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  • Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse © Ulrike Ottinger

    Saturday 25.01.2020Ulrike Ottinger: The image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press

    German director Ulrike Ottinger’s ironic reflection on power, media and identity seems timelier than ever. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

  • Angela Schanelec: I Was at Home, But... © Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen

    Wednesday 29.01.2020Goethe-Kino: I Was At Home, But …

    Our Goethe-Kino series kicks off with the London premiere of Angela Schanelec’s emotionally dense portrait of a family coping with loss and change. 

  • Recollective Resistance. Port of Memory © Kamal Aljafari

    Sunday 19.10.2020London Short Film Festival: Kamal Aljafari - Recollective Resistance

    The two experimental films Port of Memory and Recollection bear witness to the destruction, repopulation and gentrification of Jaffa before 1948.

  • A collage of colours, geometrical figures, and cropped out portraits of the most prominent students of the Bauhaus ©Filmtank

    21.11.2019–31.01.2020Fokus: Films from Germany 2019/20

    In 2019, we are not only celebrating the festival's 5-year-anniversary with our Scottish audiences, but two significant historical anniversaries that have shaped German society and culture: The founding of the Bauhaus School in 1919 and the Fall of the German Wall in 1989.

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Critical voices are chipping away at the monument to scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Photo (detail): © picture-alliance/dpa-Zentralbild/Heinz Krimmer

250 years of Alexander von Humboldt
 Cracks in the memorial

Alexander von Humboldt has many enthusiastic supporters, but also some critics. On the science superstar’s 250th birthday, experts warn that his greatness as a person has been exaggerated, though no one disputes his accomplishments as a researcher.

The “Bauhaus women”
 Female apprentices required – but not too many!

There are many myths on the subject of women in the Bauhaus. Author Theresia Enzensberger points out that where women’s equality is concerned, the school might have been progressive – but the inclusive attitude remained incomplete.

Babylon Berlin: ambitious police typist Charlotte Ritter. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Everett Collection 102309761

TV Series
 A fascination with the past

German television shows tend to have a bad reputation for poor writing and cheap productions not suited for an international market and audience. Now series like “Deutschland ‘83” and “Babylon Berlin” are putting a new shine on that tarnished image. 

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Crisis, Brexit, swing to the right: we mainly talk about the EU only when it’s burning. 
What do we want from the EU? What could it still be? How do we want to shape it?
Europe – what now?

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100 years of the Bauhaus

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 – and in doing so revolutionised architecture, design and the way we think about it. What influence does this art school have today?

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