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20/4/2010

Kino! 2010 / Ramchand Pakistani

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

The Museum of Modern Art marks its thirty-first annual survey of recent German cinema with a move from the fall to the spring, when new German films that screened at the Hof and Berlin film festivals are available for their first New York screenings. This year's selection includes features by three leading directors: Andreas Dresen (Whisky with Vodka), Hans-Christian Schmid (The Wondrous World of Laundry) and Margarethe von Trotta (Vision).

New this year to Kino! are filmmakers Susanne Schneider (The Day Will Come) and Jan Raiber, whose documentary All My Fathers premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February. German history plays a significant role in Enrique Sanchez Lansch’s The Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich, Comrade Couture, about the fashion "industry" in former East Germany, and the Oscar-nominated Rabbit à la Berlin, about livestock on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

More current history is explored in From Ramstein with Love, about the large American military base and hospital in the Rhineland. Rounding out the series is Next Generation 2009, which comprises twelve short films from German film academies, and three recent acquisitions to MoMA’s film collection: Hans Christian Schmid’s Requiem, Hans Weingartner’s The Edukators, and Philip Groening’s Into Great Silence.

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, in cooperation with German Films Service + Marketing (Munich) and its New York representative, Oliver Mahrdt. Kino! is presented with the support of the Goethe Institute, New York. Thanks to Christian Dorsch, Managing Director, and Nicole Kaufmann, Project Coordinator, German Films Service + Marketing; and to all participating filmmakers, producers, and directors.

Related Film Screenings

Vision
2009. Germany. Written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. With Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung. Von Trotta’s feature charts the spiritual life of a most extraordinary woman, Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), the Benedictine nun, composer, and healer whose humane counsel was sought by men of both religious and secular power. The superb Sukowa stars as Hildegard who, although forbidden as a woman to preach or interpret scripture, nevertheless through strength, grace, and devotion became a critical figure of her time—and is today among the most revered personages of the Middle Ages. In German; English subtitles. 111 min.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 7:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa)
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Alle meine Vaeter (All My Fathers)
2010. Germany. Written and directed by Jan Raiber. The filmmaker, a young man with younger siblings, knows the man who raised him is not his biological father. He tries to learn about who this man was from his mother, and with her help he discovers a few surprises. With equipment borrowed from his film school and with his quasi-willing mother in tow, Raiber embarks on a journey to find the man who helped conceive him—but the path is far from direct. In German; English subtitles. 90 min.

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Reiber)
Sunday, April 25, 2010, 5:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Reiber)

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Whisky mit Wodka (Whisky with Vodka)
2009. Germany. Directed by Andreas Dresen. Screenplay by Wolfgang Kohlhaase. With Henry Huebchen, Corinna Harfouch, Sylvester Groth. Dresen, a Kino! veteran whose Cloud 9 was one of the high points of last year’s series, returns with a "melancholy comedy" about filmmaking not unlike Truffaut’s Day for Night. A celebrated actor of a certain age has become a liability on the set of his new film, a sex farce set in the 1920s. The film’s producer, wanting to protect his investment, encourages the director to hire a younger actor to reshoot all the scenes made with the older actor–just in case. But the lead actress was once the older actor’s mistress and is now married to the film’s director, and complications ensue. In German; English subtitles. 108 min.

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Filmmaker present)
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft (The Wondrous World of Laundry)
2009. Germany. Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid. Berlin’s luxury hotels send their sheets to Poland, for cleaning and pressing by hand, and they are returned to Berlin the next day. European borders are porous, Polish labor is cheaper, and the women who do the work rely on German money to survive. Schmid, a filmmaker whose sensitivities lie with the under-represented, appreciates this process, and with wry affection celebrates the working women who make this transaction possible. In German, Polish; English subtitles. 97 min.

Friday, April 23, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 2:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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Mauerhase (Rabbit à la Berlin)
2009. Germany/Poland. Directed by Bartek Konopka, Piotr Rosolowski. A tall but true tale about tails and the no man’s land that was once the eastern side of the Berlin Wall and is now the skyscraper center of Berlin—all from some rabbits’ point of view. Courtesy Icarus Films, 39 min.

Traum in Erdbeerfolie (Comrade Couture)
2009. Germany. Directed by Marco Wilms. Who would have thought East Germany in the 1980s would be home to a vibrant underground fashion scene every bit as wild and uninhibited as New York’s in the 1960s. Former East German model Wilms gathered lively archival footage of the period—some shot clandestinely—and intersperses it with interviews of former East German colleagues who have adapted, each in his or her own particular manner, to being “free” in a reunified Germany. In German; English subtitles. 82 min.

Friday, April 23, 2010, 7:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Wilms and actress Sabine von Oettingen)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Wilms and actress Sabine von Oettingen)

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Das Reichsorchester: Die Berliner Philharmoniker und der Nationalsozialismus (The Reichsorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich)
2008. Germany. Directed by Enrique Sánchez Lansch. Lansch—who co-directed Rhythm Is It! about the Berlin Philharmonic in 2003— examines the orchestra's history between 1933, when it ceased being an independent organization financed and administered by its members and became an official creature of the Nazi state, and the end of the war. Under the Third Reich, the orchestra was Goebbels's unassailable ambassador, and its members were exempt from military duty. Lansch excavated some remarkable footage from the period, including performances conducted by Wilhelm Furtwaengler, and was able to interview a few surviving orchestra members. In German; English subtitles. 100 min.

Saturday, April 24, 2010, 5:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Sánchez Lansch)
Sunday, April 25, 2010, 2:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Sánchez Lansch)

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Next Generation 2009
This annual program highlights short films from German film schools. The twelve films this year were selected by Maike Mia Hoehne, Cathy de Haan, and Heinz Badewitz.
Amoklove. 2009. Directed by Julia C. Kaiser. Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ludwigsburg. 9 min.
Between. 2008. Directed by Tim Bollinger. Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach. 5 min.
Clean Up. 2008. Directed by Sebastian Mez. Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ludwigsburg. 9 min.
I Don’t Feel Like Dancing. 2008. Directed by Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim Dollhopf. Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Potsdam-Babelsberg. 7 min.
Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse (No Special Incidents). 2009. Directed by Lennart Ruff. Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen, Munich. 12 min.
Lebensader. 2008. Directed by Angela Steffen. Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ludwigsburg. 6 min.
Rosarot (Rose Colored). 2009. Directed by Ines Christine Giesser, Kirsten Carina Geisser. Kunsthochschule, Kassel. 1 min.
Samsa—Hommage an Franz Kafka (Samsa: Homage to Franz Kafka). 2008. Directed by René Lange. Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Potsdam-Babelsberg. 4 min.
Schneezeit (Snowtime). 2008. Directed by Hannes Burchert. Hochschule für Bildende Kuenste, Hamburg. 15 min.
Spatzen (Sparrows). 2009. Directed by Jan Speckenbach. Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie, Berlin. 12 min.
Sunrise Dacapo (12cm/stehend) (Sunrise Dacapo [12cm/Upright]). 2008. Directed by Nina Poppe. Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne. 5 min.
You Are My Hero. 2009. Directed by Tobias Bilgeri. Kunsthochschule, Kassel. 8 min.

Saturday, April 24, 2010, 7:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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Es kommt der Tag (The Day Will Come)
2009. Germany/France. Written and directed by Susanne Schneider. With Katharina Schuettler, Iris Berben, Jacques Frantz. Schneider’s strong second feature limns the consequences of a decision made a generation earlier. A young woman appears on the doorstep of a family in Alsace-Lorraine struggling to maintain a vineyard. Who is this girl and why should her presence threaten what is already a fragile domesticity? Tensions escalate within the family, and the two actresses who invest the film with such emotional heft make vivid the gray lines between anger, righteousness, and love. In German, French; English subtitles. 103 min.

Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:15 p.m. , Theater 2, T2 (Introduction and Q&A with Schneider and actress Katharine Schüttler)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1 (Introduction and Q&A with Schneider and actress Katharine Schüttler)

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Liebesgrüsse aus Ramstein (From Ramstein with Love)
2009. Germany. Directed by Irene Langemann. The largest American military hospital in Europe, Ramstein, in Rhineland-Palantine, handles seriously wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. Known as "Little America," the hospital sees a large number of binational couples. Renowned documentary filmmaker Langemann records not only the day-to-day activities of the hospital, but the stories of German-American marriages in all their commonalities and differences. In German, English; English subtitles. 89 min.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (The Edukators)
2004. Germany/Austria. Directed by Hans Weingartner. Screenplay by Weingartner, Katharina Held. With Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaussner. In this tragicomic tale, a small group of activists develop an original approach to protesting materialism—but something goes very wrong. In German; English subtitles. 124 min.

Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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Requiem
2006. Germany. Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid. Screenplay by Bernd Lange. With Sandra Hueller, Burghart Klaussner, Imogen Kogge, Karl Klingler. The second film by Schmid in this exhibition is a subtly modulated tale based on an actual incident of alleged demonic possession. A young woman with a strict upbringing frees herself from the pieties of home to attend university. It is the 1970s, and her newfound freedoms excite, confound, and confuse her. In German; English subtitles. 92 min.

Saturday, May 1, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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Die grosse Stille (Into Great Silence)
2005. Germany. Directed by Philip Gröning. Gröning charts a year in a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, where silence is practiced, nature is respected, and devotion is paramount. “Silence. Repetition. Rhythm. The film is an austere, next-to-silent meditation on the monastic life in a very pure form” (Gröning). No dialogue. 162 min.

Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 1:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

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IN A WEEKLONG ENGAGEMENT AT MoMA, THE FILM RAMCHAND PAKISTANI TELLS A TRAGIC STORY OF A FAMILY ON THE INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER

ContemporAsian: Ramchand Pakistani
April 21-26, 2010
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

NEW YORK, March 18, 2010—Based on a true story, Ramchand Pakistani (2008), directed by Mehreen Jabbar, illustrates the political tensions between India and Pakistani through one family's tragic story. The film screens at MoMA from April 21 through 26, 2010, as part of the monthly film series ContemporAsian, organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, with William Phuan, independent curator, and the assistance of Laura Rugarber, Department Assistant, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

In Ramchand Pakistani, an eight-year-old Pakistani boy accidentally crosses the border into India, and both he and his father are apprehended and thrown into an Indian jail. As they languish in prison for five years, the boy's mother, unaware of their whereabouts, struggles to build a new life by herself. Based on actual events, Ramchand Pakistani portrays the absurd price exacted on an ordinary family who are haplessly caught in the political crossfire between India and Pakistan, while also exposing the religious and social discrimination faced by lower-caste families in Pakistan.

As part of the monthly exhibition ContemporAsian, MoMA showcases films that get little exposure outside of their home countries or on the international festival circuit, but which engage the various styles, histories, and changes in Asian cinema. Presented in special weeklong engagements, the films in the series include recent independent gems and little-seen classics.

Ramchand Pakistani. 2008. Pakistan. Directed by Mehreen Jabbar. With Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazal Hussain. In Urudu, Hindi; English subtitles. 103 min.

SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, April 21, 7:00
Thursday, April 22, 4:00
Friday, April 23, 7:00
Saturday, April 24, 5:30
Sunday, April 25, 6:30
Monday, April 26, 1:30

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films

Image: The Day Will Come. 2009. Germany. Directed by Susanne Schneider

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