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City Kino Wedding: Explorations of the Unconscious – The Films of Lucile Hadžihalilović
Event by: Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Location: City Kino Wedding, Müllerstraße 74, Berlin - Mitte
About event
Lucile Hadžihalilović (*1961) is an extraordinary filmmaker. With just four feature films in 20 years, she has developed a distinctive signature and created an artistic universe that is unparalleled in contemporary French cinema. With a strong sense of style, she creates mysterious scenes isolated from the world in artfully designed images and repeatedly dedicates herself to the transition from childhood and youth to adulthood. Her stories rely entirely on the visual power of images; dialogue is secondary. They are characterized by fairytale motifs, the fantastic and the uncanny and are not anchored in a specific time, let alone in this reality. These are explorations of the unconscious, which are always accompanied by a touch of horror - a very unique aesthetic form of genre cinema.
Ahead of the theatrical release of LA TOUR DE GLACE, which was awarded the prize for outstanding artistic achievement at the Berlinale 2025, the Arsenal is showing a retrospective of the four films they created between 2004 and 2025 as part of the French Film Week in the presence of Lucile Hadžihalilović Feature films, three of which have never been shown regularly in cinemas in this country.
An event with the kind support of the Institut français.
In the City Kino Wedding, Müllerstraße 74, Berlin-Wedding
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Lucile Hadžihalilović (born 1961) is an extraordinary filmmaker. With only four feature films in 20 years, she has developed an unmistakable signature style and created an artistic universe that is unparalleled in contemporary French cinema. With a distinctive stylistic vision and artfully created images, she creates mysterious, secluded settings in which to explore, over and over again, the transition from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Her tales depend fully on the visual force of the imagery, with dialogue taking a back seat. They are characterized by fairy-tale motifs, the fantastic and the uncanny, and are not anchored in a specific time, let alone in reality. They are explorations of the unconscious, always accompanied by a touch of horror – a very unique aesthetic form of genre cinema.
Ahead of the theatrical release of LA TOUR DE GLACE, which won the award for outstanding artistic achievement at the 2025 Berlinale, Arsenal presents a retrospective of Hadžihalilović's four feature films, which were made between 2004 and 2025, as part of French Film Week, in the presence of Lucile Hadžihalilović. Three of them were never screened on a regular basis in Germany.
With the kind support of the Institut français.
Program
Sun, November 23rd, 7 p.m., opening, followed by a conversation with Lucile Hadžihalilović, moderation: Birgit Kohler (in English)
LA TOUR DE GLACE Heart of ice Lucile Hadžihalilović F/D 2025 DCP French. OmdU 118'
Mon, November 24th, 7 p.m., followed by a conversation with Lucile Hadžihalilović, moderated by Birgit Kohler (in English)
INNOCENCE Lucile Hadžihalilović F/UK/BEL 2004 OmeU 117'
Tue, November 25th, 8:30 p.m Clock
EARWIG Lucile Hadžihalilović UK/F/BEL 2021 English OF 114‘
Wed, November 26th, 9 p.m.
ÉVOLUTION Lucile Hadžihalilović F/BEL/Spain 2014 French. OmeU 81'
More info 🔗 https://onlocation.arsenal-berlin.de/arsenal-on-loacation-at-franzoesische-filmwoche
Ahead of the theatrical release of LA TOUR DE GLACE, which was awarded the prize for outstanding artistic achievement at the Berlinale 2025, the Arsenal is showing a retrospective of the four films they created between 2004 and 2025 as part of the French Film Week in the presence of Lucile Hadžihalilović Feature films, three of which have never been shown regularly in cinemas in this country.
An event with the kind support of the Institut français.
In the City Kino Wedding, Müllerstraße 74, Berlin-Wedding
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Lucile Hadžihalilović (born 1961) is an extraordinary filmmaker. With only four feature films in 20 years, she has developed an unmistakable signature style and created an artistic universe that is unparalleled in contemporary French cinema. With a distinctive stylistic vision and artfully created images, she creates mysterious, secluded settings in which to explore, over and over again, the transition from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Her tales depend fully on the visual force of the imagery, with dialogue taking a back seat. They are characterized by fairy-tale motifs, the fantastic and the uncanny, and are not anchored in a specific time, let alone in reality. They are explorations of the unconscious, always accompanied by a touch of horror – a very unique aesthetic form of genre cinema.
Ahead of the theatrical release of LA TOUR DE GLACE, which won the award for outstanding artistic achievement at the 2025 Berlinale, Arsenal presents a retrospective of Hadžihalilović's four feature films, which were made between 2004 and 2025, as part of French Film Week, in the presence of Lucile Hadžihalilović. Three of them were never screened on a regular basis in Germany.
With the kind support of the Institut français.
Program
Sun, November 23rd, 7 p.m., opening, followed by a conversation with Lucile Hadžihalilović, moderation: Birgit Kohler (in English)
LA TOUR DE GLACE Heart of ice Lucile Hadžihalilović F/D 2025 DCP French. OmdU 118'
Mon, November 24th, 7 p.m., followed by a conversation with Lucile Hadžihalilović, moderated by Birgit Kohler (in English)
INNOCENCE Lucile Hadžihalilović F/UK/BEL 2004 OmeU 117'
Tue, November 25th, 8:30 p.m Clock
EARWIG Lucile Hadžihalilović UK/F/BEL 2021 English OF 114‘
Wed, November 26th, 9 p.m.
ÉVOLUTION Lucile Hadžihalilović F/BEL/Spain 2014 French. OmeU 81'
More info 🔗 https://onlocation.arsenal-berlin.de/arsenal-on-loacation-at-franzoesische-filmwoche