Director: Wim Wenders
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: Multiple
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Category: Group B (Not Suitable for audiences under 13 years of age)
PINA is not only a tribute to one of the best dancers/choreographers in the last two decades, but also a film that preserves the enormous passion, energies and love that her dancers had for her. Wim Wenders’ unique, documenting gaze takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey onto the stage of Bausch’s legendary ensemble. The camera follows the dancers around the city and surroundings of Wuppertal’s industrial landscape – the place that was the home and centre of Pina Bausch’s creative life for over 35 years. The dance pieces chosen for this film included the emotion-charged Café Müller, The Rite of Spring, Full Moon and Kontakthof. Film director Wim Wenders met Pina Bausch in 1985 when he saw her well-known dance piece Café Müller and their long-standing friendship finally evolved to this film collaboration in 2008. No one foresaw that Pina Bausch would pass away in the summer of 2009, one year before the film’s public release.