German films at the Cork Film Festival
A number of new German films and co-productions will be shown at this year’s Cork Film Festival.
Programme:
Sunday, 12 November 2017, – 6:30 pm
The Gate Cinema, North Main Street, Cork
The Cakemaker (Der Kuchenmacher)
The Cakemaker (Der Kuchenmacher)
Director: Ofir Raul Graizer; colour; 104 mins. ; Israel/ Germany 2017
The young German baker Thomas has an affair with married Israeli Oren. After he was killed in an accident, Thomas is traveling into his hometown Jerusalem to start looking for answers. Over there he starts to work in the café of his lover’s widow…
Sunday, 12 November 2017, 8:15 pm
Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork
Sing it Loud
Sing it Loud
Director: Julia Irene Peters, Jutta Feit; colour; 99 mins.; Germany 2017
For more than 60 years a huge choir competition is taking place in Tanzania. The competition is held by the Lutheran church and there are more than 1500 choirs participating. To be part of the competition this year’s all participants have to perform the choral “Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich” composed by Martin Luther, as well as an original composition. In this documentary director Julia Irene Peters is accompanying six people from Tanzania, who are singing in three different choirs.
Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 4:15 pm
The Gate Cinema, North Main Street, Cork
Joseph Beuys
Beuys
Director: Andres Veiel; b/w and colour; 107 mins.; Germany 2017
Thirty years after his death Joseph Beuys feels like a visionary who was ahead of his time. He was the first German artist to be given a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York whilst at home in Germany his work was often still derided as the ‘most expensive trash of all time’. In this film portrait the artist speak for himself. Beuys boxes, chats, lectures and explains art to a dead hare. But we also experience the man, the teacher and the Green Party candidate. In this documentary the contradictions and tensions which gave rise to Beuys’ Gesamtkunstwerk are visible and the artist comes to life again.
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 2:15 pm
The Gate Cinema, North Main Street, Cork
In Times of Fading Light (In Zeiten des Abnehmenden Lichts)
In Times of Fading Light (In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts)
Director: Matti Geschonneck, colour, 100 mins.; Germany 2017
Autumn 1989 in East Berlin: Great-grandfather Wilhelm Powileit, ex-resistance fighter, exile homecomer and Stalinist from the bottom of his heart, is going to be 90 years old. That’s why his wife Charlotte is organising a big family party. Not only the invited family, friends and neighbours are coming, also representatives of the worker’s and farmer’s state. They are all bringing flowers and giving speeches to Wilhelm, as if the GDR was still alive. But one special guest is missing, grandson Sascha. Hardly anyone knows that he has fled to West-Germany. When the guests find out at the party, everyone is shocked…
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 9:00 pm
The Everyman Theatre, MacCurtain Street, Cork
The young Karl Marx (Der junge Karl Marx)
The Young Karl Marx (Der junge Karl Marx)
Director: Raoul Peck, colour; 118 mins; France/ Belgium/ Germany 2017
1844. Karl Marx is 26 years old and living with his wife Jenny in exile in Paris. He is habitually in debt and plagued by existential anxieties. When he first meets the slightly younger factory owner’s son Friedrich Engels, Engels has just published a study on the miserable impoverishment of the English proletariat. The two like-minded men become friends and soon inspire each other to write texts in which they seek to provide a theoretical foundation for the revolution they believe must come. Their goal is no longer to merely interpret the world, but to change it. Fundamentally.
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 9:15 pm
Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork
Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
Director: Stephan Plank, Reto Caduff; colour; 92 mins.; Germany 2017
A documentary about the legendary German music producer and sound artist Konrad „Conny“ Plank, who worked with bands and artists like Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Brian Eno and the Eurythmics in the 1970s and 1980s. He died in 1987 in the age of 47. In “Conny Plank – The Potential of Noise” his son Stephan Plank and documentary filmmaker Reto Caduff are looking into the past of Stephan’s father and the legacy of a perfectionist as well as emotional producer, who coined the sound of various musicians sustainably. The documentary includes intervioews with companions like Annette Humpe, Gianna Nannini, Devo, Ultravox and the Scorpions, mostly unpublished archive material is completing the portrait of Conny Plank.
Sunday, 19 November 2017, 1:00 pm
The Everyman Theatre, MacCurtain Street, Cork
Three Peaks (Die Drei Zinnen)
Three Peaks (Drei Zinnen)
Director: Jan Zabeil, colour; 94 mins.; Italy/ Germany 2017
Aaron invites his girlfriend Lea and her 8-year-old son Tristan on a trip to the mountains. What could be a starting point of a new life together, slowly turns into difficult territory as the three fight for their positions within the new family. High up in the Three Peaks region in the Italian Dolomites, Aaron and Tristan are faced with their ambivalent love and deepest fears of one another, while Lea stands in between the two, trying to navigate this triangle. In his attempt to win the boy’s respect, Aaron takes him up the mountain and confronts Tristan with his continuous aggression towards him. When fog sets in and Aaron loses the boy, their power games reach a dangerous level…
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.