Schneewittchen (Snow White) + Q&A

Followed by a Q&A with director Stanley Schtinter. Sound supersedes sight in Stanley Schtinter’s austere anti-fairy tale Schneewittchen, an English-language remake of João César Monteiro’s Branca de Neve (2000), made largely of an audio performance of Robert Walser’s titular play set to a black screen, occasionally relieved by shots of passing clouds. In Walser’s radical reworking of the Grimm fable, a resurrected Snow White reconciles with the Evil Queen, denying any foul play and even seeking forgiveness for provoking her jealousy. A parable for our post-truth times, Schtinter’s film provokes reflection on the ontology of a tale as it travels across languages, mediums, geographies and eras. If Walser’s play breaks the reader’s foundational trust in a benevolent, just world, Schneewittchen breaches the implicit contract with the film spectator, offering a motion picture emptied of both motion and pictures: a work where the visual can only appear as excess. (Text from IFFR: The International Film Festival Rotterdam).PT1H7MN/C 8+2025-04-26
Julie Christie
Toby Jones
Stephen Dillane
Stanley Schtinter
Schneewittchen (Snow White) + Q&A"Schneewittchen (Snow White) + Q&A"

Showtimes

April 26, 8:40 pm

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