WASHINGTON FILM INSTITUTE and the
GOETHE-INSTITUT WASHINGTON
cordially invite you not to miss the Last Days and Closing Reception of Film Neu Festival 2014!
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CLOSING NIGHT FILM & RECEPTION
THURSDAY OCTOBER 16
CAN’T MAKE THURSDAY? CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE FESTIVAL LINEUP BELOW.
Screening 6:00pm: LANDMARK E ST CINEMA, 555 11th St, NW, Washington, DC 20004, Tel. (202) 783-9494
Reception: GOETHE-INSTITUT, 812 Seventh St, NW, Washington, DC 20001, Tel. (202) 289-1200
BELOVED SISTERS
Germany, 2014, color, 170 min., German
Director/Screenplay: Dominik Graf
Producer: Uschi Reich
With: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Claudia Messner, Anne Schäfer Sales: Global Screen (Munich, Germany), US Sales: Music Box Films
Germany’s official Oscar entry (foreign-language film category)
Discussion with Professor Peter Pfeiffer and Closing Party (at the Goethe-Institut) follow the screening.
During the latter half of the 19th century, it is speculated that writer and philosopher Friedrich Schiller conducted simultaneous intimate relationships with sisters Charlotte von Lengefeld (whom he would marry) and Caroline von Beulwitz, who remained trapped in a loveless marriage of her own. Now, for his follow-up to the extraordinary Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around, film and television veteran Dominik Graf has made a very different but no less satisfying period drama about distance, yearning and the vicissitudes of love. From the passionate performances of the three leads to Claus Jurgen Pfeiffer’s magnificent production design, Beloved Sisters promises a memorable conclusion to this year’s program.
—Eddie Cockrell
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The 22nd annual edition of the Goethe-Institut’s Film|Neu, Washington’s long-running festival of new films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, will once again showcase work that resonates with historical culture as well as the most popular attractions from regional cinema industries.
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| Age of Cannibals | Art War | Beloved Sisters |
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| Cathedrals of Culture | Dreamland | Finsterworld |
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WASTHINGTON FILM INSTITUTE AND THE GOETHE-INSTITUT WASHINGTON
cordially invite you to the Film Neu Festival 2014 Oct 10-16
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OPENING NIGHT FILM & RECEPTION
FRIDAY OCTOBER 10
Screenings 7:00 & 9:30pm: LANDMARK E ST CINEMA, 555 11th St, NW, Washington, DC 20004, Tel. (202) 783-9494
Reception: GOETHE-INSTITUT, 812 Seventh St, NW, Washington, DC 20001, Tel. (202) 289-1200
WEST (Westen)
Germany, 2013, color, 102 minutes
German, English, Russian, Polish with English subtitles
Director: Christian Schwochow
Screenplay: Heide Schwochow
Producers: Katrin Schlösser, Thomas Kufus, Christoph Friedel
With: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz, Alexander Scheer
FIPRESCI Prize & Best Leading Actress (Montreal 2013)
Special Mention of the Critic’s Jury (Arras 2013)
Best Actress: Jördis Triebel (German Film Award 2014)
Discussion with director Christian Schwochow (via Skype) and actor Jacky Ido and opening Berliner Party with DJ (at the Goethe-Institut) follow the first screening.
In recent years, numerous German filmmakers have grappled with the schizophrenic nature of the divided Berlin of the Cold War. To these brave dramas can now be added director Christian Schwochow’s award-winning West. Hoping for a better life East Berlin, widow and mother Nelly (Jordis Triebel) pretends to be married to a Westerner but ends up in the Marienfelde Refugee Centre. As events revolving around her uncertain status provoke increasingly paranoid reactions, Nelly begins to see her dream slip away. Triebel’s riveting performance earned her the best actress prize at last year’s Montreal festival, whilst Schwochow’s strong direction confirms the promise of his early successes November Child and Cracks In The Shell.—Eddie Cockrell
