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GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY IN CANNES Sergei Loznitsa’s DONBASS in Un Certain Regard Ulrich Köhler’s IN MY ROOM in Un Certain Regard Margarethe von Trotta’s SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN in Cannes Classics DIRECTORS Ulrich Köhler & Ina Weisse PRODUCERS Rafael Parente, Korbinian Dufter & Simon Amberger of NEUESUPER ISSUE 2-2018 ACTOR Godehard Giese CONTENTS GFQ 2-2018 4 5 6 21 25 28 31 32 32 33 33 34 2 GFQ 2-2018 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE IN CANNES NEW DOCUMENTARIES DONBASS AUSSORTIERT – ASIENS UNERWÜNSCHTE TÖCHTER Sergei Loznitsa ................................................................................. 4 THE BACHELOR TIME BOMB Antje Christ, Dorothe Dörholt .......................................................... 32 IN MY ROOM Ulrich Köhler ..................................................................................... 5 KUNST IM PARADIES ART IN PARADISE SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN Joachim Haupt, Sabine Pollmeier ................................................. 32 Margarethe von Trotta ...................................................................... 6 NEW SHORTS PORTRAITS BURKINA BRANDENBURG KOMPLEX PEOPLE IN HOUSES, BUT NOT AT HOME Ulu Braun ......................................................................................... 33 A portrait of director Ulrich Köhler ................................................. 8 CARLOTTA’S FACE WORKING PARTNERSHIPS Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld ........................................................ 33 A portrait of director Ina Weisse ..................................................... 10 LINK TEAM SPIRIT Robert Löbel .................................................................................... 34 A portrait of production company NEUESUPER .............................. 12 EXPLORING INNER WORLDS UPCOMING FILMS A portrait of actor Godehard Giese .................................................. 14 100 DINGE Florian David Fitz ............................................................................. 35 NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 16 BEAT Marco Kreuzpaintner ...................................................................... 35 NEW FEATURES DEUTSCHSTUNDE DIE DEFEKTE KATZE Christian Schwochow ...................................................................... 35 A DYSFUNCTIONAL CAT Susan Gordanshekan .............................. 21 DREISSIG DRAUSSEN IN MEINEM KOPF Simona Kostova ............................................................................... 36 Eibe Maleen Krebs ........................................................................... 22 ELEFANTEN WACHSEN SCHNELL FONOTUNE: AN ELECTRIC FAIRYTALE Carlos A. Morelli ............................................................................. 36 FINT .................................................................................................. 23 KENT OZANI, DER STADTSCHREIBER VON ISTANBUL FRAU MUTTER TIER Dogan Altuner .................................................................................. 36 MOTHER BEE Felicitas Darschin ...................................................... 24 DER KRIEG IN MIR FÜNF FREUNDE – UND DAS TAL DER DINOSAURIER Sebastian Heinzel ............................................................................. 37 THE FAMOUS FIVE – AND THE VALLEY OF DINOSAURS Mike Marzuk .................................................................................... 25 PARFUM Philipp Kadelbach ........................................................................... 37 DER GESCHMACK VON LEBEN TASTE OF LIFE Roland Reber ......................................................... 26 STILLSTEHEN Elisa Mishto ..................................................................................... 37 HEILSTÄTTEN Michael David Pate .......................................................................... 27 SYSTEMSPRENGER Nora Fingscheidt ............................................................................ 38 LILIANE SUSEWIND Joachim Masannek ......................................................................... 28 TEARS OF CHANGE Ceylan Alejandro Ataman-Checa ..................................................... 38 REISE NACH JERUSALEM THE CHAIRS GAME Lucia Chiarla .................................................. 29 TRÄUME VON RÄUMEN Matthias Lintner .............................................................................. 38 SCHWIMMEN SWIMMING Luzie Loose ................................................................... 30 WARUM Bernd Böhlich ................................................................................... 39 SPIELMACHER PLAYMAKER Timon Modersohn ..................................................... 31 WEST OF LIBERTY Barbara Eder .................................................................................... 39 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 45 Film Exporters ................................................................................. 46 Imprint .............................................................................................. 47 3 IN CANNES GFQ 2-2018 © ma.ja.de. Fiction DONBASS hen war is called peace, when SERGEI LOZNITSA was born in 1964 in GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature YEAR propaganda is uttered as Baranovichi in the former USSR. He grew OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Sergei truth, when hatred is de - up in Kiev, and graduated from the Kiev Loznitsa SCREENPLAY Sergei Loznitsa CINE- clared to be love, life itself Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathe- MATOGRAPHY Oleg Mutu CAST Tamara Wbegins to resemble death. Surviving Donbass. matics. From 1987-1991, he was employed Yatsenko, Liudmila Smorodina, Olesya A practical guide to Inferno. at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, working Zhurakovskaya, Boris Kamorzin, Thorsten on artificial intelligence research. He also Merten, Sergei Russkin, Petro Panchuk, The action of the film takes place in a region worked as a translator for Japanese. In 1997 Irina Plesnyaeva, Zhanna Lubgane, Vadim of Eastern Ukraine, occupied by various cri- Sergei Loznitsa graduated from the Russian Dobuvsky, Alexander Zamurayev, Gerogy minal gangs, which are fighting at once with State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). He Deliev, Valeriu Andriuta, Konstantin Itunin, the Ukrainian regular army, with other gangs studied Feature Filmmaking in the class of Valery Antoniuk, Nina Antonova, Natalia and with Russian troops. The context in which Nana Dzhordzhadze. From 2000-2008 he Buzko, Sergei Kolesov, Svetlana Kolesova, the action takes place is a hybrid war, happe- work ed at the St. Petersburg Documentary Sergei Smeyan PRODUCER Heino Deckert ning alongside an open armed conflict, Film Studio. In 2001, he and his family moved PRODUCTION COMPANY ma.ja.de. Fiction, accompanied by robberies on a mass scale to Germany. A selection of his award-winning in co-production with Arthouse Traffic, JBA and gradual degradation of the civilian popu- films includes: TODAY WE ARE GOING Production, Graniet Film, Wild at Art, Digital lation. There is fear, deception, hatred and TO BUILD A HOUSE (1996), LIFE, AUTUMN Cube RUNTIME 120 min LANGUAGE Russian, violence everywhere. Society is collapsing, (1998), THE TRAIN STOP (2000), SETTLE- Ukrainian FESTIVALS Cannes 2018 (Un and death and deadly silence lie upon the MENT (2001), PORTRAIT (2002), LANDSCAPE Certain Regard – Opening Film) place. The state of war reaches its climax. (2003), FACTORY (2004), BLOCKADE (2005), ARTEL (2006), REVUE (2008), MY JOY (2010), SALES IN THE FOG (2012), AUSTERLITZ (2016), and Pyramide Films DONBASS (2018). [email protected] www.pyramidefilms.com 4 GFQ 2-2018 IN CANNES © Pandora Film Produktion IN MY ROOM rmin is getting too old for his ULRICH KÖHLER was born in 1969 in GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature YEAR OF night life habits and the woman he Marburg and studied Fine Arts in France, PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Ulrich Köhler likes. He’s not really happy, but Philosophy in Hamburg and later Visual SCREENPLAY Ulrich Köhler CINEMATOG - can’t picture living a different life. Communication at the University of Fine Arts RAPHY Patrick Orth CAST Hans Löw, Elena AOne morning he wakes up: the world looks in Hamburg, where he also made his first Radonicich, Michael Wittenborn, Emma the same as always, but mankind has dis - short films. His feature films BUNGALOW Bading, Kathrin Resetarits, Ruth Bickelhaupt appeared. and WINDOWS ON MONDAY premiered in PRODUCERS Christoph Friedel, Claudia the Berlinale Forum and have screened at Steffen PRODUCTION COMPANY Pandora A film about the frightening gift of maximum many festivals worldwide, winning national Film Produktion, in co-production with Echo freedom. and international awards. His film SLEEPING Film, Komplizen Film, WDR, ARTE RUNTIME SICKNESS premiered in Competition at the 120 min LANGUAGE German, Eng lish FESTI- Berlinale and won the Silver Bear for Best VALS Cannes 2018 (Un Certain Regard) Directing. SALES The Match Factory [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com 5 IN CANNES GFQ 2-2018 © Börres Weiffenbach SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN am often asked whether I have a parti- his internationally renowned actresses (Liv MADNESS (1983), ROSA LUXEMBURG (1985), “ cular role model. Who is my favorite Ullmann, Gunnel Lindblom, Julia Dufvenius), THE AFRICAN WOMAN (1990), THE LONG SI- director? My answer is always the his working companions and Bergman LENCE (1993), THE PROMISE (1994), ROSEN- same: Ingmar Bergman. Of course, experts, von Trotta also met