Film: The Whispering Star

On the occasion of the exhibition The World Without Us. Narratives on the age of non-human actors, we are showing the films "The Whispering Star" and "Homo Sapiens" in cooperation with Kino im U e.V.

THE WHISPERING STAR
JPN 2015 | MOVIE | 101 MIN | FSK from 0

Director & writer: Sion Sono
Cinematography: Hideo Yamamoto
Editing: Junichi Ito
With: Megumi Kagurazaka, Kenji Endo, Yuto Ikeda, Koko Mori

In the distant future, humans have become an endangered species, with eighty per cent of the population consisting of robots with artificial intelligence. Android ID 722 Yoko Suzuki is one of them. As a messenger, she travels from star to star to deliver seemingly meaningless parcels to people who now live in the loneliest places in the universe: a hat, a pen, a cigarette butt, a photograph - all memories of a time long past that Yoko can do nothing with. In her retro spaceship, she nevertheless spends day after day in the same rut and often takes years to deliver even a single one of her parcels. She then wanders around desolate places in search of the lonely souls for whom her parcels are intended and whose contents people seem to be waiting for forever.

"The Whispering Star is a playful and funny existentialist science fiction fable, loaded with impossible encounters. An intergalactic journey in search of humanity that finds poetry far, far away, among the stars." (Festival du Nouveau Cinéma)

Admission: adults €7, reduced €6
The cinema box office in the U opens half an hour before each screening.

Accessibility
The Kino im U is located on the ground floor of the building and is accessible for wheelchair users without assistance. There is an induction loop in the cinema for users of hearing aids with a T-coil.