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GERMAN CINEMA

Festival selections from notable directors working in Germany today
​Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut
German Cinema screenings are open to the public: non-members are welcome by donation (notes only, please)
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Toni Erdmann 

Maren Ade
​Austria/Germany  ·  2016
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Get set for a truly extraordinary comic experience as a father acts out an escalating series of pranks designed to connect with his workaholic daughter.

​“A work of great beauty, great feeling and great cinema” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times 
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​​Screening times, review & trailer >>


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Under Snow
Unter Schnee

Ulrike Ottinger
​Germany  ·  2011
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Kabuki, poetry and the reality of present-day life in Japan’s wintry far north are drawn together in this beautiful documentary from one of world cinema’s most original artists.

​“A fascinating and poetic insight into the history and presence of the snow country” – AVIVA
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​​Screening times, review & trailer >>
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Transit

Christian Petzold
Germany  ·  2018
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New times feel like old times in this melancholy thriller, as a German Jew flees a Paris in lockdown to a Marseille occupied by phantoms from a wartime past.

​“A haunting daylight noir whose characters… bewitch from the first frame to the last”– Tim Wong, NZIFF 2018

​​Screening times, review & trailer>>

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Paris Calligrammes
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Ulrike Ottinger
​Germany  ·  2020
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A journey through time to 1960s Paris and Ulrike Ottinger's creative coming-of-age.

​“At once memoir, social history, and love letter to Paris – where the alchemy of Marxism, Dadaism, Surrealism, jazz, and post-colonial debate spawned a generation of fervid productivity” – Film Forum
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​​Screening times, review & trailer >>
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No Hard Feelings
Futur Drei

Faraz Shariat
Germany ·  2019
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A tentative queer love story is set against the sobering realities of life as an immigrant in modern-day Germany in this debut feature from Faraz Shariat.

​“Deftly embraces heady topics of race, sexuality, place and belonging, yet skips merrily over melodrama and into the sublime” – Time Out

​Screening times, review and trailer >>​

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German Cinema selection presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut
Non-members are welcome by donation

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