Film
Be My Star (7pm) & Longing (8:30pm) - Valeska Grisebach's First Features
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In the run up to the UK release of Valeska’s widely acclaimed Western by New Wave Films and our preview screening of the film we will show the director’s previous feature, her graduation film Mein Stern (Be My Star, 2001) and Sehnsucht (Longing, 2006), her first full length feature.
Schedule
7.00pm Mein Stern (Be My Star), 61 mins
8.30pm Sehnsucht (Longing), 88 mins
10.00pm END
Tickets
Mein Stern (Be My Star)
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Austria / Germany 2001, Colour, 16mm (Blow-up 35mm), 61 mins, German with English subtitles. Written and directed by Valeska Grisebach. With Nicole Gläser, Christopher Schöps, Monique Gläser, Jeanine Gläser, Sebastian Rinka, Christina Sandke.
Awards (selection): First Steps Award Best Fiction up to 60’, FIPRESCI Special Mention (Toronto), Best Film (Torino)
Sehnsucht (Longing)
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Germany 2006, Colour, 35mm, 88 mins. German with English subtitles.
Written and directed by Valeska Grisebach. With Andreas Müller, Ilka Welz, Anett Dornbusch, Erika Lemke, Markus Werner, Doritha Richter, Detlef Baumanngi. UK Release May 2007, BFI Distribution.
Awards: Special Jury Award Buenos Aires 2006, Filmkunstpreis Ludwigshafen 2006, Alice Award Copenhagen 2006, Special Jury Award Warsaw 2006, Best Film & FIPRESCI Jury Award Gijon 2006
About the Director
Valeska Grisebach was born in Bremen, Germany. She is a graduate of the Vienna Film Academy, where she trained in directing under Michael Haneke. Her features include Be My Star (Mein Stern), which won a FIPRESCI Critics' Award at the Festival, and Longing (Sehnsucht). Western, her latest film, premiered in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.
Details
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
SW7 2PH London
Price: £3: Booking essential
+44 20 75964000 info-london@goethe.de