The first edition of the Gulf German Film Festival is set to take place this weekend, with eight movies live streamed over three days.
Movie fans in Dubai can head to Cinema Akil for screenings, while others elsewhere in the UAE and in Bahrain can watch the movies from the comfort of their own homes.
The festival is set to kick off at 6pm (AST)/7pm (GST) on Thursday November 19, with a screening of Undine, a movie about a historian battling against an old myth in Berlin.
Other movies on show include Gundermann, a film based on the true story of singer-songwriter Gerhard Gundermann, and A Hidden Life, also based on a true story of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis.
The full schedule is as follows:
Thursday November 19, 6pm (AST)/7pm (GST) – Undine
8.45pm/9.45pm – Gundermann
Friday November 20, 11am/noon – Veins of the World
2.30pm/3.30pm – System Crasher
9pm/10pm – The Mover
Saturday November 21, 10.30am/11.30am – One-way to Moscow
6pm/7pm – Born in Evin
8.45pm/9.45pm – Dust
You can find out more information and join the live streams on www.goethe.de/abudhabi/ggff.
Writing about the festival on the Goethe Institut website, the organisers said, “Screening groundbreaking new German language movies, ranging from art-house films to box-office hits, and from children’s matinees to late-night movies, this star-studded event invites an audience of all stripes.”
Nov 19-21. www.goethe.de/abudhabi/ggff.
