"In his endless search for the truth, man is condemned to knowledge." On an aging research space station in orbit of the planet Solaris, the psychologist Kelvin is tasked with researching the human condition inside and outside the spheres of the Earth. There he discovers that the crew of scientists, neglected in the sprawling spaceship, are trying to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence that takes the form of a huge ocean on the eponymous alien planet and can apparently materialize the memories, fears, hopes, wishes and thoughts of the astronauts. Tarkovsky's masterpiece meditates on our relationship to the planet, the cosmos and the unknown in powerful poetic images. It is also about hope, hopelessness, fear and shame. The last of knowledge and the cursed questions to which we may never have answers.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V..

"La jetée is the story of a man who was marked by an image from his childhood. The scene, which disturbed him with its violence and whose meaning he only understood much later, took place on the tarmac at Orly, a few years before the outbreak of World War III." (Chris Marker) The narrator, speaking from a time after the end of civilisation, recalls the fragile, living images of times gone by, which culminate in the movement of a single moment: the blink of an eye of a woman who awakens from sleep as a distant summer day draws to a close. All pleasure is promised in this one moment when the image changes into movement.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.