Yella

Date:: 12 Nov 2025, 19:00–21:10

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Age restrictions: 18+

The ghosts of divided Germany in one of the seminal films of the Berlin School. Screening as part of the Ghost Stories film programme.

Yella
2007, Christian Petzold

Germany
89 minutes, German with Russian subtitles

Starring: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner

The train heads west, carrying to a new life Yella, who miraculously managed to catch it, wiping blood from her forehead. She has just separated from her husband and is moving from East Germany to prosperous Hanover in the hope of finding a better job. There, the heroine finds herself caught up in a web of corporate intrigue, financial machinations. and relationships with predatory, shady men—and then the shadows of the past creep into this world.

Shot from Yella, 2007

Petzold, a leading light of the current generation of young German filmmakers, succeeds in making the modern world strange again.

— Chris Darke, Film Comment

Yella, part of Christian Petzold’s “ghost trilogy,” is reminiscent of Hitchcock in its elegant and effective use of thriller genre mechanics, while consistently exposing the Freudian uncanny in the modern landscape of glass and steel.

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