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“MAKE EVERY FILM AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST” EINE VILLA MIT PINIEN A portrait of director Johannes Naber ...... 4 THE PINETREE VILLA Jan Koester ...... 29
WHEN REALITY BECOMES CINEMA DIE WEITE SUCHEN A portrait of director Maria Schrader ...... 6 WIDER HORIZONS Falk Schuster ...... 29
INSPIRING IMAGINATION A portrait of blue eyes Fiction ...... 8 UPCOMING FILMS
THE FULL MEASURE ALPENBRENNEN A portrait of actress Paula Beer ...... 10 Tobias Wiemann ...... 31
BABYLON BERLIN NEWS & NOTES ...... 12 Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten, Achim von Borries ...... 31
FÜHLEN SIE SICH MANCHMAL AUSGEBRANNT UND LEER? NEW FEATURES Lola Randl ...... 31
ANISHOARA HAPPY BURNOUT Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu ...... 18 André Erkau ...... 32
DAS DUNKLE HAUS AM RANDE DES WALDES DIE KLEINE HEXE THE DARK HOUSE BY THE WOODS Johannes Leistner ...... 19 Mike Schaerer ...... 32
GLEISSENDES GLÜCK LEANDERS LETZTE REISE ORIGINAL BLISS Sven Taddicken ...... 20 Nick Baker-Monteys ...... 32
HANNAS SCHLAFENDE HUNDE MONSTER HANNA’S SLEEPING DOGS Andreas Gruber ...... 21 Kerstin Polte ...... 33
DAS KALTE HERZ ONKEL WANJA HEART OF STONE Johannes Naber ...... 22 Anna Martinetz ...... 33
LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ IN LOVE WITH LOU RETURN TO MONTAUK – A PHILOSOPHER’S LIFE Cordula Kablitz-Post ...... 23 Volker Schlöndorff ...... 33
MARIJA SOMMERFEST Michael Koch ...... 24 Sönke Wortmann ...... 34
PAULA TAUSEND ARTEN, DEN REGEN ZU BESCHREIBEN Christian Schwochow ...... 25 Isabel Prahl ...... 34
VOR DER MORGENRÖTE WERK OHNE AUTOR STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ...... 34 Maria Schrader ...... 26
NEW DOCUMENTARIES Shareholders & Supporters ...... 37
PETER HANDKE – BIN IM WALD. KANN SEIN, DASS ICH MICH Film Exporters ...... 38 VERSPÄTE … PETER HANDKE – IN THE WOODS, MIGHT BE LATE Corinna Belz ...... 27 Imprint ...... 39
POWER TO CHANGE Carl-A. Fechner ...... 27
UMARMUNG – TANGO IM SCHWARZWALD EMBRACE – TANGO IN THE BLACK FOREST Irene Schüller ...... 28
WHEN I DANCE Daniela Lucato ...... 28
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DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2016 Johannes Naber (photo © Mark de Longueville) de © Mark (photo Naber Johannes “MAKE EVERY FILM AS IF IT WERE YOUR LAST” A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR JOHANNES NABER
ohannes Naber has a recipe for had a striking moustache like those worn by Johannes Naber began at the Filmakademie success: he is a person who thinks past generations. That looked strange, and I Baden-Württemberg, initially in the screen- politically, and a director with some- thought: surely he is an Albanian himself, tell - play writing course, but ending up in the field Jthing to say. He formulates a theory, ing his own story in this film. Naber put me of documentary film directing, where he poses intelligent questions, and opens up straight on that, saying that he was born in graduated in 1999 with the 60-minute film people’s eyes. No insights or ideas are too Baden-Baden but finds it interesting that POPSTAR. Even at that time, Naber was set - crazy for him to turn into a good film – there many Germans now believe he has Albanian ting his own course: everything in his film just needs to be a clever idea behind it. roots. The Albanians, for their part, had taken about a girl band and a singer-songwriter him for a Turk, probably because of the from Hamburg centered on the question of I met Johannes Naber for the first time on the moustache, as well. Subsequently, the film compromises that have to be accepted in stage of the Berlinale in 2011, at the pre - was received with great enthusiasm by many order to become a successful artist. Working sentation in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino festival-goers all over the world, winning the without compromise is a luxury not everyone of the Max Ophüls Prize winner, which he Special Jury Award in Moscow, and enjoying can afford. So that Johannes Naber can afford had just won for his feature film debut THE great success in Albanian cinemas. Over- this luxury, he has been working as a gaffer ALBANIAN. He was self-confident in discus- night, Johannes Naber’s name was added to for other projects (e.g. JACK by Edward sion with the audience and astonishingly the list of “people to watch”. Berger or THE CULPABLE by Gerd Schneider) well-dressed for a young filmmaker. He also and so procuring a financial basis which
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allows him more freedom in his work as a follow the motto: “Make every film as if it were director. “Non-conformism is actually the your last.” aim,” Naber says with an arch smile, and tells me how Laurens Straub once said to him that Johannes Naber enters into temporary alli- now he had succeeded; he was only mak ing ances for this, re-forging them for every new “consensus-free” films these days. Naber project rather than backing a fixed network. likes that – for him, it’s what it’s all about. The idea of a machine that the same old people keep putting money and ideas into, When he and his sister Milena Maitz, pro - and good films then come out at the bottom ducer and managing director of studio.tv.film, – it doesn’t work for Naber. “I have respect for began to work on his second full-length networks like that, but it is the wrong ap- feature AGE OF CANNIBALS, they also proach for me. I need to construct a new thought: now we are making a film that will machine for every project. That’s my insight meet with absolutely no consensus. It felt that gained from the past.” way above all when they took the project into the funding phase: a lot of convincing had to Now we are eagerly anticipating Naber’s new be done. “I started out from the fixed assump- film, HEART OF STONE with Frederick Lau tion, OK, it will all be over after this film be- and Henriette Confurius in the leading roles cause it’s just so far out … And as things – a fairy-tale film for adults, a romantic love turned out, it’s not far out at all, people think story. Naber himself describes it as “a mix- it’s super. Recently AGE OF CANNIBALS was ture of Russian fairy-tale film and GAME OF on the cover of Stern-TV magazine, so the film THRONES, an opulent work, not a respectable has definitely arrived in the mainstream,” German fairy-tale, not historical realism, but Naber jokes in retrospect. At the award cer - genre and cliché with an anti-materialistic emony for the German Film Award 2015, the message, cinema of the best standard.” It is grotesque story of corporate consultants Johannes Naber’s third feature film and at rightly won the bronze Lola in the category the same time, his third film telling of money Best Feature Film, and screenplay writer and its negative effects on people. That is ob- Stefan Weigl received the Lola for the Best viously Naber’s theme – money as excess, and Screenplay. how it brings evil into the world. HEART OF STONE will be launched in German cinemas In reference to a Fassbinder quotation, Naber this autumn. put the label “films not bombs” on his earlier works, but he no longer uses it that way today. Linda Söffker “If you want to get maximum effect with radi- cal content today, you shouldn’t act the big shot … you may just scare off the people you want to reach. You have to try to make an im- pact through content not via form or a label,” Naber says, summing up his attitude. One thing is certain: making films just for the sake of making films is not his thing. He prefers to
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in Ludwigshafen. And at the beginning of X FILME CREATIVE POOL IDÉALE AUDIENCE MAHA PRODUCTIONS DOR FILM CINEMATE PRESENT August it will be screening in Locarno – in front of 8,000 viewers on the Piazza Grande.
STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE is Schrader’s second work as a director, after her debut film made in Israel nine years ago, LOVE LIFE, which was based on the novel of the same name by bestseller author Zeruya Shalev.
Schrader made her breakthrough as an actress after studying acting at the Max Reinhard Seminar in Vienna during the 90s. She has faced the cameras for Doris Dörrie (NOBODY LOVES ME), Margarethe von Trotta JOSEF HADER BARBARA SUKOWA AENNE SCHWARZ (ROSENSTRASSE) and frequently for Dani Levy, with whom she has also been writing screenplays from the start, including those for I WAS ON MARS, SILENT NIGHT and
A FILM BY MARIA SCHRADER MESCHUGGE, for which she was also co- director. She has received a number of awards for her roles, including the Max Ophüls Prize, the German and the Bavarian almost didn’t find her at first. It is after- Zweig’s Weltschmerz. “Josef Hader is an Film Awards twice, and she won the Silver noon, and Maria Schrader has withdrawn author and an original artist himself,” Bear at the Berlinale 1999 for Max Färber- into the furthermost corner of the Italian Schrader says. “He doesn’t have to ‘get into böck's AIMÉE UND JAGUAR, a film about a Irestaurant. When she sees me, she the role’, we can believe in him straight forbidden love between two women during stands up. “We can talk in peace here,” she away. His intelligence, his sensitivity and his the Second World War. says with a smile of greeting. Above all, she high standards put him on the same level as wants us to talk about her film, STEFAN Zweig himself.” But the big screen is not enough for this all- ZWEIG - FAREWELL TO EUROPE, which is round artist, by any means. Internationally, about author Stefan Zweig’s years in exile. She did intense research for the film, and she made her mark most recently as a GDR Just around the block is the Berlin production Stefan Zweig’s fate and thus the fate of agent in the celebrated TV series DEUTSCH- company X Filme Creative Pool, which co-pro- Europe captured Schrader’s imagination for LAND 83, which was a world-wide export hit duced the film and launched it very success- many years, first as an author and later as a last year. After guest performances at many fully in German cinemas at the beginning of director. Above all, she was fascinated by his outstanding theaters in the German-speaking June, using its own distributing company X engagement for a free, humanitarian Europe. countries, since 2013 she has been a member Verleih. “He always identified far more with a ‘spir - of the ensemble at the Deutsches Schau- itual home’ than with his actual origins. He spielhaus in Hamburg. She has also received Maria Schrader is concentrating hard, she despised nationalism.” She found the perfect awards for her work as an audio play per - answers precisely and with some consid - cameraman for the film’s visual realization in former. eration. Obviously, the subject is one that is Wolfgang Thaler. “He has no interest in re- important to her. As an Austrian Jew and creating reality, but looks for the image that Despite her great versatility, however, radical pacifist, Zweig had to flee from the will turn reality into cinema.” She refers to STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE Nazis, at first to London and then to America. him as “a stroke of luck for this film”. is not only the project closest to Maria In the film that she wrote in collaboration with Schrader’s heart but also her greatest artistic Jan Schomburg she devotes herself to these Every moment of the outcome is convincing. triumph to date. Alongside her colleagues years of exile in Argentina, New York and Spiegel Online called the work a “cinematic Nicolette Krebitz (WILD) and Maren Ade (TONI Brazil up until Zweig’s suicide in 1942. moment of glory” and “simply one of the best ERDMANN), it makes her into the spearhead films of the year”, and for Die Zeit, it showed of a new and exciting type of German cinema, She has made some bold and very clever the “last phase of the author’s life brilliantly, which succeeds in something that is often so deci sions here, not recounting this phase of without swagger or false patina”. But she very difficult: prompting equal enthusiasm in his life as a conventional biopic but in six not only struck a chord among the critics. both critics and viewers. highlighted episodes, which “go into detail German audiences also recognized the sharp rather than breadth,” as Schrader says, and relevance of the refugee issue, as well as a Thomas Abeltshauser leave space for a complex character study long overdue reiteration of the European ideal with all its inner conflicts precisely because in opposition to the all-pervading mood of they leave so much out between the brief crisis and manifestations of disintegration. snap shots. And she has cast international actors for the characters, even down to the In the summer, which generally means a smallest of supporting roles, so authentically poorer turnover in cinemas, the film was able repro ducing the jumble of different lan - to assert itself against the European Football guages among the exiles. Championship and the sunny weather with an astonishing 150,000 viewers after the first five At first glance, her choice of the leading actor weeks. Since its launch, it has continued to is also surprising, but it actually emerges as take first place in the arthouse charts. In July, a brilliant coup: Austrian cabaret artist and finally, the drama was awarded the Prize for actor Josef Hader, who brilliantly embodies Cinematic Art at the Festival of German Film
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t all started in Locarno,“ recalls premiered in 2007 in and was Macedonia’s that I like to focus on telling stories with a “ Corinna Mehner, managing director Academy Award® submission for Best For - large technical element,“ she explains. “Even and creative motor of the Munich- eign Language Film in 2008. when they are live-action, there is also a tech- I based production house blue eyes nical dimension whether it be an animated Fiction, so it’s fitting that this portrait This first foray into co-production and financ - character as in the LILLY THE WITCH films, should appear in the edition of German Films ing on a European level put the company in an animatronic one as in YOKO, or the Quarterly published to coincide with the good stead for its subsequent productions character is shrunk in size like in HELP, I Swiss festival. such as the LILLY THE WITCH films which SHRUNK MY TEACHER!“ have been structured as European co-pro- Locarno’s 2005 edition saw blue eyes’ first ductions. Mehner points out that the company has fol- production, 3 DEGREES COLDER, the direc - lowed the technological advances in the field torial debut of internationally celebrated Before launching blue eyes Fiction with Hus- of visual effects very closely, and blue eyes’ cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, having mann in August 2003, Mehner had built up a productions are evidence of how far the tech- its world premiere and winning the Silver track record of over 10 years working in the nology has progressed over the last decade. Leopard for Best First Film. film industry, including positions as an assis - tant director, location manager and produc- “The first LILLY THE WITCH film was the first And, two years later, Mehner and blue eyes’ tion manager as well as managing a company time that we could really show our skill in co-owner Martin Husmann were co-pro - specialized in 3D animation. combining live-action with digital effects,“ she ducers with partners from Macedonia, Italy, says. The only previous example in Germany Bulgaria and Spain on Macedonian director “Having this experience of animation and of marrying these two media had been the TV Milcho Manchevski’s thriller SHADOWS which regu larly being on the set of films has meant movie THE GHOST OF CANTERVILLE where
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4(%")'q3#2%%.35##%33#/.4).5%3 JESSICA SCHWARZ TOBIAS MORETTI JUSTUS VON DOHNÁNYI Some friends are cooler than others.
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the main CG character was created by the “Production is very much quicker now than When on the lookout to acquire existing lite- animation and visual effects studio Trixter, was the case when we started working on the rary properties to adapt as family films for the blue eyes’ production partner on the LILLY first LILLY THE WITCH film when we needed cinema, she points out that “it has always franchise. 1 ½ years for the production,“ Mehner notes. been important for me that we have modern “We are now at a stage where a lot can be stories and children as protagonists telling “The shrunk teacher was the most sophisti- coordinated and done simultaneously – so, we something about the contemporary world.“ cated thing we had done until now,“ Mehner can manage the production in nine months, continues. “We worked here with Pixomondo although that’s still quite a challenge!“ And the contributions of the VFX wizards will on the visual effects and are now planning a still be as much in evidence in future pro - second film with even more technical wiz - As in the previous two films, blue eyes and ductions coming from blue eyes: “the more ardry!“ Trixter continue to work very closely with the imaginative the films are, the more they chal- book’s original author KNISTER on the deve- lenge our young viewers to think and get their “That has been an advantage of the com- lopment of the screenplay of a brand new own imaginations working!“ pany’s development on these various projects story for the new film. “And the screenplay that we have got to know many animation and then provides the basis for a new book by Martin Blaney VFX studios from the inside as well as many KNISTER about the adventures of Lilly and of the artists working in this sector.“ Hector, which appears ahead of the cinema release.“ The company has consequently built up a col- laborative network of contacts with studios Mehner explains that the company has ten- around the globe: working with animatronic ded to focus on existing literary properties for specialists in Sweden on YOKO and animators its production activities in family entertain- in Austria on TRENK, THE LITTLE KNIGHT ment “because these projects have large and HELP, I SHRUNK MY TEACHER, and will budgets and we therefore need to have story- now be teaming up with Belgium’s post-pro- lines with a high level of awareness among duction house The Fridge.tv on the third out - the potential audiences.“ ing for Lilly and her cute friend, Hector the dragon. In addition, cooperation was entered On the other hand, Sabine Ludwig’s original with studios in China and Taiwan for the TV children’s novel, which was later adapted for series and feature film based on the adven- HELP, I SHRUNK MY TEACHER, was not so tures of TRENK, THE LITTLE KNIGHT. well-known, but became a great success in the cinemas thanks to the remarkable visual “We now have the financing in place for the effects and the story – after all, who hasn’t third LILLY THE WITCH film on what will be once dreamed of shrinking their teacher to a German-Austrian-Belgian co-production,“ get off homework! Mehner explains. “The books by KNISTER are very popular in the Benelux countries, and the Meanwhile, looking to the future development previous two films and the TV series were all of blue eyes, Mehner says that she is inter- very successful there.“ ested in developing projects for older audi- ences alongside their core competence in the Shooting of the live-action scenes is sched - field of family entertainment – and con - uled to begin this November, and work on the sidering the possibility of trying her hand at animation at studios in Berlin, Vienna and producing in the English language. Belgium would then crank up once a rough cut is available.
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ith an already highly impres- Ever since she was a child, Paula Beer’s cause a teacher says I’m not good as I am.” sive filmography to her only motivat ing question “when watching films Don’t mark this down as the arrogance of 21-year-old name, Paula and plays is: what moves me? What keeps youth, though, because, she continues, “of WBeer is only just getting me hooked?” So the first time she took to the course I want to learn and develop, but when started! And don’t let her petite stature or stage, aged 12, at Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpa- the teaching process is from a basis of quiet demeanor fool you, because she is as last, in what she calls “this exciting, absurd change and moulding, I prefer to learn and serious as she is capable. For her, acting is world”, she was determined “to reach out, understand by doing, seeing what comes not about seeking out the limelight and get to someone’s self-consciousness and ex- out and how it feels.” And for her, it is an flashbulbs on the red carpet, it is the deter- press ideas.” And to borrow from Fleetwood approach that has paid dividends. mination to “give viewers something to take Mac, she went her own way as well! away, to leave a lasting impression.” The first Currently working with the Academy Award®- film she cites as having “released a voice, “I decided against acting school,” she ex- winning writer-director Florian Henckel von that gave me strength” is Jim Jarmusch’s plains. “I had some lessons but noticed it Donnersmarck on WERK OHNE AUTOR (WT), ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. was against my own being: the idea of Beer plays the female lead off Sebastian Koch changing myself at the very beginning be- and Tom Schilling. She was invited by the
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casting agent Simone Bär, for whom she has Luzi, a young Tyrolean village woman fated to genre. I like how a light touch can still narrate nothing but praise, to meet von Donners- marry a much older man, in this tale of “the depths. Personally, I like any character who marck. At the time she had not even been strength of love in a negative sense”. Getting has a conflict and is seeking something, the sent the script so they discussed the role of nominated was very exciting, she says, “but changes and developments they go through.” Ellie and their perceptions of her. “As a direc- was not my motivation. It was great to realize tor,” Beer expands, “he is curious, very smart, the film elicited such emotions; I was nomi- So how does she do it? What’s her method? looking for truth and what is in the subcons- nated for the Austrian Film Award and then “I work with a coach, Frank Betzelt,” she ex- ciousness. He’s incredibly enriching to work we got nine German Film Award nominations plains. “I’ve been with him since I was 17. We with because I learn so much: there is so and won eight! Crazy!” work through the character, what I need, look much in the script and characters. He can at the inner struggle, where she starts and describe the processes and situations so well Paula Beer also appeared in Volker Schlön- how she ends, her character arc, basic tem- that it opens up a world for me as an actress.” dorff’s DIPLOMACY, in which she played perament of each role, look at the relation - Ingrid, the great granddaughter of General ship to the other characters and the With regard to her own methods, Paula Beer Choltitz, the military governor of occupied significance, create a network I can use, then is a consummate professional: “I always try Paris who refused to destroy the city on look from scene to scene to get the behavior to prepare as much as possible in advance. Hitler’s orders. “That was fantastic!” she en- and uniqueness of the role.” For me it’s super to go through the scene be- thuses. “I had to speak French: I learned it in fore the team arrives, have a short rehearsal, school and then we also had exchange stu- Once she and Betzelt have fleshed out the discuss if needed, see if there are any pro- dents from Switzerland in the class. Volker character, Beer then sometimes writes “a blems, then to have clarity to see it from all took me for walks through Paris and explai- diary to create a written monologue, to defend sides, then four or five takes to see which give ned what Ingrid sees and what goes through the role from fear and humiliation, make it the best variations. If you can nail it in four or her head! It was huge fun and he knew what come alive through the character’s everyday. five takes then it’s great. Sometimes it works he wanted and how to implement it. It was a It depends on the role, of course, and my pre- on the first but then: can it be done better? father-daughter-relationship and my first paration varies greatly accordingly. There’s no Sometimes it takes eight till you’re properly time filming in France as well!” general formula. It’s understanding their pro- in it, that something can come out of it. It all blems, wishes, fears and needs that’s impor- depends on whom you are acting off and the This year sees the release of François Ozon’s tant. When I’ve dived in then it’s very exciting director.” Sometimes, she continues, “you FRANTZ, in which Beer plays Anna, a young to let go of it and see what I can do on my own have to work it a different way. That going girl dealing with the death of her fiancé after via costume, make-up, director, acting part- from moment to moment becomes increa- WWI and who meets a Frenchman who knew ner and then finally to see it on the screen.” singly important so you stay fresh. Even a him. Describing it as “how hard blows can thirteenth take can be the best!” strengthen you, the liberation from grief”, she Two years ago Paula Beer took a class in ac- clearly had a ball working with its director: ting school in London, and is fulsome in the In a business where divas, male and female, “He’s fast! He burns for his work! He looks for different approach taken to the art there: are common, Paula Beer’s not even in it for people who fit with him, you can laugh and “they act in the moment between you and her ego! “I don’t need to hear if the director scream with him. It was a very fast process: I your partner. There is an encounter and likes it in the sense of getting praise,” she was in Paris within a very few days and got the openness, how to be best there for the part- says, “I want to hit the right direction. It can call a week later! He pulled me into the deve- ner, the possibility to narrate a greater open- be silent understanding but the main thing is lopment, asked me about scenes, moments ness and honesty.” Does it work, though? Oh we go in the same direction, working together and other characters. We had only two yes! “I’ve had three moments in my career because actors can get doubts quickly.” months, 38 of 39 shooting days together, and when I was so secure with my partners I he gave me the room to play the character. He trust ed myself and something broke over Born in Mainz but moved to Berlin when she has a very clear and simple language, which me,” she continues. “I was able to fall into the was twelve, Paula Beer says she learned two is great to work with. He tells you the facts as character and things happened with me I’d priceless lessons from her parents: “They are opposed to talking all arty! Very, very profes- not experienced before. It was incredible to both artists, painters, and from them I sional and organized, conscious, he thinks in fall from reality and experience something as learned how to structure my time and self-ex- terms of the finished film.” the character herself, to create a reality be- press within that frame. That’s essential fore the camera, to be in that state is the since acting has many other facets that go Life outside the cinema for Beer is musical. essence! That’s what I’m working for and why beyond just performing.” She loves singing, “can play the piano and a I work!” bit of guitar.” She loves drawing but admits Paula Beer started on stage and made her ci- she lacks patience at times. And stories, no Simon Kingsley nematic breakthrough in 2009, in Chris Kraus’ matter how narrated in whichever form, she POLL, in which she plays a young girl in 1914 loves “discovering worlds, to understand the Estonia who meets a wounded anarchist. feeling behind experiences.” When visiting the Call ing it “an incredible adventure!”, she is cinema, “if a film touches people and they open enough to admit, “I only understood it all react, that’s great! When they are grabbed by a few years later! But it set me in the direction the feeling, the same energy, all laugh to - I still follow today: concentrated work, the gether, all shocked together, when people are need to think what the character thinks or it open to it, that’s what so great about making does not come over. It influenced me in - films, large and complex themes become ap- credibly. I learned from Chris how to act!” proachable and you’re also a part of that.” She is also trying her hand at writing, as “another Not surprisingly, Paula Beer has already won means of expression” but admits, happily, this various accolades. In 2011 she took the is still a work in progress. Bavarian Film Award as Best Young Actress for POLL. In 2014 she was nominated in the “Open to all genres,” Paula Beer is keen to try Best Actress category at the Austrian Film her hand at the lot, especially comedy: “a Awards for THE DARK VALLEY. She played huge challenge because it’s the hardest
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GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 2016 (Danaos Cinema) and to Slovenia and the Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director IN BREMEN former Yugoslavian territories (FIVIA d.o.o.) German Films: “This year’s event was quite and is in negotiations with other territories, unique. We had a number of high-quality In July of 2016 the German Films Previews including France, Italy, Benelux and Spain. family entertain ment films combined with took place for the 16th time, this time in the They also finalized deals to Turkey (with high-profile festival films which proved their city of Bremen. Over the course of three Sinema TV) for FACK JU GOEHTE 2, THE potential in the competitions of the world’s days, 74 distributors and buyers from 33 MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY and THE DARK SIDE A-festivals in Shanghai, Moscow and Karlovy countries had the opportunity to screen 14 OF THE MOON, the latter two were also Vary just now, and others can be seen at up- new German films in the theater and see sold to Italy (Nomad Film Distribution), and coming international festivals this summer additional titles provided through an exten- Global Screen sold TIME HEROES to Turkey and fall. The German Films Previews proved sive DVD library. The event proved to be the (Medyavizyon). The dramas IN LOVE WITH they are attractive for international buyers perfect setting for effective networking and LOU – A PHILOSOPHER’S LIFE and DOLORES from all over the world.” several deals were made on site: Picture Tree as well as the promos for PAULA and THE International sold ORIGINAL BLISS to Greece INVISIBLES also generated a lot of interest.
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FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS IN MADRID FFF SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL GERMAN ALLIANCES IN ANIMATION CELEBRATES 18TH ANNIVERSARY CO PRODUCTION “EUPHORIA” WITH FOCUSING ON UK AND IRELAND ALICIA VIKANDER AND EVA GREEN Doris Dörrie likes Madrid and Madrid likes For the 5th time, the German animation in- Doris Dörrie. Over 1,000 spectators came The Swedish director Lisa Langseth is shoot- dustry will meet on 13 September at Cartoon to the screenings of FUKUSHIMA, MON ing her next film in Bavaria: The drama Forum Toulouse for the kick-off event AMOUR, which opened the 18th annual EUPHORIA is the first project of Oscar®-win- GERMAN ALLIANCES IN ANIMATION, which Festival of German Films at the Cine Palafox ner Alicia Vikander’s newly founded pro - in 2016 will be focusing on the UK and Ire- on 7 June 2016. After a lively Q&A with Doris duction company. The story is about two land. Both countries will be represented by a Dörrie, the film went on to win the festival’s estranged sisters, who, in the face of death, local industry expert (for the UK, Oliver Hyatt, Audience Award, which was presented this travel to a magical place in the mountains. co-founder and Creative Director of Blue-Zoo year in cooperation with the Spanish VOD FFF Bayern is supporting the project within Animation, Chairman of Animation UK; for platform Filmin. A total of some 5,500 admis- the framework of the special program for Ireland: Andrew Fitzpatrick, Chairman of sions at the 18th edition signified another inter national co-productions and digital Monster! Entertainment), who will give in- high and a new chapter in the success story image design with 750,000 euros. sight into their country’s animation industry for German cinema in Madrid. and present approaches for cooperation EUPHORIA is a co-production between B- with in European co-productions. Following The festival served as the avant-premiere for Reel Features Film Stockholm, Vikarious the presentations, all participants are invited the forthcoming theatrical releases for Production Ltd. London and Dancing Camel to get together over drinks and discuss FUKUSHIMA, MON AMOUR and MISS SIXTY Films Munich, in cooperation with Wild trends of the industry and possible future co- by Sigrid Hörner: FUKUSHIMA, MON AMOUR Bunch Germany and Dorian Media Limited. operations. The event is supported and spon- will open in Spain in September, MISS SIXTY Executive producers are, among others, sored by five German regional film funds on 5 August 2016, and the Spanish distri - Patrik Andersson (B-Reel) and Christine (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, MFG Baden- butors Abordar and Vercine made use of the Ruppert (Dancing Camel Films). The two Württemberg, Filmförderung Hamburg two directors’ presence in Madrid for their sisters will be played by Oscar®-winner Alicia Schleswig-Holstein, Mitteldeutsche Medien- press campaigns. Vikander and Eva Green. förderung, Nordmedia) and Creative Europe. It is hosted by the German Producers There was also a great atmosphere at the Shooting will take place entirely in Bavaria. Alliance and organized through Freebird 18th birthday party in the Café Berlin. Klaus Planned locations are Munich and surround- Pictures. More information is available from Maeck, who was a part of the Goethe-Institut ings, the Allgäu region and the Bavarian Andrea Schiefer (Freebird Pictures) Madrid’s popular focus program LA MOVIDA Forest. Shooting is planned to begin in the [email protected]. BERLINESA with his documentary B-MOVIE: first week of August. LUST AND SOUND IN WEST BERLIN 1979- 1989, put on his DJ hat to play tracks from the film and kept the dancefloor moving.
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Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade & Janine Jackowski (Komplizen Film), Petra Müller (Film- und Medienstiftung NRW), Michael Weber (The Match Factory), Andreas Gruber (© Shanghai International Film Festival) Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense (NRW-Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media) (© Kurt Krieger/Film- und Medienstiftung NRW)
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THE EXCEPTIONAL TONI ERDMANN GENDER AND FILM NEW FFA STUDY ON RECORD YEAR FOR GERMAN CINEMA GENDER BALANCE IN THE GERMAN FILM IN SHANGHAI As the first German production in eight years, INDUSTRY the NRW-supported arthouse comedy TONI Hype around Werner Herzog, two prizes, ERDMANN by Maren Ade celebrated its Which barriers are women and men faced large presence in the competition and a world premiere in the official competition of with in the German film industry? In which “Focus Germany” with many guests: it was a this year’s Festival de Cannes. With Sandra key positions are women more active than very good year for German cinema at the Hüller and Peter Simonischek in the leading men, and vice versa? In order to substantiate latest edition of the Shanghai International roles, the film won over the hearts of the ever-increasing questions and public dis- Film Festival. Three productions were in the festival-goers, critics and the industry alike cussion on the topic of “women in film” with running for the prestigious Golden Goblet and took home the FIPRESCI Award. The facts, the German Federal Film Board (FFA) Award – HANNA’S SLEEPING DOGS by Match Factory, the renowned arthouse sales has commissioned an extensive study on the Andreas Gruber, which won the festival’s company based in Cologne, has already sold subject. The scientific examination with the Best Screenplay award, HEAR THE SILENCE the film in almost 100 territories. TONI title “GENDER AND FILM – Framework Con- by Ed Ehrenberg, and SALT AND FIRE by ERDMANN then went on to open Filmfest ditions and Underlying Causes of the Gender Werner Herzog. ED SIEGER’S MOLLY München at the end of June and opened in Distribution of Filmmakers in Key Positions MONSTER by Ted Sieger, Michael Ekblad and German cinemas at the Lichtburg cinema in in Germany” will be compiled by the Fraun- Matthias Bruhn picked up the prize for Essen mid July. hofer Center for Responsible Research and Best Animation Film. The festival’s Focus Innovation (CeRRI) together with the Institute Germany, which was staged for the 13th year The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW is elated for Media Research of the University of in cooperation with German Films, and the with the success of this exceptional film, hav - Rostock. German films screening in other sections ing come on board at a very early stage as were presented by the largest ever delega- one of its main supporters. The film was shot All key positions in film production will be tion (over 30 directors, actors and crew not only in Romania, but also in North Rhine- analyzed – from screenwriters and directors, members) attending since the be ginning of Westphalia in Aachen and surrounding areas. to production managers, cinematographers, this collaboration. set designers, costume designers, editors and sound technicians, as well as decision A total of 42 German films and co-produc - makers for film funding. The results are to tions were shown in Shanghai, including represent the individual and structural NICK:7 OFF DUTY by Christian Alvart in the frame work conditions for successful careers Jackie Chan Action Movie Week. Director in the film industry, as well as, in particular, Ansgar Ahlers of BACH IN BRAZIL and DoP gender-specific barriers, obstacles and ex- Matthias Märcks representing the Spectrum clusion mechanisms. title YOHJI YAMAMOTO | DRESSMAKER, were among those reporting back about well-at- “We are looking forward to obtaining up-to- tended cinemas and enthusiastic audiences. date and detailed insight into professional roles, educational and career opportunities The Focus Germany opened with the Silver for men and women in the film industry with Lola winner A HEAVY HEART by Thomas this study,” emphasizes Christine Berg, FFA- Stuber with the director in attendance; and COO and Head of FFA Film Funding. The goal the sidebar’s nine titles showed the whole of the project is “to point out the reasons and range of contemporary German cinema, from motives of gender distribution, while most comedy through psychological thriller and importantly also including the entire film drama to historical biopic. industry.”
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GERMAN SHORT FILMS SUCCESSFUL SHORTFILM.DE WITH SUPPORT AT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS OF GERMAN FILMS
In recent months, German short films gained Since the beginning of 2016, AG Kurzfilm’s awards recognition at many international online magazine shortfilm.de has a whole festivals, here’s a selection: At the Busan new look. Everyone with an interest in short Inter national Short Film Festival, Detsky films can discover the latest news from the Graffam’s 90 DEGREES NORTH received the short film scene now at any time. In addition Busan Cinephile Award. DISSONANCE by to well-researched magazine articles, film- Till Nowak was awarded for Outstanding maker’s portraits and current news reports, Achieve ment in Filmmaking at the Newport an extensive service section with a festival Beach Film Festival. A German short film - overview, dates and deadlines and a collec- maker was also successful at the VIS Vienna tion of links and addresses can be found on Independent Shorts Festival: Alex Gerbaulet shortfilm.de. German Films supports the was awarded as Best Director for her short magazine by co-financing the translation of film essay SHIFT. At the renowned animation articles and portraits. Check it out at film festivals in Annecy and Zagreb further www.shortfilm.de. German productions took awards home: in Annecy, FRANKFURTER STR. 99 a by Evgenia Gostrer got a Jury Distinction in the Gradua- tion Films Com petition. Another two German Films were awarded at the Animafest Zagreb: WHAT THEY BELIEVE by Shoko Hara won the Dušan Vukotić Award (Best Student Film); BROKEN – THE WOMEN’S PRISON AT HOHENECK received the Special Award by jury member Cecilia Traslaviña. THE CULPRIT by Michael Rittmannsberger won the Francisco García de Paso Mention at the Huesca Film Festival, where STORM CELLS by Jakob Schmidt was also honored with a Special Mention by the Youth Jury. From the Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth, TIGER by Kariem Saleh took the Golden Apple for the Best Animated Film.
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27 new German productions are presented on the following 16 pages. Please visit our website www.german-films.de for more information on German features, documentaries and shorts.
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IN SAN ANISHOARASEBASTIAN nishoara is a 15-year-old girl from ANAFELICIA SCUTELNICU was born in 1978 GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 a small village in Moldova, situ - in Chisinau/Moldova. After four years of thea- DIRECTOR Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu SCREEN- ated in a picturesque valley be - ter work in Western Africa, she moved to Ber- PLAY Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu CINEMATOG - Atween rolling hills. Life seems lin in 2002 to work as an assistant director RAPHY Cornelius Plache, Luciano Cervio, calm but archaic, alone with her old grandfa - and studied Direction at the German Film and Maximilian Preiss CAST Ana Morari, Andrei ther Petru and her little brother Andrei. In the Television Academy Berlin. Her films include: Morari, Dragoş Scutelnicu, Petru Roşcovan, summer, she and her friends make a trip to the shorts DIE VERSUCHUNG (2004), ERSTES, Veronica Cangea, Vasile Brînză, Willem the melon harvest, where, for the first time, LETZTES MAL (2005), INTRE ZIDURI Menne, Andrei Sochirca PRODUCERS Jonas she feels the overwhelming sensation of love. (2007), DIE SPIELERIN (2008), HINTERHOF Weydemann, Jakob D. Weydemann PRODUC- In the autumn, an old, strange German tourist (2010), the mid-length feature PANIHIDA TION COMPANY Weydemann Bros., in co-pro- comes to the village and interferes with (2012) which premiered in Rome and won the duction with Deutsche Film- und Fernseh- her life for a brief moment. In the winter, CinemaXXI competition, and her graduation akademie Berlin (DFFB), RBB RUNTIME Anishoara travels for the first time in her life film ANISHOARA (2016). 105 min LANGUAGE Moldovan FESTIVALS to the sea, with Dragosh, the young man she Munich 2016, San Sebastian 2016 (New fell in love with. In the spring, she is longing Directors Competition) for Dragosh, but he returns with a surprise. It is the last year of Anishoara’s childhood in SALES this valley, before she takes off into her adult Pluto Film Distribution Network life. [email protected] www.plutofilm.de
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ove conquers all. A girl and a boy in JOHANNES LEISTNER was born in 1981 in GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 love spend the winter in the moun- Berlin. After studying Philosophy, Politics and DIRECTOR Johannes Leistner SCREEN- tains. She must keep their rela - Economics in Oxford, he studied Directing at PLAY Johannes Leistner CINEMATOGRAPHY L tionship secret. Everything seems the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art and Johannes Waltermann, Evgeny Revvo CAST perfectly normal, but then things come down the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD Paula Kroh, Anton Rubtsov, Carolin Fink, Jörg from the mountains, from the white expanse WOLF. His films include: THE PRINCESS AND Witte, Rafael Mayer, Monika Manz PRODUCER of ice and snow, that threaten their love. She THE PAUPER (doc short, 2009), SUBMERGED Johannes Kagerer PRODUCTION COMPANY must fight. (short, 2010), and his feature debut THE DARK Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF HOUSE BY THE WOODS (2016). RUNTIME 96 min LANGUAGE German
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esperately trapped in a failing SVEN TADDICKEN was born in 1974 in Ham- GENRE Drama, Love Story YEAR OF PRO - marriage, Helene Brindel finally burg and studied directing at the Filmakade- DUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Sven Taddicken loses all hope when she feels she mie Baden-Württemberg from 1996-2002. SCREENPLAY Sven Taddicken, Stefanie Veith, Dhas been abandoned by God as For his short film COUNTING SHEEP (1999), Hendrik Hölzemann CINEMATOGRAPHY well. Reaching out, she sees the key to her he was nominated for the Student Academy Daniela Knapp CAST Martina Gedeck, Ulrich liberation in the form of the celebrated Awards®. His feature debut GETTING MY Tukur, Johannes Krisch PRODUCERS Manuel psychologist Eduard E. Gluck. But the charis- BROTHER LAID (2001) premiered in the Bickenbach, Alexander Bickenbach CO-PRO- matic Gluck is having to fight demons of his Official Competition at the Rotterdam IFF DUCERS Marc Gabizon, David Kehrl, Frank own. Only when he and Helene encounter one where it also received the FIPRESCI Critics’ Evers, Helge Neubronner PRODUCTION COM- another, these two apparently complete Award. His second feature EMMA’S BLISS PANY Frisbeefilms, in co-production with cine opposites find themselves drawn irresistibly (2006) premiered in the Zabaltegi Competition plus Filmproduktion, Senator Film Köln, together. Hesitantly at first, the one moves of the San Sebastian IFF and won numerous Sky Deutschland RUNTIME 102 min LAN - closer to the other – and both give themselves international awards including Best Screen- GUAGE German FESTIVALS Munich 2016, over to a world in which love is likewise a test play (Hamptons IFF, 2006) and an Audience Karlovy Vary 2016 (In Competition) AWARDS and a promise that leads to a blissful future. Award (Sevilla IFF, 2006). His third feature 12 FIPRESCI Award & Europa Cinemas Label PACES WITHOUT A HEAD (2009) about the Award Karlovy Vary 2016 legendary German high-sea pirate Klaus Störtebeker was released by Warner Bros. SALES Germany and premiered at the Shanghai IFF Picture Tree International (2010). ORIGINAL BLISS (2016) is his 4th [email protected] feature film as a director. www.picturetree-international.com
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here’s a very good reason why you ANDREAS GRUBER born in 1954 in Wels/ GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 should let sleeping dogs lie, as 9- Austria. He is best known for THE QUALITY DIRECTOR Andreas Gruber SCREENPLAY year-old Johanna discovers. Grow - OF MERCY (1994), which won a special Jury Andreas Gruber CINEMATOGRAPHY Martin Ting up a good Catholic girl in the Award in San Sebastian and was the most Gressmann CAST Hannelore Elsner, Nike provincial Austrian town of Wels in the late successful Austrian film at the box office in Seitz, Franziska Weisz, Rainer Egger, 1960s, she learns from her grandmother her 1994. A selection of his other award-winning Johannes Silberschneider, Christian Wolff family’s secret: they are Jewish. Life now films includes: DEBT OF LOVE (1997), WEL- PRODUCERS Fritjof Hohagen, Andreas starts to change, uncomfortably so: the care- COME HOME (2004), and HANNA’S SLEEPING Gruber CO-PRODUCERS Stephan O. Hansch, taker bullies her, the religion teacher ignores DOGS (2016), all of which were invited to Sebastian Zembol PRODUCTION COMPANIES her and her traumatized mother stops talking numerous film festivals across the globe. He enigma film, Provinzfilm International, in co- to people. Both older women know exactly is currently a professor at the University of production with BR, ORF, Mixtvision Film & who were the very worst Nazis back then. Television and Film (HFF) Munich, where he TV, Oryx Media RUNTIME 120 min LANGUAGE After the war they reinvented themselves as teaches directing, scripting and production. German FESTIVALS Shanghai 2016, Dia - devout Catholics. Johanna, however, is deter- gonale 2016 AWARDS Bavarian Film Award mined not to hide, she wants to be proud of Best Music 2016, Golden Goblet Best Screen- her heritage and now becomes Hanna. But play Shanghai 2016 the “sleeping dogs” are awake, they are start- ing to bark and they still have their teeth... SALES Picture Tree International [email protected] www.picturetree-international.com
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eter and Lisbeth are two young but this timeless parable into an emotional story GENRE Adventure, Fantasy YEAR OF PRO- unfortunate lovers living in a rigid tailored to today’s audiences. HEART OF DUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Johannes Naber rural community in the Black STONE is the second collaboration between SCREENPLAY Johannes Naber, Christian PForest. She comes from a wealthy SCHMIDTz KATZE FILMKOLLEKTIV and Zipperle, Steffen Reuter, Andreas Marschall family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal STUDIO BABELSBERG after their 2012 film IN CINEMATOGRAPHY Pascal Schmit CAST worker on the lower end of society. To become DARKNESS, which received an Academy Frederick Lau, Henriette Confurius, David rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with Award® nomination in the Best Foreign Schütter, Moritz Bleibtreu, Milan Peschel, a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his Language Film category. Sebastian Blomberg, Roeland Wiesnekker, heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of André M. Hennicke, Jule Böwe, Lars Rudolph all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a JOHANNES NABER was born in 1971. He PRODUCERS Steffen Reuter, Christoph cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves studied Philosophy and Indian Philology at the Fisser, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and Freie Universität Berlin and Film at the Film- CO-PRODUCER Philipp Hoepp PRODUCTION power. But Lisbeth no longer recognizes akademie Baden-Württemberg. Active as a COMPANY SCHMIDTz KATZE FILM - Peter as the man she once loved and turns freelance director, scriptwriter and gaffer, his KOLLEKTIV, in co-production with Studio against him. There is only one way for him to award-winning films include: LEINFELDEN- Babels berg, Philipp Filmproduction, SWR, put things straight: Peter must get his heart ECHTERDINGEN (1997, short), POPSTAR ARD Degeto, MDR RUNTIME 119 min back. (1999, music doc), ANFASSEN ERLAUBT LANGUAGE German (2005, doc), DER ZWEIFEL (2007, short), and HEART OF STONE is based on a dark fairy tale the features THE ALBANIAN (2010), AGE OF SALES written by Wilhelm Hauff and first published CANNIBALS (2013), and HEART OF STONE Picture Tree International in 1827. It tells a poetic love story set against (2016). [email protected] the mysterious backdrop of the Black Forest. www.picturetree-international.com Hauff’s tale was conceived as a criticism of man’s greed for power; it also condemns the exploitation of nature and the abuse of fellow human beings. Johannes Naber translates
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IN LOVE WITH LOU – A PHILOSOPHER’S LIFE
he legendary writer and psychoana- CORDULA KABLITZPOST was born in GENRE Biopic, Drama, History YEAR OF PRO- lyst Lou Andreas-Salomé is leading Aachen and studied German and English DUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Cordula Kablitz- a lonely existence in Göttingen in Literature and Theater Arts in Munich and Post SCREENPLAY Cordula Kablitz-Post, T1933, threatened by the Nazi re- Berlin. During her studies she worked in Susanne Hertel CINEMATOGRAPHY Matthias gime. When German philologist Ernst Pfeiffer theater and as a script and continuity super- Schellenberg CAST Katharina Lorenz, Nicole enters her life, she begins to write her visor on feature films. For Uwe Schrader and Heesters, Liv Lisa Fries, Julius Feldmeier, memoirs with him. Born 1861 in St. Peters- Thomas Brasch she assisted in the direction Merab Ninidze, Alexander Scheer, Julius burg, she vows never to fall in love and to and production departments, and began to Feldmeier, Katharina Schüttler, Matthias Lier pursue intellectual perfection. She meets direct and produce her own short films and PRODUCERS Cordula Kablitz-Post, Helge Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche and, music videos. Kablitz-Post wrote and directed Sasse, Gabriele Kranzelbinder CO-PRO - against all conventions of time, Lou and Rée numerous documentaries and artist’s por- DUCERS Josef Reidinger, Antonio Exacoustos, live and study together in Berlin. Lou attains traits for the public broadcasters ARTE and Sissi Hüetlin PRODUCTION COMPANIES her goal of an intellectual and free spirited ARD. In 1995 she founded her production avanti media fiction, Tempest Film Produktion life, but when she meets the young and still company avanti media, which has since been und Verleih, KGP Kanzelbinder Gabriele Film- unknown writer Rainer Maria Rilke she falls awarded the Grimme Prize several times for produktion, in co-production with ARRI Media, in love. After they break up she has numerous the ARTE-documentary series INTO THE ORF RUNTIME 113 min LANGUAGE German affairs. Lou begins to attend Sigmund Freud’s NIGHT WITH... . In 2002 she founded avanti FESTIVALS Shanghai 2016 lectures, becomes a well-esteemed psycho- media fiction and produced the successful analyst and finally recognizes the trauma of cinema feature SOPHIIIE!!. In 2006 she pro- SALES her youth. duced the equally successful and award- ARRI Media International winning fictional short HIGH MAINTENANCE. [email protected] LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ is her first feature www.arrimedia.de/international as a director.
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IN MARIJA LOCARNO arija, a young Ukrainian woman, MICHAEL KOCH was born 1982 in Lucerne/ GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 earns her living as a hotel maid Switzerland. He studied at the Academy of DIRECTOR Michael Koch SCREENPLAY in Dortmund, but dreams of Media Arts Cologne and also worked as an Michael Koch, Juliane Großheim CINEMA - Mowning her own hair salon. She actor. During this time he made the following TOGRAPHY Bernhard Keller CAST Margarita puts money aside each month, but when she short films: WIR SIND DIR TREU (WE ARE Breitkreiz, Georg Friedrich, Sahin Eryilmaz, is fired without notice, her dream seems out THE FAITHFUL, 2005), BECKENRAND (2006) Olga Dinnikova PRODUCERS Christoph of reach. Without work and under financial and POLAR (2008). All three films were very Friedel, Claudia Steffen CO-PRODUCERS pressure, she finds herself forced to look for successful at international festivals and won Christof Neracher, Tom Spieß PRODUCTION other opportunities. Her body, her social numerous awards. POLAR received a Special COMPANY Pandora Film Produktion, in co- relationships and her own feelings take a Mention at the Berlin International Film production with Hugofilm Productions, Little secondary importance to her goal. Festival, the German Camera Award, as well Shark Entertain ment, in cooperation with as the German Short Film Award 2009. WDR, ARTE, SRF RUNTIME 100 min LAN- Michael Koch’s feature film debut is the After his studies he worked as a director for GUAGE German, Russian FESTIVALS Locarno portrait of a young woman who lives on the the theater Kaserne Basel. Michael Koch 2016 (International Com petition) periphery of our production and consumer- celebrates the world premiere of his feature oriented society, but does not accept the film debut MARIJA (2016) in the International SALES ascribed role of the victim. Demanding, de- Competition at the 69th Locarno Film Festival. LUXBOX termined and uncompromising, she fights to [email protected] live a freer, self-determined life. www.luxboxfilms.com
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IN PAULA LOCARNO ainting is an unacceptable vocation CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW studied at the GENRE Biopic, Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION for a woman in provincial Germany Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. He gar- 2016 DIRECTOR Christian Schwochow in the year 1900, but budding artist nered attention in 2008 with his debut feature SCREENPLAY Stefan Kolditz, Stephan PPaula Becker is determined to film, NOVEMBER CHILD. His two-part TV film Suschke CINEMATOGRAPHY Frank Lamm make her own rules. The exuberant 24-year- THE TOWER (2012) won the prestigious CAST Carla Juri, Albrecht Abraham Schuch, old woman rejects the conventional and ex- Grimme Award. His second feature film, Roxane Duran, Joel Basman, Stanley Weber plores her unique style. She flourishes in the CRACKS IN THE SHELL (2011), received PRODUCERS Ingelore König, Christoph countryside art community of Worpswede, several accolades, including the German Film Friedel, Claudia Steffen CO-PRODUCERS where she develops friendships with artist Award for Best Supporting Actress. His Laurence Clerc, Olivier Théry Lapiney PRO- Clara Westhoff and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. feature WEST (2013) also won the German DUCTION COMPANIES Pandora Film Pro - By marrying painter Otto Modersohn, she Film Award, this time for Best Actress. He duktion, Grown Up Films, in co-production hopes to find a creative soulmate. He allows then made his debut as a theater director with Alcatraz Films, in cooperation with WDR, her to continue painting while assuming her with Poison at the Deutsches Theater in ARD Degeto, Radio Bremen, ARTE RUNTIME duties as a good wife. Five years of domes - Berlin. The production was awarded with the 123 min LANGUAGE German, French FESTI- ticity take its toll on Paula’s spirit, and she German Theater Prize for Best Actress. His VALS Locarno 2016 (Piazza Grande) travels alone to modern Paris, where she other acclaimed films include: BORN - studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and soon HOLMER STRASSE (2014, TV), NSU GERMAN SALES begins a romantic affair. Headstrong Paula is HISTORY X (2016, TV mini-series), and his The Match Factory unstoppable: she embarks on a period that latest feature PAULA (2016). [email protected] will become her most compelling; a long- www.the-match-factory.com awaited period of creative fulfilment and self- realization...
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IN MORGENRÖTE LOCARNO STEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE TEFAN ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO MARIA SCHRADER was born in 1965 in GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 EUROPE is an episodic depiction of Hanover and studied Acting at the renowned DIRECTOR Maria Schrader SCREENPLAY Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s life Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna. One of Maria Schrader, Jan Schomburg CINEMA - S in exile. At the height of his world- Germany’s best-known actresses, she has TOG RAPHY Wolfgang Thaler CAST Josef wide fame, he is driven into exile and in des - worked with some of Germany’s most suc- Hader, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz pair about the downfall of Europe, which he cessful directors in such films as AIMÉE & PRODUCERS Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, himself anticipates. The story of a refugee, a JAGUAR (Max Färberböck), BIN ICH SCHÖN? Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Danny Krausz, Kurt story of loss of the old and the search for a (Doris Dörrie), EMIL UND DIE DETEKTIVE Stocker, Denis Poncet PRODUCTION COM - new home. (Franziska Buch), MESCHUGGE, VÄTER and PANIES X Filme Creative Pool, Idéale Audi- STILLE NACHT (Dani Levy), ROSENSTRASSE ence, Dor Film, Maha Productions RUNTIME Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, New York, and (Margarethe von Trotta), and SCHNEELAND 106 min LANGUAGE German, English, Petrópolis: four stations of Stefan Zweig’s (Hans W. Geissendörfer), as well as on stage French, Portuguese, Spanish FESTIVALS exile. While they offer him a safe haven, warm in theaters in Germany and Switzerland. Most Ludwigs hafen 2016, Locarno 2016 (Piazza acceptance and an overwhelmingly beautiful recently, she could be seen in the inter - Grande) tropical setting, they cannot help him to find nationally-acclaimed DEUTSCHLAND 83. To- peace, nor can they replace his true home. A gether with director Dani Levy, she also SALES historical film with stunning visuals about a co-directed MESCHUGGE and STILLE NACHT. Films Distribution great artist and a film about the time when all LOVE LIFE (LIEBESLEBEN, 2007) marked her [email protected] of Europe was fleeing. own directing debut, followed by STEFAN www.filmsdistribution.com ZWEIG – FAREWELL TO EUROPE (VOR DER MORGENRÖTE, 2016).
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n her new documentary, filmmaker Corinna Belz explores the enigma that is Peter Handke. His book titles read like the Itunes on a jukebox, like the watchwords of several successive generations of readers: Offending the Audience, The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Short Letter, Long Farewell, and The Weight of the World. In the 60s, Handke showed how to walk the walk of the author-cum-popstar. Yet the moment he made the bestseller lists, he turned his back on all that. He went travel ing, taking his readers along with him, into the rhythm and precision of his language, the long, pulsating sentences, the invention and examination of reality. The film shows Handke as a young man and in his daily life today, always devoted to language, posing the burn - ing questions: Where are we now? And, to quote one of his early films: How to live? photo © zero one film
PETER HANDKE – IN THE WOODS, MIGHT BE LATE
CORINNA BELZ has written, directed and pro- GENRE Doc YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 IN LOCARNO duced numerous TV and feature films, in - DIRECTOR Corinna Belz CINEMATOGRAPHY cluding: LIFE AFTER MICROSOFT (2001), Nina Wesemann, Axel Schneppat, Piotr OTHER AMERICAN VOICES (2002), DREI Rosolowski PRODUCER Thomas Kufus SALES WÜNSCHE (2005), DAS KÖLNER DOM- PRODUCTION COMPANY zero one film RUN- The Match Factory FENSTER (2007), and GERHARD RICHTER TIME 89 min LANGUAGE German, French [email protected] PAINTING (2011). FESTIVALS Locarno 2016 (Fuori Concorso) www.the-match-factory.com
his is a film about a great vision – and the people turning it into reality: the rebels of our day. The future of Tworld energy lies in the decentra - lized, clean supplies stemming from 100% re- newable sources. That is the message of the film. Director Carl-A. Fechner takes his audi- ence on a journey through a country where hundreds of thousands of people are fighting for the energy revolution. The film brings home to us why people in Ukraine fight with all they have left for a democratic energy sys - tem. POWER TO CHANGE is the story of transition to a future that dispenses with fos- sil fuels and nuclear energy – told through portraits of the people making it happen.
CARL-A. FECHNER is a journalist, filmmaker and producer. Since 1989, he has been the managing director of fechnerMEDIA and photo © fechnerMEDIA
has produced over 50 documentaries and GENRE Environment/Ecology YEAR OF PRO- Ludwigsburg 2016, Polish IFF 2016, Green Me features for television. A selection of his films DUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Carl-A. Fechner FF 2016, Vancouver IFF 2016 AWARDS Deau- as a director includes: FIREWORKS – THE SCREENPLAY Carl-A. Fechner CINEMATOG - ville Golden Green Award 2016, Hollywood Int. GERMANS AND THE IRAQ WAR (2003), RAPHY Philipp Baben der Erde PRODUCER Independent Documentary Award 2016 OCEANIC POWER (2006), THE 4TH REVOLU- Carl-A. Fechner PRODUCTION COMPANY TION – ENERGY AUTONOMY (2010), WHEN fechnerMEDIA RUNTIME 94 min LANGUAGE SALES YOU’VE GONE, I’LL STILL BE THERE (2012), German FESTIVALS Iranian Int. Green FF fechnerMEDIA CONCERTO (2013), and POWER TO CHANGE 2016, Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2016, [email protected] – THE ENERGY REBELLION (2016). Deauville Green Awards 2016, NaturVision www.fechnermedia.de
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light-hearted documentary ex - ploring the Argentine Tango as a highly-addictive sociological phe- Anomenon – even for those living very far from Argentina. Five dancers from the Black Forest reveal their own personal and unique experiences. Soon, it’s clear – Tango is so much more than just a pas - sionate-looking dance. Beautifully challeng - ing – Tango is no walk in the park!
EMBRACE – TANGO IN THE BLACK FOREST photo © Irene Schüller
IRENE SCHÜLLER is a freelance artist and GENRE Art, Dance, Music YEAR OF PRO - SALES filmmaker. After her studies in Pedagogy DUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Irene Schüller Irene Schüller and Art, she worked as a teacher and photo SCREENPLAY Irene Schüller CINEMATOG - [email protected] assistant and is currently a lecturer for Film RAPHY Irene Schüller PRODUCER Irene www.irene-schueller.de Studies. Her works have been exhibited and Schüller RUNTIME 52 min LANGUAGE screened at numerous international exhibi - German tions and art festivals around the world. EMBRACE – TANGO IN THE BLACK FOREST is her film debut.
our dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy decide to take part in a cultural project and investigate the stories of Fsome refugees from Pakistan living in camps outside Berlin. A reflection about the possibility of the body to tell stories, delet ing social and ethnic distinctions, and connecting people from different groups. The project focuses on the work of the dancers who decided to take part in the performance Connecting Fingers that had its premiere in Berlin at the English Theatre in June of 2015. The show shares stories from some refugees who live or have lived in camps outside Berlin. The refugees were interviewed about their personal lives, and they shared private anec- dotes and political situations they experi- enced.
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DANIELA LUCATO studied Theater and Phi - GENRE Art, Drama, Educational YEAR OF Lucato RUNTIME 67 min LANGUAGE English, los ophy in Padua. Also active as an actress for PRODUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Daniela Lucato Spanish, Italian, Urdu, Hebrew FESTIVALS film and the theater, she wrote and directed SCREENPLAY Daniela Lucato CINEMATOG - Social World FF 2016, Dhaka IFF 2017 the theater piece Call Me Reality in 2013 and RAPHY Jacopo Pantaleoni, Simone Trotta, the dance-theater production Connecting Fin- Vlad Margulis, Ian Wood WITH Nicola SALES gers in 2015. Her films as a director include: Campanelli, Roberta Ricci, Maia Pik, Ana Daniela Lucato THE BIRTHDAY (short, 2014) and WHEN I Cotoré, Liat Benattis PRODUCER Daniela [email protected] DANCE (doc, 2016). Lucato PRODUCTION COMPANY Daniela
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ion and Bird walk through a pre - JAN KOESTER was born in 1978 in Berlin and stigious Berlin residential area. studied at the Film University Babelsberg Rumors say, one of the villas has KONRAD WOLF. His films include: the shorts Lbeen uninhabited for years, but MÜSLI (2002), OUR MAN IN NIRVANA (2006), there is still light burning in the house. and THE PINETREE VILLA (2016), as well as Curiosity drives Lion into the house, Bird numerous music videos and video instal - follows hesitantly. Lion wants to take a further lations. look, but Bird gets scared and leaves the house. A maid without a mask calls him out GENRE Adventure, Animation, Fantasy YEAR of the bush. She tries to convince him to hand OF PRODUCTION 2016 DIRECTOR Jan the animal mask to her in order to command Koester SCREENPLAY Jan Koester CINEMA- the overall visible light creatures. Her way out TOGRAPHY Alexander Hill ANIMATION Jan of the villa, she hopes. The master of the Koester PRODUCER Christine Haupt PRO- house enslaves intruders by letting them DUCTION COMPANY Hauptfilm Produktion dance to his piano music. Once they are RUNTIME 13 min LANGUAGE German completely exhausted, he steals their animal FESTIVALS Hamburg KurzFilmFestival 2016 masks, so they cannot escape anymore: They AWARDS Audience Award Hamburg 2016, end up as light creatures working for him for - ARTE Short Film Award 2016 ever. The maid and Bird find a way to defeat the master of the house. Bird is now a lot SALES more confident towards Lion. But the big Hauptfilm Produktion change in him has only just begun. [email protected] www.hauptfilm.eu
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WIDER HORIZONS
t’s the summer of 1987 and a young (2009), AST MIT LAST (2011), KLEIDER family from Leipzig in East Germany are MACHEN FREUNDE (2012), A RACER’S going on holiday, driving with their SKETCHBOOK (2013), and WIDER HORIZONS ITrabant and trailer to a small holiday (2016). home on the Baltic Sea near the border to West Germany. GENRE Animation YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2015 DIRECTOR Falk Schuster SCREEN- This part autobiography, animated documen- PLAY Falk Schuster CINEMATOGRAPHY Ralf tary follows the family as they begin their Kukula PRODUCER Grit Wißkirchen PRODUC- journey and gives us an insight into the un- TION COMPANY Balance Film RUNTIME 30 usual reality and day-to-day normalities of min LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS DOK holidaying in East Germany so close to the Leipzig 2015, ANIMATEKA Ljubljana 2015, border. Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2016, Regens- burger Kurzfilmtage 2016, Cartoons on Bay Personal memories and factual evidence 2016, Filmfest Dresden 2016 AWARDS Audi- come together to create an illustrated travel ence Award Kurzsüchtig Leipzig 2016, 2nd journal. Prize Grenzland Filmtage Selb 2016, Mi- nister of Fine Arts Promotion Award Dres- FALK SCHUSTER was born in 1980 and den 2016 studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and completed a SALES European Animation Masterclass. Active as a Balance Film freelance director and instructor, his films in- [email protected] clude the award-winning animation shorts: www.balancefilm.de URLAUB IN GUDRUN (2006), HOCH SOLL SIE
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melie (12) is sent to an asthma clinic GENRE Adventure, Children & Youth CATE- in the Alps. She lives in a world of her GORY Feature DIRECTOR Tobias Wiemann Aown and can’t understand why she is SCREENPLAY Natja Brunckhorst CAST Mia treated like she’s ill. The Alpine air is wonder- Kasalo, Samuel Girardi, Susanne Bormann, ful but life is very dull. Then she meets Bart Denis Moschitto, Jerry Hoffmann, Jasmin (13), a total outdoors boy who ’manages’ a Tabatabai, David Bredin, Shenia Pitschmann herd of cattle. She finds that really amusing PRODUCERS Philipp Budweg, Thomas and immediately makes fun of him; he finds Blieninger CO-PRODUCER Martin Rattini her really stupid! But when Amelie learns the PRODUCTION COMPANY LIEBLINGSFILM, in clinic considers her unruly and wants her to co-production with helios sustainable films follow the official line, she runs off. It’s easier LANGUAGE German said than done, but Amelie is stubborn and isn’t going back. She wants to make it on her CONTACT own and show everybody... by climbing the LIEBLINGSFILM highest mountain in the area. It is Bart who [email protected] comes to her aid. He’s not as stupid as she www.lieblingsfilm.biz
photo © Martin Rattini/helios thought and now the adventure can finally begin... BABYLON BERLIN
ased on Volker Kutscher’s best-sell - GENRE Crime Drama CATEGORY Series DI- ing novels, the 16-hour series by the RECTORS Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten, Bdirector/writer trio Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries SCREENPLAY Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloegten and Achim von Borries Hendrik Handloegten, Achim von Borries centers on police inspector Gereon Rath and CAST Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Matthias delivers an atmospheric portrayal of Berlin as Brandt, Hannah Herzsprung, Karl Markovics, the most exciting city in the world during the Sebastian Urzendowsky, Christian Friedel Roaring Twenties, a hotbed of drugs and PRODUCERS Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, politics, murder and art, emancipation and Michael Polle CO-PRODUCERS Jan Mojto, extremism. Dirk Schürhoff PRODUCTION COMPANIES X Filme Creative Pool, ARD Degeto, Sky BABYLON BERLIN, which is the first produc- Deutschland, Beta Film LANGUAGE German tion to shoot at the new Studio Babelsberg “Neue Berliner Straße” backlot, features a SALES stellar cast including Matthias Brandt, Beta Film Hannah Herzsprung and Karl Markovics and [email protected]
headed up by Volker Bruch as Rath and Liv www.betafilm.com photo © X Filme Creative Pool Lisa Fries as his assistant Charlotte.
FÜHLEN SIE SICH MANCHMAL AUSGEBRANNT UND LEER? (WT)
ife for marriage counselor Luisa has its GENRE Comedy CATEGORY Feature DIREC- fair share of challenges as she is in - TOR Lola Randl SCREENPLAY Lola Randl Lcapable of making decisions. It doesn’t CAST Lina Beckmann, Charly Hübner, Benno matter whether it’s choosing between vege- Fürmann, Inga Busch PRODUCERS Herbert tables in the supermarket or deciding on the Schwering, Christine Kiauk CO-PRODUCER right man to settle down with. While Luisa is Stienette Bosklopper PRODUCTION COM- happily married to Richard, she also has an PANY COIN FILM/Cologne, in co-production affair with Leopold, Richard’s boss, but her with Circe Films LANGUAGE German best friend Miriam warns her of the danger of suffering a burnout. Then Luisa wakes up one CONTACT morning and sees a second Luisa in bed next COIN FILM to her – who could possibly be the solution [email protected] to all of her problems! But she hasn’t www.coin-film.de reckone d with her doppelganger – who goes by the name of Ann – taking off on her own track with increasingly complicated reper -
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ld punk rocker Fussel has the world GENRE Comedy CATEGORY Feature DIREC- wrapped round his finger; women, TOR André Erkau SCREENPLAY Gernot Olife, the system – all handled with a Gricksch CAST Wotan Wilke Möhring, Anke quip and his ready charm. Work’s for others Engelke, Michael Wittenborn, Julia Koschitz, too. But then an internal audit at the un - Kostja Ullmann, Torben Liebrecht, Ulrike employment office means his advisor is Krumbiegel PRODUCER Michael Eckelt forced to act. A job’s out of the question, of PRODUCTION COMPANY Riva Filmproduktion course, but being declared unfit for work, LANGUAGE German that’s another thing. So Fussel is packed off to therapy, where he meets people genuinely CONTACT burned out. He soon turns the place upside Riva Filmproduktion down, drives the therapist and nurse nuts, but [email protected] he’s also a breath of fresh air for his fellow www.rivafilm.de patients. The more Fussel gets to know them, the more he gets to know himself until it’s no longer clear who’s treating whom, who really
photo © gpauly.com/RIVA Film needs help and what it’s really all about, in therapy and in real life. DIE KLEINE HEXE
he little witch is only 127-years-old, so GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain- just a youngster to the big witches. De- ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Michael Tspite being forbidden, she celebrates Schaerer SCREENPLAY Matthias Pacht CAST the Dance of the Witches on the Blocksberg Karoline Herfurth PRODUCERS Uli Putz, mountain. As punishment, she has one year Jakob Claussen CO-PRODUCERS Lukas Hobi, to learn the big book of spells by heart, and Reto Schaerli PRODUCTION COMPANY then her fate will be decided. Determined CLAUSSEN+PUTZ Filmproduktion, in co-pro- to be the best witch she can, she gets down duction with Zodiac Pictures, STUDIOCANAL to work, supported by her talking raven, Produktion LANGUAGE German Abraxas. At first reluctantly and then increas- ingly, she discovers helping people instead of SALES annoying them with pranks makes her feel STUDIOCANAL good. But the big witches, especially the scary [email protected] weather witch Rumpumpel, are suspicious. www.studiocanal.com For them, the last thing about being a really good witch is good deeds. And this puts the
little witch in a terrible dilemma when it Michael Schaerer (photo © Pietro Scheurer) comes to her final test. LEANDERS LETZTE REISE
-year-old Eduard Leander, a for- GENRE Drama, Road Movie CATEGORY Fea- mer German officer, has never ture DIRECTOR Nick Baker-Monteys 92talked of his wartime experi- SCREENPLAY Nick Baker-Monteys, Alexandra ences, despite the dark shadows they cast Umminger CAST Jürgen Prochnow, Petra over his family. His granddaughter Adele can’t Schmidt-Schaller, Tambet Tuisk, Suzanne von stand the old man. When Eduard’s wife dies Borsody, Artjom Gilz PRODUCERS Siegfried her mother tries to move him to a home. But Kamml, Christian Alvart CO-PRODUCERS he sets off, instead, to find Svetlana, the Timm Oberwelland, Peter Eiff, Theodor Grin- woman he fell in love with during the war gel PRODUCTION COMPANY Syrreal Enter- when he fought with the Cossacks against the tainment, in co-production with TOBIS Film, Red Army, not knowing if she survived. Sent RBB, ARTE LANGUAGE German to remove him from the train to Kiev, Adele finds herself joining him, unwillingly, in his SALES quest. On the way they meet Lev, a Ukrainian Global Screen of Russian origin, he and his family similarly [email protected] trapped in the past. Adele falls in love with www.globalscreen.de
photo © Syrreal Entertainment/Heike Fademrecht him, but it is 2014 and conflict between Russia and Ukraine is looming.
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amily dysfunction at its best when the GENRE Drama, Road Movie, Family Entertain- long married and highly dissatisfied ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Kerstin FCharlotte (60) and her know-it-all Polte SCREENPLAY Kerstin Polte CAST granddaughter Jo (13) hit the road to escape Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, Sabine her dull husband Paul and Jo’s mother, their Timoteo, Karl Kranzkowski, Bruno Cathomas, daughter Vera, who deals with the world by Annalee Ranft PRODUCERS Jonas Katzen- waging war on it. With a loaded car, an un - stein, Maximilian Leo CO-PRODUCERS Rajko opened letter from the clinic where Charlotte Jazbec, Dario Schoch PRODUCTION COM- is being treated for increasing memory loss, PANY augenschein Filmproduktion, in co- and a dead cat in need of a funeral, they set production with Cognito Films LANGUAGE off to do the things they never thought they German would, living without a yesterday or tomorrow and enjoying every minute of it. Paul and Vera CONTACT give chase, determined to return them to the augenschein Filmproduktion ‘security’ of their previous lives. But there is [email protected] no turning back the clock and following each www.augenschein-filmproduktion.de
photo © Mark Philip/augenschein Filmproduktion/Cognito Films other into the unpredictable soon becomes much more fun. ONKEL WANJA
ollowing her award-winning adapta- GENRE Drama, Literature, Theater CATE- tion of Schnitzler’s FRÄULEIN ELSE, GORY Feature DIRECTOR Anna Martinetz Fwriter-director Anna Martinetz has re- SCREENPLAY Anna Martinetz CAST Korinna turned to literature for her contemporary in- Krauss, Martin Butzke, Manuel Rubey, Julia terpretation of Anton Chekhov’s play UNCLE Dietze, Wolfgang Hübsch, Katalin Zsigmondy, VANYA. By combining documentary elements Doris Buchrucker PRODUCERS Ina Mikkat, with Chekhov’s original dialogues, Martinetz Ben Brummer PRODUCTION COMPANY shows that the clash of generations and ideo- NoMa Filmproduktion, in co-production with logies is as topical today as it was more than ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel LANGUAGE 100 years ago in pre-revolutionary Russia. German Reasons for economic and financial crises become apparent through the inclusion of CONTACT real-life telephone and email correspondence NoMa Filmproduktion from the 2008 financial crisis, while the chal- [email protected] lenges faced by a landowner like Uncle Vanya are underscored through interviews with
today’s sustainable farming community. photo © Jakob Wiessner
RETURN TO MONTAUK
rincipal photography wrapped in GENRE Love Story CATEGORY Feature DI- Berlin at the beginning of June on RECTOR Volker Schlöndorff SCREENPLAY PVolker Schlöndorff’s latest feature Colm Tóibín, Volker Schlöndorff CAST Nina film, RETURN TO MONTAUK, which marks his Hoss, Stellan Skarsgard, Susanne Wolff, Isi first collaboration with producer Regina Laborde, Niels Arestrup, Malcolm Adams, Ziegler and is based on a screenplay written Bronagh Gallagher PRODUCERS Regina by the Irish screenwriter Colm Tóibín with the Ziegler, Volker Schlöndorff CO-PRODUCERS Oscar®-winning director. Til Schweiger, Tom Zickler, Christoph Liedke, Marc Gabizon, Francis Boespflug, Conor Max Zorn comes to New York to promote his Barry PRODUCTION COMPANIES Ziegler new novel based on a failed love affair with a Film, Volksfilm, in co-production with Bare- German expat, Rebecca, there 17 years ago. foot Films, Senator Film, Pyramide Pro - By chance, the two former lovers meet again, ductions, Savage Production, F.&.M.E. Film & and Rebecca decides to take Max back to Music Entertainment, WDR, BR, ARTE Montauk, at the far end of Long Island, which LANGUAGE English, German was home to their passion – a place of hope,
photo © Wild Bunch Germany/Jim Rakete memories and discovery of what matters SALES Gaumont most in life. [email protected] · www.gaumont.net
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ctor Stefan has to travel to his home GENRE Comedy CATEGORY Feature DIREC- town of Bochum to oversee the sale TOR Sönke Wortmann SCREENPLAY Sönke Aof his late father’s house. This is all Wortmann CAST Lucas Gregorowicz, Anna supposed to be completed within just four Bederke, Nicholas Bodeux, Markus John, days, and Stefan then expects to be sitting in Peter Jordan, Sandra Borgmann, Jasna Fritzi the train on his way back to Munich. At least, Bauer PRODUCERS Stefan Arndt, Tom Spieß, that was the plan. However, this all changes Uwe Schott PRODUCTION COMPANIES X once he’s home in the Ruhr region and meets Filme Creative Pool, Little Shark Entertain- up with some bizarre, yet lovable characters ment LANGUAGE German from his past.... CONTACT Described as a “Heimatfilm” passing between X Filme Creative Pool comedy and tragedy, Sönke Wortmann’s ad- [email protected] aptation of Frank Goosen’s best-selling epo- www.x-filme.de nymous novel marks his first collaboration with the Berlin-based production house X
photo © X Filme Creative Pool, Little Shark Entertainment/Tom Trambow Filme Creative Pool.
TAUSEND ARTEN, DEN REGEN ZU BESCHREIBEN
well-kept housing estate on the edge GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR of the city. Late summer. It’s raining. Isabel Prahl SCREENPLAY Karin Kaçi CAST AA mother, father and daughter gather Bjarne Mädel, Bibiana Beglau, Emma Bading outside their son’s bedroom door. Mike is 18 PRODUCER Melanie Andernach PRODUC- and has barricaded himself inside for weeks. TION COMPANY MADE IN GERMANY Filmpro- He is no danger to others or himself, he is not duktion LANGUAGE German ill, he has made a conscious decision to have nothing more to do with life outside. His CONTACT family gather, question, demand, plead, flip MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduktion out, despair, accuse one another, ignore and [email protected] hope. The door becomes increasingly a www.madeingermany-film.de mirror of their own stories. The more they question or flee from their powerlessness, the more they are trapped in their own over- load. Only the daughter, Miriam (14) senses her brother’s reasons in her own life. Some-
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riter-director Henckel von Don- GENRE Drama, Thriller, Psycho Thriller nersmarck’s third feature film CATE GORY Feature DIRECTOR Florian Wproject sees him shooting in his Henckel von Donnersmarck SCREENPLAY native German language for the first time Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck CAST since his 2006 Oscar®-winning debut THE Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, LIVES OF OTHERS. Tom Schilling (OH BOY) Saskia Rosendahl, Ina Weisse, Hans Uwe heads up a glittering “Who’s Who” of the Bauer, Ben Becker, Antonia Bill, Rainer Bock, German acting world cast as the young artist Jonas Dassler, Lars Eidinger PRODUCERS Kurt Barnert who fled to West Germany, but Jan Mojto, Quirin Berg, Florian Henckel von continues to be tormented by experiences Donnersmarck, Max Wiedemann PRO - made during his childhood and youth in the DUCTION COMPANIES Pergamon Film, Third Reich and under the GDR regime. When Wiedemann & Berg Film, in co-production he meets the student Ellie, Kurt is convinced with ARD Degeto, BR LANGUAGE German that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his SALES own fate, but also the traumas of an entire Beta Cinema
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Catalogue accompanying the Retrospective of the 69th festival del fi lm Locarno (3rd to 13th August 2016) Beloved and Rejected Cinema in the Young Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963
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