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2014 VENICE CONTACT Dirk Schürhoff [email protected] VENICE & Toronto LINE UP +49 170 638 4806 TORONTO CONTACT Dirk Schürhoff [email protected] +49 170 638 4806 Thorsten Ritter [email protected] +49 172 858 7014 Tassilo Hallbauer [email protected] +49 176 1031 2646 King Ballroom Hyatt Regency Hotel 370 King St. West Mezzanine Level (German Films Stand) HEAD OFFICE BETA CINEMA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28d D-82041 Oberhaching Phone +49 89 673469 - 828 Fax +49 89 673469 - 888 www.betacinema.com OFFICIAL selection THE farewell partY by Sharon Maymon page 4 and Tal Granit LABYRINTH OF LIES by Giulio Ricciarelli page 5 toUR DE force by Christian Zübert page 6 GOMORRAH by Stefano Sollima page 7 Upcomings GEORG ELSER by Oliver Hirschbiegel page 9 THE HAPPY PRINCE by Rupert Everett page 10 walter by Anna Mastro page 11 GHOST HUNTERS ON ICY trails by Tobi Baumann page 12 WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE strong. by Burhan Qurbani page 13 Kafka‘S THE BUrrow by Jochen Alexander Freydank page 14 WRECKED by Sönke Wortmann page 15 THE little MEDIC by Peter Claridge page 16 For further information, including trailers, please visit our website www.betacinema.com VENICE & SCREENING SCHEDULE VENICE & toronto toronto VENICE THE farewell partY Wednesday Aug 27th 10:00 p.m. Sala Perla 2 P&I Friday Aug 29th 5:00 p.m. Sala Perla WORLD PREMIERE Friday Sep 5th 10:00 p.m. Sala Perla 2 PUBLIC toronto THE farewell partY Saturday Sep 6th 7:00 p.m. Scotiabank 10 P&I Sunday Sep 7th 4:30 p.m. Scotiabank 14 PUBLIC Tuesday Sep 9th 1:45 p.m. Scotiabank 3 PUBLIC Wednesday Sep10th 8:00 p.m. Scotiabank 7 P&I Sunday Sep 14th 9:00 a.m. Scotiabank 4 PUBLIC LABYRINTH OF LIES Friday Sep 5th 2:15 p.m. Scotiabank 10 P&I Saturday Sep 6th 8:45 p.m. Scotiabank 2 WORLD PREMIERE Monday Sep 8th 10:00 p.m. Scotiabank 13 PUBLIC Tuesday Sep 9th 7:00 p.m. Scotiabank 10 P&I Friday Sep 12th 9:00 p.m. Scotiabank 3 PUBLIC toUR DE force Sunday Sep 7th 9:15 a.m. Scotiabank 14 P&I Monday Sep 8th 6:45 p.m. Scotiabank 3 PUBLIC Wednesday Sep 10th 11:15 a.m. TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 PUBLIC Sunday Sep 14th 12:45 p.m. Isabel Bader Theatre PUBLIC gomorrah Saturday Sep 6th 6:00 p.m. Scotiabank 1 PUBLIC Monday Sep 8th 11:30 a.m. Scotiabank 7 P&I Saturday Sep 13th 6:15 p.m. TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 PUBLIC Yehezkel, age 75, living in a Jerusalem retirement home, decides to fulfill his terminally ill best friend Max’s THE FAREWELL PARTY wish to die in peace. Despite the objections of his wife Levana, Yehezkel and Max’s wife Yana enlist the help OFFICIAL of Dr. Daniel, a veterinarian, and retired police officer Raffi Segal to help them with their mission. At the selection by Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit moment of truth when the group realize that none of them is willing to “pull the trigger”, Yehezkel builds a machine for self- euthanasia. But after Max is gone, rumors about the machine begin to spread, and the group receives more pleas for help. Meanwhile Yehezkel refuses to face the reality of his wife’s deteriorating dementia. As Yehezkel navigates between new requests for the machine, and Levana’s growing dependency, boundaries begin to blur, and the moral dilemmas the group face become impossible to bear. A bunch of geezers at an old-age house construct a self-euthanasia device to assist their dying friend end his life in dignity. Original Title MITA TOVA Director Sharon Maymon Tal Granit Cast Ze’ev Revach Levana Finkelshtein Aliza Rozen Ilan Dar Rafi Tabor Genre Tragicomedy Language Hebrew Length 93 minutes Produced by Pie Films and 2Team production in co- production with Pallas Film Twenty Twenty Vision and United King Films Status completed SCREENINGS VENICE Wed | Aug 27 | 10:00 pm | Sala Perla 2 | P&I Fri | Aug 29 | 05:00 pm | Sala Perla | WORLD PREMIERE Fri | Sep 5 | 10:00 pm | Sala Perla 2 | PUBLIC 14 nominations at this year‘s Ophirs, the Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, SCREENINGS toronto Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. Sat | Sep 6 | 07:00 pm | Scotiabank 10 | P&I Sun | Sep 7 | 04:30 pm| Scotiabank 14 | PUBLIC Tue | Sep 9 | 01:45 pm | Scotiabank 3 | PUBLIC Wed | Sep 10 | 09:00 am | Scotiabank 7 | P&I In LABYRINTH OF LIES the economic miracle is changing the life of Germans in postwar Germany. Most of OFFICIAL LABYRINTH OF LIES them are sick of the war and prefer to push their guilt to the back of their mind. When a journalist (André Szymanski) identifies a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz, no one wants to take selection by Giulio Ricciarelli notice. But a young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling – INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS / YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE) takes on the case and can‘t even be stopped by his boss. During his research he realizes that some Germans claim that they never heard the expression „Auschwitz,“ while others try to forget about it. As the resolute prosecutor doesn‘t give up, the Attorney General Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss) retains him to take charge of the investigations. Struggling with an overload of information, the young attorney blunders into a labyrinth of guilt and lies where he almost gets lost. “I want these lies and this silence to finally stop!” Original Title IM LABYRINTH DES SCHWEIGENS Director Giulio Ricciarelli DoP Martin Langer (SOPHIE SCHOLL, THE WHITE MASAI) Cast Alexander Fehling (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) André Szymanski Friederike Becht (THE READER, HANNAH ARENDT) Johann von Bülow Gert Voss Genre Drama Language German Length 121 min Produced by Claussen+Wöbke+Putz Filmproduktion in co-production with naked eye filmproduction GmbH Status completed SCREENINGS Fri | Sep 5 | 02:15 pm | Scotiabank 10 | P&I Sat | Sep 6 | 08:45 pm |Scotiabank 2 | WORLD PREMIERE Mon | Sep 8 | 10:00 pm | Scotiabank 13 | PUBLIC Tue | Sep 9 | 07:00 pm | Scotiabank 10 | P&I Based on true events of the investigations that lead to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the 1960ies that Fri | Sep 12 | 09:00 pm | Scotiabank 3 | PUBLIC eventually tackled the murders and sentenced Nazi criminals to prison. Belgium, of all places! What‘s Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes‘ OFFICIAL toUR DE force and Kiki‘s turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all look forward to the adventure, after all they know that what counts the most is the time they spend together. selection by Christian Zübert It‘s only after the tour has begun that Hannes tells his friends that he‘s suffering from an incurable disease. The trip is to be his last. At first, the group is shocked and helpless, but after they hit the road again, they embark on a wild and one- of-a-kind adventure. Through Hannes, they realize how precious life is. Equipped with a list of things that still remain to do, and aware that nothing will be the same after this trip, they celebrate life as they never did before… The feeling there‘s nothing left to lose Original Title HIN UND WEG Director Christian Zübert (THREE QUARTER MOON) DoP Ngo The Chau (STEREO, ALMANYA) Cast Florian David Fitz (VINCENT WANTS TO SEA) Julia Koschitz Jürgen Vogel (THE WAVE, THE FREE WILL) Johannes Allmayer (VINCENT WANTS TO SEA) Volker Bruch (GENERATION WAR) Miriam Stein (YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE, GENERATION WAR) Hannelore Elsner (CHERRY BLOSSOMS - HANAMI) Genre Drama Language German Length 95 min Produced by Majestic Filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF Status completed SCREENINGS Sun | Sep 7 | 09:15 am | Scotiabank 14 | P&I Mon | Sep 8 | 06:45 pm | Scotiabank 3 | PUBLIC Wed | Sep 10 | 11:15 am | TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 | PUBLIC Sun | Sep 14 | 12:45 pm | Isabel Bader Theatre | PUBLIC This is the inside story of the Camorra, the fierce Neapolitan crime organization, told through the eyes of OFFICIAL GOMORRAH 30-year-old Ciro, the right hand of the clan‘s godfather, Pietro Savastano. selection by Stefano Sollima Like no one else, Ciro knows what it means to be a loyal clan member. But when clan leader Pietro decides to sacrifice the lives of many of his own only to make a bloody statement to rival clan boss Salvatore CONTE, something dies in Ciro – for one of the many victims of the forced bloodshed is his foster father ATTILIO, himself an ever-loyal clan member. Still, when Pietro is sidelined by a long jail sentence, Ciro‘s own code of honor forces him to obey Pietro‘s orders to be a mentor first to Pietro‘s son GENNARO, then to his wife IMMA – both seemingly inept to hold the reins of power but learning quickly... With his back against the wall and knowing that sowing the seeds of chaos is the best method to yield a new order, Ciro finally forges a secret pact with the clan‘s worst enemy, Conte, resulting in relentless bloodshed outside and inside the Savastano clan but, finally, the desired new order, with Ciro as the new godfather. But is he really? Pietro, seemingly having gone crazy in his endless months of solitary confinement, escapes while being transferred Based on Roberto Saviano‘s bestseller and the Cannes Grand Jury Prize to a mental clinic. Suddenly, his eyes are clear, vivid and fierce again – forecasting a vendetta bloodier than winning feature film by Matteo Garrone any Naples has ever seen… Original Title GOMORRAH Director Stefano Sollima (ROMANZO CRIMINALE) Claudio Cupellini (A QUIET LIFE) Francesca Comencini Cast Marco d‘Amore (A QUIET LIFE) Fortunato Cerlino Maria Pia Calzone Salvatore Esposito Marco Palvetti Domenico Balsamo Genre Crime Drama Language Italian Length 12 x one hour Produced by Sky Italy, Fandango Films, Cattleya and Beta Film Status completed SCREENINGS Sat | Sep 6 | 06:00 pm | Scotiabank 1 | PUBLIC Mon | Sep 8 | 11:30 am | Scotiabank 7 | P&I Sat | Sep 13 | 06:15 pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 | PUBLIC UpcomingS UPCOMINGS Georg Elser was a man who could have changed world history and saved millions of human lives.