Film Festival Habitat International Film Festival 2023

Habitat International Film Festival 2023 © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

Thursday, 23 March 2023, 14:00 & Saturday, 25 March 2023, 13:30

India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road

Watch German Feature Films!

Watch two German feature films that are being screened as part of the 2023 edition of the Habitat International Film Festival.

Piaffe © Schuldenberg Films GbR (Berlin) © Schuldenberg Films GbR (Berlin) PIAFFE
Directed by Ann Oren
(Germany, Colour, German/ English, 2022, 82min, English subtitles)

Thursday, 23 March 2023, 14:00
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre

The introvert Foley artist Eva struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse. Empowered by a horsetail growing out of her body, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.

Rheingold © bombero international, Warner Bros. Ent., Gordon Timpen © bombero international, Warner Bros. Ent., Gordon Timpen Rhinegold
Directed by Fatih Akin
(Germany, Colour, German/ Kurdish/ Turkish/ Dutch/ English/ Arabic, 2022, 140 min, English subtitles)

Saturday, 25 March 2023, 13:30
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre

Xatar’s path from the ghetto to the top of the music charts is a dramatic adventure story. From the hell of an Iraqi prison, Giwar Hajabi came to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and landed at the very bottom. There were opportunities, but many more stumbling blocks. In no time, he went from a petty criminal to a big-time dealer until a shipment goes missing. To settle his debts with the cartel, Giwar plans a legendary gold heist.

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