Co-presented with Telescope Film

KINO! Film Salon is a monthly online club to discuss films from Germany.
 
How it works: Each month we choose a German film currently available to stream on U.S. platforms, watch it independently, and come together for a hosted conversation with other fans of German cinema.

In our March session, we will discuss Philipp Stölzl’s striking 2008 drama North Face. Johanna Wokalek (The Baader Meinhof Complex) plays Luise, a secretary and greenhorn reporter at a Berlin newspaper in 1936. Not one to take no for an answer, she somehow convinces her bosses to let her cover an intrepid attempt to scale the Eiger by two Alpinists who also happen to be her childhood friends. What follows is an engrossing adventure film, full of startling Alpine vistas and suspenseful climbing sequences, but never losing sight of the human drama at its core. Wokalek, Benno Fürmann (Merry Christmas), and Florian Lukas (Good Bye, Lenin) deliver heartfelt performances in a film that combines classic adventure with historical drama, charting the years of emerging National Socialism ahead of World War II. It’s a unique mix, and a great example of modern German cinema at its most accessible, exciting, and intelligent.
Hosted by Jim Kolmar

Jim programs for SXSW and Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival and was a founding committee member of Festival Internacional de Cine Tulum (FICTU). He has participated in numerous international festival juries, panels, and committees.
 
KINO! Film Salon is a production of Telescope Film, in partnership with the German Film Office.

Nordwand
Dir. Philipp Stölzl
Germany/Austria/Switzerland, 2008
121 minutes
With Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur