Film tips for January

After a successful edition last September, the Fantoche animated film festival is going on tour. The next stop is the Sternenkeller Rüti. There, anyone who missed the International Festival of Animated Film in Baden can review the best films from the 21st edition. The programme starts at 16:00 with films for young people and children aged 8 and over, followed by a selection for adults from 20:00.

Like no other, Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) left her mark on feminist and avant-garde filmmaking. In her book "Chantal Akerman's Disappearance", author Tine Rahel Völcker sets out in search of traces of the exceptional director. She will read excerpts from it at Xenix on 14 January. Völcker's lecture performance "Exil Cinema" will be complemented by Akerman's short film debut Saute ma Ville (1968) and excerpts from her Israel film Là-Bas (2006). Afterwards, Akerman's last film No Home Movie (2015) will be shown.

Sunday, 14 January 2024, Xenix, 16:30

Silent films are part of the Filmpodium's repertoire. Every month, gems from early film history are shown with musical accompaniment. For the month of January, the cinema has come up with something special: a silent film marathon. All episodes of Louis Feuillade's Les vampires (1915) will be shown for over eight hours. Feuillade's ten-part series about a Parisian gang of criminals draws on both the fantastical tradition of Georges Méliès and the realism of the Lumière brothers. The surrealistic images are accompanied by live music from the ONe Orchestra New.

After three years and 476 matches with men on dating apps, filmmaker and ethnologist Céline Pernet decides to take a closer look at the male sex: Through an advert, she found 30 men aged between 30 and 45 who agreed to talk openly about being male in front of the camera. The result is the documentary Garçonnières, in which the interviewees reflect on the image of masculinity, toxic behaviour and inspiring models of masculinity.