The Summer Issue

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LIFE IN THE TIME OF NO BELONGING DEFENDER OF THE FAITH A portrait of director Angela Schanelec ...... 4 Christoph Röhl ...... 34

AT HOME IN TWO WORLDS DIE GEHEIMNISSE DES SCHÖNEN LEO A portrait of director Robert Schwentke ...... 6 THE SECRETS OF HANDSOME LEO Benedikt Schwarzer ...... 34

HANDS ON PRODUCERS STILLER KAMERAD A portrait of Schiwago Film ...... 8 SILENT COMRADE Leonhard Hollmann ...... 35

IN SEARCH OF NEW CHALLENGES SUNSET OVER MULHOLLAND DRIVE A portrait of actor Bjarne Mädel ...... 10 Uli Gaulke ...... 35

NEWS & NOTES ...... 13 NEW SHORTS

NEW FEATURES 32-RBIT Victor Orozco Ramirez ...... 36

ALLES IST GUT DARÍO Manuel Kinzer, Jorge A. Trujillo Gil ...... 36 ALL GOOD Eva Trobisch ...... 18 LANDSCHAFTEN IN ZEITEN DES VERRATS BREAKDOWN IN TOKYO LANDSCAPES IN TIMES OF TREASON Reinaldo P. Almeida ...... 37 Zoltan Paul ...... 19

DAS ENDE DER WAHRHEIT UPCOMING FILMS BLAME GAME Philipp Leinemann ...... 20 24H EUROPE – WE ARE THE FUTURE ENDE NEU various directors ...... 38 THE NEW END Leonel Dietsche ...... 21 BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ Burhan Qurbani ...... 38 ES IST AUS, HELMUT! THAT’S IT, HELMUT Petra Lüschow ...... 22 DIALOGUE EARTH Hank Levine ...... 38

GRÜNER WIRD’S NICHT GARAGE PEOPLE Natalija Yefimkina ...... 39 AS GREEN AS IT GETS Florian Gallenberger ...... 23 DIE GEBURT DES LEOPARDEN Luigi Falorni ...... 39 HERRLICHE ZEITEN OUTMASTERED Oskar Roehler ...... 24 DER GOLDENE HANDSCHUH Fatih Akin ...... 39

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER HACKERVILLE Damian John Harper ...... 25 Igor Cobileanski, Anca Miruna Lazarescu ...... 40

MACKIE MESSER – BRECHTS DREIGROSCHENFILM ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER … MACK THE KNIFE – BRECHT’S THREEPENNY FILM Angela Schanelec ...... 40 Joachim A. Lang ...... 26 IM NIEMANDSLAND Florian Aigner ...... 40 SO VIEL ZEIT COMEBACK Philipp Kadelbach ...... 27 DER KUSS DES HONIGDACHSES Bastian Gascho ...... 41 SO WAS VON DA RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Jakob Lass ...... 28 PELIKANBLUT Katrin Gebbe ...... 41

TABALUGA RELATIVITY Mariko Minoguchi ...... 41 Sven Unterwaldt ...... 29 SWEETHEARTS Karoline Herfurth ...... 42 WAS UNS NICHT UMBRINGT WHAT DOESN’T KILL US Sandra Nettelbeck ...... 30 TRAUMFABRIK Martin Schreier ...... 42

WERK OHNE AUTOR ZU WEIT WEG Sarah Winkenstette ...... 42 NEVER LOOK AWAY Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ...... 31

WINTERMÄRCHEN Shareholders & Supporters ...... 45 GERMANY. A WINTER’S TALE Jan Bonny ...... 32 Film Exporters ...... 46 ZWEI HERREN IM ANZUG TWO MEN IN SUITS Josef Bierbichler ...... 33 Imprint ...... 47

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LIFE IN THE TIME OF NO BELONGING A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR ANGELA SCHANELEC

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n Angela Schanelec’s film PASSING open up the chance to discover something granted to the performers here, we become SUMMER a young photographer says unusual in the ordinary. aware that Schanelec’s origins lay in theater that it is possible to see things in photos acting. Again and again, astonishing mo- that are supposed to be hidden. Movies Schanelec, who has been working for a long ments full of intimacy are created, which Iby the filmmaker, born in 1962, consist of time together with cameraman Reinhold gently protect the secrets of the characters many such photographs – 24 per second – but Vorschneider, sends feelers into the very and their actors, nonetheless. what makes her work extraordinary is the places where nothing is apparently happen - intensity with which such photographs gaze ing. Then she shows the many small wounds With MARSEILLE and ORLY, Schanelec also back at us. that have collected there. In THE DREAMED made two key films of her œuvre in France. PATH there are many such wounds and des- “For a very long time, I idealized France, A cinematic language oscillating between pairing attempts to hide them. Only a young which caused me to feel equally attracted and longing and alienation is already established girl in a swimming pool thinks about how the excluded. The main characters in the films I in her graduation film from the German Film wounds might be healed. She uses saliva, made in France share with me that sense of and Television Academy Berlin, I STAYED IN licking the wounded knee of a paralyzed being an outsider there.” The business of be- BERLIN DURING THE SUMMER. Examining boy. This is a rare moment of physical contact longing in German cinema is very similar as the relationship problems of two young in Schanelec’s work. Usually, she depicts far as Schanelec is concerned. On the one couples, the film manifests the very emotions hesitation when it comes to touching, and hand, together with Christian Petzold and which generally tend to operate in con - shows those substitute actions that betray Thomas Arslan, she is regarded as a founding cealment. Schanelec’s films offer no ap- more about the characters than any con- member of the so-called Berlin School. They proach to a solution, they pose questions. scious deed. This type of surrogate can be studied together in Berlin with teachers like Talking about what it means to understand a found, for example, in the recurrent dance Harun Farocki. On the other hand, it is very film, she says: “I think it means triggering a scenes in her films. “When a character is difficult to compare her films with those of question, and then the answer, if there is one, dancing, the body is perceived in a special her colleagues. She is more clearly radical raises another question; which means, I sup- way; it reveals something that has been con- and individual in her avoidance of narrative pose, committing yourself to a process that cealed until that point, an expression that I, as dictates. Films like MARSEILLE or PASSING leads beyond the film and, in contrast to it, the director, initiate but can only influence SUMMER have occasionally been cited as never really comes to an end.” partially later on, which is something that I masterpieces of recent German film, and yet want to abandon myself to.” Schanelec’s works continue to divide the In her eight feature films to date, Schanelec critics even now. This is also due to her in- observes daily patterns and the pressure of This openness to abandoning oneself is also defatigable consistency in questioning what time passing in episodic movements. Often, reflected in the use of on-camera sound we hear, see and think about things. we get to know a group of people and spend that defines Schanelec’s cinema. Individual time with them. In AFTERNOON, for example, scenes not only exist in relation to a bigger Roughly speaking, all her work is about an which is loosely based on Chekov’s The story but also assume an independent pre- existentialist, distanced sense of loss in neo- Seagull, we spend time with a family around sence. To a large extent, this is about leaving liberal, prosperous Central Europe after their lakeside house. ORLY deals with various fictive situations untouched. There is testi- 1989: an ordered lack of orientation in a time people at the Parisian airport in the title. mony to what remains unspoken. In this way with no belonging. One aspect here with an The American filmmaker Thom Andersen a necessary interest arises in the frag - enduring echo is the tangible longing to break once referred to this type of dramaturgy mentary, which is developed with great away from this type of existence. as “hanging-out films”. But things are not consistency in THE DREAMED PATH. What quite as relaxed in Schanelec’s work as one happens outside the picture is taken just as Patrick Holzapfel might suppose from that term. Rather, her seriously as the things we see. Existential characters go through personal uncertainties themes are handled within the formal pre- and doubts. The time and attention granted in cision work: what it means to found a family, her films to these states of in-betweenness for example, or to fall in love. In the attention

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DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2018 © Jennifer Howard © Jennifer

AT HOME IN TWO WORLDS A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR ROBERT SCHWENTKE

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any films that handle the “ issue of violence offer a loophole. I don’t want to leave the audience any loophole.”M As a person, Robert Schwentke has a striking sense of humor, but the film director in him takes this absolutely FILMGALERIE 4451, ALFAMA FILMS AND O PUS FILM PRESENT seriously. “I don’t think it’s funny when MAX MILAN FREDERICK ALEXANDER people get their heads shot off," Schwentke HUBACHER PESCHEL LAU FEHLING THE CCAPTAIN says, referring to his latest film, THE A FILM BY ROBERT SCHWENTKE CAPTAIN.

What triggered this attitude for him was

probably Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. “Kubrick’s anger was not understood by audiences. At that point, I realized that as a director you have to deal with violence very cautiously.” The other way around, he has no faith at all in the moralist position, either. “The cinema is not a place to preach” or for puritanism. “It would be dishonest not to show violence at all.”

In Germany people are not really aware of the fact that Robert Schwenkte is one of the most important German filmmakers already, since he has achieved what many can only dream of: he makes major commercial studio films in Hollywood with stars like Bruce Willis, Kate Winslet or Jodie Foster, and yet he is also able to realize a personal project like THE CAPTAIN now and then.

In this sensational film Schwentke took a look at National Socialism in an unprecedented way, at least in German cinemas: he made a film that shows National Socialism as the bloody travesty, the imposture, and the out- pouring of suppressed bestial drives that it was – at last, a film from Germany that depicts German fascism from its most repugnant aspect, without Nazis who some- how have ‘good reasons’ for their actions.

Schwentke’s convincing debut as a director Field. After five years he returned to Ger- “I admire people like Soderbergh. They make was with TATTOO in 2002: a dark, powerfully many. Initial projects failed as a result of the a studio film, and then they make something visual serial killer thriller in the tradition bureaucracy of the film business. Then he be- much smaller.” He worked on the material for of David Fincher’s black romanticism. came seriously ill with cancer. Schwentke’s THE CAPTAIN for almost 20 years. “I needed Schwentke did not ask himself what would be second feature film, THE FAMILY JEWELS that time in order to gradually draw closer to permitted in a German film, he simply made (2003), was a cinematic version of this phase the subject.” This director talks repeatedly it: a film without true villains, but definitely in his life – a testicular cancer comedy and a about journeys of initiation: a young, blank without a true hero, either – cinema of irrita- life-affirming film about death, which brought page encounters an extremely cold, disinte- tion. All in all, TATTOO was unquestionably an the director several offers from Hollywood. grating world. On the journey he discovers event – which, however, in the period between Since then, he has also had a home in Los An- himself and becomes a different person. the comedy boom, “Berlin-Film”, and the geles and “commutes” between the two con- early “Berlin School”, disturbed the German tinents. We are likely to find all this again in Schwent- film scene rather than leaving it suitably ke’s new projects: he is currently writing an fascinated. The first outcome of the move to America was adaptation of the post-apocalyptic novel Ship FLIGHTPLAN (2005), a “post-9/11” paranoia Breaker, gathering material about the polio Schwentke had always done his own thing. In thriller starring Jodie Foster about a group in crisis in the 50s, and – together with his pro- 1989, when the youth of West Germany were a state of claustrophobic fear, set in an air- ducer Frieder Schlaich – he is planning a film travelling to Berlin to get intoxicated over the plane transformed into a panic room. Then, in about the stoic philosopher Seneca and his fall of the Wall, Stuttgart-born Schwentke 2009, there was THE TIME-TRAVELLER’S pupil, Emperor Nero. abandoned his studies of Philosophy and WIFE – a highly poetic, quiet, science-fiction moved in the opposite direction: he applied to love story. This work also confirms Schwent- Rüdiger Suchsland the acclaimed Los Angeles Film School with ke’s love of romanticism. In his next films, ho- a black and white, 16 mm experimental film, wever, he has been able to live out various where he was accepted and studied together other sides of his personality as well as his with the likes of Darren Aronofsky and Todd professionalism.

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PRODUCERS’ PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2018 Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny, Martin Lehwald (© Stephanie Kulbach) Martin Lehwald Kantis, Michal Pokorny, Marcos

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n little more than 18 months, the one partner and the projects can be realized which was quite an unusual situation for a TV production house Schiwago Film will be much quicker.” movie.” And this year has seen Ostermann celebrating its 20th anniversary after travelling up to the East Friesland region of having been established by Martin The last couple of years has seen the com- Germany on the border with Holland to direct ILehwald and Michal Pokorny in Berlin’s pany being commissioned by ZDF to produce the latest episode in the OSTFRIESLAND - Kreuzberg district in 2000. Marcos Kantis the OSTFRIESLANDKRIMIS series, based on KRIMIS series. then joined in 2007 as the company’s third the books by the best-selling author Klaus- producer. “We started developing projects Peter Wolf, as well as the PRAGER-KRIMI “It’s interesting for the broadcasters to work for television from an early stage in the com- detective series set in the Czech capital for with us because they can tap into the feature pany’s history,” Lehwald recalls. “We have ARD Degeto. “It’s been interesting to see how filmmaking talents like Bettina Blümner who now reached a point where we can show that we can achieve a kind of cross-fertilization had previously made the documentary we are able to handle programs for the between television and cinema,” Kantis says. PRINZESSINENBAD, and now directed one of prime-time as well as do our little quirky the episodes of ZDF’s RIVER OF LIFE series,” productions for cinema.” “The director Rick Ostermann is a case in Lehwald suggests. The series – with five point: I saw his feature film WOLFSKINDER stories set on the banks of the Loire, Ganges, “Television is a much bigger market,” Marcos and was then keen to work with him on a new Kwai, Danube, Amazon and Okavango – also Kantis adds. “Feature films take longer in the project. We ended up making FREMDER had episodes directed by Michael Karen, development and financing stages and you FEIND together with WDR as a TV film for a Torsten C. Fischer, Carlo Rola and Franziska need more partners, whereas our experience Wednesday evening slot, and the film then Meyer Price. with television is that you usually only have had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival

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series COUNTRY GIRLS last year. Meanwhile, shooting rolled at the beginning of July on the DFFB graduate Florian Dietrich’s feature debut, the edgy comedy HOMIES, which is being co-produced by ZDF Das kleine Fern- sehspiel and ARTE, with Camino Filmverleih as distributor.

“We are always open for projects that are fun to work on,” Kantis observes. “And for projects where we can share a director’s personal vision since we are very ’hands-on’ producers.”

And, as for the company’s name, Schiwago Film? Well, the name does indeed conjure up visions of wide Russian steppes, Tolstoy’s classic novel and David Lean’s Oscar®- winning film. Far from it, according to Lehwald: “I don’t particularly like the DOCTOR ZHIVAGO film, but I was looking for a name which one would immediately associate with cinema. What’s more, I was in love with a girl called Lara at the time, so that’s another reason why we went for this “It was a crazy idea really because we don’t nudist and reformer August Engelhard who name which is also understood inter - have any continuous roles appearing in each travelled to a South Pacific island in 1902 nationally.” episode,” Lehwald explains. “We start from to save himself from moral and spiritual scratch on every film with the characters pollution, when he met the Slovenian writer- Martin Blaney and story lines, and we don’t have any key director Blaz Kutin who started working with locations that we can return to. And of course, him on the script’s development. we had to first become acquainted with the film cultures in each of the countries where Kutin subsequently offered Gerster another we were shooting, they are all so different,” script that he had written some 10 years he says. “In India, for example, we can have previously – and, once Corinna Harfouch and 120 people on the set and that’s how things Tom Schilling were onboard, it wasn’t long are, you won’t be able to reduce that number.” before the financing came into place for what has become Gerster’s second feature LARA, “One of the consistent features of Schiwago to be released by Studiocanal in early 2019. Film has been our desire to build long-term relationships with filmmakers and create our The collaboration with Kutin went so well for own ’film family’,” Kantis continues. This both sides that Schiwago Film is now in began with actor-writer-director Jan Henrik development on his feature directorial debut Stahlberg on the German Film Award-winner ESTONIA which recently was awarded funding MUXMÄUSCHENSTILL in 2004 and con tinued by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg at its with SHORTCUT TO HOLLYWOOD. Lehwald is June session. now preparing MUXMÄUSCHENSTILL 2 with Stahlberg to go into production during 2019. Moreover, Kantis will be looking to continue the collaboration with Austrian filmmaker “80% of the story is set in France based on the Wolfgang Fischer after his drama STYX which premise that Muck didn’t actually die, but only had its world premiere at this year’s Berli- slipped into a coma after the accident at the nale. “Wolfgang started developing the end of the first part and he has now been a screenplay around seven years ago and when patient in a specialist clinic in Geneva for the we were putting the financing together, some past 15 years,” Lehwald explains. “When he doubted whether the film would still be of any comes out of the coma, Muck tries his luck in relevance when it was completed,” Kantis re- Germany but gets his butt kicked, and then calls. “In fact, we shot the film two years ago, turns to the motherland of all revolutions, but, unfortunately, nothing much has changed France, to bring about a utopian salvation for since then. The film is still highly topical: we the world before returning in glory to his had the premiere of the film in Malta at the native Germany.” Valletta Film Festival on the very weekend in June when the Maltese authorities were re- Similarly, there has been a long-standing fusing landing rights to the ship with the re- relationship between the Schiwago Film team fugees.” and director Jan Ole Gerster since producing his multi-award-winning 2012 film OH BOY. Other filmmakers with projects in Schiwago Gerster was attending the Torino Film Lab Film’s development slate include Oliver Rihs, with his project IMPERIUM, based on the Cüneyt Kaya, Aelrun Goette and first-time Christian Kracht bestseller about the young filmmaker Laura Laabs who directed the web

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ometimes, just one corresponding distance to the role is needed to dialogues,” Mädel says – al- open up an entirely though after his school gradua- new chapter in an tion he did spend two years living actor’sS career. Bjarne Mädel and working in California. And can tell us a thing or two about he adds with a twinkle in his eye: that. “Things really happened “However, at the moment things as a result of 24 WEEKS; sud- are going too well here in Ger- denly I was getting a different many for me to go to the USA kind of attention,” the actor and spend my first five years says in regard to his role in there playing Nazis.” Anne Zohra Berrached’s drama, in which a couple have And anyway, it is possible to to cope with the news that make one’s mark with German their unborn child will suffer films abroad, as he has enjoyed from Down’s syndrome. “Sud- experiencing recently. 24 denly, they were saying: oh, WEEKS, for example, not only Mädel can act seriously as ran in the competition of the well. Of course, I was aware of Berlinale – and thus before the it myself be fore, but I was de- eyes of jury president Meryl lighted by this fresh percep- Streep – but also, among others, tion.” at the Chicago Film Festival, where Geraldine Chaplin was Previously, not only the public heading the jury. “After the but also directors and TV screening she had tears in her editors had placed the Ham- eyes,” Mädel remembers with burg-born actor primarily in some pride in his voice, which is the field of comedy. And that echoed when he talks about was not entirely unjustified – other audience reactions to the after all, Mädel had been a TV emotionally disturbing film. “It’s success for more than a de- not important, of course, but cade with humorous series it’s good for your own vanity.” such as STROMBERG, MORD MIT AUSSICHT or DER TAT- DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN ORTREINIGER, for which he celebrated its premiere in not only received the Grimme Tallinn in 2017, where it received Prize twice but also the German Comedy be participating in work that was about the Best Film Award at the Black Prize on a number of occasions. But he has something important. Films that have some- Nights Film Festival. This summer Sandra never been a comic despite this; he can look thing to say. To do this, I decided in favor of Nettelbeck’s tragicomedy WHAT DOESN’T back on a classic German acting career, low-budget productions or graduation films, KILL US, in which he plays in episodes of the studying at the Film University Babelsberg which are not financially lucrative, rather portmanteau film, will be experiencing its KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam and spending than another role that would make me a world premiere on the Piazza Grande. many years as a member of the ensemble at lot of money privately, but was actually both the Volkstheater Rostock and the only doing the same again as Ernie in For the moment, therefore, Mädel will be Schauspielhaus Hamburg. STROMBERG. After all, I didn’t become an staying true to home. He is enjoying his work actor to keep on repeating myself.” for German cinema, not least because here, It was rather by chance that Mädel arrived at as he maintains, “the time pressure is acting. “I was not one of those kids that sits In terms of new challenges and serious ma- usually not as immense as it can be for tele- enchanted during the Christmas fairy-tale terial, Mädel says he developed a taste for vision.” and then always dreams of the stage,” he them after 24 WEEKS as well as Isabel tells me over lunch not far from his apart- Prahl’s DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN. The At the start of November, 25 KM/H will be ment in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In fact, he only only exception to his resolution not to repeat launched in German cinemas, his biggest discovered his career when someone asked himself was made for Schotty, the prota- and most mainstream role for the big screen him, during his course in Theater Studies in gonist he also helped to develop for the to date. It attracted him not least because Erlangen, whether he would like to get in- series DER TATORTREINIGER, the seventh of his film partner Lars Eidinger, with whom volved in a children’s theater play. “But from season of which he finished making recently. he was determined to collaborate at some the very first rehearsal I knew that I found Some time ago a Hollywood TV producer had point. And in the coming year he may be this work more fascinating than anything been interested in the remake rights to the – and again rather unplanned and by else.” series; they met in Los Angeles, and under chance, as he emphasizes – making his first the right circumstances Mädel could cer- appearance as a director. At the time of our Modest as he is, the 50-year-old also attri- tainly have imagined himself playing the conversation the project, a TV production, butes the role in 24 WEEKS and the new path main role in the US version (as far as he is was not yet finally home and dry. But when he has taken in film since then mainly to a aware, the project has been put on ice for saying good-bye I cannot escape the feeling “brave casting decision” and a fortunate now). that the next chapter in Bjarne Mädel’s coincidence. But there was also a little career will be starting very soon indeed. career planning involved on his part. “I did “In any case, I would really love to act in an reject some offers around that time,” Mädel English-language film. I would like to know Patrick Heidmann recalls. “The desire was growing in me to do what effect it would have on me, acting in more than just entertain people. I wanted to a different language and with a certain

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GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 2018 IN NUREMBERG

From 4-7 July the German Films Previews The event proved to be the perfect setting for variety of films we were able to present this took place for the second time in the city of extensive and effective networking. The art- year. We expect the comedy, drama, thriller Nuremberg. Over the course of three days house comedy THE BRA as well as the and genre films as well as VR projects to 75 distributors and buyers from more than dramas GYPSY QUEEN, THIS CRAZY HEART, travel to international audiences – in the 30 countries had the opportunity to screen BLAME GAME and A DYSFUNCTIONAL cinemas as well as at international film 15 new German films in the theater and ex- CAT generated a lot of interest. festivals.” perience seven productions as part of the VR sidebar. Additionally, 47 titles were Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of provided through an extensive screener German Films: “The buyers at the German library. Films Previews 2018 were impressed by the

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HIGH-END SERIES SHARED ECONOMY HAS A FUTURE FILM:RESTORED – THE 3RD FILM MADE IN NRW FOR EUROPEAN ANIMATION HERITAGE FESTIVAL

High-end series are the format of the times Within the framework of the Annecy Inter - From 25-28 October and in cooperation with and as such a central genre of the funding national Animation Film Festival 2018 – the Deutscher Kinematheksverbund and scheme of the Film- and Medienstiftung Europe’s largest animation film festival – the the Fédération Internationale des Archives NRW. Animation Germany initiative presented du Film (FIAF), Film:ReStored will screen for the first time a broad portfolio from digitally restored films, in part as premieres, Currently, five such series are in special Germany’s animation and VFX production during the 3rd Film Heritage Festival. Lec- focus: PERFUME, the six-part crime series branches. tures and workshops dedicate themselves to by Philipp Kadelbach and Eva Kranenburg, questions about the digitalization of film her - was shot almost entirely in North Rhine- Full-length films as well as TV series and itage. Westphalia and will be broadcast this VFX-production services for live-action for- autumn on ZDFneo. In the early summer, mats form the basis of the trailer, which The third edition of Film:ReStored will the international thriller series WEST OF features productions from over 30 companies address the interplay of film and television LIBERTY (under the direction of Barbara and intends to draw greater attention to archives within the traditions of dealing with Eder, based on Sara Heldt’s and Donna German production companies in an in - film heritage. Without the contributions of Sharpe’s screenplay) was shot in Bonn, creasingly global distribution network. The tele vision, German film history since the Essen and Cologne. Filming was underway trailer was premiered at a networking break- 1960s would look considerably different. until the end of July on the comedy series fast, where 40 German and French producers Much of what became possible in New ANDERE ELTERN (direction & screenplay by met to discuss how cooperation and co-pro- German Cinema is also owed to the engage- Lutz Heineking Jr., in collaboration with duction between these two strong European ment of individual TV editors, who have Sabine Steyer-Violet and Sebastian Züger), countries can be activated. con tinuously supported such works over de - which is planned to be broadcast on TNT cades and who have had an influence on both in 2019. The third season of multi-award Co-productions are an important way to careers and developments in the genre. winning BABYLON BERLIN by Tom Tykwer, gather the strengths of different countries as Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries a means of collective growth. And the It seems all the more necessary to consider is also in development. Lars Kraume is German animation and VFX branch would television and film history together and to planning6 the NRW shoot of his historical very much like to be a part of this. Animation develop cooperative strategies to bring series EINE FRAU AM BAUHAUS (screenplay Germany is supported by the German dormant treasures back to life on screen. in collaboration with Judith Angerbauer) in Federal Film Board (FFA) and German Films Some of these will be shown again for the the fall. as well as various regional film funding first time as part of the Film:ReStored_03 institutions (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, program. On 26 October 2018 the awards And last but not least: the Film- und Medien- MFG Baden-Württemberg, Mitteldeutsche ceremony of the Kinopreis des Kinematheks- stiftung NRW is co-initiator of and, since its Medienförderung, Film- und Medienstiftung verbundes (a nationwide prize of the associa- beginning in 2015, the main partner of the NRW, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig- tion of German cinematheques) will take Drama Series Days program of the European Holstein and Nordmedia). place. Further information is available at Film Market during the Berlinale. www.film-restored.de.

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GERMAN-FRENCH COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION CONTINUES TO GROW: MEETINGS IN CANNES FFA & CNC SIGN PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT In an effort to strengthen the close co - operation between German and New Zealand The cooperation between the German producers, the German Federal Film Board Federal Film Board (FFA) and its French (FFA), together with the New Zealand Film counterpart, the Centre national du cinema Commission (NZFC), invited participants to et de l’image animée (CNC) will become the 2nd German-New Zealand Co-Production more intensive in the future: an agree- Meeting during the 71st Festival de Cannes. ment was signed during the 71st Festival The aim of the event, which took place at the de Cannes by the director of the CNC, German Pavilion, was to carry on with the Christophe Tardieu, and the chairman of the discussions already initiated during last FFA, Peter Dinges. year’s meeting about the potential, financing and possibilities within the film industries of The goal of this new cooperation is to further both countries and to expand the network develop the growing bilateral relations be - between German and New Zealand film - tween the two funding institutions which makers. And an announcement of an up- have already been in place for decades, in- coming project was also made: German cluding regular production meetings and a producer Peter Rommel (Rommel Film) and continuing exchange of common interests, his colleague from New Zealand Alexander positions and measures in German-French Behse (Monsoon Pictures International) will and European film policies. Additional be producing the film WIFE. bilateral initiatives are to be created and strengthened, in particular the organization Another co-production meeting was organiz- and support of German-French cinema ed in Cannes by the FFA and the Mexican film events. Both institutions intend to develop a institute IMCINE for German and Mexican German-French label of recognition which producers. But this was not the first en- will be bestowed upon festivals which offer counter between filmmakers from Germany support for German-French cooperation. The and Mexico: in 2017, Mexico was the Country initiative also plans to offer an employee in Focus at the European Film Market during exchange as well as the communication of the Berlinale and a co-production meeting current cinema information, statistics and took place within the framework of the Gua- studies. dalajara International Film Festival shortly thereafter, followed by yet another meeting The agreement is another step in the bi - in Cannes at last year’s festival. lateral cooperations which were already established in 2011: the German-French Mini-Traité, the German-French Academy, the German-French Film Meeting, as well as the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris.

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38 new German productions are presented on the following 25 pages. Please visit our website www.german-films.de for more information on German features, documentaries and shorts. © 2018 BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL/ © 2018 BUENA VISTA

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f you don’t see any problems, you EVA TROBISCH was born in 1983. She studied GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 “ don’t have any” is Janne’s attitude re- Film at the University of Television & Film DIRECTOR Eva Trobisch SCREENPLAY Eva garding the fact that her new boss’ Munich and at the New York University’s Tisch Trobisch CINEMATOGRAPHY Julian Krubasik brother-in-law has slept with her School of Arts as well as Screenwriting at the CAST Aenne Schwarz, Andreas Döhler, Hans againstI her will. She keeps the incident under London Film School. Her films as a director Löw, Tilo Nest, Lisa Hagmeister, Lina Wendel wraps and lets everything take its normal include: MONDAYS (short, 2010), THE WAY PRODUCERS Trini Götze, David Armati course. Her silence has consequences, YOU KISS (short, 2013), LUCK OR SOME- Lechner CO-PRODUCER Wasiliki Bleser though, and not just for her relationship with THING (short, 2014), and her graduation film PRODUCTION COMPANY TRIMAFILM, in co- Piet. ALL GOOD (2018). production with Starhaus Filmproduktion RUNTIME 90 min LANGUAGE German FESTI- VALS Filmfest München 2018, Locarno 2018 (Concorso Cineasti del presente) AWARDS German Cinema New Talent Award (Best Di- rector, Best Actress) & Fipresci Award Munich 2018

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n the throes of an existential crisis, an ZOLTAN PAUL was born in Budapest. After GENRE Comedy, Drama, Music, Road Movie aging director decides to travel to Japan studying Acting in Austria, he had roles in YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 DIRECTOR to film the tour of his son’s rock-band, films by Michael Haneke and Reinhard Zoltan Paul SCREENPLAY Zoltan Paul CINE- PEROPERO. His partner Emma acts as Schwabenitzky, and then moved to Germany, MATOGRAPHY Fabian Spuck, Jan Kerhart Iproducer as they follow the band’s per - where he was a member of several theater CAST Zoltan Paul, Tomoko Inoue, Julian Adam formances in a string of live clubs across ensembles and took on roles in numerous Pajzs PRODUCER Clementina Hegewisch CO- Japan. When the director falls hard for the tele vision productions. He began directing in PRODUCER Zoltan Paul PRODUCTION COM- young Japanese tour manager, both the film 1990, including his own play Salieri’s Mozart PANY Next Film, in co-production with shoot and his life threaten to fall apart. (1991) and the rock opera Rausch (loosely Achtfeld RUNTIME 84 min LANGUAGE based on Goldoni’s The Liar), and has written German, English FESTIVALS Hof 2017, the screenplays of several episodes of the Achtung Berlin 2018 popular TV crime series SOKO 5113. His films as a director include: GONE (2003), LIVE WIRE SALES (2009), WOMAN’S LAKE (2012), AMOK – UCM.ONE HANSI GEHT’S GUT (2015) and BREAKDOWN [email protected] IN TOKYO (2017). www.ucm.one

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artin Behrens is a Middle PHILIPP LEINEMANN was born in 1979 GENRE Thriller YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 East expert for the German and studied at the University of Television & DIRECTOR Philipp Leinemann SCREEN- intelligence agency BND. He Film Munich. His feature debut THE KINGS PLAY Philipp Leinemann CINEMATOGRAPHY obtains information leading to a SURRENDER was awarded numerous prizes, Christian Stangassinger CAST Ronald MU.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist in including the Austin Film Festival’s Jury Zehrfeld, Alexander Fehling, Claudia Zahiristan. A few days later, there’s a terrorist Award for Best Narrative Feature. He has Michelsen, Axel Prahl, Antje Traue, Katharina attack on a restaurant – the video claiming directed various films and series for tele - Lorenz, Walter Kreye, August Zirner, Thomas responsibility calls it payback for the drone vision, including TEMPEL and POLIZEIRUF Loibl, Thomas Thieme PRODUCERS Philipp strike. Freelance journalist Aurice, with ROSTOCK – IM SCHATTEN. BLAME GAME is Worm, Tobias Walker PRODUCTION COM- whom Martin was having an affair, is among his second feature film. PANY Walker+Worm Film RUNTIME 102 min the victims – she was investigating corruption LANGUAGE German at the heart of the BND. Martin soon has to realize that in a world where big corporations SALES profit from arms deals as well as from home- Global Screen land security contracts, good and evil are [email protected] some times hard to tell apart. www.globalscreen.de

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n a post-apocalyptic world, only the men LEONEL DIETSCHE was born in 1985. After GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 seem to have survived, and the strongest studying Philosophy and Film Studies at the DIRECTOR Leonel Dietsche SCREENPLAY among them prevail. Among them is a Freie Universität in Berlin, he began studying Leonel Dietsche CINEMATOGRAPHY Roland doctor who resides in an abandoned Documentary Directing at the Filmakademie Stuprich CAST Sylvester Groth, Georg Fried- Isanitarium. When a self-declared healer and Baden-Württemberg. Also active as an actor rich, Samuel Schneider, Sabine Timoteo, his son make a grab for power, things get and producer, his films include the shorts David Schütter, Marko Mandić, Mick Morris disastrously out of hand. Is there any hope SUN SUN SUN (2015) and 3000 (2015), and his Mehnert, Milena Tscharntke PRODUCERS left? A man of small stature who wanders feature debut THE NEW END (2018). Martin Rohé, Julia Golembiowski, Leonel among the doomed is the only one who knows Dietsche PRODUCTION COMPANY Film- of a small island in a river, deep within the akademie Baden-Württem berg, in co-pro- forest, where a woman and her child live in duction with Paxfilm, SWR RUNTIME 80 min secret. LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Filmfest München 2018

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THAT’S IT, HELMUT

n a small West German town in 1983, full- his conquests, including Ursula’s mother. GENRE Comedy, Coming-of-Age Story YEAR figured Ursula (17) is smart, curious and Unaware of this, Ursula devotes herself OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Petra a bit too much of everything. She asks un- whole heartedly to mobilizing half the county Lüschow SCREENPLAY Petra Lüschow CINE- comfortable questions about her parents’ to join the non-violent protest training. But MATOGRAPHY Jutta Pohlmann CAST Anna Ihibernating marriage and grandpa’s World her heroic deeds can only go wrong. When the Florkowski, Florian Stetter, Christina Große War II past. new recruits are everything but non-violent, PRODUCERS Meike Kordes, Alexandra Kordes grandpa plays World War II on the farm, and CO-PRODUCER Oliver Schündler PRODUC- When on a clandestine date Ursula’s crush Ralf is supposedly knocked unconscious by TION COMPANY Kordes & Kordes Film, in Ralf (18) submits her voluptuous figure to the Ursula, she’s in the biggest trouble of her life. co-production with Lucky Bird Pictures RUN- prying eyes of a whole horde of boys, she has Everything seems to have conspired against TIME 97 min ORIGINAL VERSION German a breakdown. Just then Siegfried Grimm (32) her, in the end even the conflict-avoiding enters the scene. Grimm, an attractive left- Grimm. Ursula feels betrayed – and plots SALES wing Green party type, is a teacher and revenge. Kordes & Kordes Film founder of an alternative rural commune [email protected] which provides coaching for non-violent PETRA LÜSCHOW studied Literature and www.kordesfilm.de protests against the stationing of missiles in Film in Berlin and Vienna, followed by the area and brings the concept of free love Screenwriting and Dramatic Composition to the sticks. Grimm is the first person who at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD recognizes Ursula for who she is and en - WOLF. Also active as a screenwriter courages her to live her ideals. No wonder (TANNÖD, NACHBEBEN and numerous TV she immediately falls in love with him. series), her films as a director are the short DER KLEINE NAZI and her feature debut Ursula eagerly attempts to become part of THAT’S IT, HELMUT. the non-violent movement, but Grimm’s nar - cissistic interpretation of free love frustrates

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eorg Kempter is a gardener in a FLORIAN GALLENBERGER was born in GENRE Comedy, Drama YEAR OF PRODUC- small Bavarian town, working Munich in 1972. He studied at the renowned TION 2018 DIRECTOR Florian Gallenberger day-in, day-out in his nursery, University of Television and Film in Munich. SCREENPLAY Gernot Gricksch, Florian which is facing bankruptcy. He With his thesis film QUIERO SER (2000) Gallenberger CINEMATOGRAPHY Daniela Gdoesn’t like to talk much. He never has. His Gallenberger received the Honorary Foreign Knapp CAST Elmar Wepper, Emma Bading, marriage has long lost all its magic and on Film Award at the Student Academy Awards® Monika Baumgartner, Dagmar Manzel, Ulrich top of that, he has trouble connecting with his and an Academy Award® for Best Live Action Tukur, Sunnyi Melles PRODUCERS Benjamin daughter. Only when he is flying in his own Short Film. His debut feature SHADOWS OF Herrmann, Luca Verhoeven, Christian Hofer rickety biplane does Georg feel truly free. TIME (2004) won the Bavarian Film Award for PRODUCTION COMPANIES Majestic Film- Best New Director. His second feature, JOHN produktion, new!move films, Degeto Film, When the owner of the local golf course tries RABE (2009) premiered at the Berlin Inter - WS Filmproduktion RUNTIME 115 min to rip him off his pay because the shade of national Film Festival and received two LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Shanghai green of the grass Georg has planted there is Bavarian Film Awards and four German Film 2018 (International Competition) not “as green as it gets”, Georg snaps. Just Awards, including Best Film. His third feature when his airplane is about to be impounded, film, COLONIA (2015) received the Bavarian SALES he grabs the control stick and flies away in an Film Award for Best Film and was nominated Beta Cinema attempt to save his plane and himself. for five German Film Awards. Gallenberger is [email protected] also a professor at the University of Television www.betacinema.com He embarks on a journey into the unknown, and Film in Munich. to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters – and with every take- off and every landing, this tough man’s heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness...

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he wealthy and rather bored land- OSKAR ROEHLER started his career as a GENRE Black Comedy YEAR OF PRODUCTION scape architect Evi Müller-Todt lives screenwriter for various cinema films and 2018 DIRECTOR Oskar Roehler SCREEN- with her plastic surgeon husband directed his first feature, GENTLEMAN, in PLAY Jan Berger CINEMATOGRAPHY Carl- Claus in their comfortable villa. 1995. His film NO PLACE TO GO (2000), a very Friedrich Koschnick CAST Katja Riemann, OneT day, in a burst of red-wine-induced personal and sensitively told portrait of his Oliver Masucci, Samuel Finzi, Lize Feryn whimsy, Claus takes out an ad for a new mother, was Roehler’s breakthrough and PRODUCER Jutta Müller PRODUCTION COM- cleaner: “Slave wanted (m/f)”. Astonished by received the German Film Award in Gold. PANY MOLINA FILM, in co-production with the leather-clad figures that soon gather at His other award-winning films include: Tele München Gruppe, WDR, ARTE RUNTIME his door, he realizes his ad has been taken ANGST (2003) which premiered in the compe- 110 min LANGUAGE German quite literally. At the behest of a shocked tition at the Berlinale in 2003, AGNES AND Evi, Claus sends the applicants away, only to HIS BROTHERS (2004) which screened at the SALES receive an unexpected courtesy call from Venice Film Festival, as well as his film Picture Tree International Bartos. Well-groomed, educated and ready adaptation of Michel Houellebecq’s novel [email protected] to serve, Bartos signals his willingness to ATOMISED (2006). JUD SÜSS – FILM OHNE www.picturetree-international.com enter into a more traditional master-servant GEWISSEN (2010) which also played in com- relationship. After some initial snags, the petition at the Berlinale was one of his most Müller-Todts begin to enjoy the heavenly polarizing films. After SOURCES OF LIFE pampering they receive from their new serv - (2012) which premiered in Karlovy Vary in ant, who is soon joined by his young wife Lana competition, OUTMASTERED is his latest film. and the situation gets increasingly out of hand.

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wounded military veteran returns DAMIAN JOHN HARPER was born in 1978 in GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 home to face the war within his Colorado/USA. After receiving his degree in DIRECTOR Damian John Harper SCREEN- own dysfunctional family, as he Anthropology, he worked as an Ethnologist PLAY Damian John Harper CINEMATOG - tries to piece together the reasons in Southern Mexico before studying Film RAPHY Bogumił Godfrejów CAST Eric Hunter, Abehind his sister’s mysterious death. Directing at the University of Television and Nikki Lowe, Max Thayer PRODUCERS Jonas Film in Munich. His graduation short film Weydemann, Jakob D. Weydemann PRODUC- Led to believe his abusive grandfather is re- TEARDROP won numerous awards in over TION COMPANY Weydemann Bros., in co-pro- sponsible for his twin sister’s recent death, 50 festival competitions around the world. duction with Lightburst Pictures, ZDF Das Gabriel (26) returns to his humble home next His feature debut LOS ÁNGELES participated kleine Fernsehspiel, in collaboration with to a Native American reservation in rural New in the Berlinale Talents Project Market, pre- ARTE RUNTIME 110 min LANGUAGE English Mexico. Yearning to protect his family, he miered at the Berlinale in 2014, and won him FESTIVALS Film fest München 2018 swears to secretly kill his grandfather. Yet at the German First Steps Award. IN THE the moment of truth his plan is ruined and MIDDLE OF THE RIVER, developed in the SALES they are forced to spend the day together. On Cannes Cinéfondation, is his second fiction ARRI Media International the road the two war veterans begin speaking feature. [email protected] about their distinct yet similar traumatic war www.arrimedia.de/international experiences. Despite his rage, Gabriel realiz - es the world is not as black and white as he once thought and slowly he is forced to accept responsibility for his part in the family crisis to find peace.

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ollowing the phenomenal worldwide the Threepenny story with the genesis of GENRE Biopic, Drama, History, Literature, success of The Threepenny Opera in Brecht’s exposé for a Threepenny Film that Music, Theater YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 1928 in Berlin, cinema is trying to has never been on screen. It takes the audi- DIRECTOR Joachim A. Lang SCREENPLAY win over the author of the piece. But ence to Berlin during the Roaring Twenties in Joachim A. Lang (based on “The Threepenny FBertolt Brecht is not willing to play by the film a framework plot that shows how the artists Opera” by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill in industry’s rules. His vision for the Threepenny attempt to shoot a movie while confronting col laboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann) Film is radical, uncompromising, political and the film industry. The main plot is the Three- CINEMATOGRAPHY David Slama CAST Lars pointed. He wants to make a completely new penny Film itself and takes us to an artificial Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, kind of film and knows that the production London around 1900, to the city’s notorious Joachim Król, Claudia Michelsen, Britta company will never agree to it. It is only criminal Mack the Knife and his fight against Hammelstein, Robert Stadlober, Peri Bau- interested in cashing in. While the London Peachum, the king of the beggars. The film meister, Christian Redl PRODUCERS Michael gangster Macheath’s fight with the head of ends in the 21st century. Everything that Souvignier, Till Derenbach CO-PRODUCERS the beggar’s mob Mr. Peachum begins to take Brecht utters in the film are direct quotes Sandra Dujmovic, Sebastian Schelenz, André shape in the film version in front of the from his complete oeuvre. Sommerlatte PRODUCTION COMPANY author’s eyes, Brecht seeks the public dis- Zeitsprung Pictures, in co-production with pute. He takes the production company to JOACHIM A. LANG was born in 1959 and is a SWR, ARTE, Velvet Films RUNTIME 130 min court in order to prove that their monetary German author, film director and documen- LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Filmfest interests are taking precedence over his right tary filmmaker. He has also staged plays in München 2018 (opening film) as author… a poet directs reality – that was various theaters and was artistic director for unprecedented! the Brecht Festivals. His award-winning films SALES include: IT WAS A VERY GOOD TIME, TO Beta Film This film is a unique experiment, an attempt THINK IS TO CHANGE, THE REVUE OF [email protected] to rediscover an outstanding piece of world GERMANY, THE ART OF LIVING, GEORGE, and www.betafilm.com literature and to put it into a contemporary MACK THE KNIFE – BRECHT’S THREEPENNY context. Lang connects his interpretation of FILM.

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COMEBACK

ainer’s life is not exactly the way he PHILIPP KADELBACH was born in 1974. GENRE Drama, Comedy YEAR OF PRODUC- imagined it: He hates his job, his He attended film school in Pittsburgh in 1995 TION 2018 DIRECTOR Philipp Kadelbach wife left him, even his son thinks where he gained experience in TV journalism. SCREENPLAY Stefan Kolditz, Malte Welding, his dad is a loser. And Rainer has In 1998, he started directing commercials Thomas Sieben CINEMATOGRAPHY Thomas Ranother skeleton in his closet: 30 years ago, and music videos, and in 2000, he completed Dirnhofer CAST Jan Josef Liefers, Armin he torpedoed the breakthough performance his studies in Film Directing at the Film - Rohde, Jürgen Vogel, Richy Müller, Matthias of his Krautrock band “Bochum’s Stones” live akademie Baden-Württemberg. A selection Bundschuh, Alwara Höfels, Serafin Mishiev on stage. His fellow musicians Bulle, Konni, of his award-winning films includes: UN- PRODUCERS Benjamin Benedict, Sebastian Thomas and especially Ole never forgave him. SCHULDIG? (series, 2008), THE SECRET OF Werninger, Hermann Florin PRODUCTION To top it off, his lady doctor tells him his days THE WHALES (mini-series, 2010), HINDEN- COMPANY UFA FICTION, in co-production are numbered. Is this the end of the line? Not BURG (mini-series, 2011), GENERATION WAR with Gesellschaft für Feine Filme, ARD for Rainer! He decides to give it one last shot (mini-series, 2013), DIE PILGERIN (TV movie, Degeto RUNTIME 100 min LANGUAGE and do one thing right for a change: The 2014), NAKED AMONG WOLVES (TV movie, German comeback of “Bochum’s Stones“! How will his 2015), AUF KURZE DISTANZ (TV movie, 2016), fellow band members react to his idea? Can SS-GB (series, 2017), COMEBACK (2018), and SALES Rainer convince them it’s never too late to PERFUME (series, 2018). Global Screen make your dream come true? He doesn’t have [email protected] anything to lose, and all of a sudden, every- www.globalscreen.de thing seems to be going Rainer’s way…

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skar is the owner of a run-down JAKOB LASS was born in 1981. He trained as GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 music club in the Hamburg an actor and was a member of the Filmarche DIRECTOR Jakob Lass SCREENPLAY Jakob nightlife district. He loves his life in Berlin-Kreuzberg and participated in the Lass, Hannah Schopf CINEMATOGRAPHY just the way it is: Lots of girls, 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus. He studied Timon Schäppi CAST Niklas Bruhn, David greatO friends and one long non-stop party. Film Directing at the Film University Babels- Schütter, Tinka Fürst, Corinna Harfouch, Bela Except for this New Year’s Eve: While every - berg KONRAD WOLF. His films include: B. Felsenheimer, Martina Schöne-Radunski, one’s having a ball, Oskar has to shut down the shorts NEBOT (2004), TÜR (2005), BADE- Mathias Bloech, Tanna Barthel PRODUCER his bankrupt club. Then he has to contend MEISTER PAUL (2007), THEM BRAKES (2008), Benjamin Seikel CO-PRODUCERS Marc with an angry, violent ex-pimp in his apart- FELINES HIRSCH (2009), SUCHTGARTEN Schmidheiny, Christoph Daniel, Wiebke ment demanding money, his best friend (2011), KISS OFF (2012), and the features Andresen, Florian Schmidt-Prange PRO - being broken by fame, once-buoyant Nina FRONTALWATTE (2011), LOVE STEAKS (2013), DUCTION COMPANY C-Films (Deutschland), now painting everything black, the police chief TIGER GIRL (2017), and RIGHT HERE RIGHT in co-production with DCM Pictures, Tatami and a dead Elvis are coming for the club, and NOW (2018). Films RUNTIME 91 min LANGUAGE German in the midst of it all, there’s the love of his life: FESTIVALS Filmfest München 2018 Mathilda, Mathilda, Mathilda. SALES Global Screen [email protected] www.globalscreen.de

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hen the brave fire dragon how to breathe fire. To foil Arktos’ evil plan (2006), U-900 (2008), HELP, I SHRUNK MY Tabaluga meets beautiful ice and save Greenland from his army of polar TEACHER (2015), IT’S YOUR TURN, HONEY princess Lilli, it’s love at first bears, Tabaluga and Lilli have to muster all (2017), and TABALUGA (2018). sight. To save their world their courage, and stick together like fire and fromW a tyrannical snowman, they have to stick ice... GENRE Animation, Family Entertainment together and embark on their biggest adven- YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Sven ture. A moving and thrilling 3D animation adven- Unterwaldt SCREENPLAY Gerrit Hermans, ture for the whole family. This story about the Marco Petry, Hortense Ullrich, Toby Genkel Young dragon Tabaluga lives with his foster power of friendship and the victory of love PRODUCERS Helge Sasse, Solveig Fina PRO- father, Kolk the Raven, in picturesque Green- over hate is fast-paced and entertaining, with DUCTION COMPANY Tempest Film, in co-pro- land. As he never learned how to breathe fire, lots of twists and turns, featuring top-notch duction with Deutsche Columbia Pictures he urgently needs advice from a real, grown- animation and an unforgettable soundtrack. Filmproduktion RUNTIME 85 min LANGUAGE up dragon. But Tabaluga is the last of his After the world-famous hit TV series, the English kind. The only other buddy he has is loud- brave little dragon and the sparkling ice mouth ladybug Bully. One day, Tabaluga and princess finally conquer the silver screen! SALES Bully are lured to Iceland, which is ruled by Global Screen evil Lord Arktos. When he meets beautiful ice SVEN UNTERWALDT was born in Lübeck in [email protected] princess Lilli there, it’s love at first sight. 1965. A well-known name in the German www.globalscreen.de Lilli takes Tabaluga to see Arktos, without com edy scene, his films include ANTRAG realizing Arktos wants to do away with all the VOM EX (TV, 1999), the TV series SWITCH dragons so he can freeze Greenland. But little (1997-1997), ANKE (1999-2001), ALLES ATZE does Arktos suspect that Lilli has fallen in (2002), and BERLIN, BERLIN (2002), as well love with Tabaluga as well. She helps him and as the features WIE DIE KARNICKEL (2002), Bully escape from Iceland. Through the 7 DWARVES (2004), SIEGFRIED (2005), strength of their love, Tabaluga finally learns 7 DWARVES – THE WOOD IS NOT ENOUGH

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s a divorced father of two teenage Populated with a colorful range of characters, GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 daughters, with a head-strong ex- WHAT DOESN’T KILL US is a heart-wrenching DIRECTOR Sandra Nettelbeck SCREENPLAY wife for a best friend, too many yet delightful mosaic of stories just past the Sandra Nettelbeck CINEMATOGRAPHY peculiar patients to keep up with midlife crisis, of matters of the heart and Michael Bertl CAST August Zirner, Johanna Aand a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly identity, of everyday struggles and longtime ter Steege, Barbara Auer, Oliver Broumis, doesn’t need another challenge. But when conflicts. It takes a tender and humorous look Jenny Schily, Christian Berkel, Mark Waschke, Sophie, a compulsive gambler with a boy- at the highs and lows that can either save us Deborah Kaufmann, Peter Lohmeyer, Victoria friend problem, regularly shows up late for or haunt us when we realize that the second Mayer, Bjarne Mädel, David Rott, Lauren her appointments, she rocks his world in half time is already well on its way. When we Lee Smith, Leonie Hämer, Kristo Ferkic, ways he’s not ready for. feel that we should have arrived by now but Marie Jecke PRO DUCERS Jochen Laube, are still navigating – and when we hopefully Fabian Maubach PRODUCTION COMPANY It’s not supposed to happen and it happens come to understand that it is never too late to Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, in co-produc- anyway: a therapist falls in love with a patient. gamble everything for love. tion with ZDF, cine plus Filmproduktion, And the more Max attempts to keep it profes- RuhrSoundStudios RUNTIME 129 min LAN- sional, the more their lives get entangled. SANDRA NETTELBECK was born in 1966 and GUAGE German FESTIVALS Locarno 2018 studied Film at San Francisco State Uni - (Piazza Grande) So how can he manage to help her without versity. Her award-winning films include: getting involved? How can loving her not lead A CERTAIN GRACE, (short, 1992), LOOSE SALES to losing her altogether? Wrestling with his ENDS (TV, 1996), MAMMAMIA (TV, 1998), Beta Cinema conscience and his heart, torn between the MOSTLY MARTHA (2001), SERGEANT PEPPER [email protected] patient and the woman he’s in love with, he (2004), HELEN (2008), MR. MORGAN’S LAST www.betacinema.com has no choice but to stick to the old airplane LOVE (2013), and WHAT DOESN’T KILL US rule: you must help yourself before you can (2018). help others.

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IN VENICE NEVER LOOK AWAY

nspired by real events and spanning FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK, GENRE Drama, Thriller YEAR OF PRO - three eras of German history, NEVER born 1973 in Cologne, studied Directing at the DUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Florian Henckel LOOK AWAY tells the story of a young art University of Television & Film Munich. von Donnersmarck SCREENPLAY Florian student, Kurt, who falls in love with His first student short film DOBERMANN Henckel von Donnersmarck CINEMATOG- Ifellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor (1998) won the Max Ophüls Award and the RAPHY Caleb Deschanel CAST Tom Schilling, Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his Shocking Shorts Award, among many others. Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to His first feature as writer and director, THE Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci PRODUCERS destroy the relationship. What neither of LIVES OF OTHERS (2006) won the German Jan Mojto, Quirin Berg, Florian Henckel von them knows is that their lives are already and European Film Awards for Best Picture, Donnersmarck, Max Wiedemann, Christiane connected through a terrible crime Seeband Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Henckel von Donnersmarck CO-PRODUCERS committed decades ago... Lead Actor, as well as the BAFTA, David di Christine Strobl, Dirk Schürhoff PRO DUC - Donatello and Academy Awards for Best TION COMPANIES Pergamon Film, Wiede- Foreign Language Film. His second feature, mann & Berg Film, in co-production with Beta THE TOURIST (2010), was nominated for three Cinema, ARD Degeto, BR RUNTIME 185 min Golden Globes in the Best Picture, Best Actor LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Venice 2018 and Best Actress categories. He is member (In Competition) of the Bavarian and North Rhine-Westphalian Orders of Merit, was elected a Young Global SALES Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013, Beta Cinema and serves as a Trustee of the American [email protected] Academy in Berlin. www.betacinema.com

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ERMANY. A WINTER’S TALE JAN BONNY was born in 1979. He studied at GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 chronicles the story of Becky, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), DIRECTOR Jan Bonny SCREENPLAY Jan Tommi and Maik, a three-headed as well as at the Binger Lab in Amsterdam Eichberg, Jan Bonny CINEMATOGRAPHY rightwing terror cell, which lives and Torino Film Lab. His films, which have Benjamin Loeb CAST Thomas Schubert, Gunderground and dreams of nationwide screened at numerous international festivals Ricarda Seifried, Jean-Luc Bubert, Victoria attention. Entangled in a complex relationship and art associations, include: 2ND AND Trauttmansdorff, Lars Eidinger, Merle of love, hate and friendship, their path of A (short, 2003), COUNTERPARTS (2008), Wasmuth, Paul Faßnacht, Diana Maria destruction leads to a series of violent BOOGIEMAN (short, 2015), SINGLE (experi- Breuer, Judith Bohle, Mats Thiersch PRO- crimes. Their ostensible values like honor, mental, 2015), RHEINGOLD (experimental, DUCER Bettina Brokemper PRODUCTION pride and loyalty increasingly suffer a loss of 2016), ÜBER BARBAROSSAPLATZ (TV, 2016), COMPANY Heimatfilm RUNTIME 90 min meaning... VON DA AN (experimental, 2018) and LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Locarno GERMANY. A WINTER’S TALE (2018). 2018 (Concorso internazionale)

SALES The Match Factory [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com

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avaria, summer 1984. It is the day very personal story within a universal his - Bierbichler won the German Film Award for of mother’s funeral. The funeral torical context. Best Actor in 2007. In 2009 he was nominated reception is over, the guests have as Best Actor at the German Film Awards left. An embittered father and his JOSEF BIERBICHLER was born in 1948. He again for his role in A YEAR AGO IN WINTER estrangedB son are staying behind. The two graduated from the Otto Falckenberg Drama by Caroline Link. TWO MEN IN SUITS is his aren’t particularly close, actually they never School in Munich. When Bierbichler met the newest directorial work, based on the novel have been. Still the father decides that it’s director Herbert Achternbusch in the mid- Mittelreich also written by Josef Bierbichler. time to tell his son the whole story – all of the 70s, the two formed a creative alliance and memories, all of the experiences, his entire worked together on the films THE ATLANTIC GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 life. The son responds with his own version of SWIMMERS (1975), BEER CHASE (1977) and DIRECTOR Josef Bierbichler SCREENPLAY the events and together they bring their indi- BYE-BYE BAVARIA (1977). In 1987 he made Josef Bierbichler CINEMATOGRAPHY Tom vidual and shared moments back to life. his script writing and directorial debut with Fährmann CAST Josef Bierbichler, Martina TRIUMPH OF THE JUST, after a story by Oskar Gedeck, Simon Donatz, Irm Hermann PRO- Josef Bierbichler’s adaptation of his novel Maria Graf. Furthermore he worked with DUCERS Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott PRO - inspired by his own family history portrays directors such as Werner Herzog, Michael DUCTION COMPANY X Filme Creative Pool, in around 100 years of cross-generational Haneke, Jan Schütte and Tom Tykwer. Bier- co-production with BR, WDR, ARTE, Lucky German history. The representation of the bichler is successful both in film and on Bird Pictures, ARRI Media, X Verleih RUN- generation of two wars, which had been kept stage. He was awarded Actor of the Year mul- TIME 128 min LANGUAGE German from pursuing their dreams due to external tiple times by the industry magazine Theater circumstances, forms the central pillar of the heute and was awarded, amongst others, SALES film. From the revolution against the king, the the Gertrude-Eysoldt-Ring. For HIERANKL Beta Cinema rise of the Nazis and capitalism, to the pro- (2003), directed by Hans Steinbichler, he was [email protected] tagonist’s personal experiences with the nominated as Best Actor at the German Film www.betacinema.com Catholic Church, abuse, refugees and eco- Awards and won the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in nomic miracles, TWO MEN IN SUITS tells a Gold. For his role in WINTERREISE (2006),

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EFENDER OF THE FAITH tells the story of Joseph Ratzinger who, in an increasingly secularized world, sought to make the Church a re- Dlevant force again but instead, during his reign as Pope Benedict XVI, led it into the biggest crisis in its history. Told via interviews with close advisors and friends, the documentary recounts the events that led to the scandals and Benedict's ultimate resignation whilst at the same time portraying his decision as symptomatic of a deep-rooted, structural crisis at the heart of the Church that is on-going to this day.

To make his film, the writer and director Christoph Röhl has worked closely with the Vatican, gaining permission to shoot in its grounds and access to its audio-visual archives. © Flare Film

CHRISTOPH RÖHL studied History and Ger- GENRE Religion, Biopic YEAR OF PRODUC- SALES man Philology at the University of Manchester TION 2018 DIRECTOR Christoph Röhl CINE- Flare Film and Directing at the German Film & Tele- MATOGRAPHY Juan Sarmiento G. PRODUCER [email protected] vision Academy Berlin (DFFB). He founded Martin Heisler PRODUCTION COMPANY Flare www.flare-film.com and directs the Met Film School at the Ealing Film RUNTIME 90min LANGUAGE English, Studios. A selection of his other films in- German cludes: A PIECE OF ME (2008), WE’RE NOT THE ONLY ONES (2011), and THE CHOSEN ONES (2014).

eo Wagner was a co-founder of the CSU, the Conservatives, and a member of the German Federal Parliament in Bonn. During the day, theL wartime generation of politicians did their duty at the political front of the Cold War, afterwards they relaxed in Cologne’s night life with young women and old champagne. The families left at home were often only a façade. For Leo, the extravagant way of life came at a cost. He became involved in dubious affairs and contacts with the Stasi.

Now, his grandson, young filmmaker Bene- dikt Schwarzer, exposes the political and personal background to one of the greatest political scandals of the German Republic in Bonn.

THE SECRETS OF HANDSOME LEO © bilderbuch-koeln.de

BENEDIKT SCHWARZER was born in 1987. 2015), AUGE IN AUGE (video loop, 2016), Rettinger PRODUCTION COMPANY Lichtblick He worked as a photographer and photo IM SCHATTEN (short doc, 2016), and THE Film RUNTIME 80 min LANGUAGE German designer and as a director’s and camera SECRETS OF HANDSOME LEO (doc, 2018). FESTIVALS Dok.Fest Munich 2018 assistant prior to studying Documentary Film at the University of Television and Film in GENRE Politics, Biopic, Drama, History SALES Munich. His films include: LUST (experimen- YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Lichtblick Film tal short, 2011), SHOOT ME (experimental Benedikt Schwarzer CINEMATOGRAPHY [email protected] doc, 2013), WAS BLEIBT (video projection, Julian Krubasik PRODUCER Carl-Ludwig www.lichtblick-film.de

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very year the German parliament sends soldiers on missions to areas of conflict. From every mission soldiers return home wounded. EThose wounds are not necessarily obser - vable. Often, they only become apparent years after the mission as a disorder of their mental health. One of those disorders is Post Trau- matic Stress Disorder. The psychosocial therapies offered by the army medical centers cannot provide help for everyone. Where conventional medicine is limited, Claudia Swierczek fills the gap with her horses. During years of work she has developed a therapeutic method that uses the horses’ exceptional abilities. SILENT COMRADE accompanies three traumatized soldiers who are trying to find a way back to life with the help of Equine Assisted Psycho- therapy. It attends the therapy sessions as © Leonhard Hollmann

SILENT COMRADE

a silent observer and allows access to the GENRE Society YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken special approach of the German therapist DIRECTOR Leonhard Hollmann CINEMATOG - 2018, DOK.fest Munich 2018 Claudia Swierczek. RAPHY Domenik Schuster, Leonhard Hollmann, Johannes Greisele PRODUCER SALES LEONHARD HOLLMANN was born in 1988 Leonhard Hollmann PRODUCTION COMPANY Rushlake Media and studied at the Film University Babelsberg Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF [email protected] KONRAD WOLF. SILENT COMRADE is his RUNTIME 88 min LANGUAGE German www.rushlake-media.com graduation film. FESTIVALS Hof 2017, Kassel Dokfest 2017,

t the end of Mulholland Drive lies the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The spry seniors were once the backbone of the Dream AFactory: actresses, producers, writers. They still hold on to their passion in writing labs and continue to shoot short movies. Their journey and their stories show that creativity knows no age, and love indeed conquers all.

ULI GAULKE was born in 1968. After studying (World Cinema Competition), MARRY ME was DUCERS Stefanie Plattner, Ekrem Ergün Physics and Theater Arts he studied at the chosen for the Forum at the Berlinale. PRODUCTION COMPANIES Achtung Panda! HFF “Konrad Wolff” in Babelsberg and made SUNSET OVER MULHOLLAND DRIVE is his Media, Fruitmarket Arts & Media, Storming his first film HAVANNA, MI AMOR in 1999. sixth feature. Donkey Productions RUNTIME 96 min LAN - The film screened at many festivals and won GUAGE English several awards, including the German Film GENRE Human Interest YEAR OF PRODUC- Award for Best Documentary, among others. TION 2018 DIRECTOR Uli Gaulke CINEMA - SALES Global Screen COMRADES IN DREAMS was screened at TOGRAPHY Axel Schneppat PRODUCERS [email protected] the Berlinale (Special) and at Sundance Helge Albers, Arne Birkenstock CO-PRO- www.globalscreen.de

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y grandmother was convinced GENRE Animation YEAR OF PRODUCTION that the only animal that made 2018 DIRECTOR Victor Orozco Ramirez the same mistake twice is the SCREENPLAY Victor Orozco Ramirez CINE- human being. MATOGRAPHY Victor Orozco Ramirez PRO- M DUCER Victor Orozco Ramirez RUNTIME An essay short film about my very own Inter- 8 min LAN GUAGE Spanish FESTIVALS net, a parallel world where memory loss, Guadalajara 2018, Barcelona International errors, surveillance and addiction smear Short & Animation Festival 2018, Stuttgart everything and everyone. International Festival of Animated Film 2018, Krakow 2018, Animafest Zagreb 2018, Annecy VICTOR OROZCO RAMIREZ studied Docu- 2018, Cinema Jove Valencia 2018, Guanajuato mentary Filmmaking at the Academy of Fine 2018 AWARDS Rigo Mora Award Guadalajara Arts of Hamburg. He also organized the short 2018, Zlatko Grgic Award Animafest Zagreb film festival Ambulart in Ecuador, Germany 2018 and Mexico. His films include: the shorts MAKE ME A SAINT (2002), SQUAREHEAD SALES (2003), THEATRE OF CRUELTY (2004), Victor Orozco Ramirez SPARE THE BLOOD, SPOIL THE CHILD (2005), [email protected] TATEIKIE BEHIND THE CURTAIN (2009), www.victororozco.com REALITY 2.0 (2012), and 32-RBIT (2018).

arío, a 17-year-old boy from Spain and Colombia. Today he lives and works Barranquilla/Colombia has a in Barcelona and Berlin. DARÍO is his direc- passion for dance. He loves his torial debut. Carnival group but has to keep it aD secret from his mother, who is afraid that GENRE LGBTQ, Coming-of-Age Story, Drama he won’t grow up to be a “real man”. Instead, YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTORS she forces him to spend the day working in Manuel Kinzer, Jorge A. Trujillo Gil SCREEN- his uncle’s shop. Will he be able to dance in PLAY Manuel Kinzer, Jorge A. Trujillo Gil the Carnival parade? CINEMATOGRAPHY Alex Bloom CAST Javier Alberto Bula García, Norelis Nieves Cardona, MANUEL KINZER was born in 1977 and Junior Villarreal Contreras, Delay Upegui studied Visual Communication at the Kunst- Vélez, Eldwin Chaparro Solís PRODUCER hochschule Kassel and Cinematography at Manuel Kinzer PRODUCTION COMPANY the German Film & Television Academy FILMGESTALTEN RUNTIME 15 min LAN- Berlin (DFFB). In 2007 he founded the pro- GUAGE Spanish FESTIVALS Palm Springs duction company FILMGESTALTEN with ShortFest 2018, FRAMELINE San Francisco Florian Gerstenberg. Since then he has pro- 2018, OUTFEST Los Angeles 2018, LUCAS – duced various short films. DARÍO is his first Int. Festival for Young Film Lovers 2018 work as a director. SALES JORGE A. TRUJILLO GIL was born in 1987 and FILMGESTALTEN studied Audiovisual Communication at the [email protected] University of Salamanca, followed by studies www.filmgestalten.de in Cinema and Political Science at the Uni-

versity of Barcelona. He has participated in © Manuel Kinzer different social and journalistic projects in

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LANDSCAPES IN TIMES OF TREASON

ummer holidays in Berlin-Branden- GENRE Coming-of-Age Story, Drama YEAR burg: Three classmates challenge OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Reinaldo P. each other with dares. When they Almeida SCREENPLAY Reinaldo P. Almeida come up with the idea to shoot a CINEMATOGRAPHY Leigh L. Underwood movieS with their cell phones, a destructive CAST Doguhan Kabadayi, Leon Klein, Timo dynamic unfolds that uncovers previously Geimer, Daria Rabes, Antonia Breidenbach hidden racist ideas towards one of the friends PRODUCER Kyra Jungck PRODUCTION and puts their friendship to the test. COMPANY LIMINOID Productions RUNTIME 15 min LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS REINALDO P. ALMEIDA initially studied Goldener Spatz 2018 Philosophy in Lisbon and Paris and subsequently took courses at the Film University SALES Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Also active in LIMINOID Productions improvisation theater and as a film editor, a [email protected] selection of his films as a director includes: www.liminoid.de THE PROMISE (short, 2012), SUSHILA BY THE SEA (short doc, 2014), EROSION (short, 2015), DAS APARTMENT (web series, 2015-2017), DRUIDS (multimedia installation, 2016), LANDSCAPES IN TIMES OF TREASON (short, 2018), and THE HOUSE BEHIND THE POST OFFICE (short doc, 2018).

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24H EUROPE – WE ARE THE FUTURE

erlin-based zero one film, France’s The TV event will be broadcast in real time, Idéale Audience and Belgium’s uninterrupted, for 24 hours from 6 a.m. on 4 BKwassa Films have joined forces with May 2019, just a month after the UK officially several broadcasters to produce the mara- leaves the European Union and only three thon TV project, 24H EUROPE – WE ARE THE weeks before the next European Parliament FUTURE, which follows 60 protagonists in 25 elections. European countries, focusing on the hopes, fears and desires of young people between GENRE Politics, Society, History, Educational the ages of 15 and 30. CATEGORY Documentary PROJECT DIREC- TORS Britt Beyer, Vassili Silovic PRODUCERS No less than 45 European directors (including Thomas Kufus, Pierre-Olivier Bardet PRO- Thomas Riedelsheimer, Pia Marais, Mila Tur- DUCTION COMPANIES zero one 24, Idéale Au- ajlic, Alexandru Solomon, Dane Komljen, Mat- dience, Kwassa Films, in co-production with thias Luthardt, Hanna Doose and Svetoslav ARTE, RBB, SWR, BR, RTBF, YLE LANGUAGE Stoyanov) and their crews spent four days in several languages mid-June at locations from Iceland to Bul-

urhan Qurbani and his co-writer GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Martin Behnke draw on elements and Burhan Qurbani SCREENPLAY Burhan Bcharacters from Alfred Döblin’s clas- Qurbani, Martin Behnke CAST Welket sic 1929 novel for their story set in present- Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, day Berlin of a refugee from Guinea Bissau, Joachim Król, Annabelle Mandeng PRO - Francis, who arrives in the German capital DUCERS Jochen Laube, Leif Alexis, Fabian after illegally crossing by boat from Africa to Maubach PRODUCTION COMPANY Sommer- Europe. He honestly strives to be a good and haus Filmproduktion, in co-production with decent man, but making a legal living as a Lemming Film, ZDF, in cooperation with ARTE stateless refugee turns out to be practically LANGUAGE German, English impossible. Soon, Francis meets the shady German drug dealer Reinhold, and the two SALES men are bound together by a cynical fate and Beta Cinema destructive magnetism, friendship and [email protected] betrayal, hatred and a dark eroticism, as well www.betacinema.com as by love and the abuse of this love.

DIALOGUE EARTH

eaturing incredible photography of GENRE Art, Environment/Ecology, Experi- spellbinding landscapes, extensive mental CATEGORY Documentary DIRECTOR archive footage and a music score by Hank Levine WITH Ulrike Arnold, Eli Secody, F® Oscar -nominated Hauschka, Hank Levine’s Jack McNeil, Valerie Dalton, Tony Santillan, documentary DIALOGUE EARTH accompanies Marvin Killgore PRODUCER Hank Levine the internationally acclaimed Earth painter PRODUCTION COMPANY Hank Levine Film Ulrike Arnold on her latest expedition into the LANGUAGE English, German wild regions of South Utah. When President Trump announces his executive order allow - CONTACT ing national monument designations to be Hank Levine Film rescinded to open up more federal land for [email protected] exploitation, Arnold decides to create a www.hanklevine.jimdofree.com symbolic One World Painting, bringing together all of the earths she has been col - lecting for the past four decades from around the globe as a statement for the preservation

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ilmmaker Natalija Yefimkina’s directo- GENRE Human Interest, Society, Culture rial debut is dedicated to the Russian CATEGORY Documentary DIRECTOR Natalija Fman’s refuge, the garage, in the in - Yefimkina PRODUCERS Andrea Schütte, Dirk hospitable area of Northern Russia on the Decker PRODUCTION COMPANY Tamtam Kola Peninsula. Film LANGUAGE Russian

With humorous, unpredictable and bizarre CONTACT scenes, GARAGE PEOPLE tells the story of Tamtam Film Russian men and the celebration of their pri- [email protected] vate independence as they embellish their www.tamtamfilm.com garages at their own discretion into parallel worlds. We hear tales – both tragic and light- hearted – that allow us to gaze into the deep souls of Russian men who scarcely speak for themselves – or with each other, sharing their concerns, fears and joys. In this way, we gain

hen author Giuseppe Tomasi di everything in Europe’s turbulent changes but, Lampedusa died in 1957 he was nevertheless, succeeded in reinventing them- Wpenniless. But one year later his selves. only novel, Il Gattopardo, was published and went on to become a global success with GENRE Creative Documentary, History, more than 13 million copies sold to this day. Literature, Love Story CATEGORY Feature In 1963, Luchino Visconti’s film adaptation, Documentary DIRECTOR Luigi Falorni PRO- starring Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale DUCER Jörg Bundschuh PRODUCTION and Alain Delon, received a Palme d’Or in COMPANY Kick Film, in co-production with Cannes. However, hidden behind the genesis Mistrus Media LANGUAGE English, Italian, of Il Gattopardo there is a true love story – Russian which almost outshines the novel: that of the author and his German-Baltic wife, the CONTACT psycho analyst Alexandra Wolff-Stomersee. Kick Film [email protected] THE BIRTH OF THE LEOPARD will tell the www.kickfilm.de

DER GOLDENE HANDSCHUH

ER GOLDENE HANDSCHUH is multi- GENRE Horror, Thriller CATEGORY Feature award-winning writer-director Fatih DIRECTOR Fatih Akin SCREENPLAY Fatih DAkin’s take on the bestselling novel of Akin CAST Jonas Dassler, Margarethe Tiesel, the same name by Heinz Strunk. The film Uwe Rohde, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Marc narrates the story of the Hamburg serial Hosemann, Hark Bohm, Heinz Strunk, Tristan killer Fritz Honka, who became acquainted Göbel PRODUCERS Nurhan Sekerci-Porst, with his victims in the St. Pauli red light- Fatih Akin, Herman Weigel PRODUCTION district bar, “Zum goldenen Handschuh” and COMPANY bombero international, in co-pro- preserved their body-parts in his attic apart- duction with Warner Bros. Film Productions ment in Hamburg-Altona. Germany, Pathé LANGUAGE German

SALES The Match Factory [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com

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six-part, fast-paced thriller series, GENRE Action, Drama, Thriller CATEGORY HACKER VILLE kicks off when a hack- Series DIRECTORS Igor Cobileanski, Anca Aing attack on a major German bank is Miruna Lazarescu SCREENPLAY Laurentiu traced to a local network in Romania. Federal Rusescu, Daniel Sandu, Ralph Martin, Steve Criminal Police Office cyber-crime expert Bailie, created by Ralph Martin & Jörg Winger Lisa Metz is dispatched from Frankfurt to Ti- CAST Anna Schumacher, Andi Vasluianu, misoara, the city of her birth, to work with Voicu Dumitras, Sabin Tambrea, Florian local investigators led by Romanian cop Adam Galan, Ada Lupu, Ronald Zehrfeld, Flavia Sandor. As she rides the rollercoaster of life Hojda, Dana Dembinski, Nina Kunzendorf, in contemporary Romania, Lisa is forced to Ovidiu Schumacher PRODUCERS Cristian confront uncomfortable secrets from her fa- Mungiu, Tudor Reu, Alina David, Silvia mily’s past. Meanwhile, Sandor’s own investi- Popescu PRODUCTION COMPANY HBO gation is turned upside down by Lisa’s arrival. Europe, in co-production with TNT Serie, When Lisa and Sandor are led to a genius Mobra Films, UFA FICTION LANGUAGE Ro- hacker, nicknamed Dark Mole, the three are manian, German thrust together in an emotional triangle that

CH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER... is the story of GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR a 13-year old boy who vanished for a week. Angela Schanelec SCREENPLAY Angela IWhat he was seeking, being at the mercy Schanelec CAST Maren Eggert, Jakob Lasalle, of nature, a rapprochement with death, Clara Möller, Lilith Stangenberg, Franz triggered by his father's death, is something Rogowski, Alan Williams, Jirka Zett, Dane his mother and teachers can only guess at. Komljen, Devid Striesow PRODUCER Angela The boy‘s behavior is beyond all their previous Schanelec PRODUCTION COMPANY Nachmit- understanding. tagfilm Angela Schanelec, in co-production with ZDF/3sat LANGUAGE German

CONTACT Nachmittagfilm Angela Schanelec [email protected]

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riter-director Florian Aigner goes GENRE Drama, History, Love Story CATEGORY back in time to the summer of Feature DIRECTOR Florian Aigner SCREEN- W1990 for his fiction feature debut PLAY Florian Aigner CAST Emilie Neumeister, set in the two Germanies between the fall of Ludwig Simon, Lisa Hagmeister, Andreas the Berlin Wall and reunification on October Döhler, Judith Engel, Uwe Preuss PRODU- 3rd as 16-year-old Katja and 17-year-old CERS Martin Heisler, Gabriele Simon, Maxim Thorben fall in love. She comes from the Juretzka, Jost Hering PRODUCTION COM- affluent Zehlendorf district of West Berlin, PANIES Flare Film, BuntFilm, in co-pro- while he has grown up across the border in duction with Lightburst Pictures LANGUAGE East Germany. That would be a big enough German challenge for this innocent young love, but it’s made even more complicated by the fact that CONTACT their families are at loggerheads about the Flare Film ownership of a house in the village of Klein- [email protected] machnow. While old wounds are being re- www.flare-film.com opened and new prejudices start appearing,

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strange epidemic grips the planet: GENRE Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Science people suffer severe panic attacks, Fiction CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Bastian Aliterally float away and vanish! The Gascho SCREENPLAY Philipp Gärtner, police have set their old hand, Inspector Bastian Gascho CAST Anne Kulbatzki, Rémi Hanta, on the case and appointed the expert Pradere, Widukind Huber, Linus de Paoli, Professor Falk to assist. So far, so routine, till Roland Wüthrich, Lars Rudolph, Bonn Park they meet a young woman called Anne, who, PRODUCERS Leonie Minor, Ewelina Rosinska once bitten by a honey badger, no longer feels PRODUCTION COMPANY Deutsche Film- und fear at all. But this is not good news for the Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) LANGUAGE leading pharmaceutical company, Hancock- German Peck, which now faces losing control over the epidemic. Nor is it good for brothers Widu CONTACT and Remi, two small-time criminals, who risk DFFB losing the gift of their lifetime. And mean- [email protected] while everyone else continues to ask them- www.dffb.de selves how fear and love interact and whether

ollowing her award-winning debut GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN, director Katrin Gebbe SCREENPLAY Katrin Gebbe FKatrin Gebbe has now reunited with CAST Nina Hoss, Murathan Muslu, Katerina the producer Verena Gräfe-Höft from Juna- Lipovska PRODUCER Verena Gräfe-Höft PRO- film for her second drama which centers on DUCTION COMPANY Junafilm, in co-produc- the decision by the horse trainer Wiebke to tion with Miramar Film LANGUAGE German adopt a five-year-old girl Raya from Bulgaria as a sibling for her older adoptive daughter SALES Nicolina. Wiebke soon realizes, though, Films Boutique that Raya appears to be suffering from an [email protected] attachment disorder and is incapable of www.filmsboutique.com establishing an emotional connection to anyone around her. The girl becomes increasingly aggressive and poses a danger to herself and others, especially Nicolina. After consulting a neurologist, Wiebke has to de-

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or Nora and Aron it is love at first sight GENRE Drama, Love Story CATEGORY when they encounter each other on a Feature DIRECTOR Mariko Minoguchi Frainy day whilst taking the under- SCREENPLAY Mariko Minoguchi CAST Saskia ground. It was a complete coincidence, Nora Rosendahl, Edin Hasanovic, Julius Feldmeier, says. Aron disagrees: it was predetermined. Emanuela von Frankenberg, Hanns Zischler But the young couple then get caught up in a PRODUCERS Trini Götze, David Armati violent bank robbery. Aron is shot by the Lechner, Thomas Wöbke PRODUCTION COM- mask ed gunman and dies in Nora’s arms. For PANY TRIMAFILM, in co-production with Nora, time stands still. She numbs her pain, BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion LANGUAGE spending the night with a stranger – Natan. German He provides Nora with stability. She has the strange feeling that she knows him already, SALES but does not yet know what really connects Global Screen them... [email protected] www.globalscreen.de

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ctor-director Karoline Herfurth their predicament... has remained faithful to the comedy Agenre for her second feature GENRE Comedy CATEGORY Feature YEAR OF SWEETHEARTS, which sees her reunited with PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Karoline Hellinger/Doll Filmproduktion, the producers Herfurth SCREENPLAY Monika Fäßler, of her successful debut TEXT FOR YOU. Karoline Herfurth CAST Karoline Herfurth, Hannah Herzsprung, Frederick Lau, Anneke It would just be Mel’s luck to have taken the Kim Sarnau, Ronald Zehrfeld, David Schütter, dithering Franny as a hostage during her Katrin Sass, Nilam Farooq PRODUCERS planned diamond robbery – how could she Christopher Doll, Lothar Hellinger PRO - know that Franny’s tendency for panic attacks DUCTION COMPANY Hellinger/Doll Film - and “Yo Momma” jokes would drive her to de- produktion, in co-production with Warner spair? And then matters get even more com- Bros. Film Productions Germany LANGUAGE plicated when handsome cop Harry appears German on the scene and becomes a second hostage. Undiluted chaos ensues as the two women CONTACT Hellinger/Doll Filmproduktion

he sound stages of the legendary GENRE Love Story CATEGORY Feature Babels berg studios serve as the DIRECTOR Martin Schreier SCREENPLAY Tsetting for Martin Schreier’s third Arend Remmers CAST Dennis Mojen, Emilia feature which goes back in time to the sum- Schüle, Heiner Lauterbach, Ken Duken, mer of 1961 for a love story between the bit- Nikolai Kinski, Ellenie Salvo González, part actor Emil and the ravishing French Wilfried Hochholdinger, Oliver Korittke, dancer Milou (played by newcomers Dennis Thomas Heinze, Anatole Taubman PRO - Mojen and Emilia Schüle) during a production DUCERS Tom Zickler, Christoph Fisser PRO- at the DEFA studios. They are clearly meant DUCTION COMPANY Traumfabrik Babelsberg, for each other, but then the border is closed in co-production with Babelsberg Film, TOBIS on August 13th and construction begins on Filmproduktion, PANTALEON Films, ARRI the Berlin Wall. The lovers are seemingly Media, herbX film, Funkhaus Berlin separated forever and it is unlikely that they LANGUAGE German will ever see each other again – until Emil hatches a crazy plan to be reunited with his CONTACT beloved Milou... TOBIS Film

-year-old Ben’s village will soon be GENRE Family Entertainment CATEGORY only an open brown coal mine. He and Feature DIRECTOR Sarah Winkenstette 11his family move to a nearby city but SCREENPLAY Susanne Finken CAST Yoran Ben fails to fit in at his new school. Bullied, Leicher, Sohbi Awad, Andreas Nickl, he returns secretly to his old, abandoned Mohamed Achour, Anna Stieblich, Anna home. His one pleasure, football, pales with Böttcher, Basti Campmann PRODUCERS the arrival of 12-year-old Tariq, a Syrian re - Jonas Weydemann, Jakob D. Weydemann fugee and better player. But when bureau- PRODUCTION COMPANY Weydemann Bros., cracy stops Tariq playing and he runs away, in co-production with Windmill Film Ben finds him and learns that Tariq is despe- LANGUAGE German rate to be reunited with his scattered family. To cheer him up, Ben shares his biggest CONTACT secret: the village. Jealousy on the football Weydemann Bros. field becomes friendship and understanding. [email protected] So when Tariq’s brother calls from Amster- www.weydemannbros.com dam, wanting Tariq to join him, he will leave

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GERMAN FILMS: A PROFILE GFQ 3-2018 GERMAN FILMS SERVICE + MARKETING

is the national information and advisory SUPERVISORY. BOARD center for the promotion of German films worldwide. It was established in 1954 under Peter Herrmann Chairman the name Export-Union of German Cinema as Jana Cernik the umbrella association for the Association Katharina Cramer-Hadjidimos of German Feature Film Producers, the Peter Dinges Association of New German Feature Film Antonio Exacoustos Producers and the Association of German Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer Film Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. In 2004, the TEAM company was reorganized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Mariette Rissenbeek Managing Director Marketing GmbH. Mai Anh Do Accounts Christine Harrasser Distribution Support, Television, Business Affairs SHAREHOLDERS are the German Pro - Angela Hawkins Communications & Marketing ducers Association, the German Pro ducers Nicole Kaufmann Regional Coordinator: USA, UK & Northern Europe Alliance, the Association of German Film Ex- Birgit Koch Press & PR porters, the German Federal Film Board Marita Luger Assistant to the Managing Director (FFA), the Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Dennis Ruh Festival Relations Documentary Association, FilmFernsehFonds Fides Schäffer Regional Coordinator: Asia & Australia Bayern, Film- und Medien stiftung NRW, Maike Schantz Regional Coordinator: Southern Europe & Latin America Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Martin Scheuring Project Coordinator & Short Film German Short Film Association. Andrea Schiefer Monitoring & Strategic Development, Administration Bernhard Simek Regional Coordinator: Eastern Europe, Documentary Film German Films’ budget of presently €4.82 million comes from film export levies, the RANGE OF ACTIVITIES office of the Federal Government Com - missioner for Culture and the Media, and Close cooperation with major interna- Publication of informational literature the FFA. The eight main regional film funds tional film festivals, including Berlin, Cannes, about current German films and the German (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderung Venice, San Sebastian, Locarno, Rome, film industry, as well as international market Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film- und Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Toronto, New York, analy ses and special festival brochures Medien stiftung NRW, HessenFilm, Medien - Shanghai, Warsaw, Moscow, and Busan board Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden- A website (www.german-films.de) offer - Württemberg, Mittel deutsche Medien- Organization of umbrella stands for ing informa tion about new German films, a förderung, and Nord media) make a financial German sales companies and producers at film archive, in formation and links to German contribution towards the work of German international television and film markets and international film festivals and institu - Films. (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shanghai, tions Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy) German Films is a founding member of the Organization of the selection procedure European Film Promotion, a network of Staging of Festivals of German Films in for the German entry for the Oscar® for Best European film organizations with similar selected inter national territories in coopera- Foreign Language Film responsibilities to those of German Films. tion with the Goethe-Institut The organiza tion, with its headquarters in Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint Staging of industry screenings in key DW-TV KINO program which features the projects for the pre sentation of European international territories latest German film releases and inter national films on an inter national level. productions in Germany Providing advice and information for rep - In association and cooperation with its share - resentatives of the international press and Organization of the German Films Pre- holders, German Films works to promote fea- buyers from the fields of cinema, home views geared toward arthouse distributors ture, documentary, television and short films. entertain ment, and television and buyers of German films

In addition, German Films has foreign rep - Providing advice and information for Selective financial Distribution Support resentatives for Eastern Europe and China/ German filmmakers and press on inter - for the foreign releases of German films Southeast Asia. national festivals, conditions of participation, and German films being shown Organization with UniFrance of the annual German-French film meeting Organization of the annual Next Genera- tion Short Tiger short film program, which presents a selection of shorts and is inter - nationally premiered in Cannes 44 GFQ3_18_Druckvorlage.qxp_Layout 1 25.07.18 14:51 Seite 45

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Allianz Deutscher Produzenten – Film & Fernsehen e.V. German Producers Alliance Kronenstr. 3 | 10117 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-2 06 70 88 0 | fax +49-30-2 06 70 88 44 | [email protected] | www.produzentenallianz.de

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm e.V. German Documentary Association Schweizer Str. 6 | 60594 Frankfurt am Main/Germany phone +49-69-62 37 00 | fax +49-61 42-96 64 24 | [email protected] | www.agdok.de

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kurzfilm e.V. German Short Film Association Förstereistr. 36 | 01099 Dresden/Germany phone +49-3 51-4 04 55 75 | fax +49-3 51-4 04 55 76 | [email protected] | www.ag-kurzfilm.de

Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen Potsdamer Str. 2 | 10785 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-30 09 03-0 | fax +49-30-30 09 03-13 | [email protected] | www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Medien in Bayern Sonnenstr. 21 | 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-54 46 02-0 | fax +49-89-54 46 02 21 | [email protected] | www.fff-bayern.de

Filmförderungsanstalt German Federal Film Board Große Präsidentenstr. 9 | 10178 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-27 57 70 | fax +49-30-27 57 71 11 | [email protected] | www.ffa.de

Film- und Medienstiftung NRW GmbH Kaistr. 14 | 40221 Düsseldorf/Germany phone +49-2 11-93 05 00 | fax +49-2 11-93 05 05 | [email protected] | www.filmstiftung.de

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH August-Bebel-Str. 26-53 | 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg/Germany phone +49-3 31-74 38 70 | fax +49-3 31-7 43 87 99 | [email protected] | www.medienboard.de

Verband Deutscher Filmproduzenten e.V. German Producers Association Häberlstr. 5 | 80337 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-22 84 50 45 | fax +49-89-12 19 76 03 [email protected] | www.verbanddeutscherfilmproduzenten.de

Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Federal Government Commissioner for Culture & the Media Köthener Str. 2 | 10963 Berlin/Germany | phone +49-30-18 68 10 fax +49-30-1 86 81 54 43 51 | [email protected] | www.kulturstaatsminister.de

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH Friedensallee 14–16 | 22765 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-40-398 37-0 | fax +49-40-398 37-10 | [email protected] | www.ffhsh.de

HessenFilm und Medien GmbH Am Steinernen Stock 1 | 60320 Frankfurt am Main/Germany phone +49-69-15 32 404-0 | fax +49-69-15 32 404 99 | [email protected] | www.hessenfilm.de

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Hainstr. 17-19 | 04109 Leipzig/Germany phone +49-3 41-26 98 70 | fax +49-3 41-2 69 87 65 | [email protected] | www.mdm-online.de

nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH Expo Plaza 1 | 30539 Hanover/Germany phone +49-5 11-1 23 45 60 | fax +49-5 11-12 34 56 29 | [email protected] | www.nordmedia.de

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Verband deutscher Filmexporteure e.V. (VDFE) Robert-Koch-Str. 1 80538 Munich/Germany Berlin office: phone +49-173-577 08 38 Winterfeldtstr. 56 fax +49-89-570 877 60 10781 Berlin/Germany [email protected] phone +49-30-8 61 23 93 www.vdfe.de

ARRI Media International Films Boutique GmbH Picture Tree International GmbH Türkenstr. 89 Köpenicker Str. 184 Husemannstr. 7 80799 Munich/Germany 10997 Berlin/Germany 10435 Berlin/Germany phone +49-89-38 09 12 88 phone +49-30-69 53 78 50 phone +49-30-420 824 80 fax +49-89-38 09 16 19 [email protected] fax +49-30-420 824 812 [email protected] www.filmsboutique.com [email protected] www.arrimedia.de/international www.picturetree-international.com

Beta Cinema GmbH Global Screen GmbH SOLA Media GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28d Sonnenstr. 21 Rotebühlplatz 29 82041 Oberhaching/Germany 80331 Munich/Germany 70178 Stuttgart/Germany phone +49-89-6 73 46 98 28 phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00 phone +49-7 11-96 89 44 40 [email protected] fax +49-89-55 87 61 91 06 fax +49-7 11-96 89 44 51 www.betacinema.com [email protected] [email protected] www.globalscreen.de www.sola-media.com

Constantin Film Verleih GmbH Media Luna New Films UG Feilitzschstr. 6 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6th Floor 80802 Munich/Germany 50672 Cologne/Germany phone +49-89-44 44 60 0 phone +49-2 21-51 09 18 91 fax +49-89-44 44 60 666 fax +49-2 21-51 09 18 99 [email protected] [email protected] www.constantin-film.de www.medialuna.biz

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