GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY WITH PORTRAITS ON 4-2020 DIRECTORS FRANKA POTENTE & MORITZ BLEIBTREU PRODUCER MARCO MEHLITZ ACTRESS LILITH STANGENBERG ISSUE FILMMAKER BETTINA BÖHLER SLEEP © Junafilm · UNDINE © Christian Schulz/Schramm Film · AND TOMORROW THE ENTIRE WORLD © Seven Elephants/Oliver Wolf Elephants/Oliver © Seven THE ENTIRE WORLD Film · AND TOMORROW Schulz/Schramm SLEEP © Junafilm · UNDINE Christian German Film Office · Sara Stevenson 30 Irving Place, 4th Floor · New York, NY 10003 ·
[email protected] GFQ 4-2020 INTRODUCTION Krieger © Kurt Dear Readers, Welcome to the latest issue of GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY! In the last quarter, German Films has also been busy adapting its core activities to the current situation with COVID-19. Like all our international festival partners, we needed to switch our film promotion activ- ities to virtual or hybrid events within a very short time. Many processes have been speeded up – it has meant less travelling to festivals for all of us, and a majority of conferences and pitchings went online; sometimes, this even happened to entire film festivals. Personally, I expect that we will continue to work and promote German films and talents under these conditions until the end of 2021. Most festival events will no doubt be hybrid in the near future, and films will be shown in cinemas under the most hygienic conditions possible, in front of fewer guests, with a chessboard seating pattern for the necessary distance. Filmmakers will not always be able to attend. The majority of the industry’s events will also take place online. This means for German Films that we must follow a “double-track policy” as well, in order to support the physical as well as the online events.