Kill the Jockey

Name: Kill the Jockey
Start: 2025-08-15T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-08-15T20:40:00+00:00
Location: Humboldt Forum

Open-air cinema and talk

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	10 EUR, reduced 5 EUR
	FSK 18, tickets available from end of July
	Entrance: Portal 5
	Luis Ortega / Argentina 2024 / 96 Min. / thriller / Spanish with English subtitles
	Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard
	Belongs to: Box Office Around The World 2025

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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.

Trailer

Scene from the Argentinian movie "Kill the Jockey"

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.

Fabián Casas

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.

Porträt der Filmkuratorin Julieta Zarankin