Kill the Jockey. Open-air cinema and talk

Before the screenings, we invite you to thematic spotlights to get you in the mood – with prominent guests!Great trepidation and guesswork accompany the release of every expensive film production: Whether the audience will get involved with the story told, star constellation and film language and flock to the cinema en masse?

Box Office Around The World is a film festival that wants to get to the bottom of this mystery from the audience’s point of view. Unlike Hollywood productions that are designed for the global market, box office hits from other regions of the world often allow surprising insights into what moves people in Ho Chi Minh City, Rio or Bangkok.The Schlüter Courtyard is located in the heart of Berlin – and surrounded by collections from many cultures around the world.Over two weekends in August, the Box Office Around The World festival presents six current cinema productions that are audience successes and box office hits in their countries of origin, but have not yet been seen on the big screen in Germany.Together with representatives of the Berlin communities from Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, Vietnam, Brazil and India and the curator Dorothee Wenner, the films were selected and an accompanying programme developed. Before the open-air screenings, a thematic spotlight – with a star-studded line-up – will be directed at each film.


Curator Film Programme

Dorothee Wenner is a freelance filmmaker, curator and writer based in Berlin. 
Since 1990 has been working for Berlin International Filmfestival in various positions, currently as as the delegate for the festival for the Subsahara African region. In 2009, she joined the team of the Dubai International Film Festival as programmer for films from India/Africa/Germany until the festival’s closure. She has been member of the board and jury of the Lagos based African Movie Academy Awards since inception 2005. Her latest work as filmmaker is the webseries Kinshasa Collection. Since 2020 she has been working as a consultant for film/cinema for the Humboldt Forum.
Together with representatives of the communities, she curated the Box Office Around The World festival 2025 for the third time.

Kill the Jockey - Luis Ortega / Argentina 2024 / 96 min / Thriller  

What is actually going on in the head of an extremely successful jockey who has to get high on alcohol and various drugs before every race? When he causes the long-feared accident on the race course, he is admitted to hospital with a serious head injury, only to flee in his roommate’s fur coat. He’s escaping his pursuers and trying to find his pregnant girlfriend, the mysterious jockey Abril. Is this cool Remo, former favourite jockey and foster child of an underworld king, actually still alive – or are the things he sees and experiences on the streets of Buenos Aires figments of his imagination? After all, the scales in the pharmacy don’t even move when Remo tries to weigh himself. This film is a visual intoxication, an adventure, a gender-fluid love story with musical interludes.

In this film, time and reality levels change effortlessly, also thanks to a camera work that needs the big screen to experience the crazy speed on the racing horses and not to miss any details of the taciturn string-pulling of the underworld king.

Come and enjoy Argentina’s official entry for the “Best International Film” category at this year’s Oscars.

Programme

8 pm: Talk with Fabian Casas (poet and writer, Buenos Aires), Dorothee Wenner & Julieta Zarankin (curators) in English and Spanish

9 pm: Film screening

Participants

Fabián Casas was born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Boedo in 1965. He has published, among other books, Los Lemmings y otros (short stories, 2005, 2017), Ocio (novel, 2006, 2007), Ensayos bonsái (2007), Horla City y otros. Toda la poesía 1990–2010 (2010), Titanes del coco (novel, 2015), Trayendo a casa todo de nuevo. Todos los ensayos (2016), La supremacía Tolstoi (essays, 2013), Últimos poemas en Prozac (2019), and Papel para envolver verdura (2020).

He was the screenwriter for the film Jauja (2014), directed by Lisandro Alonso and starring Viggo Mortensen, which was met with great critical and public acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, and co-writer of Kill the Jockey (2024).

In 2007, he received the prestigious Anna Seghers Prize in Germany, and in 2011, he was selected by the Guadalajara International Book Fair as one of the authors ensuring the legacy of the great writers.

Julieta Zarankin was born in Buenos Aires and has been living in Berlin since 2009. After completing her studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, she worked in various areas of film promotion, distribution, and production — including festivals such as BAFICI and Mar del Plata, production companies like Black Forest Films and Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, distributors such as Santa Cine, as well as the cinema Wolf Kino, where she was part of the founding team. In 2021, she became a member of the Berlinale Co-Production Market team, where she continues to work. In 2014, she founded INVASION, the first Argentine film and culture festival in Berlin, which she has directed ever since. In 2023, she joined Dorothee Wenner to curate the Argentine section of Box Office Around the World at the Humboldt Forum.

- 10 EUR, reduced 5 EUR
- FSK 18
- Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard, Entrance: Portal 5
- Spanish with English subtitles
- Belongs to: Box Office Around The World 2025