TUESDAY, OCT. 22, 2019 @ 07:30 PM - WA PREMIERE - BUY TICKETS!

BALLOON (Ballon)

Germany, 2018 - 125 min
Director: Michael “Bully” Herbig
Cast: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Thomas Kretschmann, Alicia von Rittberg

Known for Germany’s all-time biggest grossing movies Manitou’s Shoe (2001) and Dreamship Surprise (2004), comedy personality Michael “Bully” Herbig now makes his directing foray into thrillers, recreating a gripping historical event.

MONDAY, OCT. 28, 2019 - @ 06:00 PM – WA Premiere - BUY TICKETS!

FAIR TRADERS - TRUE STORIES OF ETHICAL BUSINESS

Switzerland 2019, 89 min
Directed By Nino Jacusso
Starring: Patrick Hohmann, Claudia Zimmermann, Sina Trinkwalder

Three players in the free-market economy assume responsibility for society and subsequent generations: they practice sustainability. The film examines various stages in the careers of successful entrepreneurs who operate on a local, national and international level and deliver on their promise of a sustainable future.

MONDAY, OCT. 28, 2019 @ 08:00 PM – WA PREMIERE - BUY TICKETS!

The Reformer. Zwingli: A Life's Portrait (Zwingli)

Switzerland 2019,
Director: Stefan Haupt
Cast: Maximilian Simonischek, Sarah Sophia Meyer, Anatole Taubman

Zurich, 1519. Arriving with nothing but his impassioned eloquence and radical ideas (e.g. clerics should be free to marry who they choose—radical even today), a young priest sparks a revolution that would challenge the Catholic stronghold over the people, reforming a faith, a nation, and the world. Based on the extraordinary life of Ulrich Zwingli, this lush historical epic reveals how one man’s powerful words and deeds took aim against the tyranny of the time and its suffocating religious strictures. Amid charges of blasphemy and heresy, Zwingli’s denunciation of Biblical hypocrisy slowly begins to sway others to his side, including Anna, a devout widow with a passion for learning. As Zwingli’s controversial positions advance the city toward civil war, his deep bond with Anna is at stake. Multiple award-winning director Stefan Haupt (The Circle) and lead actor Maximilian Simonischek (The Divine Order) craft an intensely vibrant reconstruction of a pivotal moment in Swiss history and an incendiary romance set amid a period of intense transition.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 2019 @ 06:00 PM WA PREMIERE - BUY TICKETS!

ALFONS JITTERBIT – COUNTDOWN TO CHAOS (ALFONS ZITTERBACKE – DAS CHAOS IST ZURÜCK)

Germany 2019, 103 min.
Directed by: Mark Schlichter
Cast: Tilman Döbler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Devid Striesow

What would Alfons Zitterbacke give to be a great athlete, a super student and an astronaut, just like Alexander Gerst. But that isn’t what his world looks like. The 11-year-old stumbles from one mishap to the next. Everyone seems to gang up on him. Unfair teachers, vicious classmates and a very strict father generally make life miserable for him – when out of the clear blue an aircraft competition offers the opportunity to participate in an astronaut camp and Alfons sees his chance: At last he can show the world what a brilliant inventor he is – particularly Emilia, the new girl in class. The only trouble is that Alfons’ rival, Nico, also decides to take part in the competition and challenges him to a dual: Are you chicken or what? In his dilemma, Alfons drags his best friend Benni, into the affair, and now there’s no way out: They have to win the competition. But how?

ALFONS ZITTERBACKE is an action-packed comedy about friendship, outer space, fathers and sons and the best plans for building rockets.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 2019 @ 08:00 PM – WA Premiere - BUY TICKETS!

HOW ABOUT ADOLF? (Der Vorname)
Germany 2018, 91 min.
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Cast: Iris Berben, Florian David Fitz, Christoph Maria Herbst, Janina Uhse, Justus von Dohnányi

It should have been a wonderful evening. Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and Elisabeth have invited their family and friends for dinner, but as soon as Thomas (Florian David Fitz) announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend are planning to name their unborn son Adolf, things get out of hand. A bitter confrontation ensues revealing a clash of egos as truths are dragged to light, kicking and screaming. As the evening escalates and unforgiveable things are said on all sides, the argument about baby names turns into a feast of childhood transgressions and hidden passions, served up for all to enjoy.

MON. , Nov. 4, 2019 @ 03.00 PM - BUY TICKETS!

Germany / Austria 2018,color, 187 min

Director: Heinrich Breloer

Cast:
Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, Adele Neuhauser, Lou Strenger, Mala Emde, Karolina Horster, Trine Dyrholm, Franz Hartwig, Ernst Stötzner, Friederike Becht, Leonie Benesch, Maria Dragus, Laura de Boer

Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: from provocations in the Augsburg of the First World War, to the early poetic and amorous height flights in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, his escape from Hitler and US exile, followed by his later years caught in a dilemma between timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an inflexible free man and a compromised Artist.

TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 2019 @ 06:00 PM - WA PREMIERE - BUY TICKETS!

ROCCA CHANGES THE WORLD (ROCCA – VERÄNDERT DIE WELT)

Germany 2019, 100 min.
Directed by: Katja Benrath

Cast:
Luna Maxeiner, Barbara Sukowa, Fahri Yardim, Mina Tander, Volker Bruch, Detlev Buck, Cordula Stratmann

With never-ending optimism Rocca proves together with her friends, that even a child has the power to change the world.

Brave, funny, and one of a kind: that’s Rocca. Rocca is eleven years old and lives a rather unique life. While her dad is watching over her as an astronaut from outer space, Rocca lives alone with her squirrel and is attending a normal school for the first time in her life. At school her carefree and non-conformist way of life instantly stands out. She fearlessly confronts the class bullies, because first and foremost Rocca stands up for justice. That’s why she makes friends with the homeless Caspar and tries to help him. All the while she is also attempting to win over her grandmother’s heart.

This is the feature film debut by Katja Benrath whose graduation project WATU WOTE: ALL OF US won a Student Academy Award® last year and was then nominated for the Academy Award® as Best Live Action Short Film.

German Film Awards 2019 – Outstanding Children or Youth Film (Bester Kinder- und Jugendfilm)

TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 2019 @ 08:00 PM - WA Premiere - BUY TICKETS!

THE TOBACCONIST (Der Trafikant)

Germany/ Austria 2018, 108 min.

Director: Nikolaus Leytner

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Simon Morzé, Johannes Krisch

Starring Bruno Ganz (Downfall, Wings of Desire) as Sigmund Freud

Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler

A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz), a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis' arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?

Opening remarks by the Austrian Honorary Consulate in Seattle, Ms. Eva Kammel.

This movie is proudly sponsored by the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles.