Palace Cinemas are delighted to present the 2024 HSBC German Film Festival in collaboration with German Films. The 2024 line-up features many superb offerings including six films direct from the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), a selection of the best new German cinema and exciting new films for budding cinephiles in the Kino for Kids side bar, presented by the Goethe-Institut.
The festival is excited to announce that the opening night selection is From Hilde, With Love (In Liebe, Eure Hilde) directed by renowned filmmaker Andreas Dresen, which premiered to widespread acclaim at the recent Berlinale. Featuring an extraordinary performance from Liv Lisa Fries as a young woman drawn into the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II, the film is a compelling historical drama and a remarkable true story.
Also direct from Berlinale is festival centrepiece Foreign Language (Langue Étrangère), starring Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni. This impeccable, heartfelt drama follows two teenagers in Leipzig and Strasbourg who forge a friendship through letters and language exchange. Their bittersweet and boundary-testing friendship is strained as they grapple with how to understand themselves and the world around them.
Closing the 2024 HSBC German Film Festival is Treasure, direct from its premiere at Berlinale. This touching drama starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, follows a music journalist and her Polish father, a Holocaust survivor, who set out on a tour of their family homeland.
Festival favourite Frederick Lau delivers an outstanding performance in One For The Road, a deeply touching and distinctly authentic story set between Berlin’s famous bars and sober therapy rooms. Temptations lurk everywhere in this amusing tragicomedy from director Markus Goller (25km/h GFF19) that dives into the highs and lows of drinking and the meaning of true friendship.
Featuring an all-star cast including Nastassja Kinski and Albrecht Schuch is Dark Satellites (Die stillen Trabanten), a moving ensemble drama set in night-time Leipzig, it tells three stories about the impossibility of love in poetic vignettes, and, from Austria, Andrea Gets A Divorce (Andrea lässt sich scheiden) is a nuanced tragicomedy starring Birgit Minichmayr as a rural policewoman who wants a divorce and longs to become a detective inspector in the city but faces unforeseen challenges along the way.
These films are just the tip of the ‘eisberg’ – three weeks of great movies are waiting for you in Byron.
The 2024 HSBC German Film Festival will take place from 16 May to 5 June at Palace Cinemas Byron Bay. For more information, please visit www.germanfilmfestival.com.au.
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