German Films Previews Only Astor Arri Bibliothek

PROGRAM 23 – 25 JUNE

Published by GERMAN FILMS Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 16 80331 München, Germany

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TUESDAY 11:00 - 17:00 19:00 WELCOME DESK OPENING RECEPTION at Leonardo Boutique Hotel at Georgenhof 22 JUNI Amalienstraße 25, 80333 Munich Friedrichstraße 1, 80801 Munich

WEDNESDAY PRIVATE SCREENINGS FOR THE INVITED GUESTS 23 JUNI OF GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS ONLY ASTOR ARRI BIBLIOTHEK

09:30 - 11:00 09:15 - 10:45 Upcoming Films from SCHOOL OF MAGICAL ANIMALS Germany 89 min ca. 90 min Global Screen 10:30 - 12:00 DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN 89 min 11:15 - 12:45 Magnetfilm 11:30 - 13:05 THE GREAT FREEDOM A SYMPHONY OF NOISE - 88 min MATTHEW HERBERT‘S Pluto Film REVOLUTION 12:45 - 14:05 95 min MOONBOUND Rise and Shine 81 min Sola Media 13:15 - 15:45 DEAR THOMAS 13:45 - 15:25 150 min HUMAN FACTORS The Match Factory 102 min Animation Trailer Heretic Outreach

14:45 - 16:25 THE BLACK SQUARE 15:50 - 17:30 100 min TOUBAB Picture Tree International 97 min Beta Cinema

Animation Trailer

19:30 3 3 DINNER at Café Reitschule

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09:00 - 12:00 FABIAN 178 min 09:45 - 11:40 Les Films du Losange WHO WE WERE 10:00 - 11:30 114 min UPCOMING FILMS FROM Films Boutique GERMANY ca. 90 min

Animation Trailer 12:15 - 13:55 12:30 - 14:00 TOUBAB 12:45 - 14:15 A PURE PLACE 97 min SCHOOL OF MAGICAL ANIMALS 91 min Beta Cinema 89 min The Playmaker Global Screen

Animation Trailer 14:15 - 15:55 14:30 - 16:00 THE BLACK SQUARE THE GREAT FREEDOM 100 min 15:00 - 17:30 88 min Picture Tree International DEAR THOMAS Pluto Film 150 min The Match Factory 16:30 - 18:00 Producers Present ca. 90 min

18:15 Group photo

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09:30 - 11:00 09:45 - 11:15 DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN A PURE PLACE 89 min 91 min 10:00 - 11:35 Magnetfilm The Playmaker A SYMPHONY OF NOISE - MATTHEW HERBERT‘S REVOLUTION Animation Trailer 95 min Rise and Shine 11:30 - 13:25 WHO WE WERE Animation Trailer 114 min Films Boutique 12:15 - 13:35 MOONBOUND 81 min Sola Media

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PROJECT Carmen Böhm Lilly Zhu COORDINATION/ [email protected] [email protected] GUEST SERVICE phone +49 (0)89 59 97 87 44 Marcos Rabelo [email protected] 44 5

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HOTELS Leonardo Boutique Munich Amalienstraße 25 80333 Munich phone +49 (0) 89 287 870 www.leonardo-hotels.de/ leonardo-boutique-hotel- AIRPORT munich

CINEMA ARRI-Kino München Türkenstraße 91 80799 München www.muenchen. premiumkino.de

RESTAURANTS Georgenhof Friedrichstraße 1 80801 München

Café Reitschule Königinstraße 34 80802 München

Café Bellevue Schleißheimer Straße 142a 80797 München

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A PURE PLACE 8 A SYMPHONY OF NOISE - 9 MATTHEW HERBERT’S REVOLUTION DAS SCHWARZE QUADRAT 10 THE BLACK SQUARE DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN 11 DER MENSCHLICHE FAKTOR 12 HUMAN FACTORS DIE GROSSE FREIHEIT 13 THE GREAT FREEDOM DIE SCHULE DER MAGISCHEN TIERE 14 SCHOOL OF MAGICAL ANIMALS FABIAN 15 LIEBER THOMAS 16 DEAR THOMAS PETERCHENS MONDFAHRT 17 MOONBOUND TOUBAB 18 WER WIR WAREN 19 WHO WE WERE PRODUCERS PRESENT 20 UPCOMING FILMS FROM GERMANY 30 ANIMATION TRAILER 37

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A PURE PLACE A PURE PLACE

PURE PLACE is an offbeat coming-of-age tale about two young siblings engulfed in a Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature A secret community obsessed with soap, located on a remote Greek island. Award-win- Year of Production 2020 Director Nikias ning Director Nikias Chryssos follows up on his success with the story of a young and Chryssos Screenplay Nikias Chryssos, Lars feverish boy named Paul who must challenge the obsessive community that surrounds him Henning Jung Director of Photography in order to free his sister from the nefarious conspirations of the cult leader, Fust (Sam Yoshi Heimrath Cast Sam Louwyck, Greta Louwyck). Funny, bizarre, poetic and tender, A PURE PLACE is a tale about love, rebellion Bohacek, Claude Heinrich, Daniel Sträßer, and what it means to be actually clean. Daniel Fripan, Lena Lauzemis, Wolfgang Czeczor Producer Alexis von Wittgenstein NIKIAS CHRYSSOS was born near Heidelberg in 1978 to Greek-German parents. He studied Co-Producers Costas Lambropoulos, Film & Video Production in England and Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. George Kyriakos Production Company Violet Nikias is an alumnus of the Résidence du Festival de Cannes, the Berlinale Talents, the Karl Pictures Co-Production Company ZDF / Steinbuch Scholarship, the Saatchi & Saatchi New German Directors Showcase and the Das kleine Fernsehspiel Sound Technology Masterclass “The Hollywood Perspective” at the UCLA, California. In 2012, he founded the Dolby 5.1 Length 91 min Original Version production company Kataskop Film and produced and directed his first feature film DER German, Greek Subtitled Version German, BUNKER which premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He developed the English German Distributor Koch Films second feature film A PURE PLACE in the Résidence du Festival de Cannes and is currently working on numerous projects in different formats and genres. Nikias also produces electronic music under the names Erronous Zone and House of Life and runs an online magazine called BROWN COINS, dedicated to art, film, and magic.

WORLD SALES The Playmaker Türkenstr. 89, 80799 München phone: +49 (0) 89 380 912 88, [email protected], www.playmaker.de 8 9

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A PURE PLACE A PURE PLACE

ntering the sound worlds of celebrated British electronic musician, artist and sound Genre Art, Music Category Documentary E activist Matthew Herbert, the documentary opens the audience’s ears to the sound of Year of Production 2021 Director Enri- the world. A film about listening. que Sánchez Lansch Screenplay Enrique Sánchez Lansch Director of Photogra- ENRIQUE SÁNCHEZ LANSCH a trained classical singer himself, Spanish-German writer and phy Thilo Schmidt, Anne Misselwitz Cast director deals often with music in his documentaries. His theatrical documentary RHYTHM Matthew Herbert Producer Stefan Kloos IS IT! on a dance project with 250 Berlin teenagers sold 650,000 tickets at the German box Production Company Kloos & Co. Medien office. Other award-winning theatrical documentaries include THE REICHSORCHESTER on Sound Technology Dolby 5.1 Length 95 min the Berlin Philharmonic in Nazi Germany and PIANO ENCOUNTERS about piano playing Original Version English Subtitled Version from childhood into adolescence. Enrique Sánchez Lansch is a member of the German and English, German German Distributor Rise the European Film Academies. And Shine Cinema

WORLD SALES Rise And Shine World Sales Schlesische Str. 29/30, 10997 Berlin 8 9 phone: +49 (0) 30 473 729 80, [email protected], www.riseandshine-berlin.de

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incent, a struggling art-thief and failed artist, stole Malewitsch’s legendary abstract Genre Comedy Category Fiction Feature V painting the BLACK SQUARE. The sale and handover to a Russian Oligarch and his Year of Production 2021 Director Peter designated art expert Martha is set to take place on a cruise ship. When Vincent and his Meister Screenplay Peter Meister Direc- younger partner Nils realise that their principal accomplice will not show up to provide the tor of Photography Felix Novo de Oliveira boarding tickets and fake ID’s, they desperately overbear two men in order to sneak their Producers Manuel Bickenbach, Alexander way onto the ship. To their horror they quickly learn that their victims are part of the cruise Bickenbach Co-Producers Jan Krüger, ship’s entertainment act. Desperate not to blow their cover, Vincent and Nils take on their Jörg Trentmann Production Company roles as David Bowie and Elvis Presley doubles with varying degrees of success. Despite his Frisbeefilms Sound Technology Dolby 5.1 best efforts, Vincent’s talents hardly convince the passengers and it does not take long until Length 95 min Original Language German various crew members discover their true identities and the value of their loot. A wild goose Subtitled Version English chase for the BLACK SQUARE breaks loose in the belly of the cruise ship…

PETER MEISTER was born in Bonn in 1987. He studied Film Science, Literature and Phi- losophy in Mainz and started working as a director’s assistant and production coordinator. Following various jobs as a freelance writer and director for film and theatre he founded Kabakon Film & Medien in 2015 and directed various short films, which received numerous awards at festivals worldwide. Peter is a graduate of University of Television and Film Munich screenplay workshop, where he developed his debut feature screenplay THE BLACK SQUARE.

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THE BLACK SQUARE DAS SCHWARZE QUADRAT

ith global protests on the rise, DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is a film about the new Genre Human Rights, Politics, Society, Youth W generation at the heart of this seismic political shift. We will watch as Rayen protests Category Documentary Year of Production for social justice in Chile, Pepper fights for democracy in Hong Kong and Hilda battles the 2021 Director Franz Böhm Director of devastating consequences of climate change in Uganda. Facing almost impossible odds and Photography Friedemann Leis Producers grappling with the staggering impact of their activism on their personal lives, we will be Ansgar Wörner, Johannes Schubert, Franz asking these three young women why they keep fighting. Böhm Co-Producers Jamie Gamache, Connor O’Hara, Jennie Scott Production FRANZ BÖHM is a filmmaker originally from Stuttgart, Germany. At 16, after working his Companies Nightrunner Productions, Schu- way up to first assistant director, he made his first solo film THE OTHERS HARMONY. Franz’ bert Film Co-Production Lowkey Films LTD, next project found him living with youth experiencing homelessness, the resulting docu- Frank House Sound Technology Dolby 5.1, mentary, CHRISTMAS WISHES, was selected as the opening film for the German Youth Film Stereo Length 81 min Original Version Eng- Awards. Franz then directed the short drama GOOD LUCK which premiered at the British lish, Spanish, Cantonese, Luganda Subtitled Independent Film Festival. Following his work for the National Film & Television School Versions English, German, French, Spanish and the documentary production company, 1185 Films, Franz is currently developing new German Distributor Camino projects in London. DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is his debut feature film.

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THE GREAT FREEDOM DIE GROSSE FREIHEIT

t the advertising agency they co-own, French-German couple Nina and Jan have signed Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature Year A a new politically charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. To of Production 2021 Director Ronny Trocker escape mounting tensions at work, they whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their Screenplay Ronny Trocker Director of seaside vacation home. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister Photography Klemens Hufnagl Cast Sabine when a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. Though at first the aftermath Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, brings the family closer, as they try to put the incident into perspective, their accounts of Wanja Valentin Kube, Daniel Séjourné, what took place begin to unravel alongside the couple’s faith in each other. Hannes Perkmann, Steve Driesen, Spencer Bogaert Producers Susanne Mann, Paul RONNY TROCKER was born in Bolzano (Italy) and grew up in a small village in the Northern Zischler, Martin Rehbock Co-Producers Italian Alps. After graduating from high school, he moved to Berlin, where he worked for Ronny Trocker, Eva Jakobsen, Katrin several years as a sound engineer and collaborated with various radio and sound artists. Pors, Mikkel Jersin Production Company In 2006, he moved to Argentina to study at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. Four Zischlermann Filmproduktion Sound Tech- years later, he returned to Europe and was admitted to the French art school Le Fresnoy nology Dolby 5.1 Length 102 min Original – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Lille. He lives and works mainly in Brussels. Version German, French Subtitled Version His works include documentary, fictional and experimental short films as well as video English installations, which have been shown at various festivals worldwide. In 2016, his first feature film THE EREMITES premiered in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section. The film was nominated for the FIPRESCI Prize at the European Film Awards 2017.

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THE GREAT FREEDOM DIE GROSSE FREIHEIT

rik, recently retired, is looking forward to enjoying some post-work adventure and Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature E time with his family. These plans are thrown into doubt as the harsh reality of his wife Year of Production 2021 Director Wendla Juditha’s accelerating illness causes his own health to deteriorate. Juditha refuses to Nölle Screenplay Greta Lorez Director accept any outside help as Erik buckles under the pressure. THE GREAT FREEDOM explores of Photography Nikolai von Graevenitz a long-married couple’s difficult choices and the need to rediscover the foundation of their Cast Dagmar Manzel, Rolf Lassgård, Anna marriage to find each other again. Blomeier, Wolfram Koch Producer Andrea Schütte Production Company Tamtam Film WENDLA NÖLLE was born and raised in Hamburg. After studying Media Technology at Uni- Sound Technology Dolby 5.1 Length 88 min versity of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, the singer-songwriter moved to New York, where Original Version German, Swedish Subti- she discovered her passion for filmmaking. Back in Hamburg, she began studying Audiovis- tled Version English ual Communication at HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg and completed her diploma under the guidance of Wim Wenders in 2011 with the documentary THE CHOSEN ONES. She has been working as a director ever since, completing her documentary feature MAKE ME A MATCH in 2013 as well as various commercials for international brands and organizations. THE GREAT FREEDOM is her feature film debut.

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da has had to move to another town and is now the “new girl” at the Winterstein School. Genre Adventure, Animation, Family I She has a hard time in the new class: the bitchy Helene makes sure that Ida has scant Entertainment, Literature Category Fiction chance of making any friends, and there is only one place left for her on the first day of Feature Year of Production 2021 Director school - next to the outsider Benni. One day, her teacher introduces the children to Mortim- Gregor Schnitzler Screenplay Viola M.J. er Morrison who travels the world looking for “magical animals”. Each of these animals is Schmidt Director of Photography Wolfgang destined to become a child’s soul mate. Of all people, newcomer Ida and outsider Benni are Aichholzer Cast Emilia Maier, Leonard Con- the first in the class to have magical companions! From now on, Benni has the ancient, wise rads, Loris Sichrovsky, Nadja Uhl, Milan Pe- turtle Henrietta at his side and Ida the cunning fox Rabbat. When objects keep disappearing schel, Justus von Dohnányi, Heiko Pinkowski at school, the children and the magical animals have to stick together to solve the mystery of Producers Alexandra Kordes, Meike Kordes the school thief. Co-Producers Fred Kogel, Herbert L. Kloi- A strong, original and incomparable story: translated into over 20 languages and published ber, Josef Brandmaier Production Company in such territories as China, Japan, South Korea, all of Eastern Europe, the Nordic region, Kordes & Kordes Film Co-Production Israel, Turkey, Greece, The Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, SCHOOL OF MAGICAL ANI- Companies Leonine Studios, Wega Film MALS is one of the most successful children’s and young people’s book series with over 4.8 Wien, Clever Production Sound Technology million copies sold in German-speaking countries. The warm-hearted cinema adventure for Dolby 5.1 Length 89 min Original Version the whole family is based on Margit Auer’s wonderful novels. German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Leonine

WORLD SALES Global Screen - a brand of Telepool GmbH Sonnenstr. 21, 80331 Munich phone +49 (0) 89 544 129 55 00, [email protected], www.globalscreen.de 14 15

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erlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory Genre Drama, History Category Fiction B during the day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy Feature Year of Production 2021 Director friend Labude at night. When Fabian gets to know the self-confident Cornelia, he manages Dominik Graf Screenplay Constantin Lieb to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment. He falls in love. But then he too falls Director of Photography Hanno Lentz Cast victim to the great wave of layoffs, while Cornelia makes a career as an actress thanks to Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia her boss and admirer. An arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to come to terms with. But Rosendahl Producer Felix von Boehm Pro- it’s not just his world that is falling apart... duction Company Lupa Film Sound Tech- nology Dolby 5.1 Length 178 min Original DOMINIK GRAF was born in Munich in 1952. He graduated from the University of Television Version German Subtitled Version English and Film Munich (HFF) in 1980. In his career as writer and director for TV and cinema, his German Distributor DCM films have garnered national and international prizes, including prestigious Lola Awards and Grimme Awards. His credits include the DER FAHNDER series (1984), THE CAT (1988), THE INVINCIBLES (1994), HOTTE IM PARADIES (2003), THE BELOVED SISTERS (2014), the 10-part series IN THE FACE OF CRIME (2010), several episodes of the POLIZEIRUF 110 series, and five episodes of TATORT, including FRAU BU LAUGHS. In 2010, a book of Dominik Graf’s essays on cinema was published.

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DEAR THOMAS PETERCHENS LIEBER THOMAS MONDFAHRT

ebel. Poet. Revolutionary: DEAR THOMAS is a declaration of love to the writer Thomas Genre Biopic, Drama Category Fiction R Brasch, congenially brought to life by exceptional actor Albrecht Schuch. Feature Year of Production 2021 Direc- tor Andreas Kleinert Screenplay Thomas ANDREAS KLEINERT, born 1962 in Berlin, worked as an art director assistant at DEFA Wendrich Director of Photography Johann studios and studied Directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television in Pots- Feindt Cast Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, dam-Babelsberg. Since 1989, he has been working as a freelance author and director. Peter Kremer, Johann Feindt Producer His feature film debut LEB’ WOHL JOSEPH was selected for Locarno Film Festival 1990. Michael Souvignier Production Company In 1998, Kleinert’s drama PATHS IN THE NIGHT won the Grimme award among others. Zeitsprung Pictures Sound Technology During the following years, Kleinert mainly worked for TV productions. His POLIZEIRUF 110 Dolby 5.1 Length 150 min Original Version – KLEINE FRAU won a Grimme award in 2006. In 2003, Kleinert’s highly praised TV drama German Subtitled Version English German MEIN VATER (2003) won the Grimme viewer’s choice award. In 2008, Kleinert returned to the Distributor Wild Bunch Germany big screen and directed the ambitious mystery drama HEAD UNDER WATER.

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DEAR THOMAS PETERCHENS LIEBER THOMAS MONDFAHRT

hen Peter sets out on a magical journey to rescue his little sister Anne, he needs to Genre Adventure, Animation, Family Enter- W travel to mysterious territory: the Moon! Anne was kidnapped by the evil Moon Man tainment Category Narrative Fiction Fea- when she tried to help the beetle Mr. Zoomzeman in search for his wife. On his fantastic ture Year of Production 2021 Director Ali adventure, Peter lands on the Star Meadow where he meets the sleepy Mr. Sandman. He Samadi Ahadi Screenplay Arne Nolting, Ali knows, only at the Night Fairy’s dinner in the castle in the clouds, they can find out where Samadi Ahadi Producers Frank Geiger, Ali Anne is – but there aren’t enough seats for everyone. So they join the wild race along the Samadi Ahadi, Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Milky Way against the five Spirits of Nature: Storm Giant, Lightning Witch, Henry Hail, Rainy Armin Hofmann, Bruno Wagner, Antonin Robin and Mother Frost… Svoboda Production Company Little Dream Pictures Co-Production Companies Brave ALI SAMADI AHADI was born in 1972 in Tabriz, Iran. After he graduated from high-school in New Work, Coop 99 Filmproduktion Sound Kassel, Germany, he studied Visual Communications at the University of Hannover, Germany Technology Dolby 5.1, 2.0 Length 81 min with a post-grad in Social Sciences and Design for Electronic Media. Today, he is a renown Original Version English German Distribu- and successful director of family features and comedies. His critically acclaimed titles tor Little Dream Pictures include the culture-clash comedy SALAMI ALEIKUM, the turbulent middle- eastern comedy 45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH, the spy-comedy DIE MAMBA, as well as the children’s book adaptation PETTERSON & FINDUS – KLEINER QUÄLGEIST, GROSSE FREUNDSCHAFT. For his work on the sequel of the PETTERSON & FINDUS brand, he won the German Director’s price METROPOLIS 2017. Besides his work on feature films, Ali Samadi Ahadi has been a successful director of documentaries such as the THE GREEN WAVE (Grimme Prize 2011).

WORLD SALES Sola Media GmbH Rotebühlplatz 29, 70178 Stuttgart 16 17 phone +49 (0) 711 968 944 40, [email protected], www.sola-media.com

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WHO WE WERE WER WIR WAREN

atured through two years in prison, Babtou is looking forward to a new beginning Genre Comedy Category Fiction Feature M with his buddy Dennis. A free man in a free world! But of all things, his welcome party Year of Production 2020 Director Florian where all the boys from the block are gathered ends in a police operation. Babtou has his Dietrich Screenplay Arne Dechow, Florian hands cuffed again and is confronted with dramatic news. He will soon to be deported to Dietrich Director of Photography Max his “home country” of Senegal. To prevent a deportation, Babtou and Dennis are ready for Preiss Cast Farba Dieng, Julius Nitschkoff, anything. Seyneb Saleh, Michael Maertens, Valerie Koch Producer Marcos Kantis Production FLORIAN DIETRICH was born in Wiesbaden in 1986. After graduating from high school, he Company Schiwago Film Length 90 min worked as assistant director in theatre and studied Media Dramaturgy at the University of Original Version German Subtitled Version Mainz. He produced several theatre and short film projects with inmates at Wiesbaden’s ju- English venile prison. From 2007 he studied Directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and at the film department of Tel Aviv University. His short films GHETTOLOVEGRIEF (2011) and BREAKING TROUGH (2012) were shown at various international film festivals. TOUBAB is his first feature film.

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WHO WE WERE WER WIR WAREN

e were the ones who knew, but did not understand, full of information but lacking Genre Ecology, Educational Category Doc- W insight, brimming with knowledge, but lacking experience. So we just kept forging umentary Year of Production 2021 Director ahead, unstopped by ourselves.” (Roger Willemsen). What will future generations think of Marc Bauder Screenplay Marc Bauder us in a historical context? In the spirit of Willemsen’s legacy, will they look back on us with Director of Photography Börres Weiffen- despair? The film WHO WE WERE observes the current state of the world, accompanied by bach Cast Alexander Gerst, Sylvia Earle, six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future. Dennis Snower, Matthieu Ricard, Felwine Producer, director and writer Marc Bauder follows his charismatic protagonists into the Sarr, Janina Loh Producer Marc Bauder depths of the ocean, to the top of the world, and out into the far reaches of space. Together, Co-Producers Gunter Hanfgarn, Andrea they explore the incredible capabilities of the human brain, a global economic summit, the Ufer Production Company Bauderfilm legacy of colonisation, and the feelings of a robot. Co-Production Company Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion Sound Technology Dolby 5.1 MARC BAUDER was born in 1974, in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1999, he founded his own pro- Length 114 min Original Version German, duction company and made documentaries such as GROW OR GO and EVERYONE KEEPS English, French Subtitled Versions German, QUIET ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE (Berlinale 2006). His award-winning feature film debut English German Distributor X-Verleih THE SYSTEM followed in 2011. His documentary film MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE won the European Film Prize and the German Documentary Award, among others. Together with his brother he co-developed the BORDER OF LIGHT to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2014. His feature film DEAD MAN WORKING won the Grimme Awardin 2017.

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here is a geography of miracles. Jonasz studies insects and fishes, Signe leaves and Genre Drama, Experimental Category Fic- T herbs. After a day spent in gardens and libraries, they meet, take the train and leave tion Feature Year of Production 2021 the city, pitching their tent on the shores of a lake. As they read, eat fruit, wander the forest Director Dane Komljen Screenplay Dane and swim in the cold water, the outside world feels further and further away. A stranger Komljen, James Lattimer Director of appears and a trio is formed. But there are also other trios, other lakes, different places, Photography Jenny Lou Ziegel Cast Corinna different times. Harfouch, Daniel Sträßer, Joachim Król Producer Zsuzsanna Kiràly Production DANE KOMLJEN, born in 1986 in SFR Yugoslavia, studied Film Directing at the Faculty of Company Flaneur Films Co-Production Dramatic Arts, Serbia and Contemporary Art at Le Fresnoy, France. His short films have Companies Andergraun Films, Dart Film & been shown and awarded at festivals all over the world. ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH, his Video d.o.o., Jeonju Cinema Project Length first feature, premiered in 2016 at the Locarno FF and was then shown at the New York FF, 93 min Original Language English, Serbian, IFF Rotterdam, FICUNAM, Jeonju IFF and many more. PHANTASIESÄTZE, his last short film, Spanish, Polish, Swedish Subtitled Version premiered in 2017 at the Locarno FF where it won the Fundación Casa Wabi-Mantarraya English, German Award and was then shown at Toronto IFF, NYFF, Jeonju IFF and many more. In late 2018, the ICA in London organized a full retrospective of his work. Dane works and lives in Berlin.

CONTACT Flaneur Films [email protected] 21 Phone +49 (0) 157 719 427 91

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arlen used to travel the world. Outside she shines, but her apartment is filled with Genre Drama, Romantic Comedy, Tragicom- M objects. Everything is too valuable, too important to throw away. Fynn, on the other edy Category Fiction Feature Year of Pro- hand, wants to go through the world with only 100 things. ”Tidiness is half the battle!” he duction 2021 Director Natja Brunckhorst says. ”Welcome to the other half!” she replies. That’s the humor and fighting style they’ll Screenplay Natja Brunckhorst, Martin have from now on. Marlen and Fynn - the opposites couldn’t be stronger. The fact that they Rehbock Director of Photography Niklas still can’t let go of each other and ultimately fall in love is the only consequence of assuming Lindschau Cast Corinna Harfouch, Daniel that you can only learn something from opposites. Strässer, Joachim Król Producer Joachim Ortmanns Production Company Lichtblick NATJA BRUNCKHORST, born in Berlin, made a name for herself as the leading actress in Film- und Fernsehproduktion Length 96 the feature film CHRISTIANE F. - WE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO. In addition to her min Original Language German Subtitled work as an actress, she has also been working as a screenwriter since 2000. Her screenplay Version English German Distributor Film- debut for the feature film NEVER MIND THE WALL was awarded the German Film Prize welt Verleihagentur in 2002. Her works include the idea & story for TATORT - DINGE, DIE NOCH ZU TUN SIND (2012) as well as the screenplays for the television drama WIE EIN STERN AM HIMMEL (2009) and TATORT - OBEN UND UNTEN (2008). With MOUNTAIN MIRACLE by Tobias Wiemann, she presented another very personal film in 2017, which has received numerous awards, including the German Film Award LOLA for Best Children’s and Youth Film.

CONTACT Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion [email protected] phone +49 (0) 221 925 75 20 22 23

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OTHER CANNIBALS ALTRI CANNIBALI - ANDERE KANNIBALEN

s it possible to think of nothing? The absence of expression on Fausto’s face as he stands Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature I in front of his machine in the factory tells us that it is. When Ivan asks him the same Year of Production 2021 Director Franc- thing it turns out that a thought has crept into his head: an extreme thought, dark, beyond esco Sossai Screenplay Francesco Sossai, human standards. It is this violent thought that is the origin of the encounter between Faus- Adriano Candiago Director of Photogra- to and Ivan. In a remote valley eaten away by industrial towns, they are confronted with the phy Giulia Schelhas Cast Walter Giroldini, impossibility of escape from their everyday existence. Diego Pagotto Producer Cecilia Trautvetter Production Company Deutsche Film- und FRANCESCO SOSSAI was born in Feltre, in the Italian Dolomites area, in 1989. He started Fernsehakademie Berlin Length 95 min filming short films at an early age. He moved to Rome where he graduated in English and Original Language Italian Subtitled Version German Literatures. He was then admitted at the DFFB – German Television Film Academy English, German in Berlin. He worked as assistant director in major feature films productions and TV series with directors like Paolo Sorrentino, Luca Guadagnino and Christopher Nolan. ALTRI CAN- NIBALI is his first feature film. He lives and works in Veneto, Italy.

CONTACT DFFB - German Film and Television Academy Berlin [email protected] 22 23 phone +49 (0) 30 257 591 63

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small East German town in 1999, shortly before the millennium change. People have Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature A already undergone many radical changes, more lie ahead. Gudrun is celebrating Year of Production 2020 Director Katharina her 60th birthday in an old, decaying mansion that used to be a children’s home in GDR Marie Schubert Screenplay Katharina Marie times, where she grew up as an orphan. A delicate setting between sadness and nostalgia. Schubert Director of Photography Barbu Gudrun’s daughter Lara is visiting from Berlin for the birthday party. Her mother never Bălăşoiu Cast Corinna Harfouch, Birte wanted to talk about Lara’s biological father, and the relationship between mother and Schnöink, Peter René Lüdicke Producer daughter has been tense ever since. During the birthday festivity Gudrun learns that the Ingo Fliess Production Company if... Pro- former children’s home is to be sold to investors who want to turn it into a hotel: is this an ductions Film Length 107 min Original Lan- economic perspective for the structurally poor region or a sell-out of their own history? guage German Subtitled Version English Opinions are divided among the residents. While Gudrun is doing everything to preserve the German Distributor Wild Bunch Germany children’s home as a community center, her daughter Lara begins to search for her biological father and an explanation for her mother’s stubbornness.

KATHARINA MARIA SCHUBERT born in 1977, studied Acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. She had engagements at all major theatres and also appeared regularly in TV crime series as well as feature films with a comedic twist. For EIN GESCHENK DER GÖTTER by Oliver Haffner she was nominated for the German Film Award as lead actress. She wrote and directed the shorts WABOSCH WILMA (2009) and ANOTHER FUCKING… (2011), both premiered at the Hof International Film Festival. THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN HANDS is her feature. debut.

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atthias, who was born in East Berlin, works in an advertising agency and lives a Genre Road Movie Category Fiction Feature M hedonistic single lifestyle. But only until his mother, a passionate communist, dies Year of Production 2021 Director Ronald and leaves him with her last will: to scatter her ashes on an island on the shore of Cuba. Vietz Screenplay Ira Wedel, Ronald Vietz An island that once was a present from Fidel Castro to East Germany, as a symbol of a long Director of Photography Daniel Obradovic lasting friendship. On his road trip to the island Matthias meets family, that he does not Cast Max Riemelt Producer Ronald Vietz want, finds love, that he can’t handle and loses a friend, he could not save. Only by starting Co-Producer Michael Kaczmarek Produc- to accept his roots and admitting the self-satisfied cynic he became, he finds out, he is still tion Company Neue Heimat Filmproduktion believing in other values. Then he can see what he was missing: A home. A home, he yet has Co-Production Company K13 Studios Berlin to build for himself. Length 115 min Original Language English, German Subtitled Version English RONALD VIETZ was born in 1976 in Berlin. When the Wall went down in Berlin and the 1990s came, Ronald finally started to work for the first Music Video production established in Berlin in 1998. He produced about 60 music videos until 2001 and then moved to Hollywood USA to shoot some more music videos and commercials. In 2010 he opened up his own production company in Berlin. Already in 2012 the first produced feature film THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA won the award “Dialogue en perspective” at the Berlinale and played on other festivals like Karlovy Vary, Shanghai, Warsaw, Atlanta and many more. While working and writing on this project he decided to tell some more stories of his own. ERNESTO’S ISLAND is his debut as a director for feature film.

CONTACT Neue Heimat Filmproduktion [email protected] 24 25 phone +49 (0) 171 981 65 62

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ext stop: Europe. A bus stop, a square, a couple of housing blocks on an arterial road. Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature N Zohra Hamadi disembarks the bus, several metal rods in her back. She walks upright, Year of Production 2020 Director Philip finally she can breathe freely. Ahead of her lies a completely normal life. But Europe only Scheffner Screenplay Merle Kröger, Philip grants her a few days in the present. Zohra Hamadi decides to reach out for the future. Scheffner Director of Photography Volker Sattel Cast Rhim Ibrir Producer Caroline PHILIP SCHEFFNER, born 1966 in Homburg/Saar, lives and works as an artist and film- Kirberg Co-Producers Thomas Micoulet, maker in Berlin. Created many short films and feature length films from 1990-2000 with Meike Martens Production Company pong the Berlin group of writers Dogfilm. He runs the production platform Pong together with Film Co-Production Company Haut les Merle Kröger, Alex Gerbaulet and Caroline Kirberg. Has entered the Berlinale with HAVARIE Mains Productions Length 104 min Original (2016), AND-EK GHES... (2016), REVISION (2012), THE DAY OF THE SPARROW (2010), THE Language French, Arabic Subtitled Version HALFMOON FILES (2007). English German Distributor Grandfilm

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da lives with a crew of five on a sailing yacht. During a shore leave in Marseille, the Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature I French Foreign Legion attracts Ida‘s attention and she sets herself a new goal. Via Year of Production 2022 Director Helena Corsica, where the largest regiment of the Legion is stationed, the route leads to the Al- Wittmann Screenplay Helena Wittmann gerian town of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, which served as the Legion‘s headquarter until the country Director of Photography Helena Wittmann gained independence in 1962. On their journey, Ida and her crew do not only break through Cast Angeliki Papoulia Producers Frank geographical borders. The past is reflected in the present, different languages seek their Scheuffele, Julia Cöllen, Karsten Krause common ground and social hierarchies are reshaped. Co-Producers Christophe Bouffil, Helena Wittmann Production Company fünferfilm HELENA WITTMANN was born 1982 in Neuss, Germany. Originally studying Spanish and Co-Production Company Tita Productions Media Studies in Erlangen and Hamburg, she went on to attend the Academy of Fine Arts Length 100 min Original Language diverse Hamburg (HFBK) where she graduated in 2014. Her films, among them her debut feature languages Subtitled Version English, film DRIFT (2017), had been shown internationally at film festivals and in exhibitions and German received several awards. She teached at HFBK from 2015 to 2018 and is currently mentor- ing at Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola in Spain. She is responsible for the cinematography of several films by other authors.

CONTACT fuenferfilm [email protected] 26 27 phone +49 (0) 176 238 628 74

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he emotionally reserved 13-year-old Jessy can hardly recall what life was like when Genre Coming-of-Age Story Category Fic- T her father Miro was still around. It’s been seven years since he’s been sent away to tion Feature Year of Production 2021 prison. In her protected cocoon, Jessy doesn’t let anyone in, anyone except her mother Lilja. Director Rebeca Ofek Screenplay Rebeca The two have a symbiotic relationship which is endangered when Jessy’s father returns Ofek, Beliban zu Stolberg Director of Pho- unexpectedly from prison. Forced to get familiarised with the stranger that has now invaded tography Albrecht von Grünhagen Cast Pola her territory, Jessy learns how to open up and redefine her own boundaries. A wild teenager Geiger, Hannes Wegener, Anca Cipariu, Luis named Max who works at the same garage that Miro used to work at, encourages Jessy to Pintsch, Uwe Preuß Producer Sandra Braun let her guards down and lose control. Jessy finds herself drifting from one dependent rela- Co-Producers Rebeca Ofek, Jana Kreissl, tionship to the next in an attempt to find her own self and a sense of independence. Tobias Gaede, Sabine Schmidt Production Company Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakade- REBECA OFEK was born in Tel Aviv in 1981 and is a Deutsche Film- and Television Acad- mie Berlin (DFFB) Co-Production Company emy Berlin (DFFB) alumni. Her film studies have focused on writing and directing. Her Silva Film Length 79 min Original Language first feature-length film is titled JESSY, supported by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and German, Romanian Subtitled Version the Medienboard as part of the fluorescent initiative financed and produced by the DFFB English in cooperation with Silva Film. Ofek is now working on a documentary titled SHEVA and is developing a script for her next feature film, titled TRANSIT LOUNGE.

CONTACT Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) [email protected] phone +49 30 257 591 52 Silva Film GmbH [email protected] phone +49 (0)174 958 04 62 28 29

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secluded village surrounded by raw nature, with no direct reference to a specific Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature Year A place and time. Daniel, a 14-year-old gentle boy, seems to be thrown into this world of Production 2021 Director Constantin full of emotional coldness and violence. His existence is based on two words: “tolerate” Hatz Screenplay Constantin Hatz Director and “renounce”. He is self-sacrificing towards his environment, tries to please his violent of Photography Rafael Starman Cast Malte brother, and devotedly cares for his terminally ill father, who longs for his inevitable death Oskar Frank, Robert Kuchenbuch, Paul Wol- but is discouraged to end his life himself. In the face of his family’s unkindness, he finds a lin, Eric Cordes, Ben Felipe, Beatrix Strobel, little solace in raw nature, a dense forest, and forms a bond with an outcast who has just Susanne Bredehoeft Producers Matthias returned to the village after many years. An outcast like Daniel. Both share an intense Greving, Kirsten Lukaczik, Janina Sara Hen- connection with nature. After all, Daniel begins to trust him and thinks he has found a friend nemann Production Company Kinescope in him. At the peak of his true emotions, Daniel loses himself in the infinite of nature and in Film Length 158 min Original Language the end is relentlessly at its mercy. German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Salzgeber CONSTANTIN HATZ, born 1989 in Vienna, studied Directing at the Film Academy Ludwigs- burg. Already during his studies, his films won numerous awards, including the German Short Film Award and the New German Cinema Award of the International Filmfestival Hof. Hatz was nominated twice for the Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award and won the Emder Screenplay Award.

CONTACT Kinescope Film [email protected] 28 29 phone +49 (0) 421 146 214 00

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CONTRA COURAGE DER JUNGE HÄUPTLING WINNETOU CONTRA COURAGE YOUNG WINNETOU AND THE LOST BUFFALO Genre Comedy Category Fiction Feature Genre Human Rights Category Documentary Year of Production 2020 Director Sönke Year of Production 2021 Director Aliaksei Genre Children’s Film, Family Entertainment Wortmann Screenplay Doron Wisotzky, Victor Paluyan Screenplay Aliaksei Paluyan Direc- Category Fiction Feature Year of Produc- Saint Macary, Yaël Langmann, Noé Debré, tors of Photography Tanya Haurylchyk, Jesse tion 2021 Director Mike Marzuk Screenplay Yvan Attal Director of Photography Holly Mazuch Producer Jörn Möllenkamp Produc- Mike Marzuk, Gesa Scheibner Director of Fink Cast Nilam Farooq, Christoph Maria tion Company Living Pictures Productions Photography Alexander Fischerkoesen Cast Herbst, Hassan Akkouch, Ernst Stötzner, Length 90 min Original Language Bela- Mika Ullritz, Milo Haaf, Lola Linnéa Padotzke, Meriam Abbas, Mohamed Issa Producers russian Subtitled Version English, German Mehmet Kurtulus Producers Andreas Ulm- Christoph Müller, Tom Spiess Co-Produc- German Distributor Rise And Shine Cinema ke-Smeaton, Ewa Karlström Co-Producers er Stefan Gärtner Production Company Bernd Schiller, Christoph Fisser Production Constantin Film Length 108 min Original In the course of the presidential elections Company SamFilm Length 103 min Original Language German Subtitled Version English in Belarus in the summer of 2020, three Language German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Constantin Film actors from an underground theatre in Minsk get caught up in the maelstrom of mass While 12-year-old chief’s son Winnetou sees One xenophobic remark too many: Professor protests. They are drawn to the wide streets himself already as a great warrior, his father Richard Pohl is in danger of being kicked out of Minsk to protest vociferously for freedom Intschu-Tschuna believes that his son still of his university after insulting law student of speech and the long-awaited change of has a lot to learn. When the buffalo herd fails Naima Hamid in front of a packed lecture power. But the people‘s voice is brutally to arrive, threatening the tribe’s survival, hall. When the video goes viral, University crushed by the regime‘s security apparatus. Winnetou seizes the opportunity to prove President Alexander Lambrecht gives his old Members of the theatre group and many himself to his father. Together with his sister companion one last chance: His chances of other people get arrested. The country is on Nscho-Tschi and the young orphan Tom, redemption before the disciplinary commit- the brink of civil war. COURAGE accompanies Winnetou sets off on a dangerous adventure tee will be much better, if he succeeds in the courageous and peaceful resistance of to save the people of the Apache. preparing freshman Naima for a nationwide Maryna, Pavel and Denis before and during debate competition. Pohl and Naima are the protests. The film takes a very personal WORLD SALES equally appalled, but over time this unlikely look at the events and thus provides a close The Playmaker pairing collect their first successes - until and gripping insight into the lives of people Naima realizes that the multi-cultural fairy in today‘s Belarus who are fighting for their tale apparently only serves one purpose: to freedom and the right to democracy. save the university’s reputation. WORLD SALES WORLD SALES Rise and Shine Picture Tree International 32 33

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DER PFAD DIE HÄSCHENSCHULE 2 - DIE WAHRE SCHÖNHEIT THE PATH DER GROSSE EIERKLAU THE UGLY TRUTH

Genre Adventure, Drama Category Fiction Genre Animation, Children’s Film, Edu- Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature Year Feature Year of Production 2021 Director To- cational, Family Entertainment Category of Production 2021 Director Krishna Ashu bias Wiemann Screenplay Rüdiger Bertram, Fiction Feature Year of Production 2021 Bhati Screenplay Krishna Ashu Bhati, Eva Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen Director of Photogra- Director Ute von Münchow-Pohl Screenplay Habermann Director of Photography Chris- phy Martin Schlecht Cast Julius Weckauf, Katja Grübel, Dagmar Rehbinder Producers toph Wieczorek Cast Eva Habermann, Mar- Volker Bruch, Nonna Cardoner, Bruna Cusí, Dirk Beinhold, Imke Fehrmann, Valentin cus Grüsser, Lilly Liefers, Emma Schweiger Anna Maria Mühe Producer Daniel Ehren- Greulich Co-Producers Kris Staber, Sebas- Producers Eva Habermann, Alexander König berg Production Company Eyrie Entertain- tian Runschke Production Company Akkord Production Company FantomFilm Length ment Co-Production Company Warner Bros. Film Produktion Co-Production Companies 100 min Original Language German Sub- Entertainment GmbH Length 90 min Original arx anima animation studio, Seru Film Pro- titled Version English German Distributor Language German, Spanish, French, English duktion Length 73 min Original Language Warner Bros. Subtitled Version English German Distribu- German Subtitled Version English German tor Warner Bros. Distributor Leonine Distribution A couple struggles to keep their relationship afloat with their daughter finding difficult to In 1941, the critical German journalist Max has reached his goal: He is the first fit in. Everything starts to collapse when an Ludwig can only see one way to escape city rabbit ever to be chosen in the master attractive young woman comes to visit. Their Nazi-controlled Europe with his twelve-year- class for easter rabbits. Now he and his problems and fragility surface, as a tragic old son Rolf: a path from southern France friends have to find their very own super downward spiral takes its inevitable course… through the Pyrenees to Spain can lead power in order to protect Easter. But then them both to freedom. Their goal is to travel the unthinkable happens: The easter rabbits’ WORLD SALES to New York where Rolf’s mother has been most powerful magical possession, the Media Luna New Films waiting for them now for far too long. Nuria, “golden egg”, turns black – meaning Easter a girl, only slightly older than Rolf, offers to is in great danger! Indeed, Leo, the leader of guide them along the hazardous path. When a gang of city rabbits, wants to abolish Easter the father gets caught en route, Rolf and and tricks a family of foxes into stealing all Nuria are suddenly all on their own and learn Easter eggs. Max’ only chance to save Easter fast that you will only survive in this situation lies in teaming up with the fox boy Ferdinand if you stick together and are able to rely on who offers his help. But can a rabbit really one another. trust a fox?

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DIE WANNSEEKONFERENZ DIE ZUKUNFT IST EIN EINSAMER ORT IM NACHTLICHT THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE FUTURE IS A LONELY PLACE IN THE LIGHT OF THE NIGHT

Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature Year Genre Action, Drama, Psycho-Thriller Cate- Genre Drama Category Fiction Feature of Production 2021 Director Matti Geschon- gory Fiction Feature Year of Production 2021 Year of Production 2021 Director Mischa neck Screenplay Magnus Vattrodt Director of Directors Martin Hawie, Laura Harwarth Kreuz Screenplay Mischa Kreuz Director Photography Theo Bierkens Cast Johannes Screenplay Martin Hawie, Laura Harwarth of Photography Katharina Dießner Cast Allmayer, Matthias Bundschuh, Maximilian Director of Photography Mathias Prause Diana Maria Frank Producer Anja Uhland Brückner, Fabian Busch, Jakob Diehl, Go- Cast Lucas Gregorowicz, Denis Moschitto, Production Company Uhland Film Length dehard Giese, Philipp Hochmair Producers Katharina Schüttler Producer Andreas 98 min Original Language German Subtitled Reinhold Elschot, Friederich Oetker, Oliver Brauer Production Company HUPE Film Version English German Distributor Real Berben Production Company Constantin Fiktion Produktion Length 95 min Original Fiction Filmverleih e.K Film Co-Production Company ZDF Length Language German Subtitled Version English 90 min Original Language German Subtitled German Distributor Der Filmverleih Minthe Hellheim suffers from depression, Version English doesn’t know where she comes from, who Frank, a man without a criminal record, her parents are, she spent her childhood On the morning of 20 January 1942, in a villa attacks a money transporter and then turns in nursing homes. Tormented by recurring on the lakefront of the Wannsee in Berlin, himself in to the police. His behavior is a nightmares, she gets by with odd jobs. A new leading members of the Nazi regime came mystery. In prison he meets the unscru- beginning is within reach when she receives together. They had been invited by Reinhard pulous and suspicious Arab Fuad, who is a job offer. She is supposed to restore an old Heydrich to a “meeting followed by break- protected by his clan. To get closer to Fuad, mill in her hometown. Little does she know fast”. The sole topic on the agenda that Frank intervenes in the drug business within that she is the victim of an intrigue. Suddenly morning was what the Nazis called the “Final the walls and gets caught between the two she finds herself confronted with the secret Solution to the Jewish Question”: the organ- rival groups of German and Arab inmates. It world of the “shape shifter” in “Wolfstal”. Evil ization of the systematic mass murder of is only the prison guard Susanna with whom in its physical form, hidden in an under- millions of Jews across Europe. A historically Frank will be able to build a relationship of ground cave system inaccessible to Minthe, accurate, haunting drama about a meeting trust, not knowing that she is part of Fuad’s irritates her, but at the same time exerts an that led to the Holocaust. Produced by Con- business and has a sexual relationship with inexplicable attraction on her. In search of stantin Film for the 80th commemoration day him. However, they come emotionally close. her true identity, she has to face her past and of the conference in 2022. What only Frank knows is that his wife and finally begins a whole new life. his daughter died in a car accident. Fuad was WORLD SALES the hit-and-run driver that remained unpun- WORLD SALES Global Screen ished. Frank seeks revenge. Media Luna New Films

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LUCHADORAS MISSION ULJA FUNK NÖ LUCHADORAS MISSION ULJA FUNK NÖ

Genre Sports Category Documentary Year Genre Adventure, Family Entertainment Genre Comedy, Drama Category Fiction of Production 2021 Directors Paola Calvo, Category Fiction Feature Year of Produc- Feature Year of Production 2021 Director Patrick Jasim Screenplay Paola Calvo, Pat- tion 2021 Director Barbara Kronenberg Dietrich Brüggemann Screenplay Dietrich rick Jasim Director of Photography Patrick Screenplay Barbara Kronenberg Director of Brüggemann, Anna Brüggemann Director Jasim Producer Phillip Kaminiak Co-Pro- Photography Konstantin Kröning Producers of Photography Alexander Sass Cast Anna ducer Ingmar Trost Production Company Roshanak Behest Nedjad, Bernard Michaux, Brüggemann, Alexander Khuon, Isolde Barth, Tumult Film GmbH Length 92 min Original Joanna Szymańska Production Companies Hanns Zischler, Andreas Döhler, Nina Petri Language Spanish Subtitled Version English In Good Company, Samsa Film Length 91 Producers Martin Heisler, Gabriele Simon German Distributor Missing Films min Original Language German Subtitled Production Company Flare Film Length 119 Version English min Original Language German, English Ciudad Juarez, the “Murder City”, claims Subtitled Version English German Distrib- thousands of victims every year as drug car- When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing utor NFP tels clash with government forces in the so her passion, astronomy, she decides to take called “War on Drugs”. The city also coined matters into her own hands. With a stolen Dina and Michael are in their thirties. He is a the term femicide in Mexico and is the epi- hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a doctor, she is an actress. They are happy to- center of a wave of murder and hate crimes driver, she makes her way across Eastern gether, in the beginning. When he gets vocal on women throughout the country in which Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. about them maybe separating, she simply the culprits hardly ever get caught. The film In doing so, she not only has to shake off her declines: “Nö”. Over the next 13 exemplary is an intimate portrait of three courageous persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of scenes, we follow our two heroes on their female wrestlers (Luchadoras) from Juarez friendship and family. journey through the years, as they maneuver who despite being surrounded by machismo through life trying not to lose sight of their and in constant danger both, in the ring, and WORLD SALES love. Trying to make right by their parents, to in their daily life’s fight to redefine the image Picture Tree International survive in their jobs and to be good parents of what it means to be a woman in Mexico. themselves.

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ROTZBUB TÖCHTER SNOTTY BOY DAUGHTERS

Genre Animation Category Fiction Feature Genre Drama, Road Movie Category Fiction Year of Production 2021 Directors Marcus H. Feature Year of Production 2021 Director Rosenmüller, Santiago Lopez Jover Screen- Nana Neul Screenplay Nana Neul, Lucy Fric- play Martin Ambrosch, Manfred Deix, Rupert ke Director of Photography Bernhard Keller Henning Director of Photography Santiago Cast Birgit Minichmayr, Alexandra Maria Lopez Jover, Martin Ambrosch Cast Markus Lara, Josef Bierbichler Producer Bettina Freistätter, Gerti Drassl Co-Producers Josef Brokemper Producers Josef Aichholzer, Er- Reidinger, Antonio Exacoustos Produc- nst Geyer Co-Producers Konstantinos Kon- tion Company Aichholzer Film, Filmbüro tovrakis, Giorgos Karnavas, Michael Weber, Münchner Freiheit Length 84 min Original Laura Bufoni, Simone Gattoni Production Language German Subtitled Version English Company Heimatfilm Co-Production Com- pany Herectic Productions, Simila(r) Length 1960’s Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the 120 min Original Language German, English, Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary Italian, Greek Subtitled Version English and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Best Friends Betty and Martha, both about Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with 40, set off on a trip to Switzerland with a ter- the narrow-minded confines of his home minally ill father in the backseat who seems town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing to have only one wish: assisted suicide in a gives him an outlet for his discontent. special federal institute. It’s supposed to be a last, final trip, but nothing ends the way they WORLD SALES thought it would, certainly not life. Picture Tree International WORLD SALES The Match Factory

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BAYALA - DAS MAGISCHE BENJAMIN BLÜMCHEN DIE BIENE MAJA - ELFENABENTEUER BENJAMIN THE ELEPHANT DAS GEHEIME KÖNIGREICH BAYALA - A MAGICAL ADVENTURE MAYA THE BEE - THE GOLDEN ORB Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Genre Adventure, Animation, Children‘s Film Category Feature Year of Production 2019 Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Category Fiction Feature Year of Production Director Tim Trachte Screenplay Bettina Category Feature Year of Production 2020 2019 Director Aina Järvine, Federico Milella Börgerding Cinematography Fabian Rösler Directors Alex Stadermann, Noel Cleary Screenplay Vanessa Walder Producer Emely Cast Heike Makatsch, Manuel Santos Gelke, Screenplay Noel Cleary, Fin Edquist, Adrian Christians Production Company Ulysses Friedrich von Thun, Dieter Hallervorden, Uwe Bickenbach Producer Tracy Lenon, Benjamin Filmproduktion Co-Production Company Ochsenknecht, Tim Oliver Schultz, Liane For- Ey Production Company Studio 100 Media, Fabrique d‘Images, A. Film Production estieri, Jürgen Kluckert Producer Christian Flying Bark, Studio Isar Animation Length 80 Length 85 min Original Language English Becker, Martin Richter Production Company min German Distributor Leonine German Distributor Universum Film, Walt Westside Filmproduktion Co-Production Disney Company Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Kiddinx, When Maya, a headstrong little bee, and her Studiocanal German Studio Fish Blowing best friend Willi, rescue an ant princess they The fairy world of Bayala is a country of Bubbles, Blanx Studio Length 91 min Origi- find themselves in the middle of an epic bug magic, where various fairy tribes live in an nal Language German German Distributor battle that will take them to strange new abundant flora. Huge blossoms and enchant- Studiocanal worlds and test their friendship to its limits. ing plants are used for housing and food. The fairies have been living in harmony with Benjamin is a big, strong and good-natured WORLD SALES nature – until the greedy Shadow Fairy queen elephant who lives in the Newtown zoo. He Studio 100 Film Ophira started pushing for power over all and his best friend Otto, a caring and coura- living things… Inside the Flower Palace there geous 9-year-old boy, love to go on adven- is intense activity in preparation of the cor- tures together. But when a shrewd woman onation of the new queen of the Sun Fairies. threatens to shut down the zoo, Benjamin The princesses Surah and Sera are delighted and Otto must hatch a plan to save Benja- to see royals of other fairy tribes arrive, but min’s home. they all bring bad news: the magical plants are dying. The dark power of the Shadow WORLD SALES Fairy queen Ophira is rising. All of Bayala is Studiocanal in danger.

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YAKARI DRACHENREITER FRITZI - EINE WENDEWUNDERGESCHICHTE A SPECTACULAR JOURNEY DRAGON RIDER FRITZI - A REVOLUTIONARY TALE

Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Cat- Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Genre Animation, Drama Category Fiction egory Animation Feature Year of Production Category Feature Year of Production 2020 Feature Year of Production 2019 Directors 2020 Directors/Screenplay Xavier Giacom- Director Tomer Eshed Screenplay John R. Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn Screenplay etti, Toby Genkel Producers Gisela Schäfer, N. Smith Producer Oliver Berben, Chris- Beate Völcker, Péter Palátsik Producers Maia Tubiana, Caroline Duvochel Co-Pro- toph Müller Co-Producer Ives Agemans, Ralf Kukula, Richard Lutterbeck, Matthias ducers Arnauld Boulard, Raphaële, Ingberg, Sven Panncke, Ulrich Schwarz Production Bruhn, Pierre Urbain, David Mouraire, Alena Léon Perahia Production Companies Company Constantin Film Co-Production Vandasová, Martin Vandas, Stéphane Quinet WunderWerk, Dargaud Media Co-Production Company Cyborn, Rise Pictures, Lumatic An- Production Companies Balance Film/Dres- Companies Belvision, Gao Shan Pictures imation+VFX German Studio Rise Pictures, den, Trickstudio Lutterbeck, Doghouse Films, German Studios WunderWerk, LAVAlabs Lumatic Animation+VFX Length 91 min Maur Film, Artemis Productions Runtime 78 Length 82 min German Distributor Leonine German Distributor Constantin Film min Language English German Distributor Weltkino Filmverleih With his tribe’s move to follow the migrat- A young silver dragon teams up with a moun- ing bison imminent, Yakari, the little Sioux tain spirit and an orphaned boy on a journey East Germany, 1989. Summertime. No one boy, sets out on his own to follow the trail through the Himalayas in search for the Rim knows the Iron Curtain is about to fall. When of Little Thunder, a wild mustang said to be of Heaven. twelve-year-old Fritzi’s best friend Sophie untamable. On his journey, and alone for goes on vacation to Hungary with her family, the first time in his life, Yakari is visited by WORLD SALES she leaves her little dog Sputnik with her. Great Eagle, his totem animal. Great Eagle Constantin Film Fritzi lovingly takes care of Sputnik, who gives Yakari a magnificent feather as well misses Sophie a lot. When school starts as the incredible ability to speak to animals. again in fall, however, Sophie doesn’t come Travelling far from home and deep into the back. Fritzi has to face up to the fact Sophie’s territory of the terrible puma-skin clad mother has stayed in Hungary with her hunters, Yakari and Little Thunder under- daughter, like so many other East Germans take a great adventure and find their way hoping to reach the West from there. back home again. Their journey, through breathtaking but treacherous landscape, will WORLD SALES forever seal the undying friendship between Global Screen the bravest little Sioux boy and the pony who runs like the wind.

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DIE HEINZELS - RÜCKKEHR DER LATTE IGEL UND DER DER KLEINE RABE SOCKE 3 - HEINZELMÄNNCHEN MAGISCHE WASSERSTEIN SUCHE NACH DEM VERLORENEM SCHATZ THE ELFKINS - BAKING LATTE IGEL AND THE RAVEN THE LITTLE RASCAL - A DIFFERENCE MAGIC WATERSTONE HUNT FOR THE LOST TREASURE

Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2020 Category Feature Year of Production 2018 Category Feature Year of Production 2019 Directors Ute von Münchow-Pohl Screenplay Director Regina Welker Screenplay Jesper Director Verena Fels, Sandor Jesse Screen- Jan Strathmann Producer Dirk Beinhold Möller Producer Lilian Klages Production play Katja Grübel Producer Dirk Beinhold Production Company Akkord Filmproduk- Company Dreaming Dolphin GmbH Co-Pro- Production Company Akkord Filmproduktion tion GmbH Co-Producer Peter Eiff, Theodor duction Company Eagle Eye Filmproduktion, GmbH Co-Production Company Tatamis Gringel, Timm Oberwelland Co-Production Grid Animation Length 81 min Original Films, Leonine Length 73 min Original Lan- Company Seru-Film Length 78 min Original Language German guage German Language German German Distributor Tobis Film In the forest where hedgehog girl Latte Little Raven has been ordered by Mrs. Dachs lives, the last lake has dried out and plants to clean up the attic after he accidentally The legendary Heinzelmännchen (short: and animals are suffering from a terri- ruined the annual forest festival. While Heinzels) of Cologne were gnomes secretly ble drought. The last hope is the magic cleaning up, he finds a real treasure map in finishing craftmen’s work at night until they waterstone – but it was stolen years ago by a secret room! There is a mysterious legend were ousted by a tailor’s malevolent wife the terrifying bear king! Only Latte has the behind the lost treasure: Whoever manages 200 years ago. Ever since then, the Heinzels courage to venture out to the bear kingdom – to get it and passes all the dangers and rid- have been hiding in a secret underground or so she thinks. But when she realizes that dles on the way, becomes king of the forest! habitation where any contact with the upper Tjum, the shy squirrel boy, has set out on the And Raven always wanted to be king! Then world - and, most of all, with humans! - is same mission, she is determined to prove he the others would no longer be angry with strictly forbidden. But one day, lively Heinzel doesn’t stand a chance. But the two young him either, he believes. Together with his girl Helvi decides that she cannot stand the heroes can only save the forest if they stick best friend Eddie, Raven sets off on a great restriction of this little world any longer. together... treasure hunt. With the beaver girl Francie Together with two companions, the Heinzel and the little badger, who finally wants to boys Kipp and Buck, she climbs up to the WORLD SALES prove that there is much more in him than Earth’s surface, determined to find her true Sola Media the others suspect. The friends are followed calling. by the beaver brothers Henry and Arthur, who also search for the treasure and kidnap WORLD SALES the little badger. Sola Media WORLD SALES Beta Film 40 41

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MEINE FREUNDIN CONNI - DIE OLCHIS - WILLKOMMEN OOOPS 2 - LAND IN SICHT GEHEIMNIS UM KATER MAU IN SCHMUDDELFING TWO BY TWO: OVERBOARD! CONNI AND THE CAT THE OGGLIES - WELCOME TO SMELLIVILLE Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2020 Category Feature Year of Production 2020 Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Director Toby Genkel Screenplay Richie Director Ansgar Niebuhr Screenplay Nana Category Narrative Fiction Feature Feature Conroy, Mark Hodkinson Producer Emely Andrea Meyer, Jens Urban Producer Henning Year of Production 2020 Directors Toby Christians Production Company Ulyss- Windelband Production Company Young- Genkel, Jens Møller Screenplay John Cham- es Filmproduktion GmbH Co-Production films GmbH Co-Producer Sonja Ewers, Reik bers, Toby Genkel Producer Gisela Schäfer, Company Fabrique d’Images, Moetion Films Möller, Cathy Ní Fhlaithearta Co-Production Sunna Isenberg Co-Producer Mark Mertens Length 80 min Original Language German Company B+M Entertainment, Senator Film, Production Company WunderWerk GmbH German Distributor Telepool Telegael Length 76 min Original Language Co-Production Company GRID Animation German bvba, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger GmbH, Uni- Noah’s ark full of animals drifts across the versum Film GmbH Length 80 min Original wide blue sea, best friends Finny and Lea For the very first time, Conni goes on a big Language English Subtitled Version English among them. After a series of unfortunate trip without her family! Of course her best German Distributor Leonine Distribution events, the kids find themselves inadvertently friends Anna and Simon are joining, but washed overboard – along with the last of unfortunately she is not allowed to take Cat The Ogglies are looking for a new home in their food supplies! On board of a makeshift Mau with her. As they arrived in the hostel, the peaceful village Smelliville. Unfortunate- raft, they are soon joined by Jelly, a chatty, an old mill close to a castle, Conni discovers ly, Smelliville has a stinky problem: The local young jellyfish, and they set sail towards that Mau had come as a blind passenger. garbage dump is spoiling the place. Some- their new fate. But when the raft is buffeted Secretly she cheers, although she knows thing must happen! Together with Professor by a violent storm, Finny, Leah and Jelly are that animals are forbidden in the castle and Foamworthy and his niece Lotta, the son of separated: While Leah and Jelly are washed the hostess, Ms. Weingartner, is allergic to the mayor, Max, hopes to solve the stinky up onto a remote island, Finny wakes to find cats. Conni tries to hide Mau, but the cheeky problem with a crazy machine. When Max a strange colony of very familiar creatures cat cares little. He explores the surround- meets the Ogglies, it becomes clear what the all living in harmony – under the shadow of a ings curiously and does a lot of nonsense. Ogglies might mean for Smelliville: they eat belching volcano! Ms. Weingartner identifies her son‘s pet, garbage! And for the Ogglies, Smelliville‘s the sweet raccoon Oskar, as the culprit and garbage dump could finally be a real home. WORLD SALES wants to take him to the zoo. And then things Everything would be fine were it not for the Global Screen disappear from the hostel in a strange way. plans of the mayor‘s wife and the unscrupu- Conni and her friends have to act quickly! lous construction builder Hammer.

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WICKI UND DIE STARKEN MÄNNER - DAS MAGISCHE SCHWERT VIC THE VIKING AND THE MAGIC SWORD

Genre Animation, Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2020 Director Éric Cazes Screenplay Éric Cazes, Sophie Decroisette, Frédéric Engel-Lenoir, The Huzlys Producer Nadine Mombo, Ben- jamin Ey, Katell France, Thorsten Wegener Production Company Studio 100 Media, Studio 100 Animation, Belvision Co-Produc- tion Company ZDF German Studio Studio 100 Media Length 82 min Original Language German German Distributor Universum Film GmbH

Vic is a young Viking like no other: not very strong but very clever. When his father, Hal- var, the village chief, steals from his sworn enemy a magic sword that turns everything into gold, the lure of gain wreaks havoc among the Vikings.

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