Kino! 2010 Opens at MoMA in New York

Kino! 2010 Opening at Rooftop Lounge, Library Hotel, New York City

On April 21, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City marked its 31st annual survey of recent German cinema with Kino! 2010. Although writer-director Margarethe von Trotta could not attend the opening, leading lady Barbara Sukowa was greeted with equal enthusiasm by the packed house. In Vision, Sukowa plays Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess of the twelfth century who became known as a Christian mystic and visionary, author and composer, counselor and philosopher, physician and naturalist, to name but a few of her later-on established credits.

The engaging historical drama was since picked up for US distribution. Zeitgeist Films, longtime champions of “New Films from Germany” with titles such as Nowhere in Africa, Sophie Scholl, Aimée & Jaguar and Jud Süss, plans an October release. Also showing at Kino! was Academy Award nominated documentary short, Rabbit à la Berlin by Bartek Konopka, Piotr Rosolowski and Anna Wydra. Right before the Oscars, Icarus Films had secured all North American rights to the story about the so-called ‘Wall rabbits’ that were thriving in the former no man’s land between East- and West Berlin before losing their sanctuary with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The annual showcase was organized by Laurence Kardish, senior curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, in cooperation with German Films (Munich) and its New York representative, Oliver Mahrdt (shown in our photo on the left with Sukowa and Frank Graf of the Fassbinder Foundation).

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