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MONTHLY GUIDE OCTOBER 2015 | ISSUE 75 | PACIFIC GRIPSHOLM WHISPERS BEHIND THE WALL LIFE’S NO PIECE OF CAKE German Films Cycle KEEP ROLLIN’ EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | OCTOBER 2015 | 1 THE FORT LAUDERDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TAKE A VACATION FROM ORDINARY FILM FILM PREMIERES FROM 35 COUNTRIES, SPECIAL GUESTS & PARTIES. 2015 FLiFF.com November 6 - 22 CINEMA PARADISO - LAUDERDALE / 503 SE 6th St. Fort Lauderdale CINEMA PARADISO - HOLLYWOOD / 2008 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood SUNRISE CIVIC CENTER / 10610 W Oakland Park Blvd. Sunrise SEMINOLE HARD ROCK / 1 Seminole Way Hollywood 2 | EUROCHANNELFunding for thisGUIDE event | isOCTOBER provided in part2015 by |the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and The Florida Council on Art & Culture. MONTHLY GUIDE| SEPTEMBER 2015 | ISSUE 74 German Films Cycle German Films Cycle October is synonymous with Germany for Eurochannel. In the past eight years, we have dedicated this month to German films and this Life’s No Piece of Cake year is no exception. For 2015 we have carefully considered many films to bring you the content we’re sure you will enjoy. That is why our curated lineup this month has in store for you some of the greatest cinematic endeavors of Germany in the last years. Mystery, thrillers, action, history and comedy are here to entertain you! Among the exciting movies we have for you this month is Whispers Robin Schulz Behind the Wall, a psychological thriller that blends the best of Hitchcock, Polanski and Lynch, in a story about a university student who falls in love with his deadly landlady. Also this month, we have an outrageously funny movie (Keep Rollin’) about people seeking adventure in wheelchairs! This film, with actually handicapped, Table of amateur actors, will show you that no matter the difficulties, life is contents worth living in the happiest way possible! There is space for drama as well: in Life’s No Piece of Cake, you’ll travel 6 Highlights from Germany to Denmark alongside a grieving family trying to find a 20 Week 1 way out of sorrow after the death of the mother and wife. 22 Week 2 24 Week 3 As for music, the best of Germany is here for you. Robin Schulz, Milky Chance and Kery Fay show their best music videos and prove why their 26 Week 4 country and Europe has surrendered to their mesmerizing tunes. EUROCHANNEL GUIDE PUBLISHED BY Eurochannel, Inc. EDITOR IN CHIEF Sofía Martinez EXECUTIVE EDITOR Javier Pardo ARTWORK Cristina Tejada EDITORS Anna Oboza, Cristina Silva, Zheljko Kojchic & Samia Yakhou. EUROCHANNEL, INC. 235 Lincoln Road # 201 | Miami Beach, FL 33139 Gustavo Vainstein +1-(305)-531-1315 | www.eurochannel.com Eurochannel’s CEO ©2015 | All pictures rights are reserved. www.AIFFest.org German Films Cycle Whispers Behind the Wall Germany DIRECTOR Grzegorz Muskala CAST Vincent Redetzki, Katharina Heyer, Florian Panzner GENRE Thriller, drama ORIGINAL TITLE Die Frau hinter der Wand YEAR 2013 The true horror behind a first love Premiere: Friday October 2nd Shy law student Martin (Vincent Redetzki) falls for his mysterious landlady, Simone (Katharina Heyer), who lives next door behind a thin wall. While trying to find out if she is responsible for the disappearance of the previous tenant, Martin experiences the horror of his first love. The life of a European student is not easy, especially graduation project, is a frightening, color-drenched, and when it comes to looking for a new flat in a new city. often blackly funny take on the horrors of first love, and Eurochannel welcomes you meet a young German law the worst fears of parents about what their children student and move in with him into his new, chilling might be involved in after leaving home. apartment … are you ready to experience the horrors that await? There are Whispers Behind the Wall. Through an oppressive and claustrophobic tone, Whispers Behind the Wall evokes the best of Polanski’s Whispers Behind the Wall is the debut film of Polish- films combined with the distinctive style of Lynch. The born German filmmaker Grzegorz Muskala. In this dark cinematography, the driving performance of the psychological drama, a student travels to Berlin to protagonists, and the thrilling plot immerse viewers study law, only to find he’s much more drawn to other into a dark world of sexual decadence, mystery and fear, quests that prove to be life-threatening. When Martin with no escape until the film’s end. finds a small and deteriorated apartment, he decides to take no notice of the previous tenant’s inexplicable Lust, desire, obscure intentions and fear will drag you disappearance, while simultaneously falling for his into a thrilling world that no viewer should miss, from femme fatale of a landlady. This award-winning one of the most promising directors of the German production (Best Original Score at Lünen 2013 and Best scene! Director at Tamilnadu 2015), conceived as the director’s German Films Cycle DIRECTOR Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand CAST Joel Basman, Anna Unterberger, Nikki Rappel, Bastian Wurbs GENRE Comedy ORIGINAL TITLE Vielen Dank für nichts YEAR 2007 Keep Rollin’Germany Gripsholm Premiere: Friday October 16th Never rob a store on a wheelchair! Valentin (Joel Basman), Titus (Bastian Wurbs) and Lukas (Nikki Rappel) want to rob a petrol station to prove to themselves – and the world – that they are not pitiful “spastics.” But a robbery is not an easy venture, especially not when you sit in a wheelchair and even just a simple trip on a suburban train means an endless array of difficulties. This movie is about having fun in a wheelchair! Yes, some mischief, and even a robbery are what he will be up to people might think that a movie with a main cast of now! The cast of Keep Rollin’ is from another world! handicapped and amateur actors might be unexciting, but While the directors could have hired actors to play the Eurochannel will prove them wrong with the premiere of part of the handicapped supporting roles, they instead a staggering piece of German filmmaking. Come discover cast actually disabled amateur actors. The remarkable why disabled people Keep Rollin’! performances of Bastian Wurbs and Nikki Rappel leave viewers surprised by their incredible talent and sense A crazy project with a crazy plot was what directors of humor. Also enriching the cast and in the main roles Oliver Paulus and Stefan Hillebrand had in mind when are Joel Basman and Anna Unterberger, two figures of they came up with the idea of Keep Rollin’. In the movie, German cinema. Valentin is a teenager left disabled after an accident while snowboarding in Switzerland. To be able to take A summer adventure, an uplifting project, a risky a holiday, and to try to change his depressive and endeavor, Keep Rollin’ promises to both entertain with aggressive personality, his mother leaves him at a theater comedy and make viewers reflect on the real conditions, workshop for people with special needs, and there is problems and possibilities that society denies or allows where his life starts to make sense … Love, friends, lust, to handicapped people. 8 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | OCTOBER 2015 | German Films Cycle GripsholmGermany DIRECTOR Xavier Koller CAST Ulrich Noethen, Heike Makatsch, Jasmin Tabatabai, Marcus Thomas GENRE Drama ORIGINAL TITLE Gripsholm YEAR 2001 Premiere: Friday October 9th Kurt (Ulrich Noethen) and Lydia (Heike Premiere: Friday October 16th Makatsch) are planning a relaxed vacation in Sweden. What Lydia does not know is that Never rob a store on a wheelchair! for Kurt, a well-known publicist, the journey is actually a flight from encroaching fascism and a direct threat from the Nazis. Enjoy the summer of 1932 in pre-Nazi Europe The life of a European student is not easy, especially 2015), conceived as the director’s graduation project, is when it comes to looking for a new flat in a new city. a frightening, color-drenched, and often blackly funny Eurochannel welcomes you meet a young German law take on the horrors of first love, and the worst fears of student and move in with him into his new, chilling parents about what their children might be involved in apartment … are you ready to experience the horrors after leaving home. that await? There are Whispers Behind the Wall. Through an oppressive and claustrophobic tone, Whispers Behind the Wall is the debut film of Polish-born Whispers Behind the Wall evokes the best of Polanski’s German filmmaker Grzegorz Muskala. In this psychological films combined with the distinctive style of Lynch. The drama, a student travels to Berlin to study law, only to dark cinematography, the driving performance of the find he’s much more drawn to other quests that prove protagonists, and the thrilling plot immerse viewers into to be life-threatening. When Martin finds a small and a dark world of sexual decadence, mystery and fear, with deteriorated apartment, he decides to take no notice no escape until the film’s end. of the previous tenant’s inexplicable disappearance, while simultaneously falling for his femme fatale of a Lust, desire, obscure intentions and fear will drag you into landlady. This award-winning production (Best Original a thrilling world that no viewer should miss, from one of Score at Lünen 2013 and Best Director at Tamilnadu the most promising directors of the German scene! EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | OCTOBER 2015 | 9 German Films Cycle Life’s No Piece of Cake Germany The blossoming of a countryside flower DIRECTOR André Erkau CAST Wotan Wilke Möhring, Helen Woigk, Christine Schorn GENRE Drama ORIGINAL TITLE Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge Premiere: Friday October 23rd YEAR 2007 When teacher Babette dies in an absurd accident, husband Markus (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and 15-year-old daughter Kim (Helen Woigk) are left to pick up the pieces.