Definitely – There’s German Movies in the Air! At the recent European Film awards, the Golden Globes and the upcoming Oscars, at Berlin&Beyond, the festival for German language films, here in San Francisco and of course at the International Film Festival in Berlin… German films are everywhere at the moment.
So why is this happening? What’s going on in the German production scene at the moment? What is it about German movies that makes them so unique? And so distinctly German? Does it still hold true to say, „if it’s not gloomy, it can’t be a German movie“? Not necessarily, because it was a comedy, Toni Erdmann (admittedly one with an edge) that won 5 European Film Awards, was nominated for the Golden Globes, is the German entry to the Oscars and has even had its theatrical release in the US this December, which is a remarkable achievement for a German movie without a historical topic.
Join us in exploring the latest trends in German film today based on examples of movies from this year and 2016. We will find, that next to mainstream comedies and historical pictures almost a new genre seems to be in the making…
Gaba is reaching beyond its comfort zone of business events to bring you this exciting evening of film appreciation with Oliver Schütte, film expert from Berlin and author of several books on the joy of understanding movies. He will walk us through an entertaining evening with plenty of film clips to illustrate the latest trends in German cinema.
