Archive notice: This article was originally published on October 23, 2007. Links and embedded videos are preserved as part of the historical record.
The „Encounters at the Cinema“ event series was one of the first initiatives with which the German Film Academy went public and entered the substantive and aesthetic discourse six months after its founding in 2003. Since April 2004, it has invited its members, supporting members, friends and an interested audience to the „Encounters at the Cinema“ series in order to present and discuss the most important works of German filmmaking each year. In this way, the classic idea of the film club is revived. Members of the individual sections of the German Film Academy and other filmmakers place the films shown in the context of their own work and talk with colleagues and an interested cinema audience about their craft and their self-image.
The Encounters at the Cinema now also take place outside the cinema – and look even more strongly and intensively at cinema itself and German film in particular. For this purpose, film publicists Alfred Holighaus and Nicolaus Schröder have devised a varied programme of discussions and films for this year’s „Encounters at the Cinema“ under the title „The Week of the Latest German Film“. Between November 12 and 16, 2007, film enthusiasts have the opportunity, with two events each in Munich and Berlin, to get to know some of the protagonists of the latest German film and their work.
In prominently staffed panel discussions with Academy members such as producer and Academy President Günter Rohrbach, directors Marco Kreuzpaintner, Dominik Graf and Sherry Hormann or screenwriter Christoph Silber, the different aspects of the latest German film will be illuminated and discussed.
The latest German films tell their stories without frills, deal with the past, with migration and integration, with the world of work and again and again with the lives and loves not only of their own generation. Even genres long declared dead, such as the Heimatfilm or the melodrama, are experiencing sensational reinterpretations, and intelligent entertainment cinema „Made in Germany“ that is successful internationally is no longer a contradiction. The dramaturgy lacks any compulsion towards conflict resolution and a happy ending. Sometimes references to European or American independent cinema are unmistakable, but often entirely independent signatures dominate.
The dates in detail are:
Berlin
Tuesday, November 13, 8 p.m., Kino Filmkunst 66
„On Searching and Finding – when producers discover talent“
Films: ALLEIN, director: Thomas Durchschlag
AUTOPILOTEN, director: Bastian Günther
Guests: Joachim Ortmanns (producer of both films), Thomas Durchschlag, Bastian Günther
Moderation: Alfred Holighaus
Friday, November 16, 8 p.m., Filmmuseum Berlin
„Self-deception or not – is German film really as good as its current reputation?“
Panel discussion with: Michael Weber (producer, world sales), Günter Rohrbach(producer), Marco Kreuzpaintner*(director),
Moderation: Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg – requested)
Munich
Monday, November 12, 7.45 p.m., Forum at the Deutsches Museum (Antares Room)
„Author vs. director – on practical collaboration on this side and beyond the dispute about authorship“
Panel discussion with: Christoph Silber*(screenwriter), Sherry Hormann (director), Dominik Graf(director).
Moderation: H.C. Blumenberg(director)
Wednesday, November 14, 7.30 p.m., Arri Kino
„Is Papa’s cinema dead? The desired fathers of the 3rd generation“
Films: NICHTS ALS GESPENSTER, director: Martin Gypkens, music: Martin Todsharow
ELEMENTARTEILCHEN, director: Oskar Roehler, music: Martin Todsharow
Guests: Oskar Roehler, Martin Gypkens, Martin Todsharow
Moderation: Nicolaus Schröder
Admission: 5 euros;
for members, supporting members and the circle of friends of the German Film Academy, admission is free on presentation of ID.
Further links:
- Encounters at the Cinema
