The Fall Issue 1

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0 DIRECTORS NIELS LAUPERT & THERESA VON ELTZ 2

- PRODUCERS THOMAS KUFUS & VOLKER HEISE of ZERO ONE FILM 4 ACTRESS LIV LISA FRIES E U S S I GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:27 Seite 2

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PORTRAITS  NEW SHORTS

A FRESH PERSPECTIVE FIND FIX FINISH A portrait of director Niels Laupert ...... 4 Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat ...... 30

AN EMPATHETIC STORYTELLER GALAMSEY – FÜR EINE HANDVOLL GOLD A portrait of director Theresa von Eltz ...... 6 GALAMSEY Johannes Preuss ...... 30

MAKING A MARK LAB/P – POETRY IN MOTION 2 A portrait of the production company zero one film ...... 8 various directors ...... 31

BRAINS, BEAUTY & BABYLON BERLIN DAS SATANISCHE DICKICHT – DREI A portrait of actress Liv Lisa Fries ...... 10 THE SATANIC THICKET – THREE Willy Hans ...... 31

WATU WOTE – ALL OF US Katja Benrath ...... 32 NEWS & NOTES ...... 12 WO SIE IST WHAT IF Linda Gasser ...... 32

 NEW FEATURES  UPCOMING FILMS BERLIN FALLING Ken Duken ...... 19 BENJAMIN BLÜMCHEN Tim Trachte ...... 33

DIE EINSIEDLER CARAVAN Sebastian Schipper ...... 33 THE EREMITES Ronny Trocker ...... 20 CLIMATE WARRIORS Carl-A. Fechner, Nicolai Niemann ...... 33

FIKKEFUCHS DEUTSCHLAND86 Florian Cossen, Arne Feldhusen ...... 34 BEDBUGS Jan Henrik Stahlberg ...... 21 ELLA & NELL Aline Chukwuedo ...... 34

DER HAUPTMANN FRITZI – EINE WENDEWUNDERGESCHICHTE THE CAPTAIN Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn ...... 34 Robert Schwentke ...... 22 FÜNF FREUNDE – IM TAL DER DINOSAURIER HOT DOG Mike Marzuk ...... 35 Torsten Künstler ...... 23 A HOME IN HOLLYWOOD DER LANGE SOMMER DER THEORIE Uli Gaulke, Agnes Lisa Wegner ...... 35 THE LONG SUMMER OF THEORY Irene von Alberti ...... 24 ICH ICH ICH Zora Rux ...... 35

LOCKDOWN – TÖDLICHES ERWACHEN DAS JOSHUA-PROFIL LOCKDOWN Jochen Alexander Freydank ...... 36 Bogdana Vera Lorenz ...... 25 KAHLSCHLAG Max Gleschinski ...... 36 DAS PUBERTIER TEENOSAURUS REX KU’DAMM 59 Sven Bohse ...... 36 Leander Haußmann ...... 26 LILIANE SUSEWIND Joachim Masannek ...... 37 SOMMERHÄUSER THE GARDEN SPIELMACHER Timon Modersohn ...... 37 Sonja Maria Kröner ...... 27 STORY OF BERLIN Erik Schmitt ...... 37

UNWIEDERBRINGLICH ENTFLIEHT DIE ZEIT – EINE CHRONIK  NEW DOCUMENTARIES Carmen Treichel ...... 38

SCHUMANNS BARGESPRÄCHE WENDY 2 Hanno Olderdissen ...... 38 SCHUMANN’S BAR TALKS Marieke Schroeder ...... 28 WUFF – FOLGE DEM HUND Detlev Buck ...... 38

STREETSCAPES Heinz Emigholz ...... 28 Shareholders & Supporters ...... 41

TOKIO HOTEL – HINTER DIE WELT Film Exporters ...... 42 TOKIO HOTEL – BEHIND THE WORLD Oliver Schwabe ...... 29 Imprint ...... 43

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elcome to Blockbuster told on various levels of time, between Julian WHATEVER HAPPENS is the first film by “ Street”, says Niels (Fahri Yardim) and Hannah (Sylvia Hoeks) Jumpseat Filmproduktion, which Laupert Laupert, laughing as he have anything in common with what Laupert founded together with his close friend Wwelcomes me to the office calls “great German arthouse cinema.” Benjamin Grosch, a strategy advisor, in 2013. of his company Jumpseat Filmproduktion, However, it was actually born of necessity. located in a salesroom on one of Berlin- “Unfortunately, there is not much between There were problems (as yet) funding an- Mitte’s most idyllic streets. Two other film- those two poles in cinema here,” says the other, much more complicated project, not makers, responsible for some of the biggest filmmaker who has chosen to live in Berlin least due to its setting abroad during the mainstream hits of German cinema in recent and to adopt more of a middle approach. And period of the First World War. “That felt as years, live in the immediate neighborhood. in this case, that has nothing to do with doing though I had lost four years of my time,” “All just coincidence,” Laupert says in denial things by halves, but with the right perspec- Laupert says, who had a subsequent rethink when asked whether there is a connection tive. “I wanted to make a film that tells its and looked out for a small story that could between this choice of location and his col- story profoundly but also has light, enter- be realized with as few protagonists and leagues’ success. taining moments without ultimately slipping locations as possible. “I always see an op- into toilet humor. It was vital for me that the portunity when things don’t work out – and Laupert’s new film WHATEVER HAPPENS – characters take themselves seriously, and in every farewell, which is dealt with thema- the first since his debut with SEVEN DAYS I also wanted to show a baby that doesn’t tically in WHATEVER HAPPENS, of course.” SUNDAY ten years ago – tells a love story automatically pee in someone’s face the with no resemblance to the cheery comic minute it appears on screen. Nevertheless, In this case, the director also came across monotony with which German cinema often viewers ought to find the film accessible in his leading actors almost by chance. Initially, seeks to win over mass audiences. But nor ways that don’t just demand an intellectual he had not considered Yardim, who has does this view of the broken relationship, approach.” made a name for himself in films primarily

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as a joker recently. But once again, a fresh – and nothing is more important for film- intention is for Laupert’s skill in the unusual perspective helped. Rather than looking at makers than to keep on changing the way double function of director/author and pro- the demo-tape, Laupert watched a video on they look at things.” ducer to bear fruit beyond WHATEVER HAP- YouTube showing a laudatio the actor gave PENS. The question of what success means when presenting a prize for integration: Born in Frankfurt, he himself learned to exactly is also a question of perspective, of “I noticed then how much warmth and intel- enjoy changes in perspective during his course. “Naturally, as a filmmaker you ligence Fahri has – and that he usually plays study course at the University of Television dream about a big audience. To make films roles in which he doesn’t use his immense and Film in Munich. As from 1997 he studied just for yourself is the most expensive form abilities to the full.” He had already en- production there, only to re-register thanks of onanism, as one of my professors always countered Hoeks at the start of both of their to a special dispensation – after four years said to us in warning,” the 42-year-old decla- careers, at the film festival in Sofia/Bulgaria, and a successful diploma thesis entitled res, with a view to the future. “But there is a where Laupert was showing his crime “The Producer Between Businessman and difference whether you make films because drama SEVEN DAYS SUNDAY – as well as in Artist”. This time, his chosen subject was di- you think that the masses will enjoy them, or Rotterdam, Tribeca or Warsaw. He was very rection. “Before my studies, I thought that whether you have the sense that what moves taken by the Dutch actress’ presence (she is you were only capable of becoming a director you personally might also move other currently attracting international attention if you were a driven artist like Scorsese, and people. The latter is what continues to drive with BLADE RUNNER 2049); it was fortui- I was always rather a lazy pupil,” Laupert me.” tous that she also speaks German. recalls. In his youth he had read about Bernd Eichinger and was so impressed that it Patrick Heidmann Although they were not looking specifically triggered his own desire to study production. for a foreign leading actress for their film, it “But then I learned a huge amount about is no secret that Laupert and his business directing there, simply because you work partner at Jumpseat very consciously try to together with such a large number of direc- see beyond the narrow boundaries of tors. And later, when studying direction, I Germany. Among other things, they are was able to see how important the right at- currently pushing the development of an titude and the process of convincing people English-language series in Berlin. The two can be with regards to funding, and that the see their chance in a new global market for director can and must also play a decisive quality entertainment – and not least part in that.” Laupert, with his experience of festivals, en- thuses about the opportunities offered by At Jumpseat, where among other things an inter national co-productions: “Such joint English-language love story and a German projects always open up fresh perspectives coming-of-age story are in development, the

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heresa von Eltz needs changes of After graduating, she applied again to every “They supported me and made huge de- scenery. It’s true that the film- conceiv able film school, receiving two offers mands,” she says, but the academy was also maker, whose directing debut 4 of admission: she decided in favor of the important for her because it offered the TKINGS generated an international National Film & Television School in structure and means to make her first films. sensation, lives in Berlin – currently, how- Beaconsfield/England. ever, she also has a “little place to stay” in Theresa von Eltz chose a screenplay by Vienna, where she is working on new pro- “There, they took a sensitive and careful look author Esther Bernstorff for her full-length jects. “I love to explore new cities, I seem to at the individual, and supported the directors film debut. 4 KINGS tells the story of four require it for my creativity,” she says. in their approaches to storytelling,” she says, youths sent to a youth psychiatric unit’s explaining her choice. Another deciding crisis center over Christmas in order to avoid Born in the Rhineland, she has always been factor was two teachers there who are them- escalating conflict at home. “I was im- curious and enjoyed an adventure. When selves legendary filmmakers, Stephen mediately interested in the situation, that is, only 19 she applied to the documentary film- Frears and Ken Loach. “I learned a great in Christmas at a youth psychiatric unit,” von making course at the University of Television deal from both of them,” she says, and adds Eltz says. She was able to relate to the and Film in Munich, submitting a documen- with a smile, “but they were also very strict”. characters and to empathize. “I myself come tary about an Albanian woman from the Frears paid most attention to dramaturgy. from a big family and I have worked with Kosovo, LULJETTA. She was invited to inter- “He didn’t hold back with criticism and he difficult youngsters.” To the present day, she view but at the time she was considered too also fell asleep in the editing room quite re- accompanies handicapped and sick children young. And so she studied History and gularly,” the director recalls, “then I knew on holiday once a year. This is a time that Political Science in Berlin first and complet - that something was amiss with the pace of helps to ground her because “I am inter- ed a Master’s degree in Oxford, more from my work”. In contrast, Loach was concerned relating with people with whom I feared the interest than in preparation for a profession. about how the students worked with actors. contact at first, but who have taught me a lot

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about life and above all about happiness in director says. “Before that, you are just as to tell stories and to move people with them; misfortune”. It is possible to sense this passionate but you have very few opportuni- filmmaking is not a hobby, it’s a unique voice empathy, this view of life from a different ties to make films because the industry enabling you to express so much, and you perspective in every moment of 4 KINGS. doesn’t know you or have faith in you. Film need to use it in the right way. You can only festivals, film awards and a bit of attention direct if you give it your all. And you have to She sees the greatest challenges of direction are really helpful in that sense. In addition, be able to fight!” as being in realizing – with great sensitivity you have to follow a long and rocky path first. – the screenplay through moving (in both For some, this path is shorter, and for others Currently, she is preparing her next TV film senses of the word) images, and in the right it may be longer.” and working on two lots of material for the casting for the charac- cinema, a tragicomedy ters. “But it’s not just a and an historical question of having a drama. She also finds good film at the end; it’s the world of series very also about cultivating exciting. She enjoys the an interesting and chal- artistic freedom that lenging atmosphere cinema productions dur ing shooting, and offer her by comparison continuing to develop to films for television. personally.” Despite her training in The four young leading Great Britain, first of all actors, Jella Haase, she intends to remain Paula Beer, Jannis true to German film. Niewöhner and Moritz “The idea of an inter - Leu, were at the thres- national production is hold to adulthood very stimulating, cer- themselves during the tainly, but that’s a big shooting in winter 2014. step,” she says. “I prefer “I caught them in the to take small steps.” final moments of their Anyway, the content is youth, and something more relevant for the very special emerged as filmmaker than the a result. They gave country of production. 100% of themselves, “The main thing is, you and that’s only possible tell good stories.” when you are able to trust one another 100%. Thomas Abeltshauser That is also the director’s task. Empathizing with the characters is something that’s impossible to learn, either you can or you can’t. Ultimate ly, this can disting uish directors considerably.”

And this emotional awareness is shown during shooting work, e.g. when von Eltz, for the rape scene in a TV crime story, first played through the scene herself and so enabled the 14-year-old actress to overcome her nervousness. “It was impor- In general, she has noticed an increasing tant for me to experience what it feels like, interest in German films abroad, above all in putting myself in the situation and so under - women filmmakers. “It’s taking a long time, standing exactly what I am demanding from like everything in the film industry, but my young actress. I can only create trust in something is changing at the moment,” she this way. Behind the camera, otherwise, you believes. “There is a demand for women are very much protected.” filmmakers, their stories and their female perspective, and that is helping us to develop 4 KINGS celebrated its world premiere at the more of a presence. That should really be a Rome film festival, where it won an award as matter of course.” For Theresa von Eltz, Best Directing Debut, and later it also re - there was never any doubt that she would ceived the German Film Award in bronze. become a director despite all the obstacles “A lot changed following those prizes,” the and challenges in her path. “I always wanted

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PRODUCERS’ PORTRAIT GFQ 4-2017 Thomas Kufus, Volker Heise (© zero one film/Nicolai Mauersberg) one film/Nicolai zero Heise (© Volker Kufus, Thomas

MAKING A MARK PORTRAIT OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY ZERO ONE FILM

ver the past 27 years, Thomas ADVENTURE 1900 – LIFE IN A MANOR and then 24H BAVARIA which aired on German TV Kufus of Berlin-based zero one OUR 19-FIFTIES. screens in 2016. film has independently produced Omore than 120 documentaries, GROUND-BREAKING FORMAT “We are now planning a fourth format entitled TV series and feature films as diverse as Lars 24H EUROPE - NEXT GENERATION, where Kraume’s Lola-winning THE PEOPLE VS. Furthermore, Kufus threw the gauntlet to the focus will be on the young people of the FRITZ BAUER, Christian Schwochow’s WEST, public broadcasters when he and Volker so-called Generation Y and will follow 24 Andres Veiel’s BLACK BOX GERMANY and Heise proposed the format for 24H BERLIN young Europeans between 15 and 30 and ex- BEUYS through Corinna Belz’s GERHARD which saw TV channels abandoning the tradi- plore their vision of a future Europe.” RICHTER PAINTING and Markus Imhoof’s tional schedule structure over a whole day for MORE THAN HONEY to Aleksandr Sokurov’s a 24-hour documentary. This multimedia While zero one had already made quite a highly-acclaimed MOLOCH, FATHER AND documentary project chronicling a day in the name for itself in the international arthouse SON and FRANCOFONIA. life of a European metropolis was shot all day scene with films by the likes of Andres Veiel, and night throughout Berlin on 5 September Aleksandr Sokurov, Stefan Schwietert and Together with partner Volker Heise, who 2008 and aired exactly a year later over 24 Corinna Belz, the success of the 24H format joined the company in 2008 with his creative hours without any breaks. The format’s suc- as a unique broadcasting event thrust the input, he has also explored new avenues of cess encouraged Kufus and Heise to create a Berlin-based outfit even more into the inter- factual entertainment for television with such follow-up – this time 24H JERUSALEM – national spotlight. series as BLACK FOREST HOUSE 1902, which was broadcast on 12 April 2014, and

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“The associated social media activities are POLITICAL SLANT SHAPING THE FUTURE particularly important for such event productions and that definitely made the company’s At the same time, Kufus’ documentary back- As if Thomas Kufus didn’t have enough on his name even better known internationally,” ground has also informed his fiction output plate running his production company and Kufus explains. “What’s more: we have and the subjects are almost always politically keeping tabs on the various projects at diffe- amassed a special kind of know-how of how charged, as shown by such past productions rent stages of development and production, to deliver such a level of high-quality tele - as Andres Veiel’s IF NOT US, WHO? about the he has also shown a keen interest in shaping vision punctually to fill 24 hours of a sche- events leading up to the onset of German ter- film policy on both a national German and dule.” rorism in the 1970s or Lars Kraume’s drama international level by promoting the role of THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER centering on feature documentaries and the importance of POLITICAL AND POLARIZING the man who brought the high-ranking Ger- co-production treaties. Indeed, he served as man Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice the chairman of the German Film Academy “Our feature documentaries have invariably in post-war West Germany. from November 2009 until early 2015 and centered on politically polarizing subjects,” he doesn’t regret taking on this extra commit- notes. “This was the case, for example, with zero one addresses another highly topical po- ment. “I would never ever want to become a Andres Veiel’s BLACK BOX GERMANY and the litical issue in Emily Atef‘s latest film, the functionary,” he admits, “but it was an impor- same goes for Markus Imhoof’s new film WDR commissioned production DO NOT tant experience and taught me a lot. I regard ELDORADO about the current refugee crisis WORRY!, which sees a father succeeding in the Academy in high esteem because it repre- in Europe.” finding and bringing home his son who had sents so many diverse interests, which means been recruited by ISIS to fight in Syria and, on that it can sometimes be rather unpre - Meanwhile, another strand in the company’s an international level, with Jonathan Littell’s dictable, but at the same time unique as an documentary output has focused on bio - WRONG ELEMENTS about child soldiers who institution in the German film landscape.” graphical themes such as Corinna Belz’s have been both perpetrator and victim in the GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING or Veiel’s 2017 Ugandan LRA rebel movement. And while zero one film has built up a family Berlinale Competition film BEUYS. of filmmakers with whom they work on a And the relevance of the 1920s Bauhaus regular basis, the company is always keeping “My ambition is always to make important movement for our present day outlook on ar- an eye open for up-and-coming filmmaking films that will leave a mark and reach their chitecture, art and design will be explored talents to work with – such as the Polish particular audience,” Kufus declares. “BEUYS in the fiction series BAUHAUS which will re - directorial duo Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Ro- is a case in point: we spent a long time work - unite the company with director Lars Kraume sołowski’s documentary THE PRINCE AND ing on this film so that it would turn out as we for a planned airing to tie-in with the Bauhaus THE DYBBUK about the Polish-Jewish film- all wanted it to be, and the resulting film per- 100th anniversary celebrations in 2019. maker Moshe Waks, which received the Ve- formed well in the cinemas.” nice Classics Award for Best Documentary on Meanwhile, shooting began this autumn on Cinema (zero one film developed the film and “I started my career in the film industry as a Connie Walther’s experimental feature film also co-produced Niewiera and Rosołowski’s director and so that has led me as a producer THE RUDE in co-production with Cologne’s award-winning 2014 documentary DOMINO to be actively involved in shaping the content Hands on Production about violence and EFFECT), Anne Zohra Berrached whose of the films,” he explains. “In fact, my favorite counter-violence focusing on the clash bet- graduation film from the Filmakademie activity is sitting together with the writers and ween vicious shelter dogs and young violent Baden-Württemberg, 24 WEEKS, premiered directors in the editing suite and discussing offenders. in Competition at the 2016 Berlinale, or the whether everything is going in the right direc- Polish documentary filmmaker Marta Mino- tion or should some changes be made.” rowicz with her fiction debut ZUD screening in the Generation sidebar the same year.

Martin Blaney

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ACTRESS PORTRAIT GFQ 4-2017 Liv Lisa Fries from the FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS campaign (© German Films/Mathias Bothor) Films/Mathias German (© campaign WITH GERMAN FILMS FACE TO FACE the from Fries Liv Lisa

BRAINS, BEAUTY & BABYLON BERLIN A PORTRAIT OF ACTRESS LIV LISA FRIES

iv Lisa Fries (it rhymes with classmate to death. Talk about gritty, but it HISTORY X, an award-winning series that ‘please’) has a long day of BABYLON also won her the Günter Strack Tele vision has been sold all over the world, and pre- BERLIN interviews and posing for Prize in 2011 and was awarded the Golden miered on Netflix throughout North America, Lphotos ahead of her, but this is the Camera Award in 2012. the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand first one and she is as bright-eyed, bushy- in July 2016. Americans will also see her tailed and eager to trot as any actress poised Her first major role on the big screen was in again next year in the Starz sci-fi thriller se- on the edge of her international break- the 2010 award-winning youth drama ries, COUNTERPART. through could be. She also looks stunning, STRONGER THAN BLOOD. Others include a her hair in a 1920s style as befits the event title role in Germany’s top cop TV-series, in So yes, this Variety 10 Europeans To Watch and, apologies to Audrey Hepburn, is giving TATORT: ZIRKUSKIND, a young rape survivor 2017-listed actress can act! But let’s get to those three seemingly innocuous words, in THE DAM, and a young patient suffering the lady herself, the who and what is Liv Lisa ‘little black dress’, more meaning than you from cystic fibrosis in ZURICH, for which she Fries, what motivates and makes her tick? can imagine. was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize 2013, the Max Ophüls Prize (one of the most im- “I’m interested in the sense of self,” she says, To get the formalities out the way: Liv Lisa portant awards for young German-language smiling. “Of finding the center of being able Fries was born in Berlin in 1990 and took up cinema) and the German Director’s Prize. to listen, that core authenticity and honesty, acting in 2005, her first starring role being in For THE DAM and ZURICH she took home listening to yourself and what you want so Torsten C. Fischer’s SCHIMANSKI: DEATH IN the German Film Critics Award. you can feel good. That means you then have THE SETTLEMENT for television, alongside the grounding and competence to be open to Götz George. She quickly gathered acclaim, Most recently she was seen in an episode of other people and things. I admit, it’s a hard most notably for SHE DESERVED IT, in which the ARD TV feature film trilogy about the question to answer and I’m still trying to find she plays a schoolgirl who bullies her NSU neo-Nazi murders NSU: GERMAN out!”

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But, as evidenced by her choice of roles to herself, played a music student in Sabrina and that was very tiring but also great to date, “I find it exciting and that’s why I love Sarabi’s upcoming PRÉLUDE, alongside fel- learn!” the profession: I want to find out what people low FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS want to say. Life’s a kind of journey and on colleague Louis Hofmann – all of them What was it like having three directors on the the way we look at what happens, how “films in which life is observed. Life as I per- one character? “Well,” she explains, “al- people live, how we want to live, we’re always ceive it.” though Tom, Achim and Henk are very diffe- looking for answers – I’m just not always rent, they are all going in the same sure if I want them! But I am interested in What’s it like for the person who gets to say direction.” Here she gets demonstrative, what drives people, gives them joy or fear, “Action!” and “Cut!” to her? “Ooh,” she says, turn ing her whole body, arms, and hands. the tension between thought and feeling. gaining even more fizz, “I like talking! A lot! “It’s like you are driving. Do they take the left It’s not so much what I want to say but the About everything! Every detail! This way or lane, the right one or go straight ahead? search for it!” that, why do I do or not do that? I need to They all had different priorities with the know the director knows what they want! Not character. It’s like when three people de- It all starts with a script, of course, and the always, but at least they have a game-plan! scribe one and the same person, but you can one for BABYLON BERLIN, a rip-roaring, And that’s how it was on BABYLON BERLIN. end up with three different people! It was like multi-part, event-TV crime and drama series Sometimes, when I have the trust, they can hav ing three different spotlights on the same set in 1920s Berlin, could have proven more just tell me and I can also do things that I person.” than daunting, but the first thing Liv Lisa don’t understand!” An actress who can take Fries does is ignore the size and “look for the direction, then: “I’m interested in an outside “It was very challenging,” she goes on, “and movements, where the character goes, input. That can be a crazy feeling, doing some scenes were very hard, where I really where does she come from? It’s an emotio- something you don’t know you can or under- had to do things I would have preferred not nal analysis of the character, her underlying stand, that you would not normally do, but to because I was scared. But then we worked emotions and impulse. There was a starting you are also in a safe space when you have a it through and it was great! I had worked be- phase with BABYLON BERLIN where I con- smart guide who understands it. Who under- fore with Henk, so I knew him already. Tom centrated on the character’s fear and neu- stands how I am and work.” works the way I’d always imagined it to be, rosis, and what was beneath, why she was whereas Achim gave me lots and lots of sad. I believe in human complexity.” And her Liv Lisa Fries’ life, when not in front of the space. On one scene, where I had to cry, character, Charlotte Ritter, the female lead, lens, features “dancing, I love contemporary which still wasn’t working after a couple of playing opposite Volker Bruch, “is most de- dancing!” For her, free time is about “being takes trying, he just broke the tension by finitely complex.” free, letting go, seeing friends, travelling, being kind and trusting me.” cycling, swimming, reading, chatting, also She doesn’t have a standard approach, tak - hav ing quiet time, being in the countryside, With her CV essentially drama, Liv Lisa Fries ing each character as she comes, so “some- for example.” admits “it is my world view, but it is not a times a diary works, sometimes not because pessimistic one and I don’t look to set it up the figure is closed. I read the script, basi- Her mentors and inspirers (it is a long list deliberately. I would love to do a comedy, but cally it should all be in a good script, then I and in no particular order) include Romy also keep the observational aspects. I get of- understand on a certain level. I try to under- Schneider, BLUE VALENTINE (starring fers I can’t anticipate, so if I get action or stand them emotionally,” she explains. “I Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling), Xavier com edy and like the character, then yes! I’ll look at what she says and ask what is actu- Dolan, and Andrea Arnold. Then come films do it. BABYLON BERLIN just happened to ally meant: she says A but means B. Why is with “radical and existential performances”, me. And I would love to work with American she like that? But maybe the character her- such as Fatih Akin’s HEAD-ON, Luc Besson’s directors and actors because of the way they self doesn’t know, so how does she deal with LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, Peter Bogdan - influence me: I’ve seen so many and want to it and how do I as an actress deal with it ovich’s PAPER MOON. And then the actors’ learn their methods and ways of working.” too?” names themselves: “Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Josef Bierbichler, Hanna Schygulla, Michelle And then she bravely wrestles with a very re- Method actress? Yeah, sort of, maybe, it all Williams, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, luctant pen to autograph the glossy press depends on the role, she laughs. “I played a Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Romy Schneider, folder before dashing off to the second ap- terminally ill woman in ZURICH, so I accom- Klaus Kinski and Ryan and Tatum O’Neal, pointment. A big day, a big project and a very panied a woman suffering from cystic fibro- whom I find very inspiring. Wong Kar-Wai’s talented, lovely young lady with big things to sis as part of the preparation, but method films fascinate me visually and with their come. means you are always in character but I’m music,” she continues, “and last but not not that radical.” least, American independent films by Simon Kingsley directors like Paul Thomas Anderson, Trust, as you would imagine, is key to Liv Lisa Quentin Tarantino or Jim Jarmusch are Fries’ work. He first main role, the brutal, excellent.” killer schoolgirl Laura in the award-winning and much-lauded SHE DESERVED IT, who is Back to the big boy on the block, BABYLON then visited in prison by the victim’s mother, BERLIN, the X Filme Creative Pool, ARD “was the first time I had the feeling I was Degeto, Sky and Beta Film production, where trusted greatly and that enabled me to repay she worked with three of Germany’s very it. So when you work with great colleagues, apex writer-directors, Tom Tykwer, Henk when they are also there for you as well as Handloegten and Achim von Borries. themselves, when their acting influences yours, that is also life because, as people, we “BABYLON BERLIN was an immense experi- interact with each other.” ence,” she says. “We spent four months prepping, then seven months film ing. I’ve It isn’t all Sturm und Drang, by the way, she never had such preparation before! We had played quieter characters in THE DAM and rehearsals of every kind! There was lots of ZURICH and, a lover of singing and dancing dancing and I had to learn the Charleston,

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ALL ABOUT OSCAR®!

IN1 THE FADE by Fatih Akin will represent revenge and pain – with complexity, un - Student Oscars® this year! GALAMSEY by Germany as the official submission for the sparingly, and with a stirring narrative. The Johannes Preuss (Filmakademie Baden- 90th Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. film gives a political issue a human face and Württemberg) won Gold in the Documentary The decision was made at the end of August unfolds with a ripple effect from which the category (International Film Schools) and by an independent jury appointed by German audience cannot escape, from the first to the WATU WOTE – ALL OF US by Katja Benrath Films. The nine-person jury substantiated its very last minute." (Hamburg Media School) received the award decision as follows: "IN THE FADE is at the in Gold in the Narrative category (Inter - same time a drama, a court movie and a But before the 90th Oscars® take place next national Film Schools). thriller. Fatih Akin relates law and justice, year, Germany already took home two more

GALAMSEY (© Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) ALL OF US (© Hamburg Media School)

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Sunny Side La Rochelle (courtesy of AG DOK) The Bavarian delegation with OMDC’s Nick Iannelli and Deluxe’s Christa Tazzeo (© Lisa Giehl) 2 3 4

GERMAN DOCUMENTARIES – FFF BAYERN @ TIFF 2017 MFG SUPPORT FOR ROBERT AROUND THE WORLD SCHWENTKE’S THE CAPTAIN Together with a delegation of Bavarian film- German Documentaries is an initiative of makers, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern traveled THE CAPTAIN, which celebrated its world the German Documentary Association and to the Toronto International Film Festival this premiere in Toronto and screened in com - German Films to support German documen- year. The goal of the trip was the exchange of petition in San Sebastian, where DoP Florian tary filmmakers in the international market - ideas and experiences between the Canadian Ballhaus won the Jury Prize for Best Cine- ing of their films. The support includes the and Bavarian film industries in order to in- matography, is Robert Schwentke’s first organization of delegations to important tensify future international co-productions. German film in 15 years! Based on a true inter national festivals and networking The program for the group included visits to story, Schwentke wrote the screenplay and events, and has already benefitted hundreds different companies, a networking breakfast, directed the film under the utmost of difficult of documentary filmmakers. But despite the reception of the International Financing wintery conditions in Breslau and Görlitz. such support, Germany’s documentary film Forum and a reception at the local Goethe- Frieder Schlaich (Filmgalerie 451) produced industry doesn’t have it easy in maintaining Institut, as well as the presentation of Bava- the film with support from MFG Film - its position internationally. A survey by the rian funding possibilities at the Ontario Trade förderung Baden-Württemberg. In the early Europ ean Documentary Network in 2016 in- and Investment Center (OMDC), pitching 1990s, Schlaich established the legendary dicates that other EU countries offer more sessions, and a visit to the post-production video library Filmgalerie 451 in Stuttgart and extensive and lasting support for the inter- studio Deluxe. All this gave the participants got to know Schwentke long before he began national marketing of their documentary the opportunity to make new international his Hollywood career. The visual effects for filmmakers. And, of course, this has its contacts, gain new insights, and convey the the film were created by the multi Emmy consequences: in comparison with some diversity and efficiency of Bavaria as a film Award-winning Jörn Großhans and his team of the surveyed countries, German docu - location. at Mackevision. Sales agent Alfama Films is mentary filmmakers are underrepresented currently in negotiation for sales to several in this highly competitive field. In con - territories. structive conversation with German Films, policy makers and film funders, the German Documentary Association continuously strives to improve the conditions and situation for the German documentary industry. More information about the German Documentaries initiative is available at www.german-documentaries.de. 4

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Fatih Akin, Diane Kruger (© Hubert Bösl/Filmstiftung NRW) courtesy of MDM 5 6 7

GERMAN OSCAR® CANDIDATE GÖRLIWOOD® TO COMPETE FOR THE FESTIVAL DE CINE ALEMÁN IN CELEBRATED IN TORONTO EUROPEAN FILM LOCATION AWARD BUENOS AIRES STRONGER THAN EVER IN THE FADE by Fatih Akin is the German The city of Görlitz and its sets for Wes candidate for the Oscar® in the category Best Anderson’s Oscar®-winning production THE Originally planned as the “little sister” of the Foreign Language Film, and it was funded in GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL is Germany’s festival in Madrid, the event in Buenos Aires part by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. candidate for the new European Film Loca- has long since established itself as the most With MUSTANG and TONI ERDMANN, this is tion Award powered by Filming Europe – the successful of its kind in South America. The the third year in a row that films supported European Film Commissions Network 17th edition took place mid-September in the by the Filmstiftung have been submitted for (EUFCN). Eleven locations throughout Argentine capital and can proudly report 13 the Best Foreign Language Oscar®. Europe that hosted renowned and beloved sold-out screenings and some 7,100 admis- films and TV series in the last 10 years have sions from both festival venues, the Village Fatih Akin’s film celebrated its world pre- made it onto the shortlist. With its unique Recoleta and the Caballito. The festival open- miere in Cannes, where Diane Kruger won architecture, the easternmost city in ed with Simon Verhoeven’s WELCOME TO the Best Actress award for her role in the Germany has been attracting numerous in- GERMANY and presented a showcase of new film. Since then, the production has been ternational film crews like Stephen Daldry’s German films, interactive screenings, invited to numerous international festivals, THE READER, MONUMENTS MEN by George classics and short films. This year’s Audience including Toronto, where it started its Oscar® Clooney, and most recently Robert Schwent- Award went to Lars Kraume’s THE VERDICT, campaign with a highly-celebrated screen - ke’s THE CAPTAIN. All European citizens will which once again proved to be one of the ing. And the chances for a nomination seem have the chance to pick the winner by highlights of the festival and provided for pretty good. With IN THE FADE, Fatih Akin selecting and voting for the best European intensive dis cussions with the audience. has made a film that is just as much a re - film location until October 25th at Impressed by the audience reactions to levant controversial political thriller as it is www.cineuropa.org. The Award ceremony Christian Schwochow’s PAULA, Mirada the analysis of terror and right-wing radica- will take place in Brussels on November 7th Distribution picked up the rights for Argen- lism, a conflict which is understood not only in the European Parliament. tina. And once again this year, the VOD plat- in Europe, but all over the world. form QubitTV presented a special selection of German films during the festival to accom- IN THE FADE was produced by bombero pany the growing demand for German home in6ter national, in co-production with Warner entertainment content in Argentina. Bros. Germany, Macassar Productions, Pathé and corazón international. In addition to the Filmstiftung NRW, the film was also support - 7 ed by the Filmförderung Hamburg Schles- wig-Holstein. International sales are being handled by Cologne-based The Match Factory, which has already sold the film to 56 countries.

Press conference for the 17th Festival of German Films in Buenos Aires (© Fabian Malavolata)

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rank Balzer has retired from the KEN DUKEN is a German actor, director and GENRE Thriller YEAR OF PRODUCTION German Green Berets and wants to producer. In 2003, he co-founded the produc- 2017 DIRECTOR Ken Duken SCREENPLAY start a new, quiet life as a civilian. tion company Grand Hôtel Pictures to pro- Christoph Mille CINEMATOGRAPHY Ngo The FHe finally gets to see his daughter duce the short film FROM ANOTHER POINT Chau CAST Tom Wlaschiha, Ken Duken, Lily again, and is on his way to the Berlin main OF VIEW and several outstanding music vi- Marisa Leonie Bach, Greta Nedelmann, Tim train station to pick her up for their first deos for various artists. His goal has always Wilde, Kida Khodr Ramadan, Amelie Plaas- weekend together after a long time. At a rest been to create and direct his own feature film Link, Matthias Wackrow PRODUCER Norbert stop, he reluctantly gives a ride to hitchhiker which he fulfills for the first time with BERLIN Kneissl CO-PRODUCER Ken Duken PRO - Andreas. On the way, he discovers a bomb in FALLING. DUCTION COMPANY Grand Hôtel Pictures, in Andreas’ backpack. Who is this hitchhiker co-production with Sky Deutschland RUN- really? A life-or-death battle of wits begins TIME 91 min LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS between the two men, showing us that fana- Shanghai 2017, Munich 2017 tics come in all stripes and that a parent has to do what they’ve got to do when their child SALES is in danger. Global Screen [email protected] Ken Duken (NORTHMEN, COMING IN) and www.globalscreen.de GAME OF THRONES star Tom Wlaschiha in an action-packed, edge-of-your seat thriller, in which the two characters match wits and charisma, hurtling down the Autobahn at breakneck speed toward a knock-out finale.

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THE EREMITES

lbert grew up on an isolated RONNY TROCKER was born in Bolzano/Italy GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 mountain farm in the middle of and studied at the Universidad del Cine in DIRECTOR Ronny Trocker SCREENPLAY nowhere in the Alps. Although Argentina and Le Fresnoy in France. His films Ronny Trocker, Rolando Grumt-Suárez CINE- Ahe’s already in his 30s, his omni- include: GLI IMMACOLATI (short, 2013), MATOGRAPHY Klemens Hufnagl CAST present mother Marianne still pulls the ESTATE (short, 2016), and THE EREMITES Andreas Lust, Ingrid Burkhard, Orsi Tóth strings in his life. Not intentionally and only (2016). PRODUCERS Susanne Mann, Paul Zischler because of his mother’s pressure, Albert CO-PRODUCERS Karin C. Berger, Arash T. went to live in the nearby valley to make his Riahi PRODUCTION COMPANY Zischlermann living in a marble quarry. Marianne wants to Filmproduktion, in co-production with Golden protect him from the poor and lonesome life Girls RUNTIME 110 min LANGUAGE German on the mountain and is even willing to de- FESTIVALS Venice 2016, Hamburg 2016, nounce their bonds to the tradition of the Zurich 2016, Thessaloniki 2016, CPH PIX 2016, farm which has existed over centuries. Like Rotterdam 2017, Saas Fee 2017, Nashville an abandoned animal that keeps coming back 2017, Hong Kong 2017, Film Festival della to its territory, the introverted farmer’s son Lessinia 2017 AWARDS Critics Award Sass keeps sneaking back to the mountain as often Fee 2017, Grand Jury Prize Nashville 2017, as possible. When his father dies accidently, Best Film Lessinia 2017, Fünf Seen Filmpreis Marianne fears that Albert will take over the 2017 role of his father and return to the farm. In- stead, she decides to hide the death from SALES Albert and the outside world – and buries his CERCAMON corpse on the mountain. [email protected] www.cercamon.biz

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BEDBUGS

ocky is a 50-year-old loner whose JAN HENRIK STAHLBERG is an actor, writer GENRE Satirical Comedy YEAR OF PRODUC- days as a ladies man only exist and director. He has acted in over 50 theatri- TION 2017 DIRECTOR Jan Henrik Stahlberg in his memories. Then Thorben cal and TV movies. His films as a director SCREENPLAY Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Wolfram Rappears and Rocky faces a new include: BYE BYE BERLUSCONI! (2005), Fleischhauer CINEMATOGRAPHY Ferhat challenge. The young man claims to be SHORT CUT TO HOLLYWOOD (2009), and Yunus Topraklar CAST Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Rocky’s son and is asking his father for help. BEDBUGS (2017). Franz Rogowski, Susanne Bredehöft, Thomas Thorben wants to learn how to get women, Bading, Jan Pohl PRODUCERS Saralisa Volm, and so the completely overwhelmed and use- Patrick Volm-Dettenbach CO-PRODUCERS less father and the ignorant son make their Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Wolfram Fleischhauer, way to get laid… and fail. Christian Kröhl, Jens Freels PRODUCTION COMPANY POISON, in co-production with Tonbüro, Story House Productions RUNTIME 101 min LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Munich 2017

SALES POISON [email protected] www.poison-berlin.com

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THE CAPTAIN

n the last desperate moments of World ROBERT SCHWENTKE was born in 1968. He GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 War II, a young German soldier fighting studied Literature and Philosophy at the DIRECTOR Robert Schwentke SCREENPLAY for survival finds a Nazi captain’s uni- Eberhard Karl University in Tübingen and Robert Schwentke CINEMATOGRAPHY Iform. Impersonating an officer, the man later earned an MFA in Directing from the Florian Ballhaus CAST Max Hubacher, Milan quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the American Film Institute. A selection of his Peschel, Frederick Lau, Alexander Fehling, perpetrators he is trying to escape from. films includes: TATTOO (2002), THE FAMILY Bernd Hölscher, Waldemar Kobus, Britta JEWELS (2003), FLIGHTPLAN (2005), LIE TO Hammelstein, Sascha Alexander Gersak, ME (2009), THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE Samuel Finzi, Wolfram Koch PRODUCERS (2009), R.E.D. (2010), R.I.P.D. (2013), THE Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti CO-PRO- NOVICE (2014), DIVERGENT – INSURGENT DUCERS Paolo Branco, Ewa Puszczynska, (2015),DIVERGENT – ALLEGIANT (2016), and Marcel Grieve PRODUCTION COMPANY Film- THE CAPTAIN (2017). galerie 451, in co-production with Alfama Films, Opus Film RUNTIME 118 min LAN - GUAGE German FESTIVALS Toronto 2017, San Sebastian 2017 AWARDS Jury Prize Best Cinematography San Sebastian 2017

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fast-paced buddy comedy with During their mission, the two opposite GENRE Action, Comedy YEAR OF PRODUC- Germany’s most successful stars characters become an unbeatable dream TION 2017 DIRECTOR Torsten Künstler Til Schweiger and Matthias team and are supported by their hacker SCREENPLAY Lo Malinke, Tripper Clancy ASchweighöfer – the dream team colleague Nicki, who even manages to lure CINEMATOG RAPHY Markus Nestroy CAST of German cinema. the romantically inexperienced Theo out of Til Schweiger, Matthias Schweighöfer, Tim his reserve… Wilde, Heino Ferch, Anne Schäfer, Lisa The two GSG10 officers Luke and Theo Tomaschewsky, Samuel Finzi PRODUCERS couldn’t be any more different, but have to TORSTEN KÜNSTLER has been working Dan Maag, Matthias Schweighöfer, Marco join forces to save Mascha, the daughter of primarily with the multi-hyphenates Matthias Beckmann PRODUCTION COMPANIES the Moldavian ambassador: chaos is pre - Schweighöfer and Til Schweiger for years, PANTALEON Films, Warner Bros. Film destined. also co-directing and associate producing Productions Germany, Erfttal Film & many of their own films with them. Fernseh produktion RUNTIME 90 min LAN - Schweighöfer takes on the role of the eager GUAGE German beaver Theo, who has an uncanny photo - graphic memory, and Schweiger plays the SALES smart and tough policeman Luke. In the Picture Tree International course of their investigation, Luke and Theo [email protected] realize that the demand for ransom is just the www.picturetree-international.com tip of the iceberg and that the kidnapping has far greater reaching implications than initially suspected…

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hat is to be done?,” three entertaining way, the demand for political GENRE Political Comedy YEAR OF PRODUC- “ women with artistic and action is framed and put into practice. Real TION 2017 DIRECTOR Irene von Alberti creative professions in authors appear in the movie and reflect the SCREENPLAY Irene von Alberti CINEMATOG - Wtemporary living condi - life of the three women on the basis of theo- RAPHY Jenny Lou Ziegel CAST Julia Zange, tions are wondering. They are sharing a flat retical, sociological and philosophical texts. Katja Weilandt, Martina Schöne-Radunski, in an old building close to Berlin Central At the end of the film the move-out and the Philipp Felsch, Boris Groys, Carl Hegemann, Station. The area is one of the city‘s last re- departure into political awareness is due: Jutta Allmendinger, Lilly Lent, Andrea maining gaps between buildings. They decide “What is to be done?“ becomes “Let‘s do it!“ Truman, Rahel Jaeggi PRODUCER Frieder to end their flat share as soon as the first Schlaich PRODUCTION COMPANY Film - trenches will be dug. IRENE VON ALBERTI was born in Stuttgart. galerie 451 RUNTIME 81 min LANGUAGE She studied Media Technology in Stuttgart German FESTIVALS Filmfest München 2017, With mixed feelings they are heading towards and at the Munich University of Television & Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen the time when their spontaneous life comes Film. She works as producer and director. am Rhein 2017, Nuremberg Int. Human to an end, which means they have to make Her films as a director include: PAUL Rights Film Festival 2017, FILMZ Festival des one or more (life) decisions. The current flat BOWLES – HALBMOND (1995), CALL AT deutschen Kinos 2017 is a symbol of their own life scripts so far: un- CORAZÓN (1995), BERLIN STORIES (2005), formed and all bets are off but it already MAROC EN VOGUE (2006), TANGERINE (2008), SALES starts to be uncomfortable. They spend the HASSAN’S FILM (2014), and THE LONG Filmgalerie 451 Filmproduktion remaining days in their flat with friends, ce- SUMMER OF THEORY (2017). [email protected] lebrations, discussions and the strong feeling www.filmgalerie451.de for the dawning of a new era.

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hen Liv opens her eyes she BOGDANA VERA LORENZ grew up in Berlin. GENRE Thriller YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 finds herself lost in a strange She studied Humanities, followed by training DIRECTOR Bogdana Vera Lorenz SCREEN- room. Next to her, lying as a photographer and work as a TV-journa- PLAY Max Permantier, Bogdana Vera Lorenz Wunconscious and severely list. From 2006-2010 she studied Directing at CINEMATOGRAPHY Benjamin F. Wieg CAST wounded, her fellow scientist partner Lex. the ifs international filmschool in Cologne. Alice Dwyer, Götz Schulte, Maximilian Meyer- At an attempt to leave the room, her next door She served as a trainee for Lars von Trier on Bretschneider PRODUCERS Florian Reimann, neighbor Veith blocks the door. Terrorists just the set of ANTICHRIST and participated in Max Permantier PRODUCTION COMPANY FR attacked the city via bio-warfare, letting loose Danny Boyles’ EFA Masterclass. Her gradua- Entertainment RUNTIME 85 min LANGUAGE a deadly virus. He could save both of them tion film HOME GAME won the German Film German just in time. Veith is well prepared. He has Critics Award. Her films include the shorts built his apartment into a security-zone. Liv VOLA! (2008), THE INTERROGATION (2008), SALES has her doubts about his story as she keeps and ’89 AND YOURS AND MINE (2009). In 2011 ARRI Media International hearing noises on the outside… How can she joined forces with Max Permantier to [email protected] everyone be dead? The scientists‘ attempt to write as a team. LOCKDOWN is their feature www.arrimedia.de/international escape is futile. With a serious accusation, debut. Veith drives a wedge between Liv and Lex: a data leak from their Biotech-company is supposed to be at the root of the deadly virus! Liv starts to question her own sanity as time progresses. Could Veith be right?

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TEENOSAURUS REX

he was sweet, she was cute. But just LEANDER HAUßMANN was born in Quedlin- GENRE Comedy, Coming-of-Age Story YEAR before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s burg in 1959. After attending the Ernst Busch OF PRODUCTION 2017 DIRECTOR Leander little princess mutates into a pe - Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin, he acted Haußmann SCREENPLAY Leander Hauß- Stulant pubescent nightmare. Jour- in the theater for several years before be - mann, Jan Weiler CINEMATOGRAPHY nalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a coming a director. He was the artistic director Alexander Fischerkoesen CAST Jan Josef time-out from work to guide his daughter of Bochum’s Schauspielhaus from 1995-2000, Liefers, Heike Makatsch, Harriet Herbig- Carla through this difficult phase in her life during which time he appeared in Detlev Matten, Detlev Buck, Monika Gruber, Justus and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, Buck’s film JAILBIRDS. His big breakthrough von Dohnányi, Luise Kinseher, Waldemar boys and other temptations. This is easier as a film director came with SUN ALLEY Kobus PRODUCER Günter Rohrbach CO- said than done, however, and when his wife (2000), followed by BERLIN BLUES (2003), PRODUCER Stefan Gärtner EXE CUTIVE PRO- Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves him- NVA (2005), INTRIGUE AND LOVE (TV, 2005), DUCERS Martin Moszkowicz, Oliver Berben self entirely inept at raising a teenager. WHY MEN DON’T LISTEN AND WOMEN PRODUCTION EXE CUTIVE Christine Rothe Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mo- CAN’T READ MAPS (2007), ROBERT ZIMMER- PRODUCTION COMPANY Constantin Film bile phone contract or her first time, Hannes MANN IS TANGLED UP IN LOVE (2008), Produktion RUNTIME 94 min LANGUAGE makes one awkward blunder after another. HOTEL LUX (2011), SHARK ALARM AT MÜG- German The fact that other teens have embarrassing GELSEE (2013), and TEENOSAURUS REX fathers provides only faint consolation; (2017). SALES Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Picture Tree International Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones [email protected] rather than stay at home and be driven crazy www.picturetree-international.com by his own teenage nightmare.

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976, the height of summer. A heat wave. SONJA MARIA KRÖNER was born in Munich GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 Everybody is sweating. The wasps are in 1979. At the Ludwig Maximilian University DIRECTOR Sonja Maria Kröner SCREENPLAY even more aggressive than usual. In of Munich, she majored in Philosophy and Sonja Maria Kröner CINEMATOGRAPHY Julia 1the midst of it all, a German family who Literature and studied Screenwriting and Daschner CAST Thomas Loibl, Laura Tonke, are spending the dog days in their communal Directing at the University of Television and Ursula Werner, Günther Maria Halmer, garden – just as they always do. Yet the Film Munich (HFF). She received a media art Christine Schorn, Inge Maux, Mavie Hörbiger, passing of their overbearing matriarch scholarship from the Kirch Foundation and Emilia Pieske PRODUCERS Philipp Worm, Sophie reveals fine cracks in the family’s re- the HFF Munich for her video installation SIX Tobias Walker PRODUCTION COMPANY lationships while subtly changing how they DOORS, a peep show about six women in six Walker+Worm Film, in co-production with interact. While the adults argue about the phases of life shown in the Annual Art Show WDR, BR RUNTIME 97 min LANGUAGE sale of the property, the children are free to at Haus der Kunst in 2010. After making her German FESTIVALS Munich 2017, Toronto roam the garden and the neighborhood. Sud- graduation film ZUCCHINIBLÜTEN, she 2017, Sao Paulo 2017 AWARDS Best Pro - denly the news of the disappearance of a little worked on the installations THE BLACK HOLE duction & Best Direction Munich 2017 girl disrupts the placid summer idyll… and FLIPBOOK NEWS (a walk-in flip book), followed by her feature film THE GARDEN, SALES which premiered at the Munich International Beta Cinema Film Festival 2017. [email protected] www.betacinema.com

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n SCHUMANN’S BAR TALKS, the legendary Charles Schumann goes on a perambulation through some of the most Iinteresting bars in the world, including the Dead Rabbit in New York, the Hemingway Bar in Paris, El Floridita in Havana and the High Five bar in Tokyo. He explores the secrets of bar culture, meets bar proprietors, the hearts and souls of bars and their chroniclers. During these conversations we begin to realize that each bar is its own small universe which is brought to life every single day in a different way. The clientele changes with the time of day and day of the week, but the permanent staff make the place. SCHUMANN’S BAR TALKS is not only a voyage of discovery to the most beautiful bars in the world, but also to the people who bring them to life.

SCHUMANN’S BAR TALKS

MARIEKE SCHROEDER’s other films include: STRAUSS – SKIZZE EINES LEBENS, among duction with Studio Babelsberg RUNTIME 103 AIDA’S BROTHERS & SISTERS, LEGENDEN – others. min LANGUAGE German, English FESTIVALS OSHO VORMALS BHAGWAN, SOPHIE Berlinale 2017, Bergen 2017, Vancouver 2017, SCHOLL – ALLEN GEWALTEN ZUM TROTZ, GENRE Biopic YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 Milwaukee 2017, Haifa 2017, Devour! 2017 BELLA FIGURA – MÜSSEN SÄNGER DICK DIRECTOR Marieke Schroeder CINEMATOG - SEIN?, SCHILLER UND DIE MUSIK, KLAT- RAPHY Niv Abootalebi PRODUCER Marieke SALES Autlook Filmsales SCHEN – BUHEN – SCHLAFEN, DIE OPER Schroeder CO-PRODUCERS Christoph Fisser, [email protected] UND IHR PUBLIKUM, COUNTRY ROADS – Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken PRO- www.autlookfilms.com DER HERZSCHLAG AMERIKAS, and RICHARD DUCTION COMPANY Thali Media, in co-pro- www.schumannsbartalks.com

here are streets, paths, highways, alleys, dirt tracks and promenades... And there are courses of lives, Tthirstlands, crossroads and dead ends...

STREETSCAPES is a series of four films by Heinz Emigholz: Chapter I: 2+2=22 [THE ALPHABET], Chapter II: BICKELS [SOCIALISM], Chapter III: STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE], and Chapter IV: DIESTE [URUGUAY].

HEINZ EMIGHOLZ began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer and producer in Germany and the USA. In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP. He looks back on numerous exhibitions, retro- spectives, lectures and publications. A full list © Heinz Emigholz/Filmgalerie 451

of his prolific body of work is available at Andreas Reihse, Detlef Weinrich) PRODU- BAFICI 2017, IndieLisboa 2017, Tag der www.pym.de. CERS Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti, Architektur – Wiesbadener Festtage 2017, Heinz Emigholz, Andreas Reihse, Galia Bar Or Singapore 2017, Jerusalem 2017, Sound- GENRE Autobiography, Architecture, Music PRODUCTION COMPANIES Filmgalerie 451, track Cologne 2017, International Musikfilm- YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 DIRECTOR Heinz Emigholz Filmproduktion RUNTIME festival UNERHÖRT! 2017, Vancouver 2017 Heinz Emigholz CINEMATOGRAPHY Heinz 407 min (88 min, 92 min, 132 min, 95 min) Emigholz, Till Beckmann WITH John LANGUAGE German, English FESTIVALS SALES Filmgalerie 451 Filmproduktion Erdman, Jonathan Perel, Natja Brunckhorst, Berlinale 2017, Hong Kong 2017, Art of the [email protected] “Kreidler” (Thomas Klein, Alexander Paulick, Real – Film Society of Lincoln Center NY 2017, www.filmgalerie451.de

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t the age of nine, German twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz decide to become famous. Aged 12, they form Aa band together with Gustav Schäfer and Georg Listing that would go on to conquer the world as Tokio Hotel. They are admired, ridiculed, hated and adored … And a gigantic success: they go platinum in 60 countries, concerts are sold out and Bill becomes a style icon. Rich and famous in their early 20s, the twins fly to Los Angeles by pri- vate jet, leaving behind thousands of devoted fans and a life behind protective walls. They want their freedom back … without knowing what the future holds. The film delves into the lives of the band, accompanying Bill and Tom through Californian deserts and visiting Gustav and Georg in their hometown, Magde- burg. They talk about the price of success, the inseparability of twins, about love, sexuality, © Bildersturm Filmproduktion

TOKIO HOTEL – BEHIND THE WORLD

home and music. The band comes together to selection of his other films as a director Bildersturm Filmproduktion RUNTIME 90 min produce their new album and to prepare for include: EGOSHOOTER (2004), ZARTE LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Filmfestival their world tour. With steely determination PARASITEN (2009), and THE BROTHER (2016) Cologne 2017 and a lifetime of experience already, the band in co-direction with Christian Becker. follows their childhood dream: the pop fairy SALES tale that is Tokio Hotel continues… GENRE Biopic, Culture, Music YEAR OF PRO- NEW DOCS DUCTION 2017 DIRECTOR Oliver Schwabe [email protected] OLIVER SCHWABE is active as a filmmaker, CINEMATOGRAPHY Benjamin Wistorf PRO- www.newdocs.de cameraman, scriptwriter, and producer. A DUCER Birgit Schulz PRODUCTION COMPANY

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IND FIX FINISH delves into the ac- Vojacek-Koper, Paul Osswald, Nathan Carru - counts of three military drone pilots thers PRODUCERS Veronika Faistbauer, as they tell the intimate story of the Mariella Santibáñez CO-PRODUCERS Mila Flives they observe on a day-to-day Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat PRODUCTION basis. The voyeuristic ocular perspective from COMPANY FFF-Film, in co-production with a military drone can reduce people to pixels Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München on a screen and a certain decontextualization RUNTIME 20 min LANGUAGE English FESTI- is almost necessary to deal with the fact that VALS Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2017, Int. people can be killed on a push of a button. Short Film Week Regensburg 2017, Visions du “Have you ever stepped on an anthill and not Réel Nyon 2017, Dok.Fest Munich 2017, given it a second thought?” Documenta Madrid 2017, IndieLisboa 2017, Tbilisi Int. Student FF 2017, Krakow 2017, MILA ZHLUKTENKO was born in 1991 in Kiev. Hamburg Int. Short FF 2017, Guanajuato After studies in German Literature at the 2017, Melbourne 2017, Vancouver 2017, Festi- Humboldt University Berlin, she is a student val dei Popoli Florence 2017, San Sebastian at the University of Television and Film 2017, Cine Migrante 2017, Ji.hlava 2017, Munich. IDFA 2017, Signes de la nuit Paris 2017, Camerimage 2017 AWARDS Best Short Film SYLVAIN CRUIZIAT was born in 1995 in Lon- & Audience Award DocumentaMadrid 2017, don and studies at the University of Television Amnesty Inter national Award IndieLisboa and Film Munich. 2017, Best Experimental Short Guanajuato 2017, Special Mention Regensburg 2017 GENRE Human Interest, Politics YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 DIRECTORS Mila SALES Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat SCREENPLAY FFF-Film

Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat CINE - [email protected] © Nikolai Huber MATOG RAPHY Nikolai Huber CAST Mona www.fff-film.com

GALAMSEY

documentary about the illegal in Ghana. Since 2011, he has been active as gold business in West Africa. an author and producer of films for develop- What does it mean for the resi- ment projects in Ghana, Nigeria and Mexico. Adents of a small town in Ghana to He is currently studying Directing Television live on top of a huge gold deposit? Journalism at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg. As a young development worker, the director experienced a gold rush in a small town in GENRE Documentary YEAR OF PRODUCTION Ghana. Some years later he returns to find 2017 DIRECTOR Johannes Preuss CINEMA- out what the gold really means for the resi- TOGRAPHY Johannes Preuss PRODUCER dents of this town. On his journey he meets Johannes Preuss PRODUCTION COMPANY old friends, arrives at places of destruction Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg RUN- and learns about a dangerous magnetism TIME 29 min LANGUAGE German, English between people and gold. In the small town a FESTIVALS NaturVision Ludwigsburg 2017, bloody conflict broke out between local police Shorts Mexico 2017, Green Screen Eckern- and gold miners. Who are profiteers and who förde 2017, Filmzeit Kaufbeuren 2017 are victims in this hunt for glittering stones? AWARDS Student Academy Award 2017

JOHANNES PREUSS was born in 1983 in SALES Berlin. After studying Political Science, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg History and Romance Studies, he participated [email protected]

in a trainee program of the German Develop- www.filmakademie.de © Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg ment Service working at a community radio

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he second edition of a collaboration ANDRÉ PATTEN for THE BOTANIST; JULIANE between up-and-coming film - FRANKE & ANNE OLTSCHER for EVER- makers and authors takes you on GREEN; ANNEGRET EHRHARDT & LINDA T an emotional rollercoaster – from ACHBERGER for GO STOP GONE; the nightmares of childhood to an never end - JONATHANJDAVID WEDLER & MAGDALENA ing tennis match, from a road trip to yourself KOTZUREK for HINGE; SANDRA BARTH & to an apartment filled with memories, a jour- ANNA SCHÖNING for PARADISE WITH ney which takes you in the end even to “para- PAVILION; CHARLOTTE EIFLER & HIEU dise” and the origins of mankind. Be prepared HOANG for WOMEN FEEDING MACHINES. never to see or to hear what you expect... GENRE Animation, Experimental, Cycle of The eight films provide an exciting insight into Shorts, Poetry YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 contemporary experimental film and poetry PRODUCERS Cathy de Haan, Vera Schmidt and invite the viewer to explore new artistic PRODUCTION COMPANY OSTPOL, in co-pro- positions. The avant-garde shorts were deve- duction with Bauhaus University Weimar, loped within the framework of an OSTPOL Bauhaus Film Institute RUNTIME 60 min program under the mentorship of Cathy de LANGUAGE German, English FESTIVALS Haan, Aline Helmcke, Franka Sachse and Vera Dresden 2017, backup Weimar 2017, DOK Schmidt Leipzig 2017

The filmmakers and authors are: SALES OSTPOL NICK TEPLOV & KATIA SOPHIA DITZLER for [email protected]

A|C|G|T; ANDREA RÜTHEL & SUSANNA www.ostpol-leipzig.de © OSTPOL BERIVAN for ALIKE; JUSTINE BAUER &

THE SATANIC THICKET – THREE

he first vacation day on the camp- GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 site. Mimi is looking for contact with DIRECTOR Willy Hans SCREENPLAY Willy peers, Karl wants to swim with the Hans CINEMATOGRAPHY Paul Spengemann Tcrocodile, papa is hungry and mom CAST Lars Rudolph, Ruth Marie Kröger, has forgotten the sandwiches at home. Sud- Charlotte Holst, Janko Kahle, Levin Liam denly the caretaker’s little bunny Fernando PRODUCER Willy Hans RUNTIME 22 min has disappeared. Order is only restored when LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Locarno the middle-aged tourists appear. One thing is 2017, Reykjavik 2017, Hof 2017 for sure: there is chaos everywhere. SALES WILLY HANS was born in 1982 in Freiburg and Spengemann Eichberg Goldkamp Hans studied at the University of Fine Arts Ham- [email protected] burg. He is a founding member of the film www.spengemanneichberggoldkamphans.de collective Spengemann Eichberg Goldkamp Hans. His films include: the shorts AFFEN- STUNDE (2010), THEATER GENERELL (2012), THE STRANGE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE SOLITUDE (2012), and THE SATANIC THICKET - ONE (2014), TWO (2015) and THREE (2017).

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or almost a decade, Kenya has been Sebastian Human Rights FF 2017, Shorts at targeted by terrorist attacks of the Moonlight 2017, Hollyshorts 2017, LA Shorts Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of an- 2017, Heartland FF 2017, BronzeLens 2017, Fxiety and mistrust between Muslims DC Shorts 2017, Québec City FF 2017, Festival and Christians is growing. Until in December Internacional de Cine Universitario 2017, Port 2015, Muslim bus passengers showed that Townsend FF 2017, Alpinale Shortfilm 2017, solidarity can prevail. Brussels Short FF 2017, Tel Aviv Int. Student FF 2017, Camerimage 2017 AWARDS Best KATJA BENRATH was born in 1979. After Narrative Short Brooklyn 2017, Best Short train ing in Costume Design, she studied Act - Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award 2017, ing and Vocals at the Vienna Conservatory and German Cinematography Newcomer Award performed in numerous films, theater plays 2017, Best Short Film & Audience Award and musicals. She then studied Directing at Bermuda IFF 2017, Best African Film the Hamburg Media School. WATU WOTE – Zanzibar 2017, Best African Short Durban ALL OF US is her graduation film. 2017, Best Production & Audience Award Sehsüchte 2017, Main Prize San Sebastian GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 Int. Human Rights FF 2017, GRR Giovani DIRECTOR Katja Benrath SCREENPLAY Julia Registi Raccontano 2017, Best Short Shorts Drache CINEMATOGRAPHY Felix Striegel at Moonlight 2017, Student Academy Award CAST Adelyne Wairimu, Abdiwali Farrah, 2017, First Steps Award 2017, Grand Barkhad Abdirahman, Charles Karumi, Faysal Prize/Best Foreign Film Toronto Shorts 2017, Ahmed PRODUCER Tobias Rosen PRODUC- Best Narrative Short Townsend 2017 TION COMPANY Hamburg Media School RUNTIME 22 min LANGUAGE Swahili FESTI- SALES Hamburg Media School

VALS Bermuda IFF 2017, Brooklyn FF 2017, [email protected] © Hamburg Media School Zanzibar IFF 2017, Durban 2017, San www.hamburgmediaschool.com

WHAT IF

t’s the year 2184 and big data is omni - films, documentaries and corporate films all present. A sophisticated system has been over the world. She is currently working on developed to analyze people. Perfect the feature film GRABRÄUBER. Ipartner recommendations have become the norm. But Achille wants to find a partner GENRE Drama, Love Story, Science Fiction by himself. However, in a society where YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 DIRECTOR Linda match making has been systematic for gene- Gasser SCREENPLAY Linda Gasser CINE- rations, it seems impossible to convince a MATOGRAPHY Paul Becht CAST Karl Kiesel, woman on his own. People would rather rely Julia Monte, Iris Berben PRODUCERS Linda on big data than their own potentially faulty Gasser, Paul Becht CO-PRODUCERS Jan intuition. But Achille’s human desires seem Czmok, Mike Fuhrmann PRODUCTION COM- absurd in this efficiency-oriented world. PANY Luli Productions, in co-production with When he goes in search of that spontaneous, Spektrumfilm RUNTIME 16 min LANGUAGE authentic connection, he finds challenges at German FESTIVALS Golden Panda Vancouver every turn. By a chance happening, a young 2017, Ouchy Film Awards Lausanne 2017, lady, Eleni, ends up in his workshop. The ASFF York 2017, Festival International de Cine closer he tries to get to her, the more afraid Fine Arts San Juan 2017, DEA Open Air FF Sa- she becomes of him. The situation escalates randa 2017, Sydney World Festival 2017, and Achille’s mother attempts to bring him to Miami Indepdendent FF 2017, Golden Bridge reason. He finally gives up and sets Eleni free, Moscow 2018 but apparently he has changed something inside of her... SALES Luli Productions LINDA GASSER was born in 1989. A critically- [email protected]

acclaimed director and production designer, www.wosieist.de © Paul Becht she has directed and written numerous short

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enjamin, Germany’s favorite anima- GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain- ted elephant, and friends, come up ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Tim B against Zora Zack, the zoo’s new Trachte SCREENPLAY Bettina Börgerding director, who is charged with modernizing the CAST Manuel Santos Gelke, Tim Oliver establishment. But there is something about Schultz, Friedrich von Thun, Liane Forestieri, her that is just not right. It is her dislike of Dieter Hallervorden, Heike Makatsch, Max animals? Is it that she is allergic to them? von Thun, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Alexander And why are her changes actually for the Schubert, Petra Nadolny, Johannes Suhm worse? Benjamin realizes there is much PRODUCERS Christian Becker, Martin Richter more to her game than even he first thought CO-PRODUCERS Kalle Fritz, Isabel Hund when Alfred Ape grabs Zack’s camera and PRODUCTION COMPANY Westside Filmpro- finds the proof: she is planning to downsize duktion, in co-production with STUDIOCANAL, the zoo in favor of new, luxury apartments Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Kiddinx Filmpro- with a lakeside view! Zack will stop at nothing, duction LANGUAGE German including having Benjamin kidnapped and shipped overseas. But she has not reckoned SALES STUDIOCANAL

ising stars Fionn Whitehead (DUN- GENRE Drama, Road Movie, Tragicomedy KIRK) and Stéphane Bak (ELLE) play CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Sebastian Rtwo teenagers from very different Schipper SCREENPLAY Sebastian Schipper, worlds in Sebastian Schipper’s English- Oliver Ziegenbalg CAST Fionn Whitehead, language debut which has been shooting at Stéphane Bak, Moritz Bleibtreu, Ben Chaplin locations in Morocco, Spain and France since PRODUCERS David Keitsch, Sebastian the end of August. CARAVAN follows William Schipper PRODUCTION COMPANY Missing (Bak), a young man from the Congo, as he at- Link Films, in co-production with Kazak tempts to break through Europe’s borders in Productions, WDR, ARTE, ARD Degeto, Kom- search of his brother. By chance, he teams up plizen Film, STUDIOCANAL, RadicalMedia with Gyllen (Whitehead), a wild and sharp- LANGUAGE English witted British runaway, who has fled his family’s Moroccan holiday in his step-dad’s RV. SALES Germany’s Moritz Bleibtreu and UK actor Ben HanWay Films Chaplin complete the cast for Schipper’s [email protected] follow-up to VICTORIA, his multiple award- www.hanwayfilms.com

winning, one-shot tour de force. © Eniac Martinez/Missing Link Films

CLIMATE WARRIORS

n environmental documentary inspi- GENRE Environment/Ecology CATEGORY ring change – personally, nationally Documentary DIRECTORS Carl-A. Fechner, Aand globally – to end climate change! Nicolai Niemann PRODUCER Carl-A. Fechner CLIMATE WARRIORS presents people from PRODUCTION COMPANY fechnerMEDIA diverse backgrounds who are strongly aware LANGUAGE English, German that we need a fast change to protect the environment and preserve our human rights. CONTACT United by the spirit of responsibility and hope, fechnerMEDIA they are resisting lobbyists and inhuman so- [email protected] cial realities, offering solutions for an energy www.fechnermedia.de transition with cutting edge technologies, and inspiring activism. The film offers an inside view of a modern revolution and puts the focus on people who have taken the responsibility for their own energy supply and put the protection of their natural livelihood into their

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his autumn saw the shooting of GENRE Drama CATEGORY Series DIRECTORS DEUTSCHLAND86, the sequel to the Florian Cossen, Arne Feldhusen SCREEN- Tinternationally acclaimed International PLAY Anna Winger, Joy Mitchell, Steve Bailie, Emmy Award-winning espionage series Will Bentley, Ulf Tschauder CAST Jonas Nay, DEUTSCHLAND83, at locations as far flung as Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Vladimir South Africa and Berlin. Many of the cast Burlakov, Ludwig Trepte, Alexander Beyer, from the first series will be reprising their Carina Wiese, Sonja Gerhardt, Anke Engelke, roles, including Jonas Nay as East German Fritzi Haberlandt, Lavinia Wilson, Florence agent Martin Rauch and Maria Schrader as Kasumba PRODUCERS Anna Winger, Jörg his aunt Leonora at the Stasi’s Foreign Intel- Winger, Sebastian Werninger, Ulrike Leibfried ligence division. Long banished to Africa for PRODUCTION COMPANY UFA FICTION, in his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch is sent back association with Amazon, FremantleMedia into the field to experiment with global capi- International, UFA Distribution LANGUAGE talism. Dark deals and a dangerous mission German lead him throughout Africa and Europe and finally back to East Berlin where he must SALES

wo women, friends in the middle of GENRE Road Movie CATEGORY Feature their lives. But the business of every - DIRECTOR Aline Chukwuedo SCREENPLAY Tday has kept them at a distance. Now Aline Chukwuedo, Sabina Gröner CAST they want to reconnect with something that Stefanie Petrowitz, Kirsten Schlüter, Christian once was, but is no longer. One of the women Schäfer PRODUCER Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan has made herself comfortable in a neoliberal PRODUCTION COMPANY Deutsche Film- und life and lifestyle, the other has become lost Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), in co-pro- pursuing an academic career without a duction with HILDEBRANDT Film LANGUAGE future. Decisions have been made. German

While on a walking holiday together in the CONTACT Czech mountains it is not only the near-im- DFFB passable terrain that keeps pulling them off [email protected] their joint route, but also jealousy, fear and www.dffb.de shame.

ELLA & NELL is a gentle, nostalgically funny © Sebastian Lempe/DFFB story about friendship and inexorable decay. FRITZI – EINE WENDEWUNDERGESCHICHTE

he final months in East Germany GENRE Animation, Children & Youth, Coming- before the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 of-Age Story, Drama, Family Entertainment, TNovember 1989 provide the backdrop History CATEGORY Feature DIRECTORS Ralf for co-directors Ralf Kukula and Matthias Kukula, Matthias Bruhn SCREENPLAY Beate Bruhn’s animated feature FRITZI. 12-year-old Völcker PRODUCERS Richard Lutterbeck, Ralf Fritzi wanted to spend her summer holidays Kukula CO-PRODUCERS Patrick Quinet, with Sophie, but her best friend has gone to Pierre Urbain, Martin Vandas PRODUCTION Hungary on a camping trip with her mother COMPANIES Balance Film, Trickstudio and has left her dog Sputnik in Fritzi’s care. Lutterbeck, in co-production with Artemis When Sophie doesn’t return to class after the Productions, Doghouse Films, Maur Film holidays, Fritzi is preoccupied with trying to LANGUAGE English reunite Sputnik with Sophie. As the weeks pass, Fritzi experiences the dramatic changes SALES to her country at first hand, but believes that Global Screen a miracle will have to happen if she is ever to [email protected] see Sophie again... www.globalscreen.de

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omething has to be going wonderfully GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain- right when a children’s and family ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Mike Sentertainment franchise hits its fifth Marzuk SCREENPLAY Mike Marzuk CAST outing and still shows no sign of stopping! Marinus Hohmann, Allegra Tinnefeld, This time, as another year brings another Ron Antony Renzenbrink, Amelie Lammers, long summer holiday, it also brings more Jacob Matschenz, Jürgen Tarrach, Milan adventures for George, Julian, Dick, Anne and Peschel PRODUCERS Ewa Karlström, Timmy the dog, when they meet Marty Bach, Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton CO-PRODUCER a young man who appears at first to be be- Martin Moszkowicz PRODUCTION COMPANY having rather oddly. It turns out his deceased SamFilm, in co-production with Constantin father had discovered a supposedly intact di- Film Produktion LANGUAGE German nosaur skeleton but the bad guys have stolen the code that reveals the coordinates to the CONTACT legendary “Valley of Dinosaurs”. If the kids, SamFilm Marty, and, of course, Timmy, can’t rescue the [email protected] code and get to the valley first, the priceless www.samfilm.de

A HOME IN HOLLYWOOD

idden at the end of Mulholland Drive, GENRE Biopic CATEGORY Documentary just north of LA, lies the Motion Pic- DIRECTORS Uli Gaulke, Agnes Lisa Wegner Hture & Television Fund. Created by PRODUCERS Arne Birkenstock, Helge Albers Hollywood’s earliest entertainment lumina- CO-PRODUCERS Stefanie Plattner, Ekrem ries such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Ergün PRODUCTION COMPANY achtung Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith, who panda! Media, in co-production with Fruit- realized the need to help those in the enter- market Arts & Media, Storming Donkey Pro- tainment industry who fell upon hard times, ductions, SWR LANGUAGE English the MPTF is now home to a unique retirement community: men and women who were once SALES the backbone of showbiz. But age ain’t Global Screen stopping ‘em! Still going strong in their own [email protected] studio, they produce short films and other www.globalscreen.de creative endeavors. This film follows one such project, from the first brainstorming session all the way to the premiere, revealing en -

during dreams and hopes beyond the lime- © achtung panda! Media/Konrad Waldmann light – and lessons in life and love. ICH ICH ICH

surreal comedy about finding your GENRE Comedy, Experimental, Romantic true self, ICH ICH ICH has Marie, Comedy CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Zora Aearly-30s, overwhelmed by her Rux SCREENPLAY Zora Rux CAST Elisa Plüß, boyfriend Julian’s marriage proposal. Her Thomas Fränzel, Henriette Confurius, Lola attempts to clear her mind result in a near Klamroth, Sebastian Schneider, Wenka von takeover by her “thought people”: which is to Mikulicz PRODUCERS Fred Burle, Leonie say that we see her thoughts as real people Minor, Roxana Richters PRODUCTION COM- who all know what’s best for her. They start PANY Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie by questioning her relationship and soon her Berlin (DFFB) LANGUAGE German whole life is under the microscope: they all want her to make certain decisions, but what CONTACT does she actually want? Whilst Julian grapp- DFFB les with his own “thought-people,” Marie [email protected] decides on an experiment: What if the solu- www.dffb.de tion isn’t to obey your own thoughts but ac- cept them and make them visible to others?

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scar®-winning director Jochen GENRE Thriller CATEGORY TV Movie DIREC- Alexander Freydank wrapped shoot - TOR Jochen Alexander Freydank SCREEN- Oing on DAS JOSHUA-PROFIL in mid- PLAY Jan Braren CAST Torben Liebrecht, September. The psychological thriller is Franziska Weisz, Inez Björg David, Lina based on the eponymous bestseller by the Hüesker, Armin Rohde, Arnd Klawitter, Max internationally acclaimed novelist Sebastian Hopp PRODUCER Jörg Winger PRODUCTION Fitzek. The gripping tale of a law-abiding COMPANY UFA FICTION LANGUAGE German writer who is wrongfully identified as the future perpetrator of a crime touches on CONTACT time ly and complex issues such as data min - UFA FICTION ing and predictive policing. The resulting race [email protected] against time weaves through a sweltering www.ufa-fiction.de Berlin summer as the writer attempts to clear his name and save his daughter from the real criminals – but, in doing, so he realizes the immensity of his adversaries and

ailing from Rostock on Germany’s GENRE Thriller CATEGORY Feature DIREC- Baltic Sea coast, writer-director Max TOR Max Gleschinski SCREENPLAY Max HGleschinski and his DoP Jean-Pierre Gleschinski CAST Florian Bartholomäi, Bern- Meyer-Gehrke are embarking this autumn on hard Conrad, Maike Johanna Reuter PRO - the production of their debut feature film, the DUCERS Torsten Wichner, Jean-Pierre tragic-absurd thriller KAHLSCHLAG, which is Meyer-Gehrke, Max Gleschinski CO-PRO - set against the backdrop of the atmospheric DUCERS Phillip Lehner, Klaus Blaudzun, Jan rural landscape of north-west Mecklenburg. Klonowski, Benjamin Weiß PRODUCTION COMPANY Von Anfang Anders Filmproduk- Different paths in life and the fact both of tion, in co-production with Rabauke Filmpro- them fell in love with the same woman had duktion LANGUAGE German torn Martin and Eric’s friendship apart. They have now come together again for one last CONTACT Sunday fishing trip at the local lake. While Von Anfang Anders Filmproduktion Martin is hoping that they can finally put [email protected] their differences to rest, Eric’s thoughts are www.vonanfanganders.de

KU’DAMM 59

irector Sven Bohse has returned to GENRE Drama CATEGORY Mini-Series DI- the Berlin of the late 1950s for RECTOR Sven Bohse SCREENPLAY Annette DKU’DAMM 59, the sequel of the Hess CAST Sonja Gerhardt, Claudia Michel- successf ul ZDF three-parter KU’DAMM 56, sen, Maria Ehrich, Emilia Schüle, Trystan about the proprietor of the dance school “Ga- Pütter, Sabin Tambrea, August Wittgenstein, lant”, Caterina Schöllack, and her three Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen PRODUCERS daughters, Monika, Eva and Helga. Annette Benjamin Benedict, Nico Hofmann, Marc Hess’ script focuses once again on the image Lepetit PRODUCTION COMPANY UFA FICTION of women and follows Monika and her sisters LANGUAGE German as they search for their own new identity, with such issues as emancipation, family struc - SALES tures and the desire for female self-deter - ZDF Enterprises mination at the center of the action. The story www.zdf-enterprises.de of the Schöllack family is exemplary for many women at a time when a woman’s life was often determined by her place next to her

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LILIANE SUSEWIND

anya Stewner’s internationally suc- GENRE Family Entertainment CATEGORY cessful children’s book series Liliane Feature DIRECTOR Joachim Masannek TSusewind is finally coming to the big SCREENPLAY Katrin Milhahn, Antonia screen and is being directed by Joachim Rothe-Liermann, Matthias Dinter, Beate Masannek (THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH). 11- Fraunholz, Betty Platz CAST Malu Leicher, year-old Liliane “Lilli” Susewind can talk to Christoph Maria Herbst, Tom Beck, Aylin animals! This is a secret that nobody should Tezel, Meret Becker, Peri Baumeister, Aaron know except for her parents. Her special ta- Kissiov PRODUCERS Felix Zackor, Stefan lent has caused enough trouble in the past Raiser, Maike Haas PRODUCTION COMPANY and is forcing the family to move again. Lilli Dreamtool Entertainment, in co-production vows to keep her secret to herself when they with Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmpro- arrive at their new home – until she learns duktion, Velvet Films LANGUAGE German that a mean animal thief has kidnapped the baby elephant Ronni from the local zoo. To- SALES gether with her new classmate Jess, Lilli sets ARRI Media International off on an adventure to save Ronni and the [email protected]

SPIELMACHER

vo, former professional footballer and jail- GENRE Thriller CATEGORY Feature DIREC- bird with nothing to lose, is a betting natu- TOR Timon Modersohn SCREENPLAY Iral. His feel for the sport and background Christian Brecht CAST Frederick Lau, Antje draw the interest of Dejan, who takes him into Traue, Oliver Masucci, Mateo Wansing Lorrio, his family, sucking him quickly into football’s Karl Markovics, Goran Navojec, Ludwig underbelly, a world of global fraud and mani- Trepte, Paul Fassnacht, Blerim Destani, pulation where individuals are merely small Natalia Avelon PRODUCERS Manuel Bicken- cogs in an international network whose digi- bach, Alexander Bickenbach PRODUCTION tal tentacles stretch all the way to China and COMPANY Frisbeefilms, in co-production with beyond. But when Ivo meets young Lukas, a Warner Bros. Film Pro ductions Germany, talented lad in whom he sees his former self, cine plus Filmproduktion LAN GUAGE German and starts training him for a top team trial while, at the same time, supposedly grooming CONTACT and manipulating him on Dejan’s behalf, he Frisbeefilms also falls in love with the boy’s mother. Now [email protected] Ivo finds himself caught between two fronts www.frisbeefilms.com

STORY OF BERLIN

fter making a series of highly visual GENRE Romantic Comedy CATEGORY Feature and often unconventional shorts DIRECTOR Erik Schmitt SCREENPLAY Asuch as the award-winning NOW Stefanie Ren, Erik Schmitt CAST Marleen FOLLOWS and RHINO FULL THROTTLE, Erik Lohse, Jeremy Mockridge, Heiko Pinkowski, Schmitt has now embarked on his feature Max Mauff, Andrea Sawatzki, Jean Pütz PRO- debut, STORY OF BERLIN (working title), DUCER Fabian Gasmia PRODUCTION COM- which employs many in-camera tricks and PANY DETAiLFILM, in co-production with ZDF plays with various filming techniques. Das kleine Fernsehspiel LANGUAGE German

Schmitt’s “regular” leading lady Marleen CONTACT Lohse plays the Berlin tourist guide Kleo who DETAiLFILM had once been searching for a magical clock [email protected] with her late father. When the adventurer www.detailfilm.de Paul appears with a treasure map that may indicate the clock’s whereabouts, the two set off on a common quest – with Kleo using her

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UNWIEDERBRINGLICH ENTFLIEHT DIE ZEIT – EINE CHRONIK

NWIEDERBRINGLICH ENTFLIEHT GENRE Chronicle CATEGORY Documentary DIE ZEIT – EINE CHRONIK is a DIRECTOR Carmen Treichel CINEMATOG - Ufeature-length documentary about RAPHY Carmen Treichel PRODUCERS letting go. Shot in a style that is reflective as Carmen Treichel, France Orsenne, in co-pro- well as humorous, Carmen Treichl follows her duction with Deutsche Film- und Fernseh- grandparents as their lives come to a close. akademie Berlin (DFFB) LANGUAGE German In the constant conflict between grandchild and filmmaker, she is forced to leave her CONTACT comfort zone. In her so doing, the camera of- Carmen Treichel fers a path with which she and all those con- [email protected] cerned, along with the viewer, can deal with www.carmentreichl.com death. The familiar routines crumble slowly and are replaced by an acceptance that time, irreplaceable and beyond all value, is indeed escaping. A portrait of the present.

WENDY 2

ollowing the box-office success of GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain- the first film about teenager Wendy ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Hanno FThorsteeg’s life with horses (WENDY – Olderdissen SCREENPLAY Caroline Hecht THE MOVIE), the cast has now been reunited CAST Jule Hermann, Jasmin Gerat, Maren under the direction of Hanno Olderdissen for Kroymann, Benjamin Sadler, Nadeshda a sequel with new adventures. Wendy has Brennicke PRODUCERS Eva Holtmann, Jan been living happily with her parents at Rosen- Kromschröder PRODUCTION COMPANY Ban- borg for the past year, but her granny’s horse try Bay Productions, in co-production with ranch is close to bankruptcy. When Wendy Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion learns that the owner of the neighboring LANGUAGE German stable is organizing a youth tournament, it seems that winning the top prize might solve SALES all their problems. The traumatized show Beta Film horse Penny has the potential to win if she [email protected] wasn’t afraid of jumping...and then Wendy www.betafilm.com also has to make sure that she isn’t ne -

WUFF – FOLGE DEM HUND

orses had been in the spotlight of GENRE Comedy CATEGORY Feature DIREC- Detlev Buck’s highly successful BIBI TOR Detlev Buck SCREENPLAY Detlev Buck, H& TINA series of films, but the Andrea Willson CAST Kostja Ullmann, director has now turned his attention to Frederick Lau, Emily Cox, Marie Burchard, man’s best friend, showing how the lives Johanna Wokalek, Urs Jucker, Maite Kelly, of our four-legged friends’ masters and Judy Winter PRODUCERS Christoph Daniel, mistresses are invariably turned topsy-turvy Marc Schmidheiny, Detlev Buck, Sonja while they learn more about themselves and Schmitt PRODUCTION COMPANY DCM Pictu- find true love thanks to their new doggy com- res, in co-production with Bucket, SevenPic- panions... tures Film LANGUAGE German

The comedy’s cute mutts appear opposite a CONTACT resplendent human cast including Kostja DCM Pictures Ullmann (MY BLIND DATE WITH LIFE), www.dcmworld.com Frederick Lau (VICTORIA), Emily Cox (THE LAST KINGDOM) and Johanna Wokalek (POPE

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GERMAN FILMS: A PROFILE GFQ 4-2017 GERMAN FILMS SERVICE + MARKETING

is the national infor mation 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 Jana Cernik the umbrella association for the Association Katharina Cramer-Hadjidimos of German Feature Film Producers, the Peter Dinges Association of New German Feature Film Antonio Exacoustos Producers and the Association of German Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer Film Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. In 2004, the TEAM company was re organized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Mariette Rissenbeek Managing Director Marketing GmbH. Christine Harrasser Distribution Support, Television, Business Affairs Angela Hawkins Communications & Marketing SHAREHOLDERS are the German Pro - Nicole Kaufmann Regional Coordinator: USA, UK & Northern Europe ducers Association, the German Pro ducers Birgit Koch Press & PR Alliance, the Association of German Film Ex- Verena Köstler Accounts porters, the German Federal Film Board Marita Luger Assistant to the Managing Director (FFA), the Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Dennis Ruh Festival Relations Documentary Association, FilmFernsehFonds Fides Schäffer Regional Coordinator: Asia & Australia Bayern, Film- und Medien stiftung NRW, Maike Schantz Regional Coordinator: Southern Europe & Latin America Medien board Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Martin Scheuring Project Coordinator & Short Film German Short Film Association. Sabrina Schrödl Assistant to the Managing Director Bernhard Simek Regional Coordinator: Eastern Europe, Documentary Film German Films’ budget of presently €4.72 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, Rome, film industry, as well as international market Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film- und Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Toronto, New York, analy ses and special festival brochures Medien stiftung NRW, HessenFilm, Medien - Shanghai, Warsaw, Moscow, and Busan board Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden-  A website (www.german-films.de) offer - Württemberg, Mittel deutsche Medien-  Organization of umbrella stands for ing in forma tion about new German films, a förderung, and Nord media) make a financial German sales companies and producers at film archive, in formation and links to German contribution – currently amounting to international television and film markets and international film festivals and institu - €362,000 – towards the work of German (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shanghai, tions Films. Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy)  Organization of the selection procedure German Films is a founding member of the  Staging of Festivals of German Films in for the German entry for the Oscar® for Best European Film Promotion, a network of selected inter national territories in coopera- Foreign Language Film European film organizations with similar tion with the Goethe-Institut responsibilities to those of German Films.  Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s The organiza tion, with its headquarters in  Staging of industry screenings in key DW-TV KINO program which features the Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint international territories latest German film releases and inter national projects for the pre sentation of European productions in Germany films on an inter national level.  Providing advice and information for rep - resentatives of the international press and  Organization of the German Films Pre- In association and cooperation with its share - buyers from the fields of cinema, home views geared toward arthouse distributors holders, German Films works to promote fea- entertain ment, and television and buyers of German films ture, documentary, television and short films.  Providing advice and information for  Selective financial Distribution Support In addition, German Films has foreign re p - German filmmakers and press on inter - for the foreign releases of German films resentatives for Eastern Europe, China/ national festivals, conditions of participation, Southe ast Asia, and the USA/Canada. and German films being shown  Organization with UniFrance of the annual German-French film meeting  Organization of the annual Next Genera- tion Short Tiger short film program, which presents a selection of shorts and is inter - nationally premiered in Cannes 40 GFQ4_Druckvorlage_Final.qxp_Layout 1 13.10.17 09:29 Seite 41

GFQ 4-2017 SHAREHOLDERS & SUPPORTERS

Allianz Deutscher Produzenten – Film & Fernsehen e.V. German Producers Alliance Kronenstr. 3 | 10117 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-2 06 70 88 0 | fax +49-30-2 06 70 88 44 | [email protected] | www.produzentenallianz.de

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm e.V. German Documentary Association Schweizer Str. 6 | 60594 Frankfurt am Main/Germany phone +49-69-62 37 00 | fax +49-61 42-96 64 24 | [email protected] | www.agdok.de

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kurzfilm e.V. German Short Film Association Förstereistr. 36 | 01099 Dresden/Germany phone +49-3 51-4 04 55 75 | fax +49-3 51-4 04 55 76 | [email protected] | www.ag-kurzfilm.de

Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen Potsdamer Str. 2 | 10785 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-30 09 03-0 | fax +49-30-30 09 03-13 | [email protected] | www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Medien in Bayern Sonnenstr. 21 | 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-54 46 02-0 | fax +49-89-54 46 02 21 | [email protected] | www.fff-bayern.de

Filmförderungsanstalt German Federal Film Board Große Präsidentenstr. 9 | 10178 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-27 57 70 | fax +49-30-27 57 71 11 | [email protected] | www.ffa.de

Film- und Medienstiftung NRW GmbH Kaistr. 14 | 40221 Düsseldorf/Germany phone +49-2 11-93 05 00 | fax +49-2 11-93 05 05 | [email protected] | www.filmstiftung.de

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH August-Bebel-Str. 26-53 | 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg/Germany phone +49-3 31-74 38 70 | fax +49-3 31-7 43 87 99 | [email protected] | www.medienboard.de

Verband Deutscher Filmproduzenten e.V. German Producers Association Häberlstr. 5 | 80336 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-22 84 50 45 | fax +49-89-12 19 76 03 [email protected] | www.filmproduzentenverband.de Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Federal Government Commissioner for Culture & the Media Köthener Str. 2 | 10963 Berlin/Germany | phone +49-30-18 68 10 fax +49-30-1 86 81 54 43 51 | [email protected] | www.kulturstaatsminister.de

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH Friedensallee 14–16 | 22765 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-40-398 37-0 | fax +49-40-398 37-10 | [email protected] | www.ffhsh.de

HessenFilm und Medien GmbH Am Steinernen Stock 1 | 60320 Frankfurt am Main/Germany phone +49-69-15 32 404-0 | fax +49-69-15 32 404 99 | [email protected] | www.hessenfilm.de

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Hainstr. 17-19 | 04109 Leipzig/Germany phone +49-3 41-26 98 70 | fax +49-3 41-2 69 87 65 | [email protected] | www.mdm-online.de

nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH Expo Plaza 1 | 30539 Hanover/Germany phone +49-5 11-1 23 45 60 | fax +49-5 11-12 34 56 29 | [email protected] | www.nordmedia.de

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ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS GFQ 4-2017 ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS

Verband deutscher Filmexporteure e.V. (VDFE) Robert-Koch-Str. 1 80538 Munich/Germany Berlin office: phone +49-89-570 877 53 Winterfeldtstr. 56 fax +49-89-570 877 60 10781 Berlin/Germany [email protected] phone +49-30-8 61 23 93 www.vdfe.de

ARRI Media International Films Boutique GmbH Picture Tree International GmbH Türkenstr. 89 Köpenicker Str. 184 Husemannstr. 7 80799 Munich/Germany 10997 Berlin/Germany 10435 Berlin/Germany phone +49-89-38 09 12 88 phone +49-30-69 53 78 50 phone +49-30-420 824 80 fax +49-89-38 09 16 19 [email protected] fax +49-30-420 824 812 [email protected] www.filmsboutique.com [email protected] www.arrimedia.de/international www.picturetree-international.com

Beta Cinema GmbH Global Screen GmbH SOLA Media GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28d Sonnenstr. 21 Rotebühlplatz 29 82041 Oberhaching/Germany 80331 Munich/Germany 70178 Stuttgart/Germany phone +49-89-6 73 46 98 28 phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00 phone +49-7 11-96 89 44 40 [email protected] fax +49-89-55 87 61 91 06 fax +49-7 11-96 89 44 51 www.betacinema.com [email protected] [email protected] www.globalscreen.de www.sola-media.com

Constantin Film Verleih GmbH Media Luna New Films UG Feilitzschstr. 6 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6th Floor 80802 Munich/Germany 50672 Cologne/Germany phone +49-89-44 44 60 0 phone +49-2 21-51 09 18 91 fax +49-89-44 44 60 666 fax +49-2 21-51 09 18 99 [email protected] [email protected] www.constantin-film.de www.medialuna.biz

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GFQ 4-2017 IMPRINT & FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES

German Films Quarterly is published by: Editor FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES Angela Hawkins German Films Service + Marketing GmbH Eastern Europe Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 16 Contributors Simone Baumann 80331 Munich/Germany Thomas Abeltshauser, Martin Blaney, Saxonia Entertainment phone +49-89-5 99 78 70 Patrick Heidmann, Simon Kingsley Altenburger Str. 9 fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 04275 Leipzig/Germany [email protected] Translations phone +49-3 41-35 00 45 36 www.german-films.de Lucinda Rennison fax +49-3 41-35 00 77 45 36 [email protected] Cover Liv Lisa Fries from the FACE TO FACE USA & Canada WITH GERMAN FILMS campaign Oliver Mahrdt (© German Films/Mathias Bothor) Hanns Wolters International Inc. 599 Eleventh Ave., 3rd Floor Design & Art Direction New York, NY 10036/USA ISSN 1614-6387 Werner Schauer www.triptychon.biz phone +1-212-714 0100 [email protected] Credits are not contractual for any of Printing Office the films mentioned in this publication. www.esta-druck.de China Anke Redl German Films supports the use of paper from sustainable forestry. © German Films Service + Marketing GmbH The pages of this magazine are made of PEFC certificated cellulose. China Media Management Inc. PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Galaxy SOHO, Tower D-50931 schemes) is the largest independent organization worldwide for All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or securing and continuously improving a sustainable forest manage- No. 7 Xiaopaifang Hutong transmission of this publication may be made ment and it guarantees ecological, social and economic standards. Dongcheng Currently there are 258 million hectares of PEFC certificated forest without written permission. worldwide. Beijing 100010/China phone +86-10-65 20 64 30 fax +86-10-65 20 64 50 [email protected] H b m G worldwide transport solutions Int. Medienspedition FILMTRANSPORTS . FIRST CLASS SERVICE ! AIRFREIGHT WORLDWIDE: EXPORT . IMPORT . WAREHOUSE INTERNATIONAL COURIERSERVICE: WORLDWIDE „DOOR TO DOOR“ TRUCKING SERVICE . OVERNIGHT FESTIVALS . FILMPRODUCTION-HANDLING

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