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Goethe-Zentrum will screen the German film, ‘Nowhere in Africa’, on December 22. The film is based on Stefanie Zweig’s autobiography.

The film won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.

It tells the story of a Jewish family that immigrates to Kenya during World War II to escape the Nazis and run a farm.

The husband works as manager on a farm and his wife has trouble adapting to the tough, lonely life.

Their daughter quickly makes contact with the natives.

When war breaks out, the family is first interned but then released. The man joins the army, the daughter attends boarding school and the woman continues to live on the farm.

After the war, the family returns to Germany, not without a certain reluctance.

The film talks about unusual fate, because immigrating to Africa was by no means normal in 1933.

The film’s narrative proceeds rapidly and the various locations have been well chosen, from the beginnings in middle-class Breslau to the lonely farm and then to the crowds in Nairobi.

The film and its actors won five awards at the German Film Awards 2002. The film is unusual because it does not show the romantic side of Africa. Gernot Roll, one of the best cameramen in Germany, has avoided the postcard image.

The film, made in 1999, is directed by Caroline Link and the running time is 136 minutes.

The movie contains a few segments that may not be suitable for viewers below 21 years of age.

The screening, with English subtitles, begins at 6 p.m. at Geedee Auditorium, President Hall, Avanashi Road. For details, call 0422- 2212647/99524-11371.

Konangal Film Society will screen two short films by Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski on December 23 (Sunday) at Ashwin Hospital Auditorium at 5.45 p.m.

The Society would also possibly screen a documentary on the director.

‘Concert of Requests’ (1967) was made when he was 26 years old. The 16-minute film with English subtitles follows a group of young people on a trip in the forest near Przewoz, Poland. They drink, smoke, listen to rock and roll music, and litter before leaving in a bus.

A young man and woman who had been camping leave on a motorcycle. The motorcycle passes the bus on the road, accidentally dropping their tent and the woman’s identification card, and the bus stops to pick it up. The motorcyclists drive back and ask for the tent ...

The second film is Dekalog 7 (Thou shalt not steal- 1988, 55 minutes). Majka abducts her own child, Ania, who has been raised by her parents, Ewa and Stefan, as her sister. Majka decides to tell Ania the truth, and takes her to her ‘real’ father, a teacher.

Dekalog was originally made as a television miniseries.

It consists of 10 one-hour films, each of which represents one of the Ten Commandments and explores possible meanings of the Commandment — often ambiguous or contradictory — within a fictional story set in modern Poland.

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick described it as the only masterpiece he could name in his lifetime.

Kieslowski’s work consists of 40 feature/documentary/short films made during his short life span of just 46 years. This includes the evergreen trilogy, Red, Blue and White.

For details, call 0422-4376226 or 94430-39630. Or, visit konangalfilmsociety.

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