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Join the Digital Humanities Lab for a screening of the award-winning drama Afire (Roter Himmel) by acclaimed German filmmaker Christian Petzold from 6-8 p.m. today at the DH Lab, J.B. Hunt 207.

Afire review: Christian Petzolds film starts as a character study of an entitled jerk, and soon takes a tonal shift. It screened at Dharamshala Film Festival.

Pompous novelist Leon grapples with his difficult second book in Christian Petzold’s engaging tale of sexual tension and creativity in the shadow of the climate crisis

German master Christian Petzold deftly weaves ecological catastrophe, sexual capering and a portrait of beta masculinity into something extraordinary

“I wanted to make a movie about summer, life, complexity, passion, desire,” says German director Christian Petzold of his dreamy new feature, Afire

Witty and sad, awkward and surprising, Christian Petzold’s German drama follows two friends, Leon (Thomas Schubert) and Felix (Langston Uibel), on a working trip to a house on the Baltic coast

Afire is a slow burn, a slight yet engrossing and ultimately moving slice-of-life film not for all tastes.

Christian Petzold’s ‘Afire’ joins a long lineage of summer films only to demonstrate how the climate crisis may forever alter them

“Afire” fumbles an intriguing premise exploring creativity, love, ego and humanity. For a film so centered around fire, it’s lacking its blaze of glory.

The climate crisis arrives suddenly and overwhelmingly in Christian Petzold’s seaside drama.