17 September 2020
Late Summer Cinema in the Goethe-Institut Garden

The Goethe-Institut celebrates Oscar winning German director Caroline Link with a film series.

On four consecutive days, from 22nd until 25th September 2020, the Goethe-Institut Cyprus will present in its garden films by one of Germany's most renowned and popular directors: Caroline Link.

Caroline Link achieved her first great success in 2003 with the film Nowhere in Africa (German: Nirgendwo in Afrika), for which she won the Oscar for Foreign Language Film. In addition to many other film awards and festival appearances, she was also awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In most of her films she not only directed, but also wrote the script, as in Beyond Silence (German: Jenseits der Stille), Exit Marrakesh and Nowhere in Africa (German: Nirgendwo in Afrika). For A year ago in winter (German: Im Winter ein Jahr) and the well-known children's film Pünktchen und Anton she adapted the well-known originals by Scott Campbell and Erich Kästner. Each film is touching in a special way and has impressed viewers for years.

Screening programme

Nowhere in Africa
22.09.2020, 8:30 pm
Biography, Drama, History // 141 minutes // 2001
In 1938 the young Jewish lawyer Walter Redlich succeeds in moving from Germany to Kenya. Together with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina, he wants to lead a modest life managing a farm. While Regina quickly settles and makes friends, her spoiled mother has trouble adjusting to a place where a canister water has more worth than Meissen porcelain. This tests the already tense relationship between Walter and Jettel.

Beyond Silence
23.09.2020, 8:30 pm
Feature film, Teen movie // 109 minutes // 1996
Lara's parents are deaf-mute. This changes the relationship of power and obligation within the family, for the girl has to act as an intermediary with the outside world from a very early age. She must also "translate", be it a telephone call, the meeting between her parents and her teacher, or when negotiating a loan with the bank. After finishing school, Lara plans to leave the small Bavarian town to study music in Berlin. This creates major problems with her father, problems which are intensified by her mother's death.

All about me
24.09.2020, 20:30
Drama // 100 minutes // 2018
The chubby, nine-year-old Hans-Peter has a talent that he cultivates daily in his grandmother's grocery store; he can make people laugh. Yet, this merriment is clouded by his mother's illness, who suffers from an unexplainable melancholia. This serves to motivate Hans-Peter even further to develop his talent in order to make her happy. The heart-breaking story of the childhood of the famous German comedian Hape Kerkeling raises the question of how a person becomes what he/she is and how childhood continues to affect and impact an individual in adulthood.

Annaluise & Anton
25.09.2020, 19:30
Feature film, Children’s movie, Literary adaptation // 107 minutes // 1998
Ten year old Anton grows up without a father. When his mother gets sick he takes over her job at the ice cream parlor to help her financially. His best friend Luise Pogge, called Annaluise, comes from a rich household but her father and mother don't have time for her. Anton dreams of giving his mother a relaxing vacation near the sea. Annaluise and Anton's attempt to fulfill this dream gets them in trouble.

All screenings will take place in accordance with the health and safety measures announced by the authorities.