18th Frankfurt Cinema Week - Cinema in unusual places

From NO PARDON at the Famlienkelterei Possmann to MELANCHOLIA in the park of the Villa unter den Linden

Friday, 18, to Friday, 25. July

Opening of advance sales: Wednesday, June 18, 10 a.m.

Two scary films in one evening and that too in the sewage treatment plant - one of the seven unusual locations that the 18th Frankfurt Cinema Week will turn into a cinema from Friday, July 18, to Friday, July 25: In an old gas engine hall, on Tuesday, July 22, viewers will be immersed in the whimsically macabre world of Jeunet's THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (FR/DE/ES 1995). Afterwards, in the Korean cult work THE HOST (KR 2006), a big city is haunted by a gruesomely bizarre mutant monster from the sewers.

Frankfurt is rich in "unusual places'': already, the German Film Museum's event series has transformed more than 90 spots in the city into movie theaters of an unusual kind since 1995, using a screen and mobile cinema technology. Cult flicks and arthouse films are successfully staged here. The program of the 18th Frankfurt Cinema Week also shows the metropolis on the Main in all its diversity. Guided tours as well as special culinary and cultural offers get the audience in the right mood for the film experience and the location on the respective event evening. But as many locations and ideas as it may offer, a project like the Frankfurt Cinema Week can only be realized with the necessary financial resources. A significant portion of these funds was raised last fall via the crowdfunding portal startnext.de, as Claudia Dillmann, director of the Deutsches Filmmuseum, joyfully emphasized once again at Monday's press conference. The funding campaign was part of kulturMut, an initiative of the Aventis Foundation. "We are delighted that the contributions of numerous supporters raised a total of 7,000 euros.'' With an additional financial injection of 13,000 euros from the Aventis Foundation, the funding goal of 20,000 euros was reached and the research for unusual places for 2014 could begin. "Many thanks to the crowd and to Aventis,'' said Dillmann.

This made a point of highlighting how important it is to Kinowoche and the Deutsches Filmmuseum to "always open up unusual locations beyond the city centre.'' So this time, with Sindlingen, Niederrad and Rödelheim, many districts outside the city centre were included in the programme.

Family-run businesses such as the Possmann wine press, where the public can experience the recently deceased Heinz Schenk at his best once again alongside Hape Kerkeling in KEIN PARDON (DE 1993), or the Manke car recycling plant, in whose backyard VANISHING POINT (USA/GB 1971), one of the most influential road movies in film history, will be shown, are just as much a part of the programme presented by project manager Johanna Ruhl as public places: This year, visitors can cheer on US racehorse legend SEABISCUIT (USA 2003) at the tradition-steeped racecourse in Niederrad. Ruhl said she was particularly looking forward to this "superbly photographed, star-studded film, which will be shown on a huge air screen with a view of the skyline''. DIE ENDLOSE NACHT (BRD 1963) at Frankfurt Airport features Hannelore Elsner in one of her first cinema roles.

Film and concert form a synthesis of the arts in the Great Hall of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst when five music students improvise live music as a silent film band to the story of the super villain FANTÔMAS - À L'OMBRE DE LA GUILLOTINE (FR 1913). In the fantastically beautiful park of the neo-baroque Villa unter den Linden, the cinema week will finally come to an end with Lars von Trier's MELANCHOLIA (DK/SE/FR/DE 2011). Unlike in the film, however, there is no doomsday mood here - because the next cinema week is sure to come!

You can find the complete programme of the Frankfurt Cinema Week at

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Source: Deutsches Filminstitut