2018 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival

22 nd Edition

New films from Germany, Feb 9-11, 2018 Austria & Switzerland Castro Theatre Feb 12, 2018 Shattuck Cinemas Feb 13-15, 2018 Goethe-Institut

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CASTRO THEATRE SHATTUCK CINEMAS 429 Castro Street (near Market) 2230 Shattuck Avenue San Francisco, CA 94114 Berkeley, CA 94704

FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 2018 MONDAY, FEB. 12, 2018 9:30 a.m. MY BROTHER SIMPLE p. 23 4:30 p.m. GODLESS YOUTH p. 16 12:30 p.m. ROCK MY HEART p. 23 7:00 p.m. WELCOME TO GERMANY p. 9 4:00 p.m. WE USED TO BE COOL p. 29 9:45 p.m. EGON SCHIELE: p. 11 DEATH AND THE MAIDEN 6:30 p.m. Opening Night Film p. 9 WELCOME TO GERMANY 9:00 p.m. Opening Night Party p. 9 GOETHE-INSTITUT AUDITORIUM SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 2018 530 Bush Street (street entry) 11:00 a.m. WUNDERLICH’S WORLD p. 17 San Francisco, CA 94108 1:15 p.m. THAT TRIP WE TOOK p. 28 WITH DAD TUESDAY, FEB. 13, 2018 3:30 p.m. TEXT FOR YOU p. 24 6:00 p.m. CODE OF SURVIVAL p. 30 6:30 p.m. Centerpiece Film p. 10 8:00 p.m. PARADISE p. 29 THE BLOOM OF BERLIN & BEYOND GOETHE-INSTITUT YESTERDAY WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 2018 9:45 p.m. MR. GAY SYRIA p. 31 6:00 p.m. THE FINAL JOURNEY p. 25 Now in its 22nd year, the Berlin & Beyond Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2017, 8:00 p.m. BEUYS p. 30 Film Festival has been the leading festival the San Francisco branch has been pro - SUNDAY, FEB. 11, 2018 of contemporary German cinema in the moting German culture and language 10:00 a.m. ROCK MY HEART p. 23 THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 2018 Americas since 1996. since 1967. 12:30 p.m. GODLESS YOUTH p. 16 6:00 p.m. MY BROTHER SIMPLE p. 23 With an annual attendance of over 10,000 In addition to its presentation of the Berlin 4:00 p.m. STREAKER p. 17 8:15 p.m. DREAM BOAT p. 31 film-goers, the festival has presented over & Beyond Film Festival, its year-round 6:15 p.m. THREE PEAKS p. 27 500 motion pictures from German-speak - cultural activities include art exhibitions, 8:30 p.m. Closing Night Film p. 11 ing countries in its history. weekly film screenings, and partnerships EGON SCHIELE: with local cultural institutions. The Goethe- DEATH AND THE MAIDEN The festival has welcomed many celebrated Institut is comprised of 159 institutes in film talents, including Mario Adorf, Fatih 98 countries. Goethe.de/SF Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Daniel Brühl, Han - nelore Elsner, Florian David Fitz, Bruno SUPPORT THE FESTIVAL Ganz, Maria Schrader, Barbara Sukowa, All foreign-language films will be Michael Verhoeven, and Wim Wenders. • Berlin & Beyond is a 501(c)(3) non-profit shown with English subtitles. and welcomes donations. Give today at Since its inauguration in 1996, the main donate.berlinbeyond.com BerlinBeyond.com venue of the festival has always been the @BerlinBeyond Details, Updates & Trailers #BerlinBeyond22 Castro Theatre, the famous movie palace • Berlin & Beyond receives financial sup - that celebrated its 95th anniversary in port and in-kind donations from various 2017. Berlin & Beyond has been a gateway companies and organizations, from local for the public to experience the diversity, institutions to world-renowned brands. history and progress of German-speaking For the detailed sponsorship deck, visit CONTENTS countries; while celebrating the universal sponsor.berlinbeyond.com 3: Schedule 13 : Special Guests 33 : Credits spirit and vision of filmmakers. 5: Welcome 16 : Swiss Window 33 : Acknowledgments • For volunteer opportunities, visit 6: Partners and Sponsors 18 : Memories 34 : Become a Member volunteer.berlinbeyond.com 9: Opening Night 21 : Youth 4 German Cinema 36: Tickets & Venues 10 : Centerpiece 24 : Features 36: Contact 11 : Castro Closing Night 30 : Docs

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Welcome to the 22nd Berlin & Beyond Film Festival! Join us for three full days and nights at San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre (Feb. 9-11), a night of encores at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley (Feb. 12), and three evenings at the Goethe-Institut (Feb. 13-15). Engage with our vivid selection of films, crossing cultures, experiences, histo - ries, and vital topics, along with film talents present for engaging post-film Q&As.

Since 1996, Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Stories of bold and provocative artists are has been North America’s leading annual on display with Dieter Berner’s fascinating showcase solely dedicated to the cinematic drama Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden movements of German-speaking countries. on Closing Night, and Andres Veiel’s new Each year, we roll out the red carpet to wel - documentary on the life of Joseph Beuys. come top films and talents of the year from this region, from major box office hits to We are proud to present captivating films by award winners, to smaller productions and women directors: the documentary Mr. Gay discoveries from up-and-coming filmmakers. Syria by Ayse Toprak; the directorial feature debut by Karoline Herfurth, Text for You ; Several films reflect on belonging and iden - the generational film, We Used to Be Coo l tity. Our Opening Night Film is the social by Marie Kreutzer; the road movie set in comedy Welcome to Germany , directed and 1968, That Trip We Took with Dad by Anca written by Simon Verhoeven, who will join us. Miruna L ăzărescu. This year marks 50 years This film, along with the courageous docu - since the international Protests of 1968, with mentary Mr. Gay Syria , engage us in conver - civil rights protests, progressive political sations about the global refugee crisis. movements, and the fights for free speech and reforms that changed the world. Our Youth 4 German Cinema (Y4GC) program is honored to have the presence of Markus We are grateful for the empowering support Goller, the director and co-screenwriter of of our sponsors, partners, and friends from My Brother Simple , the 2017-2018 Y4GC near and far, whose steadfast generosity winning film. Renowned Swiss filmmaker makes this festival possible. Likewise, we Alain Gsponer will present the North Amer - extend our gratitude to our hardworking and ican Premiere of Godless Youth , his cine - dedicated festival team, volunteers, and col - matic vision based on the enduringly popular laborators. Special thanks to the filmmakers novel by Ödön von Horváth. and industry professionals for shar ing their cinematic works with us. We are also thrilled to welcome to town two of Germany’s most talented actors, We are most grateful to you, the festival - and we will honor their on-going career goers, for attending Berlin & Beyond year achievements with the Spotlight Award in after year. Get ready to join us for a cinematic Acting. Frederick Lau, with his memorable adventure! Thank you. Vielen Dank. roles in such groundbreaking films as The Wave and Victoria , is here with My Brother Sigrid Savelsberg Simple and Text for You . Lars Eidinger, who Director, Goethe-Institut San Francisco has quite an international port folio with re - President, Berlin & Beyond cent film works as Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper , is here to present our Sophoan Sorn Centerpiece film, The Bloom of Yesterday . Festival Director, Berlin & Beyond

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10 22 nd Berlin & Beyond Film Festival BerlinBeyond.com 11 SPECIAL GUESTS MARKUS GOLLER Director/Screenwriter of “My Brother Simple” Markus Goller was born in 1969 in Munich. He began his career in the film business in the early 1990s as a freelance editor for short films, commercials and documentary films, including German and American feature film productions from 1996 on. His second directorial work Friendship! was a surprise hit with over 1.6 million admissions. Eine ganz heiße Nummer (2010/11) and Mrs. Ella (2012/13) were also r e

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ALAIN GSPONER Director of “Godless Youth” Alain Gsponer was born in 1976 in Zürich. He studied at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. His mid-length graduation film, Kiki and Tiger (2002), won the Max Ophüls Festival Audience Award and was shown around the world. His feature debut, Rose (2005), won the German Television Award for Best Film. This was fol - lowed by the tragicomedy Das wahre Leben (2006) and two adaptations of books by best-selling author Martin Sit back and enjoy the details Suter, Lila, Lila (2009) and Der letzte Weynfeldt (2010), which won the Swiss Television Award for Best Film. After Kino is your chance to get the inside story on German lm- directing the adaptation of the classic children’s book, The n h e o

Little Ghost (2013), his new vision of Heidi (2015) became H

making. From award winning actors and directors to the s u c the highest-grossing Swiss film in local box office ever. r a M latest trends and blockbusters.

His latest film is the adaptation of Ödön von Horváth’s © “Jugend ohne Gott” . Contact your local cable provider about subscribing to DW (Deutsch+) and get your ticket to Kino – it’s worth the price of admission. SIMON VERHOEVEN Director/Screenwriter of “Welcome to Germany” Simon Verhoeven was born in 1972 in Munich. He studied Performing Arts at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York, Film Music at Berklee College of Music in Boston and Film Directing at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. He has appeared as an actor in numerous tel - evision and feature films. In addition to numerous music videos and short films, his feature films as a director in - clude: 100 Pro (2001), Men in the City 1 & 2 (2009 & 2011) , Unfriend (2014), and Welcome to Germany (2016), which garnered over 4.2 million admissions, and was honored with the German Film Award LOLA, the Bavarian Film a k

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Thu. Feb. 15, 2018 6:00 p.m. Director: Hanno Olderdissen Goethe-Institut, San Francisco Starring: Anneke Kim Sarnau, Emilio Sakraya, Lena Klenke, Director: Markus Goller Dieter Hallervorden Starring: David Kross, Frederick Lau, World Sales: Wild Bunch Emilia Schüle, Devid Striesow World Sales: Global Screen 105 min. Germany (2016). DCP. German w/ English subtitles. 113 min. Germany (2017). DCP (Castro) & BD (Goethe-Institut). German w/ English Sixteen-year-old Jana has a heart defect that

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© Goethe-Institut, San Francisco Castro Theatre, San Francisco THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD North American Premiere Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy DIE REISE MIT VATER Starring: Julia Vysotskaya, Director: Marie Kreutzer Christian Clauss, Philippe Duquesne, Starring: Vicky Krieps, Marcel Mohab, Peter Kurth, Jakob Diehl, Pia Hierzegger, Pheline Roggan, Sat. Feb. 10, 2018 1:15 p.m. A road movie that begins in 1968, in Arad. Vera Voronkova, Viktor Sukhorukov Manuel Rubey, Andreas Kiendl Castro Theatre, San Francisco Mihai and Emil are two brothers of Roman - US Distributor: Film Movement World Sales: Picture Tree International San Francisco Premiere ian and German origin who have only one thing in common: their sick father and the 130 min. Russia, Germany (2016). BD. 96 min. Austria (2016). DCP. 111 min. Germany, Romania, Hungary, care that he needs. Mihai, the older brother, Russian, German, French, Yiddish German w/ English subtitles. Sweden (2016). DCP. German and is a doctor and, with uncertainty in his heart, w/ English subtitles. Romanian w/ English subtitles. an informer for the Security. He seems to Three young couples – Stella and Markus, have come to terms with life in Ceausescu’s Russia's submission to the 2017 Academy Ines and Chris, Mignon and Luis – are mem - Director: Anca Miruna L ăzărescu Romania. Emil fights with aplomb against Awards and winner of the Silver Lion Best bers of today's got-everything-except-a- Starring: Alex M ărgineanu, the Stalinist imprints, getting involved in Director at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. purpose generation. Equipped with the Răzvan Enciu, Ovidiu Schumacher, situations out of which he can be saved only Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and latest gadgets they live safe in their free Susanne Bormann, Manuel Klein by his brother’s cautiousness. The two broth - member of the French Resistance, is arrested range, fair trade, Apple-equipped, city- Screenwriter: Anca Miruna L ăzărescu ers, along with their father, make their by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children center apartments. But with all their mate - Cinematography: Christian Stangassinger way to Dresden – the closest city where their during a surprise raid. As her punishment, rial needs covered and never having suffered Producer: David Lindner Leporda father can have his life-saving operation. she is sent to jail where she meets Jules, from want, their state of mind is the big Production: Filmallee GmbH However, the rather unstable political con - a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned issue. Stella's the first to find the "solution": text will overthrow their plans. to investigate her case. Jules grows fond she gets pregnant. The others quickly follow – Cinepolitica International Film Festival, of Olga and offers to go light on her pun - suit and these adult "children" find that life Romania ishment in exchange for sexual favors. Al - is suddenly all too real. In a mixture of subtle though Olga agrees, and will do whatever and broad humor, touching moments and This year, 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of it takes to avoid harsh persecution, her hope genuine observation, Mignon learns feeding the Protests of 1968, that took place around for freedom quickly fades when events take your child only bio and boycotting nappies the world. These civil rights protests, pro - an unexpected turn. Shipped to a concentra - leads to domestic unpleasantness; Ines, gressive political movements, and fights for tion camp, she is forced into a life of hell. To now the mother of daughter Elvis, throws free speech and reforms were turning points her surprise, she crosses paths with high- Chris out, whereupon he moves into his car for human societies, and they changed the ranking German SS officer Helmut, who once and embarks on an affair with Stella, while world. fell in love with her and still harbors feelings. she and Markus eventually find that happi - They rekindle their old flame and embark ness is a bicycle repair shop in the country- on a twisted and destructive relationship. side. Starring Vicky Krieps (Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread ). 28 22 nd Berlin & Beyond Film Festival BerlinBeyond.com 29 DOCS DOCS

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Wed. Feb. 14, 2018 8:00 p.m. Tue. Feb. 13, 2018 6:00 p.m. Thu. Feb. 15, 2018 8:15 p.m. Sat. Feb. 10, 2018 9:45 p.m. Goethe-Institut, San Francisco Goethe-Institut, San Francisco Goethe-Institut, San Francisco Castro Theatre, San Francisco Northern California Premiere California Premiere US West Coast Premiere Director: Tristan Ferland Milewski Director: Andres Veiel Director: Bertram Verhaag US Distributor: Strand Releasing Director/Writer: Ayse Toprak US Distributor: Kino Lorber Production: DENKmal Film World Sales: Taskovski Films 92 min. Germany (2017). BD. English, 107 min. Germany (2017). BD. 95 min. Germany (2017). BD. English. French, German, Arabic w/ English subtitles. 87 min. France, Germany, Turkey (2017). German w/ English subtitles. BD. Arabic, Turkish, English w/ English Worldwide, millions of tons of “Roundup“, Once a year the DREAM BOAT sets sail for a subtitles. Official Selection (In Competition) at the with its active ingredient glyphosate, are ap - cruise exclusively for gay men where most 2017 Berlin International Film Festival. plied to the land year after year. The alarm - passengers are united by the wish to live Winner of the Human Rights Award at ing consequences: poisoned soils, resistant life authentically as themselves in a pro - the Sarajevo International Film Festival An intimate look at a visionary artist, seen superweeds, contaminated crops and sick tected place: Dipankar from India escaped an and the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Inter - through a congenial montage of archival livestock. Nonetheless, especially the United arranged marriage and now throws himself national Film Festival. sources he appeares more relevant than States adhere to the destructive model of into the action to find his dream man. But ever before. Joseph Beuys, the man with GM-agriculture. Three sustainable projects the gay community‘s ideal of masculinity in - Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double a hat, the felt, and the “fat corner”. Thirty in India, Egypt and Germany prove that al - creasingly becomes a tight corset for him. life between his conservative family and years after his death he still seems to be ternatives are achievable and successful. Ramzi from Palestine was persecuted by his gay identity. Mahmoud Hassino is the a visionary, way ahead of his time. Back In an impressive montage the film confronts the police in his home country, Palestine, founder of Syria’s LGBTI movement and is a then he was trying to patiently explain how the effects of the poison-addicted industrial for being gay and had to start a new life in refugee in Berlin. What brings them to - “money shouldn't be a commodity.” He model, with the healing power of organic Europe with nothing. Frenchman Philippe was gether is a dream: to participate in an in - knew that money trade would undermine agriculture. Which method bears the “Code let down by his family when he was bound ternational beauty contest as an escape democracy. But there is more. Beuys boxes, of Survival” on our planet? to a wheelchair. The more important is his from their trapped lives and an answer to parleys, lectures and explains pictures to long-term relationship with his partner, their invisibility. Will the dream come true a dead hare. He asks with a grin: “Do You and his gay substitute family. Martin from or will the refugee crisis and the harsh Want a Revolution Without Laughter?“ His Austria enjoys the hedonism and abundant consequences of being gay in the Muslim expanded concept of art leads him smack choice of men to the full and gives perspec - world shatter it to pieces? in the middle of socially relevant discourse, tives on how to deal with HIV today. Marek even today. A congenial montage of count - from Poland, has everything he needs to less, previously untapped visual and audio stand out on the men’s market, thanks to sources, director Andreas Veiel and his his trained body. However, he feels lonely in team created a one-of-a-kind chronicle: the crowd. Now the countdown is on for Beuys is not a portrait in the common sense seven days of hunting for freedom, love, and but an intimate look at a human being, his happiness – but on board are also their per - art and his world of ideas. sonal stories, their doubts and uncertainties…

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