S.01_CoverGFQ2_2016_Endversion.qxp_Layout 1 20.04.16 11:27 Seite 1 GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY IN CANNES Maren Ade's TONI ERDMANN in Competition DIRECTORS Annekatrin Hendel & Thomas Stuber PRODUCERS Irene von Alberti & Frieder Schlaich of Filmgalerie 451 ACTOR Christian Friedel ISSUE 2-2016 S.02_Contents_U2_GFQ_2_2016.qxp_Layout 1 20.04.16 11:29 Seite 1 CONTENTS GFQ 2-2016 4 19 20 21 23 24 26 27 28 30 31 33 S.03_CONTENTS_GFQ2_2016.qxp_Layout 1 26.04.16 14:11 Seite 1 GFQ 2-2016 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE IN CANNES KOUDELKA: SHOOTING HOLY LAND TONI ERDMANN Gilad Baram .................................................................................... 30 Maren Ade ......................................................................................... 4 MALI BLUES PORTRAITS Lutz Gregor ..................................................................................... 30 “… AND YET UNREST REMAINS” WER IST ODA JAUNE? 6 A portrait of director Annekatrin Hendel ........................................ WHO IS ODA JAUNE? Kamilla Pfeffer ............................................ 31 A DIFFERENT WORLD YOUKALI 8 A portrait of director Thomas Stuber .............................................. Oswaldo Diaz Medina ....................................................................... 31 WIDENING HORIZONS 10 A portrait of Filmgalerie 451 ......................................................... NEW SHORTS MUSIC TO THE EYES DIE BADEWANNE A portrait of actor Christian Friedel ................................................ 12 THE BATHTUB Tim Ellrich .............................................................. 32 KAPUTT NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 14 BROKEN Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl ..................................... 32 NEW FEATURES DIE NACHT IM HOTEL SON Konstantinos Sampanis ......................................................... 33 ALLEIN GEGEN DIE ZEIT – DER FILM TIME HEROES Christian Theede .................................................... 19 UPCOMING FILMS BIBI & TINA – MÄDCHEN GEGEN JUNGS BIBI & TINA – GIRLS VS. BOYS Detlev Buck .................................. 20 DIE ANFÄNGERIN Alexandra Sell .................................................. 34 DIE HÄNDE MEINER MUTTER DER AUSFLUG Bartosz Grudziecki .................................................. 34 HANDS OF A MOTHER Florian Eichinger ..................................... 21 CRESCENDO Marcus O. Rosenmüller ............................................ 34 DIE HAUT DER ANDEREN THE SKIN OF THE OTHERS Thomas Stiller ................................. 22 ES WAR EINMAL INDIANERLAND Ilker Çatak ............................... 35 JUNGES LICHT DER HAUPTMANN Robert Schwentke ............................................ 35 YOUNG LIGHT Adolf Winkelmann ................................................... 23 IGUANA TOKYO Kaan Müjdeci ........................................................ 35 MÄNGELEXEMPLAR 24 TOO HARD TO HANDLE Laura Lackmann ..................................... IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER Damian John Harper .................... 36 OFFLINE – DAS LEBEN IST KEIN BONUSLEVEL REPLACE Norbert Keil ................................................................... 36 OFFLINE – ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT LEVEL? 25 Florian Schnell ............................................................................... SIMPEL Markus Goller ................................................................... 36 RICO, OSKAR UND DAS HERZGEBRECHE STREETSCAPES – CHAPTER III Heinz Emigholz ........................... 37 RICO, OSKAR AND THE BROKEN HEARTED 26 Wolfgang Groos .............................................................................. UND DAS STREBEN NACH DEM GLÜCK 37 ROCKABILLY REQUIEM Jakob Preuss ................................................................................... Till Müller-Edenborn .................................................................... 27 DAS UNVERLÄSSLICHE LEBEN Florian Seufert ........................... 37 SCHAU MICH NICHT SO AN DIE VIERHÄNDIGE 38 DON’T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY Oliver Kienle .................................................... Uisenma Borchu .............................................................................. 28 WHATEVER HAPPENS Niels Laupert ............................................ 38 NEW DOCUMENTARIES WHO’S THAT MAN Reto Caduff, Stephan Plank ............................. 38 ERNST GÜNTER HANSING – LEBEN UND WERK ERNST GÜNTER HANSING LIFE AND WORKS Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 41 Manuela Zimmer, Harald Kühr ....................................................... 29 Film Exporters ................................................................................. 42 GREAT OCEAN ROAD – AUSTRALIA’S WILD COAST Joachim Haupt ................................................................................ 29 Imprint .............................................................................................. 43 3 S.4-5_TONI ERDMANN.qxp_Layout 1 26.04.16 15:15 Seite 1 CANNES IN COMPETITION TONI ERDMANN infried doesn’t see much of they become. In all the madness, Ines begins his working daughter Ines. to understand that her eccentric father might WThe suddenly student-less deserve some place in her life after all. music teacher decides to surprise her with a visit after the death of his MAREN ADE studied at the University of Tele - old dog. It’s an awkward move because vision & Film (HFF/M) in Munich. Together serious career woman Ines is working on an with Janine Jackowski, she founded the pro- important project as a corporate strategist in duction company Komplizen Film in 2000. Bucharest. The geographical change doesn’t Also active as a producer, her award-winning help the two to see eye to eye any better. films as a director include: the shorts EBENE Practical joker Winfried loves to annoy his 9 (2000) and VEGAS (2001), and the features daughter with corny pranks. What’s worse are THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (DER WALD his little jabs at her routine lifestyle of long VOR LAUTER BÄUMEN, 2003), EVERYONE meetings, hotel bars and performance re- ELSE (ALLE ANDEREN, 2009), and TONI ports. Father and daughter reach an impasse, ERDMANN (2016). and Winfried agrees to return home to Germany. Enter dazzling “Toni Erdmann”: Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego. Dis - guised in a tacky suit, weird wig and even weirder fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines’ pro- fessional life, claiming to be her CEO’s life coach. Wilder and bolder than Winfried, Toni doesn’t hold back, and Ines meets the challenge. The harder they push, the closer Maren Ade (photo © Iris Janke) 4 S.4-5_TONI ERDMANN.qxp_Layout 1 26.04.16 15:15 Seite 2 CANNES IN COMPETITION photos © Komplizen Film GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Maren Ade SCREENPLAY Maren Ade CINEMATOGRAPHY Patrick Orth CAST Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ha- dewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Ingrid Bisu, Vald Ivanov, Victoria Cociaş PRODUCERS Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Mi- chel Merkt CO-PRODUCERS Bruno Wagner, Antonin Svoboda, David Keitsch, Sebastian Schipper PRODUCTION COMPANY Komplizen Film, in co-production with coop99 knm, Missing Link Films, SWR, WDR, ARTE RUN- TIME 162 min LANGUAGE German, English FESTIVALS Cannes 2016 (In Competition) SALES The Match Factory [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com 5 S.06-07_PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR ANNEKATRIN HENDEL.qxp_Layout 1 20.04.16 11:32 Seite 1 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 2-2016 Annekatrin Hendel (photo © Martin Farkas) Annekatrin “… AND YET UNREST REMAINS” A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR ANNEKATRIN HENDEL ome people in the audience at the equanimity, determinedly defending her pro- At home, Annekatrin experienced personal Berlin cinema “Babylon” were fum - tagonist. Those who had not known her be- freedom within the general lack of freedom. Sing. After a screening of the prize- fore were given a good impression here of What she learned then in the GDR also helps winning documentary filmed in the Berlin-based producer and director. A her today: to be rebellious, to know the rules 2011, ENEMY OF THE STATE, director woman who has no problem taking a seat well so that you can undermine them, to re- Annekatrin Hendel and writer Paul Gratzik, between two stools. Fearlessly, she put her- fuse to be intimidated by the authorities. who had worked for the Stasi for many years, self be tween this man who had been guilty of were sitting on the panel to discuss the film. betrayal during the GDR and an angry audi- After school she went to the “Komische Oper” Gratzik discontinued his work as an informant ence. opera house in Berlin, where she learned the before the end of the GDR and came out as an craft of bootmaking. Afterwards, she studied informer to his friends. This courageous and Annekatrin – an insubordinate, headstrong “Product Constitution and Construction”, unusual step makes his story unique, but that girl – was not even allowed to graduate from which would probably just be called “Design” made no difference to those protesting so secondary school in the GDR, although she today. Annekatrin became departmental head loudly in the auditorium. Harsh invective was was an excellent pupil. Her mother, to whom of a leather works making special shoes at poured over him and his director, as if the she remains grateful to the present day, never the age of only 22; her career seemed map- aim was to replay the 1989 revolution. Anne- put her under pressure to conform;