
CINEMA LIVES – ARTHOUSE THEATRES IN GERMANY
Director: Goggo Gensch
Documentary | Germany | 2025
103 min | Dolby 5.1
59th Hof International Film Festival
2025
After the last film played at the legendary Arsenal arthouse cinema in Tübingen, director Goggo Gensch accompanies founder Stefan Paul – filmmaker, distributor, and tireless cineast – on a journey to the screens that shaped Germany’s arthouse cinema movement. Paul and companions tell of the beginnings of arthouse cinemas in the 1970s and their daily struggle for survival. Icons like John Waters and Wim Wenders contribute personal memories, while the Hof International Film Festival celebrates underground films.
With Stefan Paul
Cinematography Heiko Bokern, Eva Gensch, Cassie Hamilton, Christopher Krehahn, Dorian Ostermann, Christoph Pustlauk, Dirk Schwarz, Editing Tim Löschmann, Sound Lisa Bauer, Milos Fehrle, Felix Hess, Elias Reinhard, Edoardo Rieger, Production Monika Agler, Günter Moritz





