In 1890’s Canada, everybody was off to the Klondike Gold Rush, and in Thomas Arslan’s Gold, seven German-American immigrants decide to get there the hard way, via hundreds of miles of uncharted wilderness.

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Set in 1898, Gold follows the trials and tribulations of Emily (Nina Hoss) a young female divorcee who joins a group of German settlers who are embarking on a perilous journey north in search of the lucrative gold country of Dawson. Commencing as a septet, the group slowly dwindles as the hardships of this 2,500 km expedition take their toil, with each and every step further north leading them further into a wilderness of despair and despondence.

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Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:English, German

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A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.

Bright.Nights.AKA.Helle.Nachte.2017.1080p.WEBRip.x264-gooz.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 25mn
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Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian

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Synopsis
A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old boyfriend she gets to know Diego and spends the evening with him.

Der.schone.Tag.AKA.A.Fine.Day.2001.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-Cinefeel.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 13 min
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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
Ferien (Vacation, 2007) was perhaps the festival’s best German feature. Thomas Arslan’s latest outlines the strained composition of a family and the disintegration of a marriage, set in a luminous Brandenburg summer. The film is confined: the story takes place almost exclusively on the grounds of the mother’s country house and the cinematic language speaks only static shots and long takes. Just at the very end of the film does one see the whole family together. Arslan’s feat reveals the shifting constellations of family members in individual conversations and encounters: the grandmother is tender and wise while alone with granddaughter Laura, cold when Laura’s sister Sophie enters, and bitchy in scenes with her daughter Anna. The story’s tragic irony is the incongruity between the stability of each character’s identity in his or her own mind and the constantly changing roles each actually inhabits. Arslan previously employed non-professionals and actors unknown in Germany for milieu studies like Dealer (1999). Here he casts accomplished theatre actors (e.g. Angela Winkler) and the gesture lends the drama a taut focus. This film has neither the explosive (and exploitative?) power of Vinterberg’s Festen (Celebration, 1998) nor the psychological depth of Bergman’s Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes from a Marriage, 1973). But Ferien is the most alive. Arslan binds the family scenes with shots of a depopulated nature accompanied by a lush rustling: the film breathes.

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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Thomas Arslan’s second feature film and part of his Berlin-trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film depicts the every day life, domestic conflicts, dreams and disappointments of three siblings and their aimless, meandering strolls through the Kreuzberg district. The family itself encapsulates the culture clash that is at the centre of many German-Turkish films. In Arslan’s film, the mother is German, the father is Turkish and the children have to make up their own minds about their cultural allegiances. Seventeen-year-old Leyla tries to escape from her family by spending most of her time with her best friend Sevim. Her twenty-year-old brother, Erol, has chosen Turkish citizenship and, consequently, has to do military service in Turkey. His mother objects but Erol finds the prospect of continued unemployment and mounting debts, which he cannot repay, in Berlin far more threatening than the prospect of military service in Turkey and leaves. Eighteen-year-old Ahmed is the is about to do his ‘Abitur’ (final exams at secondary school) and, despite being the most ‘assimilated’ of the three siblings, finds the experience of living in between two cultures difficult.

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Language:German
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Second feature film by German-Turkish director Thomas Arslan (Ferien, Aus der Ferne), and a rough diamond of the first generation of the so-called ‘Berlin School’. Can is a young and smart upstart; he dreams of a small family but the money that fuels this dream comes from the streets. Can is a dealer, he works for Hakan who is supplying the kids in his neighbourhood with drugs. And while Can struggles to get control over his life he sees his girl friend, the mother of his kid, leaving and himself increasingly surrounded by false friends. On top of it, a cop (Birol Ünel, the male lead from Fatih Akin’s “Gegen die Wand) is on his back trying to persuade Can to work undercover for the police. The more Can attempts to free himself, the deeper he sinks into a life he never aspired to.
“Dealer” uses the form of the gangster film for a superb character study of a young man on his way down. It’s a bleak film, as most of the Berlin School films, but Arslan’s precision is astonishing. His framing of the action (or rather non-action) is almost geometrical, Arslan has a keen eye for space – space that is mostly empty in his film. His characers are lost in the city, although they are never alone. Abandoning all conventional mumbo jumbo like character psychology or empathy, “Dealer” remains as erratic as his main protagonist. It was Arslan’s second film of his ‘Berin Trilogy’ and the first of his films critics described as ‘Bressonian’. It is nothing but true. “Dealer” displays an honesty and depth that is rarely seen in German cinema. Arslan was never this good again.

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Thomas Arslans berührenden Kinofilm DEALER kann man auf unterschiedliche Weise sehen: als Soziodrama über den vorprogrammierten Abstieg eines Kleinkriminellen, dem das Leben und die Familie entgleitet – oder als existenzielles, philophisches Traktat über die Isolation eines urbanen Individuums:
Can, Kleindealer mit türkischem Paß in Berlin-Schöneberg, steckt in einer Krise: Seine Freundin will ihn zusammen mit dem gemeinsamen Kind verlassen. Sein Auftraggeber Hakan verspricht ihm eine eigene Bar, hält ihn aber hin und wird schließlich von der russischen Konkurrenz erschossen. Ein Zivilpolizist ist Can auf den Fersen und provoziert ihn, verhindert seinen Weg in eine bürgerliche Existenz. Am Ende steht Can vor dem absoluten Abgrund…
Ganz im Stile des französischen Existenzialisten Robert Bresson komponiert Arslan seine nüchternen, planimetrischen Bilder als Isolationsraum, in dem die Protagonisten meist emotionslos und apathisch agieren. Der Wille zur Veränderung flackert kurz auf, aber er ist zu schwach, die Verlockung des schnellen Geldes zu groß. Was bleibt, sind Träume, aber auch die kommen und gehen… Insofern ist DEALER ein bitterer, fatalistischer Film über einen jungen Mann, der die Ausweglosigkeit seiner Situation spürt, aber nicht dagegen arbeiten kann…
Einiges verbindet den Film mit dem titelgleichen ungarischen Drama von Bendek Fliegauf, das ebenfalls den Alltag eines Kleindealers nachzeichnet. Doch die Stadt selbst steht hier im Hintergrund: Oft sehen wir sie verschwommen, gleich einer Folie. Davor dominieren Gesichter. Seine Höhepunkte hat Arslans kleines Meisterstück in den ruhigen Momenten, wenn wir Can zu den traurigen Klängen von Bohren & der Club of Gore in der nächtlichen Stadt auf Kundschaft warten sehen… Hier erreicht der Film eine Poesie, die man allenfalls in der poetischen Filmphilosophie von Bruno Dumont oder Claire Denis findet.
Marcus Stiglegger

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“Trojan is released from jail and goes straight back to his profession as a criminal. He gets hold of a weapon and looks out for new jobs. In just a few takes, Thomas Arslan sets up the anonymous world of his gangster protagonist by falling back on motifs and characters from the genre. The backroom of a car workshop, parking lots, furnished apartments. One meets men and women who distrust each other because they are all out to line their own pockets. The setting changes constantly, with surveillance and chase scenes providing a dynamic narrative rhythm. Since crime makes up Trojan’s daily existence, the film concentrates entirely on the technical nature of a life outside the law. The reduced and clear-cut images – shot with a Red camera 
– highlight the exact sequence of events. In the Shadows (Im Schatten) is a genre film that focuses consistently on the mechanics and external process of a crime. It develops a sense of great suspense, without burdening its figures with personal stories. Each hand movement has to be right.”
(From the Berlinale Forum catalogue – by Anke Leweke)

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