SEP OCT NOV 2015 PROGRAMME
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WHEN
WHAT & WHERE
03/09/2015 PERFORMING ARTS EHALAKASA FESTIVAL 10/09/2015
FILM: MIGRATION KADDISH FOR A FRIEND
17/09/2015
FILM: MIGRATION LAND IN SIGHT
24/09/2015
FILM: MIGRATION ADRIFT: PEOPLE OF A LESSER GOD
03/10/2013 CELEBRATION GERMAN NATIONAL DAY 08/10/2015 FILM: FALL OF THE WALL WEST WIND 15/10/2015
FILM: FALL OF THE WALL WESTEN
21/10/15 - 24/10/15
FILM FESTIVAL I LUV AFRICA
29/10/2015
FILM: FALL OF THE WALL GOODBYE LENNY
05/11/2015
FILM: FALL OF THE WALL THE TOWER I
12/11/2015
FILM: FALL OF THE WALL THE TOWER II
17/11/2015 - CONCERT 18/11/2015 DEEP SCHROTT 19/11/2015
FILM: FALL OF THE WALL ESCAPE TO BERLIN
26/11/2015
FILM: FALL OF THE WALL SOLO SUNNY
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PERFORMING ARTS
EHALAKASA FESTIVAL 03/09/2015, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
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FILM
KADDISH FOR A FRIEND 10/09/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
Kaddish for a friend is the authentic and touching tragi-comic story of an intense friendship between two mismatched heroes in today’s Berlin. Russian Jew and WWII veteran Alexander Zamskoy, now 84. Alexander does not want to go into a retirement home. He fights against the strains of his age, holed up in with all his memories in his flat in Kreuzberg, observing the district’s decline with relaxed cynicsm. His Palestinian neighbour, 14-year old Ali Messalem, has quite different problems: he longs for nothing more than to be accepted by his fellow Arab youths. In a test of courage he breaks into the home of the Jewish arch enemy, which he then wrecks and abandons. Criminal charges arise and Ali faces a guilty judgement and expulsion.
FILM
LAND IN SIGHT 17/09/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
Bad Belzig in the state of Brandenburg, some 80 kilometres south-west of Berlin: three asylum seekers are faced with an uncertain future in their refugee home. Abdul, the son of a sheikh, comes from Yemen, Farid has fled Iran, and Brian is from Cameroon. The destinies of three men from such different backgrounds come together in one place, although they never actually meet in the film. However, they do go through similar experiences in a country which does not understand them and which they have trouble understanding. LAND IN SIGHT is a tale of mistrust and good intentions, of encounters with public authorities – whose problems stem more from their rigid bureaucratic structures than the attitudes of their staff – and also of dreams that are often too naive to have a chance of coming true.
FILM
ADRIFT: PEOPLE OF A LESSER GOD 24/09/2015, 6.30PM
GOETHE-INSTITUT
Adrift: People of a Lesser God is a film from multi-Pulitzer Prize nominee, Dominique Mollard. The majority of the film sees the undercover journalist travelling around North and West Africa in search of those who are willing to risk their lives to reach Europe. He’s also interested in tracking down those who, for the right amount of money, will facilitate their passage.
DID YOU KNOW The potatoe is to the German just as fufu is to the Akan? That about 219 spiecies of potatoes are grown in Germany, that
most of these spiecies have female names? That the average German eats about 72kilos of potatoes in a year? That there are three potatoe museums in Germany; Fußgönheim, München and Tribsees?
GERMAN NATIONAL DAY 03/10/2015, 10AM - 4PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
OCTOBER 3RD 2015 – 25 YEARS OF GERMAN REUNIFICATION A quarter century after German reunification, we want to celebrate Germanys unity in a befitting fashion outside the walls of the German Embassy. On October 3rd the German Embassy and its partners in culture, education and the economy cordially invite you to a festival for the entire family at the premises of the Goethe-Institut. A live programme surrounding the German institutions in Ghana and its many Ghanaian partners awaits visitors between 10am and 4pm Exhibit: Path to Unification On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification, German Ambassador Rüdiger John will open the exhibition “Path to Unification” at 11am. More than 150 photographs and documents illustrate the peaceful revolution in the GDR and how German reunification unexpectedly found its way onto the agenda of German and international politics. The exhibition can be visited at the Goethe-Institut. The exhibition will continue till the 31.10.2015. For more information, please visit the German Embassy’s and the GoetheInstitut’s webpage, where we will publish further details fairly soon.
FILM
WESTWIND 08/10/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
Doreen and Isa are two 17 year old twins from Saxony. In the summer of 1988 the two future club rowersare allowed to go on a tripto a foreign socialistic country. They enjoy their vacation at Lake Balaton and meet at first a group of guys from Hamburg. Doreen falls in love with Arne. For the first time the two girls don’t share everything and are aboutto make the mostmomentous decisionof their lives. those who, for the right amount of money, will facilitate their passage.
FILM
WESTEN
15/10/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
The summer of 1978: Nelly Senff, a postgraduate chemist, and her son Alexej relocate from East to West Berlin. A feigned marriage to a West German has made the move possible. After the death of Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexej’s father, she hopes to start a new life in the West. But first, the two end up in a refugee centre, and the German bureaucracy, with its string of questionnaires, is not the only thing that racks their nerves. The Secret Service, and most of all the CIA, are very interested in the reasons for Nelly’s exit from East Berlin – and even more so in her presumed dead boyfriend Wassilij, who may be operating as an agent on both fronts. To secure a future, the woman must first put the past behind her.
FILM FESTIVAL
I LUV AFRICA
RWUL’s 3rdAnnual “I Luv Africa” Film Festival (ILAFF 2015) in Ghana will be celebrating the work of independent filmmakers of African descent from around the world. This year’s theme is: “The Great Storytellers” showing films from filmmakers sharing compelling stories. ILAFF is not just about films highlighting Africa or African culture, but rather more about authentic stories from artists of African descent. RWUL’s ILAFF 2015 in Ghana will be on October 21-24, 2015 once again held at the Goethe-Institut of Accra. More details and listing of all the films screening will bebeannounced as the event gets near on the RWUL’s website at www.rwul. com
FILM
GOODBYE LENIN 29/10/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
Berlin (East) in autumn 1989: Alex Kerner’s mother is in a coma after a heart attack and misses the fall of the Berlin Wall. She awakes in summer 1990. Her doctor declares that excitement of any kind could be fatal. Alex must conceal the fall of the SED regime from her. He and his friends pretend to the sick woman that the GDR still exists; the illusion remains perfect until one day the truth can no longer be concealed. The clever comedy was the most successful film of the year in 2003.
FILM
THE TOWER I
05/11/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
A family saga set during the final years of the GDR. Surgeon Richard Hoffmann may have come to an opportunistic arrangement with the system a long time ago, but his way of life enables state security officials to blackmail him. The adaptation of Uwe Tellkamp’s novel of the same name does away with the epic scope of the written original, but was considered one of the best things to come out of German TV in 2012.
FILM
THE TOWER II
12/11/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT Second part of the family saga set during the final years of the GDR. The drill is brutal at the National People’s Army; outsiders are bullied. Christian repeatedly helps his overweight comrade Jan and yet is later not able to prevent him from collapsing and dying during a field exercise. Overcome by desperate rage, Christian attacks the responsible drill instructor; he and his friend Stefan are then sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment. They are sent to work at the notorious petrochemical plant in Schwedt as punishment. “I’ve met wonderful
people here�, Christian writes home. In the meantime, Meno attempts to come closer to the prohibited author Judith. She has now found a job as a cemetery gardener. He encourages her to start writing again, even though she has been excluded from the Writers’ Association
CONCERT
DEEP SCHROTT
18/11/2015, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
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FILM
ESCAPE TO BERLIN
19/11/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
The farmer Hermann Güden is on the run from Saxony-Anhalt to West Berlin. He wants to escape forced collectivisation. Also fleeing illegally is the young SED official Claus Baade, who is expelled from the party due to Güden’s disappearance and wants to fight for his rights in the capital of the GDR. Will Tremper’s ESCAPE TO BERLIN is one of the few films that were made about the German division before the construction of the Berlin Wall.
FILM
SOLO SUNNY
26/11/2015, 6.30PM GOETHE-INSTITUT
The GDR, at the end of the 70s: Ingrid Sommer, a woman working in a factory, tries to launch a singing career under the name “Sunny”. The young woman travels around with the band “Tornados” and plays some small gigs in cultural centres around the province. Her life is anything but “sunny” though, even when her love for the philosopher Ralph does promise some light and warmth at times. A story balancing between sadness and hope, and, retrospectively, a wonderfully precise and authentic film about life in the GDR.
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