FILM KINO TEXT, Jürgen Lütz e.K.

2023, 90 min
by Constantin Hatz

A person took his own life. The suicide note comprised 67 letters which, in their given order, resulted in 13 words. 'Suicide. No autopsy needed. Hand over notes about my existence to Constantin Hatz.'In 2015, the director’s best friend took his own life. This person, who never found a new home after fleeing the Yugoslavian war as a child, wrote notes for years, contemplating his existence. They contain a self-reflection on his life, which was shaped by war and escape. After his death, a text wa

France, Italy, Germany 2021, 93 min
by Michelangelo Frammartino

During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighbouring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave

2020, 88 min
by Minsu Park

CHADDR is a feature documentary about a 17-year-old girl Stanzin. Her home town in the heart of Himalaya in Kashmir is facing big changes: Global warming and technological progress change the lives of people rapidly. Until recently children had to follow dangerous mountain pass every year to get from their home village to school. It takes Stanzin 4 days to get to school. The times are changing and the dangerous mountain pass will be turned into an autoroute. The director Minsu Park follows Stanz

Germany 2019, 106 min
by Julia Horn

Markus Becker is hit by a car and falls into a coma. The doctors don't believe the 45-year-old will survive the next five to ten days and his father begins making funeral arrangements. Markus' brother Michael refuses to accept this fate. With an unwavering perseverance, creative ideas and humour, Michael manages to get his brother out of the vegetative state. For ten years filmmaker Julia Horn accompanied the two brothers with sensitivity and persistence and was also there do document the moment

Germany 2017, 93 min
by Tilman Urbach

Josef Urbach was a young artist when patrons of the art Scene in Essen, the jewish families Simon, Levy, Abel and Stern, facilitated a study trip to Italy for him for several months in 1921. The paintings created on this trip were passed on the families´ art collections. But when the Nazis came to power, everything changed drastically. In 1937 they declared two of his works as degenerate art and removed them from the Museum Folkwang. Little by little, Urbach lost his patrons, his paintings in Je

Germany 2014, 87 min
by Anna Ditges

Using the example of a controversy about a former industrial site in Cologne, Anna Ditges shines a light on a societal phenomenon that is currently being discussed all over Germany: the citizens' protest against investors' and politicians' plans for 'their' city. But who are the people who get involved in these movements? What is it that provokes their anger and rage? What do they fight for, and with what means? And what happens if the diverging interests of city administration, major investors,

2014, 90 min
by Tilman Urbach

In summer 2010 the internationally known painter Gotthard Graubner opened his studio on the Museumsinsel in Neuss/Hombroich to the filmmaker Tilman Urbach. The result is a unique insight into Graubner’s work process. He tells of his artistic driving forces, but also of his doubts at the beginning of his long career. In addition Graubner was involved in the constitution of the collection on the Museumsinsel Hombroich. Accompanied by the camera, he takes us around the island.In an exhibition in th

Germany 2014, 92 min
by Claudia von Alemann

A feature length documentary filmessay about the late photographer Abisag Tüllmann (1935 – 1996) and a moving portrait of a life-long friendship. Abisag Tüllmann was one of the most significant photographers in Germany during the second half of the 20th century. Since the late 1950s her pictures were shown in all major papers and magazines, but also in books and exhibitions. They provided an interpretation of the present and shaped the collective memory of the German and international public. Ab

Germany 2011, 90 min
by Carmen Losmann

A film about non-territorial office space, multi-mobile knowledge workers, Blackberries and Miles&More. A road movie discovering the working world of tomorrow. This documentary will take you on a journey through the post-industrial knowledge and services workshops, our supposed future working place. In this new world work will be handled more liberally. Time clocks cease to exist. Attention is not compulsory any more. The resource 'human' comes into focus. The film closely follows the high-tech