Friday film screenings back at Goethe-Institut

The film screenings on Fridays are back in Goethe-Institut Kolkata — the cultural centre of German Consulate in the city. The project that started in January 2012 has entertained the robust community of cine buffs in the city. After being stopped for six months, the screening — Friday Films@Goethe-Institut — will start again from January 31 with Gordian Maugg’s Fritz Lang (1916).

A spokesperson from the institute said, “We have always aimed to screen both old and new films. So far, we have screened as many as 120

films

that have won Oscars, Golden Bears, Silver Bears and Golden Palms. The oldest film that we screened is The Oyster Princess (1919) by Ernst Lubitsch. Besides, we screen films by some of the most renowned directors over a century of German cinema, including

Ernst Lubitsch

, Fritz Lang, Helmut Käutner, Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff, Doris Dörrie, Caroline Link, Fatih Akin and Christian Petzold.”


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