KINO/23 German Film Festival

Based on true events and personal experiences, Aelrun Goette’s film centres on the 18-year-old Suzie, who is thrown headfirst into the vibrant fashion scene in communist East Germany when a photo of her ends up on the cover of Sibylle, the Vogue of the East.

Carla Nowak, a dedicated sports and maths teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism...

Communist East Berlin, early 1980s: Ludger is hired by the Stasi to infiltrate a subversive countercultural movement in the district of Prenzlauer Berg...

In a repressive three class-society, Paula, a simple Supporting Character, is about to face the most important test of her life: she has to prove she deserves to be a Lead...

The acting technique of improvisation returns in Hanna Doose’s second feature film, which centres on two former best friends, Laura and Maria, who lost contact when Maria’s great love, Jan, cheated on her with Laura...

Marvin is Germany’s biggest film star, and everyone is eager to see him at the premiere of his newest film. Yet after a disastrous interview with the tabloid journalist Bettina, he escapes from the media and lands in Frieda’s feminist off-theatre...

Robert, an undercover, teams with Leni, who has been released on parole to play along, to gain the trust of a criminal, Victor, at a dance class. Robert and Leni – he gay, she trans – make a great couple and soon have the criminal on the hook...

Adapted from the autobiography “Alles oder Nix'' by German rapper and music producer Xatar. Fed with his Kurdish parents via Iraq, Xatar, born Giwar Hajabi, grows up in a social housing estate in Bonn, dreaming of fame and fortune...

This year, Goethe-Institut Hongkong celebrates its 60th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have selected six iconic films from six decades: Films that inimitably capture the spirit of their time and shape it into images that have become part of our collective memory. Time and again, they feature Berlin, the divided city and, after the fall of the Wall, filled with a breathless, intense energy in which everything seemed possible.