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Friday, 11/06, 7 & 9:30 pm & Saturday 11/07, 10 pm SCHEDULE TICKETS | INFORMATION OPENING Who Am I: No System is Safe NIGHT DATE TIME TITLE Who Am I-Kein System ist sicher TICKETS: $11.50, $9.50 for Students & Friends of the Goethe-Institut, F, 11/06 7 & 9:30 pm OPENING Who Am I: No System is Safe $8.50 for Seniors Who Am I-Kein System ist sicher (105 min.) TICKETS for Wacken, screening at the Goethe-Institut, can be purchased at Sa, 11/07 1 pm The Misplaced World Abhandene Welt (100 min.) the Goethe-Institut box office or online at www.boxofficetickets.com/goethe. Sa, 11/07 2:30 pm Wacken 3D Movie (96 min.) Please note: this film will be screened at the Goethe-Institut TICKETS FOR SCREENINGS AT E STREET CINEMA CAN BE PURCHASED at the theatre box office or online at tickets.landmarktheatres.com. Sa, 11/07 3 pm Ma Folie (100 min.) Sa, 11/07 5 pm The King’s Surrender Wir waren Könige (104 min.) Baran Bo Odar © w-b-filmtv OPENING NIGHT 7 pm Screening followed by a party with DJ at Bavarian Film (140 min.) Goethe-Institut: $26.50 Sa, 11/07 7 pm Victoria Germany, 2014, color, Prize 2014 Sa, 11/07 10 pm Who Am I: No System is Safe 105 min., German with CLOSING NIGHT 6:30 pm Screening and Party: $16.50 © Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH Who Am I-Kein System ist sicher (105 min.) English subtitles Featuring complimentary beer from Gordon Biersch, German wine, and Su, 11/08 12 pm The King’s Surrender Wir waren Könige (104 min.) food provided by the Embassy of Switzerland, Old Europe Restaurant, Director: Baran bo Odar A garden-variety contemporary nerd, Benjamin Cafe Mozart, Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe, Whole Foods Market, and German Screenplay: Jantje (Tom Schilling) has no friends at school and few Su, 11/08 2 pm From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Gourmet. Friese, Baran bo Odar social skills, but there’s one thing he understands: Age of Masses Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das With: Tom Schilling, computers. Before long, he’s part of an anony- Elyas M’Barek, Wotan Deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen (110 min.) mous hacking collective. Wilke Möhring, Su, 11/08 4:15 pm The Misplaced World Abhandene Welt (100 min.) Antoine Monot Jr., How cutting edge is Who Am I? While inter- Hannah Herzsprung viewing director Baran bo Odar (b. 1978, Olten, Su, 11/08 6:30 pm Dora (90 min.) FESTIVAL VENUES Sales: TrustNordisk, Hvidovre, Denmark Switzerland) recently, Warner Bros. brass Su, 11/08 8:30 pm The Drift Driften (93 min.) Landmark’s E Street Cinema Goethe-Institut screened the film and acquired remake rights M, 11/09 7 pm Ma Folie (100 min.) 555 11th St. NW 812 7th St. NW on the spot. His feature debut, The Silence, Washington, DC 20004 Washington, DC 20001 appeared at Film|Neu 2011. M, 11/09 9 pm From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Discussion with special guest follows the first screening Age of Masses Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das Metro: Metro Center Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown 812 Seventh Street, NW DC 20001 Washington, www.goethe.de/washington Deutsche Kino im Zeitalter der Massen (110 min.) T, 11/10 6:30 & 9:30 pm We Are Young. We Are Strong Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark. (127 min.) CLOSING Thursday, 11/12, 6:30 pm & 9:30 pm © Schönemann W, 11/11 6:30 pm The Drift Driften (93 min.) NIGHT The Whole Shebang Alles inklusive W, 11/11 8:30 pm Dora (90 min.) The Whole Shebang Whole The Th, 11/12 6:30 & 9:30 pm C L O S I N G The Whole Shebang Alles inklusive (124 min.) From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of Masses © Kino Lorber © Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH © Sony Pictures Releasing Doris Dörrie © Mathias Bothor Driften © Langfilm Germany, 2014, color, 124 min., German, Spanish and English Am I-No System is Safe Who with English subtitles © Mathias Bothor film | neu new films from Director /Screenplay: In this warm, humorous film, lovelorn Apple Doris Dörrie, from her (Nadja Uhl), with French pug Dr. Freud in tow, germany | austria | switzerland novel follows her mother (Hannelore Elsner) to the With: Hannelore Spanish beach of her counter-culture childhood. Elsner, Nadja Uhl, Hinnerk Schönemann, november 6 - 12, 2015 The Whole Shebang © Mathias Bothor Axel Prahl Doris Dörrie (b. 1955, Hanover, Germany) studied © Goethe-Institut Not My Day © 2014 Westside Filmproduktion GmbH film in California, New York and Munich. Her Landmark’s E Street Cinema | Goethe-Institut filmography includes the international hitMen… . Film | Neu thanks its generous sponsors Finsterworld (1985), and Cherry Blossoms (2008). www.filmneu.org Discussion with special guest follows the first screening www.filmneu.org www.facebook.com/FilmNeuDC SWISS FILM BERLINALE Saturday, 11/07, 1 pm & Sunday, 11/08, 4:15 pm BAVARIAN Saturday, 11/07, 5 pm & Sunday, 11/08, 12 pm Su. 11/08, 2 pm & M,11/09, 9 pm From Caligari to Sunday, 11/08, 8:30 pm & Wednesday, 11/11, 6:30 pm From the pre-dawn streets of 2015 FILM PRIZE AWARD 2015 Film | Neu 2015 Best Cinematography Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of Masses Best Actress 2015 2015 The Drift Driften Berlin’s Mitte district in Victoria The Misplaced World The King’s Surrender Wir waren Könige Von Caligari zu Hitler: Das Deutsche Kino im to the sun-dappled expanse of Spain’s Torremolinos beach in Die abhandene Welt Zeitalter der Massen The Whole Shebang by way of the sinister digital world of Who Am I—No System is Safe, the 23rd annual edition of Film|Neu is a week-long tour of worlds known and unexplored, as well as a snapshot of the best recent films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This year’s program boasts new work from two of German Philipp Leinemann © Wilfried Witter Rüdiger Suchsland © Kino Lorber Karim Patwa © langfilm cinema’s most respected filmmakers, Margarethe von Trotta Margarethe von Trotta © Wild Bunch Germany, 2014, color (The Misplaced World) and Doris Dörrie (the aforementioned Germany, 2015, color, and black and white, The Whole Shebang). Of the remaining nine films, five are from 100 min., German, Germany, 2014, color, 118 min., English and Switzerland, 2015, color, first-time feature directors; the final four are second or third English and Italian 104 min., German with German with English 93 min., German with © 2015 Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH Jan Betke © Christian Stangassinger © Kino Lorber © langfilm films. This is the decisive sign of healthy film industries. with English subtitles English subtitles subtitles English subtitles This series would not exist without you, the curious and faith- Director/Screenplay: After German lounge singer Sophie (Katja Riemann) Director/Screenplay: In the less desirable sections of an unnamed, Director: Rüdiger The clip’s the thing in this exciting feature-length Director: Karim Patwa Robert (Max Hubacher) is out of prison after Margarethe von Trotta Philipp Leinemann Suchsland Screenplay: Karim ful viewer. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you once loses her mother, father Paul (Matthias Habich) dis- graffiti-strewn metropolis, an efficient, perpetu- documentary adaptation of Siegfried Kracauer’s killing a child during a street race involving an Producer: Markus covers that New York opera singer Caterina (Barbara Producers: Tobias ally underfunded SEK (Sondereinsatzkommando, Screenplay: Rüdiger pioneering and still essential 1947 critical his- Patwa, Michael Pröhl extreme driving technique known as drifting. He again at the Landmark E Street Cinema and the Goethe-Institut. Zimmer Walker, Philipp Worm Suchsland Producers: Olivier Zobrist, develops an intense relationship with Alice, but With: Katja Riemann, Sukowa) could have been her identical twin. With: Ronald Zehrfeld, or SWAT team) is having a run of bad luck in this Producer: Martina tory From Caligari to Hitler. They illustrate the Anne-Catherine Lang sweeping criminal character study. ideas of “Weimar Cinema,” that period of cultur- a revelation will forever change both of their lives. Eddie Cockrell Barbara Sukowa, Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942, Berlin, Germany) Mišel Matičević, Haubrich With: Fatih With: Max Hubacher, Matthias Habich, Mohammed Issa, Akin, Elisabeth Bronfen, al upheaval in Germany between 1918 and 1933. Sabine Timoteo, was inspired to make this film after her own late- In this feature-length directorial debut, Karim Robert Seeliger, Tilman Strauss, Philipp Leinemann (b. 1979, Braunschweig, Thomas Elsaesser, Volker Andrea Zogg, Scherwin Patwa (b. 1968, London, England) largely avoids Eddie Cockrell is a Washington native and freelance film critic for the trade Gunnar Moller in-life discovery of a half-sister. Other recent films Oliver Konietzny Germany) makes his feature-length directorial Schlöndorff, Eric D. Weitz Rüdiger Suchsland (b. 1968, Germany) is a film Amini, Jessy Moravec, a sensationalist treatment of the narrative and paper Variety. Now living in Sydney, he is a consulting film programmer Sales: Wild Bunch, Paris by one of Germany’s most distinguished talents Sales: Walker+Worm debut in this set of stories about the current, Narrators: Rüdiger critic writing for many German radio stations Susanne-Marie Wrage and movie columnist for the national newspaper The Australian. He is co- Film, Munich Suchsland, Sales: Vinca Film, Zurich the sport, resulting in a film of quiet power. and a champion of women’s issues and rights in- fluid state of law enforcement in Germany, and and newspapers. This is his first film as director. curator of the Film|Neu festival, for which he has written these film notes. clude Rosenstrasse (2003) and Hannah Arendt Hans Henrik Wöhler societies around the world.