Award-winning director visiting

[Lori Straus]

Award-winning German director and filmmaker Maria Speth will be visiting uWaterloo as part of a retrospective of her work. Her work has premièred at the Berlinale, won the Hessian Film Award for Best Picture, and also received an award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, among other distinctions. There will be three movie screenings in April, all at 4:30 in East Campus Hall, room 1220:

Tuesday, April 7 – Nine Lives/9 Leben (2011)
Tuesday, April 14 – Daughters/Töchter (2014)
Tuesday, April 21 – Madonnas/Madonnen (2007)

Speth’s cinematic style is often considered an example of the Berlin School of film aesthetics. Focusing on realism, the films are the antithesis of Hollywood filmmaking: you won’t find whirlwind editing cuts, loud scores, constant noise, or neatly wrapped endings. Instead, films of the Berlin School aesthetic often have long takes, very little music, and often open endings… actually the way most life happens.  All three films deal with young homeless people and their relationship to parents.

All three movies will have English subtitles and will be followed with a discussion moderated by Alice Kuzniar, Professor of German and English. Speth herself will be visiting Waterloo and offering a workshop on April 21 at 1:30 in Modern Languages room 246.

The event is co-presented by the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the Goethe-Institut. For more information, including movie synopses, please visit the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies website<https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/maria-speth-film-retrospective>.

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Lori Straus

Administrative Assistant

Waterloo Centre for German Studies<https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/wcgs/>

University of Waterloo<http://uwaterloo.ca/>



Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 39267

Email: lstraus at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:lstraus at uwaterloo.ca>

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