German film makers focus on ordinary lives
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"Children, As Time Flies"
Third in a trilogy about ordinary families from Halle-Neustadt.
Date: June 13, 3:45pm,
Venue: Broadband Cinema
"Staub/Dust"
Dust is everywhere all the time. It's the smallest discernible object about which to make a film.
Date: June 13, 9pm
Venue: Metropole Cinema
"Shanghai Fiction"
The one-and-a-half-hour film features four unconnected people who live in Shanghai and describes their lives.
Date: June 14, 9pm
Venue: Studio City
"Forgetting Dad"
A man who suffers total amnesia in a seemingly harmless car accident embarks on a new life.
Date: June 14, 1:30pm
Venue: Studio City
To get more information, go to the Goethe Institute at 102A, Cross Tower, 318 Fuzhou Rd.
'Focus Germany' series during Shanghai International Film Festival
Was du nicht siehst (What You Don't See / Sommerspiel)
Director: Wolfgang Fischer
This psychological thriller is about a sensitive German adolescent grappling with his father's suicide and his mother's new boyfriend.
Screening date: June 13-14, 17-19
Where to watch: Shanghai Film Art Center, Nextage Film Art Center, Peace Cinema, Century Friendship Cinema
13 Semester
Director: Frieder Wittich
Two college graduates from Florence leave the college after spending 13 meaningless semesters and learn life's real lessons outside the school.
Screening date: June 14-16, 18, 20
Where to watch: Broadband International Cineplex, Shanghai Film Art Center, Kodak Cinema
Phantomschmerz (Phantom Pain)
Director: Matthias Emcke
This German-language psychological drama follows the turmoil of a cyclist and womanizer who loses one of his legs in a hit-and-run accident and must adjust to his disability.
Screening date: June 14-17, 20
Where to watch: Stellar Cinema City, Shanghai Film Art Center, UME International Cineplex
Schreibe mir - Postkarten nach Copacabana (Write me ? Postcards to Capacabana)
Director: Thomas Kronthaler
The 14-year-old Alfonsina lives with her mother Rosa and her grandmother Elena. Together with her best friend Tere, Alfonsina plans to leave this boring place in order to see the world.
Screening date: June 15, 17-18
Where to watch: Cathay Theater, Studio City Cinema
Lila, Lila (My Words, My Lies, My Love)
Director: Alain Gsponer
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer and claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author begins to take over David's life.
Screening date: June 14-15
Where to watch: Studio City Cinema, Broadband International Cineplex, Century Friendship Cinema
Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore (The Two Lives of Daniel Shore)
Director: Michael Dreher
Daniel Shore, a 28-year-old German American, is about to spend a few days in the flat of his deceased grandmother. But things get complicated when a boy gets killed.
Screening date: June 13-15, 18-19
Where to watch: Yonghua Cinema, Studio City Cinema, Shanghai Film Art Center
Waffenstillstand (Ceasefire)
Director: Lancelot von Naso
A group of five people plans to help people in Falludscha and end up fighting for the lives of the helpless and wounded and eventually their own.
Screening date: June 14-15, 18-20
Where to watch: Grand Theater, Nextage Film Art Center, Tianshan Cinema
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