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7:00 PM
Cinéma Goethe: "Walchensee Forever"
Film screening|Family Affairs
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Goethe-Institut Ottawa, Ottawa
- Language Original version with French subtitles.
- Price Free, suggested donation: $ 5
- Part of series: Cinéma Goethe at Alliance Française in Ottawa
A series of German films with French subtitles, selected around a defined theme, presented by the Goethe-Institut Ottawa at the Alliance française d'Ottawa (352, rue MacLaren, K2P 0M6) since spring 2025:
Walchensee Forever
Director: Janna Ji Wonders
Germany | 2020 | 110 min.
Documentary
German with French subtitles.
Director Janna Ji Wonders tells the story of the women in her family over the course of a century. The silent witness and connecting link between these women is Lake Walchen in Bavaria, where Apa—the family matriarch—opened a café in 1920 that still exists today. Norma, Apa's daughter, runs the business until she reaches an advanced age. As for Norma's daughters, Anna and Frauke, they decide to leave the lake. They want to break free and travel the world as musicians.
Their travels eventually bring them back to Bavaria. It is the 1970s and the sisters live in a commune in Munich around the German 1968 activist Rainer Langhans
After Frauke's unexpected death in the 1980s, Anna moves to the United States, where she has a daughter, Janna. For her, her grandmother Norma, who remained in the café on Lake Walchen, becomes an important role model for Janna.
As director, Janna seeks answers to questions such as: What is heritage? To what extent does my background shape me? She finds clues in the connection between four generations of women with very different outlooks on life.
Walchensee Forever
Director: Janna Ji Wonders
Germany | 2020 | 110 min.
Documentary
German with French subtitles.
Director Janna Ji Wonders tells the story of the women in her family over the course of a century. The silent witness and connecting link between these women is Lake Walchen in Bavaria, where Apa—the family matriarch—opened a café in 1920 that still exists today. Norma, Apa's daughter, runs the business until she reaches an advanced age. As for Norma's daughters, Anna and Frauke, they decide to leave the lake. They want to break free and travel the world as musicians.
Their travels eventually bring them back to Bavaria. It is the 1970s and the sisters live in a commune in Munich around the German 1968 activist Rainer Langhans
After Frauke's unexpected death in the 1980s, Anna moves to the United States, where she has a daughter, Janna. For her, her grandmother Norma, who remained in the café on Lake Walchen, becomes an important role model for Janna.
As director, Janna seeks answers to questions such as: What is heritage? To what extent does my background shape me? She finds clues in the connection between four generations of women with very different outlooks on life.
Location
Goethe-Institut Ottawa
in the form of a local corporation
352 MacLaren Street
Ottawa K2P 0M6
Kanada
in the form of a local corporation
352 MacLaren Street
Ottawa K2P 0M6
Kanada