Film presentation German Films @Goethe

A selection of best new cinema from Germany

The Goethe-Institut Pakistan is proud to announce a selection of best new cinema from Germany: “German Films@Goethe”.

From February 23rd till 26th you can discover five award-winning new German feature films, all with English subtitles, screened at the Goethe-Institut.
Included in the selection is a family drama that originated in the Armenian genocide, told by a German-Turkish film director, a film about one night in Berlin (“a one take thriller that surpassed Hitchcock”, The Guardian), a drama about a 10-year-old boy searching for his mother, a film-noir melodrama in post-WWII Berlin and a drama about youth in the worst juvenile detention centre in Germany of the late Sixties.
Come and join us at German Films @Goethe and enjoy our diverse programme! We are certain that amongst the many wonderful films, you too will find your favourite.
 
We will be showcasing the following films at the Goethe-Institut:

1. Victoria by Sebastian Schipper
2. Sanctuary (Freistatt) by Marc Brummund
3. Jack by Edward Berger
4. Phoenix by Christian Petzold
5. The Cut by Fatih Akin  

 
Jack by Edward Berger
Director: Edward Berger
1h 43min | Drama
Cast: Ivo Pietzcker, Georg Arms, Luise Heyer
 
Berlin-based and New York-trained director Edward Berger delivers a pleasingly stirring tale about courage and responsibility. A German film about a 10-year-old boy who runs away from a state-run shelter to find his neglectful mother. This collaboration between TV-trained director Edward Berger and actor-turned-scriptwriter Nele Mueller-Stoefen, who co-wrote the script together, is made with sensitivity, skill and honesty.

The Cut
Director: Fatih Akin
2h 18min | Drama, History
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury
  Foto: Gordon Muehle Bombero International The Cut is Fatih Akin's epic drama about one man's journey through the Ottoman Empire after surviving the 1915 Armenian genocide. Deported from his home in Mardin, Nazareth (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet) moves onwards as a forced laborer. When he learns that his twin daughters may still be alive, his hope is revived and he travels to America, via Cuba, to find them. His search takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts and Havana to the barren and desolate prairies of North Dakota. On this odyssey, he encounters a range of very different people: angelic and kind-hearted characters, but also the devil incarnate.
 
Victoria–an authentic piece of cinematic magic
Director: Sebastian Schipper
2h 18min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Cast: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski

Foto:Monkeyboy A remarkable new film tells the story of a nocturnal heist - in one single take.
One seamless shot follows a young woman through the dark underbelly of Berlin, in a unique thriller that uses its technical trickery to mesmerizing effect. When Victoria emerges into a chilly Berlin morning, we feel we have lived through the emotions of a lifetime with her.This nerve-shredding German thriller begins in the pulsing white light of a nightclub strobe and spends the next two hours taking us on a tour of Berlin as day breaks over the city.
It’s an astonishing, brassy act of choreography, especially considering the film moves all over the city, with a sprawling cast of bit-players beyond the main characters.

Sanctuary (Freistatt)
Director: Marc Brummund
1h 44min | Drama
Cast: Louis Hofmann, Alexander Held, Stephan Grossmann
  Foto: Boris Laewen A movie based on true stories, about the merciless fight of a boy to save the last bit of humanity and dignity in an oppressive system of society. Based on true events. Marc Brummund tells the story of one of the worst juvenile detention centres in Germany in the 1960s and 70s. The film centers on Wolfgang, a 14 year old youth in conflict with his stepdad, who takes the opportunity to send him to Freistatt, a world of barred windows, forced labour and physical abuse.  With a rebellious, independent spirit, and a drive to be free, Wolfgang must learn to navigate between peer hierarchy and church authority.
 
Phoenix
Diretor: Christian Petzold
1h 38min | Drama, History
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf

Schrammfilm A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust. The dynamic duo of director Christian Petzold and star Nina Hoss take on post-WWII Berlin in a sumptuous film-noir melodrama. Life is a bombed-out, soulless cabaret in Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix,” a haunting portrait of identity, loss and the search for answers in post-WWII Berlin. The sixth teaming of Petzold and his leading-lady muse, the extraordinary Nina Hoss, finds the duo once again refracting the social and political complexities of 20th-century Germany through the prism of American genre films — here, specifically, the rich strain of doppelganger psychodramas (“A Woman’s Face,” “Vertigo,” “Seconds”) that hinged on the immutable power of the human face.
 
 

Programme

Day/Date	time	film
23rd February 2017 Thursday	5pm	Victoria by Sebastian Schipper (intro by Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder)
	8pm	Sanctuary (Freistatt) by Marc Brummund
24th February 2017 Friday	5pm	Phoenix by Christian Petzold
	8pm	Jack by Edward Berger
25th February 2017 Saturday	12pm	The Cut by Fatih Akin
	12pm-2pm	Till Passow Masterclass followed by the screening of 'Mast Kalandar'.
	2:30pm	Screening of Mast Qalandar
	3:15pm	Victoria by Sebastian Schipper
	6pm	Sanctuary (Freistatt) by Marc Brummund  (followed by the talk  with the director of the film moderated by Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder)
26th February 2017 Sunday	11am-1pm	Marc Brummund in conversation with Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder
	1pm	Phoenix by Christian Petzold
	3pm	Jack by Edward Berger(intro by Dr. Markus Heidingsfelder)
	6pm	The Cut by Fatih Akin

 

 

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