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A Land Within

Film Screening and Conversation|Q&A with director Michael Kofler following the Screening

  • Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston, MA

  • Film: German, Italian with English subtitles, Conversation in English
  • admission free, please RSVP
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A Land Within © StarhausFilmproduktion

A Land Within © StarhausFilmproduktion_Photo by Martin Rattini

South Tyrol, 1961. The northern Italian region with a German-speaking minority is shaken by a series of separatist bomb attacks. Free spirit Paul wants to escape the narrowness and lack of prospects of his little village and study painting in Munich. When his hardliner brother, Anton, becomes a fugitive terrorist, Paul reluctantly puts his own plans on hold to support his brother’s wife, Anna, and their little son on the small farm. As ethnic tensions and police repression in the village grow, Paul gets drawn into a downward spiral of violence and toxic masculinity. Anna openly condemns the radicalization of her husband but increasingly clashes with the patriarchal structures of the time. When events spin out of control, Paul must choose between following his dream and standing up against violence and his brother.
Director and Screenplay: Michael Kofler
Germany, Italy, Austria 2025
113 min, digital
Co-presented with the German Film Office in conjunction with Among Friends – Unter Freunden, a campaign of the Goethe-Institut USA to celebrate and strengthen transatlantic friendship.

Michael Kofler

Michael Kofler grew up in rural South Tyrol in the Italian Alps. He studied Directing in London, where he also worked for several years at a leading Film & TV production company. His short films and video works have been screened at various international film festivals. His screenplay for his debut feature film, A LAND WITHIN (OT: ZWEITLAND), won the top award of Racconti Development Lab by IDM Film Commission. Michael is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents, the talent development programme of the Berlinale.