Film Screening
All of a Sudden

Co-presented with the Chicago International Film Festival's Summer Screenings Series

6:30 PM Chicago History Museum

Dir. Aslı Özge
Germany, 2016
112 min.
German with English subtitles

In this bracing psychological thriller, the unassuming Karsten finds his life spiraling out of control. After hosting a small but wild party at his apartment, a mysterious woman is found dead. As the last person to see her alive, Karsten is met with immediate suspicion. He insists there was no foul play, but even his closest friends begin to doubt his innocence.

After the screening, Elizabeth Loentz, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Associate Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will offer brief remarks and guide an audience discussion.

Tickets are free, but advanced registration is encouraged. Tickets will be available here beginning Monday, May 27.

Elizabeth Loentz is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Associate Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and teaching interests include: German-Jewish writing, German and Jewish women’s movements, Yiddish in Germany, contemporary transnational writing, and middle-brow literature. She is the author of Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist (Hebrew Union College Press) and is currently completing a monograph with the working title: “Mame-loshn in the Fatherland: The Meaning of Yiddish in Germany from the First World War through the Postwar Occupation.” Prior to her doctoral studies, she taught German at the Haus Chevalier Clearing-House for unaccompanied, minor-aged refugees in Hallbergmoos, Germany.

Check out the full schedule for Chicago International Film Festival's Summer Screenings series, which features one international film every week between May 22 and September 25, 2024.