Wednesday 2 December 13:00 

Deutschland 09
 Germany 09 

A group of Germany’s most acclaimed film directors has come together to create Germany 09, a very personal panorama of the social and political situation in their country today. Germany 09 comes right in the middle of the social upheaval brought about by “Agenda 2010” on the path to the globalized 21st century. It is over 60 years after the end of World War II, 40 years after the student uprisings of 1968, 30 years after 1977’s “German Autumn” and 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Free to choose their own format and content, each of the participating directors presents his or her personal interpretation and filmic portrayal of how they perceive Germany today. The sequences, abstract or concrete, range from short film to documentary, from essayistic to experimental.

Director and co-initiator Tom Tykwer says about the project: “The film combines around a dozen individual film sequences that depict how we experience our country today and how we position ourselves, what binds us, and where we are led astray in this nation”.