11.12 (Sat) 15:30-17:00 Fritz Lang

11.13 (Sun) 13:00-14:30 After Spring Comes Fall Screening and Discussion

11.13 (Sun) 15:00-17:00 4 Kings Screening and Discussion

11.13 (Sun) 18:00-20:30 In Love With Lou Screening and Discussion

Fritz Lang

Director: Gordian Maugg

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Runtime: 104 min.

He is regarded as a genius, an egocentric sex maniac, and a sadist. Violence and love became Fritz Lang’s life-long subjects: in Vienna, as the son of a violent father under whom his much-loved Jewish mother suffered; as a soldier in Galicia, where he experienced the horrors of the First World War; and finally as a young director in Berlin, accused of murdering his own wife. Fritz Lang left a turbulent environment behind, allowing an investigation of a serial murder to lead him to Dusseldorf. Fritz Lang researches the "evil" in all of us and in himself. We are drawn into the middle of the tense and frightening story behind the film classic M.

After Spring Comes Fall

Director: Daniel Carsenty

Genre: Drama/War

Country: Germany

Runtime: 90min.

Minna, a young Kurdish woman, flees from Syria after an attack on her and her husband. Stranded in Berlin, she tries to build up a new life, working in a factory, although at the same time living here as an illegal immigrant. Syrian security finds her and blackmails her into their services. Minna is forced to spy out Syrian resistance fighters in Berlin and deliver them to the authorities. Things get out of control pretty soon. A film about Kurdish refugees in Germany, their life marked by betrayal, collaboration and violence.

4 Kings

Director: Theresa von Eltz

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Runtime: 99min.

Christmas is approaching, and with it, the desire for harmony, beauty, light and hope. Being unable to cope with her parents’ conflict, Alex (16) makes a radical decision. A day later she finds herself in the adolescent psychiatric emergency unit. There she meets three other young people: Lara (17), the striking daughter from an academic family, who's having acid flashbacks; shy Fedja (16), who’s being bullied at school; and violent Timo (17), who has just been moved from the closed ward. Under the care of the young psychiatrist Dr. Wolff, they will spend a Christmas together that none of them will ever forget.

In Love With Lou

Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post

Genre: Biography/ Drama

Country: Germany

Runtime: 113min.

Born 1861 in St. Petersburg, writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salome leads a lonely existence. She vows never to fall in love and to pursue intellectual perfection. She meets Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche and against all conventions of time, Lou and Rée live and study together in Berlin. Lou had affairs with numerous people, including female writers. She attains her goal of an intellectual and free spirited life. Later on, Lou begins to attend Sigmund Freud’s lectures, becomes a well-esteemed psychoanalyst and finally recognizes the trauma of her youth.

Theresa von Eltz (Director)

After Theresa graduated with an MA in History from Oxford University, she studied Fiction Directing at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield (UK). Her first short film Gecko was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2007. The script for Theresa’s first feature film 4 Kings was nominated for the Deutscher Drehbuchpreis early in 2014.

Daniel Carsenty (Director)

Daniel Carsenty was born in Frankfurt in 1982. He worked as a journalist for the WDR and RTL. From 2008 until 2014 he studied cinematography at the Film University Babelsberg.

Cordula Kablitz-Post (Director)

Cordula Kablitz-Post (b. 1964, Aachen) studied German studies, dramatics, and English studies in Munich and Berlin. She set up the production company "Avanti media" that specializes on TV documentary films and portrays in the domains of art and culture. Among the company’s best-known projects are the TV format Durch die Nacht mit... for the TV channel Arte and the experimental and satirical talk show Talk 2000 with Christoph Schlingensief.

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