If you didn’t know, the German Season just had its grand start with a screening of Fritz Lang’s classic film, Metropolis, accompanied musically by Film Orchestra Babelsberg in Cikini last weekend. With the program fully under way, The German Seasons will have three programs active through the month of September which are Football Fever in Indonesia Competition, German Cinema Film Festival, and Cultural Worlds. The first is a competition where you submit a video of support for the German football team for a chance to be flown to Hanover to watch the team play (submission ends the 11th so hurry!), the second is a screening of the many great German films made in recent years (check out our Focus article, “Selection: German Cinema” for recommendations, and the third is an exhibition that features preservations and restorations of artefacts from around the world which includes our own Borobudur temple.

Check out the official descriptions below, and for more detailed information, visit The German Seasons page.

Football Fever in Indonesia Competition
A dream came true for fans of German football when the national team won the World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Did you also root for the German team? Are you a true fan? If you are, join our football contest! Send us a 90-second-video in which you show your support for the German national team in a creative way! The winners will travel to Hanover in November to witness the friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands live at the stadium.
Upload your video to YouTube and send the link, together with the form, to the following email address: football@jermanfest.com

The competition is open from August 17 to September 11. A jury will determine the winners.

In addition, a visit from a German football star will give Indonesian fans the chance to get up, close and personal with their idol.

German Cinema Film Festival
The German Cinema Festival is back!
For the fourth time in a row, the festival brings the best of German film to Indonesia’s cinema screens. After its successful debut in 2012 and its sequels 2013 and 2014, the festival is one of the key events in Indonesia’s cultural calendar!

The programme contains a fine selection of 17 current, internationally acclaimed and award-winning German film productions, among them “Labyrinth of Lies“ by Giulio Ricciarelli, “The Salt of the Earth“ by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, the German box-office film “Fack Ju Göhte“ (“Suck me Shakespeer“) or the latest film by Andreas Dresen “As We Were Dreaming“. With this cross-section of the German film landscape, the festival seeks to inspire the Indonesian audience and evoke interest in German Cinema – believing that the contemporary German movie scene is continuously changing and has to offer a lot of exciting, fresh views. All films will be made accessible to a wide audience through English subtitles. Screenings will be held across Indonesia, namely Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Makassar, Surabaya, Denpasar and Medan.

Cultural Worlds
Education / Politics

The exhibition “Cultural Worlds”, which is part of the Cultural Preservation Program of the Federal Foreign Office, presents impressive examples of 13 different projects, such as the restoration of Indonesia’s Borobudur temple, the preservation of manuscripts featuring ancient handwriting in Timbuktu, Mali, or the restoration of the old bazaar of Erbil in Iraq.

These projects give an idea of the immense cultural heritage worldwide that we all share and should strive to protect and preserve. The exhibition mainly shows projects to preserve historical cultural assets worldwide, but also highlights the preservation of German cultural heritage abroad.

The Cultural Preservation Program was established in 1981, with the aim to preserve cultural heritage worldwide and therefore make it accessible to the following generations. Its main goal is to strengthen a sense of national identity in the partner country and to foster cultural dialogue among partners. In conflict areas, these measures are an element of crisis prevention and support for reconstruction.