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GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTE RLY THE SUMMER ISSUE IN LOCARNO FREEDOM by Jan Speckenbach International Competition ICEMAN by Felix Randau Piazza Grande 7 1 THREE PEAKS by Jan Zabeil Piazza Grande 0 THE POETESS by Stefanie Brockhaus & Andreas Wolff Semaine de la Critique 2 - 3 DIRECTORS Helene Hegemann & Philipp Leinemann E PRODUCERS Christine Kiauk & Herbert Schwering of COIN FILM U S ACTOR Franz Rogowski S I CONTENTS GFQ 3-20 17 4 6 8 10 17 18 19 22 25 25 26 27 2 GFQ 3-20 17 CONTENTS I N THIS ISSUE PORTRAITS NEW SHORTS A CONSISTENT APPROACH GABI A portrait of director Helene Hegemann .......................................... 4 Michael Fetter Nathansky ................................................................ 26 THRIVING ON GENRE MEMENTO MORI A portrait of director Philipp Leinemann ........................................ 6 Nina Schiena ..................................................................................... 26 COMBINING ENTERTAINMENT & SOPHISTICATION SOG A portrait of COIN FILM .................................................................... 8 Jonatan Schwenk ............................................................................. 27 AN INTUITIVE PHYSICAL PRESENCE THE WHEEL A portrait of actor Franz Rogowski .................................................. 10 Daniela Lucato .................................................................................. 27 NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 12 UPCOMING FILMS NEW FEATURES BERLIN BOUNCER David Dietl ........................................................................................ 28 DREI ZINNEN THREE PEAKS Jan Zabeil ................................................................ 17 BURG SCHRECKENSTEIN 2 Ralf Huettner .................................................................................... 28 FORGET ABOUT NICK Margarethe von Trotta ...................................................................... 18 EINGEIMPFT David Sieveking ................................................................................ 28 FREIHEIT FREEDOM Jan Speckenbach ............................................................ 19 ELECTRIC GIRL Ziska Riemann ................................................................................ 29 DIE KÖRPER DER ASTRONAUTEN THE ASTRONAUTS‘ BODIES Alisa Berger ...................................... 20 FACK JU GÖHTE 3 Bora Dagtekin .................................................................................. 29 LUNA LUNA’S REVENGE Khaled Kaissar ................................................. 21 MACHT EUCH KEINE SORGEN! Emily Atef ......................................................................................... 29 DER MANN AUS DEM EIS ICEMAN Felix Randau ..................................................................... 22 DAS MELANCHOLISCHE MÄDCHEN Susanne Hermann ......................................................................... 30 SCHNEEFLÖCKCHEN SNOWFLAKE Adolfo J. Kolmerer ................................................... 23 PRÉLUDE Sabrina Sarabi ................................................................................. 30 DIE VIERHÄNDIGE FOUR HANDS Oliver Kienle ............................................................. 24 DAS SCHÖNSTE PAAR Sven Taddicken ............................................................................... 30 TRANSIT Christian Petzold .............................................................................. 31 NEW DOCUMENTARIES TRAUTMANN THE POETESS Marcus H. Rosenmüller .................................................................. 31 Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff ................................................. 25 WÄLDER WARLESS DAY Lothar Herzog .................................................................................. 31 Hamed Mohammadi ......................................................................... 25 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 33 Film Exporters ................................................................................. 34 Imprint .............................................................................................. 35 3 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 3-20 17 r o h t o B s a i h t a M / h i e l r e V m l i F n i t n a t s n o C © A CONSISTENT APPROACH A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR HELENE HEGEMANN 4 GFQ 3-20 17 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT ecstatic images by Manu Dacosse won the award for best camera in Sundance. And the author filmmaker demonstrated fine a fi lm b y HELENE H EGEMANN instincts in casting, too, the majority of the actors come from the theater, and – from the sen sational Jasna Fritzi Bauer as Mifti to Mavie Hörbiger, Laura Tonke and Bernhard Schütz – they all lend a buzzing vitality to their characters. “It’s because they all know what they are doing, and they totally get the con - text,” the director enthuses. It is not Hegemann’s first work as a director; two years before the novel she had already made a mid-length film entitled TORPEDO. At the time she was 15 and already streets ahead for her age. Having grown up in Bochum, at the age of 13, after her mother’s death, she moved to join her father Carl „AXOLO TL O VERKILL“ A HE LENE HE GEMANN FIL M A VA NDE RTASTIC PRODUCTI ON I N C O-P RODUCTI ON W ITH C ONSTANTIN F ILM P RO DU KTION, RBB AND BR SUP POR TED B Y LE UCHTSTOFF AN I NI TIATIVE O F RBB AND M EDI ENBO ARD BE RL IN-BR ANDE NBU RG JASNA F RITZI B AUER A RLY J OVER M AVIE H ÖRBIGER L AURA T ONKE J ULIUS F ELDMEIER H ANS LÖ W C HRISTOPHER R OTH AND B ERNHARD S CHÜTZ ELECTRONIC M USIC T ERR ANOVA EDI TOR BE TTINA BÖ HLER PRODU CTION DE SIGNER S YLVESTER K OZIOLEK DI RECTOR O F P HOTOG RAPHY M ANU D ACOSSE (SBC) COMMISSIONING E DITOR S C OOK Y Z IESCHE C OR NELIA A CKERS CO- PRODUCE RS C ONSTANZE G UTTMANN F RIEDERICH O ETKER EXECUT IVE P RODUCE RS M ARTIN M OSZKOWICZ O LIVER BE RBE N Hegemann in Berlin, where he is chief PRODU CERS H ANNEKE V AN D ER T AS A LAIN D E L A M ATA BASED O N T HE N OVEL „ AXOLO TL R OADKILL” BY HE LENE HE GEMANN WRI TTEN A ND DI RECTED B Y HE LENE HE GEMANN WORLD S ALES T HE M ATCH FA CTOR Y SUP POR TED B Y © 2 016 V ANDERTASTIC G MBH & C O. K G A ND C ON STANTIN F ILM P RODUKTION G MBH dramaturge at the Volksbühne, an un - _ _ . conventional and, for many, one of the best German-speaking theaters. She began to write at 13, and two years later she won the t is a mild summer’s evening and Helene “All the versions offered to me took the wrong Max-Ophüls-Prize with TORPEDO. A little Hegemann suggests that we sit on the approach entirely, they were just mixes of later, her disturbing debut novel appeared. terrace of the Italian restaurant alongside WETLANDS and WE CHILDREN FROM BAHN - She is fêted as a screwed-up, brilliant IVolkspark Friedrichshain, so that she will HOF ZOO. I was left writhing. I wanted the very wunderkind. be able to smoke. In a few seconds she has opposite of such a strange party-bold-girl- rolled herself a cigarette, while her dog teenie-story.” She had even managed to keep In the seven years since its publication and Charly dozes peacefully under the table. the final cut, i.e., the right to avoid cutting in the associated hype as well as the hostility, the end by a nervous film distributor looking Helene Hegemann has grown up. She seems Her full-length feature film debut AXOLOTL to create a dismal movie with mass appeal. confident and worldly-wise, speaking with OVERKILL has just been launched in German This is anything but automatic in the German great reflection about herself and her work. cinemas after celebrating its world premiere film industry. But her final film also reveals “I always did retain a healthy distance, be - at the well-known Sundance film festival in that artistic freedom. cause I keep changing my professional field.” January. This is remarkable in several re - Now “Axolotl” is finally done with, too. She is spects. Not merely because she is only 25 AXOLOTL OVERKILL is a consistent further currently working on a new novel, her third. It years young and has never studied at a film development of the novel: apart from the is about life in gated communities. She wants academy, but also because she was also basic constellation, she has kept very little of to continue with both writing and filmmaking. adapting her own novel, Axolotl Roadkill . She the original in her radical screenplay. “After There is only one thing she doesn’t want to do published the novel at eighteen and became all, the novel was the protagonist’s inner life, again – adapt her own book. Or at least that’s famous overnight, the book proving a huge for the film I had to develop an external world what she says right now. success. But the uncontested literary quality for her, and in the end, all that was left were of the novel, the radical subjective perspective two of the original scenes,” Hegemann ex - Thomas Abeltshauser of a teenage girl, was overshadowed by an plains. occasionally scornful discussion following accusations of plagiarism. By contrast, the Mifti is a 16-year-old girl from Berlin, who film is being almost unanimously praised by lives with her two half-siblings after her the critics. Not that Hegemann reads the mother’s death from alcohol abuse; she reviews. She stopped doing that long ago, for doesn’t go to school and prefers to drift reasons of self-preservation. through the clubs, wavering between hedonism and self-destruction, but always Shortly after its appearance, there were rather independent and smart, at least

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