Join us Tuesday, 12 September 2017, noon-2PM for a free luncheon screening & talk with producers Tobias Walker & Philipp Worm.
Walker+Worm in conversation on working with young female filmmakers, acting stars like Sandra Hüller (TONI ERDMANN) and Laura Tonke (AXOLOTL OVERKILL) and premiering films at Film Fest Munich and TIFF. They will be presenting their first feature FINSTERWORLD with an introduction and Q&A and talk about their upcoming TIFF North American premiere of THE GARDEN.
FINSTERWORLD (Germany, 2013, 95 min), directed by Frauke Finsterwalder, written by Frauke Finsterwalder & Christian Kracht, with Sandra Hüller, Corinna Harfouch, Ronald Zehrfeld & Michael Maertens
Watch the
trailer.
World Premiere in Munich 2013
Bronze Zenith Montreal 2013
Best Feature Award Vancouver 2014
German Film Award 2014 (Best Supporting Actress: Sandra Hüller)
Best Female-Directed Narrative Edinburgh 2014
Idyllic colours, gruesome content and dark humour create a surreal film which resists any categorization. The unusual but effective film explores German identity. A policeman likes wearing animal costumes, a school trip to a concentration camp gets out of hand, and a discussion about the ugliness of Germany develops - the presented world is a weird one.
“Finsterwalder is so ambitious she tackles big topics such as German identity head-on, putting some very intelligent revelations in the mouth of some of her youngest protagonists.” – The Hollywood Reporter
In June, Walker+Worm won best producer and director prizes at Film Fest Munich 2017 for their sophomore THE GARDEN, directed and written by Sonja Maria Kröner, with Laura Tonke and others. Don't miss the North American premiere at TIFF17 on September 12.
"A portrait of a bourgeois German family's 1970s summer that feels deliciously and authentically present-tense." - Variety
Talk presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto
100 University Ave, North Tower, 2nd floor
Open to audiences 18+
free admission, doors open 11:30am, first come, first served
Thank you to our partners at TIFF and FilmFernsehFonds Bayern!
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promo still: Sandra Hüller in Finsterworld, photo: Alamode dif c Markus Förderer
