Screening Dates: Friday, November 21, 2025, 8:00 p.m. / Tuesday, December 23, 2025, 8:00 p.m. / Saturday, January 10, 2026, 6:30 p.m.

Director: Ulrike Ottinger

Germany, France / 2020 / 129 min. / Black and White / German / English and Turkish Subtitles

Paris Calligrammes, constructed by Ulrike Ottinger using black and white found footage, looks back from the present to the past and focuses on the artist’s time as a painter in Paris in the 1960s. Ottinger narrates in her own voice, recounting her time as a young artist in Parisian art galleries, bookstores, and the Cinémathèque Française, her artist friends, and how her life there nourished her films. 

This autobiographical documentary, which the artist approaches with a nostalgic and poetic gaze, presents a portrait of the unforgettable art scene in 1960s Paris.

* We would like to thank the Goethe-Institute for their contribution to the program.

** The film will be screened within the framework of European Film Month.