CURRENT GERMAN CINEMA Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! THE POLL DIARIES (POLL), 2010 .S. Premiere! JASMIN, 2011, October 27, 2011

Thursday, October 27 – 7:30 PM CURRENT GERMAN CINEMA
Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! THE POLL DIARIES (POLL), 2010, Bavaria Film International, 129 min. Dir. Chris Kraus. It is the eve of World War I in Germany and 14-year-old Oda Schaefer (Paula Beer) travels by train with two very unsettling items: her mother's body in a coffin, and a two-headed fetus in a jar. This begins Oda's journey to live with her father, Ebbo (Edgar Selge), a controversial doctor living in a house on stilts above the sea, who has fallen from grace among German scientists due to his seemingly morbid, inhumane medical methods. Winner of four German Film Awards. In German with English subtitles.
U.S. Premiere! JASMIN, 2011, Milk Film, 120 min. In director Jan Fehse's relentlessly tense and absorbing drama, two women face each other in a room over the course of four days of harrowing investigation. One, forensic specialist and psychiatrist Dr. Fendt (Wiebke Puls), is trying to understand the seemingly incomprehensible psyche of the other woman, Jasmin (Anne Schafer), and the horrid crime she's committed - the murder of her own 3-year-old daughter. In German with English subtitles.

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