The Goethe-Instut Philippinen delivers an action packed 3rd German Film Week with the movie Nur Gott kann mich richten/Only God Can Judge Me headlining the festival celebrating contemporary German cinema happening this November 6-11, 2018 at the SM Aura Premier and SM City North EDSA.
The film, directed by Özgür
Yildirim and starring the famous German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, serves as the festival’s
opener with a free screening (first-come first served basis) on November 6,
2018, 7:00 PM at the SM Aura Premier.
But it’s not just all action as
nine other films from various genres like comedy, romance, drama, historical,
and those touching upon contemporary European politics are lined up in this
festival. Regular screening of these films (including Nur Gott kann mich richten/Only God Can Judge Me) takes place on November
7-11, 2018 at SM Aura Premier and SM City North EDSA. As always, the films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.
Admission for these screenings are priced at P100 each. Subsequent screenings will take place in Baguio, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro after the opening Metro Manila run.
Admission for these screenings are priced at P100 each. Subsequent screenings will take place in Baguio, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro after the opening Metro Manila run.
And as an added treat, a lucky viewer can win a 4 day trip
to Berlin via the festival’s Watch ‘n Win raffle promo. Visit the German Film Week
homepage for the quiz and full mechanics of the promo.
3rd German Film Week Line-Up
Nur Gott kann mich richten/Only God Can Judge Me (2017)
Director: Özgür Yildirim
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Edin
Hasanović, Kida Khodr Ramadan, Franziska Wulf, Birgit Minichmayr
Following his award-winning
feature debut Chiko, writer-director Özgür Yildirim returns to the
world of petty gangsters – this time on the mean streets of Frankfurt. Moritz
Bleibtreu – who also dons the producer’s hat for the first time – stars as
Ricky, a small-time gangster about to be released from prison after doing time
for a heist which was botched by his brother Rafael and partner-in-crime Latif.
Shortly after his release, Latif makes him an offer that seems too good to be
true and ultimately too good to refuse. However, the surefire plan is
jeopardized by the sudden emergence of Diana, a police officer with a hidden
agenda, triggering a nerve- wracking game of cat and mouse.
Aus dem Nichts/In the Fade (2017)
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Diane Kruger, Denis
Moschitto, Numan Acar, Johannes Krisch, Ulrich Tukur, Uwe Rohde
Katja's life in Hamburg is
completely derailed when her husband Nuri and their son Rocco are killed in a
terrorist bombing. She hits rock bottom, starts taking drugs and contemplates
suicide. Eventually, the police identify and arrest the perpetrators: André und
Edda, a neo-Nazi couple. It was André's own father, who led the police on the
right track. Yet Katja's hope that the murderers receive their sentence in
court is shattered. Following a harrowing trial, in which Nuri's best friend
Danilo serves as Katja's lawyer, Edda und André are acquitted for want of
evidence. Katja is devastated, but soon her desperation gives way to an urge
for vigilante justice.
Transit (2018)
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Franz Rogowski, Paula
Beer, Godehard Giese, Maryam Zaree
The German troops are just
outside Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille at the last moment. His luggage
contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear
of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and the
Mexican Embassy’s assurance of a visa. Only those who can prove that they will
leave are allowed in this port town, and this means you need an entry permit
from a potential host country. Assuming the identity of Weidel, Georg tries to
obtain one of the few scarce passages on a ship. Talks between refugees take
place in the corridors of his small hotel, the waiting rooms of consulates, and
the cafés and bars down at the harbour. Georg befriends Driss, the son of his
late comrade Heinz, who died whilst trying to flee. But when he meets the
mysterious Marie, his plans change.
Transit is based on
Anna Seghers' eponymous novel which she wrote in exile. The film is set in
contemporary Marseille where these characters from the past move around. And
so, refugees from back then meet refugees from today, history meets the
present, and all of their stories combine to create one eternal transit space.
Die Unsichtbaren - Wir wollen leben/The Invisibles (2018)
Director: Claus Räfle
Starring: Max Mauff, Ruby O.
Fee, Alice Dwyer, Aaron Altaras, Victoria Schulz, Florian
Lukas
Berlin, February 1943: The Nazi
regime declares the Reich's capital “free of Jews.” At this point in time, 7000
Jews have succeeded in going underground. Almost 1700 will survive the horrors
of the war in Berlin. The Invisibles (WT) tells the stories of four of these
contemporary witnesses.
Hanni Lévy, who has just turned
17, has lost both of her parents. Thanks to her dyed, blonde hair, she is
practically invisible to her pursuers, and strolls along the Ku'damm to pass
the time away. Cioma Schönhaus has also gone underground and leads an
adventurous life that consists of buying a sailboat, dining in Berlin's best
restaurants, and becoming a forger of passports, through which he saves the
lives of dozens of other Jews. And while Eugen Friede joins a resistance group
that distributes anti-government leaflets, Ruth Arndt and a friend dream about
life in America during the daytime; at night, she pretends to be a war widow
and serves black-market gourmet foods in the apartment of a Nazi officer.
Leanders letze Reise/The Final Journey (2017)
Director: Nick Baker-Monteys
Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Petra
Schmidt-Schaller, Tambet Tuisk, Suzanne von Borsody, Artjom Gilz, Jevgeni
Bobyleva
92 year-old Eduard Leander, a
former German officer, has never talked of his wartime experiences, despite the
dark shadows they cast over his family. His granddaughter Adele can’t stand the
old man. When Eduard’s wife dies her mother tries to move him to a home. But he
sets off, instead, to find Svetlana, the woman he fell in love with during the
war when he fought with the Cossacks against the Red Army, not knowing if she
survived. Sent to remove him from the train to Kiev, Adele finds herself
joining him, unwillingly, in his quest. On the way they meet Lev, a Ukrainian
of Russian origin, he and his family similarly trapped in the past. Adele falls
in love with him, but it is 2014 and conflict between Russia and Ukraine is
looming.
303 (2018)
Director: Hans Weingartner
Starring: Mala Emde, Anton Spieker
Jan believes that people are selfish by nature, so he's not
surprised when the person who was supposed to give him a lift leaves him
stranded in Berlin. Jule, however, thinks that people are fundamentally kind
and sociable, and she offers Jan a lift in her camper van. They are both
heading towards the Atlantic: Jan to Spain, and Jule to her boyfriend in
Portugal. They only plan to travel as far as Cologne together, but with every
passing mile, they discover more about each other's lives. Does capitalism turn
people into Neanderthals? Does monogamy lead to unhappiness, and can you choose
who you fall in love with? A road trip across Western Europe, romantic and
hungry for life, about two people torn between wanderlust and the longing to
finally arrive.
Styx (2018)
Director: Wolfgang Fischer
Starring: Susanne Wolff, Gedion
Wekesa Oduor, Alexander Beyer, Inga Birkenfeld
Rike is forty, she is a
successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends 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 Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to
pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an
unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly 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. Wolfgang Fischer's film depicts a struggle for
survival at sea which makes palpable the cruelty of the situation for people in
dire straits whose fate is determined by others. The ocean becomes the scene of
an allegorical, existential drama.
Der Hauptmann/The Captain (2018)
Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Max Hubacher, Frederick
Lau, Bernd Hölscher, Waldemar Kobus, Alexander Fehling, Samuel Finzi
While escaping from the patrols
through the bleak Ems estuary, 19-year-old private Willi Herold discovers the
abandoned uniform of a highly decorated Luftwaffe captain. Now masquerading as
"Captain Herold", Willi gathers soldiers around him to complete an
imaginary assignment allegedly given by Hitler himself – and reveals an
unexpectedly dark side to his character...
Director: Hanno Olderdissen
Starring: Lena Klenke, Dieter
Hallervorden, Emilio Sakraya, Annette Frier, Vedat Erincin, Johann von Bülow,
Michael Lott, Milan Peschel, Anneke Kim Sarnau
Jana (16) has a heart defect that could end her life at any moment. Furious at her fate, she rebels against her illness and her despairing parents. She also rejects a new treatment for fear of the side effects. When she meets the reclusive racing trainer Paul (75) and the seemingly wild stallion Rock My Heart, it becomes clear that she is the only one who can work with the highly sensitive animal. Paul convinces her to enter a prize race with Rock, training her to be a jockey. Although at her physical limits, Jana hides her illness from Paul. Not even her parents know of her plans. Even when her illness seems to strike her down, she doesn't let go of her dreams. She knows it takes courage to race, but it takes even more to say yes to life again.
Viel Lärm um Nick/Forget About Nick (2017)
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Ingrid Bolso Berdal,
Katja Riemann, Haluk Bilginer, Tinka Furst, Fredrik Wagner, Lucie Pohl, Vico
Magno
The only thing that Jade and
Maria have in common is their twice unfaithful ex-husband. Because of this
legal treachery, the two very different women end up sharing the luxurious loft
where Maria once lived, and Jade still clings to as her own. They wage a small
war over a very large chunk of New York City real estate, but this is a battle
in which words are more valuable, and far more entertaining, than money.
Here is the schedule for the
opening Manila leg of the 3rd German Film Week.
SM Aura Premier
November 6, 2018
7:00PM Nur Gott kann mich richten/Only
God Can Judge Me
November 7, 2018
7:00 PM Viel Lärm um Nick/Forget
About Nick
9:30 PM Der Hauptmann/The Captain
November 8, 2018
7:00 PM Rock My Heart - Mein
wildes Herz/Rock My Heart
9:30 PM Die Unsichtbaren - Wir
wollen leben/The Invisibles
November 9, 2018
7:00 PM Transit
9:30 PM Leanders letze Reise/The
Final Journey
November 10, 2018
7:00 PM Styx
9:30 PM Aus dem Nichts/In the
Fade
November 11, 2018
7:00 PM Nur Gott kann mich
richten/Only God Can Judge Me
9:30 PM 303
SM City North EDSA
November 7, 2018
7:00 PM Rock My Heart - Mein
wildes Herz/Rock My Heart
9:30 PM Die Unsichtbaren - Wir
wollen leben/The Invisibles
November 8, 2018
7:00 PM Nur Gott kann mich
richten/Only God Can Judge Me
9:30 PM 303
November 9, 2018
7:00 PM Styx
9:30 PM Aus dem Nichts/In the
Fade
November 10, 2018
7:00 PM Transit
9:30 PM Leanders letze Reise/The
Final Journey
November 11, 2018
7:00 PM Viel Lärm um Nick/Forget
About Nick
9:30 PM Der Hauptmann/The Captain
The German Film Week, the only
film festival in the Philippines featuring the best and latest in contemporary
German cinema is presented by the Goethe-Institut Philippinen. This event is
made possible through the partnership with SM Lifestyle Malls and SM Cinemas
and the support of the Film Development Council of the Philippines.
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