delhiculture-lis: German Film Fest
Karishma Pais
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| Film screenings
Friday, 13.11.2009 - Thursday, 19.11.2009
This year the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan presents a film festival for the first time in Delhi. At the core of the premiere is a retrospective of the work by director Caroline Link from Germany, who attends the festival. For her film “Nowhere in Africa” she received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Picture in 2003. She was also nominated in the same category for her film “Beyond Silence” five years earlier. Apart from these films “A Year ago in Winter” and “Annaluise & Anton” are shown. Leander Haußmann's most recent film, “Robert Zimmermann is Tangled up in Love” is shown in the presence of the Hamburg Deputy Minister of Culture & Media, Dr. Nikolas Hill and the director of the Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Eva Hubert. Other films included in the programme are “Jerichow” by Christian Petzold, “Whisky with Vodka” by Andreas Dresen and “John Rabe” by Florian Gallenberger. Detailed programme: Jenseits der Stille/Beyond Silence (Caroline Link) 1996/ 109 mins - Friday, November 13, 8.15 pm Beyond Silence is a film about a musically talented girl growing up in a house with deaf parents, and the struggles that ensue from that as she matures.
Pünktchen & Anton/Annaluise & Anton (Caroline Link) 1999/ 107 mins - Saturday, November 14, Time to be announced Annaluise and Anton, inspite of coming from totally different backgrounds, are best of friends. The film tells the story of this friendship and the experiences they go through.
Im Winter ein Jahr/A Year ago in Winter (Caroline Link) 2008/ 129 mins - Saturday, November 14, 8.15 pm & Thursday, November 19, 8.15 pm A powerful story in which the tragic loss of a loved one becomes the catalyst for each family member to rediscover themselves and redefine their relationships.
Nirgendwo in Afrika/Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link) 2001/ 141 mins - Sunday, November 15, Time to be announced A Jewish family in Germany emigrate short before the Second World War. They move to Kenya to start running a farm, but not all members of the family come to an arrangement with their new life in the continent.
Whisky mit Wodka/Whisky with Vodka (Andreas Dresen) 2009/ 104 mins - Sunday, November 15, 8.15 pm A renowned actor named Otto, even when drunk he still knows more about filmmaking than does the amateur who is directing him in his latest movie. But what should the unreliable star do when a local actor joins the crew as his understudy?
Hamburg Film Night Monday, November 16, 8.15 pm Wagah, Director: Supriyo Sen, Producer: Fabian Gasmia, Germany/India 2008, 11 min, Documentary Every evening, India's and Pakistan's only border crossing along the 3,323 km frontier becomes the site of an extraordinary event: Border guards on both sides orchestrate a parade to lower the flags.Followed by: Robert Zimmermann sucht die Liebe/Robert Zimmermann is Tangled up in Love (Leander Haußmann) 2008/ 102 mins The trials and tribulations of a young man who falls in love with a mature woman. By observing the amorous complexities of his own friends and family, he begins to discover the many zigzags that love can take.
Jerichow (Christian Petzold) 2008/ 93 mins - Tuesday, November 17, 8.15 pm Off the beaten path of life, three people stumble into a fateful encounter. It is a love-triangle in which yearning evaporates into even bigger dreams.
John Rabe (Florian Gallenberger) 2009/ 134 mins - Wednesday, November 18, 8.15 pm A German engineer and Nazi party member John Rabe, who earned the nickname "The Schindler of China" for constructing a vast safety zone in which nearly a quarter of a million civilians sought sanctuary. The film explores the crucial role that foreigners played in helping countless Chinese escape a fate worse than death in this drama concerning the 1937 invasion of Nanking by the ruthless Japanese Imperial Army. Kindly collect the free passes from Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 For further information please contact: 011 - 2332 9506 ext. no. - 292 |
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