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Monday, January 18. 2021
TAF Salon: Christopher Aoun
The Goethe-Institut Toronto is proud to partner again with Toronto Arab Film in widening the perception on film and film creatives out of Germany. TAF Salon, programmed by Ahmad Alhaj and Rolla Tahir, is a new initiative dedicated to building discourse on contemporary Arab Cinema through interviews with cinema creatives around the world about their craft, experiences in filmmaking, their thoughts on Arab cinema, and their hopes for it.
For this edition, TAF Artistic Director Rolla Tahir spoke with Berlin/Beirut cinematographer Chris Aoun (Capernaum) about his entry into film, how he honed his craft, and his views on the current wave of Arab cinema.
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Tuesday, January 12. 2021
German Films @ Sundance 2021

Ronny Trocker's German-Italian-Danish feature HUMAN FACTORS (DER MENSCHLICHE FAKTOR), developed through the Torino Film Lab, is part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Continue reading "German Films @ Sundance 2021" »
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Friday, December 11. 2020
12 Days of German Film @ Netflix
T’is the season, or rather the year for Netflix. Let me give you The 12 Nights of German Film @ (Canadian) Netflix Christmas early, beginning with baking & singing, and moving to some brand-new holiday drama and January releases to look forward to:

Everyone is doing it, from the sourdough craze to other booming reality-show franchise formats like The Great Canadian Baking Show. Nailed It! Germany takes delight in culinary failure, and most of us can relate. More national Schadenfreude at Nailed It! Mexico, France and Nailed It! Holiday edition. Continue reading "12 Days of German Film @ Netflix" »

Everyone is doing it, from the sourdough craze to other booming reality-show franchise formats like The Great Canadian Baking Show. Nailed It! Germany takes delight in culinary failure, and most of us can relate. More national Schadenfreude at Nailed It! Mexico, France and Nailed It! Holiday edition. Continue reading "12 Days of German Film @ Netflix" »
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Wednesday, November 25. 2020
Worldwide screening day: Raoul Peck's "I Am Not Your Negro"

worldwide screening day of Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” on December 10, 6pm EST with a Twitter contextualisation by Dr. Vershawn Young.
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of his death in 1987, Baldwin left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. "I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me, as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me," says filmmaker Raoul Peck.
Baldwin's discontinued project became the springboard for Peck's film "I Am Not Your Negro," (trailer) discussing Baldwin’s lived experiences in his own words as read by Samuel L. Jackson. On 10 December 2020, Human Rights Day, the Goethe-Institut Toronto is joining the international literary festival Berlin ilb and many other global organisations in a worldwide viewing day. Meet us on Twitter @GoetheToronto at 6pm EST alongside Baldwin expert and professor of African American Studies, Vershawn Young, who will contextualise the film and Baldwin's work and legacy and take your questions. Continue reading "Worldwide screening day: Raoul Peck's "I..." »
Monday, November 16. 2020
German culture minister: Don’t sacrifice the arts to the crisis!

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Tuesday, November 3. 2020
Interview: Caroline Link's "All About Me" opening EUFF 2020

All About Me is the first of your films that you didn’t write the screenplay for yourself. How did that happen? Continue reading "Interview: Caroline Link's "All About..." »
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Tuesday, October 27. 2020
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, in Pictures
Not only is Oscar winner Caroline Link's internationally celebrated literary adaptation "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" a strong contender for German's Academy Award submission, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival and the Goethe-Institut are presenting the family film's Toronto online Oct 29-30. Don't miss the Zoom Q&A with director Caroline Link on Oct 31 at 3pm! The film has been praised (and criticized by some) for its stunning imagery, have a look...


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Germany's Oscar submission long list: Enfant Terrible

In the cinema, Oliver Masucci plays legend Rainer Werner Fassbinder and TV presenter Jochen Schropp plays his lover. GQ met the cinema couple of the year for an interview about “an incredible love story.”
One of them comes from the Vienna Burgtheater, the other from a TV morning show, now their paths as actors cross in the crazy love story of the German cinema year. In the biopic about the legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Enfant Terrible” by Oskar Roehler, Oliver Masucci, 51,* and Jochen Schropp, 41, show how straightforwardly love between two men can be brought to the screen – and the radically free way that the two actors are shaping their careers.
Mr. Schropp, this is something new: the host of “Celebrity Big Brother” is part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. How do you feel? Continue reading "Germany's Oscar submission long list: Enfant..." »
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Sunday, October 25. 2020
Hüller on Acting & the boredom of linear characters
Sandra Hüller in conversation with Yvonne Büdenhölzer, Munich Kammerspiele, January 2014
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Hüller in short: Dog Over
Commissioned for the Goethe-Institut's Europoly project asking artists from across Europe to document the transformation of the "Old World" into a new one, this French-German short film stars actress Sandra Hüller as a woman waking up, amnesic, in an empty world. As she pulls her dog’s leash from the pocket of her coat, she starts looking for her dog, then recollects her town, and her kids. She keeps wandering, quite anxious, immersed in the image of her thoughts.
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