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German Film Festival in Canberra offers dynamic creative momentum.
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Curators were spoiled for choice when they decided what to showcase at the German Film Festival this year, they are still well over 200 films, about 75 percent of feature films are produced every year in Germany , although few of these lands on Australian screens.
Every few years, we expect something wonderful to happen veteran filmmakers Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog But what is behind the creative impulses in the revolutionary films as the superb political dramas Downfall and The Lives of Others the pleasers crowd goodbye Lenin and run Lola run or recent multicultural features such as Head-On and soul Kitchen.
GFF organizers, including Dr. Arpad Solter, director of the Goethe Institute, Australia hopes the festival reflects the dynamic cultural diversity Germany and multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and creativity All who have visited Berlin, Munich or Hamburg end knows exactly what that means.
A scene from Fatih Akin tale game Cut against the genocide of Armenians in Turkey during World War I.
A key factor of the new directions in the German film in recent years has been to filmmakers from immigrant.
Their path in modern Germany, trying to find a future for themselves the guest worker, trampled if you like, have emerged as people who are really now a part of society with something to say Now, they developed the confidence to examine the past in an interesting way, says Richard Kuipers, a curatorial advisor to the festival for the past decade.
Beloved sisters talking about a menage-a-philosopher three dramatist Friedrich Schiller and two sisters, he is married to.
The work of writer-director Fatih Akin is a convincing example of this dynamic trend with its powerful psychodrama Head-On the tribute that likes to have fun in the kitchen Hamburg in Soul Kitchen and longing for the homeland in the sky aboard his latest feature, the crimped against the genocide of Armenians in Turkey during the First World war, is a slow and considered saga is a new direction for Akin he stars Tahar Rahim Prophet Samba and is in English.
Akin himself is interviewed in the documentary From Caligari to Hitler This title will resonate with filmmakers who have met the famous book of the same name by writer and theorist of the film Siegfried Kracauer It promises to be a compelling excursion into the sociocultural climate in Germany that produced the Weimar Republic of 1918-1933.
Way of the Cross tells the story of a 14 years of dedication to the photo religion provided.
For my money the Best title this year at GFF Suck me Shakespeer written and directed by a different filmmaker of Turkish background, Bora Dagtekin The comedy revolves around an ex-con trying to impersonate a teacher before a unruly mob, just so he could get a booty buried in the school gym, you can forget what they sometimes say of the German comedy, Kuipers says this is very funny.
Checking the program for the German Film Festival this month, the eagle eyes may notice that a large percentage of films have a single writer-director credit.
A special guest of the festival, popular young actor Florian Stetter, who I interviewed over Skype Berlin consider this distinctive feature of contemporary German cinema In Germany, the film industry is not like England or France is based more on directors write their own scripts, the search for new forms of radical expression, trying to find their own distinctive styles.
Stetter had starring roles in three films due to screen at the festival, the Stations of the Cross Nanga Parbat 2009 and beloved sisters latter due to open the festival in Sydney and Melbourne beloved sisters a __gVirt_NP_NN_NNPS<__ morceau scénariste-réalisateur bien sûr, explore un menage -a-trois au 18ème siècle impliquant philosophe dramaturge Friedrich Schiller Stetter et deux belles sœurs, sa femme Même si les temps étaient relativement éclairés, le triangle amoureux aurait été un scandale si elle était de notoriété publique.
Je n ai pas vu le film encore, mais mentionner Stetter que je l'ai remarqué décrit comme un drame de costume exceptionnellement intello par l'un des critiques de variétés Eh bien, l'amour entre eux était très intéressant Il était non seulement érotique, il était aussi intellectuel Il sonne comme la réputation de Schiller est sûr.
Film d'ouverture de nuit à d'autres endroits du festival Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Byron Bay et Hobart sera le thriller cyber Qui Ne suis-je système est sûr dirigé par bo Baran-né suisse Odar En mettant en avant un jeune homme socialement inepte qui entre dans la politique subversive monde des pirates informatiques, il promet d'être lisse, rythme rapide et nerveux.
Stations of the Cross on a girl in Germany today whose only desire is to devote his life to religion, will be a major film festival There are only 14 shots throughout the camera moves three times in this study flawless fanatical religious devotion He won the silver Bear for best script at the Berlin film Festival.
Stetter has a vital role as a young priest called 14, and other young and impressionable students to become warriors for Jesus While he is charismatic and endearing, it calls for a ruthless intolerance in life, a paradox that seems to present no obstacle to the recruitment of young religious radicals everywhere.
Expect to discover powerful contrasts in mood to party and a feeling for the creative energies and contradictions of soaring nowadays.
The 14th German Film Festival screens Audi in Canberra from 20 to 26 May the electric Palace Theater, New Acton.
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