KinoFest 2023

Oct 1-15

KinoFest 2023, Goethe-Institut Myanmar ©Goethe-Institut

Goethe-Institut is organising the second edition of the annual German film festival, KinoFest, scheduled to run throughout September to November 2023. KinoFest is a joint production involving eight Goethe-Instituts in Southeast Asia, showcasing the latest films released from 2021 to 2023.

KinoFest Myanmar Screening Schedule | ©Goethe-Institut

Screening Schedule(PDF, 1 MB)

Opening Film

by Invitation Only

01.10.2023 I Sunday I 4:30

Director: Cem Kaya
Duration: 102 mins
Year: 2022
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - Cem Kaya, a German director with Turkish roots, shows in his latest work how the waves of migration of Turkish citizens to Germany contribute to the development of Turkish pop music industry – quite remarkable – in both countries.

The Films we offer

Narrative, Drama
Wir Konnten genauso gut

05.10.2023 I Thursday I 5:30 - 7:03

Director: Natalia Sinelnikova
Duration: 93 mins
Year: 2022
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - Security officer Anna lives with her 16-year-old daughter in a remote high-rise on the edge of a forest. The building provides its occupants a haven until the caretaker's dog disappears and irrational fear spreads.

©Wir Konnten genauso gut
Narrative, Thriller, Crime
Bis ans Ende der Nacht

06.10.2023 I Friday I 5:30 - 7:33

Director: Christoph Hochhäusler
Duration: 123 mins
Year: 2023
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - The undercover investigator Robert is supposed to gain the trust of a major drug dealer. To infiltrate, he is supposed to pretend to be the partner of the trans woman Leni, who was actually Robert’s ex-lover. Robert finds himself attracted and repelled by Leni’s roles at the same time.

©Bis ans Ende der Nacht
Narrative, Drama
Le Prince

07.10.2023 I Saturday I 1:30 - 3:35

Director: Lisa Bierwirth
Duration: 125 mins
Year: 2021
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - When a Frankfurt curator is unintentionally caught up in a police raid near a bar, she meets a Congolese businessman, and they begin a passionate affair.

©Le Prince
Documentary
Repulbic of Silence

07.10.2023 I Saturday I 4:00 - 7:10

Director: Diana El Jeiroudi
Duration: 190 mins
Year: 2021
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - Republic of Silence bears witness to a tragedy on an epic scale, accompanied by an ever-expanding mosaic of fragile, deeply embedded moments from the director's life, beginning with the memory from she was young, right up to the present day.

©Repulbic of Silence
Narrative, Drama
Alle Reden Übers Wetter

08.10.2023 I Sunday I 4:00 - 5:29

Director: Annika Pinske
Duration: 89 mins
Year: 2022
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - Clara made it: she paved her way from the provincial backwaters of East Germany into Berlin's academic scene. But upon returning home she is alienated from her family. The story of a woman caught in contradictions on her quest for independence.

©Alle Raden Übers Wetter
Narrative, Comedy, Drama
Toubab

11.10.2023 I Wednesday I 5:30 - 7:06

Director: Florian Dietrich
Duration: 96 mins
Year: 2021
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - After his release from prison, Babtou is looking forward to a fresh start, enjoying his freedom and never dealing with German authorities again. However, he finds himself facing deportation when a spontaneous welcome home party goes awry.

©Toubab
Documentary
Iron Butterflies

12.10.2023 I Thursday I 5:30 - 7:06

Director: Roman Liubyi
Duration: 96 mins
Year: 2023
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - Summer 2014 in eastern Ukraine, a multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot's body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

©Iron Butterflies
Documentary
Nasim

13.10.2023 I Friday I 5:30 - 7:30

Director: Arne Büttner & Ole Jacobs
Duration: 120 mins
Year: 2021
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - In the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, a mother of two Nasim and her family time and again manage to deal impressively with the challenges of this unacceptable and extreme situation.

©Nasim
Narrative, Satire, Tragicomedy, Sci-Fi
The Ordinaries - Die Gewönhnlichen

14.10.2023 I Saturday I 3:30 - 5:30

Director: Sophie Linnenbaum
Duration: 120 mins
Year: 2022
Subtitle: English

Synopsis - Paula is a simple Supporting Character, in a repressive three class-society, trying to prove that she deserves to be a Lead. Paula finds herself in the abyss of the cinematic world, on the fringes of the storyline and lost among the outtakes.

©The Ordinaries - Die Gewönhnlichen
Documentary
Hoa are you

14.10.2023 I Saturday I 6:00 - 7:34

Director: Dieu Hao Do
Duration: 94 mins
Year: 2023
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - Director Dieu Hao Do examines the fragmentation of his family. The American War in Vietnam scattered them across three continents. Almost 50 years after their escape, contact between the seven siblings has all but broken off.

©Hoa are you
Experimentalfilm
Happy Lamento

15.10.2023 I Sunday I 4:00 - 5:30

Director: Alexander Kluge
Duration: 90 mins
Year: 2018
Subtitles: English

Synopsis - For more than six decades, Alexander Kluge has been working away at cinematic reflection on what constitutes our media society. He strings together every conceivable type of image in his playful and subtle cinematic streams of consciousness, allows the abstract to collide with the concrete, the past with the future, and has now found a congenial sparring partner in the Filipino iconoclast Khavn De La Cruz.

©Happy Lamento