German Film Festival 2021
Films premiering at the 2021 German Film Festival, touring nationally 25 May-20 June
In this darkly comic skewering of celebrity and privilege, Daniel Brühl (Goodbye Lenin, Rush, The Falcon & The Winter Soldier) plays a famous actor whose day gets completely railroaded by a stranger with ulterior motives.
Writer/director Dominik Graf re-unites Never Look Away stars Tom Schiller and Saskia Rosendahl for an exhilarating coming-of-age drama set in Berlin in the hedonistic twilight years of Weimar Germany.
A beguiling fusion of modern romance and futurism, Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy questions what it means to be human, as a scientist agrees to live with a human-like robot that has been designed to be her perfect life partner.
Cultural and psychological tensions, claustrophobically observed in both the workplace and at home, come to a head in Visar Morina’s masterfully directed thriller about one man’s identity crisis as a foreigner in Germany.