Goethe-Kino is our monthly series of contemporary German cinema, outstanding TV productions and film classics. All movies are shown with English subtitles unless otherwise specified. We are offering screenings at the Goethe-Institut London on the last Wednesday of every month. We are delighted to continue our online Goethe-Kino, running for 10 days after the cinema screening.

Share your thoughts on the films via social media using #GoetheKino.

For the Goethe Annual Lecture 2024, we proudly welcomed Prof Eyal Weizman MBE as our guest speaker. He is a life fellow of the British Academy and in 2020 received an MBE for services to architecture. Weizman will speak about Forensic Architecture, the organisation he leads, which in 2010 grew out of the Centre for Architectural Research at Goldsmiths, University of London.

A recording will be available on YouTube and our website in mid-December. 

Here you can find exclusive interviews with those involved in our cultural programmes and events.

Through online readings and talks at the intersection of scholarship with the literary scene, as well as book reviews on Instagram, the series intends to open up spaces for texts and readers, different ways of reading and new perspectives on literature. 

The creations of biodigital convergence are redefining what constitutes life, just as a mass extinction is taking place. Emerging synthetic life includes biological robots, digitally controlled dragonflies, and internet-connected implants in humans. What future natural history is being created today? The developments raise complex philosophical, societal and ecological questions about the kind of future present biotechnologies are ushering in. We explore what becomes of nature when life is synthetic and ask what role biotech can play in ecological restoration. 

Might reframing biotechnologies in the context of the sacred web of life be useful in guiding innovation towards the creation and restoration of flourishing and generative ecologies? When formulated within the modern paradigm, the products of biotech tend towards the extraction, alienation and entrapment of life, both natural and synthetic. For this episode, we consider biotechnologies within the context of indigineous cosmologies together with Anicka Yi, Lucy Sollitt and Keith Williams.

Interested in finding out more about our previous programmes? Here you can browse through our archive.