Film Screenings
German Cinema @ Cork International Film Festival 2023
German Film Screenings in Cork
This year a number of German films and co-productions will be again screened at the Cork International Film Festival with the support of the Goethe-Institut Irland.
Programme:
Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 5:00 pm
The Everyman, MacCurtain Street, Cork
Sisi & I / Sisi & Ich
Director: Frauke Finsterwalder, Germany/Switzerland/Austria 2023, 132 min.
Irma Countess von Sztáray does not have it easy. Shortly before her application to become lady-in-waiting to Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Queen of Hungary known as "Sisi", Irma gets a bloody nose from her strict mother in all the excitement. Then, at court, she is put on display like a prize cow and interrogated. At Sisi’s summer residence on Corfu, Irma first has to prove her athleticism in sadistic exercises and is then put on a diet of cocaine extracts before she finally meets the moody and erratic empress in person. In between laxative teas and watery soups, hikes and beauty treatments, the two very different women quickly become close – though only as close as Sisi will allow, naturally. But every summer has an end, and when they return to Vienna, the lives of Sisi and Irma change drastically.
Triskel, Tobin Street, Cork
Landshaft
Director: Daniel Kötter, Germany/Armenia 2023, 97 min.
"Landshaft" sketches the psychogeography of a geopolitically charged landscape and its inhabitants between extractivism, war and displacement. In the form of a journey in eastern Armenia, the documentary film follows human and non-human actors as they make their way through the landscape, from Lake Sevan to the Sotk gold mine, occupied by Azerbaijan since the Karabakh War in 2020.
The Everyman, MacCurtain Street, Cork
Fitzcarraldo
Director: Werner Herzog, West Germany/Peru 1982, 158 min.
as part of the retrospective "Dreamers and Visionaries"
"Fitzcarraldo" is the story of an obsessive dreamer at the time of the rubber boom at the turn of the century who, in the depths of the Amazon jungle and beset by dangers of all kinds, has visions of presenting grand opera, with the works of Verdi and a unique performance by Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt.
Stung to the bone by swarms of mosquitoes, parched by the heat and fever, he nevertheless achieves the impossible. Using the labour of hundreds of native Indians, he manages to drag an enormous river boat across a mountain from one river to another so that he is able to open up an immense new rubber area which will provide him with the money necessary to realize his dream.
Triskel, Tobin Street, Cork
Anselm
Director: Wim Wenders, Germany 2023, 98 min.
Documentary film about the artist Anselm Kiefer, who was born in Germany in 1945 and whose paintings and sculptures initially dealt with German history and later focused on myths. The film explores Kiefer's artistic work, inspiration and life story, blurring the lines between past and present and between image and film.
The Cork International Film Festival will also present a selection of European short films from the home countries of eleven members of EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for Culture): EUNIC Short Shorts from Europe with Sophia Groening's short film "Muss ja nicht sein, dass es heute ist" ("It Doesn't Have to Be Today") as the German contribution presented by Goethe-Institut Irland.
Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 6:00 pm
St. Peter's Church, North Main Street, Cork
Admission free, but advance booking required
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.
Details
Various cinemas in Cork
Language: German with English subtitles
Price: €8 - €11,50
+353 (0) 21 427 1711 info@corkfilmfest.org