KINO K

The KINO K film club at the University of Leuven presents German film in all its diversity in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Brussels.
The film screenings take place monthly - and always according to the same open principle: admission is free and everyone is welcome! Room MSI 00.28
Mrg. Sencie Instituut (MSI) – Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven – Erdgeschoss / Ground Floor / Begane Grond / rez-de-chaussée

Accessability: Via Ravenstraat to wheelchair entrance 00.02. There are doors with a door pump on the way to the room.

1. Wolfgang Becker – Ich und Kaminski (2015)
Based on Daniel Kehlmann's 2003 novel of the same name, Ich und Kaminski is about the haughty art critic Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl), who has only one wish in his life: to have a success story. To that end, he devises the plan to write a biography about the life of Manuel Kaminski (Jesper Christensen) and, in it, reveal that the latter did not actually go blind at all. Kaminski, an artist of bygone days, pupil of Matisse and friend of Picasso, retired to the Swiss mountains at the end of his life. So as not to be disturbed during the interview by Kaminski's daughter and caretaker, Zöllner suggests to Kaminski that he visit his childhood sweetheart, Therese, in Belgium, but not before first stealing two of Kaminski's paintings. The trip north will end up not only filled with extraordinary activities, but force both characters and the audience to self-reflect on who they are, what they have done and where they want to go in life.
Ich und Kaminski was rated "Especially Valuable" by the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung. Film critics and viewers particularly praised Daniel Brühl's acting skills and the film's pointed humor.

2.  Margaretha von Trotta – Hannah Arendt (2012)
Hannah Arendt is a biographical film about the world-renowned political philosopher Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) who attends the infamous Eichmann trial in the early 1960s. After Eichmann is captured from his hideout in Argentina, he stands trial in Israel for his participation in the Holocaust. Political philosopher Hannah Arendt, working as a professor in New York, suggests to The New Yorker magazine that she report on the trial. Although she expects to come face to face with the personification of evil, she is confronted by a banal bureaucrat during the trial. When, after years of intense work, Arendt publishes her articles in The New Yorker, a flood of response awaits her not only at home and abroad, but also within her own circle of friends.
Hannah Arendt was one of the best-attended films in German cinemas in 2012 and won many awards (including the de Preis für die beste Darstellerin des Bayerischen Filmpreises 2012; Film des Monats Januar 2013 and the Filmpreis in Silber in der Kategorie Bester Spielfilm des Deutschen Filmpreises 2013).

3. Marc Rothemund – Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (2005)
Based on the book Die Weisse Rose von Inge Scholl (sister of Sophie and Hans Scholl), the film tells the story of a brother and sister fighting for a better Germany. Munich, early 1943: As World War II rages in Europe, young German students gather in the resistance group Die Weisse Rose. Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) and Hans Scholl (Fabian Hinrichs), brother and sister, are arrested by the Gestapo in February 1943 while distributing illegal pamphlets against Hitler at the University of Munich. What follows is a portrait of a deeply divided, fearful Germany on the verge of collapse.
In addition to an Oscar nomination in the Best International Film category, Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage won several other awards (including the Filmpreis in Silber in der Kategorie Bester Spielfilm des deutschen Filmpreises 2005). In addition, Julia Jentsch won the Preis der besten Schauspielerin on several occasions (European Film Awards; Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin; Deutscher Filmpreis; Europäischer Filmpreis; ...).

4.  Detlev Buck – Die Vermessung der Welt (2012)
Based on the international bestseller of the same name by Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt tells the story of two men whose origins are completely different, but who want the same thing: to discover the world. In their own way, both scientists manage to transcend themselves and the world. Whereas the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß (Florian David Fitz) contemplates the imaginable from his home office, the wealthy natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt (Albrech Schuch) travels to South America to map the visible. At the end of their lives, both protagonists meet and come to the conclusion that their lives may not have brought the happiness they sought in their scientific activities after all.
The film, in which Daniel Kehlmann was involved in the script as co-author, received rave reviews in the press and was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis.