EFM 2019 Martin-Gropius Bau #10 CONTENT

MASTERS & TALENTS THRILLS & CHILLS FAMILY & FUN

MASTERS & TALENTS

THE ASPERN PAPERS LYSIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER GIPSY QUEEN

THRILLS & CHILLS

THE SONATA HANNA‘S HOMECOMING PARTY HARD, DIE YOUNG

FAMILY & FUN

Double Trouble AND The Magical Mirror LITTLE MISS DOLITTLE

Scene from: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER SCREENING Drama Feb. 9th | 9:30 am CineStar 2

Original Title The Aspern Papers THE ASPERN PAPERS

Year 2018 MASTERS TALENTS & Based on one of Henry James‘s most acclaimed novellas, THE ASPERN PAPERS is directed by Julien Landais, Cast starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Joely Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave. Jonathan Rhys Meyers Joely Richardson Set in Venice in the late 19th century, it tells of an American editor determined to get his hands on the letters his and icon, the Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, wrote to his beautiful lover and muse, Juliana Bordereau. Juliana lives in a Vanessa Redgrave Venetian palazzo with her niece Miss Tina, who she seems to control and Morton tries to manipulate. But when the ambitious adventurer trifles with Miss Tina’s affections she learns to see through his scheme. The Aspern Papers Director tells a story of obsession, grandeur lost and dreams of Byronic Julien Landais adventures. The film was shot where Henry James actually wrote Producer it – on original locations in Venice. Gabriela Bacher Julien Landais From script stage on, French director Julien Landais was supported by Executive Producer and recent Academy Award Production Company winner James Ivory. Summerstorm Entertainment Princeps Film Cohen Media

Version English (OV), German DUB

Status Completed

Local Distributor Cohen Media (North America)

Running Time 90 min Market Premiere DRAMA Feb. 8th | 4:25 pm CinemaxX 8 World Premiere

Original Title Lysis LYSIS – A FATHER AND SON STORY

Year 2018 MASTERS TALENTS & Director Rick Ostermann‘s previous films KRIEG and Cast WOLFSKINDER both premiered at Venice Film Festival. Oliver Masucci Louis Hofmann Two actors, Oliver Masucci (DARK, LOOK WHO’S BACK) and Louis Hofmann (DARK, LAND OF MINE) Director DIRECTED BY RICK OSTERMANN Rick Ostermann were left out in the wilderness, each with a story of their own given by the director, without a script … but Producer with 3 action cams that are an integral part of the plot. Stefan Sporbert We follow their story as it unfolds for each character Rüdiger Heinze and step into a breathtaking story of survival, guilt Producton Company and hope! This is an intense father and son story. Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion After Felix’s mother has died in an accident his estranged father that he hasn’t seen in ten years takes Version him along a rafting trip in the mountains. While the German (OV) with English subt. father hopes to reconnect with his son through the Status Completed shared adventure, Felix refuses to open up to him. After losing their equipment, the trip turns into a struggle for Local Distributor TBA survival during which father and son learn to see the painful events of the past through each other’s eyes… A FATHER AND SON STORY RUNNING TIME 92 min

DELIVERY Q1 / 2019 Market Premiere DRAMA Feb 9th | 1:10 pm CineStar 6

Original Title IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER In the Middle of the River MASTERS TALENTS & Year 2018 A wounded military veteran returns home to face the war within his own dysfunctional family, as he tries to piece Cast together the reasons behind his sister‘s mysterious death. Eric Hunter Max Thayer Nikki Lowe Led to believe his abusive Grandfather is responsible for his twin sister’s recent death, GABRIEL (26) returns to his Director humble home on a Native American Reservation in rural New Damien John Harper Mexico. Yearning to protect his family he swears to secretly kill his Grandfather. Yet at the moment of truth his plan is Producer ruined and they are forced to spend the day together. On Jonas Weydemann Jakob D. Weydemann the road the two war veterans begin speaking about their distinct yet similar traumatic war experiences. Despite his Version rage Gabriel realizes the world is not as black and white as he English (OV) once thought and slowly he is forced to accept responsibility for his part in the family crisis to find peace. Status Completed

Local Distributor Farbfilm Verleih

RUNNING TIME 100 min

DELIVERY Q1 / 2019 DRAMA Post Production

Original Title Gipsy Queen GIPSY QUEEN MASTERS TALENTS & Year 2019 Director Hüseyin Tabak gained critical acclaim with such films as „Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing“ and

Cast „The Legend Of The Ugly King“. Alina Serban Tobias Moretti GIPSY QUEEN is a powerful and inspiring boxing story of the Roma single mother ALI (30), who uses Irina Kurbanova everything she‘s got trying to keep the heads of her two children Esmeralda (11) and Mateo (5) above water and enable them to get a good start in life in their new home in a foreign country. It‘s hard not to like young Director Ali. She has the heart of a lion, is proud, doesn‘t complain and works herself to the bone for her two children Hüseyin Tabak as a cleaner in Hamburg‘s famous „Ritze“ underground club. But deep in her heart Ali carries a wound: after she became an unmarried mother in Romania she was disowned by her father – for whom, until then, she Producer Danny Krausz was the Gipsy Queen, the queen of all Roma. When Ali discovers the boxing ring in the „Ritze‘‘‘s basement Kurt Stocker one day and gets to watch a fight it brings back memories of boxing Version training with her father. Frustrated German (OV) with and disappointed by life, Ali vents all English subt. her fury on the punching bag in the STATUS basement of the „Ritze“ one evening. Post Production Tanne, ex-boxer and owner of the „Ritze“ sees her and recognizes her Local Distributor talent. She starts to box again and Filmladen Filmverleih GmbH sees the chance of a better life. RUNNING TIME 112 min

DELIVERY Q2 / 2019 SCREENING HORROR Feb. 8th | 4:30 pm Gropius Bau Cinema Feb. 11th | 5:45 pM CineStar 1 THE SONATA Original Title The Sonata A young violinist unravels her long lost father’s past, Year 2019 triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination… Cast Freya Tingley After being informed of the sudden death of her long lost Simon Abkarian composer father, a young virtuoso violinist Rose inherits James Faulkner Matt Barber an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she Catherine Schaub-Abkarian discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score Rutger Hauer marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles, Director her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, Andrew Desmond little by little, starts to unlock secrets concerning her

father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a THRILLS CHILLS & Production Companies somber plan imagined since the very day she was born. The Project Featuristic Films CTB Film Company Tasse Film

Version English & French (OV)

Status Completed

Local Distributor Nashe Kino

RUNNING TIME 88 min 52. internationale hofer filmtage

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52nd SCREENING hof HORROR international Feb. 9th | 11:10 am film festival Cinemobile 2018

Original Title Wo kein Schatten fällt Hanna‘s Homecoming

Year 2018 After three years at boarding school, Hanna is returning Cast home to her little village to help her father‘s butcher‘s Valerie Stoll shop during her break. Soon she learns that she is not Milena Tscharntke welcome in the village. Everyone remembers the horrific Godehard Giese news story about her mother‘s death which was followed Valerie milena by the discovery of three dead men in the marsh. While Stoll tScharntke Director superstition rules the village, everyone believes her Esther Bialas mother was a witch and had lured these men into the Producer marsh directly to their death. Struggling to make friends, marcelweisheit.com Mathieu Miville she meets the extroverted city girl Eva. Thinking she has you

Nathan Nill THRILLS CHILLS & finally found a friend, scary accidents start happening can'T Andrea Schütte drown around her … while Hanna‘s confidence and with that her the truth Version „power“ starts to grow… English DUB, German (OV) with English subt.

Status Completed

Local Distributor TBA

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Original Title Die letzte Party deines Lebens Party Hard, Die Young

Year 2018 Finally graduated. No more school! The Party is on! Cast Elisabeth Wabitsch This calls for celebrations and is the reason why Julia, her Michael Glantschnig classmates and thousands of fellow graduates are on their Michael Ostrowski way to an island resort in Croatia, and it is supposed to be the party of their lives! The harmless fun, however, soon Director turns dead serious.When Julia’s friend is killed in a tragic Dominik Hartl accident, the party people’s euphoria is crushed. The group Producer is severely shaken, but that is not the only reason for Julia’s Florian Gebhardt desperation. Her best friend Jessica has been missing and

Julia is the only one who believes that there is a connection THRILLS CHILLS & Production Company between the two incidents. Unfortunately, shortly after Gebhardt Productions the accident, her suspicion is confirmed. Jessica’s dead Version body is found washed up on the beach. Now the trip English DUB, is about bare survival, as Julia realizes that she might German (OV) probably be the next victim. Could it all be connected to a with English subt. long buried incident from the clique’s past. Or are the shady resort doctor Dr. Mühlberger with his sidekick Serkan and Status Completed their illegal pill-business behind all this? And how many Local Distributor classmates have to die, until the murderer is found? Thimfilm

RUNNING TIME 92 min Market Premiere FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT Feb 8th | 10:45 am | CinemaxX 8 Feb 11th | 10:00 am | delphi LUX 3 Feb 11th | 4:10 pm | CineStar 1

Original Title Unheimlich Perfekte Freunde DOUBLE TROUBLE Year 2019 AND The Magical Mirror Cast Luis Vorbach Jona Gaensslen Frido is a fun loving kid and just like most kids his age, Margarita Broich a little lazy in school. One day during a town fair he

encounters a magical mirror. With the mirror‘s magic he DirecteD by Director Luis Vorbach Marcus H. rosenmüller Jona Gaensslen Marcus H. Rosenmüller is able to create a double (aka twin) of himself – who is just perfect at everything he is not. With the help of his Producer double who is very smart in school Frido starts to give up Benedikt Böllhof more and more responsiblity not only in school but also Max Frauenknecht at home. At first it is much fun and he starts telling his CO-Producer secret to his best friend Emil until all of his classmates Al Munteanu find out and copy themselves. No one goes to school Lars Wiebe anymore but the freaky doubles start to take over. The Version kids start to realize that they miss their old lives and English DUB, decide to take action by setting up a trap that will have German (OV) with English subt. the doubles return into the mirror in time. Status Completed

Local Distributor SquareOne Entertainment FAMILY & FUN „UNHEIMLICH PERFEKTE FREUNDE” eine VIAFILM Produktion in Co-Produktion mit MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK KiKA BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK sowie SQUAREONE ENTERTAINMENT LUIS VORBACH JONA GAENSSLEN MARGARITA BROICH MARIE LEUENBERGER SERKAN KAYA CLEO DIETMAYR COLIN BADURA SANNA MORGENROTH XARI WIMBAUER MAJA BECKMANN BUTZ BUSE CHRISTIAN SCHNELLER und MAX VON THUN RUNNING TIME 92 min Casting JACQUELINE RIETZ FRANZISKA AIGNER Musik ANDREJ MELITA MEREDI und FLORIAN PAUL Mischung MICHAEL GERLACH Maskenbild GLORIA GÖSCHEL CHRISTINA BAIER Kostümbild WALTER SCHWARZMEIER Szenenbild JOHANNES STERNAGEL Filmeditor BARBARA TOENNIESHEN Kamera STEFAN BIEBL Herstellungsleitung BÜLENT NACAKSIZ Redaktion JOHANNA KRAUS (MDR) DR ASTRID PLENK (KiKA) STEFAN PFÄFFLE (KiKA) DR CORNELIA ACKERS (BR) MATTHIAS KÖRNICH (WDR) Co-Produzenten AL MUNTEANU LARS WIEBE Idee und Drehbuch SIMONE HÖFT NORA LÄMMERMANN Produzenten BENEDIKT BÖLLHOFF MAX FRAUENKNECHT Regie MARCUS H. ROSENMÜLLER DELIVERY Q2/ 2019 Busan FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT International SCREENer Kids and Youth Film Festival Film Festival 2018 2018

Original Title Liliane Susewind LITTLE MISS DOLITTLE

Year 2018 Tanya Stewner‘s internationally successful children‘s Cast book series “Liliane Susewind“ is finally coming to the Malu Leicher big screen and will be directed by Joachim Masannek Christoph Maria Herbst Tom Beck, Aylin Tezel (“The Wild Soccer Bunch“). Meret Becker, Aaron Kissiov 11-year-old Liliane “Lilli” Susewind can speak with animals! Director This is a secret nobody should know about except for her Joachim Masannek parents. Her special talent has caused enough trouble in Producer the past and is forcing the family to move again. Lilli vows Felix Zackor to keep her secret to herself when arriving at their new Stefan Raiser home – but until she learns that a mean animal thief has Maike Haas kidnapped the baby elephant Ronni from the local Zoo. Co-Producer Together with her new classmate Jess, Lilli sets off on an Sebastian Schelenz adventure to save Ronni and the other animals! Andre Sommerlatte

Version English DUB, French DUB, German (OV) with English subt.

Status Completed

Local Distributor FAMILY & FUN

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