In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him in order to live within the “norm.” He meets a shy girl who falls for him, and soon the couple is sharing an apartment. But Philipp cannot deny his passionate desire for a young man. After years of repressing his sexuality, he finally accepts himself for who he truly is.
Hailed as the first and only feature film about gay life ever produced in communist East Germany, Coming Out premiered on the night the Berlin Wall opened, November 9, 1989.
Awards
2011
Shown at Outfest, The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, USA
2010/11
Shown at by Side, LGBT International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009
Shown at Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy
2006
Shown at Teddy Twenty Tribute, Berlin International Film Festival
1998
Shown at Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York, USA
1990
Shown at International Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film, New York, USA
1990
Shown at Chicago’s Lesbian and Gay Festival, USA
1990
Konrad Wolf Prize of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts (director Heiner Carow; author Wolfram Witt)
1990
Best Director (Heiner Carow), GDR Feature Film Festival in Berlin
1990
Best Young Male Actor (Matthias Freihof), GDR Feature Film Festival in Berlin
1990
Teddy Award, Berlin International Film Festival
1990
Silver Bear for the expression of respect for human rights, humanity, and tolerance, Berlin International Film Festival
1989
Critic’s Prize for Film, Association of German Critics, Berlin Academy of Arts
