German Cinema Festival Comes Back to Indonesia’s Screens

 LIPUTANSATU.COM - Already in its fourth edition this year, the German Cinema film festival     

 returns to Indonesian cinema screens from September 11 to 20, 2015.

Presenting the best of Germany’s current film scene, this year’s selection features 17

internationally acclaimed and award-winning German film productions.

The festival will open on September 11 with “Labyrinth of Lies” by director Giulio Ricciarelli, which premiered last September at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is set in Germany in 1958 and tells the story of a young prosecutor who unravels a massive conspiracy to cover up the dark Nazi past of prominent public figures in the country.

Other highlights of the festival include the stunning documentary “The Salt of the Earth“ by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, the German box office hit “Fack Ju Göhte“ (“Suck me Shakespeer“); a comedy about a criminal who is forced to become a teacher; and “As We Were Dreaming”, the latest film by Andreas Dresen, the German film director who is well-known for

his realistic style.

With a colorful cross-section of the German film landscape, the festival, which attracted more than 12 000 visitors, seeks to continously inspire Indonesian audiences and raise interest in German Cinema.

The festival shows that the contemporary German movie scene is continuously changing and has to offer a lot of exciting and fresh views, as the topics of the films range from family issues and love to religion and history.

All films are accessible to a wide audience through English subtitles. Screenings will be held across Indonesia, namely Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Makassar, Surabaya, Denpasar and Medan.

This year, German Cinema is part of the German Season, a three-month festival that celebrates the friendship between Indonesia and Germany through a series of events. The German Season is an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany and is organized by the Goethe-Institut Indonesien, the German Embassy Jakarta and EKONID.

AT A GLANCE

German Cinema Festival

From September 11 to 20

Several cities across Indonesia

For full schedule and detailed film synopsis, visit www.goethe.de/germancinema or www.jermanfest.com

For press enquiries, please contact: Katrin Figge

Coordinator for Public Relations