Open Air Film Night

All films: English subtitles
 
Open Air Film Night returns after a year-long hiatus!
 
Join us for three films focusing on individual journeys. Each of the narratives evolve as the protagonists are in the process of evaluating and forming their spiritual, political and individual identities; the films capture those distinct moments in an individual’s life. In their respective stories, each is confronted with challenges in different realms of their lives that leads to a journey ‘within’. All the films that will be screened have English subtitles.
 
19:00-20:35

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Brother Jakob (Bruder Jakob)
Directed by Elí Roland Sachs (Germany, colour, 92 min., 2015/2016, German)
 
A young German transforms himself. Jakob Sachs converts to Islam, becomes a Salafist, alienating himself from his family. Allah means everything to him. This is not the final turning point for Jakob in his search for God. In this documentary, his older brother, Eli Roland Sachs, tries to trace and perhaps understand Jakob's ways. Bruder Jakob is not a film about Islam, but about a young man who is sometimes naive, but who vigorously searches for the meaning of life.
 
20:45-22:45

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The Young Karl Marx (Der junge Karl Marx)
Directed by Raoul Peck (France/Belgium/Germany, colour, 118 min., 2015-2017 German)
 
1843: The 26-year-old Karl Marx is living in exile with his wife in Paris, where he meets Friedrich Engels, whose industrialist father runs a cotton mill in Manchester. The two young men become friends, start writing revolutionary texts together, seek out contact with the utopian workers' movement "League of the Just", and face resistance in France, Belgium and England as they struggle for nothing less than a new social order. Finally, they complete their influential work, The Communist Manifesto.
 
23:00-00:30

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Oh Boy
Directed by Jan Ole Gerster (Germany, colour, 82 min., 2010-2012 German)
 
Niko Fischer is living from day to day. He has dropped out of law school. He drifts through Berlin. Oh Boy describes the turbulent 24 hours in the life of a young man in episodes, at the end of which nothing will be as before. With his excellent first feature film, Jan Ole Gerster successfully reminds us of the great role models, yet without exploiting them; and also the films set in Munich's Schwabing district from the late sixties.