ARTS FRIDAY 13.4.2012

2012  FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS Dr. Arpad Sölter  shares with us with passion the  highlights the rich diversity of Germany’s contemporary films.

Dr. Arpad Sölter director Goethe Institut in association with German Films,  has chosen 37 of the most compelling features and documentaries to emerge from Germany and Switzerland over the past year.  The 2012 line-up will also include a selection of shorts and a retrospective on the work of famed German actor/director Leander Haußman (Hotel Lux, Robert Zimmerman is Tangled up in Love, Sun Alley), who will be a guest of this year’s event.

Screening across 6 cities from 18 April until early May, the 2012 Festival will offer a varied programme, in each state.  The Sydney season will commence with a screening of Hotel Lux, a satire set in the late 1930s about an apolitical comedian/cabaret actor who finds himself stranded in a Moscow hotel, where he is forced to pose as Hitler’s personal astrologer, whilst in Melbourne, Summer Window, a romance that sees its protagonist transported to her past, will open the Festival.  Brisbane’s season will open with Cracks in the Shell, a challenging psychological tale about a young actress faced with a powerful self-revelation, whilst Adelaide and Perth’s season will be launched by Westwind, the story of twin sisters from East Germany whose bond is tested when they meet two young men from Hamburg during a 1988 summer camp.

Festival dates and venues are as follows:

SYDNEY:            18 – 30 April             Chauvel Cinema, Palace Norton Street

MELBOURNE:    19 – 30 April             Palace Cinema Como, Kino Cinemas

BRISBANE:        19 – 25 April              Palace Centro Cinema

ADELAIDE:         26 April – 1 May       Palace Nova Eastend Cinema

PERTH:                3 – 6 May               Cinema Paradiso

CANBERRA:        3 – 6 May               National Film and Sound Archive

Visit the Festival Website at: https://www.goethe.de/ozfilmfest

– ES IST WUNDERBAR ! –