German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
Wim Wenders - Talking to Strangers
Preceding the premiere of "Perfect Days" on December 22 (preview screening on December 16), we will be honoring Wim Wenders with a little tribute featuring four of his most iconic and influential films:
ALICE IN DEN STÄDTEN (1974) on Mon, December 4 at 20:30
DER AMERIKANISCHE FREUND (1977) on Tue, December 5 at 20:30
PARIS, TEXAS (1984) on Wed, December 6 at 17:40 & 20:30 (extra screening on Thu, Dec 21 at 20:30)
DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN (1987) on Thu, December 7 at 20:30 (extra screening on Fri, Dec 15 at 20:30)
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.