The Summer Issue

ISSUE 3-2019 ACTRESS PRODUCER DIRECTORS TORONTO NEW GERMANFILMS IN THE SUMMER ISSUE Anne Ratte-Polle & Felix von Boehm Karin Jurschick SAN SEBASTIAN LOCARNO & of Marco Kreuzpaintner Lupa Film , VENICE GFQ , GERMAN FILMSQUARTERLY CONTENTS GFQ 3-2019

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PORTRAITS NEW DOCUMENTARIES

PRACTICING POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY ANOTHER REALITY A portrait of director Karin Jurschick ...... 4 Noël Dernesch, Olli Waldhauer ...... 30

“MY WORKSPACE IS MY HAPPY PLACE” B.B. UND DIE SCHULE AM FLUSS A portrait of director Marco Kreuzpaintner ...... 6 B.B. AND THE SCHOOL BY THE RIVER Detlev F. Neufert ...... 30 REMAINING INDEPENDENT A portrait of production company Lupa Film ...... 8 INTERTANGO – EINE VERBINDUNG FÜRS LEBEN INTERTANGO – A CONNECTION FOR LIFE A WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS Hanne Weyh ...... 31 A portrait of actress Anne Ratte-Polle ...... 10 MATERA. VERBORGENE HEIMAT MATERA. MOTHER OF STONE NEWS & NOTES ...... 12 Alessandro Soetje ...... 31

NEW FEATURES NEW SHORTS

7500 BOJE Andreas Cordes, Robert Köhler ...... 32 Patrick Vollrath ...... 16 DEINE SCHÖNE GESTALT CRESCENDO #MAKEMUSICNOTWAR BEAUTIFUL YOU Bernadette Kolonko ...... 32 Dror Zahavi ...... 17 NACH ZWEI STUNDEN WAREN ZEHN MINUTEN VERGANGEN DIE DREI !!! AFTER TWO HOURS, TEN MINUTES HAD PASSED THE THREE !!! Viviane Andereggen ...... 18 Steffen Goldkamp ...... 33

FISCH FÜR DIE GEISEL SUMMER HIT Berthold Wahjudi ...... 33 FISH FOR THE HOSTAGE Steffen Cornelius Tralles ...... 19 SUZANNE – VON KOPF BIS FUSS FREIES LAND PORTRAIT OF SUZANNE Izabela Plucinska ...... 34 FREE COUNTRY Christian Alvart ...... 20 UPCOMING FILMS DAS FREIWILLIGE JAHR A VOLUNTARY YEAR AUERHAUS Neele Leana Vollmar ...... 35 Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler ...... 21 FABIAN Dominik Graf ...... 35 GIRAFFE Anna Sofie Hartmann ...... 22 DAS GLASZIMMER Christian Lerch ...... 35

LARA GUNDERMANN REVIER Grit Lemke ...... 36 Jan-Ole Gerster ...... 23 HELLO MY FRIEND Bettina Blümner ...... 36 MEIN ENDE. DEIN ANFANG RELATIVITY Mariko Minoguchi ...... 24 RÄUBERHÄNDE lker Çatak ...... 36

PELIKANBLUT RESISTANCE – WIDERSTAND Jonathan Jakubowicz ...... 37 PELICAN BLOOD Katrin Gebbe ...... 25 ROLAND REBERS TODESREVUE Roland Reber ...... 37 REST IN GREECE Florian Gottschick ...... 26 SCHATTENSTUNDE Benjamin Martins ...... 37

TRAUMFABRIK TRÜMMERMÄDCHEN Oliver Kracht ...... 38 Martin Schreier ...... 27 DER ÜBERLÄUFER Florian Gallenberger ...... 38 VERA Waldemar Oldenburger ...... 28 UNDINE Christian Petzold ...... 38

DAS VORSPIEL UND MORGEN DIE GANZE WELT Julia von Heinz ...... 39 THE AUDITION Ina Weisse ...... 29 THE WAY WE WERE Marten Persiel ...... 39

Shareholders & Supporters ...... 41

Film Exporters ...... 42

Imprint ...... 43

3 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2019 Karin Jurschick (© HFF München/Robert Pupeter) (© HFF München/Robert Karin Jurschick PRACTICING POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR KARIN JURSCHICK

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home, which ended with my mother’s suicide, was always connected to the ‘big (hi)story’. I had the feel - ing I was experiencing an invisible war that had strayed into our private life, strongly influenced by the wars they had experienced.”

She made this clear in the film using a complex montage tech- nique and a reflectively distanced style, which also condenses private history into an analytical view of German post-war society. At the premiere of the film at the Inter - national Forum during the Berlinale 2001, audiences and critics were electrified, and many other festivals and prizes were to or me, making documentaries difficult: there, it’s obviously confusing for follow. And suddenly Jurschick had become “ means immersing myself in an someone to be a good guy and a bad guy a celebrated “filmmaker” due to her unex- experience. Of course planning simultaneously.“ Perhaps this was also one pected success. Fis necessary, but during the reason why an attempt to involve the US work process I hand over control and open broadcasting station PBS in the production It presented an opportunity and a challenge up to what is and whatever I can perceive. failed. But primarily, Jurschick believes, that at the same time. Jurschick went on to deal Even if that throws my previous opinions was probably fear of domestic audiences re- with wars, crises and (above all sexualized) overboard and leaves me with more ques- jecting the idea of a German telling them violence later: the vicious circle of prostitu- tions than answers.” anything about America. tion and trafficking in women that international aid organizations had helped to This is an attitude with which director Karin Jurschick’s film career also began by ap- trigger during the Balkan wars (THE PEACE- Jurschick also confronts current develop- proaching a man with a very special charac- KEEPERS AND THE WOMEN, 2005), the con- ments in the genre, which are focusing ter: the director’s father, with whom she had sequences of Chernobyl (THE CLOUD, 2011), increasingly on the formatted. Her most broken off contact after her mother’s early or the complex of drones, AI and hi-tech recent work conveys this open approach in suicide. Born in Essen in 1959, she studied warfare (WAR AND GAMES, 2016). “I am a practical way. PLAYING GOD portrays film and media studies and then made a driven by the desire to find a visual form for US star lawyer Ken Feinberg, who is com- name for herself as a journalist and co- something that doesn’t produce a clear missioned by the government to determine founder of the first and largest German image, something that is complex and compensation for victims of the 9/11 attack women’s film festival, the Feminale in painful. In terms of content, my interest has or the Deepwater Horizon explosion, for Cologne, especially in the feminist film always focused on systemic questions,” she example, and shows the often apparently scene. But at some point, the past developed says in respect to the source of her creative cynical outcome of his work. Here, Jurschick into too big an issue. And at the age of 40, energy. And obstacles? balances brilliantly between rejection and Jurschick returned to her old apartment, sympathy, attention for the contradictory where her 91-year-old father was still living. On the one hand, “documentary films that do person himself and insight into his inte - She had brought along many questions – and not follow classic dramaturgy involving a gration into a tight web of legal and eco - a camera as a means of approach and hero’s journey but aim instead at recognition nomic guidelines. It is a highly political film, distancing at the same time. and questioning, are rarely accepted by which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto in festivals today.” Another urgent task for 2017. This emotionally intense work with her filmmakers worldwide are the new “toys and father was also good schooling for later technologies” that are driving them forward Recently, Jurschick also presented it at the work with difficult protagonists. It resulted at a continually increasing pace. For two EN COUNTERS Documentary Film Festival in in a film (DANACH HÄTTE ES SCHÖN SEIN years, Karin Jurschick has also faced a new Cape Town and reported how surprised she MÜSSEN) with a sober precision that pro - responsibility as a professor at the Univer- was that South African audiences were also vides a counterpart to the intra-family self- sity of Television and Film in Munich, which able to get so much from her film. One reflections popular today. This was also she describes as “fulfilling in every sense.” reason is that questions of compensation due to Jurschick’s attention to historical Slowly, however, she is beginning to feel the are also very relevant there at the moment. contexts: “My father was born into the First “desire and strength” to conceive a new “It was nice that the different sides of my World War,” she says, “my mother into project of her own. Those of us who are not protagonist were also seen so clearly there, National Socialism and the Second World students are glad to hear it. as well. In the USA that was much more War. For me, what I had experienced at Silvia Hallenslebenn 5 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2019 Marco Kreuzpaintner (© Edith Held) Kreuzpaintner Marco

“MY WORKSPACE IS MY HAPPY PLACE” A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR MARCO KREUZPAINTNER

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what makes me happiest,” he states for the record. “Perhaps this will give hope to all those who would otherwise tend to be pessi- mistic about the industry’s future”.

Kreuzpaintner’s view of the German film industry and the public’s taste has always differed a little from that of many colleagues. The Rosenheim-born filmmaker has never attended a film academy – traditionally the place where the first networks form and filmmakers integrate themselves into existing traditions. Instead, he has relied on ‘learning by doing’: no job in film, television and ad - vertising production was too minor, and as assistant to Edgar Reitz he transcribed the latter’s old HEIMAT episodes. The money earned always flowed into his own first short films.

“Back then, I had to generate all my in - frastructure myself,” Kreuzpaintner recalls. “And I was always challenged to motivate myself without direct comparison – which I veryone needs a holiday now and would have been exposed to at the film aca- ject, I usually think to myself: go for it, who then, but few have earned it quite demy. However, being without any concrete knows what possibilities there will be in a few as much in summer 2019 as Marco competitive relationship, perhaps I was freer years’ time,” jokes the director, who occasion - EKreuzpaintner. “For the first time and could really concentrate on what I wanted ally stages television films or commercials in two years, I am getting to think in peace,” to do without being surrounded by people try- and has long dreamed of a biopic about the director laughs on the phone from ing to influence or distract me.” Rainer Werner Fassbinder. “Besides, the next Mallorca – and remembers how stressful but film is always the most important. Thinking above all how productive the last 24 months Certainly the fresh wind – one also influenced ahead – I think that’s healthy.” have been. by American viewing habits – that he brought to the German cinema landscape at the age So there can be no question of a long holiday, It was not until last autumn, for example, that of 20 attracted some attention. His feature even in the summer of 2019. Not only are the BEAT series was launched on the Amazon film debut, BREAKING LOOSE, was nomi- cinema releases of THE COLLINI CASE Prime streaming service. Kreuzpaintner not nated for the Max Ophüls Prize, and was scheduled in France, Great Britain, Israel, only had the idea for the thriller set in Berlin’s followed by the New Faces Award for the Japan and the Netherlands. In England, nightlife, he also directed all seven episodes very personally inspired coming-out story where Kreuzpaintner has now settled at least himself. “Unlike many colleagues, I didn’t SUMMER STORM. Kreuzpaintner’s work has temporarily, work on a new series (which has even have an idea for a series tucked away in almost been received better abroad than in not yet been officially announced before a drawer when I was asked,” the 42-year-old his home country: SUMMER STORM not only editorial deadline) will begin soon. Just like in recalls. “Simply because I didn’t have enough premiered at the Toronto International Film London, he recently found a new agent in the breaks between my projects to put one down Festival but was even released in cinemas in USA who keeps an eye open for English- onto paper. But to use a literary comparison, the USA and South Korea. His compatriot language projects. However, this doesn’t there was huge appeal in depicting a long Roland Emmerich turned out to be a promi- mean turning away from home, as he empha- novel instead of a short story for a change.” It nent fan, who quickly took the young col - sizes in his closing remarks: “I would prefer was announced this spring that there won’t league under his wing as a mentor and is still an international production that is connected be a second season. But the fact that the a close friend today. with Germany in some way. And I’m already series has been awarded the renowned working on a few things.” Grimme Prize should still be a source of deep Kreuzpaintner, supported by Emmerich as satisfaction for its creator. producer, finally made his Hollywood debut in Patrick Heidmann 2007 with TRADE, a human trafficking drama Kreuzpaintner is at least as proud of his latest starring Kevin Kline, which became the first feature film, THE COLLINI CASE, whereby – ever film to be premiered at the United as he points out – pride is not a word with Nations General Assembly. Only one year which he actually describes the pleasure he later, KRABAT celebrated its world premiere gets from his projects. He was able to win in Toronto: an elaborate adaptation of Otfried over international star Franco Nero for a Preußler’s classic youth novel of the same lead ing role in the film adaptation of name, interspersed with many special ef- Ferdinand von Schirach’s bestseller, and also fects. The fantasy fairy tale attracted more gave comedy darling Elyas M’Barek a new than 1.8 million viewers to cinemas in image as a public defender. So far, no German Germany. production has attracted more viewers into the cinemas in Germany in 2019. “The fact Since then, Kreuzpaintner has maintained a that we have proven with this film that even a remarkably swift pace of work almost con- court drama referring to an historical case stantly, according to the motto “my workspace can still work in the cinema if it is properly is my happy place”, as he put it once on Insta- produced, staged and prominently cast is gram last year. “When I’m interested in a pro-

7 PRODUCER’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-2019 Felix von Boehm (© Lupa Film) von Felix

REMAINING INDEPENDENT A PORTRAIT OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY LUPA FILM

orking together with inter- “I’ve always found it extremely refreshing to hadn’t had the French partner – it wouldn’t national filmmakers has get out of Germany and travel to festivals be possible to do such a project out of always had a high priority abroad – whether it is Cannes or the festivals Germany on itself,” he argues. W for Felix von Boehm since dedicated to series like SeriesMania or C21 establishing his production company Lupa – to meet and talk with colleagues from “The other common thread running through Film in Berlin in 2012. France, England, Greece or Israel because our work at Lupa Film is the focus on socially the views from abroad about a project are al- relevant topics,” von Boehm continues. “When I started out with producing short ways really different from what you hear at “These can be both in the past like FABIAN, films, there was as strong international home. This starts with the sense of humor which addresses issues that are just as component on films like the Turkish comedy where the French are quite different from relevant for the present day even though the PIG’S MILK by Nico Celik or AT THE END OF the Germans, and then there are subjects story is set in 1931.” And then there are THE WORLD by Dieu Hao Do,” von Boehm ex- you can’t tackle in Germany.” projects which are both international and plains. “And this has continued seamlessly have a topical relevance such as Karim in the feature-length projects like Ina A case in point is the project MISS HOLO- Aïnouz’s documentary CENTRAL AIRPORT Weisse’s THE AUDITION or Albert Serra’s CAUST SURVIVOR, co-written by Donna THF which premiered at the Berlinale’s Pan- LIBERTÉ as well as the series EDEN directed Sharpe and Raquel Stern, which received orama last year or the six-part EDEN mini- by Dominik Moll.” script funding from the German Federal series which was directed by Dominik Moll Film Board (FFA) last autumn. “You can’t from an original idea by Felix Randau and The 33-year-old’s international outlook may produce the story about a beauty contest of Jano Ben Chaabane, and aired by ARTE this also come from the fact that he went to Holocaust survivors without Israel!,” says past May. school in Paris from the age of 12 and von Boehm, who is now on the search for an studied Film Production at the Atelier Israeli partner to come onboard the project. “The people we work with also have some- Ludwigsburg Paris after Film & Theater “Similarly, the financing wouldn’t have been thing in common,” he suggests: “they are Studies at the Free University in Berlin. closed on THE AUDITION by Ina Weisse if we highly original artists, each with their very

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own individual style and agenda.” Weisse on her documentary THE NEW position to build a bridge for other indepen- NATIONAL GALLERY before embarking on dents to the financing system and other film Moreover, Lupa Film’s portfolio is not re- producing her second feature film THE distributors.” stricted to one particular format: there AUDITION, starring Nina Hoss, with Idéale are documentaries such as Aïnouz’s CEN- Audience as French co-producer. Martin Blaney TRAL AIRPORT THF, Ina Weisse’s THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERY and Dominik Graf’s His documentary portrait of Dominik Graf WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘THE END’? sitting was then followed by the production of Graf’s alongside feature films by Joya Thome own portrait of the late film critic Michael (QUEEN OF NIENDORF), Ina Weisse (THE Althen in WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘THE END’? AUDITION) and Albert Serra (LIBERTÉ). and the shooting this summer of FABIAN, an adaptation of Erich Kästner’s satire, starring “I think that subject matter finds its particu- Tom Schilling, Saskia Rosendahl and Meret lar form and this is something you then have Becker. In addition, Lupa Film is developing to work on with the director,” von Boehm a series project with Graf and his long- says. However, there is no doubt that the stand ing screenwriter Günter Schütter. documentary form has a special place in the producer’s heart since he has directed a Moreover, von Boehm is looking to work with number of documentary portraits in the past Karim Aïnouz on a future fiction feature pro- – on the directors Michael Haneke and ject after their successful collaboration on Dominik Graf, the French producer Marin CENTRAL AIRPORT THF, while the company Karmitz, Barrie Kosky, the Intendant of is also lined up as a partner for French actor Berlin’s Komische Oper, and the French con- Mathieu Amalric’s eighth feature film as di- ceptual artist Christian Boltanski. rector, SERRES MOINS FORT.

“I always try to make films myself every now “A particular characteristic of Lupa Film is and then because it’s something that gives that we take our time with developing the me real pleasure,” he explains. “But, of screenplays until they are fully developed,” course, there isn’t much time for this in my von Boehm says. “For example, we spent producer’s day-to-day schedule, although four years on developing FABIAN and three I am currently working with Constantin years on EDEN.” We produce quite a lot given Lieb on a film about provenance research, the company’s size and the fact that we only looking at how the Nazis robbed Jewish art have four full-time staff, but we don’t want collectors and how their works are now to grow any bigger,” he observes. being restituted.” Looking to the future development of Lupa In its short existence, Lupa Film – the com- Film, von Boehm suggests that the company pany’s name refers to the she-wolf who will focus on a two-track strategy of pro- suckled the twin brothers Romulus and ducing 1-2 of its own films and serving as a Remus in Roman mythology – has started German minority co-producer on one other building up its own “film family” because, as film each year. “We are independent and von Boehm stresses, “I like working on the would like to remain that way,” he stresses. basis of mutual trust and am interested in “Indeed, I think that you can even see the relationships of a long-term nature.” This independent element in such a primetime has seen him initially working with Ina series as EDEN, and we want to use this

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A WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS A PORTRAIT OF ACTRESS ANNE RATTE-POLLE

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What looks so easy on screen is also the re- sult of meticulous preparation. She involved herself intensively with the character, from her psychological motivation and processes to her job as a pilot and the clinical picture of her illness. She says, “I really had to draw on my reserves,” but she was able to empa - thize well with the role. “I have to find a core that I can relate to myself.”

In June, another feature film, MANY HAPPY RETURNS, was screened in Competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival. In Carlos A. Morelli’s directorial debut she also plays a highly contemporary, yet very different woman. Anne is the mother of a little boy but divorced from the father of her child. Together, they try to organize their son’s birthday, which ends in total chaos. Ratte-Polle’s great art lies in being able to build this supporting role into a multi-lay- ered character in just a few scenes that will be remembered for a long time. Further proof of her immense talent can be seen t’s one of those hot days in a typical in the internationally successful German “I could certainly have had things easier if Berlin summer when Anne Ratte-Polle Netflix series DARK. I had only focused on theater or film,” she turns into the Gipsstraße on her bicycle. believes, “but for me it was clear from the IWe have arranged to meet at a café in She talks about her profession wisely and start that I didn’t want to restrict myself. Mitte, not far from the Volksbühne on Rosa- with reflection, and I sense her enthusiasm I love jumping back and forth between very Luxemburg-Platz, where the actress was and discipline even apart from appearances different projects.” There’s very little that part of the ensemble for several years and in productions. She knew early on that she Anne Ratte-Polle can’t do. And she’s not has been back on stage since April in the wanted to become an actress; at school in afraid of trying something new again and play Der Palast. But the 45-year-old actress the provinces of Lower Saxony she already again. She doesn’t worry about overdoing it, is actually just coming from rehearsals for liked to slip into different roles, and her ta- she knows her limits too well. The Berliner- UNDINE, the new feature film by Christian lent was quickly recognized by the teachers. by-choice gets her energy precisely from Petzold, for which she will soon be facing the exploring such varied content. And yoga cameras. To attend these rehearsals, she The versatile character actress has never let provides the balance, no matter where she’s returned from Prague, where she is cur- herself be pinned down. But her main focus, working. rently shooting the international TV series if there has ever been one in her widely SHADOWPLAY. Anne Ratte-Polle is certainly ramified work as an actress, soon became But when selecting her projects, she has no in demand, her diary is almost even over- the theater: she acted at some of the most fixed rules and relies on her experience, crowded, but she shows no apparent signs of renowned theaters in German-speaking quickly sensing whether something is a good stress. On the contrary, she calmly orders countries, from Cottbus, Düsseldorf and fit. She calls this “having a nose for it”. herself a latte and approaches the next two Hanover to Bochum, Zurich, Munich and “I don’t do things by the book. It’s crucial that hours in a relaxed mood, concentrating fully Berlin. This experience also developed her the approach is right, and that those involved on our conversation. self-understanding as an actress, which she have the same language and imagination to integrates actively into the creative process: create a shared world.” Right now, after a long time, it is possible to whether on television, where she regularly see her again in a leading role in a cinema appears in crime series such as TATORT and In the end there is one small ‘limit’ to her film, and involuntarily one wonders why this POLIZEIRUF 110, or in cinema such as for versatility. She doesn’t have any ambitions to doesn’t happen more often. At the end of Andreas Dresen’s WILLENBROCK (2005), direct a film herself yet. “Writing alone takes June her new feature film I WAS, I AM, I WILL Romuald Karmakar’s NIGHTSONGS (2004) an incredible amount of time. I don’t have BE premiered at the Filmfest Munich. Ilker or the title roles in Carolina Hellsgård's the patience,” she says laughing. She prefers Çatak’s second work as a director (after WANJA (2015) and Michael Krummenacher’s to explore further opportunities for her ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIAN COUNTRY in SIBYLLE (2015), for which she received the acting talent, in the cinema and elsewhere. 2017) was awarded two prizes by the jury, award as Best Actress at the Dark Frame It will be exciting to see how she gets on. and the critics praised the film highly. Anne Festival in Santa Fe. Ratte-Polle plays Marion, an agile, indepen- Thomas Abeltshauser dent airline pilot, who spontaneously flies on I WAS, I AM, I WILL BE was shot last autumn, holiday to the Turkish Mediterranean after a and “since then I have been busy with breast cancer diagnosis. There she meets a scarcely a break”. Only three weeks in be - young Kurd, whom she ultimately helps to tween time, but there is also her band, with obtain a residence permit in Germany which she prepared a gig during that period. through a fictitious marriage. The unusual So how does she keep track of things? story of the relationship is brought alive by “Actually, I always try to concentrate on just quiet nuances, thanks, above all, to Anne one thing, but these are all such great works Ratte-Polle’s differentiated character work, that I say to myself: I’ll manage somehow. her subtle gestures and electrifying pre- I can rest afterwards.” She deliberately sence carrying the film over long stretches. chose to work in such a wide range of media.

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NRW IN LOCARNO WITH 7500, NEW FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE GERMAN FILMS ABROAD BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW & FOR EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2019 A VOLUNTARY YEAR Since the beginning of May, German Films is The first half of 2019 saw 296 German films 7500, Patrick Vollrath’s feature film debut, pleased to have a new colleague, Marcel and German-international co-productions will screen on the Piazza Grande at the 72nd Maïga, on board as our new foreign re - rack up 45 million euros at the international Locarno Film Festival (7-17 August). Joseph presentative for Eastern Europe and Russia. box office outside of Germany with 6.2 million Gordon-Levitt and Aylin Tezel star in the Marcel Maïga (born in Berlin in 1968) knows admissions in 63 countries. Among the top Filmstiftung-backed thriller which was shot the markets in these regions inside-out: ten films were eight majority German pro- almost completely in NRW. The German co- he has been working as a programmer at ductions with 22 million euros box office and producer is Cologne-based augenschein the Film Festival Cottbus since 1996, where 3.1 million admissions, making up about half Filmproduktion. 7500 is set exclusively in an he was responsible for such sidebars as of the box office totals for all German and airplane’s cockpit and shows the horrors of "Russkiy Den", "Special Belarus", "Spotlight inter national co-productions together. modern terrorism in an unprecedented man- Georgia" and "Moldavian Discoveries". Maïga ner. Vollrath, who received the Student has also been a program coordinator at DOK The most internationally successful majority- Oscar® among several awards for his short Leipzig since 2011 and has been advising the produced German films from January to EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY, wrote the Schlingel International Children's and Youth June 2019 were: screenplay together with Senad Halilbasic . Film Festival since 2008. Asked what he considers the challenges for the region over THE AFTERMATH (rank 1): 8.4 million euros The NRW production A VOLUNTARY YEAR the next few years, Maïga responded: “In the in 29 countries by the directors Ulrich Köhler and Henner future, it will be important to maintain a NEVER LOOK AWAY (rank 3): 3.3 million Winckler will be running in this year’s Con- cultural exchange by making German films euros in 16 countries corso Internazionale. Cologne-based Sutor accessible to a wide audience in Eastern HEIDI (rank 4): 2.7 million euros in China Kolonko produced the drama as a commis- Europe and stimulating a cultural discourse. sion from WDR. German cinema has a good chance of finding HEILSTÄTTEN (rank 5): 2.3 million euros in an interested audience and securing its own 14 territories The festival will also be showing the Filmstif- niche in a region with such a high level of HIGH LIFE (rank 6): 1.8 million euros in 15 tung-backed production BAGHDAD IN MY cultural education – as has already been territories SHADOW by Samir, which was produced by the case with French and Italian films, for MARNIES WORLD (rank 7): 1.3 million euros Cologne-based Coin Film. example. An increasing number of distri - in 18 territories butors are also interested in films from Western Europe, and German films are often BALLON (rank 9): 1.1 million euros in 4 ter- being screened at film festivals. But the tele - ritories vision market also offers opportunities for MANOU – THE SWIFT (rank 10): 1 million the distribution of German films.” euros in 18 countries 12 GFQ 3-2019 NEWS & NOTES 4 5 6

FFA CEO Peter Dinges with participants (© FFA) Andreas Dresen (© Alberto Nevado) The German Film Festival in Australia (© Palace Cinemas/Theresa Harrison) 4 5 6

2ND GERMAN-PORTUGUESE CO- 21ST FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS GREAT SUCCESS AT THE GERMAN PRODUCTION MEETING IN MUNICH IN MADRID FILM FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA

Producers from Portugal and Germany met The latest in German cinema was celebrated Audiences across Australia proved their again in June during the Munich Film Festi- at the Festival de Cine Alemán in Madrid enthusiasm and love for German culture and val. Topics of the event, which was organized from 4 to 9 June. The opening in the Palacio filmmaking at the German Film Festival, by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and de la Prensa, a cinema built in 1929 and which was organized by Palace Cinemas in Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, in - steeped in tradition, was a great success with cooperation with German Films. The festival cluded the presentation of national and re- more than 800 guests. Following the screen - took place from 21 May to 12 June 2019 in gional film funding – including the new Cash ing of GUNDERMANN, director Andreas seven cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Rebate Incentive in Portugal –, information Dresen and lead actor Alexander Scheer Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Byron Bay – on production con ditions and possibilities spoke about the film in depth with the one more city than in 2018. for joint cooperation, as well as previous suc- Spanish audience and gave a concert playing cesses of German-Portuguese co-produc - guitars and a ukulele. They did the Gunder- With 29 Australian premieres and a diverse tions. Following the first co-production mann songs proud and included Dresen’s program, a broad range of box office hits, meeting in Lisbon in 2017, the participants favorite song, "... and the grass keeps grow - feel-good comedies and award-winning once again had an opportunity to network, ing" (Gras by Gerhard Gundermann). But dramas straight from the Berlinale, the deepen their knowledge of the markets in the Dresen and Scheer weren’t the only ones to festival was able to attract 31,070 viewers. partner countries and pitch new film projects come to Madrid for the event: BEAUTY & That means twice as many viewers came to for an international audience. DECAY director Annekatrin Hendel and DoP attend the festival in its second edition. Martin Farkas, director Yasemin Samdereli “The better we get to know each other, the (THE NIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS), director Erik Due to popular demand, additional screen - more fruitful our future cooperation will be,” Schmitt and actress Marleen Lohse (both for ings were added across Australia. These stressed FFA CEO Peter Dinges in his wel - CLEO) and Fariba Buchheim with her short German Film Festival hits were BALLOON, coming speech. “Together with Luis Chaby documentary SHAPES (from the NEXT MACK THE KNIFE – BRECHT’S THREE- Vaz and his team, we would like to contribute GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2019 program of PENNY FILM, HOW ABOUT ADOLF? and the to further increasing the opportunities and short films) also attended the festival. documentary BAUHAUS SPIRIT. possibilities of film industry relations be - tween6 Portugal and Germany. “ CLEO was the audience’s darling and re - Presented by the Goethe-Institut, the ceived the festival’s Audience Award, which festival’s cultural partner, the program in - Following an amendment to the bilateral film was sponsored by the Spanish VOD platform cluded the sidebar “Kino for Kids”, a specially co-production agreement from 2015, it has Filmin. GUNDERMANN was also well re - curated section dedicated to young audi- become easier for producers from Germany ceived by Madrid’s cinema-goers, the second ences and families. Schools were invited and Portugal to initiate joint cinema projects. performance was a sell-out. Director Dennis to attend the festival and to engage with The minimum participation in joint co-pro- Gansel and actor Henning Baum sent video German culture and language. ductions is flexible and now amounts to only greetings for JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE 10 percent in special cases (previously: ENGINE DRIVER. The performance of the 70:30). Examples of successful German-Por- children’s classic was packed with over 700 tuguese co-productions in recent years in- cheering and applauding young cinema clude the drama LOS PERROS by Marcela fans. The hall was also almost full for the Said, which was co-produced on the German screening of ALL ABOUT ME which is being side with augenschein Filmproduktion and released locally by the Spanish distributor screened in the Semaine de la Critique in Wanda Visión on August 23rd. Cannes in 2017, and TABU by Miguel Gomes, which was co-produced by Komplizen Film and screened in Competition at the Berlinale 2012.

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Participants of the German Films Previews 2019 (© Elena Hill) RULES OF PLAY (© Merlin Flügel) 7 8

19TH GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS GERMAN SHORTS SUCCESSFUL AT IN DÜSSELDORF INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS

Düsseldorf, the capital of North Rhine-West- In recent months, German short films gained At the Annecy International Animation Film phalia, was the location for the 19th edition a lot of awards recognition at many inter - Festival, German short films were also very of the German Films Previews. This year national festivals, here’s a selection: At the successful: RULES OF PLAY by Merlin Flügel some 85 international buyers from 33 diffe- Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival back in won the Jury Award in the graduation films rent countries were invited to the city on the March, Ilaria di Carlo took home the Barbara section, A YEAR ALONG THE GEO - Rhine for an intensive 3-day exchange with Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging STATIONARY ORBIT by Felix Dierich won the the German sales companies ARRI Media Experimental Video Artist for her film THE Vimeo Staff Pick Award. Izabela Plucinska’s International, Beta Cinema, Films Boutique, DIVINE WAY. 32-RBIT by Victor Orozco PORTRAIT OF SUZANNE (DE/FR/PL) won the Global Screen, m-appeal, Media Luna, Ramirez was awarded the Chris Frayne Golden Dragon for Best Film at the Krakow Picture Tree International, Pluto Film, Sola Award for Best Animated Film also at Ann Film Festival. And at the Animafest in Zagreb, Media and The Match Factory. The buyers Arbor, where Yana Ugrekhelidze’s ARMED FLOOD by Malte Stein received the Zlatko were given the opportunity to screen 14 new LULLABY won an ex-aequo Jury Award. Grgić Award for Best First Film production German productions in the cinema as well as apart from educational institutions. attend the newly established Works in Pro- THE DIVINE WAY was also awarded at the gress section where 11 upcoming projects Festival international de films de femmes where presented by the world sales com - Créteil, where it won the award Meilleur panies. German Films’ managing director court métrage étranger and it was also Simone Baumann commented on the new successful at the Tiburon International Film feature: “The Works in Progress was a great Festival. Adrian Figuero received the Prix du success, as the buyers today want to be in- Court-Métrage award for his short documen- formed about projects at an earlier date. tary ANDERSWO in Créteil. DEAD SEA DYING We will certainly expand this section in the by Katharina Rabl & Rebecca Zehr won future.” the Prix Tënk at the Festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, and BAT by Julia Ocker was The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW gene- awarded the IndieJunior Audience Award at rously supported this year’s German Films IndieLisboa. Previews and acted as the co-host for an exclusive evening event in Cologne. During PEOPLE OF THE WASTE LAND (DE/SY) by this event, the international guests were Heba Khaled won the Danzante Award at the given the possibility to meet representatives Huesca Film Festival. From the Busan Inter- of the local film industry and learn more national Short Film Festival, F FOR FREAKS about the media region NRW. by Sabine Ehrl took home the Audience Award in the International Competition. At the Palm Springs Shortfest, Vincenz Neuhaus’ NOSIS received the Award for Best Student Animation; SUMMER HIT by Berthold Wahjudi won the Award for Best Live-Action Short over 15 Minutes.

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new German productions are presented on the following 24 pages. Please visit our website www.german-films.de for more information on German features, documentaries and shorts. GIRAFFE (© Iris Janke/Komplizen Film) GIRAFFE (© Iris Janke/Komplizen

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commercial flight is suddenly PATRICK VOLLRATH, born in 1985, grew up GENRE Drama, Thriller YEAR OF PRODUC- hijacked by terrorists, leaving a in a small town in Germany and started his TION 2019 DIRECTOR Patrick Vollrath young pilot to fight and negotiate career working as an editor. In 2008, he began SCREENPLAY Patrick Vollrath, Senad Halil- Awith the ruthless attackers. What his studies in Directing at the Film Academy bašić CINEMATOGRAPHY Sebastian Thaler happens solely inside the claustrophobic Vienna where he graduated with honors. His CAST Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Omid Memar, cockpit could spell disaster for those trapped teacher and mentor was Academy Award® Aylin Tezel, Carlo Kitzlinger, Murathan Muslu, outside, and beyond… and two-time Palme d’Or-winning Michael Paul Wollin PRODUCERS Jonas Katzenstein, Haneke. Patrick has been awarded several Maximilian Leo CO-PRODUCERS Franz national and international prizes for his work. Novotny, Alexander Glehr PRODUCTION COM- His graduation film EVERYTHING WILL BE PANY augenschein Filmproduktion, in co- OKAY premiered in the Semaine de la Critique production with Novotny & Novotny Film - in Cannes and in 2016 it was nominated for produktion, SWR, BR, ARTE RUNTIME 92 min an Academy Award® for Best Live Action LANGUAGE German, English, Turkish, Arabic Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards®. FESTIVALS Locarno 2019 (Piazza Grande) The film has since been awarded more than 30 prestigious prizes worldwide. 7500 is his SALES feature film debut, starring two-time Golden FilmNation Entertainment Globe®-nominated actor Joseph Gordon- [email protected] Levitt. www.filmnation.com

Endeavor Content [email protected] www.endeavorco.com

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n the context of peace negotiations DROR ZAHAVI was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv. In GENRE Drama, Music YEAR OF PRODUCTION be tween diplomats from Israel and 1982 he moved to the GDR and studied at the 2019 DIRECTOR Dror Zahavi SCREENPLAY Palestine in South Tyrol, a concert of a Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” Johannes Rotter, Dror Zahavi CINEMA- Iyouth orchestra of young Palestinians and (now Film University Babelsberg KONRAD TOGRAPHY Gero Steffen CAST Peter Israelis shall take place under massive secu- WOLF). His graduation film ALEXANDER Simonischek, Daniel Donskoy, Sabrina rity precautions. The young people do not PENN – I WANT TO BE IN EVERYTHING was Amali, Bibiana Beglau, Mehdi Meskar, Eyan want to give up the peace efforts, which have nominated for the Student Oscar® in 1988. Pinkovich PRODUCER Alice Brauner CO-PRO- already worked in their microcosm. After graduation, he worked as a film critic DUCER Peter Trenkwalder PRODUCTION in Israel and returned to Berlin in 1991. In COMPANY CCC-Filmkunst, in co-production By making music together they are finding, by addition to numerous television movies, his with Filmvergnuegen RUNTIME 105 min and by, common ground – a first path to theatrical features include the award-winning LANGUAGE English, German, Arabic, Hebrew bridg ing hatred, intolerance and terror. EVERYTHING FOR MY FATHER (2008) and FESTIVAL Filmfest Munich 2019 CRESCENDO #MAKEMUSICNOTWAR (2019). Does music have the strength, to build SALES bridges between the young people of different Global Screen – a brand of Telepool religions and hated nationalities despite the [email protected] many challenges and obstacles? www.globalscreen.de

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THE THREE !!!

irst love, parental stress and a real, VIVIANE ANDEREGGEN was born in 1985 and GENRE Family Entertainment YEAR OF PRO- tricky criminal case: the three girls studied Post-Industrial Design, Media Studies DUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Viviane Ander- always stick together and tackle and Ethnology in Basel and Film Directing in eggen SCREENPLAY Doris Laske, Sina Fevery challenge with courage, Hamburg. Also active as a freelance photog- Flammang CINEMATOGRAPHY Philip cleverness and crime-solving smarts. They’re rapher and a video artist at numerous Peschlow CAST Lilli Lacher, Alexandra Petz- brave, daring and the best of BFFs. Three theaters, her award-winning films include: schmann, Paula Renzler, Jürgen Vogel, clever, young female-detectives fearless in GROSS STATT KLEIN (TV, 2012), FÜR LOTTE Thomas Heinze PRODUCER Christian Becker the face of danger with no case they can't (short, 2013), HABIB UND DER HUND (short, CO-PRODUCER Martin Moszkowicz PRODUC- crack. But boys, though, sometimes they re- 2013), SCHULD UM SCHULD (short, 2013), TION COMPANY Rat Pack Filmproduktion, in main a mystery... SIMON SAGT AUF WIEDERSEHEN ZU SEINER co-production with Constantin Film Produk- VORHAUT (TV, 2014), HATTINGER UND DER tion RUNTIME 94 min LANGUAGE German NEBEL (2014), KEIN HERZ FÜR INDER (2015), RUFMORD (TV, 2016), and DIE DREI !!! (2019). SALES ARRI Media International [email protected] www.arrimedia.de/international

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FISH FOR THE HOSTAGE

t was meant to be a small break-in and STEFFEN CORNELIUS TRALLES studied at GENRE Comedy, Crime, Drama YEAR OF Piet was only meant to be the driver. “We the European Film College and the Hamburg PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Steffen Corne- just crack the safe to pay off Dad’s debts Media School. After working as a freelance lius Tralles SCREENPLAY Vasko Scholz, Iand off we go. Pretty easy!,” Piet’s brother unit and production manager and assistant Steffen Cornelius Tralles CINEMATOGRAPHY Herm said. But as Herm takes a hostage and director, he began writing, producing and Eike Zuleeg CAST Enno Hesse, Florian Hacke, directs Piet into a vacant house on the out - directing his own films. In addition to nu - Mats Kampen PRODUCER Steffen Cornelius skirts, Piet enters the hardest challenge of merous image films and music videos, a Tralles PRODUCTION COMPANY good sea- his life: He finds himself being a kidnapper selection of his films includes: KILLING A sons film RUNTIME 87 min LAN GUAGE Ger- and trapped in between his hardliner brother, DEAD MAN (short, 2009), TOMORROW IS man his own humanity and the person behind the ANOTHER DAY (short, 2009), MUTTS (short, hostage: Konstantin. 2010), and his feature debut FISH FOR THE SALES HOSTAGE (2019). good seasons film [email protected] www.fischfuerdiegeisel.com

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FREE COUNTRY

wo cops investigate the disappear - to hide and why? When the detectives start to BROTHERS followed by the TATORT feature ance of two teen sisters in a remote unravel the mystery, they soon wind up in film TSCHILLER - OFF DUTY in 2016. He also town, where it seems like everyone danger themselves... serves as showrunner for the Netflix series Thas something to hide – including DOGS OF BERLIN. His production company the bodies… CHRISTIAN ALVART was born in 1974. He has acquired the worldwide rights for CAP- never attended film school, yet – self-taught TAIN FUTURE and is working on a live-action In the Fall of 1992, police inspectors Patrick – he still managed to make the leap to be - version of the series. and Markus are sent off to a remote corner of coming a director. After teaching himself the country to examine the disappearance of the craft in various assistant positions, he two teen sisters, 15 and 16. Did the two pretty founded his production company Syrreal GENRE Thriller YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 girls just run away from their hick town, or did Entertainment in 1997 in Berlin. In 1999, he DIRECTOR Christian Alvart SCREENPLAY something more sinister happen to them? made his feature film debut with CURIOSITY Christian Alvart, Sigi Kamml CINEMATOG - In this remote part of the country, the effects & THE CAT, which was nominated for the Max RAPHY Christian Alvart CAST Trystan Pütter, of the East German regime still muddy the Ophüls Prize. After his second feature film Felix Kramer, Nora von Waldstätten PRO- waters. No one saw anything, the inspectors ANTIBODIES (2005), he moved to Hollywood, DUCERS Sigi Kamml, Christian Alvart, Timm are greeted by iron silence. A photo negative where he was able to prove his passion for Oberwelland CO-PRODUCER Jonathan Sau- showing the two girls naked and tied up in a genre films on a grand scale. For Paramount, bach PRODUCTION COMPANY Syrreal Enter- hunting lodge seems to indicate a sex crime he directed horror-thriller FALL 39 (2007), tainment, in co-production with Telepool, has been committed. The terrible suspicion followed by the sci-fi thriller PANDORUM BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion, ZDF RUN- is tragically confirmed when the girls’ dead (2008). Back in Germany, Alvart worked as a TIME 127 min LANGUAGE German bodies are found, raped and brutally mur - director for the TATORT series and was hired dered. While the relatives of other young as the director for the Hamburg episodes of SALES women who have been missing for years the series featuring Til Schweiger. His thriller Global Screen – a brand of Telepool come forward, the iron silence toward the BANKLADY was released theatrically in 2013. [email protected] cops turns into open hostility. Who has what In 2015, he directed the buddy-comedy HALF www.globalscreen.de

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A VOLUNTARY YEAR

ette is on her way to the airport ULRICH KÖHLER was born in 1969. He GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 to start a voluntary social year in studied Fine Arts in France, Philosophy in DIRECTORS Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler Central America. Her father Urs Hamburg, and Visual Communication at the SCREENPLAY Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler Jwants her to lead a free, self-deter- University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. His CINEMATOGRAPHY Patrick Orth CAST mined life and not to get stuck in the West feature films BUNGALOW and WINDOWS ON Maj-Britt Klenke, Sebastian Rudolph, German province like he did. But Jette is torn MONDAY premiered in the Berlinale Forum Thomas Schubert PRODUCER Ingmar Trost between her high school sweetheart Mario and have screened at many festivals world- CO-PRODUCER Katrin Schlösser PRODUC- and her father’s expectations. She can no wide, winning numerous awards. SLEEPING TION COMPANY Sutor Kolonko for WDR RUN- longer avoid the question of what she wants SICKNESS premiered in Competition at the TIME 86 min LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS herself. A film about the impossibility of Berlinale in 2011 and won the Silver Bear for Locarno 2019 (Concorso internazionale) forcing happiness. Best Directing. IN MY ROOM (2018) premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. A VOLUNTARY SALES YEAR (2019, in co-direction with Henner Sutor Kolonko Winckler) is his latest feature. [email protected] www.sutorkolonko.de HENNER WINCKLER was born in 1969. He studied at the Academy of Art & Design in Offenbach, followed by studies in Visual Com- munication and Film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Also active in scriptwriting and behind the camera, his films as a director include: SCHOOL TRIP (2002), LUCY (2006), and A VOLUNTARY YEAR (2019, in co-direction with Ulrich Köhler).

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tunnel will be built to connect ANNA SOFIE HARTMANN was born in GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 Denmark and Germany, the pre- Denmark and studied at the European Film DIRECTOR Anna Sofie Hartmann SCREEN- sent sets in motion towards the College in Aarhus before moving to Berlin PLAY Anna Sofie Hartmann CINEMATOG - Afuture, change hangs in the air. and studying at the German Film and Tele- RAPHY Jenny Lou Ziegel CAST Lisa Loven Dara, an ethnologist, arrives to document the vision Academy Berlin (DFFB). Her feature Kongsli, Jakub Gierszał, Maren Eggert PRO- houses tagged for demolition. The young debut LIMBO premiered in San Sebastián DUCERS Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Janine Pole, Lucek, and his colleagues prepare the in 2014 and screened at numerous other Jackowski CO-PRODUCERS Ditte Milsted, future construction site. Käthe works on the festivals including Rotterdam, SXSW and Jacob Jarek, Caroline Schlüter Bingestam ferry, steadily moving people, their stories, Gothenburg. The film was nominated for the PRODUCTION COMPANY Komplizen Film, in and goods to and fro. Birte and Leif leave European Film Academy’s Discovery Award co-production with Profile Pictures, RBB/ their house that has been passed down for 2015. Her other films include: MORNING Leuchtstoff, in cooperation with Danmarks generations. Agnes’ life resounds in her LADIES (short, 2005), STILLEBEN (short, Radio RUNTIME 87 min LANGUAGE Danish, diaries, collectibles and the walls of her 2007), STUDIES FOR YOUR MOBILE EXPEC- English, Polish, German FESTIVALS Locarno home, which will soon be demolished. A TATIONS (short, 2007), KLEINE GROSSE 2019 (Fuori Concorso) Danish summer: long days turn into blue SCHWESTER (2009), HAUSE IM SEE (short, nights. People meet and part ways again. 2011), MARGUERITE, MON CORPS (short, SALES 2013), and her latest feature GIRAFFE (2019). Komplizen Film [email protected] www.komplizenfilm.de

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t’s Lara’s 60th birthday, and she has every JAN-OLE GERSTER is a Berlin-based writer GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 reason to celebrate: this evening, her son and director. After working for German film DIRECTOR Jan-Ole Gerster CINEMATOG - Viktor will be giving the most important production companies for several years he RAPHY Frank Griebe CAST Corinna Harfouch, Ipiano concert of his career. Lara was, began studying Screenwriting and Directing Tom Schilling, Rainer Bock, Volkmar Kleinert after all, the one who’d mapped out and at the German Film and Television Academy PRODUCER Marcos Kantis CO-PRODUCER driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been Berlin. His debut film OH BOY, which Jan-Ole Gerster PRODUCTION COMPANY unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates pre miered at Karlovy Vary in 2012, became Schiwago Film, in co-production with that Lara will be welcome at his debut perfor- a domestic box-office success and was re- STUDIO CANAL RUNTIME 98 min LANGUAGE mance. Without further ado, she buys up all leased in cinemas in over 20 countries and German FESTIVALS Karlovy Vary 2019 (In the remaining tickets and hands them out to won numerous national and international Competition), Filmfest Munich 2019 AWARDS everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to awards, including the Audience and Jury Ecumenical Jury Award, Best Actress make the evening successful, however, the Awards at Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers (Corinna Harfouch) & Special Jury Prize more events get out of control. and the Tallinn International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary 2019, Fipresci Prize & German six German Film Awards and the European Cinema New Talent Award Munich 2019 Film Award for Best Debut Film. He has just completed his second feature film LARA and SALES is currently working on a screen adaptation Beta Cinema of Christian Kracht’s best-selling novel [email protected] Imperium. www.betacinema.com

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ave you ever had a déjà vu experi- MARIKO MINOGUCHI was born in Munich in GENRE Drama, Melodrama YEAR OF PRO- ence? Have you ever met a person in 1988. After graduation, she completed in- DUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Mariko Minoguchi you think you already know? ternships and assistantships in the areas of SCREENPLAY Mariko Minoguchi CINEMA - H production, directing, cinematography, and TOG RAPHY Julian Krubasik CAST Saskia production design on more than ten film and Rosendahl, Edin Hasanovic, Julius Feldmeier For Nora and Aron, it’s love at first sight when television productions. In 2007, she directed PRODUCERS Trini Götze, David Armati they meet in the subway one rainy day. A com- the short film MAYBE, which won the German Lechner CO-PRODUCER Thomas Wöbke plete chance meeting, Nora says. Everything Youth Film Award and followed this in 2010 PRODUCTION COMPANY TRIMAFILM, in co- is fated, says Aron. But then, the young couple with the short films LIEBEN ALLEIN and production with BerghausWöbke Filmpro- winds up in the middle of a bank robbery. GESCHWISTERHERZEN. In 2011, she founded duktion RUNTIME 110 min LANGUAGE Aron is shot by one of the masked robbers the production company TRIMAPHILM (now German FESTIVALS Filmfest Munich 2019 and dies in Nora’s arms. Time stands still for called TRIMAFILM) and served as a producer Nora. She tries to numb her pain, spending a of the short films WIE DU KÜSST and I SALES night with a stranger – Natan. He offers Nora REMEMBER. Her short film KARLSTOD (2012) Global Screen – a brand of Telepool support and stability. She has the odd feeling was screened at more than 30 national [email protected] she already knows him, without realizing and international festivals and received www.globalscreen.de what they really share… various awards. In collaboration with director Tim Fehlbaum (HELL), Minoguchi wrote the RELATIVITY is a story about first love, a crime screen play for the international co-pro - and the fateful power of destiny. duction HAVEN: ABOVE SKY, which is set to be completed in 2019. RELATIVITY is her feature-length debut as a director.

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PELICAN BLOOD

iebke (45) lives together with KATRIN GEBBE was born in 1983. She studied GENRE Drama, Thriller YEAR OF PRODUC- her adoptive daughter Nico- at the Academy of Visual Arts and Design (The TION 2019 DIRECTOR Katrin Gebbe SCREEN- lina (9) on an idyllic horse Netherlands) and the School of the Museum PLAY Katrin Gebbe CINEMATOGRAPHY Wfarm. After many years of of Fine Arts in Boston (USA). In 2006 she Moritz Schultheiss CAST Nina Hoss, waiting, she now has the chance to adopt completed her studies with a Bachelor of Murathan Muslu, Katerina Lipovska PRO - another girl, Raya (5), to provide Nicolina with Design in Visual Communications and began DUCER Verena Gräfe-Höft PRODUCTION the longed-for sister. The first weeks are a Masters program in Directing at the COMPANY Junafilm, in co-production with harmonious, and the siblings get along great. Hamburg Media School, graduating in 2008. Miramar Film RUNTIME 100 min LANGUAGE But shortly thereafter, Wiebke realizes that Active as a freelance director for fiction films German FESTIVALS Venice 2019 (Orizzonti: Raya, initially shy and charming, is becoming and commercials, her award-winning films Opening Film), Toronto 2019 (Special Presen- increasingly aggressive and poses a danger include: the shorts RAIN (2006), KOI (2006), tations) to herself and others. The mother will soon INVITATION (2008), DAFFODILS (2008), DOVES have to cross borders and take extreme OF PEACE (doc, 2008), SORES & SIRIN (2008), SALES decisions to protect her cubs. KICK IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL (commercial, Films Boutique 2010), BILDER MIT KATZE (music video, 2011), [email protected] her feature debut NOTHING BAD CAN www.filmsboutique.com HAPPEN (2013) which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, and her latest feature PELICAN BLOOD (2019).

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avid, an author in his mid-30s, FLORIAN GOTTSCHICK was born in 1981 and GENRE Drama, Experimental, Love Story travels to the Greek island of studied at the Film University Babelsberg YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Tinos with his wife Nina to the KONRAD WOLF. Also active as a screenwriter, Florian Gottschick SCREENPLAY Florian Dseclusion of a rented beach house script consultant and lecturer, his award- Gottschick, Carsten Happe CINEMATOG - in the off-season. The ferry from Athens winning films include: TWINS (2010), ARTISTS RAPHY Christian Trieloff CAST Caroline carries people every 10 days only, and while (2012), BRIGHT NIGHT (2014), FUCKING Erikson, Margarita Siotou, Jacob Matschenz, David is looking for inspiration for his new BERLIN (2016), and REST IN GREECE (2019). Mikhail Tabakakis PRODUCERS Margarita novel, Nina is searching for a new spark in Siotou, Caroline Erikson CO-PRODUCERS their life. On the first night, David hears Angelo D’Agostino, Steffen Baermann PRO- noises from the living room and prepares to DUCTION COMPANIES Penny Lane Film, Volle fight a burglar. But to his surprise he finds in- Pulle Filmproduktion RUNTIME 76 min stead Margarita, the daughter of the house LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Filmfest owner, who knew nothing of the foreign Munich 2019 renters. One night on the couch for Margarita soon turns into many as the freshly formed SALES trio grows together. But when Margarita Penny Lane Film disappears, the young couple will have to [email protected] face the unexpected consequences of their www.pennylane-film.at relations… Volle Pulle Filmproduktion [email protected] www.vollepulleberlin.com

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ummer 1961: Emil is working as an MARTIN SCHREIER began making short GENRE Drama, Romantic Comedy YEAR extra at the DEFA studios in Babels- films at the age of 10. After attending the OF PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Martin berg, East Germany when he falls German Film School in Berlin, he went on to Schreier SCREENPLAY Arend Remmers Shead over heels in love with a study feature film direction at the Filmakade- CINEMATOGRAPHY Martin Schlecht CAST French dancer named Milou. The two young mie Baden-Württemberg. In 2009, he re- Dennis Mojen, Emilia Schüle, Heiner Lauter- lovebirds are obviously meant for each other, ceived a scholarship to attend the Hollywood bach, Ken Duken, Nikolai Kinski, Michael but the building of the Berlin Wall soon tears Master Class at UCLA. In 2010, his student Gwisdek PRODUCERS Christoph Fisser, them apart. It looks like they will never see film THE NIGHT FATHER CHRISTMAS DIED Tom Zickler, Charlie Woebcken, Henning each other again, that is, until Emil has a was nominated for a Student Oscar® by the Molfenter PRODUCTION COMPANY Traum- crazy idea: He’s going to produce a movie and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. fabrik Babelsberg, in co-production with bring Milou back to Babelsberg! Schreier’s first feature, OUR TIME IS NOW, Studio Babelsberg, TOBIS Filmproduktion, was co-produced by Warner Bros. and made PANTALEON Films, ARRI Media, herbX film, its way to cinemas in 2016. TRAUMFABRIK is SamFilm RUNTIME 120 min LAN GUAGE his second feature film. German

SALES Picture Tree International [email protected] www.picturetree-international.com

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n a big city, Vera (28) is doing a last Gerda gives Vera a riddle about a valuable box GENRE Thriller, Drama YEAR OF PRODUC- service for the lonely people in need of hidden in the house. Only when Vera manages TION 2019 DIRECTOR Waldemar Oldenburger care. On the edge of legality, she ac - to solve the puzzle will she learn everything SCREENPLAY Waldemar Oldenburger CIN - Icompanies these people to suicide. She about the connection to Gerda. Vera decides EMATOGRAPHY Chris Hirschhäuser CAST always sings an old lullaby to the dying as a not to carry out Marvin’s mission and sets off Amanda da Gloria, Andreas Wimberger, calming song. Vera is depressed, lives alone to search the house. She finds the first clue Astrid Polak, Nadja Sabersky, Ingrid and numbs her nightmares with drugs. Her to the hiding place and discovers that Marvin Schölderle PRODUCER Waldemar Olden- next assignment takes her from the city to intentionally restrains Gerda. When Vera tries burger PRODUCTION COMPANY Finist Film Gerda, an 80-year-old woman who suffers to get Gerda out of the house, Marvin returns RUNTIME 92 min LANGUAGE German from dementia. She is bedridden and lives and confronts Vera with their agreement. She alone in a house close to the forest. Her son, tries to persuade Marvin to wait a few days, SALES Marvin (50), who is financially on the brink of but Marvin threatens her with the police and FinistFilm an abyss, wants to end Gerda’s suffering and jail. The situation escalates. [email protected] asks Vera for help. Vera agrees, but some- www.finistfilm.com thing seems to be wrong. WALDEMAR OLDENBURGER is active as a director, writer, cinematographer and produ- The next day Vera arrives at Gerda’s house to cer. His award-winning films include: MA- fulfill her mission. Marvin leaves the house as LINA (short, 2015), KAI (short, 2017), LEN agreed. Alone with Gerda, she prepares the (2016), and his feature debut VERA (2019). deadly substance. When Vera sings the old lullaby before administering the poison, Gerda recognizes the song. It turns out that Gerda is terrified of something and has a connection to Vera’s mother.

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THE AUDITION

nna teaches violin at a music INA WEISSE was born in Berlin in 1968. She GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 school, her husband is an instru- trained to become an actress at the Otto- DIRECTOR Ina Weisse SCREENPLAY Ina ment-maker. They have a 10-year- Falckenberg-Schule in Munich. Engagements Weisse, Daphne Charizani CINEMATOG - Aold son, Jonas. At the entrance followed at the Münchner Kammerspiele and RAPHY Judith Kaufmann CAST Nina Hoss, exams only Anna champions young Alexander, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. As an Simon Abkarian, Jens Albinus, Ilja Monti, in whom she alone sees great talent. She de- actress, she has appeared in numerous Serafin Mishiev, Sophie Rois, Thomas Thieme votes much energy and attention preparing movies and TV films, including SNOWLAND, PRODUCER Felix von Boehm CO-PRO- him for the next stage exam to prove she was NOTHING BUT GHOSTS, and NEVER LOOK DUCERS Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Jan Krüger, right. Soon Anna devotes more time to him AWAY. For THE END OF A NIGHT and EIN Jörg Trentmann PRODUCTION COMPANY than to Jonas, bringing the two boys into GROSSER AUFBRUCH she received the Lupa Film, in co-production with ZDF, ARTE, rivalry. At the same time her marriage is German Television Award for Best Actress Idéale Audience, Port au Prince Film & Kultur collapsing, she withdraws increasingly from and the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2012 and 2016. Produktion LANGUAGE German, French FES- her own family and starts an affair with her After studying Philosophy in Heidelberg, she TIVALS San Sebastian 2019 (In Competition) colleague Christian, who is encouraging her studied Directing at the University of Ham- to join a quartet. When she fails during their burg from 2000 to 2002. Her graduation film SALES joint concert the pressure mounts. With ALLES ANDERS was awarded with the First Les Films du Losange Alexander now her vehicle, she drives him Steps Award 2002. Her feature film THE [email protected] ever onwards and upwards. Come the day of ARCHITECT, starring Josef Bierbichler, www.filmsdulosange.fr the exam, events take a tragic turn... was shown at the Berlinale in 2009 and won the Best Screenplay Award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival. After her documentary THE NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, the German- French co-production THE AUDITION, featuring Nina Hoss is her latest feature.

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git, Ahmad, Parham, Kianush and Sinan – five men with different backgrounds and different lives. AThey do, however, have one thing in common: they are, or were, nestled in the structures of gangs and large families that operate under the radar in the grey zones or completely outside the law. In social discus- sions, their everyday realities are quickly waved away with catchphrases like “parallel societies“ and “criminal clans.“ ANOTHER REALITY shows not only the external struc - tures of this world that runs according to its own rules, but goes deeper into the coher - encies and everyday realities of the protago - nists. In the more than three years of filming, the directors became astoundingly close with the five men. They willingly and honestly shared their experiences, desires, and fears, as they confronted the contradictions of their © Friede Clausz/Elemag Pictures

lifestyles and how they deal with the conse- Farid Islam) screened at festivals around the Föhr, Pacco Nitsche PRODUCTION COMPANY quences of their actions. world and was nominated for the German Elemag Pictures, in co-production with Co- Human Rights Film Award. gnito Films, It’s Us Media, 27 Kilometer En- NOËL DERNESCH’s debut film JOURNEY TO tertainment RUNTIME 97 min LANGUAGE JAH (doc, 2013) won the DEFA Prize at the GENRE Society, Coming-of-Age Story, Music German FESTIVALS Locarno 2019 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis in Saarbrücken YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTORS and the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Noël Dernesch, Olli Waldhauer CINEMA- SALES MAGNETFILM Festival. OLLI WALDHAUER’s debut film TOGRAPHY Friede Clausz PRODUCERS Tanja [email protected] ISTANBUL UNITED (2014, in co-direction with Georgieva-Waldhauer, Dario Schoch, Ben www.magnetfilm.de

brave boy from the Naga tribe of former headhunters, B.B. (’Brave Boy’) Goura Moe lives in the in - Aaccessible part of Burma near the Himalayas. At the age of seven he starts with alcohol, drugs and stealing. At the age of 13 he is at the end. His parents, poor day labo- rers, give him up. A Christian priest finds a school for under privileged children for him, located in the temple town of Bagan, on the Irrayawady River, the queen of all rivers. Here B.B. meets children from other ethnic groups who often still fight each other. They do not care. They want to be a new generation in a peaceful country. And B.B.? He finds a new tribe. Even though B.B.’s story is set in today’s Myanmar, it happens every day all over the world. With the global tribe of pubescents. With children who are like B.B. who love their freedom and innocence. © Detlev F. Neufert

B.B. AND THE SCHOOL BY THE RIVER DETLEV F. NEUFERT began his career mak - his many socially relevant films. in co-production with GMMA RUNTIME 108 ing documentaries for German television and min LANGUAGE Burmese made short films about pop stars, including GENRE Coming-of-Age Story, Children & Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa and Patti Smith. His Youth YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR SALES feature TAKE AWAY THE NIGHT (1982) Detlev F. Neufert CINEMATOGRAPHY AJ Aww German Myanmar Media Association screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Also Jay PRODUCER Detlev F. Neufert CO-PRO- [email protected] active as an author and gallerist, B.B. AND DUCER Thet Aung Naing PRODUCTION COM- www.detlev-neufert.de THE SCHOOL BY THE RIVER is the latest of PANY German Myanmar Media Association,

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NTERTANGO sees Tango as an inter - cultural phenomenon and a chance to overcome cultural barriers. The film gives Iintimate insight to the “emotional adven- ture trip” which the protagonists experience with Tango. Naoko who conquered in her mo- dest Japanese way a mainly male-dominated position in Buenos Aires to become a Tango DJ. Iftikhar from Pakistan who got “infected” by Tango and started to teach Tango in Karachi. Mila from Russia whose passion for Tango interferes with her family plans. And Rodrigo from Argentina who experiments with Tango. It’s that first touch, the breath- taking thrill of what is going to happen, the beginning of a sensual dialog without words – it’s Tango. If you are ever fortunate enough to experience it, you will be hooked for life. No matter which culture you come from!

INTERTANGO – A CONNECTION FOR LIFE

HANNE WEYH studied Theater and Dance and with John Malkovich, and INTERTANGO – A Sacadafilm RUNTIME 62 min LANGUAGE worked for many years as choreographer for CONNECTION FOR LIFE. English, Spanish cinema and TV. She founded the production company Sacadafilm in 2009. Her films in- GENRE Dance, Culture, Society YEAR OF SALES clude BEWEGT BE WEGEN, ANNA TANZT, the PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Hanne Weyh Sacadafilm art event SAMMA PARI (film and art perfor- CINEMATOGRAPHY Clemens Bittner PRO- [email protected] mance), a contri bution to JUST CALL ME GOD DUCER Hanne Weyh PRODUCTION COMPANY

ine thousand years ago man chose to make his first home here. Matera. Perhaps the mother Nof all cities. Country of rocks, caves and human traces. Axis between East and West. The European Capital of Culture 2019 has experienced all that makes Europe different, from art to epoch-making changes. Yet, perhaps more than in any other city, here history was made by ordinary men who left a trace of themselves in an extraordinary place.

ALESSANDRO SOETJE is a Milan-based director and cinematographer. His work on the international campaign Aware Migrants was awarded the Best Social Campaign prize at the 30th International Grand Prix for Adverti- sing Strategies. His work includes the documentaries AFRICA AS SEEN BY AFRICANS

MATERA. MOTHER OF STONE (TV series), the award-winning AFRICA’S GENRE Culture YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 SALES CHILDREN, A JOURNEY TO SCHOOL, OUR DIRECTOR Alessandro Soetje CINEMATOG - Alpenway Media STONE, OLD WILD LORENZ, TOMORROW RAPHY Alessandro Soetje PRODUCER [email protected] AND THE BUTTERFLY, and MATERA. MOTHER Alessandro Melazzini PRODUCTION COM- www.alpenway.com OF STONE. PANY Alpenway Media for SWR, ARTE RUN- TIME 52 min LANGUAGE Italian

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oje, who is living on the coast GENRE Children & Youth, Drama, Family with his father Holke, has a lot of Entertainment YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 questions in his mind that are not DIRECTORS Andreas Cordes, Robert Köhler Bthat easy to answer. How do I know SCREENPLAY Andreas Cordes, Robert Köhler I love somebody? Where was I before I was CINEMATOGRAPHY Lukas Jung, Patrick born? How do I know I’m not dreaming? Wegener CAST Phileas Heyblom, Robert Nothing would make Holke happier than Köhler, Iris Berben PRODUCER Moritz Jahn answering his son’s complex questions, but CO-PRODUCERS Felix Jahn, Andreas Cordes, he is literally missing the right words. None- Robert Köhler PRODUCTION COMPANY theless he doesn’t want to leave Boje alone Lichtspielfarm RUNTIME 10 min LANGUAGE with his questions and eventually turns to the German AWARDS Drehbuchpreis Schleswig- sea for help… Holstein 2018

ANDREAS CORDES, born in Hamburg and FESTIVAL AGENT raised in Berlin, has been working as a Renate Zylla screenwriter for several years. He learned his [email protected] trade at the Master School Drehbuch.

ROBERT KÖHLER, born in Hamburg, has been working as an actor since his youth and is now regularly teaming up with Andreas Cordes on writing projects. Together they co- founded the production company Lichtspiel- farm. BOJE is their directing debut.

BEAUTIFUL YOU

ithin the rigid structures of GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 her family life, Christine DIRECTOR Bernadette Kolonko SCREENPLAY struggles to express herself. Bernadette Kolonko CINEMATOGRAPHY WWhile she is trying in vain to Carolina Steinbrecher CAST Lucy Wirth, get her mute daughter back out from her Birgit Unterweger, Emma Satzger, Daniel imaginary world, Christine has an unexpected Wagner, Ursula Maria Burkhart PRODUCER encounter: Upon meeting Leonore, she be - Britta Strampe PRODUCTION COMPANY comes conscious of how the patterns of her Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF female upbringing are what prevent her from RUNTIME 19 min LANGUAGE German expressing herself and her desires. SALES BERNADETTE KOLONKO studied Photog- Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF raphy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig [email protected] and at the Zurich University of the Arts, www.filmuniversitaet.de followed by studies in Film at the Film Uni- versity Babels berg KONRAD WOLF. Also active as a caster, artistic researcher and theory lecturer, her films as a director include: the shorts SIBELLA (2014), THE BOMB- LAYING GIRL (2016), BLIND SPOTS (2017), and BEAUTIFUL YOU (2019).

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AFTER TWO HOURS, TEN MINUTES HAD PASSED

ime as punishment - of juvenile in- GENRE Society YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 mates and bodies that become DIRECTOR Steffen Goldkamp SCREENPLAY heavy in prescribed spaces. Steffen Goldkamp CINEMATOGRAPHY Tom T Otte, Paul Spengemann, Karsten Krause PRODUCER Steffen Goldkamp RUNTIME 19 STEFFEN GOLDKAMP was born in 1988 and min 30 sec LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS studied Filmmaking at the Academy of Fine Venice 2019 (Orrizonti) Arts in Hamburg. He co-founded the film col- lective "Spengemann Eichberg Goldkamp SALES Hans". His works explore the specific realities Steffen Goldkamp of particular spaces and include the films: [email protected] WALLENHORST (2014), L’ÉTÉ ESPÉRÉ (2016), www.spengemanneichberggoldkamphans.de WESTERN UNION (2018), and AFTER TWO HOURS, TEN MINUTES HAD PASSED (2019).

aia from Spain and Emil from Ice- GENRE Comedy YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 land are Erasmus students in DIRECTOR Berthold Wahjudi SCREENPLAY Munich. After having sex a couple of Berthold Wahjudi CINEMATOGRAPHY Tobias Ltimes, Emil professes his love to Blickle CAST Martina Roura, Atli Benedikt, Laia – but she panics and runs away. Now the Katrin Filzen PRODUCERS Melissa Byrne, two have to figure out whether they are more Philipp Link PRODUCTION COMPANY Gute than just a summer fling. Zeit Film RUNTIME 19 min LANGUAGE Eng- lish, Spanish, German, Icelandic FESTIVALS BERTHOLD WAHJUDI was born in 1993 in Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken Hamburg. He studied Arts & Sciences at the 2019, Palm Springs Short Fest 2019, SHORTS University College London and University of Trinationales FF Oberrhein 2019, Sehsüchte California before taking up studies at the 2019, filmreif! 2019, Molodist Kyiv 2019, University of Television and Film Munich in Nordic Youth FF Tromsø 2019, FiSH Rostock 2016. His films include: the shorts SUM- 2019 AWARDS Best Live-Action Short over 15 MER’S END (2018), SIDE A / SIDE B (2018), Minutes Palm Springs 2019, Best Screenplay PLAN B (2018), and SUMMER HIT (2019). & Special Prize for Europe and the Future filmreif! 2019, Audience Award FiSH Rostock 2019

SALES Gute Zeit Film [email protected] www.gutezeit-film.de

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PORTRAIT OF SUZANNE

n a foreign city, an obese man tormented LAUNDRY (2015), and PORTRAIT OF SU- by loneliness sees his left foot turn into a ZANNE (2019). woman: he recognized Suzanne, his lost Ilove. GENRE Animation YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2019 DIRECTOR Izabela Plucinska SCREEN- After SEXY LAUNDRY, Izabela Plucinska’s PLAY Izabela Plucinska CINEMATOGRAPHY new film is an adaptation of the eponymous Izabela Plucinska PRODUCERS Robert Kern, novel by Roland Topor (1978). Izabela Plucinska, Christine Haupt CO-PRO- DUCERS Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Paulina IZABELA PLUCINSKA was born in 1974. She Ratajczak PRODUCTION COMPANY Clay studied at the National Film School in Łódź Traces, in co-production with FILMS DE and at the Film University Babelsberg FORCE MAJEURE, Foundation Las Sztuki KONRAD WOLF. In 2006, she founded the RUNTIME 14 min LANGUAGE French FESTI- production company ClayTraces in Berlin. A VALS Krakow 2019, Annecy 2019, Ottawa Int. selection of her films includes: the shorts Animation Festival 2019 AWARDS Golden CASTLING (1998), BACKYARD (1999), TWIN Dragon Krakow 2019 (2000), ON THE OTHER SIDE (2002), JAM SESSION (2005), which screened in the Short SALES Competition at the Berlinale in 2005 and ClayTraces received the Silver Bear for Best Short Film, [email protected] BREAKFAST (2006), MARATHON (2008), www.claytraces.com 7 MORE MINUTES (2008), ESTERHAZY (2009),

JOSETTE AND HER DADDY (2010), AFTER- © Izabela Plucinska NOON (2012), DARLING (2013), SEXY

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AUERHAUS

irector Neele Vollmar’s adaptation of GENRE Coming-of-Age Story, Tragicomedy Bov Bjerg’s 2015 best-seller features CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Neele Leana Dthe shooting stars Damian Hardung, Vollmar SCREENPLAY Neele Leana Vollmar, Max von der Groeben, Luna Wedler, and Lars Hubrich CAST Damian Hardung, Max von Devrim Lingnau as four friends who have pro- der Groeben, Luna Wendler, Devrim Lingnau, mised themselves that their lives shouldn’t Philine Stappenbeck, Sven Schelker PRO- become boring. That’s why they decide to do DUCERS Dan Maag, Kristina Löbbert PRO- everything differently from what usually DUCTION COMPANY Pantaleon Films, in happens in the sticks: they all move into the co-production with Warner Bros. Film Pro- Auerhaus and set up a flat share under the ductions Germany, Brainpool Pictures disapproving eyes of the villagers. They want LANGUAGE German to celebrate the moment, break all the rules – and, above all, save their pal Frieder from CONTACT himself and doubts about the purpose of life. Pantaleon Films But how long can the walls of the Auerhaus [email protected] protect the magic of this community from the www.pantaleonfilms.com

FABIAN

his summer sees director Dominik of the director and co-produced his 2015 doc - Graf travelling to locations in Berlin umentary WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘THE END’? Tand Görlitz for the production of his about the late film critic Michael Althen. new feature film, FABIAN, which has been adapted by Constantin Lieb from Erich GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Kästner’s eponymous satirical novel from Dominik Graf SCREENPLAY Constantin Lieb, 1931. Set in the dying days of the Weimar Dominik Graf CAST Tom Schilling, Albrecht Republic as the global economic crisis domi- Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Meret Becker nated at the end of 1920s, the film centers on PRODUCER Felix von Boehm PRODUCTION the exploits of the 32-year-old advertising COMPANY Lupa Film, in co-production with copy writer Dr. Jakob Fabian (played by Tom ZDF LANGUAGE German Schilling) in a Berlin teetering on a political, economic and moral abyss. CONTACT Lupa Film FABIAN marks the latest collaboration be - [email protected] tween Lupa Film and Graf after producer www.lupa-film.com

Felix von Boehm himself made a film portrait © Felix von Boehm/Lupa Film

DAS GLASZIMMER

945, shortly before the end of the war: reported at once. But what Felix does not Anna and her 11-year-old son Felix flee know, the man is Bernd, his father! 1bombed out Munich for the safety of the countryside. Here the local Nazi official, Feik, GENRE Children & Youth, Drama, History rules with an iron fist. While Anna struggles CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Christian to play the convinced National Socialist, Felix Lerch SCREENPLAY Christian Lerch, Josef is determined to fit in with the village children Einwanger CAST Lisa Wagner, Hans Löw, Luis and becomes seduced increasingly by the re- Vorbach, Xari Wimmbauer, Barbara Romaner, gime's propaganda. Philipp Hochmaier, Heinz-Josef Braun, Johann Schuler PRODUCER Robert Marciniak When Anna learns of her husband Bernd’s PRODUCTION COMPANY Lieblingsfilm, in co- “Hero’s Death” she and Felix are devastated. production with ZDF LANGUAGE German While she mourns and blames the Nazis, Felix starts to feel what it means to be the son CONTACT of a fallen hero. He is accepted, respected. Lieblingsfilm [email protected]

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GUNDERMANN REVIER

n her first feature-length documentary as GENRE Biopic, History, Music CATEGORY a director, author and curator Grit Lemke Documentary DIRECTOR Grit Lemke PRODU- Iturns her attention to the life of the cult CER Gregor Streiber PRODUCTION COMPANY rock poet and coal excavator Gerhard inselfilm produktion LANGUAGE German Gundermann who was initially called “the Bob Dylan of the opencast mine” before becoming CONTACT the “voice of the East Germans”. The film bio- inselfilm produktion graphy is told against the background of a [email protected] region where global issues of our time are www.inselfilm.info focused as if in a concave mirror. They per- meate the artist’s oeuvre: home and devas - tation, the end of industry and work, utopia and individual responsibility. Observations and conversations, images of a post-mining landscape, and a first-person narrator from the coal region enter into a dialogue with

he tropical island Cuba is the main GENRE Drama, Love Story, Road Movie setting for Bettina Blümner’s fourth CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Bettina Tfeature film HELLO MY FRIEND after Blümner SCREENPLAY Bettina Blümner, her previous films POOL OF PRINCESSES, Daniel Nocke CAST Leonard Scheicher, BROKEN GLASS PARK and PARCOURS Victoria Schulz, Maya Unger PRODUCERS D’AMOUR. The road movie follows three Jamila Wenske, Melanie Blocksdorf PRO - friends Katharina, Judith and Benjamin as DUCTION COMPANY Achtung Panda! Media, they travel to Cuba to search for Judith’s in co-production with Marinka Filmes brother Vanja, who has disappeared on the LANGUAGE German, Spanish, English island during a research semester studying the legendary manatee. While Katharina SALES seems to be more interested in picking up Pluto Film Distribution Network local men for sexual adventures, a tender love [email protected] story develops between Benjamin and Judith. www.plutofilm.de But then she attracts the amorous attentions of the salsa dance teacher Ignacio with un- foreseen reper cussions... © Achtung Panda! Media

RÄUBERHÄNDE

riendship, embarking on life and GENRE Coming-of-Age Story, Drama, Lit- search ing for one’s roots are key is- erature CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Ilker Fsues in Student Oscar®-winner Ilker Çatak SCREENPLAY Gabriele Simon, Finn Çatak's feature film which is based on Finn- Ole Heinrich CAST Emil von Schönfels, Ole Heinrich’s eponymous debut novel. Mekyas Mulugeta, Katharina Behrens, Nicole Marischka, Godehard Giese, Luissa Hansen Janik has parents who always do everything PRODUCERS Gabriele Simon, Martin Heisler right, while Samuel comes from a broken PRODUCTION COMPANY Flare Film home. Janik’s parents may have practically LANGUAGE German adopted Samuel, but he still shields his alco- holic mother from the outside world. Samuel CONTACT wants order, Janik wants chaos. Then, in a Flare Film thoughtless moment, Janik does something [email protected] inexcusable and the close bond between the www.flare-film.com friends is put in jeopardy. As they set off on their long-planned trip to Istanbul, the boys

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RESISTANCE – WIDERSTAND

esse Eisenberg stars as the legendary GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIREC- mime Marcel Marceau in a story in - TOR/SCREENPLAY Jonathan Jakubowicz Jspired by true events set during the CAST Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Matthias Second World War. As France succumbs to Schweighöfer, Clémence Poésy, Edgar the Nazi Occupation, Marcel and his family Ramirez, Félix Moati, Bella Ramsey, Géza live in fear of the Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, Röhrig, Karl Markovics PRODUCERS Claudine who is on a personal mission to crush the Jakubowicz, Dan Maag, Thorsten Schu - fledgling Resistance. With the war closing in, macher, Carlos Garcia de Paredes, Patrick Marcel puts aside his dreams of the spotlight Zorer, Stephanie Schettler-Köhler, Matthias for a life in the shadows. With a talent for for- Schweighöfer, Marco Beckmann, Jonathan gery and a quirky sense of humor, Marcel Jakubowicz PRODUCTION COMPANIES plays a vital role in many dangerous missions, Pantaleon Films, Epicentral Studios, Rocket transporting children through the Alps to the Science, Vertical Media, Neptune Features, safety of Switzerland. From the brother he Resistance Films US, Bliss Media LANGUAGE fought alongside to the children he saved, English Marcel’s spirit and determination touched the

black comedy about the fear of GENRE Satire CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR ageing, the joy of life and the hunt for Roland Reber SCREENPLAY Roland Reber, Alikes, followers and the most clicks, Antje Nikola Mönning, Mira Gittner CINEMA- ROLAND REBERS TODESREVUE features a TOGRAPHY Mira Gittner CAST Marina Anna female dancer who can’t escape ageing what - Eich, Antje Nikola Mönning, Eisi Gulp, ever she tries; an old man in the hospital who Waltraut Borchmann, Christian Buse, Wolf- just wants peace and quiet at the end of his gang Seidenberg, Ricci Hohlt, Mira Gittner life but doesn’t get it; a performance artist PRODUCERS Patricia Koch, Marina Anna who faces the comments of her audience with Eich, Antje Nikola Mönning PRODUCTION full consequences; an author searching for COMPANY wtp international LANGUAGE truth and the person with the mask who des - German perately wants to become famous. In this inter active live show, the Cabaret of Death, CONTACT where the audience choses the tasks, games wtp international without limits for candidates who endure [email protected] every humiliation and danger, it is not death www.wtpfilm.com that has to be feared, but rather a life unlived. © wtp international

SCHATTENSTUNDE

ilmmaker Benjamin Martins spent GENRE Drama, History CATEGORY Feature two years studying the life of the DIRECTOR Benjamin Martins SCREENPLAY FChristian writer Jochen Klepper. Using Benjamin Martins CAST Christoph M. Kaiser, Klepper’s extensive diary entries, Martins Beate Krist, Sarah Palarczyk, Boris Becker, prepared a film that casts light on a dark Klaus Rodewald PRODUCERS Floriana chapter in German history. Beginning with Maiello, Benjamin Martins PRODUCTION the last encounter between Klepper and SS- COMPANY Herbsthund Filme LANGUAGE Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, the German film focuses on Klepper’s last hours spent together with his Jewish wife Johanna and CONTACT stepdaughter Renate. On December 10th Herbsthund Filme 1942, Eichmann rejected their applications to [email protected] emigrate. The same night, the Kleppers took www.herbsthundfilme.de their own lives. The family’s last conversations are sensitively interwoven with Klepper’s various diary entries. Many of the

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TRÜMMERMÄDCHEN

unger, rubble, soldiers returning dresses equality between men and women in from war: young Charlotte is preg- the Germany of 1946. Hnant, but her beloved Ludwig doesn’t want her or his child. In order to win him over GENRE Drama, Melodrama, History and avoid the impending disgrace, she signs CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Oliver Kracht up for the “Fräuleinkurs” by the actress Gloria SCREENPLAY Oliver Kracht CAST Valery Deven who had been an aspiring star under Tscheplanowa, Laura Balzer, Lena the Nazis, but is now banned from working. Urzendowsky, Anna-Gesa Lappe, Lara Feith, But Gloria isn’t interested in reviving the co- Till Wonka PRODUCER Simon Buchner quetry that had become unnecessary during PRODUCTION COMPANY simonsays.pictures the war. Instead, she awakens in her students LANGUAGE German a longing for something that has been denied them for too long: freedom. CONTACT simonsays.pictures Writer-director Oliver Kracht won the presti- [email protected] gious Thomas Strittmatter Prize during this www.simonsayspictures.com

DER ÜBERLÄUFER

irected by Academy Award®-winner GENRE Drama, History, Literature, Love Story Florian Gallenberger from Siegfried CATEGORY TV Movie DIRECTOR Florian DLenz’s international bestseller, DER Gallenberger SCREENPLAY Bernd Lange, ÜBERLÄUFER is set in the summer of 1944. Florian Gallenberger CAST Jannis Nie - Walter Proska is about to return to the wöhner, Malgorzata Mikolajczak, Sebastian Eastern Front when his train is blown up by Urzendowsky, Rainer Bock, Florian Lukas, partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of Katharina Schüttler, Ulrich Tukur, Bjarne German soldiers, cut off from the front, he Mädel, Leonie Benesch, Adam Venhaus, awaits certain death while the commands of Alexander Beyer, Janusz Cichocki, Mathias his superior officer become more and more Hermann, Shenja Lacher PRODUCERS Stefan senseless and in human. Proska’s encounter Raiser, Felix Zackor PRODUCTION COMPANY with the young Polish partisan Wanda and Dreamtool Entertainment LANGUAGE Ger- his friendship with his comrade Kürschner man increasingly make him doubt his oath of allegiance. As the Red Army draws closer, SALES Proska becomes a prisoner of war and can Beta Film save himself only by defecting to the enemy. [email protected] © Beta Film/Krzysztof Wiktor www.betafilm.com UNDINE

ndine, a young woman, historian and GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR tour leader in Berlin, lives in a small, Christian Petzold SCREENPLAY Christian Uimpersonal flat and has a typical big- Petzold CAST Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, city life. And happens to be cursed. As normal Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree PRODU- as her life seems, when her boyfriend leaves CERS Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael her the curse says she must kill him and re- Weber PRODUCTION COMPANY Schramm turn to the water from which she came. But Film Koerner & Weber, in co-production with Undine fights her fate: She does not want Les Films du Losange, ZDF, ARTE, ARTE to kill, she does not want to leave. At the France Cinéma LANGUAGE German moment of the betrayal Christoph appears, and she falls in love with him. He is an indus - SALES trial diver and shows her his underwater The Match Factory world – which she knows already. They are [email protected] happy together. He is impressed by her edu- www.the-match-factory.com cation, she by his shrewdness. And he senses she is running away from something. Now,

38 GFQ 3-2019 UPCOMING FILMS

UND MORGEN DIE GANZE WELT

-year-old law student Luisa has GENRE Drama, Politics CATEGORY Feature just joined a subdivision of the DIRECTOR Julia von Heinz SCREENPLAY 20Antifa movement when she and Julia von Heinz, John Quester CAST Mala her friends Alfa and Lenor learn of a planned Emde, Noah Saveedra, Tonio Schneider, attack by a local neo-Nazi gang. Trying to find Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Lust PRODU- out more, they get deeper into the right-wing CER Fabian Gasmia PRODUCTION COMPANY scene and its political connections until the Seven Elephants, in co-production with Kings point where they face the question of how far & Queens Filmproduktion, Haiku Films they are willing to go to defend our liberal LANGUAGE German democracy. CONTACT AND TOMORROW THE ENTIRE WORLD is Seven Elephants Julia von Heinz’s first feature film to be hand- [email protected] led by the Berlin-based production company www.seven-elephants.de Seven Elephants which she co-founded with fellow directors David Wnendt and Erik

irector Marten Persiel follows his GENRE Ecology, Fantasy, Science Fiction, debut THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA Road Movie CATEGORY Semi-Fictional Docu- Dwith a semi-fictional documentary mentary DIRECTOR Marten Persiel SCREEN- presenting a futuristic fairytale about the PLAY Marten Persiel, Aisha Prigann CAST splendor of nature. The year is 2051, and Noah Saavedra, Paul G. Raymond, Jessamine people are looking back at the past. They Bliss Bell, Wim Wenders, Rodolfo Dirzo, remember the golden age of the beautiful Prof. Dr. Josef Reichholf, Dr. Cary Fowler, 2010s and 2020s – a time when it was still Pamela Ronald PRODUCERS Martin Heisler, possible to experience wild nature first hand. Katharina Bergfeld PRODUCTION COMPANY According to official estimates from the Flare Film, in co-production with Windmill United Nations, we are currently losing 200 Film LANGUAGE English natural species every day. THE WAY WE WERE takes us forward into a bankrupt future that SALES we may well be bound for. We meet Ben in Urban Distribution International 2051 and watch him saving the world by mak- [email protected] ing people feel something they thought they www.urbandistrib.com had forgotten... © Flare Film/Christoph Köstlin

39 GERMAN FILMS: A PROFILE GFQ 3-2019 GERMAN FILMS SERVICE + MARKETING

is the national information and advisory SUPERVISORY. BOARD center for the promotion of German films worldwide. It was established in 1954 under Peter Herrmann Chairman the name Export-Union of German Cinema as Peter Dinges the umbrella association for the Association Antonio Exacoustos of German Feature Film Producers, the Manuela Kehlenbach Association of New German Feature Film Kirsten Niehuus Producers and the Association of German Sabine Pollmeier Film Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. In 2004, the TEAM company was reorganized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Simone Baumann Managing Director Marketing GmbH. Johanna Buse Regional Coordinator: Southern Europe & Latin America Mai Anh Do Accounts SHAREHOLDERS are the German Pro - Christine Harrasser Press & PR, Television ducers Guild, the German Producers Alliance, Angela Hawkins Communications & Marketing the Association of German Film Exporters, Anne Heidebrecht Distribution Support & Animation the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the Nicole Kaufmann Regional Coordinator: USA, UK & Northern Europe Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Docu- Dennis Ruh Festival Relations mentary Association, FilmFernsehFonds Fides Schäffer Regional Coordinator: Asia & Australia Bayern, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Martin Scheuring Project Coordinator & Short Film Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Andrea Schiefer Monitoring & Strategic Development, Business Affairs German Short Film Association. Sabrina Schrödl Assistant to the Managing Director Bernhard Simek Regional Coordinator: Eastern Europe, Documentary Film German Films’ budget of presently €4.85 million comes from film export levies, the RANGE OF ACTIVITIES office of the Federal Government Com- missioner for Culture and the Media, and Close cooperation with major interna- Publication of informational literature the FFA. The eight main regional film funds tional film festivals, in cluding Berlin, Cannes, about current German films and the German (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderung Venice, San Sebastian, Locarno, Sundance, film industry, as well as international market Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film- und Karlovy Vary, Toronto, New York, Shanghai, analy ses and special festival brochures Medien stiftung NRW, HessenFilm, Medien - Warsaw, Moscow, and Busan board Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden- A website (www.german-films.de) offer - Württemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medien- Organization of umbrella stands for ing informa tion about new German films, a förderung, and Nord media) make a financial German sales companies and producers at film archive, information and links to German contribution towards the work of German international television and film markets and international film festivals and institu- Films. (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Toronto, tions Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, MIP, FILMART) German Films is a founding member of the Organization of the selection procedure European Film Promotion, a network of Staging of Festivals of German Films in for the German entry for the Oscar® for Best European film organizations with similar selected inter national territories in coopera- International Feature Film responsibilities to those of German Films. tion with the Goethe-Institut The organiza tion, with its headquarters in Organization of the German Films Pre- Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint Staging of industry screenings in key views geared toward arthouse distributors projects for the pre sentation of European international territories and buyers of German films films on an inter national level. Providing advice and information for rep - Selective financial Distribution Support In association and cooperation with its share - resentatives of the international press and for the foreign releases of German films holders, German Films works to promote fea- buyers from the fields of cinema, home ture, documentary, television and short films. entertain ment, and television Organization with UniFrance of the annual German-French film meeting In addition, German Films has foreign rep - Providing advice and information for resentatives for Eastern Europe and China/ German filmmakers and press on inter - Presentation of the annual FACE TO FACE Southeast Asia. national festivals, conditions of participation, WITH GERMAN FILMS campaign which and German films being shown shines a spotlight on some of the most in - fluential German talents currently working in Organization of the annual Next Genera- the industry, who represent just some of the tion Short Tiger short film program, which many dynamic ‘faces’ of German filmmaking presents a selection of shorts and is inter - today. nationally premiered in Cannes 40 GFQ 3-2019 SHAREHOLDERS & SUPPORTERS

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41 ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS GFQ 3-2019 ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS

Verband deutscher Filmexporteure e.V. (VDFE) Robert-Koch-Str. 1 80538 Munich/Germany Berlin office: phone +49-173-577 08 38 Winterfeldtstr. 56 fax +49-89-570 877 60 10781 Berlin/Germany [email protected] phone +49-30-8 61 23 93 www.vdfe.de

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42 GFQ 3-2019 IMPRINT & FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES

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