HFBK

In light of 60 years of film at the HFBK Hamburg, last year’s Cine*Ami*es film symposium explored friendship as a critical cinematic practice and examined how aesthetic independence is maintained through forms of connection between people, technologies, and environments.

A year later, Cine*Ami*es expands this horizon in collaboration with the Chinese Film Festival for Xin Zhu’s All Quiet at Sunrise. The film’s experimental form brings language, kinship, memory, and desire into a shared field. Within the framework of Cine*Ami*es, All Quiet at Sunrise emerges as a work that lends a precise cinematic texture to relationships. Thought, intimacy, and transmission unfold together. The screening draws attention to cinema as a practice through which fragile forms of connection become visible, audible, and shareable.

Following the film screening, we invite you to a roundtable discussion between Xin Zhu, Robert Bramkamp, and Elisa Linseisen, moderated by Ruby Chen.