As is well known, films and festivals should be celebrated as they come. In the case of Ayşe Polat’s film In the blind spot But it’s not that easy: At the German Film Awards last week, this thriller about a political murder in Turkey and a secret police officer who is caught up in his past was the surprise winner (best director, best screenplay, bronze film award) , but hardly anyone saw it in the cinema. You can catch up on that now: Studio Isabella is showing Polat’s film in a matinee on Sunday, May 12th.
Only one film has won even more Lolas: the three-hour family epic Die (which, according to the main actor Lars Eidinger, was originally supposed to be called “Die – Also a Comedy” and is a tragicomedy in the very best sense) is running in Munich on ABC, City, Monopol, Maxim and Rio, among others. There are no Lolas, but Viktors Dok-Fest Munich, which ends on May 12th (online until May 20th): On the last days of the festival, a Viktor will be awarded for the best German and the best international documentary film, and there will also be awards for music, editing and young talent . The German films are worth seeing with or without a price In the land of wolves (in the city), Land of Lost Children (also in the City) or Eternal You – From the end of finitude (in the Kammerspiele).
Documentaries will continue to be shown in Munich cinemas after the end of the Dok Fest, and guests have also announced themselves: The Monopol Kino, for example, will be showing on May 16th The Combine, a documentary about the Munich Potato Combine and its idea of solidarity farming, followed by a film discussion. Already ten years old, but given the situation in the Middle East, Nadav Schirmans is more relevant than ever The Green Princewhich the City Cinema is showing on May 15th followed by a film discussion: This film is about the son of a Hamas co-founder, who was recruited by the Israeli secret service in the 1990s and from then on spied on Hamas in the West Bank.
On May 15th, the Munich filmmaker Felix Moeller will also be a guest at the Filmmuseum. His documentary will be shown Jud Sweet 2.0 about hatred of Jews and online anti-Semitism – a no less current topic that has been stirring up the global community since the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 and the war that has raged since then. You can see just one day later, on May 16th, how diverse the films, topics and guests in the film museum are: that’s what happened Armin Mueller Stahl very prominent visit announced; The occasion is the presentation of the music and documentary film Armin Mueller-Stahl – There are days. The actor with a global career is now 93 years old; in the film you can see him at his last concert in the Berlin Wintergarten in 2018.
The Brazilian Maya Gabeira had a completely different kind of career, who failed again and again, who floated lifelessly in the water and is now one of the best big wave surfers in the world. Maya and the Wave is a visually stunning sports film; It can be seen on May 20th at the Rio Filmpalast.