Merkel | Dir: Eva Weber | ★ ★ ★ ★ Whenever a photograph was taken of world leaders, it seemed that the Chancellor of Germany from November 2005 until December 2021, Angela Merkel, was surrounded by men in black suits. Born in West Germany, director Eva Weber goes back to Merkel’s early days in East Germany to […]
The 2023 German Film Festival proudly presented by Palace, will screen an impressive selection of the best in contemporary German cinema. This year’s program, presented in association with German Films, will screen from 4 – 24 May at Luna Leederville, Luna on SX and Palace Cinemas Raine Square. First highlights include two exciting films direct from the 2023 […]
The German Film Festival will showcase the best contemporary German cinema direct from major festivals in Europe plus a selection from its German-speaking neighbours, Austria and Switzerland. Presented by Palace Cinemas, in association with Luna Palace and German Films, here’s a sneak peek into the 2022 Festival which returns to Perth 2 – 22 June. […]
Enfant Terrible | Dir: Oscar Röhler | ★ ★ ★ ★ When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder stormed the stage of the ‘Antitheatre’ in Munich and seized the production in 1967, nobody suspected that this brazen nobody would become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Oskar Röhler’s biopic covers Fassbinder’s career and his turbulent life from this […]
German Film Festival The 12th annual Audi Festival of German Films will screen 9-13 May at Cinema Paradiso. For ‘More Than Honey’, director Marcus Imhoof flew around the world four times to collect amazing footage of honey bee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia. He compares his grandfather’s bee keeping practices with modern day […]
