Rudelkritik

Rudelkritik

12th of February 2026 – 8 p.m. Hackesche Höfe Kino

Filme:
HINTERLEGTE NUMMERN
ONE MINUTE IS AN ETERNITY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING

Debate Format: RUDELKRITIK

Film critics in a pack: this format brings together voices from international film and cultural critics to take a closer look at the evening’s films and engage with the audience’s critiques.

Debate guests include: Vera Klocke

In the presence of: Farina Mietchen, Fábio Rogério

HINTERLEGTE NUMMERN

D: Farina Mietchen, DOP: Lukas Grubba, GER 2025, 20 Min., German Original with English Subtitles – World Premiere

So much for a world of total accessibility: the inmates in Farina Mietchen’s documentary can only communicate precariously, and access is unevenly distributed between those on the inside and those they wish to contact. “If you can’t reach me,” a former inmate reminds his Turkish friend, who is still in jail, “try again. I can’t call you back.” Such are the rules in the business of the inmate telephone system. Mietchen listens to her anonymized protagonists as they talk on the phone, watch crime shows together, and make plans for their next visit, while she herself fills out visitation requests. The film’s error-prone DV format reflects this world of fragile communication, so out of step with the times—as is, one might argue, the entire prison system that necessitates it.

Farina Mietchen (born in Neumünster in 1994) lives and works in Hamburg. After studying philosophy and sociology in Hamburg, she transferred to the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK), where she studied film. Her artistic practice moves between documentary and fictional forms and deals with social structures and realities. In addition to her film work, photography forms an independent focus within her practice. From 2019 to 2025, she was a member of the Cake und Cash collective, which received an art scholarship from the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius in 2023.

ONE MINUTE IS AN ETERNITY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING (UM MINUTO É UMA ETERNIDADE PARA QUEM ESTÁ SOFRENDO)

D: Fábio Rogério, Wesley Pereira de Castro, C: Wesley Pereira de Castro, Rosane Pereira de Castro, BRA 2025, 62 Min., Brazilian Original with English Subtitles – German Premiere

A house with a backyard. It’s hot. The dishes remain untouched—the water has been off for days. The immediacy of a handheld camera, relentlessly imposing its user’s subjectivity. There are attempts at self-therapy by eating apples, being naked, and reading, for example, Samuel Beckett’s Molloy—a novel about physical and mental decay. Then the water returns, torrential downpours flooding the backyard and the TV screen too, via the movie that’s playing. And then: panic attacks. Pets. Garbage. Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Family scenes. Tinder profiles. Suicidal thoughts. Shower songs. Dreams. Telenovelas. Fetishes. Gilles Deleuze. These are audiovisual diary entries from the life of Wesley Pereira de Castro, which rebel against the marketing logic of cinema in their radical combination of intellect, lust, health, living conditions, freedom, and cinephilia.

Fábio Rogério was born in Sergipe (Brazil) in 1985. He’s a Botafogo supporter and father of Rudá. He co-directed ONE MINUTE IS AN ETERNITY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING (2025) with Wesley Pereira de Castro. Their film has been selected for Tiradentes FF (Brazil) and won the Best Feature Film award from the Aurora Section.