Short Film News (SFN) - Germany 09, a compilation of short films organized by German director Tom Tykwer will open Kino! At Thirty: New Cinema from Germany program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

This is the Museum's 30th annual survey of recent German cinema, which will be held April 22-30, 2009.

For Germany 09, which premiered at 2009 Berlin Film Festival, 12 leading filmmakers working in Germany along with Tykwer take a look into the country's current social, cultural, and political landscape.

An important highlight of this year's presentation is Laurens Straubn and Dominik
Wessely's Reverse Shot - Rebellion of the Filmmaker, a documentary about Filmverlag de Autoren, the founding organization of the New German Cinema movement.

It will be complemented by a selection of that movement's important films, including The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stroszek (1977) by Werner Herzog, and The Balance of Happiness (1979) by Margarethe von Trotta.

Kino! At Thirty includes the New York premiere of three feature films by German directors exhibiting at MoMA for the first time, each of which deals with some aspect of modern German history: Ulla Wagner's The Invention of Currywurst, Christian Schwochow's November Child, and Christian Klandt's Weltstadt, all made in 2008.