Open Air Kino 2019

Opening Reception: Januar 8, 2019 at 19:00 Hrs. | Goethe-Institut Thailand

Our traditional "cinema under the stars" is back again with screenings taking place in the garden of the Goethe-Institut every Tuesday evening between January 8th and March 5th.
 
We are once more delighted to have the Swiss and Austrian embassies as partners this year and are thankful for their cinematic contribution to the new series.
 
This year's German-language film series is dedicated to the tales of strong women. In The Divine Order (Die göttliche Ordnung), we meet the courageous Swiss heroines who fought for the women's right to vote. In  Three Days in Quiberon (3 Tage in Quiberon), Marie Bäumer brilliantly plays the self-destructive, iconic actress Romy Schneider and in the drama Styx, Susanne Wolff puts up a desperate fight for survival on a solo yachting trip. Erik & Erika tells the story of an Austrian woman who must decide between being a woman or a man and we celebrate the reappearance of the great German actress Sandra Hüller in the film "In the Aisles (In den Gängen).
 
The opening film Mountain Miracle (Amelie rennt) will be screened on January 8th.The film takes place in Berlin and in the mountains of Tyrol and tells the moving story of the asthmatic teenager Amelie, who chooses freedom over medical treatment and becomes launched into a series of perilous adventures.
 
For the first time, we have the pleasure of welcoming two young female directors from Germany to our Open Air Film Festival in Bangkok:

Carolin Genreith from Hamburg will present her award-winning documentary film Happy. Here, she accompanies and films her father throughout his love-affair with a Thai woman, who is as old as the director herself.
 
Berlin filmmaker Madeleine Dallmeyer, will introduce us to her highly acclaimed documentary "The Village of the Forgetful" (Das Dorf der Vergesslichen), which portrays a village in northern Thailand, where Swiss and German patients with dementia are cared for by Thai nurses.
 
Both of these films impress by the way they relate what happens when two very different cultures, in all their diversity, open up to each other.
 
As always, the films in our open-air series have been showered with national and international awards. Three of them were screened at last year's Berlinale Film Festival.