GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL 2016

WELLINGTON / 21–24 SEPT CHRISTCHURCH / 28 SEPT & 1 OCT DUNEDIN / 1–2 OCT NEW PLYMOUTH / 4–9 OCT AUCKLAND / 10–16 OCT

www.goethe.de/nz Sprache. Kultur. Deutschland. WILLKOMMEN ZUM DEUTSCHEN FILMFESTIVAL 2016

Look out for new work from leading directors As the new German Ambassador to and actors, and discover some of cinema’s New Zealand it is my distinct pleasure to emerging and most exciting talents. welcome you to the 8th nationwide German Film Festival. Once again you will be able to This year’s German Film Festival includes sample a bouquet of German fi lms at a growing a suspenseful dramatisation of Germany’s number of venues. This year’s festival also postwar history, a haunting exploration of travels to Christchurch. human survival in Fukushima, a refreshing new adaptation of a children’s classic – and Germany and New Zealand are enjoying an much more. ever closer relationship with an unprecedented level of cooperation in many fi elds – politics, We look forward to watching and discussing trade, science and culture. The German Film the fi lms with you in Auckland, Christchurch, Festival is another great opportunity for our Dunedin, New Plymouth and Wellington. people to understand each other even better. The generosity of our sponsors and partners has enabled us to make the festival happen: we I hope many visitors will enjoy the Film would like to thank them all for their ongoing Festival and the various German cinema support. highlights. Let us look forward to ever more appealing common projects. Admission is free – just turn up early at the venue to secure your seats. Tickets will be available from the box offi ce before the start of each screening: unfortunately, we cannot Gerhard Thiedemann accept advance bookings, so arrive in plenty of Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany time and take the opportunity to talk to us and other cinemagoers. Our team at the Goethe-Institut has enjoyed choosing and debating the line-up of fi lms from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As a newcomer to New Zealand I look forward to meeting enthusiasts and lovers of German fi lm all over the country.

Christian Kahnt Director Goethe-Institut New Zealand German Film Festival 2016

4 KINGS 24 WEEKS (4 KÖNIGE) (24 WOCHEN) GERMANY 2015 (DRAMA) GERMANY 2016 (DRAMA)

Festivals (selection): Production: Festivals (selection): With: Rome 2015, Miami 2015 Benjamin Seikel, Berlin 2016 (Competition), Julia Jentsch, Awards (selection): Florian Schmidt- Edinburgh 2016, Bjarne Mädel, Best Film Prange Jeonju 2016, Johanna Gastdorf, (Alice nella città, Rome 2015) Duration: Istanbul 2016, Emilia Pieske Director: 100 mins Valetta 2016 Production: Theresa von Eltz Language: Director: Thomas Kufus, Screenplay: German Anne Zohra Berrached Melanie Berke, Esther Bernstorff (with English subtitles) Screenplay: Tobias Büchner Cinematography: Rating: Carl Gerber, Duration: Kristian Leschner M – violence, offensive Anne Zohra Berrached 102 mins Editor: language and nudity Cinematography: Language: Anja Siemens Friede Clausz German Music: Editor: (with English subtitles) André Feldhaus Denys Darahan Rating: With: Music: M - sex scenes, offensive Jella Haase, Paula Beer, Jasmin Reuter language, nudity & Rather than spend Christmas with her Jannis Niewöhner, A couple’s joy at expecting their second child content that may disturb unstable mother and angry father, sixteen- Moritz Leu, Clemens Schick, turns to anguish in this hard-hitting drama. year-old Alex takes a rash decision that Anneke Kim Sarnau We fi rst meet Astrid on the set of her stand- lands her in a psychiatric unit with three up comedy show where she is announcing other emotionally troubled teenagers. her pregnancy to the studio audience. Free to leave but with nowhere to go, she She and her partner Kurt are confi dent that “A brave, important, emotionally must learn to live with the others and with “…neither obnoxiously comic nor they can handle anything, but their next charged drama from Germany. the unorthodox therapy techniques of their ostentatiously profound, it has a appointment at the antenatal clinic reveals a A Berlinale highlight featuring a psychiatrist Dr Wolff. This coming-of-age fi ne sense for the inherent humour ninety-eight-percent chance that their child stand-out performance by home- drama stands out for its sharp script and of serious issues. A stroke of has Down syndrome. Later they learn that grown actress Julia Jentsch.” confi dent handling of serious issues, giving cinematic luck.” the baby will also require multiple surgeries – Paul Heath, The Hollywood News us scenes of warm humour alongside anger – Axel Timo Purr, Artechock for a heart condition. At six months pregnant, and pain. As the teenagers discover common Astrid must choose whether to go ahead or ground, 4 Kings offers hope without false have a late-term abortion. This fi lm looks optimism or sentimentality. unfl inchingly at her moral dilemma, offering SCREENING TIMES a powerful portrait of a woman confronted with a terrible decision. Wellington Friday, 23 September, 7:00pm SCREENING TIMES Dunedin Sunday, 2 October, 3:00pm Wellington Saturday, 24 September, 2:15pm New Plymouth Sunday, 9 October, 6:30pm New Plymouth Thursday, 6 October, 6:30pm Auckland Thursday, 13 October, 8:30pm Auckland Sunday, 16 October, 6:15pm Saturday, 15 October, 6:15pm Image © Kristian Leschner, PortAuPrincePictures Image © Friede Clausz, zero one fi lm 1336 Final Schubert ad outline.pdf 1 18/06/15 10:49 am

German Film Festival 2016

A DECENT MAN (NICHTS PASSIERT) C SWITZERLAND 2015 (THRILLER)

M Festivals (selection): Production: Y Palm Springs 2016, Zurich HC Vogel 2015, Sao Paulo 2015 Duration: CM Awards (selection): 92 mins Best Screenplay (Lünen Languages: MY 2015) German Director: (with English subtitles) CY Micha Lewinsky Rating: Screenplay: M – violence, sexual CMY Micha Lewinsky references and offensive Cinematography: language K Pierre Mennel Editor: Gion-Reto Killias Music: Marcel Blatti With: Thomas is an ordinary guy who prefers Devid Striesow, not to face up to his problems. Rather than Maren Eggert, Annina Walt, Lotte Becker, acknowledge the steady breakdown of his Max Hubacher, Beat Marti, marriage and the downward slide of his Oriana Schrage, career, he sets off happily on a ski holiday Therese Affolter, Stéphane Maeder with his wife, teenage daughter and his boss’s daughter. When one of the girls entrusts him with a terrible secret, Thomas has the choice of facing up to the situation or pretending everything is fi ne. How far will he go to preserve the illusion of harmony? In this compelling drama, a man commits perjury and worse in an effort to avoid the truth.

“Micha Lewinsky’s third feature fi lm casts a spotlight on the SCREENING TIMES brilliant Devid Striesow, whose character slowly drifts from Wellington normalcy to madness.” Thursday, 22 September, 4:30pm – Cineuropa New Plymouth Friday, 7 October, 4:00pm

Auckland Tuesday, 11 October, 8:30pm Image © Plan B Film German Film Festival 2016

FUKUSHIMA, MON AMOUR HEIDI (GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA) GERMANY 2016 (TRAGICOMEDY) SWITZERLAND/GERMANY 2015 (FAMILY)

Festivals (selection): Production: Awards (selection): Production: Berlin 2016, Sydney 2016 Harry Kügler, German Film Award 2016 Ulrike Putz, Awards (selection): Molly von Fürstenberg (Best Children’s Feature) Jakob Claussen, Panorama Audience Duration: Director: Reto Schärli, Award (2nd place; Berlin 104 mins Alain Gsponer Jens Oberwetter, 2016), Bavarian Film Prize Languages: Screenplay: Lukas Hobi 2016 (Best Actress) German/Japanese Petra Biondina Volpe, Duration: Director: (with English subtitles) based on the novel by 110 mins Doris Dörrie Rating: Johanna Spyri Languages: Screenplay: M - offensive language & Cinematography: Swiss German/German Doris Dörrie suicide Matthias Fleischer (with English subtitles) Cinematography: Editor: Rating: Hanno Lentz Michael Schaerer PG Editor: Music: Frank Müller Niki Reiser Music: With: Ulrike Haage Bruno Ganz, Anuk Steffen, Hoping to distract herself from heartbreak at With: A huge hit with audiences and critics, this Katharina Schüttler, home, young German woman Marie travels Rosalie Thomass, new adaptation puts the mud back into the Jella Haase, Kaori Momoi, Peter Lohmeyer, to Fukushima in the aftermath of the nuclear Nami Kamata, Alpine pastures of Johanna Spyri’s classic Hannelore Hoger, disaster and joins a charity circus group. Moshe Cohen novel. Our heroine Heidi is sent to live Quirin Agrippi Still immersed in her own problems and now with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the panicked by the wreckage around her, she is mountains of Switzerland after the death Screened in partnership with not up to the job of distracting others from of her parents. Her world is turned upside- their grief. Just as she is on the point of down again when her aunt dispatches her leaving, she meets elderly geisha Satomi who to Frankfurt to become a paid companion is rebuilding her home in the radioactive to Klara who uses a wheelchair. Of course zone. The two women form a tentative everything works out splendidly in the end, friendship as Marie is drawn out of her self- but director Alain Gsponer allows us to see absorption by the ghosts of Satomi’s past. the hardships of nineteenth-century life as SCREENING TIMES Beautifully shot in black-and-white, Doris well as the magically invigorating properties Wellington Dörrie’s acclaimed new film moves fluently SCREENING TIMES of mountains and fresh air. Thursday, 22 September, 12:30pm between human drama and catastrophe, with Wellington superbly judged performances from the two Thursday, 22 September, 7:00pm Christchurch leads. Saturday, 1 October, 12:00pm Christchurch “...a brilliant new version by “Fukushima, Mon Amour offers a Wednesday, 28 September, 6:00pm director Alain Gsponer which Dunedin refreshingly quirky perspective does more than just confirm the Sunday, 2 October, 12:30pm on a heavy subject suggesting New Plymouth fact that the Heidi story is still that sometimes audiences, and Tuesday, 4 October, 6:15pm universally captivating in the New Plymouth perhaps even victims, need a Wednesday, 5 October, 4:00pm 21st century.” Sunday, 9 October, 4:OOpm vacation from misery and pity.” – Becky Tan, Kino Critics – Maggie Lee, Variety Auckland Auckland Monday, 10 October, 8:30pm Wednesday, 12 October, 12:30pm Friday, 14 October, 6:15pm Sunday, 16 October, 3:30pm Image © Hanno Lentz, Majestic Image © Studiocanal ME AND KAMINSKI (ICH UND KAMINSKI) GERMANY 2015 (COMEDY)

Festivals (selection): Production: Belgrade 2016, Uwe Schott, Istanbul 2016, Wolfgang Becker Giesen Wines New York 2016 Duration: Director: 120 mins Wolfgang Becker Language: are proud to Screenplay: German Thomas Wendrich, (with English subtitles) Wolfgang Becker, Rating: support the based on the novel by M - violence, offensive Daniel Kehlmann language, sex scenes Cinematography: & nudity German Film Jürgen Jürges Editor: Peter R. Adam Festival Music: Lorenz Dangel Unscrupulous journalist Sebastian Zöllner With: is planning the next big step in his career: a Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, biography of the once-famous ‘blind artist’ Amira Casar, Manuel Kaminski. He has no qualms about Denis Lavant, intruding into the ageing painter’s home, life Jördis Triebel, Geraldine Chaplin and past, unceremoniously taking him on a journey to reunite him with a lost lover – the 0615 HHM907 anticipated highlight of the book. But is the young biographer or his subject really in charge of the plot? A hugely entertaining trip through life and art starring Daniel Brühl (Good Bye, Lenin) as the egocentric journalist and Jesper Christensen (007 – Quantum of Solace) as the elusive Kaminski.

This is Olivia and Verena. SCREENING TIMES They love to indulge in a “Yes, this is a German comedy, Wellington glass of wine at Heritage and a brilliant one at that.” Saturday, 24 September, 4:30pm before heading to a film. – Eduardo Karas, Just Geeky Stuff New Plymouth Friday, 7 October, 6:30pm

Auckland Friday, 14 October, 8:30pm Image © Match Factory Visit www.heritagehotels.co.nz for pre-show dinners and accommodation packages or call us on 0800 368 888 German Film Festival 2016

ORGANIZED SUPERWORLD (VOM ORDNEN DER DINGE) (SUPERWELT) GERMANY 2013 (DOCUMENTARY) AUSTRIA 2015 (DRAMA)

Festivals (selection): Production: Festivals (selection): Production: Kassel Dok Fest 2014, Thomas Tielsch Berlin 2015, Graz 2015 Dieter Pochlatko Munich Dok Fest 2014 Duration: Awards (selection): Duration: Awards (selection): 80 mins Austrian Film Prize 2016, 118 mins Grimme-Award 2016 Languages: Cineuropa Prize Languages: Director: German (Sarajevo 2015) German Jörg Haaßengier, (with English subtitles) Director: (with English subtitles) Jürgen Brügger Rating: Karl Markovics Rating: Screenplay: exempt Screenplay: M - sex scenes & Thomas Heinemann Karl Markovics offensive language Cinematography: Cinematography: Sven O. Hill Michael Bindlechner Editor: Editor: Gesa Marten Alarich Lenz Music: Music: Pit Przygodda Herbert Tucmandl With: First things fi rst. This is a documentary One day everything changes for supermarket Rainer Wöss, about order and organisation – about fi nding cashier Gabi Kovanda. There is someone Ulrike Beimpold, Sibylle Kos, Thomas Mraz, patterns, principles and logic. The world new in her life: God. No one else notices Nikolai Gemel, around us is full of information waiting to be his sudden appearance, but her life Angelika Strahser catalogued and decoded. Landscapes need to is transformed. His voice intrudes on be mapped, households categorised, parking her thoughts and forces her out of her “Superworld is a delightfully habits investigated, and tortoise shells routine - much to her annoyance and the playful mix of dry humor, visual demystifi ed. From scientifi c researchers consternation of her husband. The comedy splendor and everyday magic.” to amateur statisticians, the people in this and wonder of the unwelcome encounter – Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter fi lm are on a quest to make sense of their are captured through realistic narrative and segment of reality. Is their search for order God’s-eye camera angles. Who will triumph: admirable, dangerous or amusing? Gabi or God? A visually arresting and warm- The fi lmmakers step back and allow the hearted feature from director Karl Markovics, viewer to decide. who fi rst came to attention as an actor SCREENING TIMES (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Counterfeiters). Wellington Wednesday, 21 September, 7:00pm

Screened in partnership with Christchurch “Jürgen Brügger and Jörg SCREENING TIMES Wednesday, 28 September, 2:00pm Haaßengier have succeeded in making a quiet yet almost Wellington Dunedin desperately funny fi lm about one Friday, 23 September, 4:30pm Saturday, 1 October, 3:00pm of the big questions in life.” New Plymouth New Plymouth – Jury Statement, Grimme Award Saturday, 8 October, 4:00pm Wednesday, 5 October, 6:30pm

Auckland Auckland Thursday, 13 October, 6:15pm Wednesday, 12 October, 6:15pm Image © Sven O. Hill Image © epo fi lm German Film Festival 2016

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER YOU REMAIN THE FARMER (DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER) (DER BAUER BLEIBST DU) GERMANY 2015 (DRAMA) GERMANY 2013 (DOCUMENTARY)

Festivals (selection): With: Festivals (selection): Production: Locarno 2015 Burghart Klaußner, Zurich 2013 (competition), Benedikt Kuby Awards (selection): Ronald Zehrfeld, Munich 2014 Duration: Audience Award Sebastian Blomberg, Awards (selection): 104 mins (Locarno 2015), Lilith Stangenberg, Lünen 2014 (Best Film, Languages: Hessian Film Award 2015 Jörg Schüttauf Best Music) German Director: Production: Director: (with English subtitles) Lars Kraume Thomas Kufus Benedikt Kuby Rating: Screenplay: Duration: Cinematography, Editor: exempt Lars Kraume, Olivier Guez 105 mins Benedikt Kuby Cinematography: Languages: Music: Jens Harant German Norbert J. Schneider Editor: (with English subtitles) With: Barbara Gies Rating: Heinrich Wanner, Music: M – sex scenes & suicide Johannes Gastl Julian Maas, references Christoph M. Kaiser Twelve years after the end of the Second A young man returns to an ancient way World War, lawyer Fritz Bauer receives a of life in this contemplative documentary letter tipping him off about the whereabouts about a family farm high in the mountains of “Benedikt Kuby’s fi rst of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann. Apparently “Featuring deeply textured Austria. The Werners have been working the feature documentary fi lm is an Eichmann, who escaped capture in 1945, performances from Klaußner land for over four centuries. The last of their elegantly shot homage to this has been spotted in Buenos Aires. Bauer is (The White Ribbon) and Ronald line is Heinz who has been running the farm Tyrolean legend and a sensitive personally and professionally committed to Zehrfeld (Barbara, Phoenix), single-handedly for most of his adult life. refl ection on the change of tracking him down, but powerful members and propulsive direction by Now in his eighties, he is on the lookout for generations; the story of of the new West German establishment are Lars Kraume.” a successor and settles on Johannes Gastl. a transition.” more interested in blocking his efforts. The twenty-two-year-old learns how to – Jane Schoettle, Toronto International Film Festival – Zurich Film Festival Who else will be incriminated if Eichmann is forge a scythe, reap the grain and mill his put on trial? This legal thriller brings to life own fl our, becoming heir to the farm and to the political tensions of the postwar era and knowledge that has passed down through pays tribute to the historical Fritz Bauer who SCREENING TIMES generations. committed an act of treason in order to bring Wellington Eichmann to justice. Saturday, 24 September, 7:00pm

Christchurch Saturday, 1 October, 3:00pm SCREENING TIMES Dunedin Wellington Saturday, 1 October, 12:30pm Wednesday, 21 September, 4:30pm

New Plymouth New Plymouth Saturday, 8 October, 6:30pm Thursday, 6 October, 4:00pm

Auckland Auckland Saturday, 15 October, 8:30pm Tuesday, 11 October, 6:15pm Image © Martin Menke, zero one fi lm Image © Benedikt Kuby SCHEDULE German Film Festival 2016

WELLINGTON CHRISTCHURCH NEW PLYMOUTH AUCKLAND NGĀ TAONGA SOUND & VISION / 21 – 24 SEPT CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY / 28 SEPT & 1 OCT GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY / LEN LYE ACADEMY CINEMAS / 10 – 16 OCT CENTRE / 4 – 9 OCT WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER WEDNEDAY 28 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER MONDAY 10 OCTOBER

4:30pm You Remain the Farmer 2:00pm Superworld 6:15pm Fukushima, Mon Amour 8:30pm Fukushima, Mon Amour 7:00pm Superworld 6:00pm Fukushima, Mon Amour

WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 4:00pm Fukushima, Mon Amour 6:15pm You Remain the Farmer 12:30pm Heidi 12:00pm Heidi 6:30pm Superworld 8:30pm A Decent Man 4:30pm A Decent Man 3:00pm The People vs. Fritz Bauer 7:00pm Fukushima, Mon Amour THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER

FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER DUNEDIN 4:00pm You Remain the Farmer 12:30pm Heidi DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY / 1 – 2 OCT 6:30pm 24 Weeks 6:15pm Superworld 4:30pm Organized 7:00pm 4 Kings FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER 4:00pm A Decent Man 6:15pm Organized SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 12:30pm The People vs. Fritz Bauer 6:30pm Me and Kaminski 8:30pm 4 Kings 3:00pm Superworld 2:15pm 24 Weeks 4:30pm Me and Kaminski SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 7:00pm The People vs. Fritz Bauer SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER 4:00pm Organized 6:15pm Fukushima, Mon Amour 12:30pm Heidi 6:30pm The People vs. Fritz Bauer 8:30pm Me and Kaminski 3:00pm 4 Kings

SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER

4:00pm Heidi 6:15pm 24 Weeks 6:30pm 4 Kings 8:30pm The People vs. Fritz Bauer

SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER

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