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| German Cinema | ||
These films are presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. |
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| The Berlin School | ||
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Jerichow | More... |
| Christian Petzold, Germany 2007, 35mm & DV. M violence, offensive language, sex scenes | ||
| The latest version of the pulp classic The Postman Always Rings Twice takes place on the windswept Baltic coast. Lana Turner’s character is now the wife of a Turkish kebab stall owner, played by director Christian Petzold’s mesmerising regular actress Nina Hoss. | ||
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Vacation | More... |
| Ferien, Thomas Arslan, Germany 2007, 35mm & DV. M offensive language | ||
| “Ana, Robert and their teenage son Max plan on spending an idyllic sojourn at their remote country house. Their fragile unity is disrupted, however, when more and more members of their extended family show up to vent past resentments and reveal long-kept secrets. A serene, quietly rewarding drama.” – Seattle IFF | ||
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Afternoon | More... |
| Nachmittag, Angela Schanelec, Germany 2007, 35mm. M content may disturb | ||
| Schanelec taps into the existentialism of Antonioni and the post-modernism of Godard to present an acutely original take on Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. Here, the setting is modern Germany, in a lakeside holiday house where actress Irene, her son and her brother have withdrawn from the outside world. | ||
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| Alternate Realities | ||
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World on a Wire | More... |
| Welt am Draht, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany 1973, DV. censors rating tbc | ||
| Fassbinder’s long unseen science-fiction epic offers a boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. “Anticipates Blade Runner in its meditation on artificial and human intelligence and The Matrix in its conception of reality as a computer-generated illusion.” – NY Times | ||
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Plug & Pray | More... |
| Jens Schanze, Germany 2010, DV | ||
| “The deeply fascinating and occasionally frightening future of artificial intelligence is the focus of this globe-trotting report on the state of things in the field. Among others, futurist Ray Kurzweil and computer pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum consider whether man really can go beyond biology.” – Vancouver IFF | ||
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| German Silents | ||
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Hamlet | More... |
| S. Gade & H. Schall, Germany 1921, DV. M cert | ||
| Legendary Danish actress Asta Nielsen produced and starred in this gender-bending version of Hamlet in which the Prince of Denmark is a girl brought up as a boy. Nielsen’s “body language as Hamlet is as self-aware as Tilda Swinton maneuvering between sexes in Orlando.” – NotComing.com. Polychrome-tinted 2007 restoration from the German Film Institute. | ||
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Tabu | More... |
| F.W. Murnau, USA 1931, 35mm. M cert | ||
| A young Tahitian’s forbidden love for a sacred virgin. “Murnau’s tragic Polynesian saga liberated him from the studios, enabling him to show his mastery of the natural world… one of the most stunningly beautiful films ever made.” – MOMA | ||