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GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY THE BERLINALE ISSUE NEW GERMAN FILMS AT THE BERLINALE SHOOTING STAR Franz Rogowski DIRECTORS Burhan Qurbani & Ziska Riemann PRODUCER Arne Birkenstock of Fruitmarket Arts & Media ISSUE 1-2018 ACTRESS Henriette Confurius CONTENTS GFQ 1-2018 4 5 6 7 8 10 13 16 32 35 36 49 2 GFQ 1-2018 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE IN BERLIN NEW DOCUMENTARIES 3 TAGE IN QUIBERON 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON Emily Atef ................. 4 ABHISHEK UND DIE HEIRAT ABHISHEK AND THE MARRIAGE Kordula Hildebrandt .................. 43 IN DEN GÄNGEN IN THE AISLES Thomas Stuber ............................ 5 CLIMATE WARRIORS Carl-A. Fechner, Nicolai Niemann ............... 43 MEIN BRUDER HEISST ROBERT UND IST EIN IDIOT MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT Philip Gröning .................... 6 EINGEIMPFT FAMILY SHOTS David Sieveking ................................. 44 TRANSIT Christian Petzold ................................................................ 7 FAREWELL YELLOW SEA Marita Stocker ....................................... 44 DAS SCHWEIGENDE KLASSENZIMMER GLOBAL FAMILY Melanie Andernach, Andreas Köhler .................. 45 THE SILENT REVOLUTION Lars Kraume ......................................... 8 JOMI – LAUTLOS, ABER NICHT SPRACHLOS STYX Wolfgang Fischer ...................................................................... 9 JOMI’S SPHERE OF ACTION Sebastian Voltmer ............................. 45 DER FILM VERLÄSST DAS KINO – VOM KÜBELKIND-EXPERIMENT KINDSEIN – ICH SEHE WAS, WAS DU NICHT SIEHST! UND ANDEREN UTOPIEN FILM BEYOND CINEMA – THE DUMPSTER KINDSEIN – UNADULTERATED Lilian Nix ...................................... 46 KID EXPERIMENT AND OTHER UTOPIAS Robert Fischer .............. 10 LAS LENTEJAS Y EL DESTINO Miguel Müller-Frank .................... 46 GESCHICHTEN VOM KÜBELKIND STORIES OF THE DUMPSTER KID Ula Stöckl, Edgar Reitz ............. 11 DIE NEUEN KINDER VON GOLZOW THE NEW CHILDREN OF GOLZOW Simone Catharina Gaul ........... 47 LUZ Tilman Singer ........................................................................... 12 WENN GOTT SCHLÄFT WHEN GOD SLEEPS Till Schauder ........... 47 RÜCKENWIND VON VORN AWAY YOU GO Philipp Eichholtz ............ 13 NEW SHORTS 303 Hans Weingartner ..................................................................... 14 FOR THE TIME BEING Daniela Lucato ........................................... 48 SUPA MODO Likarion Wainaina ....................................................... 15 THE REDHEAD Natalie MacMahon .................................................. 48 BLAU David Jansen ........................................................................... 16 LA SOMBRA DE UN DIOS PORTRAITS A GOD’S SHADOW Bernhard Hetzenauer ...................................... 49 BEYOND CULTURAL BORDERS A portrait of director Burhan Qurbani .............................................. 18 UGLY Nikita Diakur .......................................................................... 49 “IT HAS TO HAVE A STORY AND A ʻKA-POW!!ʼ” UPCOMING FILMS A portrait of director Ziska Riemann ............................................... 20 25 KM/H Markus Goller ................................................................... 50 PRODUCING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET A portrait of Fruitmarket Arts & Media ........................................... 22 BERLIN, I LOVE YOU Peter Chelsom, Dennis Gansel, Massy Tadjedin, Til Schweiger, Fernando Eimbcke, Dianna Agron, Dani Levy, THE WORK BECOMES THE THING Justin Franklin, Daniel Lwowski, Josef Rusnak ............................... 50 A portrait of actress Henriette Confurius ....................................... 24 DAS BOOT Andreas Prochaska ....................................................... 50 NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 26 THE BRA Veit Helmer ...................................................................... 51 NEW FEATURES CENTURY OF WOMEN Uli Gaulke ................................................... 51 1000 ARTEN REGEN ZU BESCHREIBEN DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN Isa Prahl ............................................ 32 DOGS OF BERLIN Christian Alvart ................................................. 51 ARTHUR & CLAIRE Miguel Alexandre ............................................ 33 GLÜCK IST WAS FÜR WEICHEIER Anca Miruna Lazarescu ......... 52 DIESES BESCHEUERTE HERZ GUNDERMANN Andreas Dresen .................................................... 52 THIS CRAZY HEART Marc Rothemund ............................................ 34 KIDNAPPING STELLA Thomas Sieben ........................................... 52 FACK JU GOEHTE 3 Bora Dagtekin ................................................. 35 KOPFPLATZEN Savas Ceviz ............................................................ 53 HEXE LILLI RETTET WEIHNACHTEN LILLY’S BEWITCHED CHRISTMAS Wolfgang Groos ........................ 36 LEIF IN CONCERT Christian Klandt ................................................ 53 HILFE, ICH HAB MEINE ELTERN GESCHRUMPFT MARNIE’S WORLD Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein ... 53 HELP, I SHRUNK MY PARENTS Tim Trageser ................................ 37 DAS SCHÖNSTE MÄDCHEN DER WELT Aron Lehmann ................. 54 SCHNEEBLIND SNOWBLIND Arto Sebastian ................................. 38 DIE UNSICHTBAREN Markus Dietrich ............................................ 54 STEIG.NICHT.AUS! DON’T.GET.OUT! Christian Alvart ..................... 39 AN UNUSUAL SPY Nicola Alice Hens .............................................. 54 A THOUGHT OF ECSTASY RP Kahl ................................................ 40 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 57 TIAN – DAS GEHEIMNIS DER SCHMUCKSTRASSE TIAN – THE MYSTERY OF ST. PAULI Damian Schipporeit ............... 41 Film Exporters ................................................................................. 58 VIELMACHGLAS A JAR FULL OF LIFE Florian Ross ...................... 42 Imprint .............................................................................................. 59 3 IN BERLIN GFQ 1-2018 IN COMPETITION © Rohfilm Factory/Peter Hartwig 3 TAGE IN QUIBERON 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON 981, Quiberon, a small village on the Schneider to be more vulnerable than ever. GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature YEAR OF coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch And yet, by the end of those days, she may PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Emily Atef 1arrives to visit her old friend who has have found the inner strength to be able to SCREENPLAY Emily Atef CINEMATOGRAPHY retreated to a spa hotel to escape the start over, something she desperately wants… Thomas Kiennast CAST Marie Bäumer, Birgit daily pressures of her life. Her friend is Minichmayr, Charly Hübner, Robert Gwisdek world-famous star Romy Schneider, but to- EMILY ATEF was born in Berlin to French and PRODUCER Karsten Stöter CO-PRODUCERS gether they appear like two regular women, Iranian parents. She grew up in Los Angeles Danny Krausz, Sophie Dulac, Michel Zana who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it and Paris, before moving to London to work PRODUCTION COMPANY Rohfilm Factory, in quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is sup- in the theater. In 2001, she enrolled in the co-production with Dor Film, Sophie Dulac posed to offer the support the sensitive German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Productions RUNTIME 115 min LANGUAGE actress needs to be able to truly face her own Berlin. Her acclaimed films include: MOLLY’S German, French FESTIVALS Berlinale 2018 demons. Shortly after, the young journalist WAY (2005), THE STRANGER IN ME (2008), (In Competition) Michael Jürgs and Romy's long-time ac- KILL ME (2011), DON’T WORRY I’M FINE (TV, quaintance, photographer Robert Lebeck, 2017), and 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON (2018). SALES arrive to conduct an interview for the famous Beta Cinema German magazine STERN. Immediately, a [email protected] cat-and-mouse game ensues between the www.betacinema.com fragile diva and the ambitious author. Hilde attempts to guard her friend, while the jour- nalists try to capture the most inner feelings of this fascinating woman for their audience. For three days and nights the action between tenderness and mutual manipulation keeps the four people deeply engaged in ups and downs of emotions, and reveals Romy 4 GFQ 1-2018 IN BERLIN IN COMPETITION © Sommerhaus Filmproduktion/Anke Neugebauer IN DEN GÄNGEN IN THE AISLES fter the shy and reclusive THOMAS STUBER was born in 1981 in Leipzig GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature YEAR OF Christian loses his job, he starts and completed his degree in Media and PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Thomas Ato work for a wholesale market. Directing at the Filmakademie Baden- Stuber SCREENPLAY Clemens Meyer, Bruno from the beverage aisle Württem berg in 2011. With the short film Thomas Stuber CINEMATOGRAPHY Peter takes him under his wing and quickly be - ES GEHT UNS GUT he won the Young Talent Matjasko CAST Franz Rogowski, Sandra comes a fatherly friend to him. He shows him Award of the Film Industry in Baden- Hüller, Peter Kurth PRODUCERS Jochen the ropes and patiently teaches him how to Württemberg in 2006. His first feature film Laube, Fabian Maubach CO-PRODUCERS operate the fork lift. In the aisles he meets TEENAGE ANGST was invited to the Undine Filter, Thomas Král, Martin Früh - “Sweets”-Marion. He is instantly smitten by Berlinale/Perspektive Deutsches Kino in 2008 morgen PRODUCTION COMPANY Sommer- her mysterious charm. The coffee machine and won the German Young Talent Award at haus Filmproduktion, in co-pro duction with becomes