The feature film was part of the Official Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, and lead actress Nina Hoss received the Silver Bear for Best Actress followed by the German Film Prize for Best Actress in 2008.
Our curator Jim Kolmar selected this movie: “Christian Petzold’s icy, enigmatic psychodrama is a carefully modulated exploration of the uncanny, featuring a typically precise performance from Nina Hoss. The film unfolds like a thriller, following Hoss as Yella, pursuing a new job in a new town as a means to escape a traumatic past.
Crafted with Petzold’s typical rigor and formal assurance, the film often feels suspended between the cerebral and sensual, a dreamlike allegorical exercise that’s hard to pin down. Each scene bristles with subtext, a critique of hypermodernity and a reminder that one can never truly escape the past. In short, it’s a characteristically intelligent, provocative work from one of modern European cinema’s true masters.“
Christian Petzold’ latest film AFIRE that was part of this year’s Official Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, received the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize and will be theatrically released in the US starting July 14th by Janus Films/Sideshow Pictures.
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Date and time: Sunday, 11 June at 11am - 12pm PT, 2pm - 3pm ET, 8pm - 9pm CET.
Hosted by Jim Kolmar
KINO! FILM SALON is a production of Telescope Film, in collaboration with the German Film Office.
