Twin Cities German Film Festival

Join us for the 3rd Annual Twin Cities German Film Festival, a celebration of German cinema highlighting compelling true stories from the heart of Europe. This year’s festival presents a curated selection of films based on real-life events, offering unique insights into history, culture, and the human experience. From riveting dramas to inspiring tales of perseverance, these films bring extraordinary true stories to the screen.

Schedule Of Events:

4 PM - Gundermann (2018)
He wants to be a good worker, a great husband, a caring father, an artist, a clown, a politician – he is everything at the same time. Gerhard Gundermann is hero and anti-hero, a constant contradiction, a glittering figure typical of the former East-Germany – and again not. People like him are everywhere. And they offend everywhere.

7:30 PM - Das Wunder von Taipeh (2019)
In 1981 Taiwan hosted the second Women’s World Invitation Tournament, the Chunghua Cup. At the time the German Football Association tolerated rather than promoted women’s soccer, which had been banned in the country until 1970. Eleven years later, establishing a women’s national team was still of little interest to the powerful men of German soccer. That’s how the invitation to Taipei ended up with the national champions of SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach. This enthralling documentary talks to former players about the now absurd conditions under which they fought for their dream of playing soccer. Historical footage documents the match of their lives and the local soccer fields they started on as well as the cringeworthy men’s world they helped dismantle.