Th festival brings four new award-winning films of German cinema to southern California in collaboration with Goethe Institute in Los Angeles. The festival opens with an award-winning film, Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland, followed by a gala reception in the theater?s foyer featuring Mediterranean food, coffee, Apfelstrudel, German wine and champagne (all included in the ticket price!) Guests have a unique opportunity to mingle with actors and luminaries immediately after the screening. All films are in German, with English subtitles. Cash only for tickets sales at the door.
Movie synopsis: Composed in parallel structure, this light-as-air and colorfully punchy comedy of manners focuses on generations of cultural misunderstandings inside a German-Turkish household. First set in contemporary day Germany, patriarch Huseyin (Vedat Erincin) insists his entire family - including grown children and grandchildren - accompany him on a holiday to Turkey.Next set in 1964, young Huseyin arrives in Germany for the first time, with the unglamorous title of being the one-millionth-and-first guest worker in the country. As the two time periods switch back and forth, a constantly amusing portrait of a family with multiple national identities - and multiple confused identities - winningly forms. Official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival 2011.
Admission: $25 - Opening Night with Reception
Festival takes place on Saturday October 22 and Sunday October 23
October 22 film:
6:30 PM to Almanya: Welcome to Germany
For more information, please call: (619) 238-7559 or visit www.goethe.de
Movie synopsis: Composed in parallel structure, this light-as-air and colorfully punchy comedy of manners focuses on generations of cultural misunderstandings inside a German-Turkish household. First set in contemporary day Germany, patriarch Huseyin (Vedat Erincin) insists his entire family - including grown children and grandchildren - accompany him on a holiday to Turkey.Next set in 1964, young Huseyin arrives in Germany for the first time, with the unglamorous title of being the one-millionth-and-first guest worker in the country. As the two time periods switch back and forth, a constantly amusing portrait of a family with multiple national identities - and multiple confused identities - winningly forms. Official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival 2011.
Admission: $25 - Opening Night with Reception
Festival takes place on Saturday October 22 and Sunday October 23
October 22 film:
6:30 PM to Almanya: Welcome to Germany
For more information, please call: (619) 238-7559 or visit www.goethe.de
