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2025
time:
19:00
naxos.Kino
Duration 112 Min
Three people in orange jackets sit in an airplane or helicopter above the open sea. They wear headphones and sunglasses and use binoculars.
In compelling stories, the directors sketch an increasingly frightening reality from the perspective of refugees and analyze the dynamics behind the historic shift to the right in Germany. In dialogue with activists, scholars, and publicists, the film calls for questioning the brutal status quo and the seemingly unstoppable radicalization of the migration and asylum debate. Film discussion with: Max Ahrens,…
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2025
time:
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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2025
time:
19:30
With Andreas Jahncke, Sam Michelson, Nora Solcher
Performance as part of MADE.DATE 2025 It is August 2, 2018, around noon. At the 1st Frankfurt police precinct, a person sits down at a computer in the duty room, opens one of the police information systems, and types a name into the search field. Ninety minutes later, a Frankfurt lawyer receives a threatening letter signed “NSU 2.0.” It will…
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2025
time:
19:00
naxos.Kino
Duration 113 MIn
An elderly woman sits in a living room and speaks.
Germany immediately after the reunification. The second major wave of layoffs has reached the East. Women from the former large industrial enterprises of the GDR speak with what is, even today, a surprising matter-of-factness about themselves and the personal independence they gained through their work. Film discussion with: Jessica Bock, Historian, Digital German Women’s Archive, Berlin
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2025
time:
19:00
naxos.Kino
Old black-and-white photo: Four women sit in a park on chairs and loungers. They wear elegant dresses and large hats, with trees and a pond in the background.
“Did you mean composer (male)?” — This was the question Google still asked in 2018 when one typed in the word Komponistin (female composer). And when it comes to classical music, the spotlight has traditionally fallen almost exclusively on famous men: Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach are names everyone knows. With female composers, the situation looks quite different. Film discussion with:…
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2025
time:
20:00
Independent Production
Director Nora Schön and Marie Simons
TEST
The polycrisis hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles. Natural disasters, right-wing movements, resource scarcity, and wars condition and amplify one another. Falling into panic slowly begins to seem rational. But what can we do? For Nora Schön and Marie Simons, the answer is clear: we must prepare! In DOOMSDAYDUDES – The Last Survival Show, the bold Dudes…
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2025
time:
15:00
Direction, Text adaptation: Michael Weber
Two people in striking costumes stand on a forest path, surrounded by dense green foliage.
150 Years of Thomas Mann The German Forest in Autumn The theater leaves its sheltered and healthy spaces and moves into the open—into the forest, the sick one. In Frankfurt’s city forest, there is hardly a tree that is not diseased. The city forest becomes the setting for a production on the themes of 80 years since the end of…
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2025
time:
20:00
Independent Production
Director Nora Schön and Marie Simons
TEST
The polycrisis hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles. Natural disasters, right-wing movements, resource scarcity, and wars condition and amplify one another. Falling into panic slowly begins to seem rational. But what can we do? For Nora Schön and Marie Simons, the answer is clear: we must prepare! In DOOMSDAYDUDES – The Last Survival Show, the bold Dudes…
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2025
time:
20:00
Independent Production
Director Nora Schön and Marie Simons
TEST
The polycrisis hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles. Natural disasters, right-wing movements, resource scarcity, and wars condition and amplify one another. Falling into panic slowly begins to seem rational. But what can we do? For Nora Schön and Marie Simons, the answer is clear: we must prepare! In DOOMSDAYDUDES – The Last Survival Show, the bold Dudes…
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2025
time:
19:00
naxos.Kino
Duration 103 Min
A woman is sitting in the dunes, wearing a patterned knitted sweater and writing in a notebook.
A remote island off the coast of Nova Scotia: Sable Island. Director Jacquelyn Mills films conservationist Zoe Lucas — the island’s sole resident for decades — as she goes about her daily observations of flora and fauna. The self-taught scientist’s studies on biodiversity have made Zoe Lucas a respected expert in her field. Film discussion with: Moritz Sonnewald, Marine Biologist,…
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2025
time:
15:00
Direction, Text adaptation: Michael Weber
Two people in striking costumes stand on a forest path, surrounded by dense green foliage.
150 Years of Thomas Mann The German Forest in Autumn The theater leaves its sheltered and healthy spaces and moves into the open—into the forest, the sick one. In Frankfurt’s city forest, there is hardly a tree that is not diseased. The city forest becomes the setting for a production on the themes of 80 years since the end of…
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2025
time:
20:00
Naxos Hallenkonzerte
Two female acrobats hang secured by ropes high in the air against a blue sky. They wear light tops and yellowish skirts, their bodies intertwined, one stretching an arm upward.
In music and dance, Le sacre du printemps has embodied the rupture with prevailing conventions ever since its 1913 premiere. Stravinsky’s own two-piano transcription of this groundbreaking work is heard alongside La Valse—Ravel’s musical revue of the Viennese monarchy collapsing in the First World War, and at the same time a fantastical, deadly apotheosis of the waltz. In contrast stands…
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2025
time:
15:00
Direction, Text adaptation: Michael Weber
Two people in striking costumes stand on a forest path, surrounded by dense green foliage.
150 Years of Thomas Mann The German Forest in Autumn The theater leaves its sheltered and healthy spaces and moves into the open—into the forest, the sick one. In Frankfurt’s city forest, there is hardly a tree that is not diseased. The city forest becomes the setting for a production on the themes of 80 years since the end of…
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2025
time:
20:00
Naxos Hallenkonzerte
Two female acrobats hang secured by ropes high in the air against a blue sky. They wear light tops and yellowish skirts, their bodies intertwined, one stretching an arm upward.
In music and dance, Le sacre du printemps has embodied the rupture with prevailing conventions ever since its 1913 premiere. Stravinsky’s own two-piano transcription of this groundbreaking work is heard alongside La Valse—Ravel’s musical revue of the Viennese monarchy collapsing in the First World War, and at the same time a fantastical, deadly apotheosis of the waltz. In contrast stands…
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2025
time:
15:00
Direction, Text adaptation: Michael Weber
Two people in striking costumes stand on a forest path, surrounded by dense green foliage.
150 Years of Thomas Mann The German Forest in Autumn The theater leaves its sheltered and healthy spaces and moves into the open—into the forest, the sick one. In Frankfurt’s city forest, there is hardly a tree that is not diseased. The city forest becomes the setting for a production on the themes of 80 years since the end of…
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