Kino! 2012: New Films from Germany at the MoMA

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Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 19:08

Written by Joanne Choi

Opening April 25-May 2 2012, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents its 34^th annual film segment, Kino! 2012: New Films from Germany, with a fresh new outlook at some of the emerging artists in film.  KINO brings you the latest news in German films. This year’s event will be celebrating two very special occasions: the 100th birthday of the world-famous Studio Babelsberg and the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto.  The celebration of Studio Babelsberg’s 100^th birthday will be held at MoMa with screenings prior to the Kino! 2012 event.  On the other hand, the 50^th anniversary of Oberhausen Manifesto will resume at a later date showcasing four of Manifesto’s signature films.

Studio Babelsberg has produced several works of Weimar film classics as F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (starring Marlene Dietrich), in concordance with some recent films: Roman Polanski's The Pianist and The Ghost Writer, Tom Tykwer’s The International, and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous. MoMA’s salute to Babelsberg will include a rare screening of one of its earliest worldwide successes, Stellan Rye's The Student of Prague (1913).

Furthermore, incorporated in this year’s schedule will be Next Generation Short Tiger 2011 screening various student films based in Germany.  Six new features will be included at the festival such as the opening-night film, Zieska Riemann's Lollipop Monster, which fuses two very different worlds in a bizarre yet intriguing way.  The following three films deals with intricate relationships in humanity: Carsten Unger's Bastard, Leo Khasin's social drama Kaddish for a Friend and Stephan Rick's The Good Neighbor. Andres Veiel's debut feature, If Not Us, Who? takes politics and romance to the next level. Miguel Alexandre's epic The Man with the Bassoon (from a book by and starring Udo Jürgens) travels through time between Russia and Germany.  Written and directed by Andreas Dresen, the filmmaker returns to Kino once again with a heart wrenching human drama, Stopped on Track, which includes both professionals and non-actors creating realism.   

All films will be presented in its original language with English subtitles.  Screenings will take place in various theaters.

For more information on the event and detailed schedule visit: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1265 or http://www.german-films.de/ 

Kino! 2012: New Films from Germany

April 25-May 2 2012

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

11 West 53 Street  New York, NY 10019

(212) 708-9400 

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