Film
Fukushima, mon Amour (Director: Doris Dörrie)

FRIDAY FILMS @GOETHE

Fri, 01/19/2018
6:00 PM Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Auditorium

Are you interested in Germany and German culture? Are you looking for an opportunity to improve your German language skills? Do you enjoy German films? Then this is your event!

Every third Friday of the month, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco will present recent German films ranging from small, independent productions to box office hits. All screenings are in German with English subtitles. Admission is free!

PLOT:
Marie and her husband separate on their wedding day. Now, the young woman wants to get as far away as possible from the place of the tragic event. She travels to Japan with the organization “Clowns4Help” to help the survivors of the Fukushima catastrophe. Marie quickly realises that she can’t carry out the task. But she doesn’t want to give up. She accompanies the ageing geisha Satomi to her destroyed house in the exclusion zone, which has been radioactively contaminated since 2011. A surprising friendship slowly forms between the two very different women, from which both have a lot to gain.

(B/W, 104 min., 2015/16)

Doris Dörrie was born in Hanover in 1955. In 1973, she studied acting and film in Stockton, California. She then went on to study at the New School of Social Research in New York. Doris Dörrie’s big breakthrough came with her film comedy "Men…", and since then she’s created numerous films and established herself as an author.