Then & Now

TORONTO.GOETHE-ON-DEMAND.DE IS PRESENTED BY THE GOETHE-INSTITUT TORONTO

Throughout 2023, the Goethe-Institut presents virtual screenings of recent German cinema, freely available Canada-wide.

Arranged in six ‘pairing menus,’ the year-long program Echo-Verse suggests two same same but different films –fiction and non-fiction, short and long forms– connected by common ideas explored from different angles: on intergenerational trauma (in the first menu titled Then & Now); on a future between utopia and extinction (in the cluster Heavy Weather); on family dynamics (Mother Courage); on fate & self-determination (Good Luck); on queer life designs (Love is Love); on machine dreams (Hi Tech). Discover more reflections and reverberations to explore between the menus, from personal and political rebellion to surrender.

THE PROGRAMS

THEN & NOW:   (MENU AVAILABLE 15 JANUARY-15 FEBRUARY)

Co-presented with Hot Docs, POV, TJFF & Miles Nadal JCC

Tacheles – The Heart of the Matter is a documentary that follows Yaar, a young Jewish Berliner, and portrays how trauma makes its way into the next generation.
by Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm, Germany 2020

The German Lesson is the latest adaptation of Siegfried Lenz’ classic novel, following the young German man Siggi after World War II as he tries to free himself from his Nazi father’s influence.
by Christian Schwochow, Germany 2019, starring Ulrich Noethen (Hannah Arendt)

January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.