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KINO! 2016 AUDIENCE AWARD
GOES TO “A HEAVY HEART”
It’s a wrap! The audience of the third edition of KINO! 2016 Festival of German Films in New York City (7-14 April 2016) has spoken: A HEAVY HEART by Thomas Stuber was voted the favorite film of the festival. This year’s festival partner Fandor provided complmentary one-year memberships for the three viewers who were the most enthusiastic voters.
Organized by German Films, KINO! presented eleven new German feature films in the Cinema Village and no less than ten guests from the fields of direction, acting, cinematography and writing attended the screenings. Box office hits were Isabelle Stever’s THE WEATHER INSIDE, which opened the festival in the presence of the director and the lead actress Maria Furtwängler, as well as the two documentary films THE FASSBINDER STORY with the director Annekatrin Hendel and DoP Martin Farkas, and B-MOVIE: LUST & SOUND IN WEST BERLIN 1979 — 1989 with producer and screenwriter Klaus Maeck on site. Also in town to present their films at the festival were Gerd Schneider (THE CULPABLE), Franz Müller (HAPPY HOUR), Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt (THE SPIDERWEBHOUSE) and Tom Sommerlatte (SUMMERS DOWNSTAIRS).
The newly restored silent movie classic THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI by Robert Wiene, which was screened as a special event with Raphaël Marionneau, one of the most well-known European chill-out DJs, in collaboration with Bertelsmann, was a great success with hundreds of enthusiastic supporters.
Other highlights during the festival included a panel discussion on THE FASSBINDER STORY with Annekatrin Hendel at the Deutsches Haus at New York University and a packed house at the Goethe-Institut for the filmmaker’s talk with B-MOVIE’s Klaus Maeck. The Q&A with author Daniel Kehlmann after the closing film, ME AND KAMINSKI, rounded off a successful edition of KINO with enthusiastic New York audiences.
