Director: Johannes Schmid, colour, 90 min., 2011 On Christmas day, 12-year-old Kattaka finds out that her dad is not her biological father. Disappointed and angry over her parents’ long silence, she wants to search for […]
Join the Film and Discussion with Hester Baer, Associate Professor and Head of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Germany/Luxembourg/France/Israel, 2012, 113 min., Director: Margarethe von Trotta, Screenplay: Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta, Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Axel […]
Fritz Lang (1890–1976) is a towering figure in film history. His work stretches over five decades, from the Expressionist silent films of his initial German period, through his brief Paris sojourn and his work as […]
Goethe Institut in Los Angeles invites you for a Film evening. Like a fossil, the Marx-Engels Forum, an ambitious East German monument project, occupies a central historical spot and desirable real estate in the middle […]
Menemsha Films is proud to announce the US release of THE WALDHEIM WALTZ, acclaimed documentarian Ruth Beckermann’s timely film about former UN Secretary General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim’s rise to power and cover up of his controversial past.The film was […]
Kurt and Theo are classmates and best friends. In 1956 they are about to finish school in Stalinstadt, in the GDR. On one of their secret excursions to West Berlin to go to the movies, […]
MY NAME IS VICTORIA pulls viewers into a unique adventure. In a single take, a group of would-be tough guys and a young Spanish woman wind their way through a long Berlin night. Germany, 2014-2015 […]
Culture in the Cold War: German Art, Music and Film is a four-week film and lecture series at the NEH Summer Institute. The Institute breaks new ground in the study of socialist modernity and culture […]
For its 13th annual film festival, SEEfest has honored filmmaker Robert Dornhelm with the SEEfest Legacy Award. Robert Dornhelm was born in 1947 in Timișoara, Romania and emigrated in 1961 to Austria, where he studied […]
Recently selected Grand Prize Narrative Feature at the 5th Socially Relevant Film Festival (NYC), the award-winning German arthouse film, LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ, THE AUDACITY TO BE FREE, directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post, who won the NDR Newcomer […]
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