Join us to watch the two opening films of Arthouse Cinema 2024 - all with English subtitles on the big screen in our hall.
Full Metal Village
Germany, 2006, Director: Sung-Hyung Cho | Duration: 90 min. | with English subtitle
The cultural divide between the good folks of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein and the heavy metal fans who have descended on their quiet community from all over the world could hardly be greater. Starched blouses, golden crucifixes and dark suits meet studded collars, tattoos and shoulder-length hair. The heavy metal festival has become a firm fixture in the identity of this rural community. At the same time, Wacken seems to be undergoing a fundamental change – from the restructuring of the unprofitable dairy industry to a new definition of their centuries-old rural identity. Sung-Hyung′s work is in many ways a film about otherness, about strangers trying to bridge the gap that exists between them. An affectionate documentary about an ordinary small town in Germany, that is also a portrait of a unique music festival and the people who make it possible.
Leif in Concert Vol. 2
Germany, 2019, Director: Christian Klandt | Duration: 116 min. | with English subtitle | with Luise Heyer, Klaus Manchen, Michael Klammer, Katharina Matz
Leif in Concert follows a day in the life of bartender Lene. Leif is supposed to play a gig that night and while preparing the bar Lene is joined by friends, acquaintances and strangers. Everyone gets to listen to Leif’s music, which triggers something different in them all: a smile, a memory, the desire to dance. Then there are the regulars. We eavesdrop, learn about fairy-pop, invisible mobile phones and giant snails. Their stories and lives intersect here. Every detail and anecdote contributes to Lene’s larger story and to this family that makes this gloomy, smokey bar the best place in the world.
Leif in Concert is a declaration of love to music and to that one local bar that everyone knows, that home away from home, where you can be who you are.
Leif in Concert won the German Cinema New Talent Award (Producer Prize) at the Munich Film Festival 2019.
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