Film Festival | Thursday, November 14, 2019 - Sunday, November 17, 2019

Film|Neu 2019: Meet Our Special Guests!

Film|Neu 2019 opens at Landmark's E Street Cinema this evening at 7:00 pm with Oscar winner Caroline Link's All About Me (Der Junge muss an die frische Luft). In attendance will be Ruth Toma, award-winning screenwriter of the film, for a post-screening discussion. Toma, in addition to artist/filmmaker/club bouncer Frank Künster of David Dietl's Berlin Bouncer and cinematographer Andreas Höfer of Andreas Dresen's Gundermann, will join moderator Sky Sitney at Landmark again on Saturday for a discussion roundtable at 4:15 pm. Künster will be present at the 7:45 pm Saturday screening of Berlin Bouncer, and Höfer will be present at the 6:15 pm Sunday closing film Gundermann. Purchase tickets for our events with special guests and all other programs today at www.filmneu.org!

Author Talk & Book Reading | Monday, November 18, 6:30 pm

BOOKS FIRST: Blueprint (2017/2019) by Theresia Enzensberger - Author Talk

As part of the 2018-2019 initiative "Year of German-American Friendship (Deutschlandjahr)," encompassed by the motto #WunderbarTogether, the Goethe-Institut Washington, the Goethe-Institut Washington invites you to an author talk and reading with Theresia Enzensberger. This engagement is part of the BOOKS FIRST program, which seeks to bring awareness of German-language literature to the English-speaking world. It also is part of our celebration of the 100-year birthday of Bauhaus.

Blueprint (Blaupause) is Enzensberger's debut novel. It follows the young and inquisitive Luise Schilling, who arrives at Weimar's Bauhaus University at the beginning of the turbulent twenties. She takes classes with professors such as Gropius and Kandinsky and throws herself into the dreams and ideas of her epoch. From technology to art, communism to the avant-garde, populism to the youth movement, Luise encounters the social utopias that still shape us to the present day. She has ambitions of achieving a great deal in life - but little of it has to do with paying homage to great men.

Documentary Theater | Friday, November 22, 6:30 pm

Mediterranean Migration Monologues

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues (“Mittelmeer-Monologe”) tell the stories of Naomie from Cameroon and Yassin from Libya, who find themselves on a boat to Europe. It also tells of brutal coast guards, dubious sea rescue centers, and activists who fight against migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea.

The activists are part of the project AlarmPhone as well as the German non-governmental organization Seawatch. They convince coast guards to search after people in distress at sea and train volunteers to rescue people from drowning. In short, they do what can no longer be taken for granted in 2019: They save human lives.

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues are documentary, verbatim theater based on many hours of interviews, which reconstruct real cases of sea rescues in order to narrate from the perspective of those affected—both refugees and activists.

December Three-Week Superintensive Courses Starting Soon

Registration is now in progress for our December three-week superintensive courses! Enter promo-code Dezember2019 at checkout and save 10% on all courses beginning in December only (case-sensitive; code valid thru 11/30/2019; offers may not be combined). December courses take place at our new location at 1377 R Street NW!

Artbits "Pretty Ugly"

The arts and entertainment district of Silver Spring, north of Washington, DC in the state of Maryland, is considered one of the most vibrant and diverse nightlife destinations in the area. In a public announcement, the citizens of the surrounding area were given the choice to select a work of art for an exposed wall after the demolition of an old building. Goodloe Byron's Traincharmachameleon design from nearby Frederickton won the competition. Find more unconventional murals in our latetst edition of #Artbits.