May Film Premieres and Classics in Frankfurt Cinemas: From Colonial Crimes to Soviet Cinematography

DFF cinema in May can have several prominent names. One of the names we already know is Margarethe von Trotta, who will present her current work “Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert” (Sunday, May 5, 7:30pm) as part of the series “What’s happening in a German film? “. The focus is on the toxic artist relationship between Ingeborg Bachmann (Vicky Krieps) and Max Frisch (Ronald Zehrfeld). In the framework of the story, the writer travels to Morocco with a younger author to cut the tree. The focus is on the conflict between jealousy, control and autonomy between the vulnerable writer and her possessive Swiss colleague. Von Trotta talks to Margit Frölich from the Evangelical Academy about the filming.

Fortunately, Mario Adorf was able to win him over for a night at the film museum. The conversation with Urs Spörri was supposed to take place in 2020, but the pandemic stopped this. The international star’s canceled role will now be rescheduled for Wednesday, May 29 at 7pm. After the one-hour talk, Adorf’s breakthrough “Night when the Devil came” from 1957 will be shown at 8:30 pm with separate admission The mime shines here as serial killer Bruno Lüdke. When Adorf learned that the mentally disabled man may not have committed the crimes during the Nazi era, he apologized for twisting the truth.

On Friday, May 10, Anni Seitz presents her documentary “You can ask me anything you want” about her grandfather Franz Seitz here at 6 pm. The famous Munich film producer launched several box office hits in the post-war period with slapsticks such as the “Lout from the First Bench” series and local films. Later he focused more on art house works such as “The Tin Drum” and “Doctor Faustus” which he directed himself. Anni Seitz interviewed several associates such as Hans Fischer and Uschi Glas.

Film collection brings back the art of Uzbek film

The movie collection is also back after a short break. Gary Vanisian is always on the lookout for lesser known masters of film art. With nine feature films and one short film, he and other curators will present the work of filmmaker Ali Khamrayev, born in Tashkent in 1937, in May. As one of the most important directors of Uzbek cinema, his visual parables like “The Seventh Bullet” are often borrowed from westerns or adventure films. Khamrayev and his wife Gulbustan Tashbayeva, an actress in some of the films, will present the classics themselves in the DFF cinema from May 23 to 26.

Director Kanwal Sethi will present his drama “What Remains of Love” at Harmonie on Tuesday, May 7 at 6 pm. After the murder of his Kurdish wife Yasemin, the Turk Ilyas (Serkan Kaya) is himself the suspect of the investigators. In the puzzle-like production he must face prejudice and reminders of the strength of his love.

The documentary “Queer Exile Berlin” features political activists, drag queens and performance artists

On Tuesday, May 28, at 8:45 pm, Jochen Hick will visit Harmonie Kinos again. With works like “Sex/Life in LA” and “My Wonderful West Berlin,” the documentary filmmaker has been a subculture reporter since the 1980s, and not only in local areas. In “Queer Exile Berlin” he shows, among other things, political activists, drag queens and performance artists.

“The Empty Grave” (Mal Seh’n, from May 23) by Agnes Lisa Wegner and Cece Mlay received a lot of attention at the Berlinale. In it, families of victims of colonialism go to museums in Berlin and New York in search of stolen skulls and bones. German misbehavior and the use of foreign cultures appear in various places. Wegner and Mlay will attend Mal Seh’n on Friday, May 24 at 5:30 p.m. As part of the conference “Global Perspectives”, the Evangelical Academy at Römer will show the urgent work on Tuesday, May 14, at 8 pm.