Claudia decides to investigate her grand mother’s past, who recently passed away. Through a letter, she comes to Marlene, an old German lady who lives in Brazil and keeps her memories inside a pool without water. During the visit, the old lady reveals details of her life that intersect with Claudia’s grandmother’s past, a German fugitive of the 2nd World War.
Pool is about gay persecution during the Nazi period and the achievement of LGBT civil rights in contemporary History.
Kaouther Ben Hania
Friday, 16. 01. 2026 / 16:20 / Main Hall
A harrowing reconstruction of the attempted rescue of a Palestinian girl, intertwining real emergency call recordings with dramatised scenes in a call centre. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film.
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Friday, 16. 01. 2026 / 17:30 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.