HOME in Manchester, in association with the German Screen Studies Network and the University of Manchester, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, presents this specially curated mini-season to celebrate the opening of the Wall through films made by women directors in the immediate aftermath of the seismic events of 1989. We are pleased to support the attendance of director Pia Frankenberg of the screening of her film Never Sleep Again (Ich kann nicht schlafen, on Tuesday, 26 November.
Never Sleep Again (
Ich kann nicht schlafen, 1992) follows three women friends on their magical odyssey through post-unification Berlin. The dilapidated sites of the former Cold War frontier city, still scarred by World War II, become a place for sheer endless personal experimentation where the women begin to reconfigure their lives and loves. Frankenberg’s impressionistic portrait of three women in the city reflects on the state of the newly unified Germany, where for a moment all possibilities seemed radically open.
Also screening in this mini-series is
Margarethe von Trotta’s The Promise (Das Versprechen, 1994), which traces the story of two lovers, who are separated on their escape to the West, one staying behind in the East, the starting a new life in the West. Thirty years later, they meet again after the Wall has opened. The screening will take place on Sunday, 24 November 2019 and have an introduction.
Part of the series Celebrating Women in Global Cinema
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