German Film Festival

Earlier this year, the Year Nine and Ten German classes went on excursion to the German Film Festival. We saw a film titled ‘Auf Augenhöhe’, meaning ‘at eye height,’ which was a wonderful film about an 11 year old boy, named Michi, who learns that his biological father is a little person. The film tells of their rocky but ultimately successful relationship, as Michi eventually comes to terms with being taller than his father.

The film was light hearted and quite funny, whilst also having a serious plot line and addressing legitimate issues about the treatment of people of short stature, and we were all impressed by the acting quality, especially of the many child actors.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the film, and it was a great opportunity for us all to test our German, and see how much we could understand without reading the subtitles. The Goethe Institut also ran a competition to find the most interesting German word we learned during the film, with many interesting responses, including: Fremdschämen, from Meg, which means second hand embarrassment. Three Fort Street students were lucky enough to win movie vouchers for their entries.

After the movie, we went to a nearby German restaurant to have schnitzel and strudel for lunch. The food at the restaurant was delicious, and, given most of us have never had actual German food, seemingly very authentic. The entire restaurant experience was wonderful, and our table group never ran out of jokes and stories, both about the day and otherwise. We eventually arrived back at Petersham station, tired but happy. We could all agree on what a thoroughly fantastic day it had been, and we all look forward to the next one.
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Marley Donald
Year 9