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Welcome to the 2nd edition of the GERMAN FILM WEEK in Beirut!

The event is proudly presented by Goethe-Institut Lebanon and Metropolis Association.

We have put together a program of films that showcases a fine selection of current, internationally acclaimed German movies – all with English subtitles.The themes of the movies range from drama to comedy, from thriller to documentary and reflect the wide spectrum of German filmmaking.

We will be opening the Film Week with Who Am I – No System Is Safe - a slick and stylish cyber-thriller.

Furthermore I am delighted to present the Middle-East premiere of the very special film Victoria. It is shot in one single long take by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen in the Berlin Kreuzberg and Mitte neighborhoods. The script consisted of twelve pages, with most of the dialogue being improvised.

Not to be missed is The Cut a film based on the Armenian Genocide, it is a homage by Fatih Akin to the suffering of the Armenian people.

Last but not least we proudly present a Wim Wenders homage with the films Every Thing will be Fine, Paris, Texas, Alice in the Cities, Pina, Wings of Desire.

Join us, find out your favorites and participate in our Online Vote & Win to have the chance to win stunning prizes!

We wish you inspiring entertainment with our truly exceptional German cinema!Viel Spass!

Ulrich Nowak

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Awards:Bavaria Film festival 2015, Best DirectorGerman Film Award 2015 Gold, nominated Outstanding Feature Film,Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography

Gifted hacker Benjamin is an outsider who only feels at home in the virtual reality. When he makes the acquaintance of charismatic Max, he gets the chance to demonstrate his talent to a wider audience: Max introduces Benjamin to the hacker collective CLAY (Clowns Laughing At You), which he runs with his friends Stephan and Paul. Eschewing political goals, they want to grab attention with fun guerilla actions. Yet as they increasingly gain popularity in the web community, the young hackers become more and more daring. Eventually, they are targeted by the authorities – and suddenly Benjamin is the most-wanted hacker in the world.

Source: www.filmportal.de

Who Am I – No System Is SafeWho Am I – Kein System ist sicher

Hack yourself free! Cereality

Thursday, September 17th, at 8:00 pm

Baran bo Odar was born in Olten, Switzerland on April 18 1978. From 1998 to 2005, he studied film at the renowned HFF Munich, followed by a one year master class. In 2003, he participated in Berlinale Talent Campus, and two years later, his short “Quietsch” premiered at the 55th Berlinale and went on to win several awards at international festivals. His 60-mintute graduation film “Unter der Sonne” was screened at over 40 festivals and also won several awards, including the prize for Best Camera at the 2006 Slamdance Festival.

Regie: Baran bo OdarGermany 2014, 106 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Jantje FrieseActors: Tom Schilling, Benjamin; Elias M´Barak, Max;Hanna Herzsprung, MarieGenre: Thriller

The single-shot film about a runaway party girl plays the entire emotional spectrum, and will sweep

audiences off their feet. Cinemacy

Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon. She meets four mates outside a club who introduce themselves as Sonne, Boxer, Blinker and Fuß. They quickly get chatting. Sonne and Victoria take a fancy to each other and slip away from the group at the first opportunity. But their tender flirting is rudely interrupted by the others because, for these pals, the night is far from over. To settle an old debt they have to pull off a dodgy deal. And because one of them is too drunk, they decide that Victoria, of all people, should take over the role of driver. What began as a game suddenly becomes deadly serious.

Source: 65. Berlin International Film Festival (Catalog)

Sebastian Schipper was born May 8, 1968, in Hannover. After finishing high school, he studied acting at Munich’s Otto Falckenberg Schule from 1992 to 1995. Schipper performed at Munich’s Kammerspiele and appeared on the movie screen in Sönke Wortmann’s comedy “Kleine Haie” (“Acting It Out”, 1992) while he still studied acting.From 2013 on, Schipper had a recurring role as the former colleague and best friend of the lead police detective – played by Wotan Wilke Möhring – in the Hamburg branch of the TV series “Tatort”. Schipper also appeared opposite Kim Basinger in Anders Morgenthaler’s thriller “I Am Here” (2014), which premiered at the 2014 Hamburg Film Festival.

Awards:Berlinale 2015 Silver Bear for, Best CameraGerman Film Awards 2015, Best Feature Film for, Direction,Actress in a Leading Role, Actor in a Leading Role,Cinematography and Music

Victoria

Regie: Sebastian SchipperGermany 2015, 140 min. – Eng. STCamera: Sturla Brandth GrøvlenActors: Laia Costa, Victoria; Genre: Drama / Thriller

Friday, September 18th, at 8:00 pm

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Thought provoking, finely acted and with a powerful final act Stations of the Cross is a must see. Infernal Cinema

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Saturday, September 19th, at 7:30 pm

The very German story of rudderless youth in the wake of reunification. Dog and Wolve

Main Competition Berlinale 2015

The Leipzig suburbs, shortly after the collapse of East Germany. Rico, Daniel, Paul and Mark, until recently still Pioneers in their red neckerchiefs, are growing up in the maelstrom of the newly reunited country. Yesterday’s rules no longer count today. They turn night into day and the streets into an adventure playground. The boys run wild and hang out in the neighbourhood, steal cars, experiment with drugs and try out the new swingers’ club. They open their own disco which is soon besieged by neo-Nazi skinheads. Everything is in a state of flux and decay, everyone is overflowing with dreams: Rico longs for a boxing career; Daniel yearns to have a grand love affair with Little Star, the most beautiful girl Leipzig has ever known ...


As We Were DreamingAls wir träumten

Andreas Dresen was born August 16, 1968, in Gera. He grew up in Schwerin and started shooting his own amateur movies since the late ‘70s. After receiving his university-entrance diploma, he worked as a sound engineer at the theater in Schwerin and completed a traineeship at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films where he also worked as an assistant director to his later mentor Günther Reisch. From 1986 until 1991 Dresen studied directing at the “Konrad Wolf” Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since 1992, he has been working as a freelance author and director.

Regie: Andreas Dresen Germany / France 2015, 117 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Wolfgang KohlhaaseGenre: Drama

Stations of the CrossKreuzweg

Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Pius XII and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. Desperate to please everyone, Maria soon finds herself trapped in the crossfire. How can she reconcile her feelings for a fellow pupil with her vow to maintain purity of heart in her love for God? Will the Lord demand a tremendous sacrifice so that her brother can be healed from his sickness?


Awards:Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014, Special Jury AwardBerlin International Film Festival 2014, Silver Bear for Best ScriptChicago International Film Festival 2014, nominated Audience Choice Award

Regie: Dietrich BrüggemannGermany 2014, 110 min. Eng. STActors: Lea van Acken, Maria; Franziska Weisz, Mother; Hanns Zischler, Funeral DirectorScreenplay: Anna BrüggemannGenre: Drama

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Dietrich Brüggemann was born in Munich on 23.2.1976 and is the brother of actress Anna Brüggemann. After growing up in Germany and South Africa, he worked in the film industry in various capacities from 1997-2000 and subsequently enrolled in the directing class at the College of Film and Television at Potsdam-Babelsberg. Brüggemann also works as an assistant director and director of a number of music videos.

Monday, September 21st, at 8:00 pm

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the heads of the Capitol insurance company invite all employees on a country trip to a rustic hotel. Of course, Bernd Stromberg, Berthold “Ernie” Heisterkamp, and Jennifer Schirrmann attend, as well as the now-married Ulf and Tanja who bring along their foster child Marvin. Yet the festivities are overshadowed by a dark rumour: Allegedly, the company plans announce the closure of their branch office during the party, which would mean massive lay-offs. Thus, Stromberg and the others try to impress the chairmen by all means necessary in order to save their jobs.


Awards:Bavarian Film Awards 2015, Audience Award

Regie: Arne Feldhusen Germany 2014, 123 min. – Eng. ST.Screenplay: Ralf Husmann Camera: Johannes ImdahlBernd Stromberg: Christoph Maria HerbstGenre: Comedy

Stromberg – The FilmStromberg – Der Film

Arne Feldhusen was born in Rendsburg in 1971. During the 1990s, he garnered professional experiences workings as an editor and assistant director for commercials and feature film productions, including Sönke Wortmann’s “Der Campus” (“Campus”, 1998) and “St. Pauli Nacht” (1999). He made his directorial debut with the 1999 documentary “Strassenkinder in Deutschland”. After helming several episodes of the TV comedy show “Ladykracher” (2002), he directed the made-for-TV film “Beach Boys – Rette sich wer kann”.In addition to his work in film and television, Feldhausen also shoots music videos and commercials and has been a lecturer at the Hamburg Media School since 2006.

Bureau is war and it can’t be won by the Salvation Army. Moviebreak

Stereo

Erik has his own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’ tattooed onto his lower arm but he nonetheless creates an impression of a well-behaved average Joe. His relationship with his girlfriend Julia is going well and her daughter Linda is very fond of her new Dad. But then all of a sudden the mysterious Henry appears and begins following him about like a sinister shadow. The more Erik tries to shake off his diabolical guest the more Henry intrudes into his life. But then when a violent gangster named Keitel enters the fray and threatens not only Erik but Julia and Linda, Erik’s seemingly ideal world begins to run off the rails.


Awards:German Film Award 2015 Gold, nominated Best Editing

Maximilian Erlenwein, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1975, he studied media and sociology in Marburg and then worked in Berlin as a camera assistant and subsequently a freelance cinematographer. In 1999 he entered the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) to study directing. He has directed numerous shorts which have won a number of prizes at international festivals. In 2005 he and Robin von Hardenberg founded the production company Fat Lady Filmproduktion which makes music videos, documentaries, PR films and commercials. His feature film debut “Schwerkraft” won several prizes at the 2010 Max Ophüls Awards.

Regie: Maximilian ErlenweinGermany 2014, 94 min. – Eng. STActros: Jürgen Vogel, Erik; Moritz Bleibtreu, HenryGenre: Thriller

Imperceptibly and suspensefully directed and on top of it with a great main cast, what more could one want? Cinetastic.de

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Tuesday, September 22nd, at 10:00 pm

A solid gene remix of road-movie and tragicomedy. Kino-zeit.de

Awards:Jupiter Award 2015, Florian David Fitz - Best German Actor

Regie: Christian ZübertGermany 2014, 95 min. – Eng. STActros: Florian David Fitz, Hannes; Julia Koschitz, Kiki; Jürgen Vogel, MichaelGenre: Drama / Road Movie

Tour de ForceHin und weg

Labyrinth of LiesIm Labyrinth des Schweigens

Christian Zübert was born in 1973 in Würzburg. Since 1997, he has concentrated on scriptwriting and has written numerous screenplays for film and television. Sönke Wortmann took up contact with him upon recommendation, and after receiving Zübert’s script for “Lammbock - Shit Happens” (“Lammbock - Alles in Handarbeit”, 2001), convinced him to take over direction of the film, making “Lammbock” his directorial debut.

For years now, Hannes and his wife Kiki have been going on an annual bike trip with their best friends. This time it’s up to Hannes to choose the destination. When he wants to go to Belgium, the others aren’t excited at first. Nevertheless, the trip starts well and everyone has a good time. That’s until Hannes discloses the real reason for his decision: He suffers from an incurable neurological disease and wants to end his life on his own terms – which is possible in Belgium, where medically assisted suicide is legal. The trip with his wife and friends is meant to be his farewell tour. Once they stomached the initial shock, the group is determined to fulfil Hannes’ wish and wants to make the trip to the clinic a memorable experience for all.


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A smart and well-acted take on a historically significant if little-known story. The Hollywood Reporter

Germany 1958. Reconstruction, economic miracle. Johann Radmann has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses. When the journalist Thomas Gnielka causes a ruckus in the courthouse, Radmann pricks up his ears: a friend of Gnielka’s identified a teacher as a former Auschwitz guard, but no one is interested in prosecuting him. Against the will of his immediate superior, Radmann begins to examine the case – and lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.

Source: German Film Service & Marketing GmbH

Giulio Ricciarelli was born in 1965 in Milan. He studied Acting at the renowned Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich from 1985-1987 and since then has performed at various German theaters and in numerous TV movies and feature films. Together with Sabine Lamby, he founded Naked Eye Filmproduction in 2000, producing such acclaimed feature films as “Birthday” (2001), “Mardrid” (2003), and “The Friend” (2003). His debut short “Vincent” (2005) screened at numerous festivals, winning the Golden Sparrow Award at Erfurt, among others, and was nominated for the European Film Award. He also directed the short films “Love It Like This” (2008) and “Lights” (2009), which earned him another nomination for the European Film Award and invitations to more than 50 international film festivals. “Labyrinth of Lies” (2014) is his feature debut.

Awards:Bavaria Film Awards 2015: Best Actor for Alexander FehlingGerman Film Awards Gold 2015: Nominated Outstanding Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Score

Regie: Giulio RicciarelliGermany 2014, 124 min. – Eng. STActors: Alexander Fehling as Johann Radmann; Johannes Krisch as Simon Kirsch; Friederike Becht as MarleneScreenplay: Elisabeth BartelGenre: Drama

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Friday, September 25th, at 8:00 pmThursday, September 24th, at 8:00 pm

Öllers and Niederländer are two highly paid consultants. For years they’ve been touring the world’s dirtiest countries seeking to satisfy their clients’ hunger for profit. Reality exists merely as a dusty silhouette behind the windows of their air-conditioned luxury hotels. Their goal seems to be within their grasp: to ascend to their company’s top echelon and finally be made partners. Both are well aware that, according to their firm’s unwritten rules in the hierarchy, they’ll need to secure their final promotion by their mid-thirties or else they’ll be sidelined: ‘up or out’. Gradually, they begin to lose control and their nerves are on edge. Zeit der Kannibalen is a slick, sharp parody charting the fall of the new elite from the heights of hubris into a miserable abyss.


Age of CannibalsZeit der Kannibalen

Awards:Berlin International Film Festival 2014, nominated DIALOGUE en PerspectiveGerman Film Awards 2014 Gold, winner Best Screenplay, nominated Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction

… brilliant mixture of black comedy and social diagnose. Cinetastic.de

Regie: Johannes NaberGermany 2014, 93 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Stefan WeiglActors: Devid Striesow, Frank Öllers; Sebastian Blomberg, Kai Niederländer; Katharina Schüttler, Bianca MärzGenre: Drama

Martin and Ruby have burned their bridges. They are on the run. Ruby’s father is an irredeemable tyrant, strictly Catholic, stamped by his wartime experiences. Ruby, for obvious reasons, does not dare reveal her love for Martin. Martin loves Rimbaud and dreams of being an author, an author whose literary works will move and change the world. Ruby is passionately into music. She and Martin meet secretly as often as they can, but every passing day makes their situation only more intolerable. The noose around their necks starts slowly to tighten. They make a run for it but the dream is short. Ruby lands in a closed Catholic. Martin is sent to the notorious religious educational institute in Freistatt. Separated from one another, they now have to fight for their mental survival – in a world designed to break them.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Awards:German Film Award 2015, Best Film nominationOldenburg Film Festival 2014, Seymour Cassel Award

Regie: Christian FroschGermany 2013, 109 min. – Eng. STActors: Victoria Schulz, Ruby; Anton Spieker, MartinGenre: Drama, Family, History

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Merciless and shocking: that brutal was the generation conflict in the 60s. Cinema

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Johannes Naber was born in 1971 in Baden-Baden. He studied Philosophy and Indian Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin and Film at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. His screenplay for “Nordwand” (“North Face”) was awarded the 2009 Prize of German Film Critics. Naber’s directorial debut “Der Albaner” (“The Albanian”) won the 2010 Max-Ophüls-Preis and the Silver George at the Moscow International Film Festival.

Christian Frosch, born 1966 in Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria, at first became a photographer and subsequently went to Vienna’s Filmakademie and later to Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (dffb) in Berlin, where he successfully graduated in 1995. He won the Carl Meyer prize of the city of Graz for the screen play of his movie debut, the psychological thriller “Die totale Therapie” (1996), starring Blixa Bargeld.

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Home From Home – Chronicle of a VisionDie andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht

Against the background of rural Germany in the middle of the 19th century when whole villages suffering from famine and poverty emigrated to faraway South America – Edgar Reitz tells a dramatic family and love story in his new feature film “Home from Home”. The story centers on two brothers who one day have to make a final decision: leaving or staying?Jakob, a character unusually romantically inclined for farm boys, dreams himself from his misery in a better world: a paradise in the tropical forests of Brazil. He is making plans to emigrate for good together with the love of his life. The return of his brother from the Prussian military service however gives the impulse for events which will shake the love between Jakob and Jettchen abruptly and will steer Jakob’s life in an entirely different direction.


Awards:Bavarian Film Awards 2014, Best Production and Best ScreenplayGerman Film Awards 2014 Gold, Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay

Regie: Edgar ReitzGermany/France 2013, 230 min. – Eng. STActors: Jan Dieter Schneider, Jakob Simon; Antonia Bill, Jettchen; Maximilian Scheidt, Gustav SimonScreenplay: Gert HeidenreichGenre: Drama / History

A film, … whose historical meticulousness reminds of Stanly Kubrik. Artechock

Mardin, 1915: one night, the Turkish police round up all the Armenian men in the city, including the young blacksmith, Nazaret Manoogian, who is separated from his family. Years later, after managing to survive the horrors of the genocide, he hears that his two daugthers are also still alive. He becomes fixated on the idea of finding them and sets off to track them down. His search takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts and Havana to the barren and desolate prairies of North Dakota. On this odyssey, he encounters a range of very different people: angelic and kind-hearted characters, but also the devil incarnate.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

The Cut … succeeds in ambitiously placing the Armenian genocide on the world stage for all to see. Flickfeast

Regie: Fatih Akin Germany / France / Italy / Poland / Russia 2014, 139 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Fatih Akin Camera: Rainer KlausmannGenre: Drama / History

Awards:German Film Awards 2015 Gold, nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, Best Film ScoreFilm Festival Venedig 2014, Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award, nominated Golden Lion

The Cut

Fatih Akin was born in Hamburg in 1973, and lives and works in the city’s Altona district, the setting for several of his films. In 1993, his career began as an actor playing smaller roles in cinema and television films until 1995, when he presented his regular production company (Wueste Film) with “Sensin”, his first short film as an author and director.

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Edgar Reitz was born in Morbach/Hunsrück in 1932. After school graduation, he studied Literature, Journalism and Drama in Munich. Parallel to this, he attended acting classes and made his first attempts at literature. He has worked as a production assistant, dramaturge, cameraman and film editor.Since 1966, Reitz has realized and produced his own feature films.

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Sunday, September 27th, at 8:00 pmSaturday, September 26th, at 8:00 pm

WIM WENDERS HOMMAGE

Wim Wenders, born August 14, 1945, in Düsseldorf, as the son of a physician, made his secondary school exam in Oberhausen and then studied medicine and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg, and Düsseldorf for four semesters. In 1966/67, the student and movie buff made his first short film, “Schauplätze”. Wenders then went to Paris for one year where he applied in vain for the renowned film school IDHEC. But he had more success in Munich where he was accepted at Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film and started to study in 1968 (since 1993, Wenders is a professor at HFF).

He achieved international fame with his 1984 film, Paris, Texas, which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1987 he received the best-director award at Cannes for the hauntingly beautiful Der Himmel über Berlin (Eng. title Wings of Desire), in which angels roam modern-day Berlin. The film was noted, as are all his projects, for its lush visual imagery. His documentaries Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011) and The Salt of the Earth (2014) have all received Academy Award nominations as well.

Regie: Wim WendersGermany / France 1984, 144 min. – Eng. STActors: Nastassja Kinski, Jane Henderson; Harry Dean Stanton, Travis Henderson; Dean Stockwell, Walt HendersonGenre: Drama

Paris, Texas

The family of Travis had already broken up years ago. Since then he has seen neither his wife Jane nor his son Hunter. Indeed, after the separation, Travis himself disappeared for four years without a trace. Then he turns up in a small town in the middle of the Texan desert without even being able to remember his past. With the aid of his brother - who also raised Hunter - he begins to recover his speech. Slowly, he also succeeds in building up a relationship with his estranged son. Together they finally commence a journey to look for Jane, who they find in a peep show in Houston, Texas.


Awards:Bavarian Film Awards 1985, Best CinematographyGerman Film Awards 1985, Outstanding Feature FilmCannes Film Festival 1984, FIPRESCI Prize, Palme d’OrCésar Awards, France 1985, Nominated Best Foreign Film

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Regie: Wim WendersGermany/France 2011, 107 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Actors: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou AiraudoGenre: Documentary

Awards:Academy Awards, USA 2012, Nominated Oscar Best Documentary, FeaturesBAFTA Awards 2012, Best Film Not in the English LanguageEuropean Film Awards 2011, Best Documentary AwardGerman Film Awards 2011 Gold, Best Documentary

Pina

“Pina” is a film for Pina Bausch. Shot in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, this feature-length dance film portrays the exhilarating and inimitable art of this great German choreographer who died in the summer of 2009. Inviting the viewer on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension right onto the stage of the legendary ensemble, the film also accompanies the dancers beyond the theatre, into the city and the surrounding industrial landscape of Wuppertal – the place that was the home and centre of Pina Bausch’s creative life for more than 35 years.Wenders began to familiarise himself thoroughly with the latest developments in 3D cinema and, in 2008, he and Pina Bausch began to think about realising their dream. They decided to include the following pieces from her repertoire: “Café Müller”, “Le Sacre du Printemps”, “Vollmond” and “Kontakthof”.


James Franco plays Tomas, a writer, who, one winter evening, is involved in a terrible event, even if he cannot be held responsible for what happened. But the lives of two families are shattered…The film follows Tomas for the next 14 years, trying to find out if he can shake the footprint of that fatal night and if he can help those people involved so that “every thing will be fine”, again.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH


Regie: Wim WendersGermany / Canada / Norway / Sweden 2013, 119 min.Screenplay: Bjørn Olaf JohannessenActors: James Franco, Tomas; Charlotte Gainsbourg, KateGenre: Drama

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Regie: Wim WendersFrance / Germany 1974, 112 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Wim Wenders, Veith von FürstenbergActors: Rüdiger Vogler, Phil Winter; Yella Rottländer, AliceGenre: Drama / Road Movie

After prematurely breaking off his trip to cover the heartlands of America, the journalist Philip gets acquainted with a young German woman and her eight year old daughter Alice in New York’s Kennedy Airport. Spending the night with the mother, he finds next morning a slip of paper with a message asking him to take Alice with him to Amsterdam – she would meet up with them in a few days. After waiting in vain for Alice’s mother to appear in Amsterdam, they both decide to look for Alice’s grandmother together, despite not even having an address. Their only clue is a single photograph of a house. In their wandering adventure through the Ruhr region a quiet affection begins to develop between Philip and Alice, expressed through few words and conveyed in slight movements and gestures of the eye.


Alice in the CitiesAlice in den Städten

Awards:Chicago International Film Festival 1974, nominated Best FilmGerman Film Critics Association Awards 1976, Best Film

Regie: Wim WendersFrance/ Germany 1987, 128 min. – Eng. STScreenplay: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard ReitingerActors: Bruno Ganz, Damiel; Solveig Dommartin, Marion; Otto Sander, CassielGenre: Drama / Fantasy / Mystery

Wings of DesireDer Himmel über Berlin

Awards:Bavarian Film Awards 1988, Best DirectionCannes Film Festival 1987, Best DirectorEuropean Film Awards 1988, Best Director, Nominated Best FilmGerman Film Awards 1988, Outstanding Feature Film, Best Cinematography

The sky over war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trench-coated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One, Damiel, wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, Marion. Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the transformation by explaining the simple joys of a human experience, such as the sublime combination of coffee and cigarettes. Told from the angel’s point of view, Wings of Desire is shot in black and white, blossoming into color only when the angels perceive the realities of humankind. Ultimately, Damiel determines that he must experience humanity in full, and breaks through into the real world to pursue a life with Marion.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

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Friday, September 25th, at 10:00 pmThursday, September 24th, at 10:00 pm

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Schedule

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Friday 18

Sat 19

Sun 20

Mon 21

Tues 22

Wed 23

Thurs 24

Fri 25

Sat 26

Sun 27

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Who Am I106‘

As We Were Dreaming127‘

Victoria140‘

Stations of the Cross110‘

Paris, Texas144‘

Pina107‘

Stromberg123‘

Every Thing Will Be Fine118‘

Stereo94‘

Tour de Force95‘

Labyrinth of Lies124‘

Age of Cannibals93‘

Alice in the Cities112‘

Rough Road Ahead108‘

Wings of Desire128‘

Home from Home230‘

The Cut138‘

Wim Wenders Hommage

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