GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL 2018

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I am delighted to welcome you to this year’s Please join us at this year’s tenth German tenth anniversary of the German Film Festival Film Festival in New Zealand, and together in New Zealand. To celebrate this occasion, it let us discover the newest movies Germany, will be opened where it has all started: in the Switzerland and Austria have to offer. impressive Embassy Theatre in Wellington. Its distinct atmosphere is the perfect venue to As well as the award-winning film 3 DAYS IN start the jubilee performances. The favourable QUIBERON about the famous actress Romy environment of six cinema locations in the North Schneider, we are delighted to present the and South Islands will allow us to discover the documentary THE NIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS, which fascination of recent German films nationwide. depicts lifelong relationships in Germany, India, Japan and the USA, and reveals some of the Film is a particular means of intercultural secrets to lasting love. understanding which has the power, especially in a society with an affinity to cinematic art, to We are delighted to have the German producer bring people closer together. Germany and Peter Rommel in New Zealand for this New Zealand already enjoy a close friendship year’s festival. His two movies AS WE WERE with cooperation in a multitude of fields DREAMING and BERLIN EXCELSIOR are in the including politics, trade, science and culture. festival line-up. Peter Rommel took part in the The latter, with the Goethe-Institut as a New Zealand-German co-production summit in principal mediator, once more provides the 2017 in Auckland, which resulted in a promising basis for interconnecting projects. idea for a wonderful co-production. I am confident that many visitors will enjoy the Enjoy the nationwide screenings in German Film Festival 2018 and can appreciate Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, insight into our culture when we immerse New Plymouth and Nelson. The generosity of ourselves in the world of German cinema. our sponsors and partners has enabled us to make the festival happen, and we would like Gerhard Thiedemann to thank them all for their ongoing support. Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Admission is free – for further details please have a look at the Venues & Tickets pages. We look forward to captivating movies and the opportunity to exchange ideas and opinions with you. Christian Kahnt Director of the Goethe-Institut New Zealand 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON (3 TAGE IN QUIBERON) GERMANY/FRANCE/AUSTRIA 2018 (FEATURE)

Festivals (selection): Music: Berlin 2018, Christoph M. Kaiser, Sydney 2018 Julian Maas Awards (selection): With: German Film Awards 2018 Marie Bäumer, (Best Film, Best Direction, Charly Hübner, Best Actress, Best Birgit Minichmayer, Cinematography) Robert Gwisdek, Director: Denis Lavant Emily Atef Producer: Screenplay: Karsten Stöter Emily Atef, based on the Duration: idea by Denis Poncet, 115 mins inspired by conversations Languages: with Michael Jürgs and German, French Robert Lebeck (with English subtitles) Cinematography: Rating: Robert Lebeck’s photographs of Romy Thomas Kiennast PG - coarse language Schneider are world-famous. They capture Editor: Hansjörg Weissbrich this actress’s contradictory nature, her exuberance, melancholy and pain. Lebeck also took the photographs that were to accompany the legendary interview Romy Schneider granted ‘Stern’ magazine reporter “Marie Bäumer is terrifi c; she brings Michael Jürgs in Quiberon in 1981 – in spite to the role a skittish mercurial quality of her previous negative encounters with which teeters on the edge of panic.” the German press. The actress had retired – Wendy Ide, Screendaily to this Breton spa town to recuperate in the company of her long-time friend Hilde. The interview and black-and-white photos form the basis of this fi lm that captures the special atmosphere of these three days in which Schneider bares her soul – to breaking point. The more the actress exposes herself and allows the person behind the celebrity to come to the fore, the more the group SCREENING TIMES dynamics of the quartet kick in. Wellington Saturday, 1 September, 7:30pm

Auckland Tuesday, 4 September, 6pm

New Plymouth Text: Berlin International Film Festival Sunday, 30 September, 6:30pm Image © Beta Cinema ARTHUR & CLAIRE GERMANY/AUSTRIA/THE NETHERLANDS 2017 (TRAGICOMEDY)

Festivals (selection): With: Lübeck 2017, Josef Hader, German Film Festival Hannah Hoekstra, Australia 2018 Rainer Bock Director: Producers: Miguel Alexandre Gerald Podgornig, Screenplay: Thomas Hroch, Miguel Alexandre, Arnold Heslenfeld, Josef Hader, based on Gudula von Eysmondt the play by Stefan Vögel Duration: Cinematography: 98 mins Katharina Diessner Languages: Editor: German, Dutch Marcel Peragine (with English subtitles) Music: Rating: Dave Alex M - drug use, offensive language & suicide Arthur is terminally-ill and travels to references Amsterdam with the aim of ending his life. But his carefully planned, lavish last trip is constantly being disrupted: on the plane, a child knocks over his glass of bubbly, and on the eve of his scheduled death, he hears loud noises from the hotel room next door. “A sensitive, intelligent and sharp- tongued tragicomedy.” It’s there that he finds Claire, a young Dutch – Manuel Berger, Filmstarts woman bent on committing suicide. After Arthur manages to stop her, she takes him out into the nightlife of Amsterdam, where they each try to change the other’s mind in the last few hours allotted to them.

SCREENING TIMES

Wellington Thursday, 30 August, 7:30pm

Auckland Saturday, 8 September, 8:30pm

New Plymouth Text: German Film Festival Australia Friday, 28 September, 6:30pm Image © ARRI Media AS WE WERE DREAMING (ALS WIR TRÄUMTEN) GERMANY 2015 (DRAMA)

Festivals (selection): With: Berlin 2015 Merlin Rose, Director: Julius Nitschkoff, Andreas Dresen Marcel Heupermann, Screenplay: Joel Basman, Wolfgang Haase Frederic Haselon, Cinematography: Ruby O. Fee Michael Hammon, Producers: Niklas Hoffmann Peter Rommel Editor: Duration: Jörg Hauschild 116 mins Music: Language: Jens Quandt German (with English subtitles) Rating: tbc

The Leipzig suburbs, shortly after the collapse of East Germany. Rico, Daniel, Paul and Mark, until recently still Pioneers in their red neckerchiefs, are growing up in the maelstrom of the newly reunited country, “Andreas Dresen recounts the where yesterday’s rules no longer count. dangerous life of fi ve inseparable The boys turn night into day and make the teens from the East before and streets their adventure playground, running after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A wild and hanging out in the neighbourhood stealing cars, experimenting with drugs and humorous coming-of-age story trying out the new swingers club. against a techno backdrop.” – Bénédicte Prot, Cineuropa They open their own disco which is soon besieged by neo-Nazi skinheads. Everything is in a state of fl ux and decay, everyone is overfl owing with dreams: Rico longs for a boxing career; Daniel yearns to have a grand love affair with Little Star, the most beautiful SCREENING TIMES girl Leipzig has ever known... Wellington Wednesday, 29 August, 7:30pm (Q&A)

Auckland Wednesday, 5 September, 6:15pm (Q&A)

New Plymouth Friday, 28 September, 4pm

Text: Berlin International Film Festival Screenings in Wellington and Auckland will be Image © Peter Hartwig / Rommel Film; Pandora followed by a Q&A with producer Peter Rommel BERLIN EXCELSIOR

GERMANY 2016 (DOCUMENTARY)

Festivals (selection): With: Hof 2017 Inhabitants and visitors Director: of the Berlin Excelsior Erik Lemke building Concept: Producer: Erik Lemke, Peter Rommel André Krummel Duration: Cinematography: 87 mins André Krummel Languages: Editor: German, English Erik Lemke (with English subtitles) Music: Rating: Tobias Burkardt exempt

The anonymous concrete construction “Excelsior” is just a stopover for many of its inhabitants. Soon, life will get better and everyone tries to get ahead in his own way: with “Invisible Make-up”, the 49-year- old Michael wants to re-connect with his “The lense in Berlin Excelsior previous success as a call boy. observes, as only film can observe, tightly composed, Claudia’s days as a dancer are over, but a rigid images which follow one series of new photos are supposed to help after the other as in a photo her get back on stage. Norman wants to lecture. They are compositions help others find happiness with his start-up of weird beauty…” “ChangeU”, while also helping himself to a – Manon Cavagna, Critic new sports car. It seems no one can escape the lure of success…

SCREENING TIMES Wellington Wednesday, 29 August, 5pm (Q&A)

Auckland Tuesday, 4 September, 8:15pm (Q&A)

New Plymouth Wednesday, 26 September, 4pm

Text: Hofer Filmtage Screenings in Wellington and Auckland will be Image © Rommel Film followed by a Q&A with producer Peter Rommel

MADEMOISELLE PARADIS (LICHT) AUSTRIA/GERMANY 2017 (HISTORY, DRAMA)

Festivals (selection): Music: Toronto 2017 Lorenz Dangel Awards (selection): With: Main Award Maria Dragus, (Filmkunstfest Devid Striesow, Sachsen Anhalt) Lukas Miko, Best Editing Katja Kolm, (Graz/Diagonale) Maresi Riegner Thomas Pluch Producers: Script Award Michael Kitzberger, Director: Wolfgang Widerhofer, Barbara Albert Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Screenplay: Markus Glaser, Kathrin Resetarits, Martina Haubrich, based on motives from Gunnar Dedio the novel “Mesmerized” Duration: by Alissa Walser 97 mins Vienna, 1777. The blind 18-year-old Cinematography: Language: “Wunderkind” pianist Maria Theresia Paradis Christine A. Maier German Editor: (with English subtitles) lost her eyesight overnight when she was Niki Mossböck Rating: three years old. M - nudity

After countless failed medical experiments, “A sightless pianist's recovery her parents take her to the estate of reveals society's more glaring controversial “miracle doctor” Franz blind spots in Barbara Albert's Anton Mesmer, where she joins a group of sensual, sensitive historical outlandish patients. She enjoys the liberal household in a Rococo world and tastes drama.” – Guy Lodge, Variety freedom for the first time, but begins to notice that as Mesmer’s treatment brings back her eyesight, she is losing her cherished SCREENING TIMES musical virtuosity. Wellington Saturday, 1 September, 5pm

Screened in partnership with Auckland Friday, 7 September, 6:15pm

Dunedin Saturday, 15 September, 2:30pm

Christchurch Sunday, 23 September, 2:30pm

New Plymouth Text: Films Distribution Sunday, 30 September, 4pm Image © Christian Schulz, NGF/LOOKS MAGICAL MYSTERY OR THE RETURN OF KARL SCHMIDT (MAGICAL MYSTERY ODER: DIE RÜCKKEHR DES KARL SCHMIDT) GERMANY 2017 (COMEDY, ROAD MOVIE)

Festivals (selection): With: Lünen 2017, Munich 2017, Charly Hübner, Prague 2018 Detlev Buck, Awards (selection): Marc Hosemann, Lünen 2017 Annika Meier, (Perle – Award for Women Bjarne Mädel, in the Film Industry), Bastian Reiber, Munich 2017 Jacob Matschenz, (Young German Cinema Sarah Bauerett, Award, Most Promising Leon Ullrich, Young Actor) Jan Peter Kampwirth Director: Producers: Arne Feldhusen Gerhard Meixner, Screenplay: Roman Paul Sven Regener, Duration: based on the novel by 111 mins Sven Regener Language: Hamburg in the mid-1990s: following a Cinematography: German breakdown and a stay in a psychiatric Lutz Reitemeier (with English subtitles) Editor: Rating: ward, Charly Schmidt lives in assisted Benjamin Ikes M – drug use & nudity accommodation in Hamburg. He’s kicked his Music: alcohol and drug habit when he meets old Charlotte Goltermann (concept), friends from Berlin, who now earn a lot of Carsten Meyer, money as music producers. Instead of his Patrick Reising, prescribed holiday in the Lüneburg Heath, Francesco Wilking Charly takes a job with them: he’ll drive their tour bus through Germany and take responsibility for running their rave tour. SCREENING TIMES MAGICAL MYSTERY is an entertaining, techno- Wellington reinforced road movie in which, as so often, Friday, 31 August, 7:30pm the journey is the goal. Auckland Thursday, 6 September, 8:30pm

“Hübner is brilliant in the role of Dunedin the collapsed psychiatric patient, Sunday, 16 September, 2:30pm who is slowly finding his way back to life.” Christchurch – Martin Schwickert, EPD Film Saturday, 22 September, 2:30pm

Nelson Saturday, 22 September, 6pm

New Plymouth Text: Goethe-Institut Thursday, 27 September, 6:30pm Image © Razor / Gordon Timpen Popcorn Film Kultur Thriller TIRED OF READING SUBTITLES? Learn German at your local school or with us.

www.goethe.de/nz 04 385 6924 PURE CHARCOAL (KÖHLERNÄCHTE) SWITZERLAND 2017 (DOCUMENTARY)

Festivals (selection): With: Leipzig 2017, Fränz Röösli, Solothurn 2018, Lukas Thalmann, Trento 2018, Willi Renggli, Schwerin 2018 Willi Röösli, Awards (selection): Doris Wicki, Swiss Film Award 2018 Philipp Röösli, (Best Cinematography), Markus und Martin Wicki, Trento 2018 (Jury Prize) Andreas Schacher, Director: Ruedi Lustenberger Robert Müller Producer: Screenplay: Carola Kutzner Robert Müller Duration: Cinematography: 93 min Pio Corradi Languages: Editor: Swiss-German, Italian Kathrin Plüss, (with English subtitles) Wearing heavy rubber boots, Fränz Röösli Mirella Nüesch Rating: climbs atop his charcoal pile and starts Music: exempt Fritz Hauser poking holes into what he calls the “Grind” – the dome of the pile, which towers four meters above the ground. White smoke rises Screened in partnership with from the holes, curling around the charcoal burner at the whim of the wind before it is carried off into the dark of night. In calm, stunning images, the documentary draws the viewer into the archaic world of charcoal burning.

SCREENING TIMES Wellington “As well as conveying fascinating Thursday, 30 August, 5pm insights into an old craft, Robert Müller’s film also captivates with Auckland sensational landscape shots by Thursday, 6 September, 6:15pm Pio Corradi and a soundtrack of the spheres by Fritz Hauser.” Dunedin – Irene Genhart, Cineman Sunday, 16 September, 12pm

Christchurch Saturday, 22 September, 12pm

New Plymouth Thursday, 27 September, 4pm Text and Image © Zeitraum Film GmbH QUEEN OF NIENDORF (KÖNIGIN VON NIENDORF) GERMANY 2017 (FAMILY)

Festivals (selection): With: Hamburg 2017, Lisa Moell, Munich 2017, Denny Moritz Sonnenschein, Tallinn 2017, Salim Fazzani, Warsaw 2017 Ivo Tristan Michligk, Awards (selection): Moritz Riek, Achtung Berlin! – New Elias Sebastian, Berlin Film Award 2017 Mex Schlüpfer, Director: Cornelius Schwalm, Joya Thome Til Schindler, Screenplay: Frederik Schindler Joya Thome, Producer: Philipp Wunderlich Joya Thome Cinematography: Duration: Lydia Richter 67 mins Editor: Language: Carola Sultan German The school holidays have just begun in Bauermeister (with English subtitles) Brandenburg, but this year Lea isn't going Joya Thome Rating: Music: G to summer camp – she's starting to fi nd the Conrad Oleak other girls at her school weird. So instead, she spends much of her time alone, riding her bike through the village and visiting musician and social drop-out Mark SCREENING TIMES on his overgrown farm. One day while out on one of her excursions, Lea spies fi ve boys Wellington heaving an oil barrel over the dye factory Thursday, 30 August, 12:30pm* fence and pedalling off with their booty on a Saturday, 1 September, 12:30pm bicycle trailer. Curious, Lea follows the boys at the next opportunity, and discovers they Auckland have built a raft on a small lake. But there's Wednesday, 5 September, 12:30pm* a problem: the raft belongs to the gang, and Sunday, 9 September, 3:30pm girls are strictly forbidden. Desperate to be admitted to the group, Lea undergoes a test Dunedin of courage, and from then on the summer Monday, 17 September, 12pm* seems fi lled with adventure... Christchurch Friday, 21 September, 12pm* “The best and most beautiful German children’s fi lm in a Nelson long time.” Saturday, 22 September, 4:30pm – Rochus Wolff, Kinderfi lmblog New Plymouth Sunday, 30 September, 2:30pm Text: Goethe-Institut Image © Joya Thome Filmproduktion – Lupa Film Gmbh *School screenings GIESEN WINES ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT THE GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

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GERMANY/AUSTRIA, 2018 (DRAMA)

Festivals (selection): Music: Berlin 2018, Dirk von Lowtzow Schwerin 2018 With: Awards (selection): Susanne Wolff, Label Europa Gedion Oduor Wekesa Cinemas 2018, Producers: Heiner-Carow-Award 2018, Marcos Kantis, Filmkunstfest MV 2018 Martin Lehwald, (Best Film, Audience Michal Pokorny Award) Duration: Director: 94 mins Wolfgang Fischer Languages: Screenplay: German, English, Wolfgang Fischer Kisuaheli Ika Künzel (with English subtitles) Cinematography: Rating: Benedict Neuenfels M Rike is a successful doctor whose job Editor: demands everything of her. She intends Monika Willi to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfil her long-cherished dream of sailing single-handedly from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the “Susanne Wolff thrills in Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday Wolfgang Fischer's visceral, seems to be coming to pass but then, after oceanic allegory about personal a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly responsibility in the face of the turns into an unprecedented challenge when refugee crisis.” she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly – Jessica Kiang, Variety overloaded refugee boat nearby. More than a hundred people face drowning. Rike tries to organise help, but she increasingly feels that humanitarianism has deteriorated into mere wishful thinking.

SCREENING TIMES Wellington Saturday, 1 September, 2:30pm

Auckland Friday, 7 September, 8:30pm

New Plymouth Text: Berlin International Film Festival Saturday, 29 September, 4pm Image © Beta Cinema THE NIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS (DIE NACHT DER NÄCHTE) GERMANY 2018 (DOCUMENTARY)

Festivals (selection): With: Toronto 2018 (Hot Docs) Hildegard and Awards (selection): Heinz-Siegfried Bavarian Film Award 2018 Rotthauser, (Best Documentary) Shigeko and Isao Sugihara, Director: Kamala and Nagarajayya Yasemin Şamdereli Hampana, and Bill Novak Screenplay: and Norman MacArthur Nesrin Şamdereli & Producers: Yasemin Şamdereli Anja-Karina Richter, Cinematography: Arne Birkenstock Marcus Winterbauer Duration: Editor: 96 mins Mechthild Barth Languages: Animation: German, English, Izabela Plucinska Hindi, Japanese (ClayTraces) (with English subtitles) Together. For a lifetime. Who can manage Music: Rating: this? And who still wants this? What seems Dürbeck & Dohmen exempt to be an oddity for us nowadays was the norm for the generation of our grandparents. The documentary THE NIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS by Yasemin and Nesrin Şamdereli (ALMANYA) portrays four couples from Japan, USA, India and Germany who all have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary together. It’s a light-hearted and humorous experience that reveals the secrets of long- term partnerships and love. SCREENING TIMES Wellington (Embassy Theatre) “The Night of All Nights is a Tuesday, 28 August, 8pm thoughtful fi lm. With its focus on heart-warming love stories, it has Auckland space for hardship and drama Saturday, 8 September, 6:15pm amidst its overarching romantic comedy.” Dunedin Saturday, 15 September, 12pm – Chelsea Philips-Carr, Point of View Magazine

Christchurch Sunday, 23 September, 12pm

New Plymouth Text: Magnetfi lm Tuesday, 25 September, 6:30pm Image © S2RFilm; Fruitmarket THE SILENT REVOLUTION (DAS SCHWEIGENDE KLASSENZIMMER) GERMANY 2018 (DRAMA)

Festivals (selection): With: Berlin 2018 Leonard Scheicher, Awards (selection): Tom Gramenz, Bavarian Film Awards Lena Klenke, 2018 (Best Young Actor) Jonas Dassler, Director: Isaiah Michalski, Lars Kraume Ronald Zehrfeld, Screenplay: Carina Wiese, Lars Kraume, Rolf Kanies, based on the book by Florian Lukas, Dietrich Garstka Jördis Triebel Cinematography: Producers: Jens Harant Miriam Düssel, Editor: Susanne Freyer Barbara Gies Duration: Music: 111 mins Christoph M. Kaiser, Language: It’s 1956 and during a visit to West Berlin, Julian Maas German high school students Theo and Kurt witness (with English subtitles) Rating: dramatic footage of the Budapest uprising. M - violence Back in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously hold a two-minute silence during class in solidarity with the victims of the Hungarian “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution struggle against Soviet oppression. But the inspires a few East German gesture causes much bigger ripples than teenagers to stage a wordless expected... protest with far-reaching The People's Education Minister condemns consequences in the handsomely the action as a counter-revolutionary act accoutered The Silent Revolution.” and demands that the ringleader be named, – Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter forcing the students to choose between standing together... or not.

SCREENING TIMES Wellington Friday, 31 August, 5pm

Auckland Sunday, 9 September, 6:15pm

New Plymouth Text: German Film Festival Australia Saturday, 29 September, 6:30pm Image © Studiocanal SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON 28 AUG AUCKLAND 4–9 SEPT EMBASSY THEATRE (OPENING NIGHT) ACADEMY CINEMAS

TUESDAY 28 AUGUST TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER

8:00pm The Night of All Nights 6:00pm 3 Days in Quiberon 8:15pm Berlin Excelsior + Q&A

WELLINGTON 29 AUG–1 SEPT NGĀ TAONGA SOUND & VISION WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 12:30pm Queen of Niendorf* WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST 6:15pm As We Were Dreaming + Q&A 5:00pm Berlin Excelsior + Q&A 7:30pm As We Were Dreaming + Q&A THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

THURSDAY 30 AUGUST 6:15pm Pure Charcoal 8:30pm Magical Mystery or The Return of 12:30pm Queen of Niendorf* Karl Schmidt 5:00pm Pure Charcoal 7:30pm Arthur & Claire FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 6:15pm Mademoiselle Paradis 8:30pm Styx 5:00pm The Silent Revolution 7:30pm Magical Mystery or The Return of Karl Schmidt SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER

6:15pm The Night of All Nights SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 8:30pm Arthur & Claire

12:30pm Queen of Niendorf 2:30pm Styx SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 5:00pm Mademoiselle Paradis 7:30pm 3 Days in Quiberon 3:30pm Queen of Niendorf 6:15pm The Silent Revolution

*School screenings DUNEDIN 15–17 SEPT NEW PLYMOUTH 25–30 SEPT DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

12:00pm The Night of All Nights 6:30pm The Night of All Nights 2:30pm Mademoiselle Paradis

WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 4:00pm Berlin Excelsior 12:00pm Pure Charcoal 2:30pm Magical Mystery or The Return of Karl Schmidt THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER

4:00pm Pure Charcoal MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 6:30pm Magical Mystery or The Return of Karl Schmidt 12:00pm Queen of Niendorf*

FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER NELSON 22 SEPT SUTER THEATRE 4:00pm As We Were Dreaming 6:30pm Arthur & Claire SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

4:30pm Queen of Niendorf SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 6:00pm Magical Mystery or The Return of Karl Schmidt 4:00pm Styx 6:30pm The Silent Revolution

CHRISTCHURCH 21–23 SEPT CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2:30pm Queen of Niendorf 4:00pm Mademoiselle Paradis 12:00pm Queen of Niendorf* 6:30pm 3 Days in Quiberon

SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

12:00pm Pure Charcoal 2:30pm Magical Mystery or The Return of Karl Schmidt

SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

12:00pm The Night of All Nights 2:30pm Mademoiselle Paradis VENUES AND TICKETS

WELLINGTON OPENING NIGHT (28 AUGUST, 8PM) The Embassy Theatre 10 Kent Terrace Wellington Phone: 04 3847657 Website: www.eventcinemas.co.nz/Cinema/The-Embassy Opening Night tickets must be pre-booked via Eventbrite (https://gff2018_opening.eventbrite.com). Please bring your printed ticket with you. Tickets will be checked on entry to the cinema.

WELLINGTON (FESTIVAL DATES: 29 AUGUST – 1 SEPTEMBER 2018) Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Te Anakura Whitiāhua 84 Taranaki Street Wellington Phone: 04 3847647 Website: www.ngataonga.org.nz Festival entry is free and tickets (2 tickets max) can be picked up from the venue in person only, one 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 each screening. Please take your seat 10 mins before the film starts as empty seats will be allocated to people on the waiting list.

AUCKLAND (FESTIVAL DATES: 4-9 SEPTEMBER 2018) Academy Cinemas Central Library Building 44 Lorne Street Auckland City Phone: 09 3732761 Website: www.academycinemas.co.nz Festival entry is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.

DUNEDIN (FESTIVAL DATES: 15-17 SEPTEMBER 2018) Dunedin Public Art Gallery 30 The Octagon Dunedin Phone: 03 4743240 Website: http://dunedin.art.museum Festival entry is free and seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Arthur & Claire © ARRI Media NELSON (FESTIVAL DATE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2018) Suter Theatre 91 Trafalgar Street Nelson Phone: 03 5483885 Festival entry is free and seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

CHRISTCHURCH (FESTIVAL DATES: 21-23 SEPTEMBER 2018) Christchurch Art Gallery 49 Worcester Blvd Christchurch Phone: 03 9417382 Website: www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz Festival entry is free and seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

NEW PLYMOUTH (FESTIVAL DATES: 25-30 SEPTEMBER 2018) Len Lye Centre / Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 42 Queen Street New Plymouth Phone: 06 7596060 Website: www.govettbrewster.com Festival entry is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served.

PLEASE NOTE: Festival tickets are free and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Koha is gratefully accepted. All cinemas are wheelchair accessible, however seating is limited so please contact the cinema to arrange bookings for these seats. ID will be required for all restricted films. Please contact us for school screenings of Queen of Niendorf as they need to be pre-booked one week in advance: [email protected] Phone: 04 3856924 There will only be a few tickets available to the public for designated school screenings.

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Cover Images: Queen of Niendorf © Joya Thome Filmproduktion – Lupa Film Gmbh / Magical Mystery or The Return of Karl Schmidt / © Razor – Gordon Timpen / The Silent Revolution © Studiocanal Mademoiselle Paradis © Christian Schulz, NGF/LOOKS.

Special Thanks to: Alastair Ross, Alex Giesen, Alison Franks, Amy Hayes, Andreas Welte, Angela Flynn, Anna-Corinna Benz, Anne Laurent-Delage, Anton Musin, Astrid Peter, Bernhard Zimburg, Bill Gosden, Chris Hormann, Chris Payne, Claudia Rudolph-Hartmann, Claus Falkenberg, Cosima Finkbeiner, Darcy Woods, Dave Williams, David Klein, David Vogelsanger, Diane Pivac, Dorothee Basel, Edel Everling, Elizabeth Ireland, Erin Edwards, Eva Brox, Finn Diedrichs Farnan, Frankie Kersten, Frauke Knappke, Friederike Petereit, Gerhard Thiedemann, Goran Vulinovic, Gunther Bittmann, Haleigh Trower, Junelle Ward, Jürg Bono, Justin Lester, Kai Schubert, Kasia Wysocki, Kevin Anweiler, Lana Coles, Lynda Cullen, Melissa Cheals, Michael McDonnell, Mike Walsh, Mirjam Gautschi, Mirjam-Isabel Herzog, Marlon Hofmann, Nicola Denney, Nicola Röckinger, Noni Lickleder, Oscar Halberg, Paul Brobbel, Patricia Watson, Peter Rommel, Polly Case, Rachael Foley, Ralph Schermbach, Ramona Sehr, Renate Zylla, Robert Distelrath, Robert Müller, Roman Paul, Saskia Schlesinger, Sharon Walling, Sonia McEwen, Stefan Hajszan, Stephanie Gutsmann, Sue Footitt, Tamara Winkler, Theo Giesen, Timo Bauer-Savage, Warwick Foley, Waveney Parkinson, Wolfgang Rainer Hüsgen.

Programme Changes We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing fi lms. Any necessary changes will be advertised at the festival venue and on the Goethe-Institut New Zealand website.

Film Ratings At the time of printing some fi lms have not yet been rated. Until they receive a censor rating, they are considered R18 and can only be attended by people aged 18 or over. Classifi cations will be published on the Goethe-Institut website and will be on display at the venues.

Films will be screened from DCP or BluRay.

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