At this special cinema event - organized by the StattKino initiative in cooperation with the Idar-Oberstein Cultural Office - selected films are shown in the municipal theater, each accompanied by a meal that matches the theme.
The 2023/2024 program begins on Friday, 20 October 2023, at 7.30 pm with the film "On the Couch in Tunis". French director Manele Labidi's feature film debut from 2019 is both a comedy, a contemporary witness to Tunisia's cultural situation and a homage to her parents' homeland. As a corresponding dish, Landgasthof Böß will be serving a "Tunisian feast" in the banquet hall of the Stadttheater at 6.30 pm. Prior registration is required for this event.
Selma (Golshifteh Farahani) is planning a daring venture: She wants to open a psychotherapy practice in her native Tunisia. While she sets to work with a great deal of self-confidence, she encounters suspicion, skepticism and bureaucratic obstacles in her old homeland. And not just because she wears her hair instead of a headscarf and has a picture of a Jew hanging in her psychotherapy practice. In order to cheat the Tunisian authorities, she quickly opens up her apartment and, in particular, her couch for therapeutic consultations. Despite the initial suspicion, customers are soon queuing up. From a beauty salon owner to a depressed man with erotic dreams and a stranger who is completely oriented towards Freud.
In 2010, a wave of revolutions began in Tunisia that went down in the history books as the Arab Spring. Less than ten years later, the political situation had changed, but not the tense relationship between citizens in the poorer neighborhoods. With her lively comedy, Manele Labidi manages to create a monument to Arab culture in upheaval in a way that is both serious and humorous.
The rest of the program
- November 10, 2023, Film: "Minari - Where we put down roots", Essen: Korean-American encounter
- January 19, 2024, Film: "Persian lessons", Food: Persian gibberish
- February 23, 2024, Film: "Curtain up for Cyrano", Food: French cuisine not just for long noses
- March 22, 2024, Film: "Not quite kosher", Food: Orthodox-Muslim unification meal
- April 12, 2024, movie: "Falling"; food: Childhood memory
- Admission to the movie costs 4 euros. Admission is from 7 pm, there is free seating. The movie including dinner costs 18 euros. Places for the meal are limited, and Landgasthof Böß will accept bookings up to eight days before the event date at the latest, subject to availability, by emailing info@landgasthaus-boess.de. Meal reservations cannot be returned or exchanged. Tickets and food can only be paid for on site at the box office.