What Marielle Knows Was Marielle Weiss
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Julia, Tobias, and their eleven-year-old daughter Marielle seem like the perfect family. The parents have high-powered corporate jobs and a stylish home complete with a designer kitchen. Yet beneath this bourgeois facade, trouble is brewing. When a friend at school slaps Marielle on the playground, she inexplicably develops telepathic powers, gaining the ability to see and hear everything her parents do—even when she’s not in the room. Under a state of constant surveillance, the parents’ patience is put to the test, and cracks in their marriage emerge. Through their daughter, they begin to engage in a series of manipulative games, leading to increasingly awkward and absurd situations.
Clever, incisive, and darkly funny, What Marielle Knows careens toward an unforgettable end as the fretting parents must do whatever they can to strip their daughter of her psychic abilities. From this absurd premise, director Frédéric Hambalek builds a hilarious and scathing satire of upper middle-class family life.
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- Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker
- Frédéric Hambalek
- Anne Fabini
- Alexander Griesser
- Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Atesçi, Moritz Treuenfels
- Walker + Worm Film
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Strange River Estrany Riu
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It’s summertime on the Danube River, and teenager Dídac and his tight-knit family are enjoying the pastoral beauty on a bicycle trip together. Memories swirl in the river’s waters, as Dídac’s parents reminisce over their first trials with love in their youth. Dídac’s own curiosity around romance and desire begins to stir when he encounters a mysterious boy who seems to appear and disappear from the river’s waters. As the two boys circle into closer and closer orbit, the growing pains of young love begin to widen the emerging cracks between Dídac and his family.
The boundaries between the waking world and dreaming flow freely like the river itself in Jaume Claret Muxart’s sensuous and ethereal feature debut, where longing conjures the ghosts of past and future. Set against a sunny, verdant landscape shot on 16mm, Strange River explores the freedom of blossoming youth with remarkable tenderness.
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- Xavi Font, Andrea Vázquez
- Jaume Claret Muxart, Meritxell Colell
- Maria Castan de Manuel, Meritxell Colell
- Pablo Paloma
- Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz, Jordi Oriol, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell
- Nika Son
- ZuZú Cinema, Miramemira
- https://filmsboutique.com/film/strange-river/
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Sound of Falling In die Sonne schauen
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An eerie, unsettling century-spanning saga, Sound of Falling collages together the stories of four generations of farmworking women living on the banks of Germany’s Elbe River. In a region historically defined by decades of turmoil—two world wars and Germany’s East-West divide—the film’s ghostly farmhouse setting breathes a sense of profound disquiet as the events that unfold there are echoes of the violence around them.
Connecting characters across time—from Alma in the early 20th century to Lenka in the present day—director Mascha Schilinski observes moments of poetry, horror, and grace. As we observe each woman bearing up with her lot in life, this year’s Grand Jury Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival offers a profound and moving reflection on resilience and the ripple effects of inherited trauma.
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- Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt
- Mascha Schilinski, Louise Peter
- Evelyn Rack
- Fabian Gamper
- Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Laeni Geiseler, Susanne Wuest, Luise Heyer, Lea Drinda
- Michael Fiedler, Eike Hosenfeld
- Lasse Scharpen
- Studio Zentral, ZDF
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Silent Friend
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Nestled in the heart of a university campus in Germany, a majestic gingko tree stands tall. Bearing silent witness to the school’s history and the lives of the people that have passed through its halls, the stately plant serves as a kind of nexus that connects three characters across time: in 1908, the college’s first female student observes hidden patterns in plant life through photography; in 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by observing and cataloging the behavior of a geranium; in 2020, a neuroscientist (Tony Leung) in Covid lockdown begins a series of unexpected botanical experiments. Could the trees be watching us?
Seamlessly toggling between time periods, Silent Friend is a century-spanning exploration of humanity’s fascination with nature’s greatest mysteries. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast and a winsome sense of wonder, the film is a thoughtful meditation on longing, belonging, and what it means to be human.
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- Reinhard Brundig, Monika Mécs, Nicolas Elghozi
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Károly Szalai
- Gergely Pálos
- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Léa Seydoux
- Gábor Keresztes, Kristóf Kelemen
- Pandora Film, Inforg-M&M Film, Galatée Films
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Miroirs No. 3
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Weekending in the countryside, Laura’s life is turned upside down by a violent car crash. She survives, and though she miraculously suffers only minor physical injuries, the accident leaves her dazed and adrift. A local woman who witnessed the incident offers to take her in while she regains her bearings, tending to her with motherly dedication. Over time, the woman’s husband and son, initially skeptical of the unconventional arrangement, come to see this stranger as a member of the family. Soon, though, the ghosts of the past come calling, forcing Laura toward a reckoning.
Veteran auteur Christian Petzold (Transit, Undine) offers a filmic puzzle that plumbs the depths of human psychology and poses questions about the transitory nature of identity. Actress Paula Beer imbues Laura with an enigmatic, elusive depth, while a hauntingly beautiful score suggests that mystery and menace lurk beneath the warm glow of the sun-dappled landscapes.
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- Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Anton Kaiser
- Christian Petzold
- Bettina Böhler
- Hans Fromm
- Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs
- Schramm Film Koerner Weber Kaiser
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Annemarie JacirPalestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan
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