Summer Screenings@Goethe Library

Enjoy documentary films from Germany in our Goethe-Library this summer! See Germany with a different perspective. We have chosen 3 acclaimed documentaries for you!

26.07.2025 (Sat) - 15:00
SHE CHEF

Directors: Melanie Liebheit & Gereon Wetzel
Austria, Germany, 2022, documentary, 105 mins
German, English, Danish, Spanish
Subtitle: English

SHE CHEF portrays the young chef and recent culinary world cup winner Agnes on her journey to mastery through some of the most outstanding restaurants in the world. The self-confident twenty something has finished her apprenticeship at Austria’s top-restaurant Steirereck and joined the Austrian national team of cooking as the first and only woman amongst all men to win the 2018 culinary world cup with her team. The film follows Agnes ambitious journey and track her way to become a top-chef from the very beginning. SHE CHEF will also allow audiences to dig deep into very different cultures of cooking and give us detailed insights into the ways of working of today’s most interesting restaurants far beyond the well-known celebrity hype.

16.08.2025 (Sat) - 15:00
COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS

Director: Alice Agneskirchner
Germany, 2022, documentary, 155 mins
German, English
Subtitle: English

A life without cinema is possible, but pointless. True to this motto, Erika and Ulrich Gregor have been traveling the world since 1957, finding unusual films and bringing them to Berlin. In an associative montage, film history, West German and contemporary Berlin history are combined with the present life of the Gregors and statements of many of their companions. Filmmakers such as Helke Sander, Jutta Brückner, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Rosa von Praunheim, Doris Dörrie, Michael Verhoeven, Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge and Volker Schlöndorff talk about the influence the Gregors had on them personally, painting a vivid picture of film culture, from the 1960s and 1970s through New German Cinema to international independent classics. Footage and film clips from 40 films take us on a journey through 70 years of cinema history, gaining insights into the everyday life of this important film couple, wo have been married for more than 60 years and still work together every day.

23.08.2025 (Sat) - 15:00
Heaven can wait – We live now

  Director: Sven Halfar
Germany, 2023, 103 mins
German
Subtitle: English

“When I sing, I feel free”. And it is precisely this feeling that the film about the Hamburg choir HEAVEN CAN WAIT tells us, in which all singers have to be at least 70 years to be able to experience this indescribable feeling of freedom. The film portrays the people in the choir who, for different reasons or motivations, have the courage to stand in front of an audience at an advanced age and reveal a piece of their soul.