GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017

AUCKLAND / 5–10 SEPT WELLINGTON / 13–16 SEPT CHRISTCHURCH / 23–24 SEPT DUNEDIN / 30 SEPT–1 OCT NEW PLYMOUTH / 3–8 OCT

Sprache. Kultur. Deutschland. WILLKOMMEN ZUM DEUTSCHEN FILMFESTIVAL 2017

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you, Discover and enjoy some of the most thrilling once again, to this nationwide German Film recent films from Germany, Switzerland and Festival. For the ninth time, it will provide Austria with us! a growing audience with the opportunity to enjoy the highlights of German cinematic art. The German Film Festival is back in New Zealand in 2017 for the ninth time. It will run Among these films is Tschick (Goodbye Berlin), in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin which tells the story of two teenage outsiders and New Plymouth. who discover the eccentricities of eastern Germany during their summer holidays. It is Films such as the fast-paced road movie a road movie at heart, a genre well known to Goodbye Berlin introduce some new, lighter Kiwis since Goodbye Pork Pie. accents in German cinema as does the Swiss comedy Big & Little. The familiar rich, multi- I am confident that this festival will nurture layered texture is still there, however, in the the understanding between Germany and New story about an ailing former East German Zealand, who already share a close relationship boxing champion A Heavy Heart or in the in a multitude of different fields – including the biographical film Stefan Zweig: Farewell to co-production of films. It is my hope that many Europe about the Austrian writer on whose visitors will enjoy the German Film Festival work the film The Grand Budapest Hotel and will become enthusiasts for all that was based. German cinema has to offer. The generosity of our sponsors and partners has enabled us to make the festival happen and we would like to thank them all for their Gerhard Thiedemann ongoing support. Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Admission is free – just turn up in good time at the venue to secure your seats. Tickets will be available from the box office before the start of each screening. Please refer to the Venues & Tickets pages for further details. We look WE ARE PROUD TO SPONSOR THE forward to seeing you at a range of films. Do take this opportunity to talk to us and other 2017 GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL. cinema goers.

Christian Kahnt VTNZ is powered by DEKRA, the world leaders in Director Goethe-Institut New Zealand safety. With over 80 branches nationwide, we can help keep you road ready. Visit vtnz.co.nz A HEAVY HEART BIG & LITTLE (HERBERT) (DER GROSSE SOMMER) GERMANY 2015 (DRAMA) SWITZERLAND 2016 (FAMILY)

Awards (selection): Music: Festivals (selection): With: German Film Award 2016 Bert Wrede Schaffhausen 2016, Mathias Gnädinger, (Best Feature - Silver, With: Solothurn 2016 Loic Sho Güntensperger, Best Actor, Best Makeup) Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Director: Mitsuko Baisho, Festivals (selection): Lena Lauzemis, Stefan Jäger Tomio Suga, Toronto 2015, Edin Hasanovic, Screenplay: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, Palm Springs 2016, Reiner Schöne, Theo Plakoudakis, Sonja Riesen, Cairo 2016 Udo Kroschwald Marco Salituro Monica Gubser Director: Production: Cinematography: Producers: Thomas Stuber Undine Filter, Knut Schmitz Katrin Renz, Screenplay: Thomas Král, Editor: Stefan Jäger Thomas Stuber, Anatol Nitschke Robin Wenger Duration: Clemens Meyer, based Duration: Music: 98 mins on an idea from 109 mins Angelo Berardi Language: Paul Salisbury Language: Swiss-German with Cinematography: German with English English subtitles Peter Matjasko subtitles Rating: At some point, Herbert Stamm’s life went off Editor: Rating: Toni Sommer (68) used to be the most M - offensive language & the rails. For a long time now, this gigantic Philipp Thomas tbc popular and successful “Schwinger” of his sexual references man, formerly a successful boxer known as time in Switzerland’s traditional wrestling “The Pride of Leipzig”, has been earning his sport, but since the fatal accident of his keep as a bouncer and an uncompromising opponent and best friend, he’s been living Screened in partnership with debt collector. His upper body is covered anonymously and lonely in a suburb of Bern. with tattoos, the largest one a reference to “…an impressively muscular His energy and his zest for life have left him, the GDR’s once notorious Torgau Prison. performance by Kurth, who and the only friend he has is the grave of his On the side, Herbert is preparing talented, convincingly maps all the former opponent. Hiro, a 10-year-old boy, up and coming boxer Eddy for his first psychological stages of his decline disturbs Sommer’s reclusiveness. He lives title fight. from raging bully to wounded, soulful, with his grandma one floor above Sommer’s remorseful ruin.” flat. Hiro wants only one thing - to become a Herbert’s daughter Sandra hasn’t seen him – Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter great sumotori, a sumo wrestler. for years, and, like a cautious boxer, he SCREENING TIMES keeps his girlfriend Marlene at arm’s length When his grandma dies unexpectedly, Hiro too. Together with his friend, tattoo artist pleads the grumpy Sommer to take him to a Auckland “Specht”, he dreams of a big motorcycle trip sumo stall in his home country, Japan. Sunday, 10 September, 3:30pm along America’s legendary “Route 66”. But And so a journey starts from Bern signs of a serious illness are becoming more to Tokyo and across Japan. The film tells - Wellington severe, until Herbert can no longer ignore SCREENING TIMES in a humorous and touching way - the Saturday, 16 September, 2:15pm them. He receives a devastating diagnosis: story of a struggle between two vastly he’s suffering from ALS, an incurable Auckland different characters and how they develop Christchurch disorder of the motor nervous system that is Thursday, 7 September, 8:30pm a deep friendship. Sunday, 24 September, 12pm advancing relentlessly. Herbert tries to put the ruins of his life in order. Wellington Dunedin Thursday, 14 September, 4:30pm Sunday, 1 October, 12pm

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M Director: Producers: Y David Bernet Arek Gielnik, Concept: Dietmar Ratsch, CM David Bernet Sonia Otto Cinematography: Duration: MY Marcus Winterbauer, 100 mins Dieter Stürmer, Language CY François Roland, German, English Ines Thomsen (with English subtitles) CMY Editor: Rating: Catrin Vogt exempt K Music: Von Spar With: Jan Philipp Albrecht, Viviane Reding, Daniel Cohn-Bendit In January 2012, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding set an ambitious goal. By reforming the EU Data Protection Act, she “…Bernet’s film is a triumph. It wants to strengthen data protection in rewards contemplative viewing Europe. Large companies would then be and is a visual delight, with a lovely prevented from using personal data for play between the inner and outside promotional purposes and transmitting it worlds of the EU institutions, in to third parties. In addition, US companies a style reminiscent of Terrence would be subject to EU law. Malick. Hopefully, too, it draws Director David Bernet accompanies the a wider audience to the critical conservative EU Commissioner Viviane importance of data protection and Reding and the young, ambitious Green MEP the conflicts that surround it.” Jan Philipp Albrecht during their struggle to – Julia Powles, The Guardian introduce the European Data Protection Law. Lobbyists, commercial lawyers and activists appear on the scene and try to influence the course of action in this battle of David and Goliath proportions where civil rights are pitted against global economic interests. SCREENING TIMES Auckland Thursday, 7 September, 6:15pm

Wellington Wednesday, 13 September, 4:30pm

New Plymouth Text: Goethe-Institut Thursday, 5 October, 4pm Image © Indi-Film / David Bernet GOODBYE BERLIN LOMMBOCK (TSCHICK) GERMANY 2016 (COMEDY, ROAD MOVIE) GERMANY 2017 (COMEDY)

Awards (selection): Music: Director: Producers: EFA Youth Audience Vince Pope Christian Zübert Tom Spiess, Ulf Israel, Award 2017 With: Screenplay: Sönke Wortmann Festivals (selection): Tristan Göbel, Christian Zübert Duration: Zagreb 2016, Macao 2016, Anand Batbileg, Cinematography: 106 mins Mumbai 2016, Nicole Mercedes Müller, Philip Peschlow Language: Dublin 2017, Anja Schneider, Editor: German with Kino Pavasaris Vilnius 2017, Uwe Bohm Andrea Mertens English subtitles Edinburgh 2017, Producer: With: Rating: Shanghai 2017 Marco Mehlitz Moritz Bleibtreu, R16 - drug use, sex scenes Director: Duration: Lucas Gregorowicz, & offensive language Fatih Akin 93 mins Alexandra Neldel, Screenplay: Languages: Melanie Winiger, Lars Hubrich, based German with Mavie Hörbiger, on the novel by English subtitles Wotan Wilke Möhring Wolfgang Herrndorf Rating: Cinematography: M – violence and While his mother is in rehab and his father Rainer Klausmann offensive language In this sequel to the 2001 comedy Lammbock is on a ‘business trip’ with his assistant, the Editor: - Shit Happens, former pizza and drug Andrew Bird 14-year-old outsider Maik Klingenberg is delivery boy Kai has changed his line of spending the summer holidays alone by the business and is now running a delivery “Lommbock is a fast paced, pool at his parents' villa. But then Tschick service for Asian food called “Lommbock”. fresh and charming production. appears. Tschick, whose real name is Andrej For a couple of years now, his friend and A follow on from the earlier Tschichatschow, originally comes from former partner in crime, Stefan, has been Lammbock, this new version, deepest Russia, but now lives in a high-rise pursuing a successful career in Dubai, where will be appreciated by everyone in Berlin-Marzahn. He arrives at the villa drugs are obviously strictly off-limits. who sees it – not just the fans of with a stolen Lada. So begins a journey, Now he wants to get married and has to the original.” without a map or a compass, through return to Germany to do some paperwork. – Bettina Peulecke, NDR summery, provincial eastern Germany. Yet, what Stefan had intended as a short trip This is the story of a summer that we would SCREENING TIMES to his home town soon turns into an eventful all like to experience once... the best summer Auckland revival of old habits, thanks to Kai. of all! Sunday, 10 September, 6:15pm

“Goodbye Berlin is a lovely Wellington example of when everything Friday, 15 September, 7pm just fits when making a film. It SCREENING TIMES has source material that has an Christchurch excellent grasp on that strange Saturday, 23 September, 12pm Auckland time in your life when you’re Friday, 8 September, 8:30pm getting to know the way of the Dunedin world, a director that knows how Saturday, 30 September, 12pm Wellington to make a comedy, and a charming Thursday, 14 September, 7pm group of young actors.” New Plymouth – Simon Storey, Film Blerg Tuesday, 3 October, 6:30pm New Plymouth Friday, 6 October, 4pm Text: Filmportal Thursday, 5 October, 6:30pm Text and Image: Studiocanal Image © Wildbunch NEO RAUCH – COMRADES AND COMPANIONS (NEO RAUCH – GEFÄHRTEN UND BEGLEITER) GERMANY 2016 (DOCUMENTARY)

Festivals (selection): Producers: DOK Leipzig 2016 Susanne Brand, Director: Nicola Graef Nicola Graef Duration: Concept: 101 mins Nicola Graef Language: TIRED OF READING SUBTITLES? Cinematography: German with Felix Greif, Alexander Rott English subtitles Learn German at your local school or with us. Editor: Rating: Kai Minierski exempt Music: George Kochbeck, Lukas Kochbeck With: Neo Rauch, Rosa Loy [email protected] Neo Rauch has a worldwide reputation as one 04 385 6924 of the most successful German painters of his www.goethe.de/nz generation. His paintings fascinate with their “…Graef’s documentary takes enigmatic realism; characters seem to have the viewer behind the scenes, fallen out of time and appear in a sleepwalk- into Rauch’s studio, and it offers like state. What the painter is presenting shifts privileged insight into the artist’s between dream, fantasy and elusive reality, manner of thinking and seeing the comprehensible and unconventional at the world around him.” same time. The pictorial narrative is never – Henri Neuendorf, artnet news explicit or clear – but nevertheless it leaves the beholder spellbound. The film focuses on Neo Rauch himself. For the first time in years he talks in front SCREENING TIMES of the camera about his approach to art, his universe of images and his personal past, Auckland which was deeply affected by the early loss Friday, 8 September, 6:15pm of his parents. Director Nicola Graef shows the artist at work in his studio, observes critical Wellington dialogues with his artist wife Rosa Loy and Friday, 15 September, 4:30pm discusses with international collectors, gallery owners and art lovers the phenomenon that is Christchurch Neo Rauch. Sunday, 24 September, 2:30pm

Dunedin Sunday, 1 October, 2:30pm Simply Fire. Simply Spartherm. New Plymouth Evoke the elegant simplicity of German design with Spartherm wood res, Text: Weltkino Filmverleih GmbH Saturday, 7 October, 4pm Image © Uwe Walter now available in New Zealand. www.sparthermfires.co.nz PAULA STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE (VOR DER MORGENRÖTE) GERMANY/FRANCE 2016 (FEATURE) AUSTRIA/GERMANY 2016 (DRAMA)

Awards (selection): Music: Awards (selection): With: German Film Award 2017 Jean Rondeau Bavarian Film Award 2016 Josef Hader, (Best Production Design, With: (Best Director) Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Best Costume Design) Carla Juri, Festivals (selection): Schwarz, Charly Hübner, Festivals (selection): Albrecht Abraham Schuch, Locarno 2016 (Piazza Matthias Brandt Locarno 2016 (Piazza Roxane Duran, Grande), Tallinn Black Production: Grande), São Paulo 2016, Joel Basman, Nights 2016, Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, Arras 2016, Goa 2016, Stanley Weber Bengaluru 2017, Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Beijing 2017, Producers: Istanbul 2017 Danny Krausz, Kurt Shanghai 2017 Claudia Steffen, Director: Stocker, Denis Poncet Director: Ingelore König, Maria Schrader Duration: Christian Schwochow Christoph Friedel Screenplay: 106 mins Screenplay: Duration: Maria Schrader, Languages: Stefan Kolditz, 123 mins Jan Schomburg German, English, French, Stephan Suschke Language: Cinematography: Portuguese, Spanish Cinematography: German, French Wolfgang Thaler (with English subtitles) Frank Lamm (with English subtitles) Editor: Rating: Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a Editor: Rating: Austrian author Stefan Zweig was a Hansjörg Weißbrich PG – adult themes woman in provincial Germany in the year Jens Klüber M – nudity and sex scenes cosmopolitan, a pacifist and a bonafide Music: Tobias Wagner 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is literary star. A contemporary of Freud, Dali determined to make her own rules. and Theodore Herzl, he was, for a time, the The exuberant 24-year-old woman rejects most-translated writer in Europe. “One need not admire Zweig’s the conventional and explores her unique Foreseeing Europe’s decline at an early writing to recognize the worth of style. She flourishes in the countryside stage, Zweig left his native country in 1934, this thoughtful treatment of one art community of Worpswede, where she “Pioneering female painter Paula never to return from exile. Distracted and of the countless real-life tragedies develops friendships with artist Clara Modersohn-Becker is portrayed emotionally and financially depleted by his of 20th-century history.” Westhoff and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. in loving, colorful strokes in this wanderings, Zweig and his second young – Glenn Kenny, NY Times By marrying painter Otto Modersohn, she engaging German biopic.” wife, Lotte, moved between Rio de Janeiro, hopes to find a creative soulmate. He allows – Guy Lodge, Variety Buenos Aires, New York, and Petrópolis; all her to continue painting while assuming the while trying to make sense of the world SCREENING TIMES her duties as a good wife. But five years of and his own personal existence. domesticity take their toll on Paula’s spirit, From German director Maria Schrader, this Auckland and she travels alone to modern Paris, where timely drama powerfully recounts Zweig’s Wednesday, 6 September, 6:15pm she studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and final years in exile. soon begins a romantic affair. Headstrong Wellington Paula is unstoppable; she embarks on a SCREENING TIMES Wednesday, 13 September, 7pm period that will become her most compelling, a long-awaited time of creative fulfilment Auckland Screened in partnership with Christchurch and self-realisation. Saturday, 9 September, 8:30pm Saturday, 23 September, 2:30pm

Wellington Dunedin Saturday, 16 September, 7pm Saturday, 30 September, 2:30pm

New Plymouth New Plymouth Text: The Match Factory Sunday, 8 October, 6:30pm Wednesday, 4 October, 6:30pm Image © Pandora Film / Martin Menke Text and Image: JIFF - Jewish International Film Festival THE LAST PIG (DIE LETZTE SAU) GERMANY 2016 (COMEDY, ROAD MOVIE)

Festivals (selection): With: Munich 2016, Berlin 2017 Golo Euler, Giesen Wines Director: Rosalie Thomass, Aron Lehmann Thorsten Merten, Screenplay: Heinz-Josef Braun, are proud to Carlos V. Irmscher, Christoph Maria Herbst, Aron Lehmann Eva Bay, Daniel Zillmann Cinematography: Producer: support the Cristian Pirjol Miriam Klein Music: Duration: Boris Bojadzhiev 86 mins German Film Language: German with English subtitles Rating: Festival R13 - violence, offensive language & content that Pig farmer Huber has found himself in a bad may disturb patch. His farm is bankrupt. Small farmers cannot compete with factory farming any longer. So when a meteorite suddenly falls “A small time pig farmer leads from heaven and reduces his farm to ashes, a rebellion against bigger farms Huber has nothing left – except for one in the delightful new German last pig. comedy Die Letzte Sau from Together with his pig, Huber leaves the ruin director Aron Lehmann, which which was once his farm. He starts a new was soundtracked by Tracks life, as a nomad, a vagabond, a savage – a & Fields with the music of Ton life which he really rather enjoys. He is now Steine Scherben.” a rebel with a new cause, and on his journey – Bryonie, Tracks & Fields he attracts people who’ve met a similar fate. Their stories inspire Huber to rise up against NOT JUST YOUR the opposition, and he quickly becomes a symbol for freedom and civil disturbance. REGULAR PRINT But really, Huber just does what he thinks is best. Because there must be something SCREENING TIMES COMPANY wrong in a world where a fit, hard-working and honest man isn’t capable of fending for Auckland himself. His message: THIS HAS TO STOP! Tuesday, 5 September, 8:30pm It’s not only ink on paper... it’s reliability, it’s experience, And he’s right. Saturday, 9 September, 6:15pm it’s the whole package. Wellington Sue Footitt You can be sure that Format Print has got you covered. Account Manager Saturday, 16 September, 4:30pm No job is too big, no colour is too bright. DDI: 04 568 1482 Mob: 021 514 297 New Plymouth We’re committed to providing the best print, on every job, Text: Berlin International Film Festival Saturday, 7 October, 6:30pm 81 The Esplanade, Image © drei-freunde Filmverleih 2016 every time… and we’re proud of it. Petone, Wellington THE LEGEND OF TIMM THALER OR GERMAN CINEMA TODAY THE BOY WHO SOLD HIS LAUGHTER “I made the film exactly as I wanted to – internationally at the moment, breaks (TIMM THALER ODER DAS VERKAUFTE LACHEN) and there was no-one there to stop me”, with the familiar pattern of films about GERMANY 2016 (FAMILY) Nicolette Krebitz said recently in a speech the Nazi era. The work may be set in on accepting a prize for Wild. This (very) Germany in the years immediately after Awards (selection): Music: independent film maker and her stunning the war, but this is essentially a film noir Goldener Spatz 2017 Johannes Repka (Best Actor) With: film highlight a shift taking place in German about lust and longing, bathed in a light Director: Arved Friese, cinema at the moment – towards wilder that is far from realistic. Andreas Dresen Justus von Dohnányi, films, rougher around the edges, with more Screenplay: Axel Prahl, art and less compromise. Many young film-makers are using Alexander Adolph, Andreas Schmidt, based on the novel by Charly Hübner, Nadja Uhl, improvisation techniques and taking a James Krüss Fritzi Haberlandt Latterly this trend has been largely driven feverishly direct approach. Axel Ranisch Cinematography: Producer: by the work of female film directors: (Heavy Girls, Alki Alki) and Jakob Lass Michael Hammon Oliver Berben Editor: Duration: Fukushima Mon Amour screened in last are among the leading figures here. Lass Jörg Hauschild 102 mins year’s German Film Festival, and Maria made big waves with Love Steaks (German Languages: Schrader’s Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe Film Festival 2014), and now Tiger Girl German with and of course Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann are has premiered to huge acclaim at the English subtitles Rating: continuing along the same lines. This defies Berlinale. Like Wild, Tiger Girl is a rough, Timm Thaler is poor, but he laughs a lot, PG – coarse language & the maths of the situation, since women energetic work, which also asks how far and often. His laughter is so charming and some scenes may scare still account for only 15 percent of the films we let ourselves become prisoners of very young children contagious that the diabolical Baron Lefuet produced in Germany. But sorry, guys, your contemporary society. We also saw a brand wants, at all costs, to have it for himself. And female colleagues have made far more than new take on this issue in Axolotol Overkill so the world’s richest man makes the boy a their fair share of the best films this year. and Finsterworld (screened in the German dubious offer: if Timm agrees to sell him his “… this version of "Timm Thaler" Film Festival 2014). laugh, he’ll win every bet he ever makes in is a completely independent If Wild is the year’s most boisterous and the future. production. And that’s what exuberant film, perhaps Toni Erdmann is its Films made about current political themes makes the new “Timm Thaler” better-behaved twin. This Oscar-nominated often carry a very distinctive artistic After hesitating at first, Timm signs the comedy about a complicated father-daughter signature. With Babai and Marija in the contract. But though he can now seemingly one of the most beautiful and important German children’s relationship explores issues of dignity, love social drama genre, and Volt in sci fi, the fulfil his every wish, without his laugh he and family in the capitalist era. We all know European migration crisis has already is a different person. Of all Timm’s friends, films in a long time.” – Oliver Kaever, Der Spiegel the refrain – we live in a complex world, the found its way into German cinema. only Ida and the hotel bar keeper Kreschimir generations don’t understand each other any continue to stick with him. Together they more, the break points are there for all to We should not attempt to reduce this hope to rescue Timm from the clutches of the see. But relax - just put a wry grin on your diversity to a single label or common baron and, through a clever trick, win back face, insert your dentures, and settle back denominator, given that a total of 270 his inimitable laugh. for a treat. This 160-minute comedy from cinema films were produced in Germany Germany has got the whole world laughing, in 2016. Most of today’s film makers do SCREENING TIMES because it is actually about all of us. not have the luxury of big budgets, but this merely spurs them on to radical new Auckland (School Screening) German cinema is getting more diverse and imaginings. Creativity is off the leash, and Wednesday, 6 September, 12:30pm surprising. Comedy with depth is possible running wild! after all, and improvisation is in vogue. Wellington (School Screening) More thrillers are being made than before, By Christoph Gröner Thursday, 14 September, 12:30pm casting aside the constraints of social realism Programmer New German Cinema, Please note: There will only be a few tickets available and the historical film seen in recent years. Munich Film Festival to the public for designated school screenings. New Plymouth For example, Phoenix by Christian Petzold, Text: Beta Cinema Wednesday, 4 October, 4pm probably the German director best known Image © 2016 Constantin Film Verleih / Gordon Mühle SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND WELLINGTON CHRISTCHURCH NEW PLYMOUTH ACADEMY CINEMAS / 5–10 SEPT NGĀ TAONGA SOUND & VISION / 13–16 SEPT CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY / 23–24 SEPT GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY / LEN LYE CENTRE / 3–8 OCT TUESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER WEDNEDAY 13 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER

8:30pm The Last Pig 4:30pm Democracy 12:00pm Goodbye Berlin 6:30 PM Goodbye Berlin 7:00pm Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe 2:30pm Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

WEDNESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER THURSDAY 14 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 12:30pm The Legend of Timm Thaler or 4:00pm The Legend of Timm Thaler or the Boy the Boy who sold his Laughter 12:30pm The Legend of Timm Thaler or 12:00pm Big & Little who sold his Laughter 6:15pm Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe the Boy who sold his Laughter 2:30pm Neo Rauch - Comrades and Companions 6:30pm Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe 4:30pm A Heavy Heart 7:00pm Lommbock THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 6.15pm Democracy FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER DUNEDIN 4:00pm Democracy 8.30pm A Heavy Heart DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY / 30 SEPT – 1 OCT 6:30pm Lommbock 4:30pm Neo Rauch - Comrades and Companions 7:00pm Goodbye Berlin FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER

6.15pm Neo Rauch - Comrades and Companions SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 12:00pm Goodbye Berlin 4:00pm Goodbye Berlin 8:30pm Lommbock 2:30pm Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe 6:30pm A Heavy Heart 2:15pm Big & Little 4:30pm The Last Pig SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 7:00pm Paula SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER

6.15pm The Last Pig 12:00pm Big & Little 4:00pm Neo Rauch - Comrades and Companions 8:30pm Paula 2:30pm Neo Rauch - Comrades and Companions 6:30pm The Last Pig

SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER

3:30pm Big & Little 4:00pm Big & Little 6:15pm Goodbye Berlin 6:30pm Paula

“The German Film Festival includes the entire range of German film – comedy, drama, documentaries, family movies, and much more.” – Christian Kahnt, Director Goethe-Institut New Zealand VENUES AND TICKETS

AUCKLAND (FESTIVAL DATES: 5-10 SEPTEMBER 2017) DUNEDIN (FESTIVAL DATES: 30 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER 2017) Academy Cinemas Dunedin Public Art Gallery Central Library Building 30 The Octagon 44 Lorne Street Dunedin Auckland City Phone: 03 4743240 Phone: 09 3732761 Website: dunedin.art.museum Website: academycinemas.co.nz Festival entry is free and seats will be allocated on a first come – first Festival entry is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for served basis. screenings on that day only. First come – first served. NEW PLYMOUTH (FESTIVAL DATES: 3-8 OCTOBER 2017) WELLINGTON (FESTIVAL DATES: 13-16 SEPTEMBER 2017) Len Lye Centre / Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 42 Queen Street Te Anakura Whitiāhua New Plymouth 84 Taranaki Street Phone: 06 7596060 Wellington Website: govettbrewster.com Phone: 04 3847647 Website: ngataonga.org.nz Festival entry is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come – first served. Festival entry is free and tickets can be picked up from the venue in person (2 tickets max) only, 1 hour prior to each screening. First come – first served, no reservations by phone or email. A waiting list will operate half an hour prior to the screening. Please take your seat 10 mins before the film starts as empty seats will be allocated to people on the waiting list.

CHRISTCHURCH (FESTIVAL DATES: 23-24 SEPTEMBER 2017) PLEASE NOTE: Christchurch Art Gallery Festival tickets are free and will be allocated on a first come – first served basis. Koha is kindly 49 Worcester Blvd accepted. Christchurch All cinemas are wheelchair accessible, however seating is limited so please contact the cinema to Phone: 03 9417382 arrange bookings for these seats. Website: christchurchartgallery.org.nz ID will be required for all restricted films. Please contact us for school screenings of The Legend of Timm Thaler or the Boy who sold his Festival entry is free and seats will be allocated on a first come – first Laughter in Auckland and Wellington as they need to be pre-booked one week in advance: served basis. [email protected], Phone: 04 3856924 Please note: There will only be a few tickets available to the public for designated school screenings. IMPRINT Goethe-Institut New Zealand 150 Cuba Street PO Box 9253 Wellington 6141, New Zealand Phone: +64 4 3856924 Email: [email protected] Website: www.goethe.de/nz

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Cover Images: The Legend of Timm Thaler or the Boy who sold his Laughter © 2016 Constantin Film Verleih / Gordon Mühle; Goodbye Berlin © Studiocanal; Paula © Pandora Film / Martin Menke; Lommbock © Wildbunch

Schedule Images: Big & Little © Tellfilm; Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe © JIFF – Jewish International Film Festival; Lommbock © Wildbunch; The Last Pig © drei-freunde Filmverleih 2016

Special Thanks to: Alastair Ross, Alex Giesen, Alison Franks, Alissa Rogg, Amanda White, Amy Hayes, Andreas Baumann, Andreas Mittrenga, Angela Flynn, Ann-Christina Barsch, Anton Musin, Bernhard Zimburg, Bettina Senff, Bill Gosden, Carina Pieper, Chris Hormann, Christoph Heller, Conny Goldacker, Cosima Finkbeiner, Darcy Woods, David Vogelsanger, Diane Pivac, Edel Everling, Elizabeth Ireland, Eva Lautenschlager, Friederike Laun, Gerhard Thiedemann, Goran Vulinovic, Gunther Bittmann, Haleigh Trower, Jenny Harper, Julie Nielsen, Kai Schubert, Kate Lepper, Kelda Hunter, Lana Coles, Larissa Weishäupl, Lisa Berndt, Lynda Cullen, Markus Dahl, Meike Savarin, Melissa Cheals, Mike Walsh, Miriam Klein, Mirjam-Isabel Herzog, Nicola Denney, Nicole Hiller, Noni Lickleder, Oscar Halberg, Paul Brobbel, Polly Case, Rachael Foley, Robert Distelrath, Sergi Steegmann, Sharon Walling, Simon Rees, Sonia McEwen, Stefan Jäger, Stefanie Gutsmann, Sue Footitt, Sylviane Bridewell, Tamar Simons, Tamara Winkler, Theo Giesen, Vanessa Paton, Warwick Foley, William Connor, Wolfgang Rainer Husgen

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