
Hainstraße 19a, 04109 Leipzig
A cinema has stood in the Jägerhofpassage, the arcade running off Hainstraße in the centre of Leipzig, since November 1915, when it opened as the U.T. Hainstraße with 580 seats. It gave the city its first sound-film programme in 1929, served for part of the post-war years as a Soviet officers' club, and took the name Passage in 1990. The rebuilt arcade brought it back in October 1998 with four screens, and a fifth, the Casino, was added in 2015. Each is named after a Leipzig cinema that no longer exists: Astoria with 228 seats, Universum, Wintergarten, Filmeck and the 49-seat Casino. The programme is arthouse: European releases, documentaries and classic revivals, alongside anime nights, a queer series, school screenings and a monthly sneak preview shown in the original language. Around a fifth of all showings run subtitled rather than dubbed.
Farasha and Faris are 20 when they meet at a graduation party – one glance that changes everything. But Farasha dies that very same night. Refusing to be separated from him, she discovers a way to cross the boundary between worlds: for 40 nights, and 40 nights only, she can meet Faris in his dreams. And so their love continues to grow, until the very last night.
When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.
A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.