If Not Us, Who

23.10 (Sun) 2:00pm Science Museum Lecture Hall Booking
28.10 (Fri) 7:30pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Dir: Andres Veiel  Germany  2011  125mins

Based on the emotional true story of an explosive era, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin began a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany......

Young Goethe in Love

23.10 (Sun) 4:30pm Science Museum Lecture Hall Booking
30.10 (Sun) 7:50pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Dir: Philipp Stölzl  Germany  2010  100mins

Biopic about the famous poet focusing on his early love affairs, which later became the template for Goethe's masterpiece The Sorrows of Young Werther.....

Brownian Movement

24.10 (Mon) 9:30pm Science Museum Lecture Hall Booking
29.10 (Sat) 7:55pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Dir: Nanouk Leopold  Germany/The Netherlands/Belgium  2010  102mins

Charlotte is married with one son and is a doctor in a clinic in Brussels. She has sex with patients in an apartment, selecting the men as if setting up a scientific experiment: very hirsute, coarse, fat or old......

Kaifeck Murder

21.10 (Fri) 9:50pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
30.10 (Sun) 3:50pm AMC Festival Walk Booking
Dir: Esther Gronenborn  Germany  2009  86mins

A job brings the photographer Marc and his son Tyll to the remote and mysterious village of Kaifeck in Bavaria. Suddenly, inexplicable things start happening to him at night......

Sleeping Sickness

23.10 (Sun) 9:45pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
29.10 (Sat) 2:00pm AMC Festival Walk Booking
Dir: Ulrich Köhler Germany/France/The Netherlands 2011　91mins

Ebbo and Vera Velten have been living in Africa for a long time. Ebbo is managing a sleeping sickness program. His work is fulfilling, but Vera feels increasingly uncomfortable with such expatriate life......

Lessons of a Dream

22.10 (Sat) 1:50pm AMC Festival Walk Booking
30.10 (Sun) 9:50pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Dir: Sebastian Grobler  Germany  2011  113mins

The young teacher Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys in 1874. The reform-minded headmaster has hired Koch as one of the very first English teachers in order to let a fresh new wind into his musty institution......

The Silence

22.10 (Sat) 9:50pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
31.10 (Mon) 7:00pm Science Museum Lecture Hall Booking
Dir: Baran bo Odar  Germany  2010  119mins

A bicycle found in a wheat field. A missing girl. Is history repeating itself? 23 years ago, a young girl named Pia was raped and murdered at this exact spot. Has the same thing happened now to 13-year-old Sinikka?

Soul Boy

23.10 (Sun) 8:30pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
28.10 (Fri) 9:55pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Dir: Hawa Essuman  Germany/Kenya  2010  61mins

Nairobi, Kenya. 14 year-old Abila lives with his parents in Kibera, one of the largest slums in East Africa. One morning the teenager discovers his father ill and delirious. Someone has stolen his soul, mumbles the father......

Romeos

22.10 (Sat) 3:50pm AMC Festival Walk Booking
30.10 (Sun) 2:00pm AMC Festival Walk Booking
Dir: Sabine Bernardi  Germany  2011  94mins

Lukas has just turned twenty. He’s going through hormone replacement therapy induced male puberty, because he was born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he moves to the big city and meets the macho-driven Fabio, who seems to personify everything he wants to be......

The Days to Come

24.10 (Mon) 7:00pm Science Museum Lecture Hall Booking
29.10 (Sat) 9:50pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Dir: Lars Kraume  Germany  2010  129mins

A futuristic drama of an upper middle-class Berlin family on their personal journey from the present day into a near future, a journey into a time of uncertainty and grave changes......

The Poll Diaries

20.10 (Thu) 7:30pm Agnès b. CINEMA! Booking
31.10 (Mon) 9:20pm Science Museum Lecture Hall Booking
Germany/Austria/Estonia  2010  129mins

On the eve of World War I, 14-year-old Oda von Siering returns to Poll, her family home on the Baltic coast, a region uneasily shared by Germans, Russians and Estonians......

Four Minutes

21.10 (Fri) 7:40pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
29.10 (Sat) 3:50pm AMC Festival Walk Booking
Germany  2006  112mins

Pianist Traude Krüger has been giving piano lessons in a women’s prison for more than 60 years, almost as if she had to pay for some crime herself. One day she meets Jenny there, an unapproachable, erratic, violent young woman who is imprisoned for murder......

Shattered Glass

22.10 (Sat) 7:45pm AMC Pacific Place Booking
Germany  2002  101mins

Invited to his father’s mansion for a party, Jesko is enraged to discover that the invitation is a bold deception. He has leukemia, and his father and brother Ansgar are hoping that a bone-marrow transplant from his long-lost mother might save him......

Everybody's Favourites on the Roof

26.10 (Wed) 7:30pm
Germany/Switzerland/USA  100mins

A successful German-French collaborative arrangement, ‘Soirée Allemande•Everybody’s Favourites – German Short Films’ has come to its 6th edition. This year we have quite a selection for you: odd, dangerous, extra-terrestrial, bizarre, touching, politically committed and hilarious.