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Everything for the special look! The SPECIALS bring together extraordinary film series.

Under the title "What's Left?", one series asks about the remnants of the economic and political, but also false nationalistic promises of the 1990s and early 00s. What is left of the hopes of that time? How is Eastern Europe coming to terms with the "turn of the times"?

Another SPECIAL asks about the representation of women's roles in the cinema of socialism and afterwards- and what has become of these role models today.

The FullDome program will again be shown at the Cottbus Planetarium.

Current Polish films about everyday life in the so-called "province", will be shown in Polskie Horyzonty: Ups and Downs between village and small town, universal and true to life.

Selected films by Cottbus filmmaker Ralf Schuster will be shown at the Obenkino.

Lauchhammer

Till Franzen
DE / 2022 / 6x45 min

This atmospheric and exciting six-part mini-series is set in the Lusatian coalfield, or what remains of it. Cottbus-based LKA investigator Maik Briegand comes from Lauchhammer, where he has to solve the murder of a 17-year-old girl. In the course of ...