A German film showcase kicks off tomorrow in Beijing, China, presented by UME cinema chain. 10 films will be showed between 5-13 November.

Presented by UME cinema chain with partnership support from DD Dream, Hugoeast and Time-in-portrait Entertainment, 9 films have been selected for the Beijing showcase of German cinema.

Un tango mas/Our Last Tango (2015)

Director: German Kral

Argentine tango dancers María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes discuss their personal and professional relationship.

 

 

 

 

Under sandet/Land of Mine (2015)

Director: Martin Zandvliet

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

 

 

 

Frantz (2016)

Director: François Ozon

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.

 

 

 

Lauf Junge lauf/Run Boy Run (2013)

Director: Pepe Danquart

8-year-old Srulik flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then on a farm as a Christian orphan named Jurek. Throughout his ordeal, he is in danger of losing his Jewish identity. Based on the bestseller by Uri Orlev.

 

 

 

An Impossible Project (2020)

Director: Jens Meurer

Humans are analogue. We’re literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticity. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world’s last Polaroid factory – just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. An entertaining underdog story of a very modern Don Quixote, shot on 35mm. And a sumptuous invitation to fall in love with real things again.

 

25 km/h (2018)

Director: Markus Goller

Two very different brothers reunite and start on a very special journey: a road trip on their motorbikes which they imagined in their childhood.

 

 

 

Elle (2016)

Director: Paul Verhoeven

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

 

 

 

 

 

Es war einmal in Deutschland/Bye Bye Germany(2017)

Director: Sam Garbarski

David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.

 

 

 

Gipsy Queen (2019)

Director: Hüseyin Tabak

Ali, a courageous woman and single mother of two kids, works with the trainer and owner of a rundown box club in order to provide for her family.

 

 

 

As we continue to advocate, where is the UK?