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time:
2026
13:00
Nippon Connection
Nippon Connection is getting ready for its 26th edition! From June 2 to 7, 2026, the world’s largest Japanese film festival will once again open its doors in Frankfurt am Main to transport its visitors into the fascinating world of Japanese film. With over 100 short and feature films, audiences can expect an extensive program that celebrates the diversity of…
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time:
2026
19:30
naxos.Kino
For more than 50 years, the public Numakage swimming pool in Saitama has been an important meeting place for people of all ages and backgrounds. When the pool is set to make way for an urban redevelopment project, local resistance begins to grow. As the final opening day approaches, the disappearance of the pool becomes unavoidable, and a wave of…
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time:
2026
17:00
Nippon Connection
Nippon Connection is getting ready for its 26th edition! From June 2 to 7, 2026, the world’s largest Japanese film festival will once again open its doors in Frankfurt am Main to transport its visitors into the fascinating world of Japanese film. With over 100 short and feature films, audiences can expect an extensive program that celebrates the diversity of…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
19:00
naxos.Kino
Duration 84 Min
Karla is dreamy, charismatic, and trans. She grows up with her parents in the small Mexican town of Tepoztlán. She loves putting on makeup and dressing up. But sometimes the world feels overwhelming to her. At those moments, she hides in her room for hours. Luckily, Karla has friends and a family who support her, often understand her, and also…
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time:
2026
20:00
Naxos Hallenkonzerte
Rockfalls, avalanches, hurricanes, thunderstorms, glacial calving, and floods – nature defies control. Wildnis / Espaces transports the audience into a lucid dream where there is no firm ground. Within a strict formal framework, an intangible avalanche of sounds and images unfolds, reflecting natural phenomena from a human perspective. Since its founding, the ensemble histoirefuture has been dedicated to improvisation—drawing inspiration…
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time:
2026
20:00
MADE.Festival 2026
Duration approx. 90 minutes
Unfortunately, the performance at Produktionshaus NAXOS on May 23 has been cancelled due to illness. There will be an opportunity to see the piece on May 31 at Staatstheater Darmstadt.   There are two men and their strange costumes: actually, they want people to forget how to sigh. Not only. But also. Maybe they should just start with something funny.…
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time:
2026
20:00
MADE.Festival 2026
Duration 60 Minuten
In 2021, Angela Merkel ended her term as Federal Chancellor. In her honor, a military ceremony took place, broadcast live by several TV stations. Although the so-called “Zapfenstreich” is a 300-year-old German military tradition, the images of soldiers marching through the night with torches unsettled both German and international audiences. Many associated the spectacle with historical images from the Nazi…
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time:
2026
19:00
naxos.Kino
Duration 88 Min
Māori river guardian Ned Tapa takes filmmakers, international water advocates, and activists on a canoe journey along the Whanganui River in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Stretching over 320 kilometers, the river is the first in the world to be recognized as a legal person. For more than 150 years, the Māori people have fought passionately to protect their sacred lifeline. Along…
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time:
2026
14:00
Theater Willy Praml
Duration 3 hours
For centuries, storytelling has held a central place in the collective memory of the Levant, and the Hakawati was the undisputed master of the evening gatherings. The Hakawati was not merely a storyteller; he opened the gateway to other worlds, building bridges between history and fiction, between reality and legend. Theater Willy Praml revives this tradition with its Syrian ensemble…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
18:00
naxos.Kino
How an entire nation can fall under the sway of a misanthropic, fascist ideology? It is high time to ask those who experienced it themselves and who, eight decades later, are now ready to answer questions. Eleven contemporary witnesses were interviewed by Patricia Hector and Lothar Herzog for their film. Born between 1920 and 1936, they grew up as children…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Director, Set Design, Adapted Text Michael Weber
Victorian age: everything in its proper place. A respectable man is a respectable man, a respectable woman is a respectable woman. QUEEN Victoria is a weighty ruler, and the morality of her heavy petticoats creates a stuffy atmosphere that is almost suffocating. And yet Oscar Wilde is the pampered darling of his time. KING Oscar, sovereign of sharp provocations against…
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time:
2026
20:00
Independent Production
Text, Direction Chiara Marcassa
One woman flies to the moon to search for what she has lost on Earth: her sanity, her work, herself. “What you have lost here on Earth / will be found up there on the moon,” wrote Ludovico Ariosto around 1500, imagining the Earth’s satellite as a kind of dumping ground. Among craters and ruins, strange objects gather: glowing eyes,…
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time:
2026
20:00
Independent Production
Text, Direction Chiara Marcassa
One woman flies to the moon to search for what she has lost on Earth: her sanity, her work, herself. “What you have lost here on Earth / will be found up there on the moon,” wrote Ludovico Ariosto around 1500, imagining the Earth’s satellite as a kind of dumping ground. Among craters and ruins, strange objects gather: glowing eyes,…
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