14 Pews, a non-profit art house, is proud to announce America’s ONLY weekly German Film Series continuing through June 2014.
“We are excited to be teaming up with the German Consulate and The Goethe Institut,” says Executive Director of 14 Pews, Cressandra Thibodeaux. “I look forward to also serving German snacks and wearing my lederhosen,” she added.
“It has been such a learning experience with programming 52 German films, I am so thankful for our advisory board, mostly Louis Black, (who started SXSW and the Austin Chronicle), he’s a specialist with New German Cinema which is the German
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14 Pews, a non-profit art house, is proud to announce America’s ONLY weekly German Film Series continuing through June 2014.
“We are excited to be teaming up with the German Consulate and The Goethe Institut,” says Executive Director of 14 Pews, Cressandra Thibodeaux. “I look forward to also serving German snacks and wearing my lederhosen,” she added.
“It has been such a learning experience with programming 52 German films, I am so thankful for our advisory board, mostly Louis Black, (who started SXSW and the Austin Chronicle), he’s a specialist with New German Cinema which is the German film movement of the 60s – 80s. So, we’ll be screening a lot of Fassbinder, Herzog and Wim Wender films, along with many many others.”
The films will screen every Wednesday night, starting at 7:30PM and will be FREE or pay-what-you-can. Doors open at 7:15PM.
Wednesday June 11
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
A Year Ago in Winter
(2008, directed by Caroline Link, 2hr 8 minutes; adapted from Scott Campbell's book Aftermath)
Two very different people find out they have more in common than they imagined in this emotional drama from Germany. Elaine Richter (Corinna Harfouch) is a middle-aged woman who approaches artist Max Hollander (Josef Bierbichler) with an unusual commission — she'd like a dual portrait of her two children, but while 22-year-old Lili (Karoline Herfurth) will be able to model for him, her son Alexander (Cyril Sjostrom) died a year ago at the age of 19 and the artist will have to work from photos and videos.
Max agrees to the assignment, but he discovers that Lili isn't very enthusiastic about posing for him at first, especially after she informs him that Alexander's death was a suicide. With time Lili and Max begin to bond and come to understand one another's emotional crises. Lili is a gifted dance student who has lost a major role after an argument with her teacher and mentor, and she's sought solace in her relationship with Aldo (Misel Maticevic), an artist whose controlling nature is strangling her freedom. Meanwhile, Max finds himself drawn to Lili just as he's trying to come to terms with having romantic and sexual feelings for another man for the first time.
Im Winter Ein Jahr (aka A Year Ago in Winter) earned Caroline Link "Best Director" honors at the 2009 Bavarian Film Awards.
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