German filmmaker Bernhard Marsch will be at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on April 12-13 to present and discuss his short, independent films. The program, “What Our Parents Always Warned Us About: The Independent Short Films of Bernhard Marsch,” shows at 7:30 p.m. April 12 and 3:05 p.m. April 13.

Marsch will attend both screenings. Admission is at regular Ross prices. One admission is good for both screenings. The event is presented by UNL’s film studies program and the Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase.

In the fall of 2011, the Ross introduced Nebraska to a group of German filmmakers known as the Cologne Group with the screening of the “Westend” film cycle. Marsch is a key filmmaker of the group.

Marsch’s short films that will be shown at each screening are:

April 12 — “Bazooka Cain,” “Housebound,” “Cologne Movements,” “Marsch and Knepperges Zeigen,” “Eight Meals No. 3,” “Young Dogs,” “Hallelujah,” “Desire,” “Liebe ist Geschmackssache” and “Café Contact;” and

April 13 — “Housebound,” “Eight Meals No. 3,” “Young Dogs,” “Hallelujah,” “Desire,” “Café Contact,” “Transylvanian Relations,” “Closing Date,” “Wallflowers,” “Amigo a Gogo,” and “Naked at the Lake.”

For more information, go to http://www.theross.org.