At Cannes 2008 GERMAN FILMS and CO-PRODUCTIONS
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German Films at Cannes 2008 GERMAN FILMS AND CO-PRODUCTIONS In Competition In Competition In Competition PALERMO SHOOTING DELTA WALTZ WITH BASHIR by Wim Wenders by Kornél Mundruczó by Ari Folman Producer: Neue Road Movies/Berlin German Co-Producer: German Co-Producer: Razor Film/Berlin World Sales: HanWay Films/London Essential Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: Coproduction Office/Paris Un Certain Regard Cinéfondation Atelier TULPAN GESTERN IN EDEN WOMB by Sergey Dvortsevoy THE OTHER DAY IN EDEN by Benedek Fliegauf by Jan Speckenbach German Co-Producer: Pandora Film/Cologne German Producer: Razor Film/Berlin World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne Producer/World Sales: Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie (dffb)/Berlin Directors’ Fortnight Critics’ Week Critics’ Week SALAMANDRA DAS FREMDE IN MIR DER KLOANE by Pablo Aguero THE STRANGER IN ME by Emily Atef THE RUNT by Andreas Hykade German Co-Producer: Rohfilm/Leipzig & Berlin Producer: NiKo Film/Berlin Producer/World Sales: World Sales: Bavaria Film Studio Film Bilder/Stuttgart International/Geiselgasteig in the Official Program of the Cannes Film Festival 2008 In Competition Un Certain Regard Un Certain Regard LE SILENCE DE LORNA WOLKE 9 O’ HORTEN by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne CLOUD 9 by Andreas Dresen by Bent Hamer German Co-Producers: Mogador Film/ Producer: Rommel Film/Berlin German Co-Producer: Pandora Film/Cologne Frankfurt-Berlin & Gemini Film/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: Celluloid Dreams/Paris Cannes Classics Midnight Special Directors’ Fortnight All photos courtesy of producers and world sales agents. 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LOLA MONTEZ SURVEILLANCE LIVERPOOL by Max Ophuels by Jennifer Lynch by Lisandro Alonso German Co-Producers: Gamma Film, Oska-Film, German Producer: Lago Film/Berlin German Co-Producer: Black Forest Films/Berlin Union-Film/Munich World Sales: Arclight Films/Los Angeles World Sales: The Match Factory/Cologne World Sales: Les Films du Jeudi/Paris Critics’ Week Critics’ Week Critics’ Week BETTER THINGS LA SANGRE BROTA SNOW by Duane Hopkins BLOOD APPEARS by Pablo Fendrik by Aida Begic German Co-Producer: Flying Moon German Co-Producer: Neue Cameo Film/Cologne German Co-Producer: Rohfilm/Leipzig & Berlin Filmproduktion/Berlin World Sales: Coach14/Paris & Barcelona World Sales: Pyramide International/Paris World Sales: Celluloid Dreams/Paris Contents In Competition 5 Un Certain Regard 6 Cinéfondation 7 Cannes Classics 8 Critics’ Week 9 Market Screenings: New German Films 14 Next Generation 2008 36 European Film Promotion’s “Producers on the Move” 45 Members of the Association of German Film Exporters (VDFE) at the Cannes Film Festival 51 Foreign Representatives & Imprint 54 In Competition Palermo Shooting As a successful photographer of world-wide Genre Romantic Thriller Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2008 Director Wim Wenders renown, Finn leads a life that is as prominent as Screenplay Wim Wenders Director of Photography Franz Lustig Editor Peter Przygodda Original it is hectic. He gets by with very little sleep, his Filmscore Irmin Schmidt Production Design Sebastian Soukup Producers Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel cell phone is never still, and the music from his Executive Producers Jeremy Thomas, Peter Schwartzkopff Production Company Neue Road Movies/Berlin, headphones is his most constant companion. in co-production with ARTE France Cinema/Paris, ZDF/ARTE, in cooperation with Pictorion DAS WERK Principal But when his life suddenly spins out of control, Cast Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch, Jana Pallaske, Axel Sichrovsky, Gerhard Gutberlet, Finn takes off and leaves everything behind. Sebastian Blomberg, Lou Reed, Letizia Battaglia, Francesco Guzzo, Alessandro Dieli, Giovanni Sollima Length 124 min His journey leads him from Duesseldorf to Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German/Italian/English Subtitled Versions English, French Palermo. There he finds himself persecuted by a Sound Technology Dolby Digital SRD Festival Screenings Cannes 2008 (In Competition) With backing mysterious shooter who’s after him with a from Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund vengeance. At the same time a whole new life is (DFFF), MEDIA, AAPIT Provincia Regionale di Palermo, POR La Regione Siciliana German Distributor Senator beginning for Finn. And a great love … Film Verleih/Berlin Wim Wenders was born in Duesseldorf in 1945. He abandoned studies in Medicine and Philosophy to become a painter, but in Paris he discovered cinema instead. He attended film school in Munich from 1967-1970, and then start- ed to direct and produce his own films. He has received numerous international awards, including the Golden Lion (1982), the Golden Palm (1984), the European Film Award (1988), and a Silver Bear (2000). He is a professor at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, and lives partly in America, partly in Berlin. A selection of his acclaimed films includes: The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1971), Alice in the Cities (1973), Kings of the Road (1976), The American Friend (1977), Hammett (1982), The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Until the End of the World (1991), Faraway, So Close! (1993), Lisbon Story (1994), The End of Violence (1997), Buena Vista Social Club (1998), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), The Soul of a Man (2003), Land of Plenty (2004), Don’t Come Knocking (2005), and Palermo Shooting (2008), among others. World Sales HanWay Films Ltd. 24 Hanway Street · London W1T 1UH/Great Britain phone +44-20-72 90 07 50 · fax +44-20-72 90 07 51 email: [email protected] · www.hanwayfilms.com In Cannes Residence Gray d’Albion 27 La Croisette (entrance 4 rue des Serbes) phone +33-(0)4-93 68 34 23 · fax +33-(0)4-93 68 37 56 in competition 5 Un Certain Regard Wolke 9 CLOUD 9 She didn’t ask for it. It just happened. There Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2008 Director Andreas Dresen Story were stealing glances, attraction. But this was Development Andreas Dresen, Cooky Ziesche, Laila Stieler, Joerg Hauschild Director of Photography never supposed to happen. Inge is in her mid- Michael Hammon Editor Joerg Hauschild Production Design Susanne Hopf Costume Design Sabine Greunig 60s. She has been married for 30 years and Producer Peter Rommel Production Company Rommel Film/Berlin, in co-production with RBB/Potsdam- loves her husband. But Inge is drawn to this Babelsberg, in cooperation with ARTE/Strasbourg Principal Cast Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, Horst Westphal, older man Karl, already 76. It’s passion. It’s sex. Steffi Kuehnert Length 98 min Format HDV FAZ 35 mm, color, 1:1:85 Original Version German Subtitled And she suddenly feels like a young girl again … Versions English, French Festival Screenings Cannes 2008 (Un Certain Regard) With backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Filmkunstpreis 2006 Festival des Deutschen Films German Distributor Senator Film Verleih/Berlin Andreas Dresen was born in 1963 and started shooting amateur films in 1979. From 1984 to 1985 he worked as a sound technician at the theater in Schwerin, and then apprenticed at the DEFA studios, working as an assistant direc- tor with Guenter Reisch. He then studied Direction at the “Konrad Wolf" Academy of Film & Television in Potsdam. Since 1992, he has been working as a writer and director for television, cinema, and theater. A selection of his award- winning films includes: Silent Country (Stilles Land, 1992), Night Shapes (Nachtgestalten, 1998), The Policewoman (Die Polizistin, 2000), Grill Point (Halbe Treppe, 2001), Vote for Henryk! (Herr Wichmann von der CDU, 2003), Willenbrock (2004), Summer in Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon, 2005), and Cloud 9 (Wolke 9, 2008). World Sales The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber Balthasarstrasse 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910 email: [email protected] · www.the-match-factory.com In Cannes Residence Bagatelle, 4th Floor · 25, Boulevard de la Croisette phone +33-(0)4-93 39 77 37 · fax +33-(0)4-93 99 12 47 6 un certain regard Cinéfondation Gestern in Eden THE OTHER DAY IN EDEN To take care of his father’s estate, Ulrich Meinert Genre Drama Category Short Year of Production 2008 Director Jan Speckenbach Screenplay Jan has to go to a trailer park where his father used Speckenbach, Melanie Rohde Director of Photography Jenny Lou Ziegel Editor Wiebke Gundler to live. And suddenly he finds himself in a Music by Daniel Freundlieb Production Design Ralf Swinley, Petra Schlie Production Company nudist colony in eastern Germany which stirs up Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie (dffb)/Berlin, in co-production with Hochschule fuer Film & Fernsehen mixed feelings. Although he felt a lot of resent- ‘Konrad Wolf ’/Potsdam-Babelsberg Principal Cast Bernhard Schuetz, Sylvia Schwarz, Heiner Stadelmann ment towards his father, days go by without him Length 30 min, 855 m Format Super 16 mm Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German taking care of any unsettled business. Instead, he Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Cannes 2008 starts to get involved with Anja, his father’s girl- (Cinéfondation) friend, takes on one of his father’s old friends and settles into his father’s trailer. Against his Jan Speckenbach was born in 1970 and studied Art History, Philosophy and Media Arts in Munich, own wishes, he starts to fill the void his father Karlsruhe and Paris. Since 1999, he has been working as a freelance video artist, particularly for the theater. In left behind … 2005, he took up post-graduate studies in Film Directing at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. His other films include: A Few Minutes Jean Rouch (documentary, 1995), DCX (2001), Zeitspuren oder die Vermessung eines Theaters (documentary, 2003), Badezimmer oder die Geschichte von B.B.