Hochschulfilmclub

On the occasion of „Jazztage 2024“, we are showing "Music for Black Pigeons" - a documentary that explores the lives and working methods of some of the world's most famous and prolific jazz musicians, including Jakob Bro, Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian and Midori Takada. The film team has followed Danish composer Jakob Bro across North America, Europe and Japan over the past 14 years, witnessing his musical encounters with musicians of different generations and nationalities. "Music for Black…

In the 1960s, Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie) is working at a juvenile detention facility in Massachusetts. Her life consists of a depressing job and an abusive widowed father. Eileen often finds herself daydreaming, about killing herself, killing her father or the guards at the prison. But her life is about to change when the new prison psychologist Rebecca Saint John (Anne Hathaway) is joining the prison staff. Eileen is immediately attracted to her. The two start working a case on…

After losing his mother in the bombing of Tokyo, young Mahito is taken to the countryside where his father plans to remarry to a new woman. While venturing through the overgrown forest surrounding his new home, he discovers an old tower and a mysterious gray heron, who claims that his mother is still alive and held captive inside the strange structure… “What is your favorite anime movie?” Ask that question to any western anime-fan and you have a pretty good…

The elders of the Osage Nation bury a ceremonial pipe and lament the assimilation of their descendants into white American society. Wandering through their reservation in Oklahoma, during the annual "flower moon" when the fields bloom, some Osage find oil bubbling up from the ground. The tribe becomes prosperous as it retains the mineral rights and members share in the income from the oil leases, although the law requires that white, court-appointed guardians manage the money of the full and…

Jann Mardenborough spielt für sein Leben gern die Rennspielsimulation Gran Turismo, und er ist gut darin. Aber ist er auch so gut, dass er es auf der realen Strecke mit echten Rennfahrern aufnehmen kann? Dieser Film erzählt die Geschichte eines Gamers der zu einem echten Rennfahrer wurde. Zusammen mit Ilmenau eSport und Team Starcraft präsentieren wir euch diesen klassischen Feel-Good-Underdog-Rennfilm, welche durch gutes Erzähltempo und leidenschaftliche Darbietung der beiden Hauptdarsteller Archie Madekwe und David Harbour besticht. Trotz wahren Begebenheiten wurden…

Hirayama ist ein etwas wortkager Toilettenreiniger in Tokyo. Seine Tage folgen der immer gleichen Struktur. Aufstehen, zur Arbeit fahren und dabei Musik hören, Mittagspause im Park, abends duschen im Badehaus und danach in einem kleinen Restaurant Suppe essen. Langweilig scheint Hirayama dabei nicht zu sein. Durch die Einfachheit seines Alltags kann er sich in Ruhe seiner Leidenschaft für Musik und Bücher widmen. Als plötzlich seine Nichte vor der Tür steht, wird er gezwungen, zu kommunizieren und sich mit seiner Vergangenheit…

In cooperation with the Referat Gleichstellung, Diversität und Gesundheit we present you 2014‘s Oscars Winning Movie ”The Imitation Game“. Ever since his childhood, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) was interested in cryptography. When World War II broke out, he could finally use his exceptional academic knowledge for working in Britain‘s leading cryptography team at Bletchley Park for deciphering German secret messages. Initially rejected by his colleagues, Turing manages to gain control of the project and divert resources to an automatic electronic…

Moscow, 1953: While Stalin is enjoying the sounds of a Mozart concerto, which has been repeated and recorded for his amusement, and is excessively amused by another hate message to him, he suffers a stroke and is only discovered the following morning. Following the news of Stalin's poor health, the members of the Central Committee of the CPSU are more concerned about his succession than his health. Secret service chief Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell Beale) tries to win back the…