Stories of migration characterize our modern societies, in which people from different cultural backgrounds search for belonging. Cultural diversity is celebrated on the one hand, but at the same time new social boundaries are emerging. The Goethe-Institut's “Longing/Belonging” festival presents artistic contributions and social discourses from Germany and North America.
Director: Sung-Hyung Cho Year: 2006 Genre: Documentary Length: 90 min.
As cows graze under an open sky, raging heavy metal music from world-famous bands erupts. This is the world’s biggest heavy metal festival, where northern German farmers from the Holstein village Wacken rub shoulders with international hard-rock fans.
Stepping from the scorching sun into the delicious shade of a tree canopy is a universal pleasure. But few landscapes are as loaded with meaning as the German forest: the setting for national myths and fairy tales, a motif in "Sturm und Drang" and romanticism. Intertwined with the concept of "Heimat" and the country’s Nazi past, the German forest is an ambivalent place, offering beauty and refuge while hiding its traps.
This online series by the German Film Office and the Goethe-Institut presents eight recent films that evoke different aspects of the forest.
In the library you will find a selection of media in German and in translation: books, magazines, films, music and games. Get inspired, find out about current topics and trends, and get to know Germany.
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Lending
The use of books and media in the library is free of charge. For borrowing you need a library card.
Dennis Vetter, co-founder of Woche der Kritik in Berlin and Montreal-based film critic, film curator and editor-in-chief of online film-magazine "Panorama-cinéma" Mathieu Li-Goyette in conversation about how debates can be an essential part of film programming.
Monthly film series now at the Cinémathèque québécoise ACHTUNG FILM !
Beginning in September 2023, the Cinémathèque québécoise (335 De Maisonneuve Blvd. East, H2X 1K1) will showcase the richness and diversity of contemporary German cinema once a month with feature films, documentaries, bold and entertaining productions by established and emerging directors.
AUTUMN/WINTER 2023: MYTHS & MUSIC
This autumn's program highlights music and myths, as well as legendary operas. The films presented are distinguished by their soundtracks, which give these works a driving force, an individual and atmospheric rhythm, and become, through this conceptual quality, tools for creating images and imaginations.
One hundred years ago, in October 1923, the very first German radio station went on the air in Berlin. On this occasion, we celebrate radio, in retrospectives and personal radio memoirs by international artists and authors!
Exhibition of the results of the project and robotic artist residency “Robots & Algorithms” with window projections, photos and videos.
In 2023, the Goethe-Institut, together with its local partners Milieux, Hexagram and Eastern Bloc, invited young scientists and artists to submit creative project proposals with the humanoid NAO robot. A Montreal-based art and research collective, consisting of Patil Tchilinguirian, Ceyda Yolgörmez and Zeph Thibodeau, was awarded the project.
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