OPENING Friday, October 4, 7 & 9:30 pm SCHEDULE NIGHT Oh Boy Date Time Title From rousing widescreen historical epics to wryly Discussion with special guest follows the first screening. Film | Neu 2013 comic black-and-white slacker meditations, the 21st , Friday, October 4 7 & 9:30 pm OPENING Oh Boy annual edition of Film|Neu has something for every filmgoer’s taste. The robust film Germany, 2013, WINNER! Saturday, October 5 1 pm This Ain’t California black and white, 85 min. 2013 German Film Awards industries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland continue to produce diverse slates of Outstanding Feature Film, Director/Screenplay: Best Director, Saturday, October 5 12:30 & 3:15 pm Measuring the World (Die Vermessung der Welt) entertainment that audiences want to see. Best Actor Jan Ole Gerster (Please note: this film will be screened at the Goethe-Institut.) Cast: Tom Schilling, Marc Saturday, October 5 3 pm Life is Nothing for Cowards If Film|Neu 2013 has a theme, it just might be “ring in the new.” All three of the young Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, (Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge) actors nominated for the German Film Award in that category are represented in the Justus von Dohnányi, Arnd Klawitter, Ulrich Noethen, Saturday, October 5 5:15 pm Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) program: Edin Hasanovic in Shifting the Blame, Sabin Tambrea in Ludwig II and winner Michael Gwisdek Tom Schilling in the opening night feature, Oh Boy—the triumphant debut of writer- Sales: Beta Cinema Saturday, October 5 7:30 pm Shifting the Blame director Jan Ole Gerster. Other first-time directors are Stephan Lacant, with the drama (Oberhaching, Germany) (Schuld sind immer die anderen) Free Fall, and Marten Persiel with the exciting documentary This Ain’t California. Saturday, October 5 10 pm Kuma Sunday, October 6 1 pm Kuma As always, we’re grateful to the audiences that enthusiastically support the program each year, bringing keen minds and good taste to each screening. Sunday, October 6 3 pm Shifting the Blame (Schuld sind immer die anderen) © Beta Films Eddie Cockrell Sunday, October 6 5:30 pm Free Fall (Freier Fall) The litany of woes facing today’s young people isn’t much greater Sunday, October 6 7:30 pm Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) in number than the laments of their forebears: losing a job, a rela- Eddie Cockrell is a Washington native and freelance film critic for the trade paperVariety. He is cur- new films from © Beta Films tionship, looking for a good cup of coffee and so forth. What’s chal- Sunday, October 6 9:30 pm Life is Nothing for Cowards rently the program director of the social justice film event The Big Picture Film Festival in Syd- Jan Ole Gerster (b. 1978, lenging is seeing a fresh perspective along such well-trodden cine- (Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge) ney, Australia, and is co-curator of the Film|Neu festival, for which he has written the film notes. Hagen, Germany) is with matic territory. So it is a pleasant surprise indeed to discover Jan Monday, October 7 7 pm This Ain’t California germany | austria | switzerland X-Filme Creative Pool, where Ole Gerster’s Oh Boy, the luminous black-and-white 24-hour misad- he worked on the Tom Tykwer ventures of one disaffected youth in contemporary Berlin. Passive Monday, October 7 9 pm Free Fall (Freier Fall) filmsThe Princess and the slacker Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) can’t seem to do much right but Tuesday, October 8 7 & 9 pm The Shine of Day (Der Glanz des Tages) october 4-10, 2013 Please note that all films have English subtitles. Warrior (2000) and Heaven thankfully doesn’t much care. With its mellow jazz score and obvi- (2002). He assisted Wolfgang ous love for the metropolis, Oh Boy—the title comes from the Bea- Wednesday, October 9 7 & 9 pm Lullaby Ride (Nachtlärm) Becker on the international tles’ A Day in the Life—has echoes of Woody Allen’s Manhattan and hit Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Thursday, October 10 6:15 & 9:30 pm CLOSING Ludwig II and directed the making-of Alexander Payne’s Sideways. Winner of numerous of international A special 3D Saturday, October 5, 12:30 pm & 3:15 pm documentary. Oh Boy is his prizes, including the German Film Award, Oh Boy sets just the right presentation at the feature film debut. tone for another week-long celebration of German-language cinema. Goethe-Institut Measuring the World TICKETS | INFORMATION Washington! (Die Vermessung der Welt) Thursday, October 10, 6:15 & 9:30 pm Germany/Austria, 2012, 119 min. CLOSING Tickets: $11.50, $9.50 Opening Night 7 pm Screening followed by For information call Director: Detlev Buck NIGHT Ludwig II for Students & Friends “Berliner Party” with DJ at Goethe-Institut: $26.50 202-452-7672 of the Goethe-Institut, or visit Screenplay: Daniel Kehlmann, Discussion with special guest follows the first screening. Closing Night Screening and Reception: $16.50 Detlev Buck, Daniel Nocke, $8.50 for Seniors landmarktheatres.com from Kehlmann’s novel Germany/Austria, 2012, 140 min. Cast: Florian David Fitz, WINNER! Special Film|Neu-themed Directors/Screenplay: 2013 Bavarian Film Awards Featuring complimentary beer from Albrecht Abraham Schuch, Best Young Actor combos and drinks will Peter Sehr, Marie Noëlle Sabin Tambrea Tickets can be pur- Gordon Biersch, German wine, Jérémy Kapone, Vicky Krieps, be available at the With: Sabin Tambrea, Sebastian chased at the theater Katharina Thalbach, Sunnyi and food provided by the Embassy of Switzerland, concession stand! Schipper, Hannah Herzsprung, Melles, Karl Markovics, Michael or in advance through Old Europe Restaurant, Cafe Mozart, Edgar Selge, Friedrich Mücke, Maertens, Max Giermann, Justus von Dohnányi, Samuel Moviefone at 202-333- Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe, Whole Foods Market, David Kross Finzi, Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, FILM (Code #781) or German Gourmet, and the Swiss Bakery Sales: The Match Factory Uwe Ochsenknecht www.moviefone.com and Pastry Shop (Cologne, Germany) Sales: Global Screen (Munich, Germany) Tickets for Measuring the World must be purchased at the Goethe-Institut box office or online at www.boxofficetickets.com/goethe. © The Match Factory

A Beautiful Mind meets Fitzcarraldo in director Detlev Buck’s bracing- ly vigorous, gloriously widescreen adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s GmBH © Artisan Film Co-presented by the Peter Sehr (b. 1951, Bad Konig, immensely popular 2005 novel that reimagines the friendship be- Germany d. 2013, Munich, Goethe-Institut in Washington, the Austrian Embassy and the Embassy of Switzerland gun by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and geographer Alexan- Germany) formed P’Artisan With support from german films der von Humboldt in the late 1700s. Scripted by Kehlmann with signifi- Film-produktion in Munich cant input from Buck and Daniel Nocke, the film’s structure hews close- with Marie Noëlle in 1988. His © Global Screen award-winning films included © The Match Factory Match © The ly to the book’s inspired chronology. As Gauss (Florian David Fitz) sits Detlev Buck (b. 1962, Bad at home complaining about everything and dreaming up exotic internal Obsession (1997), Love the A big-budget, widescreen historical biography with the soul of a scrap- Segeberg, Germany) was an mathematical theorems, von Humboldt (extraordinary newcomer Al- Hard Way (2001) and The py independent film,Ludwig II brings fresh energy and a unique style accomplished actor, director brecht Abraham Schuch) explores the Amazon with faithful sidekick Ai- Anarchist’s Wife (2008). to the momentous, oft-filmed life of eccentric Bavarian King Ludwig Ot- and screenwriter by the age mé Bompland (Jérémy Kapone). When the pair finally meets in 1828, Marie Noëlle began working to Friedrich Wilhelm. Any film on this provocative subject rises or falls of 22. His feature films behind with Peter Sehr as an editor, their mutual love of exploration, thought and quantification is barely on the strength of its lead performance, and newcomer Sabin Tambrea Film | Neu thanks its generous sponsors. the camera include Rabbit enough to keep their friendship intact. The decision to shoot in 3D was screenwriter and co-director in is nothing short of astonishing as Ludwig: at once delicate and sinewy, Fever (Karniggels, 1991), 1979, and together they have made by Buck’s long-time producing partner Claus Boje, who was “con- nervous and bird-like in his actions yet funereal in repose. These Wash- No More Mr. Nice Guy (Wir directed The Anarchist’s Wife ington premiere screenings are dedicated to the memory of co-director können auch anders…, 1993), vinced that this format can open up completely new kinds of narrative. “ (2008) and Ludwig II (2012). Tough Enough (Knallhart, Her extensive filmography Peter Sehr, who succumbed to a brain tumor in May of this year. With 2006), and Same Same But Tickets (priced as at Landmark) must be purchased at the Goethe-Insti- of collaborations with other Ludwig II, Sehr, with long-time partner Noëlle, has made a film that www.filmneu.org Different (2009). tut box office or online at www.boxofficetickets.com/goethe. filmmakers began in 1995. stands alongside the best of Ken Russell and Terry Gilliam. www.filmneu.org www.facebook.com/FilmNeuDC Saturday, October 5, 1 pm & Monday, October 7, 7 pm Saturday, October 5, 5:15 pm & Sunday, October 6, 7:30 pm Saturday, October 5, 10 pm & Sunday, October 6, 1 pm Tuesday, October 8, 7 and 9 pm This Ain’t California Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) Kuma The Shine of Day (Der Glanz des Tages) Discussion via Skype with director David Sieveking follows the 10/5 screening. Reception with Austrian treats between the two screenings.

Germany, 2012, 90 min. Germany, 2012, 88 min. Austria, 2011, 93 min. COMPETITION Golden Austria, 2012, 90 min. COMPETITION Director: Marten Persiel Starfish Award Director/Screenplay: Montreal Director: Umut Dağ International Narrative Feature Directors: Tizza Covi, Documentary Competition Screenplay: Marten Persiel, David Sieveking Hamptons Interntl. Film Festival Screenplay: Petra Ladinigg, Rainer Frimmel Locarno Ira Wedel Festival With: Margarete “Gretel” Dağ Screenplay: Covi, Frimmel, Sales: Colibri Media Sieveking, Malte Sieveking, Cast: Nihal Koldaş, Begüm Xaver Bayer (Zurich, Switzerland) David Sieveking Akkaya, Vedat Erincin, Dilara Cast: Philippe Hochmair, Sales: Autlook Filmsales Karabayır, Murathan Muslu Walter Saabel (Vienna, Austria). Sales: Films Boutique Sales: Austrian Film Commission (Berlin, Germany)

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“There certainly was enough cement around,” remembers one of the © Autlookfilms © Ventofilm now-grown skateboarders gathered to remember the legendary East When filmmaker David Sieveking received the news his mother, Mar- Marten Persiel (b. (1974, Berlin, © Ventofilm © Filmsboutique Germany) worked as an Berlin rebel Denis “Panik” Panacek, describing the imposing architec- © Autlookfilms garete, had Alzheimer’s disease, he decided to make a film about her. Audiences fortunate enough to see La Pivellina in the 2010 edition of Tizza Covi (b. 1971, Bolzano, assistant editor in Hamburg ture that provided plenty of surfaces and levels for the young ath- Familiarly known as Gretel and married for over four decades to Da- Selected as the opening night film for the prestigious Panorama section Filmfest DC witnessed a beguiling docudrama hybrid from documentar- David Sieveking (b. 1977, Italy) and Rainer Frimmel (b. before studying mixed media letes. As the friends reminisce, archive footage paints a compelling pic- vid’s father Malte, she is first seen in older footage, cooking and relax- of the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, Austrian-born Kurd direc- ians Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. Their follow-up, The Shine of Day, Friedberg [Hessen], Germany) 1971, Vienna, Austria) founded and directing in London. ture of the early days of skateboarding behind the Iron Curtain. Ex- ing in the house they shared for 30 years. It is four years after the di- continues the blend of fact and fiction found in their previous film by studied at the German Film tor Umut Dağ’s debut feature Kuma is a thoughtful, assured family dra- Vento Film in 2002. Their He has made commercials, © Filmsboutique cept for one thing… Panacek doesn’t exist, his friends are actors, and and Television Academy Berlin agnosis, and David has agreed to spell Malte as primary caregiver for ma about generational issues and the gap between Turkish and German films together include the focusing on a pair of mismatched relatives and their comically awkward music videos and documen- Umut Dağ (b. 1982, Vienna, even the boy in the archive footage is a current skateboarding sensa- (dffb). He has been making two weeks as he takes a much-needed vacation to Switzerland. During cultures. At a traditional wedding in Turkey, 19-year-old country girl documentaries That’s All (Das first meetings after many years apart. Walter Saabel, a burly German taries; This Ain’t California is Austria) studied international tion. This Ain’t California is director and co-writer Martin Persiel’s mag- films since 2001 and in 2010 this time, David reveals the day-to-day challenges and quiet joys of his Ayse (Begüm Akkaya) marries the handsome Hasan (Murathan Muslu). ist Alles, 2001) and Babooska who played the circus performer in La Pivellina and is one in real life, his feature-length non-fiction relations, religion and nificent sleight of hand triumph that avoids making fun of what the di- won acclaim and awards task. At once an inspiration for those grappling with Alzheimer’s dis- When his family delegation, led by kindly patriarch Mustafa (Vedat Er- (2005), as well as their fiction is Walter, the long-lost uncle of Philipp, played by prominent Austrian debut. teaching. Following his career rector refers to as “badly dressed people who don’t know much about for his first feature-length ease in their own families and a celebration of one well-lived life, For- incin), returns to Vienna, Ayse discovers she’s really been recruited as debut, The Girl (La Pivellina, stage actor Philipp Hochmair. That the two men are not actually relat- as a commercials director, he the outside world” in favor of a film that would provide the time and documentary, David Wants get Me Not is unflinching yet profoundly rewarding. “The mother I used 2009). took up studies at the Vienna a second wife for Mustafa, as his first, Fatma (Nihal Koldaş), has cancer. ed adds yet another layer of playfulness to an already relaxed, deliber- to Fly, about his hero, David place with some dignity and excitement. As someone says of Berlin’s to know no longer exists,” the filmmaker muses, “but her changes have Film Academy in 2006. Kuma First-time screenwriter Petra Ladinigg worked from an original idea by ate film. Part encounter group, part neorealist drama and all heart,The Lynch. Alexanderplatz, “it was our beautiful, mysterious, ugly concrete play- brought my family closer together. Gretel’s good spirit is with me, guid- is his feature-length dramatic Dağ, and the combination of her rich characters and his confident, un- Shine of Day is a modest triumph about the intricacies of family and ground, the GDR.” ing my path.” directorial debut. flashy direction results in an authentic depiction of a family dynamic. the pleasures of companionship.

Saturday, October 5, 3 pm & Sunday, October 6, 9:30 pm U.S. Saturday, October 5, 7:30 pm & Sunday, October 6, 3 pm Sunday, October 6, 5:30 pm & Monday, October 7, 9 pm Wednesday, October 9, 7 & 9 pm U.S. Life is Nothing for Cowards PREMIERE Shifting the Blame (Schuld sind immer die anderen) Free Fall (Freier Fall) PREMIERE Lullaby Ride (Nachtlärm) (Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge) Discussion with director Lars-Gunnar Lotz follows both screenings. Reception with Swiss treats between the two screenings.

Germany, 2012, 93 min. Germany, 2012, 90 min. Germany, 2013, 100 min. Switzerland/Germany, WINNER! OPENING FILM Director: André Erkau Director: Lars-Gunnar Lotz Director: Stephan Lacant 2012, 91 min. Sao Paulo International Film Perspective Deutsches Kino Screenplay: Anna Maria Festival / Best Main Actor Screenplay: Lacant, 63rd Berlin International Screenplay: Gernot Griksch Edin Hasanovic Film Festival Director: Christoph Schaub Cast: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Prassler Cast: Edin Hasanovic, Karsten Dahlem Screenplay: Martin Suter Julia Brendler, Marc Ben Puch Cast: Hanno Koffler, Helen Woigk, Frederick Lau, Cast: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sales: FFL Film- und Fernseh- Max Riemelt, Katarina Sales: Riva Filmproduktion Sebastian Blomberg, Georg Labor Ludwigsburg (Ludwigs- Schüttler, Maren Kroymann, (Hamburg, Germany). Friedrich, Carol Schuler burg, Germany) Luis Lamprecht Sales: T&C Edition (Zürich, Sales: Wolfe Releasing Switzerland)

© Wolfe Releasing Both images © FFL Film- und Fernseh-Labor Ludwigsburg GmbH & Co. KG © NFP Georges Pauly Lars-Gunnar Lotz (b. 1982, Young Marc Borgmann (Hanno Koffler) is undergoing immersive week- © NFP Georges Pauly By the time the opening credits have rolled, a wife and mother is dead Bad Isch, Austria) grew In an industrial section of Stuttgart, masked young criminal Benjamin end police training, and has been assigned to an elite riot squad. His © A & T Edition © A & T Edition André Erkau (b. 1968, of a freak accident, leaving husband Markus (Wotan Wilke Möhring) up near Cologne, studied Graf (Edin Hasanovic) and his accomplice carjack a woman. Not long Releasing © Wolfe partner Bettina (Katarina Schüttler) is expecting their first child, Marc’s Babies cry; that’s what they do. Don’t try telling that to partners Liv- Dortmund, Germany) studied and 15-year-old daughter Kim (Helen Woigk) to fend for themselves. visual communication and afterwards, Ben is jailed on another charge until social worker Niklas family is tight-knit and loving, and his future seems assured. But when Christoph Schaub (b. 1958, Stephan Lacant (b. 1972, ia (Alexandra Maria Lara) and Marco (Sebastian Blomberg), however, as psychology before training directing, and participated in Zürich, Switzerland) has Which they are breathtakingly unprepared to do: Markus goes into a (Marc Benjamin Puch) persuades him to attend a rural camp for at-risk Essen, Germany) studied he meets fellow recruit Kay Engel (Max Riemelt), a dope-smoking enig- their nine-month-old Tim (Tiziano Jähde) has squalled so unrelenting- as an actor and, eventually, an exchange program at the founded film production funk that jeopardizes his catering company, and Kim takes up with ju- youth. After initially disrupting the group, Ben bears down and tries to theater, film and television ma who seems quietly determined to seduce him, the feelings stirred ly during his short life that their already-broken relationship is on the as a director. He has directed FEMIS film academy in Paris companies, lectured on film venile delinquent classmate Alex (Frederick Lau). Markus’ mother Ger- fit in—until Niklas’ wife Eva returns from leave, and Ben discovers she’s in Germany and directing up by Kay’s attentions leave Marc anguished by conflicting emotions. verge of complete collapse. Their solution is one parents have turned numerous short films and and a Hollywood Masterclass and made films since the linde (Christine Schorn) hides her newly-diagnosed cancer from them, the woman he assaulted. At once a compassionate tale of hard-fought in New York. His short and But the pressures of commitment and the looming threat of hostile his previous features include at Los Angeles’ UCLA. His early 1980s. His dramatic and to since the invention of the automobile: the middle-of-the-night high- and is first annoyed, then grateful for Paula (Rosalie Thomass), the redemption and a tense, cold thriller, Shifting the Blame manages the documentary films have workplace prejudice grow well beyond Marc’s control. For all the ten- Soliloquies (Selbstgespräche, award-winning films include feature-length documentaries way drive. Stopping at an all-night convenience store when Tim final- screened at international 2007) and No More Mr. Nice blonde and bubbly care nurse assigned to her. When Kim and Alex take Lisanne (2005), For Miriam not inconsiderable feat of balancing the two dramatic tones with nary sion and eroticism in Free Fall, director and co-writer Stephan Lacant include Blind Date (Einfach so, ly drops off, they’re both out of the car when it is stolen by thrill-seek- festivals since 1996. He Guy (Arschkalt, 2011). a runner for the Danish coast, Markus, Gerlinde and Paula follow them (2009) and Shifting the Blame a misstep. And in Edin Hasanovic, director Lars-Gunnar Lotz has found seems admirably uninterested in the story’s more melodramatic as- 1998), Silent Love (Stille Liebe, ers Jorge (Georg Friedrich) and Claire (Carol Schuller). Giving chase, Liv- currently works as a for a cathartic showdown. Gernot Griksch’s script injects freshness into (2012). an actor seemingly unafraid to unleash the ferocity that has consumed pects, focusing instead on Marc’s agonizing indecision between the re- 2001), Birds Nest: Herzog & de screenwriter in Berlin. Free ia and Marco embark on a terrifying, often absurdist journey through situations perilously close to cliché, and director André Erkau retains Ben. Winner of numerous German film awards and featured at many in- assuringly familiar and the excitingly new. Life, says Free Fall, is a se- Meuron in China (2008) and Fall is his second feature stormy and increasingly sinister darkened villages and imposing for- the upcoming Millions Can a remarkably consistent tone encompassing both tragedy and absurdi- ternational film festivals, Shifting the Blame is an accomplished, effec- following Fireflies (2006). ries of choices, but the paths aren’t always familiar and the destina- ests. Not since the Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona has there been such ty—often in the same sequence. tive and ultimately eye-opening drama. tions are often unknown. Walk (2013). an audacious movie on the subject of baby boosting.