Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in December 2024 and January 2025. The full program with all details and dates will be published on November 13, 2024.
Program Preview December 2024
(November 29, 2024 to January 8, 2025)
Lana Gogoberidze
Premiere: Henry Fonda for President
Henry Fonda & James Stewart
Henry Fonda & James Stewart
Cinema for Little Ones: Day and Night
50 Years of "Frauen und Film": Magazine Presentation and Film Program
Collection on Screen: Sea Monsters
Seeing Stars: ★
Christmas at the Film Museum: The Wizard of Oz
Collection on Screen: Christmas. Marxism. Brotherhood.
What Is Film: Program 21-26
November 29, 2024 to January 8, 2025
Lana Gogoberidze
For over six decades, the work of Lana Gogoberidze, one of the most important directors in world cinema, has oscillated between two poles: intimate, private, familial – public, social, political. Gogoberidze's film worlds are marked by people's everyday lives, intertwined with the problematization of gender roles, intergenerational relationships, and political questions. These mainly focus on the life experiences and perspectives of women against the background of (totalitarian) history. In her films, the director enthusiastically stages expressive and unusual faces. In Gogoberidze's family, filmmaking follows a matrilineal logic: Her mother Nutsa Gogoberidze was Georgia's first female director. Salomé Alexi, one of Lana Gogoberidze's daughters, is also a filmmaker. [...]December 6, 2024
Henry Fonda for President
Premiere
In Alexander Horwath's stirring essay film, Henry Fonda and his roles merge into a single, conflict-laden figure articulating the old and new America. [...]December 7, 2024 to January 6, 2025
Henry Fonda & James Stewart
Carte Blanche for Alexander Horwath
The films selected by Alexander Horwath focus on the similarities and differences between lifelong friends Henry Fonda and James Stewart. [...]December 7, 2024
Cinema for Little Ones
Day and Night
In short films, we see the passage from day to night from different perspectives; we will also explore the movie theater itself. [...]December 11, 2024
50 Years of Frauen und Film
Magazine Presentation and Film Program
On this evening, we do not only want to present the anniversary issue of Frauen und Film, but above all celebrate all the filmmakers to whom the articles are devoted and their works. [...]December 13 to 15, 2024
Sea Monsters
Collection on Screen
To mark our anniversary, we are dedicating a selection of films with sea monsters to the mythical creature Zyphius. [...]December 21, 2024
Seeing Stars: ★
Cinematic glimpses of the starry sky seen from a human perspective throughout film history: ★ by Johann Lurf is a concept film that grows longer with each screening. [...]December 24, 2024
Christmas at the Film Museum
The Wizard of Oz
At Christmas – with a screening on the early afternoon of December 24 – we will be showing the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939). [...]December 27 and 28, 2024
Christmas. Marxism. Brotherhood.
Collection on Screen
The revival of a much-loved and much-missed tradition: films with the Marx Brothers from our collection in the period between Christmas and New Year. [...]Each Tuesday
What Is Film
Program 21–26
Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. [...]
