We are happy to collaborate with the
Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) for the
9th edition of Urban Lens, curated by the
IIHS Media Lab, a one-of-a-kind international film festival that brings together filmmakers, academics and urban practitioners to dialogue on cinema and the urban experience.
The festival will open with the screening of
Ariyippu by
Mahesh Narayanan on
February 16, 2023 at 6.30 p.m. at the Bhavan. The screening will be followed by a
conversation between
Mahesh Narayanan and
Subasri Krishnan.
In this edition, we present
Victoria, a multi-award winning German film by
Sebastian Schipper.
© MONKEYBOY GMBH 2015
VICTORIA | Sebastian Schipper
138 min., 2015, German with English subtitles
Saturday February 18, 2023, 11.20 a .m. - 1.40 p.m. IST
IIHS, Bengaluru City Campus
Post-screening conversation:
Saturday February 18, 2023, 1.40 - 2.00 p.m. IST
Sebastian Schipper in conversation with
Yashodara Udupa
Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends are real Berliners who promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these boys have got themselves into hot water: they owe someone a dangerous favour that needs repaying that evening. As Victoria’s flirtation with Sonne begins developing into something more, he convinces her to come along for the ride. As the night rolls on, what started out as a good time, quickly spirals out of control. As dawn approaches, Victoria and Sonne realise: it’s all or nothing and they abandon themselves to a heart-stopping journey into the depths of the night.
The film has been shot in
one single take. It received the
German Film Award 2015 in
six categories, including Best Fiction Film.
Sebastian Schipper.jpg
Sebastian Schipper joined his first theatre group at the age of 16 and began studying to become an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich shortly after completing his A-levels. Employment at Munich’s Kammerspiele theatre followed his studies; he also wrote and directed his first short films and ultimately his first feature-length film, Absolute Giganten, produced by Tom Tykwer and X-Filme. The film Ein Freund von mir (“A Friend of Mine”), with Daniel Brühl und Jürgen Vogel followed in 2004 and in 2008 Mitte Ende August (“Sometime in August”), an adaption of Goethe’s Elective Affinities with Marie Bäumer und Milan Peschel. Since Sebastian Schipper played one of the leads in Tykwer’s film 3, he has had a steady stream of roles. In 2013 he set up the production company MonkeyBoy with Jan Dressler. Their first feature under this company, Victoria, was selected in competition at the 2015 Berlinale.
To watch the films register
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For more details and screening schedule check
Festival Schedule.
*Please note that from
February 17 to 19, all screenings and events will take place at
IIHS Bengaluru CIty Campus.*
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