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27.October2026

  1. Lügen über meine Mutter

    In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's body weight. Her husband Werner decides that she needs to lose weight, Cornelia suffers as a result and their daughter Ela is caught in the middle.
    • Drama

    Harmonie

  2. KIKUYU LAND OmeU, keine Angabe

    Regie: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu | 96 Min. KE 2025. R: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu. Dokumentarfilm. 96 Min. DCP. OmeU (Englisch, Swahili, Kikuyu) Original version with English subtitles Mit Gepräch: mit Julia Albrecht, Bildungsreferentin im Weltkulturenmuseum, moderiert von Schüler*innen der Helmholtzschule Filmreihe:Southern Lights Vor der Kulisse kenianischer Teeanbaugebiete zeichnet der Film aus der Sicht der Kikuyu-Gemeinschaften die Folgen kolonialer Landenteignung nach. Er verknüpft den juristischen Kampf um Landrückgabe mit der Familiengeschichte der Co-Regisseurin Bea Wangondu und zeigt, wie das koloniale Erbe das Leben der Menschen weiterhin prägt. Set in Kenya’s tea-growing highlands, the film traces the lasting impact of colonial land dispossession through the voices of…

    DFF FilmmuseumOmeUDCP

    Southern Lights

  3. The Perfect Holiday

    The group of friends from “Das perfekte Geheimnis” have to ask themselves the question on a chaotic short trip to the south: Is there life after the truth or is their friendship over?
    • Comedy

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  4. A GOODNIGHT KISS OmU, FSK folgt

    Regie: Giedre Žickyte | 89 Min. Bulgarien/Estland/Litauen 2025. R: Giedre Žickyte. 89 Min. OmU Original version with German subtitles Im Anschluss Zoomgespräch: Giedre Žickyte spricht mit Rebecca Heiler (goEast Filmfestival) In Kooperation mit: goEast Filmreihe: Jüdische Filmtage „Nimm niemals Rache“, waren die letzten Worte, die Irena Veisaites Mutter an ihre Tochter richtete. Worte, die Irena Veisaite ein Leben lang prägten. Im Film von Giedre Žickyte erzählt die 2020 verstorbene litauische Kulturschaffende und Holocaust-Überlebende, wie sie trotz der schrecklichen Erfahrungen ihrer Jugend ihren Optimismus und ihr Mitgefühl bewahrte. Der Film verwebt Aufnahmen aus der Vergangenheit mit reflektierenden Momenten der Gegenwart zu einer feinfühligen Hommage an eine Frau, die sich zeitlebens…

    DFF FilmmuseumOmU

    Jüdische Filmtage

  5. Manon - Massenet (Royal Ballet & Opera 2026/27 live)

    2026 · 190 min

    Astor Film Lounge

  6. The Perfect Holiday

    The group of friends from “Das perfekte Geheimnis” have to ask themselves the question on a chaotic short trip to the south: Is there life after the truth or is their friendship over?
    • Comedy

    Filmpalast Hofheim

  7. TMDB 76RT 81IMDb 8.0

    Manon of the Spring

    In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
    • Drama

    Cinéma

  8. IMDb 6.1

    The Soundman

    This short on movie sound men starts with a short history of sound in the movies. We then see how the different jobs in the sound department contribute to the finished film. They start with the technicians, who record the original sounds, and end with the re-recording mixer who takes several different tracks and blends them into a single soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2012.
    • Documentary

    Harmonie

  9. TMDB 79RT 94

    Jim Queen

    When Heterosis - a mysterious virus that turns gay men straight sweeps through the Parisian gay scene, Jim, the six packed sovereign of the Gym Queens, goes from Pride royalty to social outcast. With only Lucien, a freshly-out twink with more heart than abs, still by his side, Jim must race to find a cure before the disease erases the community that once worshipped him.
    • Animation
    • Comedy

    Harmonie

  10. MARAMA OmeU, keine Angabe

    Regie: Taratoa Stappard | 89 Min. NZ 2025. R: Taratoa Stappard. D: Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens. 89 Min. OmeU (Englisch, Maori) Original version with English subtitles Mit Zoom-Gepräch: mit Regisseur Taratoa Stappard, moderiert von Tharaka Sriram Filmreihe: Southern Lights England, 1859: Auf der Suche nach ihrer Herkunft gerät eine junge Maori-Frau in ein abgelegenes Herrenhaus, das von kolonialer Gewalt und düsteren Geheimnissen heimgesucht wird. Zwischen Gothic Horror und historischem Drama erzählt MARAMA von Identität, Ahnen, spiritueller Stärke und der Rückeroberung einer geraubten Geschichte. Mit GeprächEngland, 1859. Searching for her ancestry, a young Maori woman is drawn into a remote manor haunted by colonial violence and dark secrets. Blending Gothic horror with historical…

    DFF FilmmuseumOmeU

    Southern Lights


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Currently 22 cinemas and film series in Frankfurt and the surrounding area: Astor Film Lounge MyZeil, DFF — Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Harmonie Theater Frankfurt, Cinéma Frankfurt, Filmforum Höchst, Kino Kelkheim, Filmpalast Hofheim, Kino Alte Mühle, Mal seh'n Kino, Eldorado Arthouse Kino, Lichtblick Mörfelden, Kronberger Lichtspiele, Eschborn K, Kino Köppern, Haus am Dom – Kath. Akademie Rabanus Maurus, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, naxos.Kino, Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Deutsches Ledermuseum Offenbach am Main, Senckenberg Naturmuseum and Historisches Museum Frankfurt.

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