Goethe-Institut New Zealand

📽 Slipping through the gap: a selection of seven films by Aotearoa and International artists from the collection of Arsenal Filminstitut e.V. and Circuit Artist Moving Image
🗓 6pm, Tuesday 25 August
📍CIRCUIT, Level 2/27 Dixon Street, Wellington
🚨Admission free, but booking required. Please reserve your seat here: https://events.humanitix.com/slipping-through-the-gap

This collaborative program unfolds as a associative conversation around the productivity of gaps, the displacement and migration of images and the work that moving images do in framing, deliniating and producing identity, place and imagination.

Curated and introduced by Ulrich Ziemons (head of Berlinale Forum Expanded) and Mark Williams (Director of CIRCUIT), with support of the Goethe-Institut New Zealand.

Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Trip After (2022)
Kerstin Schroedinger, Fugue (2015)
Frances Libeau, Lake of Wandering Spirits (2026)
Utkarsh, Remote Occlusions (2024)
Sandy Wakefield, Tawhiremātea (2019)

🎉 Stella is back from IDO 2026, this year's International German Olympics in Mannheim!

Together with Dheeren, she proudly represented New Zealand and returned with unforgettable memories, new experiences, and plenty of stories to share. ✨

📸 © Goethe-Institut / Andreas Dahn

🎥 A business trip takes agent Hutter to Transylvania, where he finalises a purchase with the eerie Count Orlok. The next day, after finding fresh puncture marks on his neck, Hutter realizes that Orlok is a vampire. The protagonist is powerless to stop the Count from travelling to Wisborg, bringing plague and death to the town...

🫶You are warmly invited to come along and experience the classic movie by F.W. Murnau, with Max Schreck and Gustav von Wangenheim in the lead roles.

Hi everyone! 🫶
I'm Annika from Germany, and since July I've been the new DAAD Representative and Professional Teaching Fellow at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.
The DAAD connects students and researchers from Aotearoa New Zealand and Germany through exchange programmes and scholarship opportunities.
So if you're thinking about studying in Germany or planning a research stay and looking for funding to support your experience, I'd be happy to help you explore the opportunities available and find a scholarship that's right for you.
I'm excited to connect with you and look forward to hearing from you!

Feel free to get in touch!
👉[email protected]

🎬Director's Statement:
"Mann’s return to Germany in 1949 and his attempt to transcend the division and the growing ideological polarisation of his country has obvious contemporary resonances; the old paradigm is dead, the old rules no longer apply, and in their place emerge two crude, mutually exclusive narratives. Narratives which flatten everything, suck oxygen out of the air, corner you into taking sides, and slowly make it impossible to see straight and speak freely. For Mann, the only defence against this ideological reduction was Art – the “poetic gaze” which he mentions in one of his speeches, the open eye for the complexities and paradoxes of life."

🚨"Fatherland" is coming to NZIFF this weekend!
21 August / 6:15 PM / The Embassy Theatre

📽 The story centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

📸 © Aleksandra Modrzejewska-Mitan

🎉 Dheeren is back from IDO 2026, this year's International German Olympics in Mannheim!

Together with Stella, he proudly represented New Zealand and returned with unforgettable memories, new experiences, and plenty of stories to share. ✨

📸 © Goethe-Institut / Andreas Dahn

As part of the New Zealand International Film Festival and in association with German Films, the Goethe-Institut presents „Trail of Hein“ (Der Heimatlose) by Kai Stänicke. Awarded by the Teddy Awards jury at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, „Trail of Hein“ is Kai Stänicke's stirring debut feature.

🚨Kai will be attending both screenings in Wellington, so make sure to get your tickets while they're still available!

Get your tickets here: https://www.nziff.co.nz/.../te-whanganui-a.../trial-of-hein/

🎥 Screenings:

Christchurch
Thu 13 August / 6:00 PM
Fri 14 August / 10:30 AM

Wellington
Sat 15 August / 5:30 PM
Sun 16 August / 8:15 PM

Filmstills © Trail of Hein, 2026

But you will find it here: https://criticalsignals.nz/