SF Berlin & Beyond Festival 2024

[Chris Knipp]

WEEKEND REBELS (Marc Mothemund 2023)

Based on a true story and a German bestseller about how a man and his ten-year-old autistic son, who has Asperger's, bond making a tour of top-level soccer games at stadiums all over the country and Europe in an effort to find a favorite team for the boy, so he can fit in at his mainstream school.

At Berlin & Beyond 2024.

Showtimes:
Apr. 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM – Roxie Theater, San Francisco (Invitation Only)
Apr. 19, 2024 at 12:45 PM – Roxie Theater, San Francisco (Invitation Only)

[Chris Knipp]

SONNE UND BETON/SUN AND CONCRETE (David Wnendt 2023)

Boys in the hood Berliner style. It's called Gropiusstadt, and the film follows four of them one hot summer early in the 2000's. Drugs, violence, rap, theft - trouble, and togetherness. This film fills a real need because, it seems, the Germans don't have a lot of films about this milieu. And it's very well done. Debuted at the Berlinale.

It opened theatrically in Germany October 26, 2023. Berlin &. Beyond Showtimes: To be announced.

[Chris Knipp]

INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (Margarethe von Trotta 2023)

Portrait of one of Germany's most prominent poets, intellectuals, and teachers, had a great influence though she died at only 47. This is a handsome production to tell her sotory, focusing on the time when she was involved with the playwright Max Frisch. Starring the much admired Vicky Krieps. However, Krieps isn't entirely convincing as an intellectual, and the whole thing is a bit low-wattage. Debuted at the Berlinale.

Part of the 28th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, will run April 18-20, 2024 at the historic Roxie Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, and April 21-22, 2024 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley.
Showtimes:
Apr. 20, 2024 at 6:30 PM – Roxie Theater, San Francisco
April 22, 2024 at 7:45 PM – Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, Berkeley

[Chris Knipp]

SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME (Charly Hübner 2023)

A high concept, dry humor piece about a man who'is visited by Death and stalls for time, going on a road trip to see his estranged seven-year-od son with his mother and ex-girlfriend in northern Germany.Adapted from a novel by the musician Thees Uhlmann.p

Part of the 28th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, will run April 18-20, 2024 at the historic Roxie Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, and April 21-22, 2024 at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley. Showtime
Saturday,
April 20, 2024
9:00 PM
Roxie, San Francisco

[Chris Knipp]

HAO ARE YOU (Dieu Hao Do 2023)

Those interested in the diaspora of Vietnam's Chinese minority after the communists took over South Vietnam in 1975 will find this exploration of his family by the filmmaker indispensable. The peculiar thing is that so many branches of the family are not talking to each other. What caused this hostility? However, Do finds it hard to make the various cousins and aunts and offspring engaging, or even help us keep track of who is who.

Berlin & Beyond, San Francisco.:
Showtime:
Apr. 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM – Roxie Theater, San Francisco