Istanbul Modern Cinema, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Istanbul, presents a selection of Brand New Films from Germany for the fifth time. Now become traditional, the screening program includes prominent German films of the year having won awards in various international festivals. The program is curated by director of the Goethe-Institut Istanbul Claudia Hahn-Raabe, Istanbul Modern Film Programs Coordinator Müge Turan, film critic Engin Ertan, and Film Projects Coordinator at the Goethe-Institut Istanbul Fügen Uğur. The title for this year’s program is “New Paths”. Films in the selection bring to the screen very differentstories in which the characters turn over a new leaf in their lives, attempt a new beginning, or try to look at things from a new perspective. The program includes films such as, “Free Fall” which is considered to be “Germany’s Brokeback Mountain”, “Hannah Arendt” in which Barbara Sukowa delivers a stunning performance. The program also includes two music documentaries: “We Are Modeselektor” a documentary about one of the best electronic music groups of our time Modelesektor who will also have a liveperformance in Istanbul on June 9th along with the music mockumentary “Fraktus” which includes Fatih Akın among its producers.
There will be two additional film screenings on Thursday, June 27th:
17:00 Gerhard Richter Paintings
19:00 Hannah Arendt
Move (Drei Zimmer/Küche/Bad), 2012
Germany, Blu-ray, Color, 118’, German
Director:Dietrich Brüggemann
Cast:Jacob Matschenz, Anna Brüggemann, Robert Gwisdek, Alice Dwyer
My Beautiful Country (Die Brücke am Ibar), 2012
Germany, Blu-ray, Color, 88’, Serbian/ Croatian
Director:Michaela Kezele
Cast:Zrinka Cvitešić, Mišel Matičević, Andrija Nikčević, Miloš Mesarović
Free Fall (Freier Fall), 2013
Germany, Blu-ray, Color, 100’, German
Director:Stephan Lacant
Cast:Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, Katharina Schuttler, Maren Kroymann
You Drive Me Crazy, 2012
Germany, France, Blu-ray, Color, 84’, English / German / Hindi / Japanese / Korean
Director:Andrea Thiele
Fraktus (Fraktus – Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte), 2012
Germany, Blu-ray, Color, 92’, German/ English/ Spanish
Director:Lars Jessen
Cast:Devid Striesow, Heinz Strunk, Rocko Schamoni, Jacques Palminger
Gerhard Richter – Resimleri (Gerhard Richter – Painting)
Yönetmen: Corinna Belz
Almanya, DVD, Renkli, 98', 2011
Hannah Arendt, 2012
Germany, 35mm, Color, 113’, German/ English
Director:Margarethe von Trotta
Cast:Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen
Free Fall (Freier Fall), 2013
Germany, Blu-ray, Color, 100’, German
Director:Stephan Lacant
Cast:Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, Katharina Schuttler, Maren Kroymann
Forget-Me-Not (Vergiss mein nicht), 2012
Germany, Blu-ray, Color, 88’, German
Director:David Sieveking
Cast:Gretel Sieveking, Malte Sieveking, David Sieveking