Lichtfest
Last week was the 25th anniversary of the peaceful protests in Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification. To celebrate this, Lichtfest was held, in Leipzig, apparently in Chemnitz also, although none of us knew it was happening, and in other cities in Germany. On Wednesday I went to see a film with Beth and her housemate Susan (who is German and never speaks English - good German practice points!). It was in the absolutely lovely Clubkino Siegmar in Chemnitz, a kind of art-house-y cinema that shows unusual, old, or foreign films. I've been told that the downstairs screen is brilliant and has armchairs, tables, and a bar in the back, while the screen upstairs showing our film was less comfortable but still interesting, with rows of wooden chairs rather than several attached to each other like in a normal cinema, in a tiny, intimate room with mood lighting. The film was a short documentary filmed by some schoolchildren a few years ago about the protests that...