WELCOME HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN alace Cinemas in collaboration with German of the Federal Republic of Germany co-presenting P Films is excited to again bring the best German a contemporary selection of German films that take language cinema to you in 2019. Building on the a new look back at the GDR in our programme success of last year, this edition will screen 31 feature strand Tear Down The Walls. films expanding to 15 locations and opening with Michael “Bully” Herbig’s Balloon. A special thank you to our cultural partner the Goethe-Institut who are again presenting KINO With 29 Australian premieres and a festival line- FOR KIDS, a showcase of six films for our younger up that includes box office hits and award-winning audiences and families as well as co-presenting our dramas straight from this year’s Berlinale, the festival “100 Years of Bauhaus” special. We would also is a fantastic celebration of German culture and like to thank our generous sponsors and partners filmmaking. Including productions from neighbouring for their support. Austria and Switzerland, the festival showcases the creativity and diversity of the region. From thrillers We wish you an entertaining and exciting German and historical productions to feel-good comedies, festival experience! this year’s films will amuse, inspire and entertain. Film ab! Marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2019 we’re pleased to have the Embassy THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS PRESENTED BY SUPPORTING PARTNERS CULTURAL PARTNERS 2 CONTENTS OPENING NIGHT BEYOND BERLIN: Balloon ......................................................... 5 AUSTRIAN CINEMA Cold Feet ..................................................... 20 SPECIAL EVENT Styx ............................................................. 20 Mack the Knife – Brecht’s Threepenny Film ........ 6 The Ground Beneath My Feet ......................... 21 CLOSING NIGHT BEYOND BERLIN: The Threepenny Opera ................................... 7 SWISS CINEMA Midnight Runner ........................................... 22 SPECIAL PRESENTATION The Innocent ................................................. 22 Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus .............. 8 TICKETING AND SESSIONS CENTREPIECE Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide The Captain .................................................. 9 Ticketing & Booking ...................................... 23 NEW GERMAN CINEMA SYDNEY session times ................................... 24 25km/h ...................................................... 10 CANBERRA session times .............................. 25 100 Things .................................................. 10 MELBOURNE session times ....................… 26-27 As Green As It Gets ...................................... 11 PERTH session times …................................... 28 Blame Game ................................................ 11 ADELAIDE session times ................................. 29 Cut Off ........................................................ 12 Easy Love …................................................. 12 Byron Bay, Brisbane How About Adolf? ........................................ 13 Ticketing & Booking ...................................... 30 Outmastered ................................................ 13 Playmaker .................................................... 14 BYRON BAY session times ............................. 30 Sweethearts ................................................. 14 BRISBANE session times ............................... 31 The Keeper .................................................. 15 What Doesn’t Kill Us ..................................... 15 KINO FOR KIDS Presented by the GOETHE-INSTITUT Mountain Miracle ......................................... 16 Help, I Shrunk My Parents .............................. 16 Invisible Sue ….............................................. 16 Jim Button …................................................. 17 Little Miss Dolittle …....................................... 17 Goodbye Berlin …......................................... 17 TEAR DOWN THE WALLS Co-presented by the German Embassy Adam & Evelyn .......................................….. 18 Gundermann ................................................ 19 Sealed Lips …............................................... 19 SYD CAN MEL PER ADE BRI BYR 21 MAY - 22 MAY - 23 MAY - 28 MAY - 29 MAY - 30 MAY - 29 MAY - 9 JUN 9 JUN 9 JUN 12 JUN 12 JUN 12 JUN 12 JUN 3 OPENING NIGHT AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Join us for the premiere of the highly anticipated BALLOON thriller BALLOON and an afterparty featuring Ballon drinks, Germ an delicacies and live music. 2018 | 125 min | Thriller | Germany TICKETS Director: Michael "Bully" Herbig Palace Movie Club Members $50 Cast: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, General Admission $60 David Kross, Thomas Kretschmann, Alicia von Rittberg German with English subtitles SYDNEY Chauvel Cinema - Tue 21 May 6:30pm Arrivals nown for Germany’s all-time biggest grossing 7:00pm Film & afterparty K movies Manitou’s Shoe (2001) and Dreamship Surprise (2004), comedy personality Michael CANBERRA “Bully” Herbig now makes his directing foray into Palace Electric Cinema - Wed 22 May thrillers, recreating a gripping historical event. 6:30pm Arrivals 7:00pm Film & afterparty 1979, East Germany at the height of the Cold War. Günter Wetzel (David Kross, The Reader), a PERTH bricklayer, and his friend Peter Strelzyk (Friedrich Palace Cinema Paradiso - Tue 28 May Mücke), an electrician, can no longer bear the 6:30pm Arrivals oppressive regime. The two men and their wives 7:00pm Film & afterparty resolve to undertake a mission to secretly build a hot MELBOURNE air balloon from scratch that will carry them and The Astor Theatre - Thu 23 May their families over the border fence to freedom. 6:30pm Arrivals Over the course of the next 18 months they sew 7:00pm Film & afterparty 1,000 square metres of cloth and gather countless weather reports from West German radio with the ADELAIDE Stasi (State Police) hot on their heels. A nerve-rack- Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas - Wed 29 May ing battle against the clock begins… 6:30pm Arrivals 7:00pm Film & afterparty “Director Michael Herbig skilfully recreates a chilling, tense BRISBANE Palace Barracks - Thu 30 May historical event” KINOCRITICS 6:30pm Arrivals 7:00pm Film & afterparty NOMINATED BYRON BAY Best Film Score, Sound, German Film Awards 2019 Palace Byron Bay - Wed 29 May Best Film, Deutscher Kamerapreis 2019 6:30pm Arrivals OFFICIAL SELECTION 7:00pm Film & afterparty Zurich Film Festival 2018 Kolkata International Film Festival 2018 5 SPECIAL EVENT AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Join us for a cocktail and live music, before being MACK THE KNIFE - transported to Berlin in the roaring 20s, in this BRECHT’S THREEPENNY FILM wildly entertaining film. Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm TICKETS General Admission $35 2018 | 120 min | Biography, Drama | Germany Palace Movie Club Members $28 Director: Joachim A. Lang Cast: Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, SYDNEY Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król, Claudia Michelsen Palace Norton Street - Thu 30 May German with English subtitles 6:30pm Cocktail & music 7:00pm Introduction & film n true Brechtian style, director Joachim A. Lang CANBERRA Iand his outstanding cast enthusiastically bring to Palace Electric Cinema - Wed 29 May life true events that followed the huge success of 6:30pm Cocktail & music Bertolt Brecht’s 'Threepenny Opera' - the bitter 7:00pm Introduction & film satire of capitalism that is as relevant today as MELBOURNE when it premiered in 1928 Berlin. Palace Balwyn - Thu 6 June 6:30pm Cocktail & music Lars Eidinger stars as Brecht, who agrees to make 7:00pm Introduction & film a film from his popular musical theatre piece. But the process is fraught with complications as the artist’s ADELAIDE Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas - Thu 6 June bold creative vision clashes with his production 6:30pm Cocktail & music company’s desire to make money. Unwilling to 7:00pm Introduction & film compromise, Brecht takes the producers to court over their undermining of the author’s rights for BRISBANE financial gain, thus igniting a fierce battle. Palace Barracks - Wed 5 June 6:30pm Cocktail & music With opulent décor, luscious costumes, and energetic 7:00pm Introduction & film performances, Lang’s superb re-creation of Brecht’s PERTH work and experiences transports the audience Palace Cinema Paradiso - Thu 6 June directly to Berlin during the Roaring Twenties, 6:30pm Cocktail & music carrying with it a message about the importance 7:00pm Introduction & film of artistic integrity in contemporary society. “This excellent film is a think piece, WINNER a portrayal of the times, and a Youth Jury Prize, Festival Univerciné 2018 6 musical all in one.” DIE WELT OFFICIAL SELECTION Filmfest München 2018 CLOSING NIGHT 88 years after its initial release, we celebrate the THE 3 PENNY OPERA closing of the festival with this cinematic delight. (1931) Join us for a glass of wine before the film, as we say auf Wiedersehen to the festival. Die 3 Groschen-Oper TICKETS 1931 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical | Germany General Admission $30 Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst Palace Movie Club Members $25 Cast: Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert, Lotte Lenja SYDNEY Palace Norton Street - Sun 9 June German with English subtitles 6:30pm Live music & drink on arrival 7:00pm Film losing the Festival is the celebrated classic C 1931 film version of Bertolt Brecht’s The Three- CANBERRA penny Opera,