Film
M3 THEMATIC GERMAN FILMS @ DAKSHINACHITRA

Sat, 03.12.2022 -
Sat, 10.12.2022
Kadambari Gallery, DakshinaChitra, ECR Muttukkadu

As part of the M3 exhibition titled LET NO ONE MISTAKE US FOR THE FRUIT OF VIOLENCE  curated by Vidisha-Fadescha, a thematic German films will be screened at DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum.

Film Screening Schedule 
Venue: Seminar Hall, DakshinaChitra, ECR Muttukadu

3 December, 2022 | 11.30 am 

ATLAS
Dir.:  David Nawrath | 100 min. | 2018

60-year-old Walter is a furniture remover for forced evictions. He is the most loyal worker his boss, Roland Grone, has in his company. Walter ignores all the aches and pains his tough job creates, just as much as he ignores the pain of the people whose lives he invades. Grone is planning a risky real estate deal with a dodgy family clan. An old apartment building is to be evacuated and resold for a big price. However, there is one occupant who refuses to move out. Walter believes to recognize his son in this young man, the son he ran out on years ago and hasn’t seen since. Without disclosing his real identity, Walter cautiously gets closer to his son Jan and his family. When he realizes how erratic the men are that Grone has gotten himself involved with, Walter comes under pressure.

3 December, 2022 | 3.00 pm  

WESTERN
Dir.: Valeska Grisebach | 121 min. | 2017

A group of German construction workers moves to a construction site in the border region between Bulgaria and Greece. When the men realize there is a village nearby, they are confronted with their prejudice and mistrust. Two of the men turn the village into a stage on which they compete for the recognition and favor of the villagers..

10 December, 2022 | 11.30 am 

ALLE ANDEREN
Dir.: Maren Ade |  124 min. | 2014

This film tells the story of Gitti and Chris, an odd couple who are battling their way through a holiday of secluded togetherness. It is an intimate portrait of two people as they can only be when alone: their secret rituals, their silliness, their unfulfilled dreams and their power struggles.

A seemingly unimportant event – an encounter with another couple – serves to destabilise their relationship. Not only is the other couple more successful, the two also manage to conceal conventional gender roles beneath a modern façade. Taking a leaf out of the other couple′s book, Chris begins to show his wilful girlfriend who′s boss, with the result that Gitti′s faith in her partner takes a hard knock. She attempts to conform to his new ideal, but what begins as a playful experiment with a new role soon turns into a quiet struggle with her own personality. Although Chris begins to flourish in his role as the stronger of the two, and Gitti begins to loosen up in a completely new way, they are both in danger of losing themselves.

A subtly humorous, cruelly meticulous study of the contradictory desires of a couple searching for their own identity. An intimate love story that plunges into the depths of a relationship and reflects the emotional disorientation of an entire generation. Maren Ade: "I wanted to make a film about the convoluted yet unique entity that is represented by two people in a relationship. The main character of the film is not so much an individual as a couple."

10 December, 2022 | 3.00 pm  

AUF AUGENHÖHE
Dir.: Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim Dollhopf | 99 min. | 2016

11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom – who happens to be a dwarf, even shorter than Michi is, the opposite of his idea of manliness and strength. When the kids find out, Michi's life becomes hell and he flees. With nowhere to go, he moves in with Tom, who is new to this fatherhood thing, while Michi tries to hide his embarrassment and shame from his fellow school kids. This forces Tom, who had coped well till now, to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers, until their relationship is again suddenly put to the hard test...