Presented by TIFF
& the Goethe-Institut as arts partner
Acclaimed German auteur Christian Petzold will be celebrated in a 16-film retrospective on the heels of his latest award-winning hit Afire, which screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox this past summer. This retrospective is curated by TIFF Cinematheque Senior Curator Andréa Picard and is one of the largest ever assembled on the director’s work, featuring a number of imported archival prints. The Goethe-Institut Toronto had already collaborated with TIFF Cinematheque (then Cinematheque Ontario) in 2009 in a landmark series — the first in North America —on the Berlin School, a term coined to identify a group of emerging German filmmakers including Petzold who were revitalizing their national cinema with films that were as formally rigorous as they were smart, stylish, and personal.
“One of the most reliably interesting and surprising filmmakers working today, Petzold makes sharp, visually intelligent, psychologically sophisticated movies. He likes working in traditional genres that he bends to his own purposes while drawing on a range of cinematic traditions: classical Hollywood, the European art film, the avant-garde.” (NYT)
The program
09 Nov, 6:30 PM — Transit
10 Nov, 6:30 PM — Afire
11 Nov, 3:00 PM — Yella
11 Nov, 6:30 PM — The State I am In
16 Nov, 7:00 PM — Phoenix
17 Nov, 6:30 PM — Something to Remind Me
18 Nov, 6:30 PM — Ghosts
19 Nov, 6:30 PM — Pilots Preceded by the Warm Money
21 Nov, 6:30 PM — Barbara
23 Nov, 6:30 OM — The Sex Thief
24 Nov, 6:30 PM — Undine
25 Nov, 3:00 PM — Cuba Libre
25 Nov, 6:30 PM — Jerichow
26 Nov, 1:00 PM — Dreileben
28 Nov, 6:30 PM — Wolfsburg
Many of the screenings will be accompanied by introductions or Q&As with Petzold and several of the 35mm film prints are provided by the Goethe-Institut film archive.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on German film
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