FRIDAY, 04/03/2026 – 7 PM

Doris Duke Theatre – Honolulu Museum of Art

SYNOPSISKeith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen.Based on a true story,Köln 75follows how the concert was conceived andorchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up and coming concert promoter, VeraBrandes, (played by German actress Mala Emde). Her enthusiasm set her tomultitasking–from organizing the concert venue (the Cologne Opera House),promoting the event, and selling the tickets, to convincing Jarrett to performwhen he almost dropped out when the Bösendorfer ImperialGrand piano hewas promised was nowhere to be found. John Magaro plays Jarrett with his ownintensity, a sublime counterpoint toMala Emde’s joyful portrayal of theenthusiastic and unstoppable Vera.Köln 75captures the compelling,entertaining and, until now, unknown back story about Jarrett’s one-hour,entirely improvised concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazzhistory.

SATURDAY, 04/04/2026 – 3 PM

Doris Duke Theater – Honolulu Museum of Art

I'm Not Stiller (German title: Stiller) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, which was published in 1954. The theme of the novel, the question of identity, is a recurring theme in the work of Frisch.

The narrator, travelling on an American passport in the name of James Larkin White, is arrested on arrival in Switzerland. He is accused of being the missing Swiss sculptor Anatol Ludwig Stiller, an accusation which White persistently denies. Friends and acquaintances visit and identify him as Stiller. Stiller's wife Julika Stiller-Tschudy, a former ballet dancer who now runs a dance school, travels from Paris to visit him in prison. She, too, identifies him as Stiller. Over the course of the novel, the complex histories of Stiller and White are revealed.

SATURDAY, 04/04/2025 – 7 PM

Doris Duke Theater – Honolulu Museum of Art

In their fourth collaboration to date, director Christian Petzold and actress Paula Beer forge an enigmatic depiction of haunting loss and mysterious connection. After surviving a car crash that kills her boyfriend, Laura (Beer), a music student at university, is taken in by Betty (Barbara Auer), an older woman who witnessed the accident. Betty cares for the unharmed but shaken Laura with a motherly devotion, and soon, Betty, her husband and their adult son are treating Laura like one of the family. Petzold imbues this close-quarters drama with atmospheric tension, agitating even the warmest domestic scenes with the disquiet of unspoken history. At its center, Beer beguiles with unnerving presence, condensing her performance into precise gestures and a steady gaze. The result is a crystalline cinematic object, both compact and faceted, refracting shades of grief, desire and trespass. –Travis Weedon

SUNDAY, 04/05/2026 – 2 PM

Doris Duke Theater – Honolulu Museum of Art

Hildegard Knef celebrated worldwide success, survived crushing bankruptcies and always maintained her dignity. The portrait of a unique artist and remarkable woman, told with archive material from six decades.

Hildegard Knef: world star, style icon, grand dame of chanson, last German diva, opinionated, controversial, mirror and antithesis of her time. As an actress, singer and author, she celebrated international successes, experienced crushing defeats and was creatively active for more than five decades.

Born in 1925, she became part of the German public eye at the age of 20 and never left it again. Her favorite topic, being successful, failing, reinventing herself again and again and - against all odds - getting up again and again, makes her an expert on survival. In the form of a cinematic autobiography, “I want it all” presents the image of a highly talented, ambitious, laconic and astute woman who showed the world how to survive fame and defeat.

With: Christina Palastanga, Paul von Schell and the voice of Nina Kunzendorf

December 28, 2025 marked the 100th anniversary of her birth.