Berlin & Beyond Honolulu 2019

5th Honolulu Series Jan. 19-21, 2019 Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre Aloha – Willkommen

We are excited to return to Hawaiʻi to present the fifth anniversary tour edition of the Berlin n e & Beyond Film Festival. Since 1996, the fest- p m i T

ival has been North America’s leading and n o d r largest annual showcase of the contemporary o G / m

cinematic movements of German-speaking u s r e v countries. Our 23rd main festival will run Mahalo nui loa. Thank you very much to our i n U March 8-14, 2019, primarily at the San Fran - sponsors and partners who made this series ©

t cisco’s legendary Castro Theatre. possible, particularly our lead collabo rator n e m n in Honolulu, German Honorary Consul Denis i a t r e

Now in its fifth edition, we feel that this series Salle, and BMW of Honolulu and its General t n E

. has become a part of the cultural calendar Manager, Tim Palms. We thank you, the s o r B

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The lineup is highlighted with three unique adventure at the cinema in your beautiful © films about the experiences and will to sur - city of Honolulu. vive of refugees: the social comedy Welcome to Germany about a Niger ian refugee living in Sigrid Savelsberg Welcome to Germany My Brother Simple a posh Bavarian neighborhood; Christian Pet - Director, Goethe-Institut San Francisco Willkommen bei den Hartmanns Simpel zold’s adaptation of Anna Seghers’ 1942 novel, President, Berlin & Beyond Transit ; Claus Räfle’s moving docudrama The Invisibles , about young Jewish people surviv - Sophoan Sorn Jan. 19, 2019 6:00 PM Jan. 19, 2019 8:30 PM ing the Third Reich by living “invisibly.” Festival Director, Berlin & Beyond Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Hawaiʻi Premiere – Opening Film Hawaiʻi Premiere

116 min. (Germany, 2016/17) 111 min. (Germany, 2017) German with English subtitles German with English subtitles

Tickets Schedule Director: Simon Verhoeven Director: Markus Goller

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Opening Night Package 8:30 PM My Brother Simple a Opening Film of the Hamburg Film Festival. a c c

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Sunday, January 20 a $25.00 (no discount) L Award and the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Ever since Ben can think, he and his brother a n

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$20.00 (no discount) 7:30 PM The Invisibles : e In this timely social comedy, recently retired three-year-old. Even if Simple can be a nui - g a p teacher Angelika decides, against her skepti - sance, Ben can’t imagine life without him. s i h t Festival Priority Pass Monday, January 21 cal husband Richard’s will, to take in a refugee. n When their mother dies unexpectedly, Simple o

3 Days in Quiberon s (all films + opening reception + priority entry) 6:00 PM o Soon afterward, the young Nigerian Diallo t is forced to be sent to a care home, but Ben o h

$80.00 General, $70.00 Senior, $55 Student 8:30 PM The Silent Revolution P moves into the Hartmann's home, and a whirl - won’t allow it. They run away together, and |

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not only disrupt the lives of Angelika and side under the stars, Ben realizes there’s only Online advance ticket orders will incur additional fees. Venues r e t Ticket sales at the festival are cash only. e Richard’s adult children Philip and Sophie; one way out: They have to find their Dad, P / y r

o they also put their own marriage as well as whom they haven’t seen for 15 years. My

Films at: Honolulu Museum of Art t c a F Doris Duke Theatre Diallo’s chances of integration to the test. Brother Simple is based on the novel by m

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Jan. 20, 2019 2:30 PM Jan. 20, 2019 5:00 PM Jan. 20, 2019 7:30 PM Jan. 21, 2019 6:00 PM Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Hawaiʻi Premiere – Swiss Window Hawaiʻi Premiere Hawaiʻi Premiere – Centerpiece Film Hawaiʻi Premiere

100 min. (Germany, 2017) 101 min. (Germany/France, 2018) 110 min. (Germany, 2017) 115 min. (Germany, 2018) German with English subtitles German with English subtitles German with English subtitles German and French with English subtitles

Director: Alain Gsponer Director: Christian Petzold Director: Claus Räfle Director: Emily Atef Starring: Jannis Niewöhner, Fahri Ogün Starring: Franz Rogowski, Paul Beer, Starring: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Starring: Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Yardim, Alicia von Rittberg, Emilia Schüle, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Aaron Altaras Charly Hübner, Robert Gwisdek, Jannik Schümann, Anna Maria Mühe Maryam Zaree US Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment Denis Lavant World Sales: Beta Cinema US Distributor: Music Box Films World Sales: Beta Cinema Hanni, Cioama, Eugen and Ruth. Four ordi - In a not-too-distant future, in which integra - Official Selection of the Berlin, Toronto, nary German youths trying to navigate the In a spa hotel Romy Schneider, the biggest tion serves to protect the elite and isolate the and New York film festivals. scarcities and prohibitions of Berlin at the female star in Europe of her time, gives her weak, and the cities are hellholes and the height of World War II. They hailed from dif - last interview to two journalists. Three days, countryside holds the fairytale promise of a In Christian Petzold’s haunting adaptation ferent social classes and different neighbor - driven by romantic desire, professional am - better life, a young school girl is found in the of Anna Seghers’ 1942 novel, “Transit Visa”, hoods, but they shared a single common secret: bition and the urge for living. 1981: One year woods during the annual graduates' assess - Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski, they were Jews. While Goebbels infamously before her death, Romy Schneider retreats ment camp. Known for his upstanding morals , Happy End ), flees to Marseille, assuming declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, some to a spa hotel in the town of Quiberon, Brit - a teacher breaks with his own values on a the identity of a recently deceased writer 1,700 managed to survive in Nazism’s capital tany. Visited by her close friend Hilde, who quest for the truth – and is increasing entan - whose papers he is carrying. There he until liberation. Claus Räfle’s gripping docu - has come to offer the support she needs to gled in a net of his own lies. Suddenly some - delves into the delicate and complex culture drama traces the stories of four real-life sur - fight her own demons. But it is more than one confesses to a murder that they couldn‘t of the refugee community, becoming en - vivors who learned that sometimes the best just the reunion of two old friends. When two have committed, and the fragile cohesion of meshed in the lives of a young mother and place to hide is in plain sight. journalists from the STERN arrive to conduct a youthful elite society is threatened to de - son, and falling for a mysterious woman an interview, Hilde tries to shield her friend stroy itself. Based on the novel "Jugend ohne named Marie (Paula Beer, Frantz ). from their invasive interrogation tactics. For Gott" 1938 ("The Age of the Fish" 1939) by Ödön three days and nights, the interaction be - von Horvath. tween the quartet ranges from sensitivity to brutal manipulation, an emotional roller coaster ride, by the end of which Romy seems more vulnerable than ever. Yet perhaps she has rediscovered her zest for life and the inner strength to carry on. 4 BERLINBEYOND.COM 5TH BERLIN & BEYOND FILM FESTIVAL HONOLULU 5 Presented by

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Jan. 21, 2019 8:30 PM Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Hawa iʻ i Premie re

111 min. (Germany, 2018) German and Russian with English subtitles

Director: Lars Kraume Starring: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, GERMAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalsk, Jonas OF HONOLULU Dassler, Ronald Zehrfeld, Florian Lukas, Burghart Klaußner World Sales: StudioCanal

In this thrilling historical drama, a small act of solidarity brings chaos to the lives of a class of teenagers living in 1956 Communist- Special Thanks controlled East Germany. Classmates Kurt • Taylour Chang (Tom Gramenz) and Theo (Leonard Scheicher) • Honorary Consul Theres Desai could have never predicted that a casual but • Deputy Consul General Patrick Heinz unauthorized trip to the movies in West Berlin • Tim Palms would result in their divulging of political infor - • Honorary Consul Denis Salle mation that would forever change them and • Consul General Hans-Ulrich Südbeck their fellow classmates. A Berlinale entry • Honorary Consul Johann Urschitz from historically minded director Lars Kraume • Consul General Urs Wüest (The People vs. Fritz Bauer ), this fact-based • Jale Yoldas drama offers a sobering reflection on the na - ture of protest and political action. Community Outreach Partners

• Alliance Française of Hawaii • Austrian Association of Hawaii • German Club Hawaii • Swiss Society of Hawaii

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