A retired music teacher (Peter Simonischek) with a penchant for playing practical jokes and wearing fake teeth tries to reconnect with his hardworking daughter (Sandra Hüller) in this festival favorite from Berlin School director Maren Ade. Featuring no end of awkward father-daughter encounters and a memorable rendition of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All,” Toni Erdmann is a bittersweet dramedy that has redefined the landscape of contemporary German cinema. Screened in German with English subtitles.

This event is part of the monthly German Film Series and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Max Kade House. See https://lsa.umich.edu/german for additional dates and films.

Each month, a German faculty, lecturer, or graduate student introduces and screens a different German-language film. Dinner will be provided at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7 pm.

Free and open to the public.