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Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies<\/a> USA 2014 \u201cCyclopean 3D is the most 3D a single eye can come up with. This means the celestial horde on display here can only seem to be\u00a0galloping through space. Actual seeing into depth must be denied, it\u2019s the law.\u201d (Ken Jacobs)<\/p>\n 12.30 pm, Kino Arsenal 1<\/strong><\/p>\n Orchard Street<\/a> USA 1955 Presented for the first time in the originally planned half-hour cut: Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs’s first foray into the world of\u00a0cinema \u2013 a document of the vibrant Jewish neighborhood in Manhattan where Jacobs grew up.<\/p>\n 12.30 pm, Kino Arsenal 1<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n El hombre nuevo<\/a> Uruguay\/Chile 2015 At the tender age of twelve, Roberto supported the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and fought\u00a0for education and social reforms. He was to continue his political struggle fighting alongside the communist Tupamaros in Uruguay. Thirty years later he is struggling to live his life as a woman\u00a0named Stephan\u00eda and striving to be accepted by both society and his family. Documentary filmmaker Aldo Garay has followed Stephan\u00eda for over twenty years. In El Hombre Nuevo he provides a\u00a0personal and tender portrait of a woman who can look back on a tempestuous life in which violence, drugs, prostitution and political commitment all found its place. Scenes from her day-to-day life are\u00a0interspersed with interview material that includes conversations with old friends, fellow-travellers\u00a0and siblings, as well as a passionate, heated exchange with her mother. The picture of society that\u00a0emerges is as diverse as it is intimate, and spans a time of great political upheaval in the 1970s to the present day.<\/p>\n 14.00 pm, Kino International<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0I am Michael<\/a> USA 2015 San Francisco in 1998. Queer activist Michael is passionately committed to supporting gay and\u00a0lesbian youths. His own deep longing to belong means that he is tirelessly engaged in redefining his own existence, absorbing with apparent ease young Tyler into his long term relationship with his\u00a0friend Bennett. The trio decides to travel America to record on film the lives of gay teenagers. They subsequently manage to raise the cash to launch Michael\u2019s own LGBT magazine. But Michael isn\u2019t\u00a0happy with the way he\u2019s living his life. Following a suspected heart attack he strives to find a way to balance sexuality and spirituality and decides to leave his chosen family and friends. After engaging\u00a0in meditative contemplation and heterosexual experiments, he firmly embraces Christianity.In his sensitive directorial debut, Justin Kelly deftly juxtaposes different periods of time to describe the\u00a0unusual transformation of Michael Glatze, the co-founder of the magazine \u2018Young Gay America\u2019 and a one-time inspirational figure of the LGBT community who, after prolonged and persistent soulsearching,\u00a0decided to reject homosexuality and become a preacher.<\/p>\n 14.30 pm, Cubix 9<\/strong><\/p>\n Fassbinder – lieben ohne zu fordern<\/strong><\/a> Denmark 2015 Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany\u2019s most significant post-war director. His swift and\u00a0dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that\u00a0has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layered and multifarious work of astonishing\u00a0consistency and rigour. From 1969 onwards, Danish director and film historian Christian Braad\u00a0Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder. Fassbinder –\u00a0Lieben ohne zu fordern is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and\u00a0interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother Lilo in the 1970s. The film also contains current\u00a0interviews with Irm Hermann and Harry Baer, both of whom were close to Fassbinder. Beginning with\u00a0Fassbinder\u2019s extraordinary childhood in traumatised post-war Germany, the film, which is divided\u00a0into seven chapters, provides an illuminating, intimate and moving tribute that bears witness to the
\n<\/strong>Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies<\/em>
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\n15′
\nDirector: Ken Jacobs<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Orchard Street
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\n27′
\nDirector: Ken Jacobs<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The new man<\/em><\/p>\n
\n79′
\nDirector: Aldo Garay<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>I am Michael
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\n100′
\nDirector: Justin Kelly
\nCast: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nFassbindern – to love without demands<\/em><\/p>\n
\n109′
\nDirector: Christian Braad Thomsen
\nCast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Harry Baer, Andrea Schober<\/p>\n
\nenduring relevance of both the man and his work. Today in particular his oeuvre continues to provoke us to engage with controversy and tension \u2013 be it aesthetical, creative or critical.<\/p>\n