One of Singapore’s longest-running foreign film festivals returns to Filmhouse and other locations this year with a selection that celebrates the diversity and vitality of contemporary German cinema. The 29th edition of the German Film Festival invites you on a cinematic odyssey that explores the nuances of shifting modernities, memory, and self-determination. All manner of cinema speaks of encounter, transporting us preciously—and sometimes precariously, through the loves, worlds, and eyes of others. We invite you to have an encounter with us.
FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also deep fracture within his own family.
In German with English subitltes.
Rating NC16. Some Mature Content
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Singapore, Embassy of Italy in Singapore & Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Singapore
TW: Contains scenes with flashing lights, photosentive audience is advised.
