At Cannes 2010

German Films at Cannes 2010

Contents

In Competition 6

Un Certain Regard 7

Cannes Classics 9

Directors’ Fortnight 10

Market Screenings: New German Films 14

Next Generation 2010 42

European Film Promotion’s “Producers on the Move” 51

Members of the Association of German Film Exporters (VDFE) at the Cannes Film Festival 52

Foreign Representatives & Imprint 62 GERMAN FILMS AND CO-PRODUCTIONS AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2010 Un CertainRegard Out ofCompetition Out ofCompetition In Competition In Competition In Competition In Competition In Competition by RECALL HISPAST LIVES UNCLE BOONMEEWHOCAN by TOURNÉE World Sales: Fortissimo FilmSales/Amsterdam German Producer: ma.ja.defiction/Leipzig by MY JOY World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris German Producer: Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin by AURORA World Sales: StudioCanal/Paris German Producer: EgoliTossell Film/Halle by CARLOS THEJACKAL World Sales: Mandragora International/Paris German Producer: NeueMira Filmproduktion/Bremen by OF NICOLAECEAUSESCU THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY World Sales: TheMatchFactory/Cologne Fernsehproduktion &TheMatchFactory/Cologne German Producers: Geissendoerfer Film-und World Sales: LePacte/Paris German Producer: NeueMediopolisFilmproduktion/Leipzig World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris German Producer: Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin by THE FRANKENSTEINPROJECT TENDER SON– World Sales: StudioCanal/Paris German Producer: Pandora Film/Cologne by DE MONTPENSIER LA PRINCESSE Apichatpong Weerasethakul Mathieu Amalric Sergei Loznitsa Cristi Puiu Kornél Mundruczó Bertrand Tavernier Olivier Assayas Andrei Ujica ˇ AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2010 GERMAN FILMS AND CO-PRODUCTIONS Un Certain Regard THE CITY BELOW by Christoph Hochhaeusler Producer: Heimatfilm/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne

Un Certain Regard LIFE, ABOVE ALL by Oliver Schmitz German Producer: Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Bavaria Film International/Geiselgasteig

Cannes Classics THE TIN DRUM by Volker Schloendorff German Producers: Seitz Filmproduktion/Munich, Bioskop Film/Munich, Artemis Film/Berlin, Hallelujah Film/Potsdam, GGB/Munich World Sales: Argos Film/Neuilly-sur-Seine

Séance Speciale NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ by Patricio Guzmán German Producer: Blinker Filmproduktion/Cologne World Sales: Pyramide International/Paris

Directors’ Fortnight THE LIGHT THIEF by Aktan Arym Kubat German Producer: Pallas Film/Halle World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne

Directors’ Fortnight PICCO by Philip Koch Producer: Walker+Worm Film/Munich World Sales: Rezo Films International/Paris

Directors’ Fortnight LE QUATTRO VOLTE by Michelangelo Frammartino German Producer: Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris

Critics’ Week BI, DON’T BE AFRAID Atelier by Srdan Golubovic by Phan Dang Di CIRCLES German Producer: Neue Mediopolis German Producer: TR9 Film/Leipzig Filmproduktion/Leipzig

All photos courtesy of producers and world sales agents. Credits not contractual. In Competition

Screening:

Tuesday, 18 May, 19:00 h, Debussy Theater (press)

Tuesday, 18 May, 22:30 h, Bazin Theater (press)

Wednesday, 19 May, 22:30 h, Lumiere Theater (premiere)

Mein Glueck

MY JOY

My Joy is a tale of the truck driver Georgy. He Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro duction 2010 Director Sergei Loznitsa leaves his home town with a load of goods, but Screenplay Sergei Loznitsa Director of Photography Oleg Mutu Editor Danielius Kokanauskis he is forced to take a wrong turn on the motor- Production Design Kirill Shuvalov, Mare Raidma Producers Heino Deckert, Oleg Kokhan Co- way, and finds himself in the middle of no - Producers Leontine Petit, Marleen Slot, Joost de Vries, Alexander Bohr Production Company ma.ja.de where. Georgy tries to find his way, but gradual- fiction/Leipzig, in co-production with SOTA Cinema Group/Kiev, Lemming Film/Amsterdam, ZDF/Mainz, ly, against his will, he becomes drawn into the ARTE/Strasbourg Principal Cast Viktor Nemets, Alisa Slepyan, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova, Maria daily life of a Russian village. In a place where Varsami, Boris Kamorzin, Vlad Ivanov Pavel Vorozhtsov, Dmitriy Bykovskiy Length 127 min Format 35 mm, brutal force and survival instincts overcome color, cs Original Version Russian Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital humanity and common sense, the truck driver’s Festival Screenings Cannes 2010 (In Competition) With backing from Mitteldeutsche story heads for a dead end … Medienfoerderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MEDIA

Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovichi in the former USSR. He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. From 1987-1991 he was employ- ed at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, working on artificial intelligence research. He also worked as a translator for Japanese. In 1997 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). He studied feature film making in the class of Nana Dzhordzhadze. From 2000-2008, he worked at the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. In 2001, he and his family moved to Germany. A selection of his award- winning films includes: the documentaries Today We Are Going to Build a House (1996), Life, Autumn (1998), The Train Stop (2000), Settlement (2001), Portrait (2002), Landscape (2003), Factory (2004), Blockade (2005), Artel (2006), Revue (2008), and the feature My Joy (2010).

World Sales Fortissimo Film Sales Van Diemenstraat 100 · 1013 CN Amsterdam/The Netherlands phone +31-20-6 27 32 15 · fax +31-20-6 26 11 55 email: [email protected] · www.fortissimo.nl

In Cannes Résidence du Grand Hotel Entrance Goeland, 45 La Croisette, 7th Floor, Apt. 7D phone +33-(0)4-93 68 29 83 · email: [email protected]

6 in competition Un Certain Regard

Screening:

Tuesday, 18 May, 11:15 h, Debussy Theater (world premiere)

Wednesday, 19 May, 13:15 h, Bazin Theater

Friday, 21 May, 16:30 h, Debussy Theater

Life, Above All

In the dusty small town of Elandsdoorn, a South Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro duction 2010 Director Oliver Schmitz African township not far from Johannesburg, life Screenplay Dennis Foon Director of Photography Bernhard Jasper Editor Dirk Grau Music by Ali is simple and serene. A prevailing sense of deep N. Askin Production Design Christiane Rothe Producer Oliver Stoltz Co-Pro ducers Greig Buckle, pride tightly bonds together the entire commu- Thomas Reisser, Dan Schlanger Executive Producer Helge Sasse Pro duction Company Dreamer nity – but beware to those who step out of line. Joint Venture Film produktion/Berlin, in co-production with Enigma Pictures/Cape Town, Senator Film Produktion/Berlin, Niama Film/Stuttgart, Wizard UG and Co. Produktions KG/Cologne Principal Cast 12-year-old Chanda is a hardworking promising Khomotso Manyaka, Lerato Mvelase, Harriet Manamela, Aubrey Poolo, Keaobaka Makanyane Casting young student with a bright future, but her life Moonyeenn Lee Length 101 min Format HD Blow-up 35 mm, color, cs Original Version Sepedi changes drama tically when her baby sister unex- Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Cannes 2010 (Un pectedly dies. Heartbroken, Chanda’s mother, Certain Regard) With backing from BKM, Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Lillian, in turn becomes severely ill. Her step - Federal Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), DTI South Africa father drowns himself in alcohol, leaving the young girl to take care of her two smaller Oliver Schmitz was born in 1960 in South Africa and studied Fine Arts in Cape Town. Active both in siblings. Meanwhile, the formerly friendly writing and directing, he has repeatedly treated themes from his native country. Among his award-winning films neighbors become increasingly distant and are Mapantsula (1987), Jo’Burg Stories (documentary, 1997), and Hijack Stories (2000). He was gossip spreads. invited to shoot a segment of the episodic film Paris, je t’aime (2006). His recent projects include the award-winning comedy series Tuerkisch fuer Anfaenger (TV, 2005, 2006, 2008) and Doctor’s Diary “Auntie” Tafa does what she can to help by get- (TV, 2006, 2007). ting Lillian to leave town, but not even “Auntie” is immune to the cloud of fear filtering across Elandsdoorn. Suspecting that the community’s irrational ostracism has to do with her mother’s illness and the death of her baby sister, Chanda demands answers but is met with stubborn silence. Unwilling to bear the weight of secrecy World Sales Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH · Thorsten Ritter any longer, Chanda sets out to face a deeply Bavariafilmplatz 7 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany engrained, unspoken taboo. phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 email: [email protected] · www.bavaria-film-international.com

In Cannes Riviera H9 phone +33-(0)4-92 99 32 16 · email: [email protected] Stefanie Zeitler: mobile +49-1 72-8 58 70 43 un certain regard 7 Un Certain Regard

Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 18:00 h, Olympia 3 (market screening)

Tuesday, 18 May, 12:00 h, Star 2 (market screening)

Unter Dir die Stadt

THE CITY BELOW

A by-chance meeting at a mandatory cultural Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro duction 2010 Director Christoph event. Roland Cordes, 55, member of the board Hochhaeusler Screenplay Ulrich Peltzer, Christoph Hochhaeusler Director of Photog raphy Bernhard of a large bank, meets the wife of a new em- Keller Editor Stefan Stabenow Music by Benedikt Schiefer Production Design Tim Pannen Producer ployee: Svenja Steve, 33. Bettina Brokemper Production Company Heimatfilm/Cologne Principal Cast Robert Hunger- Buehler, Nicolette Krebitz, Mark Waschke Casting Ulrike Mueller Length 100 min Format 35 mm, color, There is an immediate attraction between the cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival two. When a bank manager is murdered in Screenings Cannes 2010 (Un Certain Regard) With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, HessenInvestFilm, Indonesia, Cordes seizes his chance: he suggests German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) Svenja’s husband Oliver for the position, even though there are better qualified people to take Christoph Hochhaeusler was born in 1972 in Munich. He studied Architecture in Berlin from 1993-1995, the job. But Cordes’ power is far-reaching and followed by studies at the University of Television & Film in Munich from 1996-2002. He is also the founder Oliver is transferred to Jakarta. From the fleeting and co-publisher of the film magazine Revolver. His films include: First Aid (Erste Hilfe, 1995), Night meeting an affair develops that becomes more Shadows (Nachtschatten, 1996), Fever (Fieber, 1999), Flirt (2000), Pulse (Puls, 2001), This and more existential in nature. When Cordes’ Very Moment (Milchwald, 2003), Low Profile (Falscher Bekenner, 2005), the episode Séance scheme is exposed, however, Svenja suddenly from Germany 09, and The City Below (Unter Dir die Stadt, 2010). ends the relationship. Deeply hurt, Cordes almost loses his mind. At the same time in Jakarta: Oliver is being threatened. Svenja begs him to return. In a dramatic night, Cordes gives up his position on the board of directors, Svenja jogs through a park at night, and Oliver stops to reflect for the first time in his life … It is morn - ing. We see a hotel room: Svenja and Cordes, two players who can’t keep away from each other … World Sales The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber Balthasarstrasse 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910 email: [email protected] · www.the-match-factory.com

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8 un certain regard Cannes Classics

Die Blechtrommel (Director’s Cut, remastered by Kinowelt)

THE TIN DRUM

The film based on The Tin Drum by Guenter Genre Drama, Literature (based on the novel of the same title by Nobel Prize winning author Guenter Grass) Grass simply had to be made on a grand scale: Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 1979 Director Volker Schloendorff Screenplay world history lived by and seen through the Jean-Claude Carrière, Franz Seitz, Volker Schloendorff, Guenter Grass Director of Photog raphy Igor eyes of our hero, Oscar. Luther Editor Suzanne Baron Music by Maurice Jarre, Friedrich Meyer Pro duction Design Dominique Antony, Ewa Kowalska, Bernd Lepel, Axel Manthey, Nicos Perakis Producer Franz Seitz Production Born in Danzig, 1924, the incredibly precocious Companies Seitz Filmproduktion/Munich, Bioskop Film/Munich, Artemis Film/Berlin, Hallelujah infant views the observations of all those around Film/Potsdam, GGB/Munich, Argos Film/Paris Principal Cast Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David him with clairvoyant skepticism. At age three, Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Heinz Bennent, Otto Sander, Andréa Ferreol, Charles Oscar puts an abrupt end to his physical Aznavour Length 164 min Format Digital, color, 1:1.66 Original Version German Subtitled develop ment by throwing himself down a flight Versions English, French Sound Technology 5.1 Awards German Film Award 1979, Golden Palm of stairs. Cannes 1979, Golden Screen 1979, Jupiter 1979, Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film 1980, First Prize Sydney 1980, Best Direction & Best Screenplay Belgrade 1980, Premio San Fedele Milan 1980, David Wark On his little drum, which never leaves his side, Griffith Award for Best Foreign Film 1980 Oscar beats out the pulse of events that were to rattle Germany and the world to its core. Volker Schloendorff was born in Wiesbaden in 1939. He made his debut as a director in 1965 with Young Toerless. A selection of his films includes: Baal (1970), The Sudden Wealth of the Poor Because the running time of the film Volker People of Kombach (1971), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975, co-directed with Schloendorff had envisaged exceeded that Margarethe von Trotta), Fangschuss (1976), Germany in Autumn (1976, together with Stefan Aust, stipulat ed in the initial distribution agreement, Alexander Kluge, et al), Circle of Deceit (1981), Swann in Love (1983), Death of a Salesman he was forced to cut it down by half an hour. (1985), A Gathering of Old Men (1987), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), Voyager (1990), The The remastered director's cut presents for the Ogre (1996), Palmetto (1998), The Legends of Rita (1999), Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er first time the film he had originally intended to hat keine (documentary, 2001), Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002), The Ninth Day (2004), make. Strike (2006), and Ulzhan (2007).

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In Cannes Argos Films Florence Dauman, mobile: +33-(0)6-85 02 92 74 email: [email protected] cannes classics 9 Directors’ Fortnight

Screening:

Saturday, 15 May, 11:00 h, Theatre Croisette (press)

Saturday, 15 May, 19:30 h, Theatre Croisette (premiere)

Sunday, 16 May, 22:00 h, Studio 13

Monday, 17 May, 11:30 h, Star 4 (market screening) Monday, 17 May, 22:30 h, Cinéma les Arcades The Light Thief Wednesday, 19 May, 10:00 h, Arcades 2 (market screening)

The main hero of the film is an electrician, the Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Aktan Arym Kubat last link in a huge energetic system. He becomes Screenplay Aktan Arym Kubat, Talip Ibraimov Director of Photography Khassan Kydyraliyev Editor the binding bridge between geopolitical prob - Petar Markovic Music by Andre Matthias Production Design Talgat Asyrankulov Producers Thanassis lems of post-soviet society and common Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner, Cedomir Kolar, Altynai Koichumanova, Marc Baschet, Denis Vaslin people. The life of the common people often Production Companies Pallas Film/Halle, A.S.A.P. Films/Paris, Oy Art/Bishkek, Volya Films/Rotterdam, has an independent trajectory. In spite of the in co-production with ZDF/Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg Principal Cast Aktan Arym Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, fact that the economic devastation of the Askat Sulaimanov, Asan Amanov, Stanbek Toichubaev Length 80 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 country hit the industrial workers more than Original Version Kyrgyz Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival anyone else, they never stop loving, suffering, Screenings Cannes 2010 (Directors’ Fortnight) With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, being friends and enjoying life, in particular our Fonds Sud Cinéma, World Cinema Fund, Hubert Bals Fund, The Netherlands Film Fund resilient electrician, who possesses a wonderful and open heart, and brings not only an electric Aktan Arym Kubat was born in 1957 in Kyrgyzstan and started working as a production designer in the light to the lives of the inhabitants of that small 1980s. He wrote his first screenplay in 1995 and began directing in 1992. His films include: Where’s Your city, but also the light of love, loyalty, life and Home, Snail (1992), Bus Stop (short, 1995), Hassan Hussen (short, 1997), The Adopted Son laughter. Everybody needs him: those who have (1998), The Chimp (2001), The Mother’s Heaven (2009), and The Light Thief (2010). problems with electrical wiring, those who have problems with marital interrelations, those who have the power in that city, and those who are just bored living. He manages to help everyone, including an old and lonely pensioner, switching things around so that the state ends up of owing her money for her electricity! It is not a gloating delight over the help lessness of politicians in the face of eco nomic problems, it’s a light-asserting power during social cataclysms. World Sales The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber Balthasarstrasse 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910 email: [email protected] · www.the-match-factory.com

In Cannes Résidence ‘La Bagatelle’/4th Floor 25 Boulevard de la Croisette phone +33-(0)4-97 06 56 89 · fax +33-(0)4-97 06 56 84

10 directors’ fortnight Directors’ Fortnight

Screening:

Saturday, 15 May, 12:00 h, Star 1 (private market screening, buyers only)

Monday, 17 May, 15:30 h, Star 3 (private market screening, buyers only)

Thursday, 20 May, 11:00 h, Theatre Croisette (press)

Thursday, 20 May, 22:00 h, Theatre Croisette (premiere) Friday, 21 May, 22:00 h, Studio 13 Picco

Based on a true story, Picco mercilessly and Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Philip Koch realistically tells the story of the dramatic fate of Screenplay Philip Koch Director of Photography Markus Eckert Editor André Bendocchi-Alves a group of young men in a German prison. The Production Design Jan Jericho Producers Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker Production Company film casts an authentic and uncompromising Walker+Worm Film/Munich, in co-production with 40°Filmproduktion/Munich, Philip Koch Filmproduktion/ look at the topic of violence and the loss of Munich, Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film Muenchen/Munich Principal Cast Constantin von Jascheroff, youth, and at a penal system that is a complete Joel Basman, Frederick Lau, Martin Kiefer, Juke Gartzke Length 105 min Format 4K RED Blow-up 35 and utter failure. There are no perpetrators in mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Versions English, French Sound Technology this system – only victims. Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Max Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2010, Cannes 2010 (Directors’ Fortnight) Awards Award of the Saarland Minister President 2010 With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film Board (FFA)

Philip Koch was born in 1982 in Munich and studied at the University of Television & Film in Munich. His award-winning films include: Paphos & Galatea (2004), Die Suche (2005), Fadista (2005), Lumen (2007), Ruta del Che (2009), and Picco (2010).

World Sales Rezo Films International 29, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière · 75009 Paris/France phone +33-1-42 46 46 30 · fax +33-1-42 46 40 82 email: [email protected] · www.rezofilms.com

In Cannes 21 rue des Etats-Unis/5th Floor phone +33-(0)4-93 39 98 31 directors’ fortnight 11 NEW GERMAN FILMS FRIDAY, 14 MAY SATURDAY, 15 MAY SUNDAY, 16 MAY RIVIERA 232ARCADES RIVIERA

09:30 h 09:30 in PALAIS J 09:30 h Peter Gersina Jo Baier Su Turhan TIGER-TEAM HENRI 4 AYLA 100 min HENRY OF NAVARRE 86 min 155 min

11:30 h 11:30 h 11:30 h Burhan Qurbani Feo Aladag Angela Schanelec SHAHADA DIE FREMDE ORLY 90 min WHEN WE LEAVE 83 min 119 min

13:30 h 13:30 h 13:30 h Bjoern Richie Lob Byambasuren Davaa Gerardo Milsztein KEEP SURFING DAS LIED VON DEN FRIEDENSSCHLAG – 92 min ZWEI PFERDEN DAS JAHR DER ENTSCHEIDUNG THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN TO FIGHT FOR – THE YEAR OF DECISION 90 min 107 min 15:30 h 15:30 h 15:30 h Bettina Oberli Sven Taddicken Franziska Buch TANNOED 12 METER OHNE KOPF HIER KOMMT LOLA! THE MURDER FARM 12 PACES WITHOUT A HEAD HERE COMES LOLA! 97 min 102 min 100 min

17:30 h in LÉRINS 1 17:30 h 17:15 h Jo Baier Ralf Huettner Til Schweiger HENRI 4 VINCENT WILL MEER ZWEIOHRKUEKEN HENRY OF NAVARRE VINCENT WANTS TO SEA RABBIT WITHOUT EARS 2 155 min 96 min 124 min

19:30 h 19:30 h 19:30 h Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Bjoern Richie Lob PIANOMANIA JERRY COTTON KEEP SURFING 93 min 100 min 92 min

Sunday, 16 May, 20:00 h NEXT Star 1, rue d’Antibes 98 GENERATION A Selection of Shorts by Students of German Film Schools 2010 Total running time: 93 min

The films are presented in their original version (with English subtitles). Screening schedule subject to change. AT CANNES 2010 MONDAY, 17 MAY TUESDAY, 18 MAY WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY ARCADES 32RIVIERA RIVIERA 2

09:30 h 09:30 h 09:30 h Markus Goller Anno Saul Angela Schanelec FRIENDSHIP! DIE TUER ORLY 108 min THE DOOR 83 min 99 min

11:30 h 11:30 h 11:30 h Urs Odermatt Frieder Wittich Ralf Huettner MEIN KAMPF 13 SEMESTER VINCENT WILL MEER 109 min 13 SEMESTERS VINCENT WANTS TO SEA 102 min 96 min

13:30 h 13:30 h 13:30 h Mike Marzuk Peter Gersina Roland Reber ROCK IT! TIGER-TEAM ENGEL MIT 99 min 100 min SCHMUTZIGEN FLUEGELN ANGELS WITH DIRTY WINGS 86 min 15:30 h 15:30 h 15:30 h Matti Geschonneck Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Feo Aladag BOXHAGENER PLATZ JERRY COTTON DIE FREMDE BERLIN, BOXHAGENER PLATZ 100 min WHEN WE LEAVE 102 min 119 min

17:30 h PRIVATE SCREENING 17:30 h 17:30 h Juraj Herz Anne Linsel, Rainer Hoffmann Bettina Oberli HABERMANN TANZTRAEUME TANNOED 104 min DANCING DREAMS THE MURDER FARM 89 min 97 min

19:30 h 19:30 h 19:30 h in LÉRINS 1 Uli Edel Claudia Rorarius Gert Steinheimer ZEITEN AENDERN DICH CHI L’HA VISTO BLACK FOREST ELECTRO GHETTO WHO SAW HIM 79 min 94 min 92 min

IN CANNES: GERMAN PAVILION · #127 · INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE phone +33-(0)4-92 59 01 80 · fax +33-(0)4-92 59 01 81 · www.german-films.de ´ New German Films

Screening:

Saturday, 15 May, 15:30 h, Arcades 3

12 Meter ohne Kopf

12 PACES WITHOUT A HEAD

Genre Comedy, History Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Sven Having fun, sparking chaos and kicking up a riot Taddicken Screenplay Matthias Pacht Director of Photography Daniela Knapp Editors Andreas have long been the way of life for high-sea pi - Wodraschke, Alexander Dittner, Florian Miosge Music by Christoph Blaser, Steffen Kahles Production rates Klaus Stoertebeker and Goedeke Michels. Design Peter Menne Producers Stefan Schubert, Ralph Schwingel, Bjoern Vosgerau Co-Producers Nina Endless conquests on the North and Baltic seas Bohlmann, Babette Schroeder Production Company Wueste Film/Hamburg, in co-production with have lent Stoertebeker the reputation of a rebel Warner Bros. Pictures Germany/Hamburg, Magnolia Film/Hamburg Principal Cast Ronald Zehrfeld, and a revolutionary, and to his loyal troops of Matthias Schweighoefer, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schoenemann, Franziska Wulf, Jana Pallaske, Detlev Buck sea pirates he is a living legend. But the constant Casting Simone Baer Length 102 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German fighting and battling with those loathed “money- Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital SR Ex With backing from German bags” of the Hanse has worn down the once Federal Film Board (FFA), Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) invincible buccaneers and their bold crew. When Stoertebeker is seriously wounded in a Sven Taddicken was born in 1974 in Hamburg and studied Directing at the Baden-Wuerttemburg Film battle to capture a ship, the legendary pirate Academy from 1996-2002. Winning numerous international awards including the National Short Film Prize at begins to question whether this life holds a fu- Dresden 1999, the Main Prize at the Finnish festival Lappeenraanta, and First Prize at Short Cuts Cologne 1999, ture for him, and when he ends up falling in he was also nominated for the Honorary Foreign Student Award/Student Oscar® 2000 for his film Counting love with the beautiful and feisty Bille, who Sheep (Schaefchen Zaehlen, 1999). His other films include: the shorts Fisch (1997), Whodunit?! evokes in him dreams of a quiet life on land, he (1998), El Cordobes (1998), Ice Cream (1998), Einfach so bleiben (2002), his feature debut is finally forced to face his future: What now Getting My Brother Laid (Mein Bruder der Vampir, 2001), Emma’s Bliss (Emmas Glueck, Stoertebeker? Guerilla or gardener? A fight with 2006), Braams (2008), Berlin – 1st of May (Berlin – 1. Mai, 2008), and 12 Paces Without a Michels, the flaming full-blooded pirate is inev- Head (12 Meter ohne Kopf, 2009). itable, until the discovery of a secret wonder weapon lifts their spirits and reignites their bond – but the mighty Hanse has also stocked up on its weapons and the so the final battle nears …

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14 new german films – market screenings New German Films

Screening:

Tuesday, 18 May, 11:30 h, Riviera 2

13 Semester

13 SEMESTERS

Momo leaves his cozy small home town to go to Genre Comedy, Coming-of-Age Story Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Darmstadt to start studying Business Mathe - Director Frieder Wittich Screenplay Frieder Wittich Director of Photography Christian Rein matics, a subject he was always very good in at Editor Marty Schenk Production Design Tamo Kunz Producer Jakob Claussen Production Com- school. At first full of enthusiasm and con - pany Claussen+Woebke+Putz Filmproduktion/Munich, in co-production with HR/Frankfurt, ARTE/Stras - fidence, he runs into a nerve-wracking situation bourg, Instinctive Film/Berlin Principal Cast Max Riemelt, Alexander Fehling, Claudia Eisinger Casting trying to find a place to live, until he finally de - Suse Marquardt Besetzungsbuero/Berlin Length 102 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version cides to share an apartment with Bernd, a German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Zurich somewhat unfriendly Architecture student five 2009 (In Competition), Hof 2009, Berlin 2010 Awards Special Mention Zurich 2009 With backing years his senior. But out of their orig inal “part- from German Federal Film Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), nership of convenience” develops a “friendship HessenInvestFilm, University of Television & Film Munich for life”. Yet still, Momo has some initial difficul- ty acclimating himself to student life. Frieder Wittich was born in 1974 in Stuttgart. From 1993-1995, he served as a camera assistant for the broadcasters SAT.1 and the Landesstudio Stuttgart, followed by an internship from 1995-1996 with the Over the course of the next 13 semesters, scriptwriters Krystian Martinek and Neithard Riedel in Hamburg. From 1996-1998, he co-wrote four TV Momo experiences all the highs and lows that movies together with Krystian Martinek. From 1998-2005 he studied at the University of Television & Film in student life has to offer. At first he is very stu - Munich. His films include: the shorts Mosquito (1999) and Opus (2002), numerous commercials, and his dious and goes to all his lectures, hangs out with feature debut 13 Semesters (2009). like-minded fellow students, and spends two semesters abroad in Australia. But when he returns, he realizes that he has chosen the wrong major and calling it off now seems to be too late. Finally, in his seventh semester, his greatest desire is fulfilled: after falling in love with Kerstin, he forgets all about the whole purpose of his studies. Ultimately, he leads himself to World Sales Aktis Film International GmbH · Stelios Ziannis financial ruin with a completely oversized busi- Altenburgerstrasse 7 · 04275 Leipzig/Germany ness idea. His youthful enthusiasm is soon re- phone +49-3 41-35 00 26 10 · fax +49-3 41-35 00 26 19 placed by deep depression and existential ques - email: [email protected] · www.aktis-film.com tions like: What do I really want? What am I doing here? And for how much longer…? In Cannes c/o German Pavilion Stelios Ziannis, Vera Weit mobile +49-1 70-2 31 26 49 new german films – market screenings 15 New German Films

Screening:

Sunday, 16 May, 09:30 h, Riviera 2

Ayla

Genre Drama, Love Story Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Su Ayla is young, beautiful and self-confident. She’s Turhan Screenplay Su Turhan, Beatrice Dossi Director of Photography Florian Schilling Editor Horst also independent and intends to stay that way. Reiter Music by Ali N. Askin Production Design Renate Schmaderer Pro ducers Andreas Bareiss, Sven But as a Turkish woman in Germany, she has Burgemeister, Gloria Burkert Production Company BurkertBareiss Development/Munich for TV60 always found herself at the razor-sharp inter - Film/Munich, in co-production with SWR/Baden-Baden, BR/Munich, ARTE/Strasbourg, Goldkind section of liberal Western ways and conservative Film/Munich Principal Cast Pegah Ferydoni, Mehdi Moinzadeh, Timur Isik, Tuerkiz Talay, Saskia Vester, Muslim conventions. Though she’s a beloved Sesede Terziyan Casting Lore Bloessl Length 86 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version kindergarten teacher, her night job in a bar, German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby With backing from FilmFern - along with her rejection of an arranged mar- sehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), First Movie Program riage, has poisoned her relationship with her fa - ther. When Ayla meets the dashing photog - Su Turhan was born in 1966 in Istanbul. At the age of two he immigrated with his family to Germany. rapher Ayhan, romantic sparks begin to fly, and Studying German Language and Literature he grad uat ed from the University of Munich in 1993. He began his Ayla feels that he may just be the right man for career as a self-taught filmmaker in 1998 by writing, directing and producing his first short Der Schluessel. her. What she doesn’t suspect, however, is His next film, Gone Underground (2001, DoP Michael Ballhaus), was the first short feature worldwide that Ayhan’s involvement in a murderous plan to was fully shot and post-produced in HD. The film was invited to Sundance and numerous other international restore his family’s honor: his sister Hatice has festivals. Su Turhan continued writing for several production companies, and worked again with Michael left her unloved husband in Turkey and is trying Ballhaus on his third short Triell (2004). He also directed commercials and documentaries for German and to raise her little daughter alone in Germany. international television. The dramatic love story Ayla (2009) is his feature debut. Pursued by thugs hired by her own family, Hatice finds refuge with Ayla. Ayhan swears to Ayla that he would never hurt his sister. But when the harassment escalates, Ayla finds within her an uni magined strength …

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Screening:

Wednesday, 19 May, 19:30 h, Lérins 1

Black Forest

Looking, for an adventurous change from their Genre Psycho Thriller Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Gert comfortable everyday lives, Eva, Sabine, Jurgen Steinheimer Screenplay Gert Steinheimer Director of Photography Pascal Rémond Editor Arne and Mike head off for a one-week getaway in an Wanner Music by Andreas Adler, Jo Matz Production Design Benedikt Herré Production abandoned farmhouse in the depths of the Company EIKON Suedwest/Stuttgart, in co-production with Licam/Stuttgart, Timeline/Stuttgart Black Forest. Secluded and surrounded by thick Principal Cast Johanna Klante, Nikola Kastner, Adrian Topol, Bernhard Bulling Length 79 min Format and mysterious forests, the farmhouse is any- HD Cam, color 1:1.78 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology thing but easily accessible. The young vaca - Stereo With backing from MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) tioners get dropped off by the forest ranger. After he leaves, they are on their own, only Gert Steinheimer was born in Ottenhoefen in 1964 and made his debut as a writer and director with the equipped with the most essential provisions for feature Zweikampf which was premiered at the Hof Film Days in 1986 and won a Silver Nymph for Best a week’s stay and a DV camera. Collecting ber- European Script at the Monte Carlo International Television Festival in 1988. His other films include: Atlantis ries and chopping wood, the group spends their darf nicht untergehen (1988), Gaukler (1988), Liebe, Tod und Eisenbahn (1989), Killer first vacation day in a buoyant mood, just as (1991), Das Tier (1992), Schwarz greift ein (1993), Hotel Mama (1995), Martin Berg (1996), Bis they had anticipated. They do not care much dann (1996), Die Healthy (Sterben ist gesuender, 1998), Eine Herzensangelegenheit (1997), about the ranger’s warning to keep away from a and Black Forest (2009). “secret room” in the farmhouse. Jurgen and Mike break down the door and find an old, bro- ken television. Jurgen tries to fix the television, but the only visible result is a diffuse image and some noise. This all changes when the television set suddenly starts to air images and a random TV program – which will exert a fatal influence on the four friends. Only Eva senses that something inexplicable, something supernatural must be taking over control … World Sales Sola Media GmbH · Solveig Langeland Osumstrasse 17 · 70599 Stuttgart/Germany phone +49-7 11-4 79 36 66 · fax +49-7 11-4 79 26 58 email: [email protected] · www.sola-media.net

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Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 15:30 h, Arcades 3

Boxhagener Platz

BERLIN, BOXHAGENER PLATZ

Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro duction 2009 Director Matti 1968 in East Berlin: student riots and the sexual Geschonneck Screenplay Torsten Schulz, based on his novel with the same title Director of Photog - revolution in the West, Soviet tanks in Prague. raphy Martin Langer Editor Dirk Grau Music by Florian Tessloff Production Design Lothar Holler Meanwhile, grandma Otti and her 12-year-old Producers Jakob Claussen, Nicole Swidler, Uli Putz Co-Producers Christoph Fisser, Charlie Woebcken, grandson Holger have their own very special Henning Molfenter, Torsten Schulz Commissioning Editors Barbara Buhl, Rosemarie Wintgen, Andreas adventures at East Berlin’s Boxhagener Platz. Schreitmueller Production Company Claussen+Woebke+Putz Film/Munich, in co-production with Otti has already seen five husbands off to their WDR/Cologne, RBB/Potsdam-Babelsberg, ARTE/Strasbourg, Studio Babelsberg-Babelsberg Film/Potsdam maker and the sixth one is not long for this life Principal Cast Gudrun Ritter, Michael Gwisdek, Samuel Schneider, Meret Becker, Juergen Vogel Casting when she receives advances from the old Nazi Simone Baer Length 102 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Fisch-Winkler and the former Spartacus fighter Version English Sound Techno logy Dolby SRD Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing Karl Wegner. Otti falls in love with Karl and sud- from Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung NRW, German denly Fisch-Winkler is dead. Holger has the Federal Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), BKM makings of an amateur sleuth and learns a lot in the process about love, the 1968 revolts and Matti Geschonneck was born in 1952 in Potsdam-Babelsberg and completed his professional film training how one can win women over with “revolu tion - at the Eisenstein Institute in Moscow. His films include: Geschlossene Akten (1993), Endstation (1994), ary” secrets. This all goes well until Holger Angst hat eine kalte Hand (1995), Der Schrei der Liebe (1996), Der Rosenmoerder (1997), makes a mistake which puts Karl, of all people, Reise in die Nacht (1997), Polizeiruf 110 (1998), Moerderkind (1998), Comeback fuer in danger … Freddy Baker (1998), Ganz unten, ganz oben (1999), Jenseits der Liebe (2000), Ein moerde- rischer Plan, (2000), Spaete Rache (2001), Die Mutter (2002), Mord am Meer (2003), Liebe nach dem Tod (2004), Silber hochzeit (2005), Zeit zu leben (2006), Duell in der Nacht (2007), Entfuehrt (2008), and Boxhagener Platz (2009).

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Screening:

Tuesday, 18 May, 19:30 h, Riviera 2

Chi l’ha visto

WHO SAW HIM

Chi l’ha visto follows the story of a young half Genre Drama, Family, Melodrama, Road Movie Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production Italian who grew up with his mother in 2009 Director Claudia Rorarius Screenplay Claudia Rorarius, Gianni Meurer Director of Germany. Now, after 25 years, he goes on the Photography Claudia Rorarius Editors Andreas Menn, Bettina Boehler, Claudia Rorarius Producer search for his real father. However, lies that have Claudia Rorarius Production Company Soquiet Filmproduktion/Berlin-Cologne Principal Cast Gianni built up around his father prevent him from Meurer, Paul Kominek Length 92 min Format DV Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version recognizing his true belonging. German, Italian Subtitled Versions English, Italian Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Montreal 2009, Turin 2009 (In Competition), Max Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2010, Sguardi “A haunting, calmly photographed road movie Altrove Milan 2010 (In Competition), Atlanta 2010 With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), with a clear sense of beauty of the landscapes of Filmstiftung NRW North Italy, circling around questions of per - sonal as well as national identity. A refined Claudia Rorarius was born 1972 in Berlin. After studying Photography, she has been working as a free lance reflection about how lost family members in - photographer for various magazines. She also studied Film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and has fluence the life of those left behind and even since then made numerous internationally awarded short and documentary films, such as Cable Car and control it. The more improbable the ’findability’ Twin. Furthermore, she has shot music videos as well as the 2004 documentary Susanne in cooperation of the missing person, the stronger do they with ZDF Das kleines Fernsehspiel. Chi l’ha visto is her first feature-length film as a director and producer. determine the ’mental maps’ of those left behind.” (Jan Kedves)

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Screening:

Wednesday, 19 May, 13:30 h, Riviera 2

Engel mit schmutzigen Fluegeln

ANGELS WITH DIRTY WINGS

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Roland Reber “Morality is the excuse for those who don’t dare Screenplay Roland Reber Editor Mira Gittner Music by Wolfgang Edelmayer Producers Patricia Koch, to live their truth.” Marina Anna Eich, Roland Reber, Antje Nikola Moenning Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig Principal Cast Antje Nikola Moenning, Mira Gittner, Marina Anna Eich, Maren Scholz, Michaela, Gabriela und Lucy are angels of vice. Martin Kagerer Length 86 min Format DV Cam Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version On their motorbikes, they ride through the German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Hof 2009, countryside to live their pleasure. They could Sitges 2009, Goa 2009, Chennai 2009, Fantasporto 2010 see a lot, but they only see themselves. They call themselves angels, but they are angels with dirty Roland Reber has been working as a director and actor in theaters around the world since the 1970s. In wings. To be a full-fledged member in the exile 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute where he worked from 1981 - 1989 in Hamburg, Hattingen and Luenen. paradise of angels, Lucy has to prove herself and In 1989, he founded the Welt Theater Projekt (within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural stand the test. Development of the United Nations and UNESCO) and worked as a director, writer and head of WTP in India, Moscow, Cairo, Mexico City and in the Caribbean. He also has been a cultural advisor to different countries The new film by Roland Reber and Mira Gittner and institutes and taught Acting and Directing in Moscow and the Caribbean. He received the Cultural Prize of is an anthem of immorality. A holy song of ego- Switzerland (1976) and the Caribbean award Season of Excellence (1991 & 1993) as a director and writer. For ism and a painful study about our time and a his direction of the feature The Room (Das Zimmer, 2001) he received the Emerging Filmmaker Award generation who rent their feelings: “Only cas- 2001 in Hollywood and the President’s Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico, among others. His other films include: trat ed angels need morals.” Ihr habt meine Seele gebogen wie einen schoenen Taenzer (1979), Manuel (short, 1998), Der Fernsehauftritt (short, 1998), Der Koffer (short, 1999), Zwang (short, 2000), Sind Angels with Dirty Wings isn’t an authentic, Maedchen Werwoelfe? (short, 2002), Pentamagica (2003), The Dark Side of Our Inner pure and direct film about “good and evil” but Space (2003), 24/7 The Passion of Life (2005), My Dream or Loneliness Never Walks rather one about authenticity. The film shows Alone (Mein Traum oder Die Einsamkeit ist nie allein, 2007), and Angels with Dirty Wings offensively and intensively the lawless addiction (Engel mit schmutzigen Fluegeln, 2009). of living – but what are we actually seeking in life?

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Screening:

Saturday, 15 May, 11:30 h, Arcades 3

Wednesday, 19 May, 15:30 h, Riviera 2

Die Fremde

WHEN WE LEAVE

What would you sacrifice for your family’s love? Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro duction 2009 Director Feo Aladag Your values? Your freedom? Your indepen- Screenplay Feo Aladag Director of Photography Judith Kaufmann Editor Andrea Mertens Music dence? German-born Umay flees her oppressive by Max Richter, Stéphane Moucha Production Design Silke Buhr Producers Feo Aladag, Zueli Aladag marriage in Istanbul, taking her young son Cem Production Company Independent Artists Filmproduktion/Berlin, in co-production with WDR/Cologne, with her. She is hoping to find a better life with RBB/Pots dam-Babelsberg, ARTE/Strasbourg Principal Cast Sibel Kekilli, Derya Alabora, Settar Tanrioegen, her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival Nizam Schiller, Tamer Yigit, Serhad Can, Almila Bagriacik, Florian Lukas, Alwara Hoefels, Nursel Koese, Ufuk creates intense conflict. Her family is trapped in Bayraktar, Blanca Apilánez Length 119 min Format 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German/Turkish their conventions, torn between their love for Subtitled Versions German, English Sound Technology Dolby SRD Festival Screenings Berlin her and the values of their community. 2010, Tribeca 2010 (In Competition) Awards Europa Cinemas Award Berlin 2010, German Film Awards Ultimately they decide to return Cem to his fa - 2010 (Best Film in Bronze, Best Actress), Best Narrative Feature & Best Actress Tribeca 2010 With backing ther in Turkey. To keep her son, Umay is forced from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung NRW, German to move again. She finds the inner strength to Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Kuratorium junger deutscher Film build a new life for herself and Cem, but her need for her family’s love drives her to a series Feo Aladag was born in 1972 in Vienna. She began her career as an actress, completing her training in of ill-fated attempts at reconciliation. What London and Vienna from 1990-1995. While studying Acting she completed a Masters in Psychology and Umay doesn’t realize is just how deep the Journalism, continuing on to receive her PhD in 2000. She acted in numerous acclaimed film and television pro- wounds have gone and how dangerous her ductions while attending various masterclasses and directing seminars at the European Film Academy as well as struggle for self-determination has become … the German Film and Television Academy. During this time she also maintained a successful career as a scriptwriter and commercial film director. In 2005, Feo Aladag founded the production company Independent Artists, responsible for her debut as the producer, director and writer of When We Leave (Die Fremde, 2009).

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Screening:

Sunday, 16 May, 13:30 h, Riviera 2

Friedensschlag – Das Jahr der Entscheidung

TO FIGHT FOR – THE YEAR OF DECISION

Genre Coming-of-Age Story, Drama, Society Category Documentary Cinema Year of Production Five young men, prepared to resort to violence, 2010 Director Gerardo Milsztein Director of Photography Gerardo Milsztein Editors Thomas transform their destructive energy into creativi- Grube, Barbara Toennieshen Producers Uwe Dierks, Thomas Grube, Andrea Thilo Production Com- ty, and their self-hate into self-confidence and pany Boomtown Media/Berlin, in co-production with Pictorion-Das Werk/Berlin Length 107 min Format responsibility for their own lives. 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), They are faced by a harsh challenge. Either they Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern are bound to end up in jail, or they have to break through all barriers to self-assurance. Gerardo Milsztein studied Direction in Buenos Aires and has been involved in over fifty feature length Having withdrawn wholly into themselves and documentaries as an experienced cameraman. To Fight For – The Year of Decision is his debut as a having become extremely aggressive, they have director. to reach out again for contacts and intimacy, which is something they have not been able to do for years. Boxing is the narrative thread and also what triggers off their personal development. They begin to get in touch with themselves and to recognize their internal pains in the emotional sense. This is the start of their parth towards peace. In the ring each of them is forced to reveal himself. Sadness and joy, doubt and sureness, desperation and hope lie side by side. The youngsters fight not only each other but also against themselves, till they fall and thereby learn to get up again.

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Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 09:30 h, Arcades 3

Friendship!

November, 1989. The Berlin Wall has fallen. Genre Comedy, Road Movie Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director The whole world celebrates, and the two pals Markus Goller Screenplay Oliver Ziegenbalg Director of Photography Ueli Steiger Editors Olivia Veit and Tom along with it. The two young East- Retzer, Markus Goller Production Design Deborah Riley Producers Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann, Tom Germans, products of the GDR’s repressive Zickler Co-Producers Stefan Gaertner, Marco Beckmann, David Groenewold Production Companies Communist regime, heed the call of the West, Wiedemann & Berg Film/Munich, Mr. Brown Entertainment/Berlin, in co-production with SevenPictures and set out for America with little more than Film/Unterfoehring, Marco Beckman & David Groenewold Medien/Berlin Principal Cast Matthias 100 Deutsch-Marks in their pocket and a dream Schweighoefer, Friedrich Muecke, Alicja Bachleda Length 108 min Format 35 mm, color, cs Original in their head: to make it to San Francisco. Veit’s Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Awards Bavarian Film convinced that his dad’s been living there since Prize 2010 (Best Newcomer Actor: Friedrich Muecke) With backing from Medienboard Berlin- he fled the GDR years ago. But with their Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), BKM knowledge of English limited to the words “friendship” and “Vee are Communists,” they’re Markus Goller has directed over 300 commercials and worked in the past as an editor and 2nd unit direc- in for a rough ride. With a combination of pa- tor. Friendship! is his second feature film – after Mask Under Mask in 2001. Goller lives and works in tience and luck, the pals make it to New the USA. Mexico, where they meet Zoey, a young woman whose beauty matches her business sense: after raising some money with a screen - ing of the boys’ home video – a touching yet irreverent homage to their rapidly disappearing GDR – she gets them to sell chunks of rubble allegedly from the Berlin Wall … Then they’re off to Las Vegas, where they top off their funds by stripping in a gay club. Finally they’ve got enough cash to get to San Francisco. But Zoey is still with them, and they’ve both fallen for World Sales Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH · Thorsten Ritter her. Will their dream of going West end a few Bavariafilmplatz 7 · 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany hundred miles short of San Francisco? And phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 · fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 more importantly: Will their friendship end in email: [email protected] · www.bavaria-film-international.com the Nevada desert? In Cannes Riviera H9 phone +33-(0)4-92 99 32 16 · email: [email protected] Stefanie Zeitler: mobile +49-1 72-8 58 70 43 new german films – market screenings 23 New German Films

Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 17:30 h, Arcades 3 (private screening, with listing only)

Habermann

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Juraj Herz 1937, a small village in Sudetenland. The saw Screenplay Wolfgang Limmer Director of Photography Alexander Surkala Editor Melanie Werwie mill owner Habermann is the biggest employer Music by Elia Cmiral Production Design Petr Fort Producer Karel Dirka Production Company in his village. He employs Germans and Czechs ART-OKO Film/Munich, in co-production with Wega Film/Vienna, Werner Herzog Film/Vienna, alike and is deeply attached to the country Entertainment Value Associates/Munich, KN Film Company/Prague, ApolloMedia/Munich Princi pal Cast where both nationalities lived for centuries. He Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Hannah Herzsprung, Ben Becker, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht Length 104 becomes married to Jana, a young and beautiful min Format 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German Sound Technology Dolby SR Awards Czech woman, who is half Jewish. Although Bavarian Film Prize 2010 (Best Director, Best Leading Actor) With backing from German Federal Film Habermann is not interested in politics or ideo- Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), NRW.Bank, logy, he and his family will be steamrolled by Commerz bank Munich the insanity of World War II …

Juraj Herz was born in Kezmarok/Slovakia in 1934. He studied Photography in Bratislava and Puppetry at Habermann is based on true events. The film the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He then worked as a director and actor at the Semafor Theater in Prague shows how politics and ideology can turn friend- before going to the Barrandov film studios in 1961 to become an assistant director. Active as an award-winning ship into mistrust and hate with a historical take director, a selection of his films includes: The Junk Shop (1965), Oil Lamps (1971), Day for My Love on a specific period between 1937 and 1945, (1976), Beauty and the Beast (1978), Bulldogs and Cherries (1981), The Magpie in the Wisp known due to the excessive expulsion of (1983), The Night Overtake Me (1986), The Frog Prince (1991), The Emperor’s New Sudeten Germans on the border between Clothes (1994), Lara – My Years with Boris Pasternak (1994), and Habermann (2010), among Germany and Czechoslovakia. The persistent others. discussion in Europe about the validity or in - validity of the “Benes decrees”, which provided the legal cover for this wrong in Sudetenland, shows that this subject, which has been taboo for such a long time, is still raw.

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Screening:

Friday, 14 May, 17:30 h, Lérins 1

Saturday, 15 May, 09:30 h, Palais J

Henri 4

HENRY OF NAVARRE

France, 1563. Protestants and Catholics are Genre Drama, History, Literature Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director fighting for land and power, invoking their reli- Jo Baier Screen play Jo Baier, Cooky Ziesche, based on the novel by Heinrich Mann Director of gion as justification. At the head of the Photography Gernot Roll Editors Claus Wehlisch, Alexander Berner Music by Hans Zimmer & Henry Protestants stands Henry of Navarre, leading his Jackman Production Design Klaus-Peter Platten, Christian Strang Produced by Regina Ziegler men against Paris, against the Catholics, and Executive Producer Hartmut Koehler Producer Cooky Ziesche Production Company Ziegler against his mother’s powerful rival, Catherine de Film/Berlin, in co-production with Geteve/Paris, B.A. Produktion/Munich, Institut del Cinema Català/ Medici, Queen of France. Catherine de Medici Barcelona, Wega Film/Vienna, MMC Independent/Cologne, ARTE/Strasbourg, BR/Munich, Degeto/ offers Henry the hand of her daughter, Margot, Frankfurt, MDR/Leipzig, NDR/Hamburg, SWR/Baden-Baden, WDR/Cologne, France 2/Paris, ARTE France as a sign of reconciliation but the wedding ends Cinema/Paris, ORF/Vienna, Televisió de Catalunya/Barcelona Principal Cast Julien Boisselier, Armelle in a terrible bloodbath. Henry survives the St. Deutsch, Hannelore Hoger, Chloé Stefani, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Ulrich Noethen Length 155 min Bartholomew’s Day Massacre but is kept pris - Format HD, color, cs Original Version French/German Subtitled Version English Sound oner in the Louvre, until he escapes after four Technology Dolby SRD Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, long years. He will change religion five times in German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German the course of his life, fighting and resorting to Federal Film Board (FFA), MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, MEDIA any tactics to climb his way to the throne. He eventually becomes a monarch who can genu- Jo Baier was born in 1949 in Munich and studied Drama, German and American Language Studies at the inely claim to be one of the first true humanists. Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. He made more than 70 documentaries and TV features be fore turning to feature films and has been working as a director since 1979. A selection of his award-winning films includes: Rauhnacht (TV, 1984), Schiefweg (TV, 1987), Wildfeuer (1991), Hoelleisengretl (TV, 1994), The Store (Der Laden, TV 1998), Wambo (TV, 2001), Schwabenkinder (TV, 2002), Stauffenberg (TV, 2004), All Were Not Murderers (Nicht alle waren Moerder, TV, 2005), Valentin (TV, 2007), and Henry of Navarre (Henri 4, 2009).

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Screening:

Sunday, 16 May, 15:30 h, Riviera 2

Hier kommt Lola!

HERE COMES LOLA!

Genre Children and Youth Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director In 9-year-old Lola’s world things are not quite as Franziska Buch Screenplay Vanessa Walder, Uschi Reich Director of Photography Bella Halben they usually are: Lola’s father is from Brazil, her Editor Barbara von Weitershausen Music by Youki Yamamoto, Jakob Antoff, Eduardo Macedo mother is called Viktualia and her aunt is only 2- Production Design Susann Bieling Producer Uschi Reich Production Company Bavaria Filmverleih- years-old. In her dreams the bright, adventurous & Produktion/Munich Principal Cast Meira Durand, Fernando Spengler, Julia Jentsch, Nora Tschirner girl turns into famous pop singer Jacky Jones, Casting An Dorthe Braker Length 100 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German celebrated by her many million fans, giving con- Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing from Filmfoerderung certs and driving around in a fancy limousine. Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM However, what Lola longs for most of all, is still missing in her life: Lola does not have a best Franziska Buch studied Philosophy and Literature in Stuttgart and Rome before studying at the University friend. At her new school, Lola meets the of Television & Film in Munich. Since 1991, she has been working as a writer and director. In 1996, she began strange girl Flo, who smells horribly of fish. And instructing Scriptwriting at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. Her films include: Die her attempt to make friends with adorable class- Ordnung der Dinge (1987), Tod eines Idioten (1988), Die ungewisse Lage des Paradieses mate Annalisa is unintentionally ruined by her (1993), Mein Herz – Niemandem (1994), Verschwinde von hier (1999), Emil and the father. It becomes pretty obvious that Lola is Detectives (Emil und die Detektive, 2001), Unsere Mutter ist halt anders (TV, 2003), Bibi going to have to think of another way to find a Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue Owls (Bibi Blocksberg und das Geheimnis der best friend. So she sends her dearest wish up blauen Eulen, 2004), Heimliche Liebe (TV, 2005), Angsthasen (TV, 2007), Patchwork (TV, 2008), into the sky, tied to the end of a balloon – and Froschkoenig (TV, 2008), Die Drachen besiegen (TV, 2009), Rosannas Tochter (TV, 2009), and gets back a mysterious message in a bottle … Here Comes Lola! (Hier kommt Lola! , 2010).

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Screening:

Saturday, 15 May, 19:30 h, Arcades 3

Tuesday, 18 May, 15:30 h, Riviera 2

Jerry Cotton

The reputation of New York City’s star FBI Genre Action/Adventure, Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 agent Jerry Cotton is on the line: Internal Affairs Directors Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Screenplay Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert Director of Photog - director Daryl D. Zanuck has him wanted for raphy Torsten Breuer Editor Stefan Essl Music by Helmut Zerlett, Christoph Zirngibl Production two counts of murder in the first degree. Did Design Matthias Muesse Producer Christian Becker Pro duction Company Rat Pack Filmpro - Jerry really ice crime lord Sammy Serrano, his duktion/Munich Principal Cast Christian Tramitz, Christian Ulmen, Monica Cruz, Heino Ferch, Christiane only unsolved case, because he couldn’t nail Paul, Moritz Bleibtreu, Janek Rieke, Juergen Tarrach, Joram Voelklein, Herbert Knaup, Manou Lubowski, Lara- him for the States Union Bank gold heist? Did Isabelle Rentinck, Anna Julia Kapfelsperger, Tim Sikyea, Guenther Kaufmann Casting Emrah Ertem Length he really go on to shoot his partner, FBI agent 100 min Format 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Ted Conroy, to silence the only witness who Technology Dolby SR With backing from German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Filmfoerderung Hamburg was on to him? A race against time begins for Schleswig-Holstein, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Bayerischer Bankenfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Jerry: he has to keep one step ahead of his FBI German Federal Film Board (FFA) colleagues, track down gangster boss Klaus Schmidt and his gang and figure out who the Cyrill Boss was born in 1974 in Munich and studied Directing at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy in real killer was, pronto. Armed with nothing but Ludwigsburg. Philipp Stennert was born in 1974 in Goettingen and studied Directing at the Baden- his red Jaguar E-Type and his trusted Smith & Wuerttemberg Film Academy. Since 2000, they have been working together as a writing and directing duo, Wesson Model 10.38 Special, Jerry and his beginning with the TV series Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht and Maerchenstunde. Their films together goofy greenhorn partner Phil set out to clear include: The Vexxer (Neues vom Wixxer, 2007) and Jerry Cotton (2010). They are currently work - Jerry’s name. ing on Triple Wixx, the third part of the Wixxer-trilogy, and the romantic comedy remake of Dr. Mabuse.

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Screening:

Friday, 14 May, 13:30 h, Riviera 2

Sunday, 16 May, 19:30 h, Riviera 2

Keep Surfing

Genre Sports Category Documentary Feature Year of Production 2009 Director Bjoern Richie Lob Keep Surfing tells the story of an unlikely pas- Screenplay Bjoern Richie Lob, Benjamin Quabeck Directors of Photography Lars R. Liebold, Bjoern sion in a place that a large part of the world only Richie Lob Editor Benjamin Quabeck Music by Philip Stegers Producers Bjoern Richie Lob, Tobias N. knows as Oktoberfest City. Munich, the town of Siebert Production Company Pipeline Pictures & mdts/Munich, in co-production with DIE beer drinkers and pretzel lovers, has become the BASISberlin/Berlin Length 92 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German/English/ home of a surfing crowd of urban individualists French Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festival Screenings Munich who pursue their dream of happiness by riding 2009, Tribeca 2010 Awards Audience Award Munich 2009 With backing from German Federal Film a river wave far from the ocean. Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Keep Surfing portrays six surfers, who master Bjoern Richie Lob has been a freelance director, photographer and camera operator since 2000. In addi- the river waves while pursuing their own indivi- tion to shooting several short films (Sonnensurfer, Schwarzfahrt) and documentaries (Allein), he has dual goals in life. Among the older guys is Dieter also filmed a number of surf videos and Making Ofs, and produced a considerable amount of surf footage. “The Eater,” who was among the first to discover Keep Surfing is particularly close to his heart, since he’s devoted a great part of the past ten years to collect - river surfing in the late 60s and still rides the ing the most gripping and powerful material for this surf epic at locations all over the world. waves every day with his two grown daughters; and Walter, the ”janitor of the Eisbach,” a working-class philosopher who discovered a way to keep the wave surging for 24 hours a day and who now lives as a kind of lone wolf on the island of Sardinia. Belonging to the younger generation is golden boy Quirin Rohleder, who started riding the Munich river wave on a boo- gie board and has become a surf pro and global nomad. Among the foreigners who joined the local community is surf punk Eli Mack, for World Sales Beta Cinema / Dept. of Beta Film GmbH · Andreas Rothbauer whom river surfing is a way back to the roots of Gruenwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany surfing and to a be tter self. But also surf legends phone +49-89-67 34 69 80 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 like Kelly Slater, Ross Clark Jones and Taylor email: [email protected] · www.betacinema.com Knox have tried their luck on the Munich river wave. In Cannes Lérins R17 phone +33-(0)4-92 99 33 23

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Saturday, 15 May, 13:30 h, Arcades 3

Das Lied von den zwei Pferden

THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN

A promise, an old, destroyed horse head violin Genre Drama, Music, Road Movie Category Semi Fictional Documentary Year of Production 2009 and a song believed lost lead the singer Urna Director Byambasuren Davaa Screenplay Byambasuren Davaa Director of Photography Martijn van back to Outer Mongolia. Her grandmother was Broekhuizen Editor Jana Musik Music by Ganpurev Dagvan Producers Beatrix Wesle, Byambasuren forced to destroy her once beloved violin in the Davaa Production Companies Grasland Film/Munich, Atrix Films/Munich Principal Cast Urna tumult of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Chahar Tugchi Length 90 min Format 16 mm Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version ancient song of the Mongols, The Two Horses of Mongolian Subtitled Versions English, German, French Sound Technology Dolby Digital SRD Genghis Khan, was engraved on the violin’s Festival Screenings Locarno 2009, Pusan 2009, Warsaw 2009, Hof 2009, AFI FEST Los Angeles 2009, neck. Only the violin’s neck and head survived Camerimage Lodz 2009, Tallinn Black Nights 2009, Tromsoe 2010, Doc Point Helsinki 2010, All the cultural storm. Now it is time to fulfill the Roads/National Geographic Washington D.C. 2010, Cleveland 2010 Awards Discovery Networks Award promise that Urna made to her grandmother. 2009 With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

Upon arrival in Ulan Bator, Urna brings the still Byambasuren Davaa was born in 1971 in Ulaanbaatar/Mongolia. From 1989 to 1994 she worked as a intact parts of the violin – head and neck – to speaker and assistant director for Mongolia’s Public TV. From 1995 to 1998 she attended the Film Academy in Hicheengui, a renowned maker of horse head Ulaanbaatar, followed by studies at Munich’s University of Television & Film in the documentary department. violins, who will build a new body for the old Her films include: One World, Two Economies (1993), Das orange Pferd (1999), Wunsch (2001), instrument in the coming weeks. Then, Urna Unterwegs, Portrait of a Girl (2003), The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte leaves for the interior to look there for the vom weinenden Kamel, 2003) which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for Best song’s missing verses. But will she find what she Documentary Feature, The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Die Hoehle des gelben Hundes, 2005), and is looking for … The Two Horses of Genghis Khan (Das Lied von den zwei Pferden, 2009).

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Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 11:30 h, Arcades 3

Mein Kampf

Genre Drama, History, Theater Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director In the year 1910 young Adolf Hitler leaves his Urs Odermatt Director of Photography Jo Molitoris Editors Lilo Gerber, Claudio Cea Music by hometown in the deepest Austrian province and Enis Rotthoff Production Design Carola Gauster Producers Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny, Marcos travels to Vienna. Aiming to conquer the world Kantis Co-Producers Danny Krausz, Christoph Neracher Production Company Schiwago Film/Berlin, as a famous painter he wants to prove his talent in co-production with ZDF Theaterkanal/Mainz, Dor Film/Vienna, ORF/Vienna, Hugofilm Productions/ at the Academy of Fine Arts. The young artist Zurich, SF/Zurich Principal Cast Goetz George, Tom Schilling, Wolf Bachofner, Bernd Birkhahn, Karin rents himself a room at a home for the home- Neuhaeuser, Paul Matic, Elisabeth Orth, Henning Peker, Simon Schwarz, Anna Unterberger Length 109 min less and waits for his big day. He shares his room Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound with the Jewish book-seller Schlomo Herzl. With Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Montreal 2009, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2010, Solothurn the arrival of the Academy’s rejection, it turns 2010, Berlin 2010 With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, Medienboard Berlin- out that Hitler overestimated his artistic abilities Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), IBH HessenInvestFilm, and his little world falls apart. Having lost all MEDIA, Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, BAK Bundesamt fuer Kultur, Zuericher Filmstiftung, Aargauer faith in his future, Hitler cannot get over his Kuratorium ignominy and wants to put his life to an end. Ironically, it is the Jewish man Schlomo who Urs Odermatt was born in 1955 in Switzerland and has been working in film, television and the theater finally suggests to Hitler to try his luck in politics. since 1983 after studying Directing and Scriptwriting with Krysztof Kieslowski and Edward Zebrowski. A selec- It does not take long and Hitler becomes the tion of films includes: Rotlicht! (1986), Gekauftes Glueck (1988), Wachmeister Zumbuehl head of a local radical group, which is known for (1993), Mein Kampf (2009), and Der Boese Onkel (2010), as well as numerous TV movies. its violent action.

The bittersweet grotesqueness of Mein Kampf is based on the fable-like theater play by George Tabori, which has found its way onto stages worldwide since its premiere in Vienna in 1987.

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Screening:

Sunday, 16 May, 11:30 h, Riviera 2

Wednesday, 19 May, 09:30 h, Riviera 2

Orly

Two hours at Paris Orly Airport. Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Angela Schanelec A woman falls in love on her way back to her Screenplay Angela Schanelec Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider Editor Mathilde husband. Bonnefoy Producers Angela Schanelec, Gian-Piero Ringel Production Companies Nachmittag A young couple falls apart. Film/Berlin, La Vie Est Belle Films/Paris, Ringel Filmproduktion/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF/Mainz, A mother and a son tell each other everything 3sat/Mainz Principal Cast Natacha Régnier, Bruno Todeschini, Mireille Perrier, Emile Berling, Jirka Zett, Lina they never said before. Phyllis Falkner, Maren Eggert, Josse de Pauw Length 83 min Format RAW Blow-up 35 mm, color, cs In the crowd, a woman reads the farewell letter Original Version French Subtitled Versions English, German Sound Technology Dolby SRD 5.1 of her lover. Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, Medien - In the airport, everybody is busy dealing with his board Berlin-Brandenburg, CNC, Cinécinéma own destiny. Angela Schanelec was born in 1962. She studied Acting at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main from 1982-1984, and worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Berlin’s Schaubuehne and the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 1984-1991. She studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin from 1990-1995, graduating with My Sister’s Good Fortune, winner of the German Critics’ Prize 1996. Her other films include: Schoene gelbe Farbe (1991), Weit entfernt (1991), Prag, Maerz 92 (1992), Ich bin den Sommer ueber in Berlin geblieben (1993), Places in Cities (Plaetze in Staedten, 1998) presented at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 1998, Passing Summer (Mein langsames Leben, 2001) presented at the Berlinale’s Forum in 2001, Marseille (2004), Nachmittag (2007), and Orly (2010), which screened at the 2010 Berlinale Forum.

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Screening:

Friday, 14 May, 19:30 h, Riviera 2

Pianomania

Genre Music Category Documentary Cinema Year of Production 2009 Directors Lilian Franck, Pianomania takes the viewer along on a hu - Robert Cibis Director of Photography Jerzy Palacz Editor Michelle Barbin Producer Robert Cibis morous journey into the secret world of sounds, Co-Producers Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen Production Company Oval Filmemacher/Berlin, in and accompanies Stefan Knuepfer at his unusu- co-production with WILDart FILM/Vienna Principal Cast Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lang Lang, Alfred al job with world famous pianists like Lang Brendel, Stefan Knuepfer Length 93 min Format HD Cam Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder and Version German & English Subtitled Versions English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish Pierre-Laurent Aimand. To find the right instru- Sound Technology Dolby SRD Festival Screenings DOK Leipzig 2009, Diagonale Graz 2009, Cork ment with the necessary qualities, compatible 2009, Locarno 2009, Zurich 2009, Valladolid 2009, Sheffield 2009, Goeteborg 2010, Berlin 2010, Jameson with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to per- Dublin 2010, Zagrebdox 2010, Sofia 2010, Hong Kong 2010, Macau 2010, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2010, St. Paul fection and finally to get it on the stage, needs Minneapolis 2010, San Francisco 2010, DOK.Fest Munich 2010, Planet Doc Review 2010, Melbourne 2010, nerves of steel, boundless passion, and the extra- New Zealand IFF 2010, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival 2010 Awards Critics’ Week Award ordinary competence in translating words into Locarno 2009, Best Editing/Docu mentary Film Graz 2009, Main Award & Audience Award Luenen 2009, sounds. Audience Award Wuerzburg 2010, Honorary Jury Award Oslo 2010 With backing from MEDIA Development, Eurimages, Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, Filmfond Wien, Cinestyria, ORF, Institut fuer Elektro - akustik der Universitaet Wien, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film

Lilian Franck studied at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, the Grande Ecole Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Paris, and participated in the Discovery Campus Masterschool. Robert Cibis participated in the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris after studies in Rome and Paris at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. After the internationally successful cinema documentary Jesus Loves You, Pianomania is their second feature-length documentary.

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Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 13:30 h, Arcades 3

Rock It!

Fifteen-year-old Julia, an exceptionally gifted Genre Musical Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Mike pianist at the renowned Amadeus con servatory, Marzuk Screenplay Sebastian Wehlings, Peer Klehmet Director of Photography Bernhard Jasper falls in love with Nick, the cool front man of Editor Tobias Haas Music by Tobias Kuhn, Sebastian Wehlings, Wolfram de Marco Production Design rock band Rock It. To audition for his band – Manfred Doering Producers Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton, Ewa Karlstroem Production Company who are looking for a new keyboarder – she SamFilm/Munich Principal Cast Emilia Schuele, Daniel Axt, Maria Ehrich, Vivien Wulf, Jan Wannenmacher, dresses up as rock powerhouse Toni – and gets Ben Muenchow, Petra Nadolny Length 99 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German in! However, it’s the beginning of a cat-and- Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital With backing from FilmFernsehFonds mouse game, which threatens to come un - Bayern, Bayerischer Bankenfonds, German Federal Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) raveled at any time. Torn between her new passion, her feelings for Nick and the conser - Mike Marzuk was born in 1969 in Landsberg am Lech. Since 1995 he has been working as an editor, musi- vatory, Julia realizes the most important thing is cian, writer and director for short and feature films as well as video clips. His features include: WWGW* – to find out who you really are … *Weisst was geil waer …?! (2007), Summer (Sommer, 2008), and Rock It! (2010).

This high-spirited, sweeping and romantic musical comedy will make teen hearts beat faster! Its upbeat humor, explosive choreogra- phies and sizzling soundtrack are guaranteed to make Rock It! rock the charts.

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Screening:

Friday, 14 May, 11:30 h, Riviera 2

Shahada

SHAHADA (FAITH)

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Burhan Qurbani Berlin, today. Screenplay Burhan Qurbani, Ole Giec Director of Photography Yoshi Heimrath Editor Simon Blasi During a razzia for clandestine employees in a Music by Daniel Sus Production Design Barbara Falkner Producers Uwe Spiller, Robert Gold warehouse, the fates of three young German- Production Company Bittersuess Pictures/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF Das kleine Fernseh - born Muslims collide. Ismail, a police officer of spiel/Mainz, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg/Ludwigsburg Principal Cast Maryam Zaree, Jeremias Turkish descent, is about to break his loyalty Acheampong, Carlo Ljubek, Marija Škaricic, Sergei Moya, Vedat Erincin, Anne Ratte-Polle, Nora Abdel- towards his badge and his wife as he finds him- Maksoud, Burak Yigit, Yollette Thomas, Alexandros (Alexi) Gehrckens, Gerdy Zint Length 90 min Format self attracted to illegal immigrant Leyla. Sammi RED ONE Blow-up 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German, Turkish, Arabic, English Subtitled is torn between his Muslim faith and his irre - Version English Sound Technology Dolby 5.1 Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 (In Competition) sistible desire for one of his male co-workers, With backing from HessenInvest despite his friends’ violent homophobia. He is appeased by the local Imam, a liberal religious Burhan Qurbani’s family fled Afghanistan in 1979, seeking political asylum in Germany. After finishing leader revered by the community, who is going school in Stuttgart, he worked in the theater as a dramatist’s assistant and later as a director’s assistant. In 2002, through a crisis of his own: his daughter, he enrolled at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy to study Directing. His short films have been screened Maryam, is moving into an ultraconservative at festivals around the world and won numerous prizes including the German Camera Award and the German direction although she has been raised so tol er- Film Critics’ Award in 2008 for Illusion. The same year he was honored with the Black Pearl for Best antly. The three of them must find their place Newcomer of the Year from the Middle East International Film Festival. Shahada (Faith) is his graduation between faith and modern life in a contempo - project and his feature debut. rary Western society, between the luring liberat- ed lifestyle and tradition.

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Screening:

Friday, 14 May, 15:30 h, Riviera 2

Wednesday, 19 May, 17:30 h, Riviera 2

Tannoed

THE MURDER FARM

Deep within a blue-black fir forest lies the se - Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Bettina Oberli cluded murder farm. It was here that the entire Screenplay Petra Lueschow Director of Photography Stéphane Kuthy Editor Michael Schaerer Danner family, including their children and the Music by Johan Soederqvist Production Design Christiane Krumwiede Producers Hejo Emons, Stefan new servant, were brutally murdered with a Schubert, Ralph Schwingel, Kristina Loebbert Co-Producers Martin Moszkowicz, Christoph Neracher pick axe. No one in the village heard or saw a Production Company Wueste Film West/Cologne, in co-production with Constantin Film thing, and yet no one was surprised: old man Produktion/Munich, Hugofilm Productions/Zurich Principal Cast Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu, Volker Danner was a tyrant and a miser who fell out Bruch, Brigitte Hobmeier, Janina Stopper, Vitus Zeplichal, Lisa Kreuzer, Filip Peeters, Gundi Ellert, Nils Althaus with everyone in the village; his deeply pious Length 97 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English wife spoke to no one; and they say old Danner Sound Technology Dolby Digital SR Ex With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, German Federal Film fathered the children of his daughter Barbara … Fund (DFFF), BAK Schweiz, Zuercher Filmstiftung, Swiss Television, Idée Suisse

Two years later, when the 26-year-old nurse Bettina Oberli was born in 1972 in Interlaken/Switzerland. She studied Film & Video at the School of Art Kathrin turns up in the village, the killer has still and Design Zurich (HGKZ) from 1995 to 2000, graduating with a degree in Directing. She worked in New York not been found. She soon discovers that behind as a prop assistant with the actor and director Steve Buscemi on a music video for Lou Reed and with Hal the tightly woven web of lies and silence lays a Hartley on his feature film Henry Fool. She also worked as an AD and assistant cinematographer on various deep sense of guilt in the village and she realizes advertising films and was a casting assistant for Swiss television. In 2004, she received the International Lake that this case has much more to do with her Constance Conference’s Subsidiary Award. After several award-winning short films, her first feature-length film than she would have liked to admit … Im Nordwind (2004) celebrated its premiere in the same year at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film re ceived the Zurich Film Award, the NDR Director’s Award in Schwerin and was nominated for the Swiss Film Award for Best Film. Her second feature film Late Bloomers (Die Herbstzeitlosen, 2006), about four high-spirited, fun-loving retired women who bring chaos to a sleepy village, became the biggest box office success of the year in Switzerland and was also a surprise number one audience favorite in Germany.

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Screening:

Tuesday, 18 May, 17:30 h, Riviera 2

Tanztraeume

DANCING DREAMS – TEENAGERS PERFORM “KONTAKTHOF” BY PINA BAUSCH

Genre Art, Dance Category Documentary Cinema Year of Production 2010 Directors Anne Linsel, In 2008, world famous dancer and choreo - Rainer Hoffmann Screenplay Anne Linsel Director of Photography Rainer Hoffmann Editor Mike grapher Pina Bausch selected 40 teenagers who Schloemer Producer Gerd Haag Co-Producer Anne Linsel Production Company TAG/TRAUM had never heard her name to be part of the Film produktion/Cologne, in co-production with WDR/Cologne, in cooperation with ARTE/Strasbourg dance performance “Kontakthof”. Within 10 Length 89 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English months till the opening night, the young dancers Sound Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing from Filmstiftung discover Bausch’s genius and their own bodies. NRW, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Minister President of the State of North-Rhein Westphalia, Dr. Werner Jackstaedt Foundation Pina Bausch died in 2009. The film is a testi- mony of her revolutionary work. Anne Linsel was born in Wuppertal and studied Art, Art History and German Language Studies. She was active for many years as a host for various television cultural programs and works today as a cultural journalist and author.

Rainer Hoffmann was born in Hamburg. After studying Engineering, he worked as a photographer for different advertising agencies in Hamburg, and studied Film at the German Film & Television Academy in Berlin (dffb). He is an instructor for Cinematography and Image Design at the Hannover Academy as well as at the dffb. Since 1985 he has also been working as a cameraman and filmmaker.

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Screening:

Friday, 14 May, 09:30 h, Riviera 2

Tuesday, 18 May, 13:30 h, Riviera 2

Tiger-Team

It is summer and the Tiger-Team longs for new Genre Family Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2010 Director Peter Gersina cases to solve and mysteries to unravel. When Screenplay Thomas C. Brezina, Peter Gersina Director of Photography Carsten Thiele Editors Bigi, Luk and Patrick lay hands on a cryptic Ingrid Koller, Carsten Thiele Music by Siggi Mueller, Andrej Melita Production Design Christian Eisele object, they know a new adventure lies ahead. Producers Susanne Freyer, Oliver Berben Co-Producers Frank Piscator, Antonio Exacoustos, Michael Their research uncovers a connection to China. Knobloch, Franz Kraus, Patrick Hoare Production Companies ndf:Neue Deutsche Film gesell - Could the object be one of the three keys that schaft/Unterfoehring, Family Pictures/Vienna, in co-production with Constantin Film Produktion/Munich, B.A. will open the doors of the Moonlight Palace in Produktion/Munich, Six-Six-Eight Pte/Singapore Principal Cast Helena Siegmund-Schultze, Bruno the Mountain of 1,000 Dragons near Beijing? Schubert, Justus Kammerer, Iris Berben, Stipe Erceg, Simon Schwarz, Nina Proll, Wang Deshun Casting The only way to find out is to go there … Ursula Dauger, Nicole Schmied, Ngyen Minh Thnan Length 100 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing As soon as the Tiger-Team reaches China, Bigi is from German Federal Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Oesterreichisches Filminstitut, attacked and the key is stolen. The elderly ORF Film-/Fernseh-Abkommen Cheng, who originally had sent the key to Europe to keep it safe, offers to help the three Peter Gersina was born in 1962 in Bregenz/Austria. After studying at the Academy of Art in Vienna, he friends. He fears that the ancient key has been worked as an author, artist, conceptionist, script writer and painter. He has had over 70 international exhi- snatched by the notorious Lady Q. In fact, Lady bitions of his work. Also active as a screenwriter (in 1998 he penned Marc Rothemund’s Love Scenes on Planet Q and her henchmen kidnap Cheng and merci- Earth, among others), his films include: Vienna (2002), Mein bester Feind (TV, 2003), Girls on Top 2 lessly pursue the Tiger-Team in search of two (Maedchen Maedchen 2, 2004), and Tiger-Team (2010). more missing keys and the secret map. Although the palace conceals unimaginable treasures, all that Lady Q really wants is the elixir of immortality that would make her in - vincible. According to an ancient legend, this elixir was given to a boy emperor 600 years ago. In order to free Cheng, the Tiger-Team is World Sales Beta Cinema / Dept. of Beta Film GmbH · Andreas Rothbauer forced to help Lady Q. Gruenwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany phone +49-89-67 34 69 80 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 As one key after the other leads to new and email: [email protected] · www.betacinema.com frightening dangers, the group finally makes it into the furthest recesses of the mountain palace In Cannes Lérins R17 – where they meet the boy emperor himself … phone +33-(0)4-92 99 33 23 new german films – market screenings 37 New German Films

Screening:

Tuesday, 18 May, 09:30 h, Riviera 2

Die Tuer

THE DOOR

Genre Mystery Thriller Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Anno Saul The mystery thriller’s action centers on the for- Screen play Jan Berger Director of Photography Bella Halben Editor Andreas Radtke Music by merly successful painter David who has lost con- Fabian Roemer Production Design Boerries Hahn-Hoffmann Producers Ralph Schwingel, Stefan trol over his life after being responsible for the Schubert Co-Producer Christoph Mueller Production Companies Wueste Film/Hamburg, Wueste death of his seven-year-old daughter Leonie Film Ost/Berlin, in co-production with Senator Film Produktion/Berlin Principal Cast Mads Mikkelsen, through a fatal decision. One day, five years Jessica Schwarz, Thomas Thieme, Valeria Eisenbart, Tim Seyfi, Heike Makatsch Length 99 min Format 35 later, he discovers a door which will give him mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital the opportunity to start all over again. However, Surround EX Festival Screenings Pusan 2009, Berlin 2010 With backing from German Federal Film what initially appears to be a wonderful chance Board (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal for a new beginning, soon turns out to be a veri- Film Fund (DFFF) table horror scenario, since not everything in the past is quite as it seems. Anno Saul was born in 1963 in Bonn. He initially studied at the Jesuit College for Philosophy in Munich, followed by studies from 1985-1990 at the University of Television & Film, also in Munich. His films include: Unter Freunden (short, 1990), Und morgen faengt das Leben an (TV, 1995), Alte Liebe – Alte Suende (TV, 1996), Blind Date (TV, 1997), Zur Zeit zu zweit (TV, 1998), Green Desert (Gruene Wueste, 1999), Die Novizin (TV, 2002), Kebab Connection (2004), Where is Fred? (Wo ist Fred?, 2006), and The Door (Die Tuer, 2009).

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Screening:

Saturday, 15 May, 17:30 h, Arcades 3

Wednesday, 19 May, 11:30 h, Riviera 2

Vincent will meer

VINCENT WANTS TO SEA

Vincent’s mother has passed away, but Vincent Genre Drama, Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Ralf vows to fulfill her last wish and let her see the Huettner Screen play Florian David Fitz Director of Photography Andreas Berger Editor Kai sea one last time. The problem is how to get her Schroeter Production Design Heidi Luedi Producers Harald Kuegler, Viola Jaeger Production ashes there, since Vincent suffers from Tourette Company Olga Film/Munich Principal Cast Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Johannes Allmayer, Syndrome and has been packed off to a clinic Heino Ferch, Katharina Mueller-Elmau Casting Nessie Nesslauer Length 96 min Format 35 mm, color, cs by his father. Thanks to the anorexic Marie, she, Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR With backing Vincent and his obsessive-compulsive room- from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA), mate Alex make off with a battered car and German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) travel to Italy. Right behind them are Vincent’s pompous father and therapist Dr. Rose, a con- Ralf Huettner was born in 1954 and graduated from the University of Television & Film in Munich in 1985 stantly bickering couple that could easily pass for with the film Marilyn. His feature debut Das Maedchen mit den Feuerzeugen (1987) was a major neurotic themselves. As Vincent, Marie and success, winning prizes at home and abroad. His other films include: Andenken an einen Engel (short, Alex head for the sea, they drive each other 1983), In Afrika ist Muttertag and Nerzwoelfe (shorts, 1984), Der Fluch (1988), Babylon crazy with their ailments, but they also discover (1990), Der Papagei (TV, 1992), Texas – Doc Snyder haelt die Welt in Atem (1993), Voll freedom, friendship and love. Normaaal (1994), Der kalte Finger (1995), Die Musterknaben (1997), Die Musterknaben 2 (1998), Mondscheintarif (2001), Die Musterknaben 3 (2002), Reine Formsache (2005), Dr. Psycho (TV, 2007), Der Assistent (TV, 2007), Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen (TV, 2007), Putzfrauen Undercover (TV, 2008), and Vincent Wants to Sea (Vincent will meer, 2009).

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Screening:

Monday, 17 May, 19:30 h, Arcades 3

Zeiten aendern Dich

ELECTRO GHETTO

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Uli Edel Top German rapper Bushido is on tour in Screenplay Bernd Eichinger Director of Photography Rainer Klausmann Editor Hans Funck Music Germany, when he receives a post card from his by Bushido Producer Kristina Strohm Production Companies Constantin Film Produktion/ Munich, father. All the old memories come boiling to the Rat Pack Filmproduktion/Munich Principal Cast Bushido, Moritz Bleibtreu, Karoline Schuch, Elyas M’Barek surface: Growing up as a ghetto kid in Berlin, Length 94 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English dealing drugs instead of going to school, slipping Sound Technology Dolby SRD With backing from German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Medienboard ever further into juvenile delinquency, heading Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern towards a life of crime and prison. One image especially won’t let go of Bushido: His father Uli Edel was born in 1947 and studied German Language Studies and Theater Sciences before enrolling at beating his mother in front of him. At the height the Munich University of Television & Film, where he first met Bernd Eichinger, whom he worked with on of his success as a rapper, Bushido must con- numerous films. A selection of his award-winning films include: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom front the demons of his past. It’s not just times Bahnhof Zoo (1981), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), numerous other US event movies and mini-series that are a-changing, it’s the times that change like Body of Evidence (1993), The Mists of Avalon (TV, 2001), King of Texas (2002), Julius you. Caesar (TV, 2003), Ring of the Nibelungs (TV, 2004), as well as The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), among others.

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Sunday, 16 May, 17:15 h, Riviera 2

ZweiOhrKueken

RABBIT WITHOUT EARS 2

Tabloid reporter Ludo and kindergarten teacher Genre Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Til Anna have been together for two years now Schweiger Screenplay Til Schweiger, Anika Decker Director of Photography Christof Wahl Editor and have settled into the everyday routine of Constantin von Seld Music by Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer, Daniel Nitt Production Design Christian coupledom, meaning that taking out the gar - Schaefer Producers Til Schweiger, Tom Zickler Co-Producer Stefan Gaertner Production Company bage and picking up dirty socks keep a pretty Barefoot Films/Berlin, in co-production with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany/Hamburg, even balance with passionate lovemaking and SevenPictures Film/Unterfoehring, Rothkirch/Cartoon-Film/Berlin Principal Cast Til Schweiger, Nora candlelight dinners. When Ludo runs into his Tschirner, Matthias Schweighoefer, Ken Duken, Edita Malovcic, Emma Tiger Schweiger, Uwe Ochsenknecht, old flame Marie, he accidentally triggers Anna’s Heiner Lauterbach, Thomas Heinze, Marc Hosemann Casting Emrah Ertem Length 124 min Format 35 jealousy. Where Anna sees a big-bosomed pre- mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital dator sharpening her claws for the kill, Ludo Festival Screenings Berlin 2010 With backing from German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Medien board sees nothing more than a mild flirt. But it’s Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board (FFA) enough to cause a breach of trust that devastates Ludo and makes him demand more breathing Til Schweiger was born in 1963 in Freiburg. An acting, directing, writing and producing multi-talent, he today room. Unfortunately, Anna’s ex-boyfriend Ralf is one of Germany’s most popular actors. Schweiger’s films as an actor include some of the most successful chooses precisely this moment to reenter her German (and international) films of recent years: Inglourious Basterds, Phantom Pain, Maybe, Maybe Not, Knockin’ life. And suddenly Ludo isn’t too crazy about his On Heaven’s Door, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and Dreamship Surprise – Period 1. His films as a new breathing room anymore ... Ralf here, Ralf director are Barefoot (Barfuss), Rabbit Without Ears (Kein ohrhasen), 1 1/2 Knights (1 1/2 there – Ludo can’t compete with Mr. Sexy, who Ritter) and Rabbit Without Ears 2 (ZweiOhrKueken). also happens to be a humanitarian worker in Africa and a fabulous cook. Now it’s Anna’s turn to stray, and Ludo’s turn to make some unusual erotic discoveries. Will the quarrelsome duo come together again?

In Cannes Riviera H9 phone +33-(0)4-92 99 32 16 · email: [email protected] Stefanie Zeitler: mobile +49-1 72-8 58 70 43 new german films – market screenings 41 NEXT GENERATION 2010 Screening: Sunday, 16 May, 20:00 h Star 1, rue d’Antibes 98 There is a spontaneous tendency to reduce short films to the up-and-coming filmmaker’s calling card; to assume, in other words, that they herald a talent that will soon prove itself in “full-grown”, longer works. Total running time: 93 min Indeed, this year’s selection of the NEXT GENERATION is an impressive advertisement for young talents from whom we can expect a great deal in the future. At the same time, however, it highlights the genre’s indepen- Title Animation by Xenia Lesniewski dence and autonomous conditions; it is far more than a practice exercise at our film schools.

The works presented here evidence an astonishing mastery when it comes to exploring possibilities and show a confidence in narration and design that can only develop when the short film is taken seriously and not regarded merely as a “preliminary stage”. Twelve directors from eight German educational institutes are presenting their works. They could scarcely be more different and yet they have much in common: the creators are adventurous, they show a positively infectious delight and precision in their work, and they are utterly dedicated.

The young filmmakers tell of a diver who survives for ages without air and of stories behind a house due for demolition; they draw the balance of a life that is drawing to a close, and focus on consuming jealousy or up - rooted migrants in Berlin. They find moving dramas in apparently remote areas – among aging lovers and in the natural landscape of Indonesia that, home to millions of people, is now threatened. The diversity and quality of the animated short films in the selection is exceptional; they range from classic cartoons to computer ani - mation and certainly represent an innovative handling of the genre, showing great willingness to experiment.

It is no coincidence that the selection reflects the reality of Germany as an increasingly multicultural society, which is approached from very different perspectives here. With their stories and the origins of the filmmakers, this year’s short films are an expression of the new internationality that comes quite naturally to the new, next generation. That means that they are exactly right for Cannes, the biggest international film festival in the world!

Knut Elstermann, film critic and moderator (radioeins/RBB)

Knut Elstermann, Maike Mia Hoehne and Heinz Badewitz were the members of the jury who selected the shorts for NEXT GENERATION 2010 from 51 submissions from 13 film schools and art academies.

We thank for their support

42 next generation 2010 Bob

Genre Animation, Love Story, Road Movie, Comedy Year of Production 2009 Directors/Screen- play/Animation/Directors of Photography Jacob Frey, Harry Fast Producer Anna Matacz Voice Tom Zahner Length 3 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version English Sound Techno logy Dolby SR Contact Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Eva Steegmayer, Akademiehof 10, 71638 Ludwigsburg/Germany, phone +49-71 41- 96 91 03, fax +49-71 41-96 95 51 03, email: eva.steeg [email protected], www.filmakademie.de

Jacob Frey was born in 1984. After studying Art and Design in 2004, he worked as a freelance graphic designer. Since 2007, he has been studying Animation at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy.

Harry Fast was born in 1982. From 2003-2005 he studied Architecture, followed by studies in Cartoon and Animation at the ifs internationale filmschule in Cologne from 2004-2005. Since 2007, he has been A hamster is chasing his love around the globe. Will he get her? studying Animation at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy.

Boule

Genre Animation Year of Production 2010 Director/Screenplay/Producer Bjoern Ullrich Animation Bjoern Ullrich, Sana Schoenle Director of Photography Seweryn Zelazny Principal Cast Bernhard Schmitt, Marius Schneider, Nils Wildegans Length 6 min Format DVC-Pro to 35 mm, b&w, 1:1.85 Original Version no dialogue Sound Technology Stereo Contact Bjoern Ullrich, Leberstrasse 54, 10829 Berlin/Germany, phone +49-1 79-7 39 87 41, email: [email protected]

Bjoern Ullrich was born in 1977. From 2001-2009, he studied Visual Communication at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach. In 2006/2007, he was a guest student in the Animation class at the School of Art and Design Kassel. His films include: Test- Laeufer #14 (1999), Heimspiel (2001), Kasse 1 (2002), Nachhall (2004), Le Collecteur (2004), Carabou-Prolog (2007), and Boule (2010).

Two figures meet in a desert. A strange building made out of columns appears in front of them. Inside, they discover a third character. Together they play a bizarre game of Boule.

next generation 2010 43 Cronología CHRONOLOGY

Genre Experimental Year of Production 2010 Di rector/Screenplay/Producer Rosana Cuellar Voices Rosana Cuellar, Sebastian Meyer, Wim Wenders Length 12 min Format 35 mm, color/ b&w, 1:1.85 Original Version Spanish/English Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Stereo Contact Hochschule fuer bildende Kuenste Ham burg, Helena Wittmann, Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg/Germany, phone +49-40-4 28 98 94 46, email: [email protected], www.hfbk-ham burg.de

Rosana Cuellar was born in 1984 in Mexico City. After brief studies in other fields, she studied at the Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión. Since 2008, she has been studying at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Her films include: The Big Bang (2006), Tortugas (2007), Haiku I, II, III (2008), and Cronología (2010).

Chronology is a puzzle created by images taken from found footage material originated by “Neue Heimat”, the architectural project in charge of the reconstruction of Germany after the war. The result is a unique and mysterious atmosphere in which the individual pieces of the puzzle come together and leave it to the observer to create the bigger picture. Egodyston

Genre Animation, Art, Music Year of Pro - duction 2009 Director/Screenplay/Ani- mation/Director of Photography/Pro - ducer Xenia Lesniewski Length 3 min Format HD to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version no dialogue Sound Technology Stereo Contact Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Offenbach, Prof. Rotraut Pape, Schlossstrasse 31, 63065 Offenbach/Germany, phone +49-69-80 05 92 37, fax +49-69-80 05 91 09, email: [email protected], www.hfg-offenbach.de

Xenia Lesniewski was born in 1985 in Frankfurt. Since 2005, she has been studying Fine Arts at the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach. Her films include: Rot von Blut (2006), Gerade Aus (2007), Superspasti Goerlitz (2008), Super- sensibel (2008), and Egodyston (2009).

Egodystonic – my fear of death will blow my head away. I think I need different eyes for my brain.

44 next generation 2010 Geliebte MISTRESS

Genre Erotic, Drama, Melodrama, Love Story, Women’s Film Year of Production 2009 Di - rector Ingo J. Biermann Screenplay Birgit Maiwald Director of Photography Paola Calvo Picado Producers Hartmut Bitomsky, Myriam Eichler Principal Cast Gabriele Heinz, Eberhard Kirchberg Length 5 min Format HD Cam to 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Ver- sion English Sound Technology Dolby SR Contact Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb), Jana Wolff, Potsdamer Strasse 2, 10785 Berlin/Germany, phone +49-30-25 75 91 52, fax +49- 30-25 75 91 62, email: [email protected], www.dffb.de

Ingo J. Biermann was born in 1978 and has worked as an assistant director, production manager and writer. Since 2004, he has been studying Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His films include: Zwischen Flieder wandern und singen (2002), City Lights (2003), Coda (2003), Deed Poll (2004), Vor dem Konzert (2007), A lover realizes that the ritual she has with a seemingly unattainable man means more to her than Geliebte (2009, co-produced by ARTE), and his fea- the gratification of possessing him completely. She is his mistress. For more than ten years, his ture debut Faust. Der Tragoedie erster Teil Wednesday afternoons have belonged to her. On this Wednesday everything seems as usual, but (2009). www.ijbiermann.com then a door opens and to step over its threshold might change her life.

Hinterhof BACKYARD

Genre Drama, Melodrama Year of Production 2010 Director/Screenplay Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu Director of Photography Raphael Beinder Producer Sol Bondy Principal Cast Marina Weis, Jakob Koehn, Masha Tokareva Length 15 min Format RED ONE 4K to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version Russian Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Stereo Contact Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb), Jana Wolff, Potsdamer Strasse 2, 10785 Berlin/Germany, phone +49-30-25 75 91 52, fax +49- 30-25 75 91 62, email: [email protected], www.dffb.de

Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu was born in 1978. After four years of theater work in Western Africa, she moved to Berlin in 2002 to work as an assistant director and began studying Film Direction in 2004 at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Her films include: Die Versuchung (2004), Erstes, letztes Mal (2005), Intre Ziduri (2007), Die Backyard tells the story of three Russian immigrants in Berlin. The 40-year-old Clarissa tries to es- Spielerin (2008), and Hinterhof (2010). cape her loneliness by secretly taking part in the life of a couple living next door. When they sep- arate, Clarissa gets involved and has to make a tough decision.

next generation 2010 45 Ich bin’s. Helmut IT’S ME. HELMUT

Genre Tragicomedy Year of Production 2009 Director Nicolas Steiner Screenplay Nicolas Steiner, Stefanie Ren Director of Photography Clemens Baumeister Producers Anna-Luise Dietzel, Nicolas Steiner Principal Cast Matthias Zelic, Andreas Herzog, Suly Roethlisberger Length 11 min Format S16 mm/HD Cam to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German/Swiss German Sub- titled Version English Sound Technology Stereo Contact Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttem- berg, Eva Steegmayer, Akademiehof 10, 71638 Lud - wigsburg/Germany, phone +49-71 41-96 91 03, fax +49-71 41-96 95 51 03, email: eva.steegmayer@film akademie.de, www.filmakademie.de

Nicolas Steiner was born in 1984. He attended the European Film College in Ebeltoft/Denmark, fol - lowed by studies in Social Anthropology, Film and Politics in Zurich. Since 2007, he has been studying Directing at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. His films include: Snatch & Kittie Helmut celebrates his 60th birthday on the day he is actually turning 57 (his wife miscalculated). As (2006), Meet Toni (2006), Schwitze (2008), a façade of petit-bourgeois domesticity peels away, old friends drop by to offer some well-meaning Blitz und Donner, Windgefauch (2009), and advice through bizarre declarations of love and transience. Ich bin’s. Helmut (2009).

Kleine Broetchen HUMBLE PIE

Genre Animation, Satire Year of Production 2009 Director/Screenplay/Director of Photography/Producer/Voices Marcus Zilz Animation Katharina Huber, Simon Steinhorst, Nicole Wegner, Marcus Zilz Length 4 min Format Digital to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Dubbed Version English Subtitled Versions English, Japanese Sound Technology Stereo Contact Kunsthoch schule fuer Medien Koeln (KHM), Ute Dilger, Peter-Welter-Platz 2, 50676 Cologne/Germany, phone +49-2 21-20 18 93 30, fax +49-2 21-2 01 89 17, email: [email protected], www.khm.de

Marcus Zilz was born in 1982. He trained as a precision mechanic and works as a stage actor, sound designer and musician. Since 2007, he has been a student at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

A round table. Even cartoon characters have to come to terms with themselves and what their parents have given them to take along. A snapshot.

46 next generation 2010 Oh wehe mir

Genre Animation, Art, Fantasy Year of Pro - duction 2009 Director/Screenplay Sermin Kaynak Animation Sermin Kaynak, Markus Feder Length 5 min Format Video to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version no dialogue Con tact Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nuern berg, Prof. Juergen Schopper, Wassertorstrasse 10, 90489 Nuremberg/Germany, phone +49-9 11-58 80 26 90, fax +49-9 11-58 80 66 96, email: juergen.schopper @ohm-hochschule.de, http://fa.ohmrolle.de

Sermin Kaynak was born in 1981. She studied Media Design at the Georg-Simon-Ohm Fach- hochschule in Nuremberg, graduating in 2009. During her studies, she directed the music clip Barfing Barfly (The Strike Boys), the title design Penumbra (2007), an image film for Glore (2008), and the short Oh wehe mir (2009).

A girl has the ability to detect other people’s fears. She can visualize these fears as horrible figures clinging to the backs of others, making their lives more difficult. Afraid of these horrible figures, she doesn’t leave her house. But she still is not capable of escaping her fear …

Ohne Atem WITHOUT BREATH

Genre Documentary Year of Production 2009 Director/Screenplay/Director of Photog- raphy Fabio Stoll Producer Daniel Rohm Principal Cast Nik Linder Length 6 min Format 16 mm to 35 mm, b&w, 1:1.85 Original Version no dialogue Sound Technology Stereo Contact Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film Muenchen, Tina Janker, Frankenthaler Strasse 23, 81539 Munich/ Germany, phone +49-89-68 95 74 48, fax +49-89- 68 95 74 49, email: [email protected], www.hff- muc.de

Fabio Stoll was born in 1984. From 2005-2008 he studied Media Dramaturgy at Mainz University. He worked as an intern and assistant DoP and did camera work for theater productions. Since 2008, he has been studying Documentary Film at the University of Television and Film Munich. He directed the shorts P – wie Punkrock und Pubertaet (2005) and Ohne Atem (2009). A journey to a world under water. A world where you cannot stay for too long as a human being. Nik learned to withstand the urge to reach the surface to breathe and to control the needs of his body. You will have to force yourself to breathe again.

next generation 2010 47 Paradise Later

Genre Art, Ecology, Experimental, History, Literature, Road Movie, Documentary Year of Production 2010 Director Ascan Breuer Director of Photography Victor Jaschke Producers Ascan Breuer, Victor Jaschke Production Company Breuer-Jaschke/Cologne & Vienna Voices Ascan Breuer (German), Tony Dunham (English) Length 13 min Format HDV to 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Languages English, German Sound Technology Stereo Contact sixpackfilm, Michaela Grill, Neubaugasse 45/13, 1071 Vienna/Austria, phone +43-1-52 60 99 00, fax +43-1- 5 26 09 92, email: [email protected], www.sixpackfilm.com

Ascan Breuer was born in 1975 in Hamburg. He studied Communications, Sociology and Psychology at the University of Vienna as well as Filmmaking at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. His films include: Forst (2005), The Kurukshetra Report (2009), and Paradise Later (2010). The blink of an eye. Images emerge from dazzling white and disappear again, as if the eyes must first adjust to the light. While the camera follows a slow-moving river on the edge of a tropical metro- polis, an off-screen voice reads a sales rep’s report to a company’s board of directors. As the narration progresses it becomes increasingly laden with self-doubt and accusations. ‘The conquest of the earth … is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.’ (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899)

Von Haus zu Haus FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE

Genre Documentary Year of Production 2009 Director Friederike Guessefeld Director of Photography Jonas Spriestersbach Producer Rafael Parente Length 9 min Format 16 mm to 35 mm, b&w, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Stereo Contact Hochschule fuer Fernsehen und Film Muenchen, Tina Janker, Frankenthaler Strasse 23, 81539 Munich/Germany, phone +49-89-68 95 74 48, fax +49-89-68 95 74 49, email: [email protected], www.hff-muc.de

Friederike Guessefeld was born in 1984. From 2004-2007, she studied Communication Science and German Literature. Since 2008, she has been a student of Documentary Film at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Von Haus zu Haus (2009) is her first film.

A vacant house on the outskirts of Munich. People are gone. What is left? Empty rooms, a chair, a ruffled curtain. Traces and memories. The neighbors speak from their point of view.

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German Short Films at the Short Film Corner Marché du Film, Palais des Festivals, Level 01

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A graduate in Film & Television Production from the University of Film & Television “Konrad Wolf ” in Babelsberg in 1996, Oliver Damian had amassed more than 12 years of professional experience in the film business before setting up his Berlin/Frankfurt-based company 27 Films Production in summer 2005. The first completed project was Nana Djordjadze’s tragicomedy The Rainbowmaker which had its world premiere at the Hof Film Days in 2008. Apart from being the main producer for a slate of eight projects, including new films by Maria von Heland and Goran Rebic, Oliver also participates as a co-producer in international productions. He was a partner in the French-German drama Dawn of the World by the Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel, which had its international premiere at Pusan in 2008, and The Father of My Children by Mia Hansen-Løve, the winner of the Special Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2009. Shooting is about to begin on the hilarious sci-fi comedy Iron Sky by Finnish cult director Timo Vuorensola in co-production with Blind Spot Pictures.

Selected Films Mr Lu’s Blues (in development) by Maria von Heland Whirrr (in development) by Phedon Papamichael Francuski (in development) by Goran Rebic Iron Sky (2010, in pre-production) by Timo Vuorensola (co-production) The Rainbowmaker (2008) by Nana Djordjadze The Father of My Children (2008) by Mia Hansen-Løve (co-production) Dawn of the World (2008) by Abbas Fahdel (co-production)

Contact 27 Films Production Erich-Weinert-Strasse 30 · 10439 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-84 71 16 60 · mobile +49-1 72-6 42 82 07 · fax +49-30-84 71 16 90 email: [email protected] · www.27films.biz

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German Films Service + Marketing is the national information and ad- German Films’ range of activities includes: visory center for the promotion of German films worldwide. It was established in 1954 under the name Export-Union of German Cinema as the umbrella associa - I Close cooperation with major international film festivals, in cluding Berlin, tion for the Association of German Feature Film Producers, the Association of Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Locarno, San Sebastian, Montreal, Karlovy Vary, Moscow, New German Feature Film Producers and the Association of German Film Nyon, Shanghai, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Sydney, Gothenburg, Warsaw, Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. In 2004, the Thessaloniki, Rome, and Turin, among others company was reorganized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Marketing GmbH. I Organization of umbrella stands for German sales companies and producers at international television and film markets (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shareholders are the Association of German Film Producers, the German Shanghai) Producers Alliance, the Association of German Film Exporters, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, the German I Staging of “Festivals of German Films” worldwide (Madrid, Paris, New York, Documentary Association, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Filmstiftung NRW Buenos Aires, Moscow, Stockholm, Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne) representing the seven main regional film funds, and the German Short Film Association. I Staging of the “German Premieres” industry screenings in New York, Rome, Copenhagen, and Stockholm Members of the advisory board are: Alfred Huermer (chairman), Peter Dinges, Antonio Exacoustos, Roman Paul, Ulrike Schauz, Michael Schmid-Ospach. I Providing advice and information for representatives of the international press and buyers from the fields of cinema, video, and television German Films itself has 14 members of staff: Christian Dorsch, managing director I Providing advice and information for German filmmakers and press on inter - Mariette Rissenbeek, public relations/deputy managing director national festivals, conditions of participation, and German films being shown Petra Bader, office manager Julia Basler, project co ordinator/documentary film I Organization of the annual NEXT GENERATION short film program, which Christin Czarnecki, trainee presents a selection of shorts by students of German film schools and is pre - Katherine Grzelak, managing director’s assistant/project co ordinator miered every year at Cannes Angela Hawkins, publications & website editor Barbie Heusinger, project coordinator/distribution support I Publication of informational literature about current German films and the Nicole Kaufmann, project coordinator German film industry (German Films Quarterly), as well as international market Michaela Kowal, accounts analy ses and special festival brochures Kim Liebeck, PR assistant/festival coordinator Martin Scheuring, project coordinator/short film I An Internet website (www.german-films.de) offering information about new Konstanze Welz, project coordinator/television German films, a film archive, as well as in formation and links to German and inter- Stephanie Wimmer, project coordinator national film festivals and institutions

In addition, German Films has foreign representatives in nine countries. I Organization of the selection procedure for the German entry for the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film German Films’ budget of presently €4.8 million comes from film export levies, the office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and I Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV KINO program which features the FFA. The seven main regional film funds (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Film- the latest German film releases and inter national productions in Germany foerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin- Brandenburg, MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, and I Organization of the “German Films Previews” geared toward arthouse distri - Nordmedia) make a financial contribution – currently amounting to €324,000 – butors and buyers of German films towards the work of German Films. I Selective financial Distribution Support for the foreign releases of German films German Films is a founding member of the European Film Promotion, a network of European film organizations (including Unifrance, Swiss Films, Austrian Film I Organization with Unifrance of the annual German-French film meeting Commission, Holland Film, among others) with similar responsibilities to those of German Films. The organization, with its headquarters in Hamburg, aims to deve- I In association and cooperation with its shareholders, German Films works to lop and realize joint projects for the presentation of European films on an inter - promote feature, documentary, television and short films. national level.

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Cover & Page 6 “My Joy” (photo © ma.ja.de fiction) Page 2 & 11 “Picco” (photo © Markus Eckert) Page 7 & Back Cover “Life, Above All” (photo © Dreamer Joint Venture GmbH/Alsbrik, 2010) Page 8 “The City Below” (photo © Heimatfilm GmbH/Tom Trambow) Page 9 “The Tin Drum” (photo courtesy of Kinowelt) Page 10 & 63 “The Light Thief ” (photo © Pallas Film/Artur Bolzhurov)

Page 14 “12 Paces Without a Head” (photo © Britta Krehl/Wueste Film) Page 15 “13 Semesters” (photo © Twentieth Century Fox) Page 16 “Ayla” (photo © Barbara Bauriedl) Page 17 “Black Forest” (photo © Eikon Suedwest GmbH) Page 18 “Berlin, Boxhagener Platz” (photo © Claussen+Woebke+Putz Filmproduktion) Page 19 “Who Saw Him” (photo © Soquiet Films) Page 20 “Angels with Dirty Wings” (photo © wtp international) Page 21 “When We Leave” (photo © 2008 Independent Artists Filmproduktion/Manfred Horender) Page 22 “To Fight For – The Year of Decision” (photo © O. Sachs/Boomtown Media) Page 23 “Friendship!” (photo © Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduction) Page 24 “Habermann” (photo © EVA GmbH) Page 25 “Henry of Navarre” (photo © Ziegler Film/Reiner Bajo) Page 26 “Here Comes Lola!” (photo © Constantin Film Verleih GmbH) Page 27 “Jerry Cotton” (photo © Constantin Film Verleih GmbH) Page 28 “Keep Surfing” (photo © Pipeline Pictures) Page 29 “The Two Horses of Genghis Khan” (photo © Kerstin Stelter) Page 30 “Mein Kampf ” (photo © Jasmin Morgan/Schiwago Film 2009) Page 31 “Orly” (photo courtesy of Films Boutique) Page 32 “Pianomania” (photo © Robert Cibis) Page 33 “Rock It!” (photo © Bernd Spauke/SamFilm) Page 34 “Shahada” (photo courtesy of Memento Films International) Page 35 “The Murder Farm”(photo © Tom Trambow/Wueste Film West) Page 36 “Dancing Dreams” (photo © Ursula Kaufmann) Page 37 “Tiger-Team” (photo © 2010 Constantin Film Verleih GmbH) Page 38 “The Door” (photo © Wueste Film/Senator Film 2009/Nadja Klier) Page 39 “Vincent Wants to Sea” (photo © Constantin Film Verleih GmbH) Page 40 “Electro Ghetto” (photo © 2010 Constantin Film Verleih GmbH) Page 41 “Rabbit Without Ears 2” (photo © 2009 Warner Bros. Ent.) Page 43 “Bob” (photo © Jacob Frey/Harry Fast) Page 43 “Boule” (photo © Bjoern Ullrich) Page 44 “Chronology” (photo © Hamburgische Architektenkammer) Page 44 “Egodyston” (photo © Xenia Lesniewski) Page 45 “Mistress” (photo © Paola Calvo Picado) Page 45 “Backyard” (photo © Joachim Gern/dffb) Page 46 “It’s Me. Helmut” (photo © Nicolas Steiner) Page 46 “Humble Pie” (photo © Marcus Zilz) Page 47 “Oh wehe mir” (photo © Sermin Kaynak) Page 47 “Without Breath” (photo © Fabio Stoll) Page 48 “Paradise Later” (photo © Breuer/Jaschke) Page 48 “From House to House” (photo © Jonas Spriestersbach) Page 51 Oliver Damian (photo courtesy of EFP)

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GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 2010

15 - 18 July in Hamburg

For detailed information contact: [email protected] With the support of: Foreign Representatives Imprint

Argentina Japan Credits not contractual for any of the films Gustav Wilhelmi Tomosuke Suzuki mentioned in this publication. Ayacucho 495, 2º ”3“ Nippon Cine TV Corporation C1026AAA Buenos Aires/Argentina Suite 123, Gaien House Screening schedule subject to change. phone +54-11-49 52 15 37 2-2-39 Jingumae, Shibuya-Ku phone/fax +54-11-49 51 19 10 150-0001 Tokyo/Japan Unfortunately, we could not include film titles email: [email protected] phone +81-3-34 05 09 16 and screenings dates which were announced fax +81-3-34 79 08 69 after this publication went to press. China email: [email protected] Anke Redl Published by CMM Intelligence Spain German Films B 621, Gehua Tower Stefan Schmitz Service + Marketing GmbH No. 1, Qinglong Hutong Avalon Productions S.L. Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 16 Dongcheng District Pza. del Cordón, 2 80331 Munich/Germany Beijing 100007/China 28005 Madrid/Spain phone +49-89-5 99 78 70 phone +86-10-84 18 64 68 phone +34-91-3 66 43 64 fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 fax +86-10-84 18 66 90 fax +34-91-3 65 93 01 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected] www.german-films.de

Eastern Europe United Kingdom German Films Simone Baumann Iris Ordonez during the Cannes Film Festival: L.E. Vision Film- und 37 Arnison Road German Pavilion · #127 Fernsehproduktion GmbH East Molesey KT8 9JR/Great Britain International Village Koernerstrasse 56 phone +44-20-89 79 86 28 phone +33-(0)4-92 59 01 80 04107 Leipzig/Germany email: [email protected] fax +33-(0)4-92 59 01 81 phone +49-3 41-96 36 80 fax +49-3 41-9 63 68 44 USA & Canada email: [email protected] Oliver Mahrdt Editor: Angela Hawkins Hanns Wolters International Inc. France 501 Fifth Avenue, #2112A Design & Art Direction: Werner Schauer, www.triptychon.biz Anne Tallineau New York, NY 10017/USA Mercredi Films phone +1-212-714 0100 Printing Office: ESTA-DRUCK GmbH 14, rue Edouard Robert fax +1-212-643 1412 75012 Paris/France email: [email protected] phone +33-1-43 41 11 90 fax +33-1-43 41 11 92 email: [email protected]

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