Eight German movies will be shown at the German Film Festival at the Broadway Cinema in Coco Park from Nov. 17 to 24. All movies will be in their original languages with Chinese subtitles. Some of the directors will speak with the audience after the screening (See schedule below). Movie tickets can be bought at the cinema’s box office.

    ‘4 Kings’

    Time: Nov. 17, 19, 7 p.m.; Nov. 20, 8:40 p.m.

    Plot: Christmas is approaching, and with it, the desire for harmony, beauty, light and hope. Being unable to cope with her parents’ conflict, Alex makes a radical decision. A day later she finds herself in the adolescent psychiatric emergency unit. There she meets three other young people: Lara, the striking daughter from an academic family, who’s having acid flashbacks; shy Fedja, who is being bullied at school; and violent Timo, who has just been moved from the closed ward. Under the care of the young psychiatrist Dr. Wolff, they will spend a Christmas together that none of them will ever forget. Movie director Theresa von Eltz will meet the audience at 8:40 p.m., Nov. 17.

    ‘Meteor Street’

    Time: Nov. 17, 9:50 p.m.; Nov. 18, 7 p.m.

    Plot: Named after a narrow, desolate road adjacent to Berlin’s Tegel airport, “Meteor Street” shows a side of the city seldom seen on screen: that of Arab immigrants scraping by in a country which does not always welcome them with open arms. Movie director Aline Fischer will meet the audience at 8:25 p.m., Nov. 18.

    ‘Colonia’

    Time: Nov. 18, 9:05 p.m.; Nov. 19, 1 p.m.

    Plot: “Colonia” is a 2015 historical romantic thriller film starring Emma Watson. The film is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup and the real “Colonia Dignidad,” a notorious cult in the south of Chile, led by German lay preacher Paul Schafer. Movie director Florian Gallenberger will meet the audience at 10:55 p.m., Nov. 18.

    ‘Hanna’s Sleeping Dogs’

    Time: Nov. 19, 8:50 p.m.; Nov. 20, 1 p.m.

    Plot: Nine-year-old Johanna grows up in the Austrian provincial town Wels as a good Catholic girl in the late 1960s. When her blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake. But unlike her traumatized mother Katharina, she doesn’t want to hide. Instead, she wants to be proud. Johanna becomes Hanna.

    ‘The Nightmare’

    Time: Nov. 20, 7 p.m.; Nov. 21, 9 p.m.

    Plot: When teenager Tina starts seeing this monstrosity in and around her comfortably middle-class home at night, the screenplay’s strong suggestion is that she’s experiencing some kind of mental distortion — exacerbated by her hedonistic, party-hearty lifestyle and the universal pressures of young adult life. But there are further twists in store.

    ‘The People vs. Fritz Bauer’

    Time: Nov. 22, 7 p.m.; Nov. 23, 9:05 p.m.

    Plot: “The People vs. Fritz Bauer” is a story of a man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.

    ‘Fukushima, Mon Amour’

    Time: Nov. 21, 7 p.m.; Nov. 22, 8:55 p.m.

    Plot: A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.

    ‘In Love With Lou’

    Time: Nov. 23, 7 p.m.; Nov. 24, 7 p.m.

    Plot: When writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salome meets young German scholar Ernst Pfeiffer, he helps her to write the story of her life and falls in love with her.

    Venue: Broadway Cinema, Coco Park, Futian District (福田区Coco Park深圳百老汇影城)

    Metro: Line 1 or 3, Shopping Park Station (购物公园站), Exit C(SD News)