German Cinema Cork International Film Festival 2021
Various Cinemas in Cork and Online in Ireland
LanguageGerman with English subtitles
(c) DIF
This year a number of German films and co-productions will be again be screened at the Cork International Film Festival with the support of the Goethe-Institut Irland.
Programme:
Wood and Water Director: Jonas Bak, Deutschland/Frankreich/Hong Kong 2021, 75 min.
(C) Trance Films
When Anke retires from her work at a church in the rural Black Forest, she wants to reunite with her children at the Baltic Sea, where they lived together as a young family.When her son Max, with whom Anke hasn't had any contact for several years, is unable to come to Germany due to protests in his new home country of Hong Kong, Anke decides to visit him. She begins her journey to faraway Hong Kong - a search for her son and an escape from the emptiness of her everyday life.
Screenings:
Monday, 8 November 2021, 6:15 pm
The Gate Cinema, Cork Online: 13 - 15 November 2021, watch here
Cine Concert Metropolis / Cine Konzert Director: Fritz Lang Germany 1927, 148 min.
(c) Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung
With live accompaniment of a new musical score by Irene Buckley and Linda Buckley
Fritz Lang's monumental science fiction film - the first of its kind - combines visual power with a love story about the reconciliation of the topics labour and capital.
Metropolis, the city of the future, is divided into two social classes: high above the city, the upper class rules in paradisiacal conditions, while below ground, workers perform physical labour in long shifts. The ruler of the city - the "brain" - is the entrepreneur Joh Fredersen, who supervises all activities from his control centre "New Tower Babel". When Fredersen's son Freder falls in love with the workers' leader Maria, a battle develops between "brain" and "hands" that will completely change the city of Metropolis and its inhabitants.
Screenings: Monday, 8 November2021, 6:30 pm
The Everyman Theatre, 15 Maccurtain Street , Cork Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 6:30 pm
The Everyman Theatre, 15 Maccurtain Street, Cork
Ticket of no Return Director: Ulrike Ottinger,Germany 1979, 109 min.
(c) Ulrike Ottinger / Autorenfilm-Produktionsgenossenschaft (Berlin/West)
A woman - young, exceptionally beautiful, obviously wealthy - at the airport. Where is she from? That remains a mystery. Where to? Berlin Tegel, she buys a one-way ticket. She wants to forget her past, leave and focus on her only passion: to live the life of an alcoholic. She is one who set out to learn how to drink for life.
On her intoxicating journey through Berlin, depicted in surreal images that do not distinguish between reality and dream, she meets another drinker. Together they lose themselves in excesses.
Screening: Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 8:15 pm
The Gate Cinema, Cork
Dying to Divorce Director: Chloe Fairweather,
Germany/UK/Turkey, 2021, 81 min. - Documentary
(c) Production Team Dying to Divorce
"Dying to Divorce" is a documentary about the struggle of Turkish women for the right to divorce. Women are repeatedly subjected to domestic violence in Turkey, and femicides - the killing of women by intimate partners - are on the rise. The country withdrew from the Istanbul Convention in 2021.
Over the course of five years, the documentary follows two women who have been victims of severe violence at the hands of their husbands, as well as a young Turkish lawyer who is fighting for justice.
Screenings:
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 12:30 pm
The Gate Cinema, Cork Friday, 12 November 2021, 3:00 pm
Triskel Arts Center, Tobin Street, Cork
The Mirror of Maya Deren Director: Martina Kudlácek
Germany/Austria/Switzerland 2001, 103 Min. - Documentary
(c) DIF
The documentary looks at the life of Maya Deren, born in Kiev in 1917, who was a central figure in the American film avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren made a name for herself in film history with works such as "At Land," "Meditation on Violence," and especially, "Meshes of the Afternoon", her most famous film. The documentary travels to the places where Maya Deren lived and filmed, reconstructing her biography in conversations with contemporaries. Interlocutors include central figures of the "New American Cinema" such as Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas and Amos Vogel. The film also features previously unreleased archival footage.
Screening:
Online: 16 - 18 November2021, watch here
The Cork International Film Festival will also present a selection of european short films from the home countries of ten members of EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for Culture): EUNIC: Short Shorts from Europe and the new short film "Näher" by Alan Gilseman based on the dance piece by Liz Roche Company (2018) which was created on the occasion of the re-opening of the Goethe-Institut in Dublin.
