perturbed images.
Schlaraffenland
Crumbling Cookies
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Sarah Judith Mettke | 35'
Cosima and her brother, Erasmus, were sent off by their mother ‘on holiday’ with their detested dad, who’s living with his new wife and daughter Isabella in an old villa with vast garden. An unlucky coincidence soon enables the three children to live entirely according to their own rules.
Im Herbst kein Lied
No Melody in Autumn
Feature Film | Germany | 2009 | Karsten Prühl | 20'
Im Herbst kein Lied
Germany 1944: At a distance from the villages, two brothers are having trouble, and not just with each other, but also with their authoritarian and violent father. When the boys begin searching in a nearby forest for two crashed American bomber pilots, they make a disturbing discovery which will change their lives.
Withered Flowers Blooming
Withered Flowers Blooming
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Martin Schreier | 24'40''
Eros and Venus are bound together by a forbidden love. This is severely tested one day, when Eros has to helplessly experience how another man interferes with his beloved. When he tries to intervene, he releases a maelstrom of violence, which threatens to swallow up both of them. But none of those involved had reckoned with some of the developments.
Withered Flowers Blooming
