Apr 19 2024 to Apr 19 2024 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Suchitra Film Society

9th Main Road, Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari, Bengaluru 560070

Event Description

In collaboration with Suchitra Film Society, we launch German Kino, a curated monthly series of German films. This year, the films will reflect the themes that the world is celebrating. In April the spotlight is on "health". The third film to be screened under this series is Mountain Miracle - An Unexpected Friendship (Amelie rennt), directed by Tobias Wiemann. Amelie rennt ©Amelie rennt The film depicts teenager Amelie's life. Amelie, who grew up in Berlin, has to take a medical cure in the mountainous South Tyrol after a violent asthma attack. Despite further attacks, she embarks on a multi-day and hard ascent to the summit cross, which is accompanied by Bart, a young enigmatic cow herder from the village, who makes her purpose possible. Mountain Miracle - An Unexpected Friendship by Tobias Wiemann 2017 | col. | 97 min. | German with English subtitles Tobias Wiemann was born in Greifswald in 1981. He studied media design at the Rostock Institute for New Media. From 2003, he worked for the video and film production company United Motion in the areas of project development, camera and editing. From 2005, he realised a series of short films. In 2008, Wiemann moved to Berlin, and since then has been working for Til Schweiger's production company Barefoot Films, also in the areas of project development and production assistance. He has also worked as a video operator on several of Schweiger's directorial projects. His made-for-TV fairy tale adaptation "Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen" (2015) was shown at the Goldener Spatz children's film festival, where it won the award for Best Actress; at the Kinderfilmfest in Dresden, the film received the award for "Best Kinolino children's film premiere" and was rated "highly recommended" by the children's jury. Suchitra Film Society started in 1971 as a forum for screening of films from around the world, which were not available in the regular commercial distribution networks. The Society continues to serve its cultural objective of making available the best of the cinema of the world to its members and public at large. It believes that creating choices of film viewing is a first step in creating good audiences for the good cinema. Entry free!