Cinema-Open-Air at the Filmhaus

At a glance

 

• When: 
  • daily (sun. - fri.); doors open at 9:15 p.m.
• Which films will be shown? Further details below.
• Location: Open-air cinema in the park behind the Filmhaus
• Fee per participant: 5,- Euro for participants; 6,50 Euro for guests
  (Tickets are available on site only)
• Languages: Films in the original version with subtitles (details available in June 2010)
• Barrier-free: wheelchair accessible
  

 

 

[1]© Kölner Filmhaus

[2]© Kölner Filmhaus

[3]© Kölner Filmhaus

 

Description
Lights, camera, action for big-city open-air cinema.
On a green field and in an urban setting, between Saturn Tower and Media Park, the Cologne Film House is again presenting this year a fine selection of films and 100 seats in the open air cinema. Just in time for the Gay Games VIII Cologne 2010 you can enjoy films on sports, gay / lesbian life, classics, and new films each in the original version in the open air. It's a unique experience! In June we'll tell you which films will be shown!
In the open-air cinema about 500 people can watch, plus up to 100 chairs can be hired locally. Tickets are available only at the box office! In case of inclement weather, the movies will be shown in the cinema of the Filmhaus.

 

Films at a Glance
August 01: Training Rules [4]
August 01: Love you Phillip Morris [5]
August 02: Nina´s Heavenly Delights [6]
August 03: High Art [7]
August 04: It´s in the Water – Eine Stadt in Aufruhr [8]
August 05: A Single Man [9]
August 06: Milk [10]

August 01, 7.30 p.m.
FilmhausCinema (indoor – not Open Air!)
TRAINING RULES
in cooperation with feminale e.V.
USA 2008, Reportage, 60 Min., engl. OV, R.: Dee Mosbacher, Fawn Yacker

Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching basketball at Pennsylvania State University - no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules, examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes, thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. The film follows the lawsuit filed in 2006 against Portland and Penn State by student athlete Jennifer Harris. This high profile case ignited the world of women’s collegiate sports. It inspired the discussions so sorely needed to end discrimination based on sexual orientation that pervades all organized sport.



August 01, 9.30 p.m.
Open Air
LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
USA 2009, Comedy, 102 Min., OV, german subtitle, 35mm, R.: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, D.: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann

Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven realizes he's gay and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lifestyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another.



August 02; 9.30 p.m.
Open Air
NINA’S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS
in cooperation with feminale e.V.
UK 2006, Comedy, 94 Min., 35mm, OV, german subtitles, R.: Pratibha Palmer, D.: Shelley Conn, Laura Fraser

NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS is a surprising love story where Scottish humour meets Bollywood spectacle! It follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, THE SHAHS and their award winning Indian restaurant, THE NEW TAJ.
The story is told through the eyes of NINA SHAH, a young Scottish Asian woman engaged in her own highly personal identity crisis. NINA had left home under a cloud after a row with her father but when he dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return.  Her return reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a wannabe Bollywood drag queen and brings her face to face with Lisa, a charismatic young woman who now owns half the restaurant.
Then Nina discovers her father’s secret – The New Taj has been selected for The Best of the West Curry Competition. In the turbulent days that follow, Nina (helped by Lisa) embarks on a personal mission to win the trophy for the third time. But Nina's feelings are thrown into turmoil when she realises that she is falling in love.
Can her feelings ever be reciprocated? And, if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family.



August 03, 9.30 p.m.
Open Air
HIGH ART
in cooperation with feminale e.V.
USA 1998, Drama, 101 Min., 35mm, OV, german subtitles, R.:Lisa Cholodenko, D.: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell

Syd, a newly appointed assistant editor of Frame magazine, discovers that the woman living above her flat is none other than the talented yet enigmatic photographer Lucy Berliner. When the two of them meet, Syd gets acquainted with both Lucy's past work and her circle of flegmatic, junkie friends. Seeing a definite career opportunity, Syd encourages Lucy to shoot new pictures for her magazine. At the same time, a strong attraction starts to develop between them. As the photo assignment continues, both Syd and Lucy are forced to examine their own lives and loves.



August 04, 9.30 p.m.
Open Air
IT`S IN THE WATER – EINE STADT IN AUFRUHR
in cooperation with feminale e.V.
USA 1997, Comedy, 99 Min.,35mm, OV, german subtitles, R.: Kelli Herd, D.: Keri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garrett

When sexy, upper-crust society wife Alex (Keri Jo Chapman) falls for her old high school best friend, Grace (Teresa Garret) the snobby little town of Azalea Springs is up in arms. Alongside the budding romance, indie filmmaker Kelli Herd brings us a hilarious comic portrait of small-town life and a firm trouncing of homophobic intolerance as the whole town confronts the zany rumor that their water supply is turning everyone gay!



August 05, 9.30 p.m.
Open Air
A SINGLE MAN
USA 2009, Drama, 101 Min., OV, german subtitles, 35mm, R.: Tom Ford, D.: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult

It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to tell George of the death or accident let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class.



August 06, 9.30 p.m.
Open Air
MILK
USA 2008, Dokudrama, 128 Min., OV, german subtitles, R.: Gus van Sant, D.: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin

Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fronted by singer Anita Bryant. Closer to home, Milk has a continuing struggle with his fellow supervisor, Dan White, a staunch social conservative.

 Registration / Miscellaneous

• Event for: men and women, max. 500 participants
• Tickets: 5,- Euro for participants; 6,50 Euro for guests
  Tickets are available on site only
  
• Meeting place: Open-air cinema in the park behind the Filmhaus, Maybachstraße 111 - In case of inclement weather in the cinema hall of the Filmhaus
• How to get there: Open-air cinema in the park behind the Filmhaus, Maybachstraße 111. Tram Line 12,15 or S-Bahn to "Mediapark". In case of inclement weather in the cinema hall of the Filmhaus
• Presented by: Koelner Filmhaus [18]