FRIDAY, 03/14/2025 – 7 PM

Doris Duke Theatre – Honolulu Museum of Art

Marion (Laura Tonke) and Andi (Moritz Bleibtreu) consider themselves exemplary parents, even after their separation, sharing custody of their 11-year-old son, Milan (Valentin Thatenhorst), equally. However, their summer vacation in Italy—where Marion’s new boyfriend (David Kross) joins them—unexpectedly exposes some glaring gaps in their parenting. Milan is a spoiled only child who skillfully plays his parents against each other, drinks espresso, but can’t even swim. It’s time for a new chapter in their parenting journey.

Determined to correct their past mistakes, Marion and Andi decide to tackle their parenting shortcomings together—and in the process, they begin to reconnect. Meanwhile, Milan experiences his first romance at a campground next to a luxury hotel, and the family starts to rediscover what truly binds them.

With heart and humor, Everything’s Fifty-Fifty explores the pressing parenting questions of our time:
How much structure does a child really need?
Should parents relax their rules to let kids gain their own experiences?
How much screen time is healthy?
Do different parenting styles actually harm children?
And is the dream of family harmony even realistic in a blended family?

Award-winning filmmaker Alireza Golafshan (The Goldfish, JGA – Jasmin. Gina. Anna.) brings a sharp yet affectionate perspective to this relatable story, brought to life by a stellar cast, including Moritz Bleibtreu (Cortex, I’ve Never Been to New York), Laura Tonke (When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before, Too Hard to Handle), David Kross (The Peacock, Balloon), Axel Stein (The Goldfish, JGA), and rising talent Valentin Thatenhorst.

For his work on Everything’s Fifty-Fifty, Alireza Golafshan was honored with the Bavarian Film Award for Best Director.

SATURDAY, 03/15/2025 – 3 PM

Doris Duke Theater – Honolulu Museum of Art

A charming, funny and deeply moving film about growing up in a very special family. Based on an internationally bestselling novel. Wistfully moving, wryly funny, full of wacky stories and wonderful scenes: Joachim Meyerhoff’s bestselling coming-of-age novel is a tale of tender romance and longing for departure and arrival.

Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...

Based on the autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, this incredibly funny and moving film deals with how hard it is to be a family. It may not be a normal family, but who wants to be normal, anyway? A tale of growing up under unusual circumstances, featuring a fantastic cast, directed by Sonja Heiss, who helmed award-winning “Hedi Schneider is Stuck” and wrote the bestselling novel “Rimini”. Camille Loup Moltzen plays young Joachim, Arsseni Bultmann 14-year-old Joachim and Merlin Rose plays Joachim as a young man. Star Devid Striesow is his psychiatrist father, while Laura Tonke, who won the German Film Prize for “Hedi Schneider is Stuck”, plays his mother, a very unique woman. The quirky supporting cast consists of professional actors and lay actors with and without psychiatric conditions.

SATURDAY, 03/15/2025 – 7 PM

Doris Duke Theater – Honolulu Museum of Art

The romantic story of the celebrated author Franz Kafka and his last love.

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. He has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. But the worldly wise Dora Diamant accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. The two meet in 1923 on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. Together they go to Berlin and, when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. Barely a year after they meet, he dies. The memory of their time together will shape Dora for the rest of her life.

We wouldlike to tell the story of Franz and Dora asa light-hearted love story directed at anadult audience that reads and lives, andappreciates the big screen.

SUNDAY, 03/16/2025 – 2 PM

Doris Duke Theater – Honolulu Museum of Art

They were extraordinary artists and passionate lovers: Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky.

Both co-founders of “The Blue Rider“, one of the most famous loose groups of artists of Classical Modernism at the beginning of the 20th century. But while he enjoys the fame, admiration, artistic and financial recognition, she struggles with her life by his side. The relationship becomes increasingly complicated, tiring and, above all, toxic.

For the first time, the true story of Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky is told from her perspective. Explore the untold chapters of her life, her love affair with Kandinsky, and her crucial role in the avant-garde Blue Rider movement that revolutionized the art world.