Feb 16 2023 to Feb 16 2023 6:30 p.m.

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Price: Free Book/Buy

Where

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

716, Chinmaya Mission Hospital Road, First Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru 560038

Event Description

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan have collaborated to bring the 9th edition of Urban Lens, curated by the IIHS Media Lab, a one-of-a-kind international film festival that brings together filmmakers, academics and urban practitioners to dialogue on cinema and the urban experience.

The festival will open with the screening of Ariyippu by Mahesh Narayanan on February 16, 2023, at 6.30 p.m. at the Bhavan. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Mahesh Narayanan and Subasri Krishnan.

In this edition we present Victoria, a multi-award-winning German film by Sebastian Schipper.

VICTORIA © MONKEYBOY GMBH 2015 VICTORIA | Sebastian Schipper 138 min., 2015, German with English subtitles

Saturday February 18, 2023, 11.20a .m. - 1.40 p.m. IST IIHS, Bengaluru City Campus

Post-screening conversation: Saturday, February 18, 2023, 1.40 - 2.00 p.m. IST

Sebastian Schipper in conversation with Yashodara Udupa Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends are real Berliners who promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these boys have got themselves into hot water: they owe someone a dangerous favour that needs repaying that evening. As Victoria’s flirtation with Sonne begins developing into something more, he convinces her to come along for the ride. As the night rolls on, what started out as a good time, quickly spirals out of control. As dawn approaches, Victoria and Sonne realize: it’s all or nothing and they abandon themselves to a heart-stopping journey into the depths of the night.

The film has been shot in one single take. It received the German Film Award 2015 in six categories, including Best Fiction Film. Sebastian Schipper joined his first theatre group at the age of 16 and began studying to become an actor at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich shortly after completing his A-levels. Employment at Munich’s Kammerspiele theatre followed his studies; he also wrote and directed his first short films and ultimately his first feature-length film, Absolute Giganten, produced by Tom Tykwer and X-Filme.

The film Ein Freund von mir (“A Friend of Mine”), with Daniel Brühl und Jürgen Vogel followed in 2004 and in 2008 Mitte Ende August (“Sometime in August”), an adaption of Goethe’s Elective Affinities with Marie Bäumer und Milan Peschel. Since Sebastian Schipper played one of the leads in Tykwer’s film 3, he has had a steady stream of roles. In 2013 he set up the production company MonkeyBoy with Jan Dressler. Their first feature under this company, Victoria is selected in competition at the 2015 Berlinale.

To watch the films register first for FREE. For more details and screening schedule check Festival Schedule. *Please note that from February 17 to 19, all screenings and events will take place at IIHS Bengaluru CIty Campus.*