It’s a good time to learn about Germany from the big screen as Goethe Institute is holding the “German Film Weekends 2014”.
Westwind.
The festival will feature seven films ranging from comedies to dramas and children’s movies, all of which depict an interesting view on life in Germany and its culture.
The screenings will take place on three weekends at 4pm from March 15-30, plus an opening tomorrow at 7pm. The venue is the Esplanade Cineplex, 5th floor of the Esplanade shopping centre, Ratchadaphisek Road.
The line-up includes:
- Der Ganz Große Traum (Lessons Of A Dream On Tomorrow)
Directed by Sebastian Grobler, the drama tells the story of the beginnings of football in Germany, and of a school class that develops into a real team when they are infected with their new teacher’s football fever. Based on a true story of the teacher and football pioneer Konrad Koch.
- Westwind (Saturday)
Directed by Robert Thalheim, the melodrama tells of the relationship between the inseparable siblings being severely tested when one of the girls falls in love with a guy.
- 9 short films (Sunday)
These 9 short films are the works of young German filmmakers and unmistakable evidence of a new wave of German cinema. They were created between 1989 and 2002 with the support of German film schools.
- Barbara (March 22)
Directed by Christian Petzold, the drama revolves about a doctor working in 1980s East Germany who finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
- Die Unsichtbare (Cracks In The Shell on March 23)
Directed by Christian Schwochow, the drama tells about a distraught drama student who is willing to change her identity for a big role and thus sacrifice her own personality.
- Hotel Lux (March 29)
Directed by Leander Haussmann, the tragic comedy recounts the story of an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, who flees with a Russian passport from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the “lost paradise” of the Comintern, in Moscow.
- Das Doppelte Lottchen (Two Times Lotte on March 30)
Directed by Josef von Baky, the family comedy tells about two nine-year-old girls, one from Vienna and the other from Munich, who have never seen each other before, but soon find out they are identical twins.
All films are in German with English subtitles. There is no admission fee but reservations are required by emailing programm@bangkok.goethe.org or calling 02-287-0942–4 ext 80–82 (between 10am and 5pm on weekdays).
Barbara.
