All must-see films from 2nd German Film Week plus Brillante Mendoza’s ‘Captive’
The second edition of the anticipated German Film Week offers the best and latest in contemporary German Cinema.
This year, twelve select critically acclaimed and award-winning German feature films, as well as two Berlinale films from Cannes award winning director Brillante Mendoza, are featured in a weeklong celebration of German cinema.
The impressive lineup includes “Toni Erdmann,” 2016 Academy award nominee for best foreign language film about a practical joking father who tries to reconnect with his hardworking daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach.
Other films in the slate are:
“My Brother Simple,” a comedy-drama about a young man who takes his mentally challenged brother to Hamburg to look for their father.
“Old Agent Men,” a thriller about Jochen Falk and former Stasi agents who embark on a dangerous mission to rescue the kidnapped president of Katschekistan.
“Welcome to Germany,” a comedy about a well-off Munich family who keeps a refugee but soon becomes embroiled in a dilemma after when they are hounded by racism, bureaucracy and terror suspicions because of him.
“You’ve Got a Message” is a romantic comedy about the struggles of a young woman in finding her way back into life after her boyfriend died.
“The Bloom of Yesterday” is about the story of a Holocaust researcher and grandson of a Nazi war criminal and his bond with a woman whose grandmother was killed during the World War II.
“Happy Burnout” is a comedy about an unemployed man with diagnosed burn-out who gets a therapy in a clinic.
“The World of the Wunderlichs” is about the story of Mimi who lives with her dysfunctional family: a hyperactive son Felix, a chaotic ex-husband and a gambling father.
“Marija” is a drama about a young Ukranian woman who dreams of having her own hairstyling salon. Her dream is suddenly postponed to an uncertain future when she’s fired from her job as a cleaning woman in a Dortmund hotel.
“Return to Montauk” is a romantic drama about a book author in his prime who meets up again with a woman in his past while on a promotional tour.
“My Blind Date With Life” is a biodrama about an ambitious young man who struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
“Fog In August” is a war drama about a Roma boy who tries to sabotage the Nazi euthanasia program after being placed in a mental hospital.
The two Berlinale films from Cannes award winning director Brillante Mendoza featured this year are “Captive” which follows the hostage crisis of the Dos Palmas kidnappings in southern Philippines and “Slingshot” (Tirador) about the intertwined lives of people living in the slum areas of Manila in their bid to rise from poverty.
The 2nd German Film Week runs from September 27 until October 5, 2017 in SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City and SM North EDSA in Quezon City.
