KOCHI: Cochin Arts and Communications (CAC) is organising a German Film Festival from April 10 to 24. Films will be screened on every Friday at CAC Auditorium.
On April 10, ‘The Dark Valley’ directed by Andreas Prochaska will be exhibited. The film tells the story of a lone rider who reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don’t want him to stay.
The ‘Book Thief’ directed by Brian Percival will be screened on April 17. The movie narrates the story of a young girl Liesel Meminger. She is delivered to a foster family in a small town and later learns that her mother left her because she is a communist. Her stepmother, Rosa Hubermann, is a rude but caring woman and her stepfather, Hans Hubermann, is a simple kind-hearted man. Liesel befriends her next door neighbour, the boy Rudy Steiner, and they go together to the school. When Hans discovers that Liesel cannot read, he teaches her using her book and Liesel becomes an obsessed reader and the plot thickens there after.
On April 24, ‘In between Worlds’ directed by Feo Aladag will be shown. It is about Jesper, a soldier in the German army. Although his brother was killed whilst serving in Afghanistan, he nevertheless reports for a new tour of duty in this war zone. He and his unit are to protect a remote village from the Taliban.
One of the people accompanying Jesper is a young interpreter, Tarik, whose job includes mediating between soldiers and villagers. Both sides have a hard time trying to overcome the differences in their respective ways of life. Jesper must gain the trust of both villagers and the allied Arbaki militia and his nerves are soon on edge.
Feo Aladag uses this portrait of a soldier in Afghanistan to explore questions of affinity and otherness, trust and failure.