Films and events tagged 'GFF2024'

-German Film Festival-

Date: Sat 19 Oct

Don Lope de Aguirre, a ruthless Spanish ruler, sets out to try and find the mythical Peruvian city of El Dorado. However, the expedition soon takes a toll on his mental health.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Sun 3 Nov

DYING follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who haven’t been a family for a long time. But everything in life has its price. Confronted with death, the estranged family members finally meet again.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Sat 26 Oct

Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald is an opera-loving fortune hunter who dreams of bringing opera to a remote trading post in the Peruvian jungle. With the help of Madam Molly, his crew, and an indigenous tribe, he ventures into the wilderness to access the riches of unexploited rubber territory.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Fri 01 Nov

MY BEST FIEND is a film about the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski – utterly puzzling to outsiders – about the deep trust between an actor and a director, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Thurs 31 Oct

*Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear Winner*

Sent to Transylvania to negotiate for a house purchased by the monstrous Count Dracula, Jonathan Harker leaves his idyllic town, turning a deaf ear to his wife Lucy’s ill omens. Soon, Jonathan finds himself trapped, and Dracula descends from the mountains towards Lucy, with death and plague in tow.

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-German Film Festival-

Date: Thurs 17 Oct

Opening film for GFF2024

Director Narges Shahid Kalhor no longer wants have “Shahid” (martyr) as her surname and casts an actress as herself, who is set on changing the family name. Her bizarre great-grandfather suddenly appears - who was declared a martyr in Iran after his heroic death a hundred years ago and bequeathed his descendants the honorific “Shahid”. He tries to prevent his great-granddaughter from going through with her plan.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Sat 02 Nov

To date, tens of thousands of human bones from former colonies remain stored in German museums. It is still unclear how they can be identified and returned. "The Empty Grave" follows two families on their arduous search for their ancestors.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Sat 19 Oct

At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger's great-grandfather.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Fri 18 Oct

In the year of 1962, the greatest luminaries in their field meet in at a physics congress located in the Swiss Alps to discuss a world-explaining "The Universal Theory". But soon mysterious and, at least for normal-thinking people, inexplicable things begin to happen. A suspenseful thriller about quantum mechanics, filmed in breathtaking black-and-white images.

-German Film Festival-

Date: Fri 25 Oct

2024 Oscar winner for Best International Film & Best Sound

In 1943, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house right next to the concentration and extermination camp he helped create.

-German Film Festival 2024-

Date: Sat 26 Oct

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Werner Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the legendary iconic artist.

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