Program Preview September / October 2025

(September 2 to Oktober 16, 2025)

Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in September/Ocrtober 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published around July 31, 2025.
 
September 4 to October 16, 2025

John Carpenter

Complete Works

We dedicate the start of our season to probably the most influential living genre director in the United States: John Carpenter. A film school drop-out born in 1948, Carpenter already began to attract attention as a staging virtuoso with his own signature in the early 1970s with his first, low-budget independent productions. The worldwide success of his third feature, Halloween (1978), established him early on as a master of horror. This label fails to do justice to Carpenter's versatility, however, even if he – not least for his distinct love for the fantastic – often returns to this genre. But with his unmistakable approach, Carpenter has inscribed himself in genre cinema from sci-fi to action thriller and including a few comedic interludes, most of which are scored by his own electronic compositions, whose catchy minimalism is as memorable as the dazzling clarity of his visual compositions. [...]