Goethe-Institut Tanzania Program of Films May 2011

Film Thursday 05 May 2011

Kirschblüten – Hanami (Cherry Blossoms – Hanami), 7 pm
Director: Doris Dörrie, colour, 127 min., 2007/08
(Elmar Wepper) is unaware that he is suffering from cancer and only has a few weeks left to live. The doctor has only informed his vivacious, esoteric wife Trudi (Hannelore Elsner) of his diagnosis, and she decides that they should take a last holiday together. When they arrive on the Baltic coast, Trudi dies unexpectedly – and Rudi fulfils her lifelong dream of visiting Japan and seeing Mount Fuji.
Film Thursday 12 May 2011
Im Winter ein Jahr (A year ago in Winter), 7 pm
Director: Caroline Link, colour, 128 min., 2008

Interior designer Eliane Richter commissions Max Hollander to paint a picture of her two children. Her daughter Lilli is not keen on the idea, because her brother Alexander committed suicide and the portrait of the two would be nothing more than a decorative illusion. The project changes everyone directly and indirectly involved with the painting.

Film Thursday 19 May 2011
Sonnenallee, 7pm,
Director: Leander Haußmann, colour, 94 min., 1998/99
The film "Sonnenallee" ventures a look back to GDR times – it is not a maudlin portrayal, but an unabashedly sentimental and fabulously exaggerated one. It is the story of young people, forbidden music and dances, and of that special love that changes everything.

Film Thursday 26 May 2011
Annas Sommer (Anna´s summer) 7pm,
Director: Jeanine Meerapfel, colour, 114 min., 2001

When 50-year old photo journalist Anna Kastelano arrives on the small Greek island Symi, she is not yet aware that she will be turning the page to a new chapter in her life. As she is confronted with her past she experiences the present in a new way.