On Saturday, October 11th, in anticipation of January's 19th annual film festival - and to kick-off our 2014-15 Season - the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival presents Berlin & Beyond Autumn Showcase!
Berlin & Beyond will present its first-ever series in Japantown, at the cinema of the NEW PEOPLE pop culture complex, featuring five unforgettable works from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
FILM SELECTIONS
11:00am - "Megacities" 90' - Dir. Michael Glawogger
2:00pm - "Enemies l Friends - German Pri...
On Saturday, October 11th, in anticipation of January's 19th annual film festival - and to kick-off our 2014-15 Season - the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival presents Berlin & Beyond Autumn Showcase!
Berlin & Beyond will present its first-ever series in Japantown, at the cinema of the NEW PEOPLE pop culture complex, featuring five unforgettable works from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
FILM SELECTIONS
11:00am - "Megacities" 90' - Dir. Michael Glawogger
2:00pm - "Enemies l Friends - German Prisioners of War in Japan" 78' -Dir. Brigitte Krause
4:00pm - "Dreamland" 98' - Dir. Petra Volpe
7:00pm - "Diplomacy" 85' - Dir. Volker Schlöndorff
9:15pm - "Banklady" 115' - Dir. Christian Alvart
Director Petra Volpe and cinematographer Judith Kaufmann to attend the screening of "Dreamland."
The day of award-winning cinema will begin with a rare 35mm screening of recently-departed Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger’s indelible act of urban portraiture, "Megacities" (1998) and Brigitte Krause's cross-cultural documentary "Enemies/Friends" (2013), set in World-War-One Japan. The program continues with Petra Volpe's brilliantly interwoven tragic drama Dreamland (2013) and celebrated The Tin Drum director Volker Schlöndorff’s "Diplomacy" (2014), a drama of political intrigue that The Hollywood Reporter hailed as “a much better version of the similarly-themed The Monuments Men.” The action-packed female-led heist thriller "Banklady" (2014) by Christian Alvart (Antibodies, Case 39), which took home honors at the Chicago International Film Festival for female lead Nadeshda Brennicke, rounds out the evening.
Download the official program guide in PDF: https://www.sendspace.com/file/i4a0lk
GET INVOLVED
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, partner or volunteer at this event, please send an email to Berlin & Beyond's Director, Mr. Sophoan Sorn, at festival@sanfrancisco.goethe.org.
Berlin & Beyond gratefully and proudly salutes the supporters of the Autumn Showcase 2014.
Partners:
Alliance Française de San Francisco, German Currents Film Festival Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly.
Community Co-presenters:
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, San Francisco Film Society and The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
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Presented by the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Berlin & Beyond, Inc., and Germany's official cultural center, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.