A circus wagon and a shipping container serve as stonemason Michael Spengler’s workshop. It is here that he receives people in mourning. Together they design headstones that tell of the deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Neustadt have lost their two-year-old son. Through their dialogue with Michael they find the words to express their emotions, words that become form and substance—their child’s breath is to be represented in a fragile limestone. Hardburg Stolle is a woman of few words, through Michael’s guidance she dauntlessly swings the hammer that splits a boulder and feels a sense of strength that had been long buried. The Jacob family searches for the essence of their grandfather’s life: lover of nature, bon vivant, patriarch. What should an object that encapsulates him look like? Michael approaches the material and the people with great sensitivity and accompanies each family on a process that often takes months, one decision at a time.
The film tells the story of this difficult and intimate process and shows how working on the stone makes death concrete in the truest sense of the word. As the stone takes on its form, the families discover a new relationship with the deceased—and to life.
DOK Leipzig 2018, DE | Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE
ver.di Award (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Honorable Mention Goethe-Institute (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Ecumenical Award (Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE)
SEPTEMBER 2025
DREI KILOMETER BIS ZUM ENDE DER WELT
ein Film von Emanuel Pârvu
Ausgezeichnet mit der QUEEREN PALME in Cannes 2025
Rumänien 2024, 105 Minuten, rumänische Originalfassung mit deutschen Untertiteln
FSK 12
Mi, 10.9. 20:40 KIZ Royal Kino
Do 11.9., 20.30 Cinema Paradiso, Baden
Mo 17.9. 20.00 Votivkino, Wien
Do 18.9., 20.15 Volkskino Klagenfurt
Mo 29.9. 20:30 Cinematograph
ALARM ab 26. September auf VOD
Jetzt im Gemeindekino eine Vorstellung buchen
www.gemeindekino.at
ein Film von Nathalie Borgers
Metro Kinokulturhaus, Wien
Leokino, Innsbruck
KIZ Royal Kino, Graz
Moviemento, Linz
Volkskino Klagenfurt (ab 15.9.)
Kino im Kesselhaus (17.9.+24.9.)
Montag 15. September 20.15
Volkskino Klagenfurt
Moderation: Ulrich Haag
Ein Film von Jasmila Žbanic
Wien-Premiere in Anwesenheit der Regisseurin Jasmila Žbanic
am 10. Oktober, 19.30 im Village Cinema
Ab 10. Oktober in folgenden Kinos:
Wien: VILLAGE CINEMA, MILLENIUMCITY
Graz: KIZ Royal Kino
Linz: Moviemento
Innsbruck: Leokino (ab 17. Oktober)
Klagenfurt: Volkskino
EDIMOTION, DE 2025
Nominierung:
BESTE MONTAGE - ANDREA WAGNER
für ihre herausragende Arbeit an
DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED
Erlebt echte Kinomomente bei euch im Ort!
Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf
DREI Nominierungen für DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED
- Bester Dokumentarfilm
- Beste Montage
-Beste Tongestaltung
October: Dok Leipzig
November: IDFA