GERMAN FILM

WEEK 5th Edition 13 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2018 Metropolis Empire Sofil – Ashrafieh Design: Christopher Rizkallah Christopher Design: Photo: © Camino Filmverleih © Camino Photo:

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Screenplay Emily Atef Camera Thomas Kiennast Editing Hansjörg Weißbrich Music Christoph M. Kaiser Julian Maas

Starring Marie Bäumer Robert Gwisdek Charly Hübner © Peter Harting - Rohfilm Factory - Prokino 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON Director Emily Atef 13 | 09 | 2018 Year 2018 Genre Drama Length 115 mins

Robert Lebeck’s photographs of are world-famous. They capture this actress’s contradictory nature, her exuberance, melancholy and pain. Lebeck also took the photographs that were to accompany the legendary interview Romy Schneider granted ‘Stern’ magazine reporter Michael Jürgs in Quiberon in 1981 – in spite of her previous negative encounters with the German press. The actress had retired to this Breton spa town to recuperate with Hilde, her close friend of many years, keeping her company. The interview and black-and-white photos form the basis of this film that captures the special atmosphere of these three days in which Schneider bares her soul – to breaking point…

In the presence of award winning Emily Atef

German Film Awards 2018: Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Marie Bäumer, Best Cinematography, Best Film Score International Film Festival 2018: Nominee Golden Berlin Bear Best Film Screenplay Valeska Grisebach Camera Bernhard Keller Editing Bettina Böhler

Starring Meinhard Neumann Reinhardt Wetrek Syuleyman Letifov Veneta Frangova © Komplizen Film WESTERN Director Valeska Grisebach 14 | 09 | 2018 Year 2017 Genre Drama Length 121 mins

A group of German construction workers moves to a construction site in the border region between Bulgaria and Greece. When the men realize there is a village nearby, they are confronted with their prejudice and mistrust. Two of the men turn the village into a stage on which they compete for the recognition and favor of the villagers.

German Film Awards 2018: Lola in Bronze, Best Feature Film German Film Critics Association Awards 2018: German Film Critics Award, Best Film of 2017 2017: Nominee Un Certain Regard Award, Valeska Grisebach Screenplay Camera Jo Heim Editing Stefan Essl Denis Bachter Music Gary Go

Starring Florian David Fitz Palina Rojinski Eric Kabongo © 2016 Warner Bros. Ent WELCOME TO Director Simon Verhoeven 15 | 09 | 2018 Year 2016 Genre Comedy Length 116 mins

There is a lot going on at the Hartmanns’ place: Mother Angelika’s singlehanded decision to take in the asylum seeker Diallo after visiting a refugee shelter has upset her husband Richard. Naturally, the arrival of the unexpected guest causes some misunderstandings and turbulence. Then, daughter Sophie shows up without prior notice: The aimless long- term student is trying to get away from a manic admirer. And if that wasn’t enough, son Philip whose nerves are worn out returns home with his son Basti. The illustrious gathering of unequal characters obviously calls for conflict and soon things get rocky with the Hartmanns

Bavarian Film Awards 2017: Best Production, Audience Award German Film Awards 2017: Audience Award Hubert Burda Media 2017: Bambi, Film national Screenplay Ziad Kalthoum Camera Talal Khoury Editing Aleksei Bakri Frank Brummundt Music Sebastian Tesch © Talal Khoury TASTE OF CEMENT Director Ziad Kalthoum 16 | 09 | 2018 Year 2017 Genre Documentary Length 89 mins

In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after 7p.m. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees. The only contact with the outside world for these Syrian workers is the hole through which they climb out in the morning to begin a new day of work. Cut off from their homeland, they gather at night around a small TV set to get the news from Syria. Tormented by anguish and anxiety, while suffering the deprivation of the most basic human and workers right, they keep hoping for a different life.

Adelaide Film Festival 2017: Winner Foxtel Movies International Award, Best Documentary, Ziad Kalthoum Camden International Film Festival 2017: Winner, Harrell Award, Best Documentary Feature Nyon Visions du Réel 2017: Winner Grand Prix, International Feature Film Competition, Ziad Kalthoum Screenplay Clemens Meyer, Thomas Stube Camera Peter Matjasko Editing Kaya Inan Sound design Kai Tebbel Sound Christoph Schilling

Starring Franz Rogowski Sandra Hüller Peter Kurth Andreas Leupold © Sommerhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, Anke Neugebauer IN THE AISLES Director Thomas Stuber 17 | 09 | 2018 Year 2018 Genre Drama Length 125 mins

Christian is new to the superstore. He mutely plunges into this unknown universe: the endless aisles, the eternal order of the warehouses, the surreal mechanicisms of the forklift trucks. His colleague Bruno from the drinks department takes him under his wing, showing him all the tricks of the trade and soon becomes a fatherly friend. Marion from the confectionary department likes to have a bit of a laugh and a joke with Christian. When he falls in love with her, the entire warehouse is rooting for him. But Marion is married, albeit unhappily by all accounts. All of a sudden she goes on sick leave. Christian falls into a deep hole, so deep in fact, that his miserable old life threatens to engulf him once more.

Berlin International Film Festival 2018: winner, Guild Film Prize, Thomas Stuber, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Competition, Thomas Stuber, Nominee, Golden Berlin Bear, Best Film German Film Awards 2018: Lola, Best Performance by an in a Leading Role, Franz Rogowski German Screenplay Award: winner Screenplay Award, Thomas Stuber, Clemens Meyer Screenplay Sonja Kröner Camera Julia Daschner Editing Ulrike Tortora Music Sebastian Fillenberg

Starring Laura Tonke Mavie Hörbiger Ursula Werner Günther Maria Halmer Thomas Loibl © Prokino Filmverleih THE GARDEN Director Sonja Kröner 18 | 09 | 2018 Year 2017 Genre Drama Length 97 mins

Germany, the summer of 1976: Eva, her husband Bernd and their children drive to the summer cottage of Grandmother Sophie. It’s a long-standing tradition that all branches of the family meet there every year to spend the holidays together. Yet this year everything is different: Sophie recently passed away, and a lightning bolt has destroyed the old tree in the garden. While the children are having carefree fun, the adults get increasingly tense. Eva feels annoyed by her sister-in-law Gitti, and Bernd tries to set the record straight with his father Erich. Aunt Ilse flirts with the female neighbor, and freethinking aunt Mathilde turns the garden into a nude area. Meanwhile, the kids explore the surroundings and the mysterious estate next door. When a girl from the area disappears, the dramatic news threatens to shatter the illusion of an idyllic family reunion.

Bavarian Film Awards 2018: Best Screenplay Film Festival 2017: Young German Cinema Award for Best Direction and Best Production, Tobias Walker and Philipp Worm German Film Awards 2017: Audience Award Screenplay Stefan Kolditz Stephan Suschke Camera Frank Lamm Editing Jens Klüber Music Jean Rondeau

Starring Carla Juri Albrecht Schuch Roxane Duran Joel Basman © Pandora Film - Martin Menke PAULA Director Christian Schwochow 19 | 09 | 2018 Year 2016 Genre Biography / Drama Length 123 mins

Born in Dresden in 1876, Paula Becker early discovers her love for art and culture. At sixteen, she moves to England to study English and housekeeping, yet her homesickness had her returning to Germany soon. There she begins to train as a teacher at her parent’s request, while also trying to fulfill her dream of becoming a painter. Since she isn’t accepted into the Berlin art academy, she attends drawing classes and hones her technical skills. She joins the art commune of Worpswede, and in 1899, she makes a fateful study trip to Paris. There she meets Otto Modersohn, whom she marries in 1901. Artist Clara Westhoff and writer Rainer Maria Rilke become her like-minded friends, yet despite her vast talent the significance of Paula Becker’s paintings is only recognized after her premature death in 1907. Today, she is hailed as one of the most important progenitors of expressionism.

Bavarian Film Awards 2017: Best Cinematography German Film Awards 2017: Best Production Design, Tim Pannen and Best Costume De- sign, Frauke Firl Screenplay Nils Mohl Max Reinholdn Camera Florian Mag Editing Jan Ruschke Music Martin Gretschmann

Starring Leonard Scheicher Johanna Polley Emilia Schüle Joel Basman © Riva Filmproduktion Once Upon a Time in Director Ilker Çatak Year 2017 An Indian Country Genre Comedy / Drama 20 | 09 | 2018 Length 97 mins

Adapted from Nils Mohl’s eponymous novel, İlker Çatak’s feature debut is a wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at the end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood on the outskirts of Hamburg. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love, and a biblical thunderstorm. And where does the Native American come into all of this?... ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIAN COUNTRY is a story radiating both heat and poetry.

Open-air screening at 7:30 PM at AHM, Bloc Market – Beirut Water Front followed by a free admission to the LOVE NIGHT party

German Film Awards 2018: nominee, Film Award in Gold, Best Editing, Jan Ruschke Hamburg Film Festival 2017: nominee, Young Talent Award, Best Feature Film, Ilker Çatak Screenplay Maggie Peren Andi Rogenhagen Camera Christof Wahl Editing Simon Gstöttmayr Music Johnny Klimek

Starring Elyas M’Barek Philip Noah Schwarz Lisa Bitter Uwe Preuss © 2017 Constantin Film Verleih GmbH Jürgen Olczyk THIS CRAZY HEART Director Marc Rothemund 22 | 09 | 2018 Year 2017 Genre Comedy / Drama Length 106 mins

Lenny, a man in his late twenties, takes life easy. He dropped out of college a while ago already, still lives in his parents’ mansion and prefers to spend his nights in a fancy club. One day, his widowed father, a renowned cardiologist, has had it. He cuts his son’s money supply, throws him out of the house and forces him on an unusual mission: In order to get his old life back, Lenny has to spend time with David, who is suffering from a severe heart condition and lives with his mother in modest circumstances. Lenny’s father hopes that this experience will make his son come to his senses. And who would have thought it: After an initial lack of interest, Lenny soon starts developing brotherly feelings for David with his zest for life. He makes it his mission to fulfill the boy’s each and every wish. © Fassbinder Foundation

Homage to One of German cinema’s most famous and respected actresses, Hanna Schygulla is receiving a multi-film homage as part of this year’s 5th German Film Week. This iconic actress, who is most associated with the work of German pioneering director , has been a prolific actress since the 1960s and is one of the only German talents known around the world for her vivid acting style.

Hanna Schygulla was born in 1925 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia. In the 1960s, Schygulla studied Romance languages and German studies, while taking acting lessons in Munich during her spare time.

Acting eventually became her focus, and she became particularly known for her film work with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom she collaborated on more than 8 films. Their collaboration (with Fassbinder acting as muse) defined the New German Cinema movement of the late 1960s and 1970s that put German moviemaking on the international map.

Their collaboration was not without its bumpy patches. Despite this feud, they continued to work together, culminating in the classic collaboration of THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (1978), which was a great international hit for its director and lead actress.

After Fassbinder’s death in the late 1980s, Schygulla has acted in French, Italian, and American films. In the 1990s she also became known and well-regarded as a chanson singer. In Juliane Lorenz’s documentary film LIFE, LOVE AND CELLULOID (1998), Schygulla performs several songs and reminisced about the early days of the German cinema movement.

After almost retiring from the screen, she made a triumphant comeback in 2007 as the mother who travels to Turkey to find her daughter in German director Fatih Akin’s arthouse hit THE EDGE OF HEAVEN for which she was nominated in the category “Best Supporting Actress” at the 2008 German Film Prize.

In recent years, she appeared in Aleksandr Sokurov’s “Faust” (RU 2011), Emmanuelle Antille’s “Avanti” (F/CH 2012) and Sam Garbarski’s “Vijay und ich” (D/BE/LU 2013). At the 2010 Berline IFF, Schygulla presented her shorts “Alicia Bustamante” and “Moi et Mon Double”. In 2013, she published her autobiography “Wach auf und träume”. Hanna Schygulla also created an installation made of her video shorts titled “Traumprotokolle” which was exhibited in Paris, New York and Berlin. Screenplay Rainer Werner Fassbinder Camera Music Peer Raben

Starring Lou Castel Eddie Constantine Hanna Schygulla Rainer Werner Fassbinder © Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation Beware of a Holy Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder Whore Year 1971 16 | 09 | 2018 Genre Comedy / Drama Length 103 mins

In a hotel near the sea, a film team awaits the arrival of the director, the star, the money supplied by the state-supported film agency and the film material. The atmosphere is a mix of hysteria, apathy, hope, quarrelling, jealousy, affairs. When the director (Lou Castel) arrives with the star (Eddie Constantine) the former is placed at the center of the chaos. Changing couples and groups. The production manager (Fassbinder) attempts to get the shooting organized in an authoritarian manner. Eddie who looks like a fossil from long forgotten times in comparison to the others, gets close to the actress Hanna (Hanna Schygulla).

Jeff explains the staging of the next scenes. In senseless actions, the entire team – by now they feel increasingly dependent on Jeff – rebels against him. Jeff gets beaten up. But finally, the shooting of the film can begin. Screenplay Aleksandr Sokurov Camera Bruno Delbonnel Music Alexander Zlamal

Starring Johannes Zeiler Isolda Dychauk Georg Friedrich Antoine Monot Jr. Hanna Schygulla © Films Boutique FAUST Director Aleksandr Sokurov 21 | 09 | 2018 Year 2011 Genre Drama / Fantasy Length 134 mins

Faust is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe and eventually sells his soul to the Devil also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. The Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey.

Venice Film Festival 2011: Future Film Festival Digital Award, Aleksandr Sokurov, Golden Lion Best Feature Film, Aleksandr Sokurov, SIGNIS Award Aleksandr Sokurov Screenplay Rainer Werner Fassbinder Camera Rainer Werner Fassbinder Editing Juliane Lorenz Music Peer Raben

Starring Volker Spengler Hanna Schygulla Udo Kier © 2015 Studiocanal GmbH. All Rights.Reserved THE THIRD Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder GENERATION Year 1979 22 | 09 | 2018 Genre Crime / Thriller Length 111 mins

Winter 1978/79, in West Berlin. A group of young people – joined together less by their political convictions than their secretive behavior (their code word is: “the world as intention and idea”) – goes underground after the killer Paul (Raoul Gimenez), flown in from Africa, is shot by the police. On February 27, Mardi Gras, the young terrorists kidnap Peter Lurtz (Eddie Constantine), the representative of a US computer firm … Screenplay Fatih Akin Camera Rainer Klausmann Editing Andrew Bird Sound Kai Lüde Music Shantel

Starring Baki Davrak Nursel Köse Hanna Schygulla Tunçel Kurtiz © 2007 Corazón International. All Rights Reserved THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Director Fatih Akin 23 | 09 | 2018 Year 2007 Genre Drama Length 122 mins

Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali’s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter’s university studies. Yeter’s sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter’s daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten...

Bavarian Film Awards 2008: Winner Best Director, Fatih Akin Cannes Film Festival 2007: Winner Best Screenplay, Fatih Akin European Film Awards 2007: Winner European German Film Awards 2008: Winner Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Editing National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 2009: Best Supporting Actress, Hanna Schygulla Call for applications starting October 2018 www.goethe.de/beirut/backstory

THU 13 3 Days in Quiberon 13 - 23 Emily Atef - 8:00 PM SEPTEMBER 2018 FRI 14 Western Valeska Grisebach - 8:00 PM

With the support of SAT 15 Welcome to Germany Simon Verhoeven - 8:00 PM

SUN 16 Taste of Cement Ziad Kalthoum - 8:00 PM

Beware of a Holy Whore Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 10:00 PM

MON 17 In the Aisles Thomas Stuber - 8:00 PM

TUES 18 The Garden Sonja Kröner - 8:00 PM

WED 19 Paula Christian Schwochow - 8:00 PM

THU 20 Once Upon a Time in Ticket Price Indian Country 8 000 LBP Ilker Çatak- 7:30 PM - at AHM Pass 48 000 LBP FRI 21 Faust Sold at Metropolis Aleksandr Sokurov - 8:00 PM Empire Sofil Tel: 01 204 808 SAT 22 This Crazy Heart Marc Rothemund- 8:00 PM The Third Generation Open-air Screening Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 10:00 PM 8 000 LBP Sold at AHM SUN 23 The Edge of Heaven Tel: 03 703 331 Fatih Akin - 8:00 PM Hanna Schygulla Homage Films

All films are in original language with English subtitles