COLD WAR 6:00
Cold War is a gorgeous, passionate love story about a man and a who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate—an impossible love story in impossible times. Directed and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida, My Summer of Love) and starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot, the film was an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (2018, in Polish with English subtitles, 89 min, DCP)
NEVER LOOK AWAY 7:45
In a story inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, a young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling), falls in love with fellow student, Ellie (Paula Beer). Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband (Sebastian Koch), a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago. This grand epic by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) is a masterful, moving family story of art, love, tragedy and politics. Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (2018, in German and Russian with English subtitles, 188 min, DCP)