Restored Caligari, Music, & More at Kino!2016 Film Festival

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Published on Monday, 04 April 2016 17:22

Written by Casey Hernandez

 

Germany has made some of the most monumentally important contributions to cinema, and the Kino!2016 festival of German films looks back and looks to the future. Running April 7 - 14, 2016 at Cinema Village (22 E 12th St, New York, NY), Kino! 2016 will showcase twelve feature premieres plus the US premiere of the Short Export Made in Germany program. On Monday, April 11, there will be a special screening of a restored print of the silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with live music accompaniment by DJ Raphaël Marionneau at Metrograph (7 Ludlow St, New York, NY).

Other films include:

• B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979 - 1989
  Dir. Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange
  West Berlin was encircled by Communist East Germany and the city was in a state of emergency. But it was cheap to live and music producer Mark Reeder immediately felt a sense of belonging in the creative melting pot of West Berlin's post-punk underground music scene. Nostalgic yet inspirational, the documentary collages never-before-seen archival fragments and vividly brings back to life local icons of the time such as Gudrun Gut and Blixa Bargeld as well as many others who fleetingly came and went, from Tilda Swinton and Keith Haring to David Hasselhoff and New Order.

 

• A Heavy Heart
  Dir. Thomas Stuber
  Herbert Stamm is a former professional German boxing champ with his glory days well in the past. Popular in the late 80s before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he continues to trade off his former fame as “The Pride of Leipzig” who almost made the Olympic team. Now, he struggles to make ends meet, working on weekends as a bouncer while he ekes out a living as a debt collector. Diagnosed with a fatal neurological disease, he has little time to right wrongs or to realize his remaining dreams but, above all, to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Sandra. Herbert’s abandonment of his family years before is still raw and she resists allowing him back into her life or introducing him to his young granddaughter. As his disorder begins to slowly ravage him, Herbert must not only confront a broken identity, aging and death, but also seek out the salvation to be found in second chances.

 

• The Fassbinder Story (US premiere)
  Dir. Annekatrin Hendel
  When Rainer Werner Fassbinder was found dead at his home in Munich in 1982, he was only 36 years old. He had directed 44 films in 18 years. Even at the time of his death, he had been working on a new film. Fassbinder, who appeared as an actor in some of his own films, is arguably one of the most prolific figures in German film history. He is also indisputably one of its most controversial. When director Annekatrin Hendel embarked upon a documentary of this provocative yet charismatic giant of European cinema, the magnitude of the material produced by Fassbinder was both a blessing and a curse. Director Annekatrin Hendel will be speaking about the film as part of a panel at Deutsches Haus at NYU (42 Washington Mews, New York, NY).

There will also be a screening of the 1984 cult film Decoder at the Goethe-Institut (30 Irving Place, New York, NY) followed by a conversation with producer and screenwriter Klaus Maeck.

 

To learn more, go to: http://www.kinofestivalnyc.com/

 

Kino!2016
April 7 - 14, 2016

Cinema Village
22 E 12th St.
New York, NY 10003

Metrograph
7 Ludlow St.
New York, NY 10002

Goethe-Institut
30 Irving Pl.
New York, NY 10003

Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003