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PRESENTEDCINEMA BY 21 ZEITGEIST SEPTEMBER 25 - 29, 2015 NORTHWEST PORTLAND GERMAN SPONSORS The Portland German Film Festival is made possible through the support of the members of Zeitgeist Northwest and the following sponsors: WELCOME

Welcome to the 6th annual Portland German Film Festival, presented by Zeitgeist Northwest! Join us at Cinema 21 from Sept. 25 – 29, 2015 for a fantastic line-up of contemporary and classic films from Germany, Aus- tria and Switzerland. All films presented in German with English subtitles. AIRLINE SPONSOR

Once again we have several US Premieres, new comedies and historical dramas as well as classic German movies.

We are very honored that Katja Riemann will be attending the US Premiere of Margarethe von Trotta’s film The Misplaced World accepting the first Portland German Film Festival Award as we celebrate her career as an ac- SPONSORS tress, musician and writer which has spanned nearly three decades. Katja Riemann is one of the most talented and busiest actresses in Germany.

A special DANKESCHON to the members of Zeitgeist Northwest. Without their contribution, this festival would not be possible and a thank you to our sponsors.

See you at the movies!

Petra Brambrink - President, Zeitgeist Northwest Yvonne P. Behrens - Director, Portland German Film Festival SPECIAL THANKS

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BAREFOOT FILMS SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Friday, September 25 7:30 The Misplaced World Cinema 21

Saturday, September 26 3:00 Lola on the Pea Cinema 21

Then is is the End? 5:00 Cinema 21 The Film Critic Michael Althen

7:00 Head Full of Honey Cinema 21

9:30 Wacken - The Movie Cinema 21

Sunday, September 27 1:00 The Murders are Among Us Cinema 21 US PREMIERE 3:00 Shana- The Wolf's Music Cinema 21 OPENING NIGHT

5:00 Born in '45 Cinema 21 The Misplaced World (Die Abhandene Welt) 7:00 Grüningers Fall Cinema 21 September 25 at 7:30 p.m. • Cinema 21 Directed by Margarethe von Trotta • 101 minutes Monday, September 28 7:00 In the Basement Cinema 21 Paul Kromberger discovers a photo on the internet of US opera diva Ca- terina Fabiani, who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His un- Tuesday, September 29 7:00 Bandits Cinema 21 ease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger. At their first meeting, Caterina is dismis- sive and unprepared to impart any information about herself or her family. TICKETS AND PASSES But, little by little, secrets which have been hidden for decades deep in the Opening Night Film and Party - $25 Cinema 21 • 616 NW 21st Avenue Opening Night Film Only - $12 Tickets for all films at Cinema 21 will be avail- hearts of the older generation come to light. With emotional verve the film General Admission - $10 able at the box office at 616 NW 21st. Ave. on tells of a sudden and unexpected invasion of the past into the present, of Seniors and Students with ID - $8 the day of each show. Cinema 21 box office suppressed fear and guilt, of a new self-confidence and how acknowledg- Children under 12 - $5 does not sell tickets in advance. ing the truth can free both the body and the soul. A roller-coaster of emo- Advance Ticket Sales - Advance tickets at www.portlandgermanfilmfestival. tions with an uncertain outcome. Katja Riemann will be in attendance. She will receive the 1st Portland Ger- man Film Festival Award at this screening. THANK YOU Opening remarks by Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karen & Cliff Deveney German International School Stefan Schlüter. Jeanne & Stephen Schapp Sommerschule am Pacific This movie is proudly sponsored by CONDOR. Gabriel Mendoza German Department Reed College Sebastian Heiduschke German Studies of Lewis & Clark Renate Zylla Lola on the Pea (Lola auf der Erbse) Then is it the End? Head Full of Honey (Honig im Kopf) Wacken - The Movie September 26 • 3:00 p.m • Cinema 21 The Film Critic Michael Althen September 26 • 7:00 p.m • Cinema 21 (Wacken – der Film) Directed by Thomas Heinemann (Was Heisst hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen) Directed by Til Schweiger, Lars Gmehling September 26 • 9:30 p.m 90 mininutes September 26 • 5:00 p.m • Cinema 21 92 minutes • US Premiere Directed by Norbert Heitker • 92 min. Directed by Dominik Graf • 120 min. Nine-year-old Lola lives on a charming A film continues even after the final A story of the love between Tilda Wacken is the ultimate documentary old houseboat with her mother. But life credits have rolled – when people talk (Emma Schweiger) and her grandfa- about the biggest Heavy Metal festival isn’t exactly going swimmingly for her. about it and discuss it. Critic Michael ther Amandus (Dieter Hallervorden). in the world. Filmed with six camera She misses her long-gone dad, and Althen, who died in May 2011, knew Amandus has Alzheimer’s. Only the units and 18 stereoscopic 3D camer- doesn’t much care for her mom’s new how to get this sort of passionate dia- ten-year-old Tilda can deal with him as, the movie takes you on stage and boyfriend. She also has to contend with logue with cinema going in the most and his disease. This special con- behind the curtain with Anthrax, Al- schoolmates who tease her and chase beautiful manner with the texts he nection approaches the disease in a ice Cooper, Deep Purple, Motorhead, her home from school. But one day, wrote. Art and fairground, documen- humorous but emotional way, with- Rammstein and many more. Award she makes a friend—a quiet new boy tary and fantasy, everyday life and out forgetting its tragedy. Amandus’s winning director Norbert Heitker in town, named Rebin. Rebin’s family ecstasy – it was these contrasts that condition is gets worse after his wife captures the unique atmosphere and is secluded and mysterious, and Lola drew Michael Althen into the cinema. dies. It seems to be a desperate situ- documents four days of music, mud soon finds out that they are migrants Colleagues, friends, directors, his ation, because Tilda’s parents Sarah and madness through the eyes of four who don’t have the proper documents wife, and even Althen himself all get and Nico (Till Schweiger) cannot take fans from Asia, Germany and USA, to live and work in Germany. Together, to have their say and it’s as if film his- care of him. The only way they think WACKEN – THE MOVIE takes you on an the two friends learn to fight for what is tory itself suddenly started speaking. they can help Amandus is to put him amazing journey into the fascinating right, stand up to bullies, and face the Dominik Graf’s endearing portrait of in a nursing home. But little Tilda world of the W:O:A community with future with courage and hope. his friend gets its message across with doesn’t want to have a granddad in the biggest rock stars like DEEP PUR- hardly any film clips. Recollections such a home, so she kidnaps him and PLE, RAMMSTEIN and ALICE COOPER. of Althen’s articles and quotations helps him fulfill his last big dream – to A film like no other – about a festival are enough to put images in motion see Venice again. Venice is the place like no other. in the mind’s eye. Althen once said where Amandus and his wife first that he writes film reviews because met and fell in love. A very special he’s incredibly forgetful, and that adventure begins: a ten-year-old girl writing helped him piece together and a seventy-year old Alzheimers’s which emotions remained after view- patient are on their way to Italy. Head ing a film and why. He usually carried Full of Honey was one of eight films out this pleasurable reconstruction shortlisted by Germany to be their work until deep into the night. A col- submission for the 2016 Academy league of his once said that perhaps Award for Best Foreign Language the unconscious played a role in Al- Film. A special thank you to Till then’s writing. A wonderful notion. Schweiger and Barefoot Films! A special thank you to Preview Production GbR! BAREFOOT FILMS The Murderers are Among Us Shana - The Wolf Music Born in '45 Grüninger's Fall (Atke Grüninger) (Die Morder sind unter Uns) (Shana - die Wolfsmusik) (Jahrgang 45) September 27 • 7:00 p.m • Cinema 21 September 27 • 1:00 p.m • Cinema 21 September 27 • 3:00 p.m • Cinema 21 September 27 • 5:00 p.m • Cinema 21 Directed by Alain Gsponer Directed by Wolfgang Staudte • 85 min. Directed by Nino Jacusso • 96 min. Directed by Jürgen Böttcher • 94 min. 96 mininutes

When Susanne Wallner returns home Shana is a Canadian First Nations girl The US Premiere of the restored In February 1939, Switzerland closes from a concentration camp in 1945, who is a gifted violinist. But she has 4K digital version. Set in East Berlin its borders to Jewish refugees but she finds the city of Berlin in total ru- problems no young person should in 1965, Alfred and Lisa decide to di- hundreds of people continue crossing ins. What's more, the traumatized and have to face; her mother has died, and vorce after only a couple of months of the border without a valid visa. An cynical surgeon, Dr. Mertens, has oc- her father is struggling with his own marriage. Alfred takes a few days off investigation is launched by the Chief cupied her apartment and refuses to demons. Only Shana’s new teacher to clear his head, riding through Berlin of the Swiss immigration authorities leave. While she tries to begin living seems to care about her, and at first, and meeting strangers, although he to look into these illegal border cross- her life again, he feels unable to per- Shana pushes her away. But she meets ultimately returns to Lisa, the ending ings. Police inspector Robert Frei, a form as a doctor and instead drowns another more mystical being to accom- remains open. young, ambitious official who believes his memories in self-pity and alcohol. pany her on her journey: a wild wolf in authority, is summoned to the can- Against the desolate backdrop of the that helps her reconnect with her an- In East Germany's closest counterpart ton of St. Gallen. There, he finds out destroyed city, a love story devel- cestors, make peace with her circum- to early Godard, Jürgen Böttcher grasps that Grüninger is letting refugees in ops. Things are put to the test when stances, and use her talents to express the life of 20-year-olds in Prenzlauer without a valid visa, and even forging Dr. Mertens finds out that the former her passions. Filming with a cast made Berg with social and regional exact- documents and bringing refugees over Hauptmann Brückner, an unscrupu- up of People of the Creeks and Lower ness and translates it into a universal the border illegally. Grüninger is doing lous opportunist who ordered the ex- Nicola Indian Band, near Merritt, Brit- language. The film was banned in 1966 this out of pure humanity. Grüninger's ecution of many innocent women and ish Columbia, Swiss Director, Nino and Böttcher never returned to feature unreasonableness and the sight of children, resides nearby Jacusso spent seven months making filmmaking. the refugees seeking help, makes Frei this moving, magical and authentically doubt whether his task is right. Should intercultural motion picture. he present his report to a superior? Or cover for Paul Grüninger? Sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco and Sponsored by the Consulate General the German Program in the School of Switzerland in San Francisco and of Language, Culture and Society at the German Program in the School Oregon State University. of Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University. In the Basement Bandits (Im Keller) September 29 • 7:00 p.m • Cinema 21 September 28 • 7:00 p.m • Cinema 21 Directed by Katja von Garnier Directed by Ulrich Seidl • 81 min. 110 minutes

A documentary that reveals what its Four female convicts (Katja Riemann, subjects do in their respective base- Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz, ments. This film is about people and Jutta Hoffmann) form a rock band basements and what people do in their while incarcerated. When they're basements in their free time. The film given the opportunity to perform at is about obsessions. In the Basement a police ball outside the confines of is about obsessions: brass-band music the prison, they engineer an escape. and opera arias, expensive furniture Once free, they tour across the coun- and cheap male jokes, sexuality and try, hosting makeshift concerts and shooting, fitness and fascism, whips narrowly evading capture. When the and dolls. After his ambitious Paradise press catches wind of their esca- Trilogy, Ulrich Seidl returns to the doc- pades, their song becomes a radio umentary form with In the Basement, hit, launching them to fame. a film essay that is both funny and sad, it uses the director's characteristic Katja Riemann in attendance. film tableaux to delve into the under- ground of the Austrian soul.

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OCTOBER 2 - 8, 2015 • CINEMA 21 www.pdxqueerfilm.com KATJA RIEMANN PORTLAND GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL AWARD

Katja Riemann will be in attendance opening night to receive the 2015 Portland German Film Festival Award for her body of work including dozens of movie roles and TV acting credits. And kicking off this year's festival with the American Premiere of A MISPLACED WORLD (Die abhan- dene Welt), the latest from legendary director Margarethe von Trotta.

This will be the first Portland German Film Festival Award given to an artist and the selection criteria states “the recipient should be an extraordinary artist currently making a significant contribution to the art of the Moving Picture”.

The daughter of two teachers, Katja Riemann grew up in northern Germany, outside Bremen. In 1986, she was cast as the lead for the TV series “SOMMER IN LESMONA." She received her first award for this role, the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in Gold. Riemann is performing on stage when she is cast in another TV series “REGINA AUF DEN STUFEN." In 1989, she received the GOLDENE KA- MERA as best newcomer for her role starring with Götz George in “TATORT: KATJA’S SCHWIEGEN.”

In 1993, Riemann moves to the big screen and debuts in her first movie role in “EIN MANN FUER JEDE TONART.” That year she meets director Katja von Garnier and they make their first film to- gether, “ABGESCHMINKT.” The film is followed by Sönke Wortmann’s comedy “DER BEWEGTE MAN” which becomes the biggest German box office of the '90s. Reimann is also internationally known, starring with Gerard Depardieu in the French TV movie “BALZAZ“, in Italy in “NOBEL” and in Canada in “DESIRE” (Begierde), for which she is nominated for the Canadian Oscar, the Genie Award.

Her 2003 movie, “ROSENSTRASSE” goes on to win a Golden Globe Award and Katja Riemann receives the “COPPA VOLPI” at the Venice Film Festival. This is the first collaboration between Katja Riemann and Margarethe von Trotta.

Katja Riemann has received nearly all the German acting awards including the Ernest-Lubitsch-Pre- is, the German and the Bavarian Film Preis, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and many more.

In addition, this gifted artist enjoys recognition as a musician and writer of children’s books (il- lustrated by her sister Susanne). She is also involved in AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL and UNICEF.

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