THE RETURN OF THE REAL
FILM SEASON AND SYMPOSIUM
GOETHE-INSTITUT LONDON / KING’S COLLEGE
FRI 12 APRIL – FRI 5 JULY 2013
In July this year the German Screen Studies Network will present its first symposium entitled The Return of the Real – Realism and Everyday Life in Contemporary German-Language Film. Leading up to the symposium, the Goethe-Institut will screen a series of related films from the Goethe-Institut Film Archive: films that apply realism to form and content as well as documentaries about the Turkish-German migrant experience that contextualise a screening of the box office hit Almanya. There will also be another chance to see the much acclaimed Dreileben Trilogy.
ALL FILM SCREENINGS 12 APRIL – 4 JULY (SEE SEPARATE INFORMATION FOR SYMPOSIUM BELOW)
VENUE Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
TICKETS £3 individual films; double features on 23 April + 15 May £5; Dreileben Trilogy £7 (£3 individual parts), free for Goethe-Institut language students and library members. Booking essential.
BOOKING 020 7596 4000, [log in to unmask]
INFORMATION For more information about the Goethe-Institut Film Archive please go to http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/syn/deindex.htm
Film listings are also available on the Goethe-Institut London website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10773686v.htm
GRILL POINT / HALBE TREPPE
FRI 12 APRIL 7PM
Filmed at real locations around Frankfurt / Oder, with a hand-held camera, and no artificial lighting, Andreas Dresen (Cloud Nine) developed the script with his actors to authentically portray the love entanglements between two acquainted couples. Silver Bear for Best Direction, Berlinale 2002.
Germany 2002, colour, DVD, 107mins, with English subtitles. Director: Andreas Dresen. With: Steffi Kühnert, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Thorsten Merten, Axel Prahl.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10773867v.htm
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SCHOOL TRIP
KLASSENFAHRT
TUE 16 APRIL 7PM
Winkler’s debut feature brilliantly captures the mixture of boredom and random activity, possibility and frustration during a German school class’ trip to a Polish seaside town. As the film focuses in on the triangle of two German students and a local Polish youngster, it subtly builds up tension but maintains its restraint even when something terrible happens.
Germany 2002, colour, DVD, 86mins, with English subtitles. Director: Henner Winckler. With: Sophie Kempe, Steven Sperling, Bartek Blaszczyk.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10774301v.htm
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TRIPLE BILL
DREILEBEN
FRI 19 APRIL 5.30PM-10.35PM
Bringing together three of Germany's most prominent directors Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, and Christoph Hochhäusler, the Dreileben-Trilogy shows how different people's realities may overlap and yet remain separate. At a length of roughly 90 minutes, these three stylistically different films share the premise of an escaped convict being hunted down in the fictional town Dreileben in Thuringia surrounded by dense woods.
PLEASE NOTE that each part will start on time. There will be a half-hour break before part three during which we would like to invite you to join us for a drink.
DREILEBEN PART ONE: BEATS BEING DEAD / ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD
5.30PM-7PM
Johannes, an intern at the local hospital, falls in love with the Bosnian refugee Ana, who works as a chambermaid. As the presence of the escaped convict and the manhunt for him make themselves felt the young lovers’ intense relationship seems increasingly doomed.
Germany 2011, colour, Blu-ray, 88mins, with English subtitles. Director: Christian Petzold. With Jacob Matschenz, Luna Zimic Mijovic.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10778868v.htm
DREILEBEN PART TWO: DON'T FOLLOW ME AROUND / KOMM MIR NICHT NACH
7.05-8.35PM
When Jo, a police psychologist, arrives to help with the search for the convict, the local police are not too welcoming. At least, her old college friend Vera and her husband, with whom she stays, are happy to see her. But their long chats bring up things from the past, competing with the police investigation for Jo’s attention.
Germany 2011, colour, Blue-ray, 88mins, with English subtitles. Director Dominik Graf. With Jeanette Hahn, Susanna Wolff, Misel Maticevic.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10778899v.htm
BREAK 8.35Pm- 9.05PM
DREILEBEN PART THREE: ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS / EINE MINUTE DUNKEL
9.05PM- 10.35PM
The final part of the trilogy brings the escaped convict Molosch into focus, as well as the experienced inspector who tries to understand how Molosch’s mind works. Finally, the woods surrounding the town of Dreileben draw us into their dark realm where the real is far less tangible.
Germany 2011, colour, Blue-ray, 90mins, with English subtitles. Director: Christoph Hochhäusler. With Stefan Kurt, Eberhard Kirchberg.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10778924v.htm
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DOUBLE BILL
POOL OF PRINCESSES / PRINZESSINNENBAD
TUE 23 APRIL 6.30PM
Filmed over one year this documentary, a Berlinale favourite in 2007, follows the friends Klara, Mina, and Tanutscha, three confident and sassy teenagers from Berlin-Kreuzberg, as they go to the pool, meet boys, chat with their mums, style their hair and talk about their ideas and plans. It was awarded the „Dialogue en perspective“, Berlinale 2007.
Germany 2006, colour, DVD, 92mins, with English subtitles. Director: Bettina Blümner. With Klara, Mina and Tanutscha.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10774581v.htm
KROKO
TUE 23 APRIL 8.15PM
Not just the princess, but the queen of Berlin-Wedding, sixteen-year old Kroko is tough, cool and ruthless. But when she has to do social service in a flat for disabled people, her bad attitude is met with unexpected resistance. With a strong performance from amateur Franziska Jünger, this tale of “reform” has its own special dynamic.
Germany 2003, colour, DVD, 96mins, with English subtitles. Director: Sylke Enders. With Franziska Jünger, Alexander Lange, Hinnerk Schönemann, Danilo Bauer.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10778755v.htm
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BASED DOWN SOUTH / WIR SITZEN IM SÜDEN
WED 8 MAY 7PM
This sensitive documentary gives insight into the lives of four Turkish people who grew up in Germany and now work in Istanbul call centres, answering to calls from Germany. Only one of them made the move to Turkey willingly, while the other three long to return to their old lives in Germany, but can’t.
Germany / Turkey 2010, colour, DVD, 88mins. Director: Martina Priessner.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10787973v.htm
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ON THE OUTSKIRTS / AM RAND DER STÄDTE
MON 13 MAY 7PM
The newly built apartment complexes on the edge of the city of Mersin in Southern Turkey are the location for this documentary about different generations of Turkish people who have returned from Germany after many years to start new lives. The uniformity of the architecture is in stark contrast with the diverse stories the inhabitants have to tell. (Not part of the Goethe-Institut Film Archive).
Germany 2005, colour, DigiBeta, 83mins, with English subtitles. Director: Aysun Bademsoy.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10787999v.htm
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DOUBLE BILL
TURKISH KRAUT / ROTKOHL UND BLAUKRAUT
WED 15 MAY 6.30PM
Anna Hepp’s portray of two young Turkish-German couples (who are not unlike Ali and Gabi in Almanya), is a casual documentation of their everyday lives with their small children in Germany’s Ruhr region. Difference is not seen as drama but as part of the daily diet.
Germany 2011., colour, (Digi Beta), DVD, 60mins, with English subtitles. Director: Anna Hepp.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10788011v.htm
ALMANYA – WELCOME TO GERMANY
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND
WED 15 MAY 7.30PM
In reply to six-year old Cenk’s questions whether he is Turkish or German, he is told the humorous tale of how his grandfather Hüseyin Yilmaz came to Germany as guest worker in the 1960s. Now that Hüseyin has retired and has received his German passport, he wants his whole extended family to make the reverse journey and so they all set out on a trip to Turkey.
The film will be introduced by Professor Daniela Berghahn, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway She is the author of Far-flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema.
Germany 2010, colour, DVD, 97mins, with English subtitles. Director: Yasemin Samdereli. With: Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Lilay Huser, Demet Gül, Rafael Koussouris, Aylin Tezel, Denis Moschitto.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10788719v.htm
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SYMPOSIUM AND FURTHER SCREENINGS AS PART OF THE SYMPOSIUM
THE RETURN OF THE REAL – REALISM AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN-LANGUAGE FILM
WED 3 – FRI 5 JULY 9.30AM-6.00PM
The first Symposium of the German Screen Studies Network offers an exciting opportunity to discuss recent German-language films and examine contemporary forms of cinematic realism. The film Cloud Nine by Andreas Dresen and Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s documentary Abendland will be screened with brief introductions, followed by informal workshop sessions on key sequences. More in depth discussions will focus on The City Below, Karger, and Almanya shown at the Goethe-Institut as well as Barbara by Christian Petzold.
VENUE King’s College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS
TICKETS Admission free. But booking essential.
BOOKING Booking form available from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/german/eventrecords/2012-13/gssnsymposium.aspx
CONTACT For further details contact Martin Brady: [log in to unmask] For more information on the German Screen Studies Network please see http://germanscreenstudies.co.uk/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10788078v.htm
THE RETURN OF THE REAL - THE CITY BELOW / UNTER DIR DIE STADT
WED 3 JULY 7PM
Berlin School director Christoph Hochhäusler's third feature is a love story, thriller and a portrait of Frankfurt, Germany’s financial capital. Strikingly cinematic and intensely expressive, it is the first German film to tackle the current economic crisis. Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2010.
Germany / France 2009, colour, DVD, 109mins, with English subtitles. Director: Christoph Hochhäusler With: Robert Hunger-Bühler, Nicolette Krebitz, Mark Waschke, Corinna Kirchhoff, Van-Lam Vissay.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10788106v.htm
VENUE Goethe-Institut
TICKETS £3, free for participants of the symposium, Goethe-Institut language students and library members. Booking essential.
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KARGER
THU 4 JULY 7PM
Elke Hauck’s ‘understated, minimalist slice-of-life drama’ tells the story of a steel worker in a small town near Dresden and Leipzig. Disillusionment, frustration, and the search for a new sense of belonging are portrayed with the immediacy of cinéma-vérité.
Followed by a Q & A with director Elke Hauck.
Germany 2007, colour, DigiBeta, 88mins, with English subtitles. Director: Elke Hauck. With: Jens Klemig, Marion Kuhnt, Nele Boberach, Anja Dietrich.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en10788045v.htm
VENUE Goethe-Institut
TICKETS £3, free for participants of the symposium, Goethe-Institut language students and library members. Booking essential.
BOOKING 020 7596 4000, [log in to unmask]
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