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Wednesday, June 29. 2022
The Sensuality of Opening Credits

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Thursday, June 9. 2022
Hello Again -- A Wedding a Day

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Wednesday, June 8. 2022
GOETHE FILM TALK: Antonia Kilian on emotional landscapes
Kassel- & Berlin-based documentary filmmaker Antonia Kilian spent a year in Kurdistan to portray Hala, a 19-year-old female freedom fighter for "The Other Side of the River," the documentary that garnered Kilian a German Film Award nomination. As part of her Goethe x LIFT Masterclass on emancipatory filmmaking, Kilian talked to Goethe-Institut programmer Jutta Brendemuhl on emancipatory filmmaking, emotional landscapes and observing moments of revolutionary change.
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Friday, May 27. 2022
Letter from Oberhausen, part 2

On to the films at the 68th Oberhausen Short Film Festival – starting with a timely opening film by one of six artists in Profile, Rainer Komers. The festival opened with Komers' 30-minute 1980 black-and-white portrait of a Sinti Romani community who settled in the neighbouring city of Duisburg and were forcefully removed into traditional private housing. Continue reading "Letter from Oberhausen, part 2" »
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Wednesday, May 25. 2022
Letter from Oberhausen, part 1

I've lost track of how many times I've been fortunate to visit the venerable Oberhausen Short Film Festival near Dusseldorf in the west of West Germany, but I believe the first visit was in 2007 or 2008. This year felt more special than most because it was their first edition back in the beautiful Lichtburg Cinema since 2019, following two exclusively online festivals. In 2020 the festival was planning a large focus on Canadian creators with a series of live celluloid film-based performances, a 16mm handmade film workshop from the Film Farm (Philip Hoffman’s independent imaging retreat in Ontario), book launches, talks and presence from dozens of artists from across so-called Canada. Continue reading "Letter from Oberhausen, part 1" »
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Tuesday, May 24. 2022
And the Oscar for Visual Effects goes to...

Gerd Nefzer is a modest, down-to-earth guy. In jeans and a sweater, he seems like the nice man next door. His company is based on at Studio Babelsberg, and at first glance there’s nothing to indicate that they are Oscar winners. That was in 2018 for special effects in the film Blade Runner 2049. Now Nefzer has won his second Oscar for special effects in the visual effects category; this time for the science fiction film Dune.
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Friday, May 20. 2022
Confessions of Felix Krull: Between Zaza and Zouzou

A handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel. Nobel Prize winning author Thomas Mann's tale of an eager young upstart and con man, who switches places with the Marquis de Venosta to win over the charming Zaza is not exactly a feminist tale. Continue reading "Confessions of Felix Krull: Between Zaza and..." »
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A front row seat on the biggest political con of 2000s
"Operation Curveball" is based on real events --"unfortunately," as the opening titles note--, so the genre of political satire fit the bill for a refugee who fooled the German and other Western intelligence services with monumental fallout. The tagline sums it up nicely: the true story of a global lie. For the GOETHE FILMS Toronto premiere, we asked Canadian Middle East expert Alan Barnes to introduce the film. Analyst Barnes was the one who advised the Chrétien government that Saddam Hussein had no active WMD program:
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Tuesday, May 17. 2022
Confessions of Felix Krull: From Mann to Kehlmann, from page to screen

Confessions of Felix Krull, wherein a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel, is a perennially popular novel, written by Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann between 1910 and 1913 and from 1950 to 1954. It is an unfinished work -- a sequel was planned but never came to be. The first edition appeared in 1954, and the author still made changes to it. The final, third version came out in 1955. According to the 79-year-old Mann, it would be "no misfortune" if the novel, which was laid out in three books, "remained wide open." Continue reading "Confessions of Felix Krull: From Mann to..." »
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Monday, May 16. 2022
Felix Krull, Confidence Man

When, after a few strokes of fate, an opportunity opens up for him to work as an elevator boy in a luxury hotel in Paris, small-town boy Felix Krull doesn't hesitate to leave his old life behind. He quickly rises to the position of head waiter, especially driving the female guests crazy. During a meeting with the Marquis Louis de Venosta, who is unhappily in love, the two come up with the idea of swapping identities to allow the Marquis to live with the free-spirited Zaza. Although for Felix this means losing the love of his life, Zaza, to another man, his insatiable hunger for change and social advancement is greater. His ability to charm and deceive people eventually leads him to the royal court of Lisbon, where he delivers his masterpiece as an impostor. Continue reading "Felix Krull, Confidence Man" »
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