December 13 – 19, 2019
Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek
Ili-Likha Artists Village, Assumption Road, Baguio City
The German Film Week is on its last stop at BAGUIO CITY!
Catch nine German films from December 13 to 19 at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village in Baguio City!
Admission is FREE on a first-come, first-served basis!
December 13, Friday
Good Bye, Lenin! | 3:00PM
All About Me | 6:00PM
December 14, Saturday
Gundermann | 3:00PM
100 Things | 6:00PM
December 15, Sunday
The Lives of Others | 3:00PM
Berlin Blues | 6:00PM
December 16, Monday
Barbara | 3:00PM
Good Bye, Lenin! | 6:00PM
December 17, Tuesday
Berlin Blues | 3:00PM
25 km/h | 6:00PM
December 18, Wednesday
Good Bye, Lenin! | 3:00PM
The Keeper | 6:00PM
December 19, Thursday
Gundermann | 3:00PM
The Lives of Others | 6:00PM
For more information about the festival, visit goethe.de/germanfilmweekph.
November 6 to 11, 2019
SM City Manila Cinema 6
SM Megamall Cinema 2
Film Development Council of the Philippines
Tickets
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The German Film Week is a showcase of the latest and the hottest to come out of the German cinema market in the past two years. Now on its fourth edition, the festival features a roster of 12 full-length feature films that offer movie buffs a chance to delve into the rich variety of German cinema. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this year, 6 of those films focus on the historical event.
The German Film Week kicks off at SM Manila Cinema 6 on Nov 6 with the opening movie Balloon directed by Michael Bully Herbig. The screenings of other films will run from November 7 to November 11 at SM City Manila Cinema 6 and SM Megamall Cinema 2.
Screenings
Tickets to all screenings of the German Film Week in Metro Manila are priced at 100 PhP and are available at SM Cinema Ticket Counters or online via the SM Cinema App and www.smcinema.com. A 50% discount is applicable for all students and regular discounts apply for seniors and PWDs. Admission to the opening film, Balloon, on November 06, is free and slots will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, visit www.goethe.de/manila.
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About the Films
The Lives of Others Movie | Das Leben der anderen
FOCUS: 30 YEARS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2006
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Genre: Thriller, Drama
English Subtitles
Duration: 137 mins
“…you cannot just help but watch.” – BBC
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
A story from the heart of the East-German regime, The Lives of Others is an intensely gripping thriller and moving love story featuring some of Germany′s most internationally celebrated actors.
Watch the Oscar-winning film, The Lives of Others Movie, at the 4th German Film Week in Baguio this December 15, 3:00PM and December 19, 6:00PM, at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19LivesOfOthers
The Keeper | Trautmann – Der Film
FOCUS: NEW GERMAN CINEMA
FILM DETAILS
Germany, UK, Ireland | 2018
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Genre: Biography, Drama
English Subtitles
Duration: 120 mins
25km/h
FOCUS: NEW GERMAN CINEMA
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2018
Director: Markus Goller
Genre: Comedy, Roadmovie, Adventure
English Subtitles
Duration: 116 mins
100 Things | 100 Dinge
FOCUS: NEW GERMAN CINEMA
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2018
Director: Florian David Fitz
Genre: Comedy
English Subtitles
Duration: 115 mins
Rating: PG
“A high concept movie teaching the lative importance of possessions and addicted consumerism.” – Variety
Toni loves his espresso machine. Paul adores his smartphone. Toni can’t do anything without his hair-growth pills. Paul can’t function without Amazon. All hilarious hell breaks loose when a drunken argument at a party leads to an unthinkable wager between the two men: they vow to rid themselves of all possessions for 100 days. Only allowing themselves to retrieve one item out of storage per day, Paul and Toni are forced to confront what is really important in their lives, and what they can do without.
Catch the hilarious story of Toni and Paul in 100 Things / 100 DINGE, this December 14, 6:00PM, at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19100Things.
All About Me | Der Junge muss an die frische Luft
FOCUS: NEW GERMAN CINEMA
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2018
Director: Caroline Link
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Biography
English Subtitles
Duration: 100 mins
“The almost perfect oscillation between tragedy and comedy make Link’s movie something very special.” – artechock, Axel Timo Pur
The story begins in the Ruhr Valley of 1972: Hans-Peter is nine years old and a bit chubby, but full of self-confidence. The latter is not least due to his ability to make other people laugh, a talent that he trains on every occasion – be it in the grocer’s shop of his grandmother Änne, with the customers as an audience, or at the various meetings with his party-prone relatives. But the idyllic family life takes a turn for the darker when Hape’s mother loses her sense of smell and taste as the result of a chronic sinus infection and starts struggling with depression. The father is helpless and doesn’t know how to deal with his wife’s mental illness. But for Hape, the sadness of his mother is an even greater incentive to act out his comedic side.
Catch the film adaptation of the autobiography of German entertainer Hape Kerkeling, in All About Me/ Der Junge muss an die frische Luft, this December 13, 6:00PM at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19AllAboutMe.
BARBARA
FOCUS: 30 YEARS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2012
Director: Christian Petzold
Genre: Drama
English Subtitles
Duration: 105 mins
“A slow-burning Cold War drama that will reward patient viewers with its ultimate emotional payoff.” – Hollywood Reporter
Barbara, a Berlin doctor, was banished to a rural East German hospital as punishment for applying for an exit visa. As her lover from the West carefully plots her escape, Barbara waits patiently and avoids friendships with her colleagues-except for Andre the hospital’s head physician, who is warmly attentive to her. But even as she finds herself falling for him, Barbara still cannot be sure that Andre is not a spy. As her defensive wall slowly starts to crumble, she is eventually forced to make a profound decision about her future.
Don’t miss the award-winning film, BARBARA, at the 4th German Film Week Baguio, this December 16, 3:00PM, at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19Barbara.
Berlin Blues | Herr Lehmann
FOCUS: 30 YEARS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2003
Director: Leander Haußmann
Genre: Comedy
English Subtitles
Duration: 115 mins
“Get With It, Bar Hoppers, The Berlin Wall Is Falling.” – The New York Times
Using elusive measures Herr Lehmann has successfully ignored the demands of his parents, landlord, neighbours and women for years. Now, in the year 1989, he lives pretty much trouble-free in Berlin, when he’s not in the nearest bar.
On the day the Fall Berlin Wall, Herr Lehmann turns 30, and as he joins the influx of ecstatic humanity pouring through a lifted concrete barrier, he is inspired. Not only his world but also the entire world has suddenly been changed. It is an end of an era for both…
Catch the funny story of how a West Berlin slacker’s life changed in the weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall in Berlin Blues this December 15, 6:00PM and December 17, 3:00PM, at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19BerlinBlues.
Good Bye, Lenin!
FOCUS: 30 YEARS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2003
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romantic
English Subtitles
Duration: 121 mins
“It’s an intriguing concept, hampered only by the curse of all farce.” – BBC
October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany – and this is precisely what happens to Alex′s mother, an activist for social progress and the improvement of everyday life in socialist East Germany. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved country?
To save his mother, Alex transforms the family apartment into an island of the past, a kind of socialist museum where his mother is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed. What begins as a little white lie gets more and more out of hand as Alex′s mother, who feels better every day, wants to watch TV and even leaves her bed one day…
Don’t miss this wonderful, touching and comical German film classic at the 4th German Film Week in Baguio this December 13 | 3:00PM, December 16 | 6:00PM, and December 18 | 3:00PM at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19GoodByeLenin.
Gundermann
FOCUS: NEW GERMAN CINEMA; 30 YEARS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
FILM DETAILS
Germany | 2018
Director: Andreas Dresen
Genre: History, Drama
English Subtitles
Duration: 127 mins
“One of the richest, most sophisticated and greatest films about the GDR.” – Spiegel.de
Politically active and passionate, digger driver Gundermann’s music career took off in 1986, capturing the hearts of the people with his clever, often melancholy lyrics imbued with social commentary. A poet, a clown, a loyal husband and an idealist, Gundermann lived a multifaceted life as a rebel – and a spy who was spied on. This inspiring biopic is both a music film and a love story that courageously encompasses guilt and entanglement, as well as suppression and, above all, defiance.
Don’t miss the multi-award-winning film, Gundermann, this December 14, 3:00PM and December 19, 3:00PM, at the Balay ni Ikeng Cinematek, Ili-Likha Artists Village!
Watch the trailer: bit.ly/GFW19Gundermann.
