Win one of ten double passes to the German Film Festival at Palace Cinemas
In collaboration with German Films, the 2024 HSBC German Film Festival returns to Brisbane. Taking over Palace Barracks and Palace James Street from May 9 to May 29, the festival features many superb cinema offerings including six films direct from the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), a Werner Herzog retrospective, a selection of the best German films from the last 70 years and exciting new films for budding cinephiles in the Kino for Kids side bar, presented by the Goethe-Institut. Trust us when we say you won’t want to miss out on this year’s exceptional film line-up.
Opening the festival is the new film from award-winning director Andrea Dresen – From Hilde, With Love (In Liebe, Eure Hilde), which premiered to widespread acclaim at the recent Berlinale. Featuring an extraordinary performance from Liv Lisa Fries as a young woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II, the film is a compelling historical drama and remarkable true story. Also direct from Berlinale is festival centrepiece Foreign Language (Langue Étrangère), starring Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni. The impeccable, heartfelt drama follows two teenagers in Leipzig and Strasbourg who forge a friendship through letters and language exchange. Their bittersweet and boundary-testing friendship is strained as they grapple with how to understand themselves and the world around them.
Closing the 2024 HSBC German Film Festival is Treasure, direct from its premiere at Berlinale. This touching drama starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, follows a music journalist and her Polish father, a Holocaust survivor, who set out on a tour of their family homeland. Festival favourite Frederick Lau delivers an outstanding performance in One for the Road, a deeply touching and distinctly authentic story set between Berlin’s famous bars and sober therapy rooms. Temptations lurk everywhere in this amusing tragicomedy from director Markus Goller (25km/h GFF19) that dives into the highs and lows of drinking and the meaning of true friendship. Featuring an all-star cast including Nastassja Kinski and Albrecht Schuch is Dark Satellites (Die stillen Trabanten), a moving ensemble drama set in nighttime Leipzig, it tells three stories about the impossibility of love in poetic vignettes. From Austria Andrea gets a Divorce (Andrea lässt sich scheiden) is a nuanced tragicomedy starring Birgit Minichmayr as a rural policewoman who wants a divorce and longs to become a detective inspector in the city but faces unforeseen challenges along the way. Featuring a superb performance from German star Franz Rogowski, historical drama Lubo focuses on a Swiss street performer who seeks justice upon losing his family due to a national campaign to re-educate Yenish children in Switzerland on the cusp of WWII.
To celebrate this dazzling line-up of films, The Weekend Edition is giving away ten double passes to the German Film Festival – to be used on a movie of your choosing! Enter below for your chance to win!
German Film Festival
May 9 to May 29
Held at Palace Barracks Cinemas and Palace James Street Cinemas
Competition closes Sunday April 28 at 11:59 pm
https://theweekendedition.com.au/win/german-film-festival-2024/
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