GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 14201 4

GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 14201 4 19 - 22 JUNE www.german-films.de PROGRAM IMPRINT Credits not contractual for any of the films mentioned in this publication.

published by GERMAN FILMS Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 16 80331 Munich | phone +49-89-59 97 87-0 fax +49-89-59 97 87-30 [email protected] www.german-films.de

editors Barbie Heusinger Lisa Weyergans Angela Hawkins Bernhard Simek

design PUBLITAS · Dresden

printed by ESTA-DRUCK · Polling

THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 199JUNE 20 JUNE 21JUNE 22JUNE ARRIVAL IN DRESDEN 9.30-19.00h 9.00-19.00h 9.30-14.00h Transfer to the hotel FILM SCREENINGS FILM SCREENINGS FILM SCREENINGS 12.00-17.00h WELCOME-DESK and and and at the Swissôtel DVD LIBRARY DVD LIBRARY DVD LIBRARY optional: 15.00h BUS SHUTTLE at the UFA Kristallpalast at the UFA Kristallpalast at the UFA Kristallpalast 15.30h GUIDED TOUR Asisi Panometer

17.00h BUS SHUTTLE 19.30h DEPARTURE 17.15h GUIDED TOUR BUS SHUTTLE Gläserne Manufaktur 20.00h 20.00h 19.15h DINNER CLOSING PARTY Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung at Kastenmeiers at Marcolinis Welt GERMAN presents Tzschirnerplatz 3 Bautzner Str. 96 FILMS OPENING RECEPTION Restaurant Lesage PREVIEWS at Gläserne Manufaktur 2014 SCHEDULE EVENTS

HOTEL Swissôtel Dresden Schloßstraße 16 THEATER PROJECT COORDINATION & GUEST SERVICE 01067 Dresden UFA Kristallpalast Barbie Heusinger Lisa Weyergans

phone +49 351 501 20 0 St. Petersburger Straße 24 phone +49 89 59 97 87 24 phone +49 89 59 97 87 28

fax +49 351 501 20 555 01069 Dresden phone +49 174 946 8591 mobile +49 171 644 7014

www.swissotel.com/hotels/dresden/ email [email protected] email [email protected] Friday Saturday 20 JUNE 21 JUNE KINO 1 KINO 2 KINO 3 KINO 1 9.30h 9.00h WIR SIND JUNG. PROMO REEL WIR SIND STARK. > page 26 WE ARE YOUNG. 11.00h WE ARE STRONG. 9.30h AUF DAS LEBEN! 116 min SCHOSSGEBETE TO LIFE! Beta Cinema WRECKED 95 min > page 24 93 min Global Screen 12.00h Beta Cinema > page 9 PETTERSON > page 22 UND FINDUS 13.00h PETTSON AND 12.30h 13.30h VERGISS MEIN ICH FINDUS COMING IN DER 7BTE ZWERG LOSE MY SELF 86 min 104 min THE 7TH DWARF 93 min ARRI Global Screen 83 min - 3D The Match Factory > page 20 > page 11 Global Screen > page 23 > page 6 14.30h HÜTER MEINES 15.30h BRUDERS 15.30h MISS SIXTY MY BROTHER'S FACK JU GOEHTE 98 min KEEPER SUCK ME SHAKESPEER 16.30h Picture Tree 88 min 118 min The Match Factory > page 18 Media Luna Picture Tree SURPRISE SCREENING > page 16 > page 13 Sunday 22 JUNE KINO 2 KINO 3 KINO 1 KINO 2 9.30h DANCING ARABS 10.30h 105 min 10.30h HANNAS REISE The Match Factory KAFKAS DER BAU HANNA'S JOURNEY > page 12 KAFKA'S THE BURROW 100 min 110 min Media Luna 11.30h 11.30h Beta Cinema > page 14 QUATSCH ALLES INKLUSIVE > page 17 FIDDLESTICKS THE WHOLE SHEBANG 82 min 124 min 12.30h 13.30h Veit Helmer ARRI HIRNGESPINSTER MONUMENT TO > page 21 > page 8 FLIGHTS OF FANCY MICHAEL JACKSON 90 min 95 min 14.30h Global Screen Films Boutique AGNIESZKA > page 15 > page 19 98 min ARRI > page 7 16.30h CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS ABOUT A GIRL GERMAN 104 min Global Screen FILMS > page 10 PREVIEWS 2014 SCHEDULE SCREENINGS ker Str. Bischofsweg

Leipziger Str

Königsbrüc

. Dresden- Waldschlößchenbrück Neustadt Äußere Neustadt MARCOLINIS WELT Antonst Bautzner Str. r.

Albertplatz Hoyerswe

e Elbwiesen e

Albertstr rd . aer Str. Elbe Marienbrück G r o ß auptstr e H . M Albertbrück e Devrientst iss ner Str. e

Car e

r. olabrück

2 senufer Augustusbrück e erras T 1 Zwinger 1 HOTEL

r. 3 RESTAURANT st KASTENMEIERS

oßst Postplatz Schl Wilsdruff er Str . . Pirnaischer 2 Semperoper Platz

Seestr

Dr.-Külz-Ring

3 Frauenkirche GLÄSERNE . CINEMA MANUFAKTUR . ger Str rgr Str u

rsbu Wiener Platz Prager Str Großer Garten St. Pete

Dresden GERMAN Haupt- FILMS bahnhof PREVIEWS 2014 ASISI LOCATATITIOIONPANOMETER THEATER SCREENINGS

DER 7BTE ZWERG...... 6 AGNIESZKA...... 7 ALLES INKLUSIVE...... 8 AUF DAS LEBEN!...... 9 CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS...... 10 COMING IN...... 11 DANCING ARABS...... 12 FACK JU GOEHTE...... 13 HANNAS REISE...... 14 HIRNGESPINSTER...... 15 HÜTER MEINES BRUDERS...... 16 KAFKAS DER BAU...... 17 MISS SIXTY...... 18 MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON...... 19 PETTERSON UND FINDUS...... 20 QUATSCH...... 21 SCHOSSGEBETE...... 22 VERGISS MEIN ICH...... 23 WIR SIND JUNG. WIR SIND STARK...... 24

PROMO REELS...... 26 6 can they awaken Rose and thecourt? Of course! With thekiss oftruelove! pass.his friendsare Boboand desperate to correct theirmistake. Buthow Thanks tothe curse Bobo, the evil of witch Dellamortahas actually come to stillfalling endsupprickingherfingerand intosleep adeep for 100 years. fore the twelfth ofthetower peal bells onher18thbirthday, Princess Rose have to managed triggeramegacrisisatFantabularasa Castle. Just be­ Call itclumsiness,call luck: the7thdwarfhis sixfriends Bobo and itbad Version - 83 MinFormat 3Dand2D,DCP, color, 1:1,85OriginalVersion englishSubtitled Medienfonds 4BGmbH&Co.KG/Munich andTelepool GmbH/MunichLength ment VIPMedienfonds 2GmbH&Co.KG I.L./Munich,Film&Entertainment VIP CC Medienproduktions undVerwaltungs GmbH/Schweinfurt, Film&Entertain nich, Erfttal Film-&Fernsehproduktion GmbH&Co.KG – KlausDohle/Siegburg, pany GmbH & Co. KG/Hamburg in co-production with Cinemendo GmbH/ ducers MarkusReinecke Production Companies7Dwarves AnimationCom­ Heisterkamp,Norbert NinaHagen(Voices) Producers DouglasWelbatCo-Pro schew, BorisAljinovic, Ralf Gustav Schmitz, Peter Wöhler, Schneider, Martin Welbat, DanielWelbat, Harald SiepermannCast Otto Waalkes, Mirco Nont Director Harald Siepermann,BorisAljinovic Screenplay BerndEilert, Douglas Genre Feature AnimationCategory FilmCinemaYear of Production 2014 DER 7BTE ZWERG THE 7THDWARF • • •

German Distributor Drei Freunde /Universal Pictures phone +49 -8924 4125 95 00·fax Mu WORLD SALES ­ - ­ ­

tor‘s debut Together with co-director Boris Aljinovic, he started working on his direc­ FilmacademyGerman FilmSchooland Animation School,Ludwigsburg. as acharacter designer. Inthe1990‘shebecame aprofessor atHamburg OR‘S NEWGROOVEWHO FRAMEDROGER and RABBIT, where heworked worksDisney alsoinclude Production as MULAN, THEEMPER­ intheUS, trator. The comic series ALFRED JODOCUS KWAK made him famous. His debut as a film director. asafilm debut SEVEN DWARVES in the well-known German TV-Series TATORT and was one of the dwarves in actor and director. Infilm,next to manyothertitles, heacted as thedetective ping songsinStereo 3-D. featuring dragon, asuicidal abrave little dwarf, non-stop andtoe gags, -tap the bestof A hilariousmash-up classic fairytales for youngold and alike, is now inthehandsofDellamorta‘s vassal, terrifying the dragon Burner... The dwarves knowRose that lovedthe kitchen Jack, Unfortunately, help. he BORIS ALJINOVIC HARALD SIEPERMANN +49-89244129 55 20·[email protected] ·www.globalscreen.de - THE7THDWARF in2010,before hepassed away in2013. Global Screen GmbH·Sonnenstr. Munich/Germany 21·80331 - thelive-action comedyin 2006.THE7TH DWARF ishis wascomic born in1967Berlin.Heisa illustrator, , bornin1962Hattingen,was acomic illus ­ ­

Photo: © the7thDwarf 2014 Photo © Kordes Kordes Film Süd / Kerstin Stelter phone +49 -8938 0912 88 ·fax Federal FilmFund GermanDistributor TBA Version 98 minFormat DCP, color, 1:2.39OriginalVersion German,Polish Subtitled with BR/Munich,ARTE/Strasbourg, ARRIFilm&TVServices/Munich Length Production Company Kordes &Kordes FilmSüd/Munich,inco-production her feelings for Manuel, Agnieszka findsthecourage to regain hertenderness. in love withher,developments pileTorn up. betweenloyalty her to and Madame When Agnieszkaa domina. meets the16- the anchorlessa job:shestarts and Agnieszka sanctuary to work foras Madame ballet star Madame(70),whohasnow faded entirely from thepubliceye. Shegives Kordes Genre Drama AGNIESZKA W her nativeher Polandmiddlein the meetsshe In Munich night. the former ofthe in herpocketWithout apenny on therunfrom and herpast, Agnieszkaleaves (30) stop running. of a16- Nedis Walcher, ElisaSchlott, Jörg Witte Producers Alexandra Kordes, Meike graphy Director Tomasz Screenplay E.Rudzik Tomasz Director E.Rudzik ofPhoto- AGNIESZKA orld year Co-Producers von Hubert Spreti, Antonio Exacoustos, Josef Reidinger Dorian Dragoi Cast Karolina Gorczyca,Hildegard Lorenzo Schmahl, English Sales -old boy,the strength finds to on violence turnherback finally and is the story isthe driven,a of hard -boiledwoman, throughwho, lovethe FeatureCategory FilmCinema With backing fromWith backing GermanFederal FilmBoard,German

ARRI Worldsales ·Antonio Exacoustos, MoritzHemminger ·Türkenstr. 89·80799 Munich/Germany +49-89380916 19 ·[email protected]; · www.arriworldsales.de [email protected] year -oldwho falls Manuel, undyingly Year ofProduction 2014

short), short), (2003, short), short), (2003, rector,his filmsinclude: the MunichScreenplay Workshop in2010-2011.Active as awriter anddi­ School ofFilmDirecting inWarsaw in2010andreceived ascholarship for Munich from 2001-2009. He participated in the WadjaAndrzej Master followed1999-2001, by studies the University at Televisionof Film in and school inCologne,he studied the Humboldtat University in from TOMASZ E. RUDZIK DESPERADOS GARAGE LOVE

ON THE BLOCK THE (2009), ON was bornin1979Poland. After graduating high FLASCHENDREH (2004, short), short), (2004, (2002, short), short), (2002, DER SPAZIERGANG AGNIESZKAand (2014). TOTE INDIANER (2006, • • •

7

8 Now,years thirty later,Apple‘s love lifemere isa disaster,her only friend whenApple‘s beach, a hippie a passionate motherhad love affair withKarl. she want to live thechaoticlife ofherchildhood. inatent In1967,inSpain at Apple owesfirst herpeculiar to name Nevermother Ingrid. her does again the south.Canyou bookhappiness just like aholiday – all inclusive? It‘s theabsurdity about modern travelingof and oureverlasting longing for downsthe shortcomings and alternative of middle and -class life concepts. melancholic comedy mothers about anddaughters, love‘s about upsand people, whoselives are intertwined by afateful incidentalong A time ago. tin FilmVerleih/Munich Film Board,German Federal FilmFund,BKM GermanDistributor Constan­ English min Company Olga Film/Munich, inco-productionLength 124 withBR/Munich Axel Prahl Producers Molly von Fürstenberg, Harald Kügler Production phy 2014 Genre Drama,Comedy ALLES INKLUSIVE THE WHOLE SHEBANG THE WHOLESHEBANG • • • Hanno LentzCast Hannelore Elsner, Uhl,HinnerkSchönemann, Nadja Format DCP, color, Version 1:2.39Original GermanSubtitled Version Director DorisDörrieScreenplay DorisDörrieDirector ofPhotogra-

With backingfrom FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, GermanFederal FeatureCategory FilmCinemaYear ofProduction isthestory ofanencounter of somevery diverse phone +49 -8938 0912 88 ·fax W orld Sales

ARRI Worldsales ·Antonio Exacoustos, MoritzHemminger·Türkenstr. 89·80799 Munich/Germany +49-89380916 19 ·[email protected]; · www.arriworldsales.de [email protected] LE SHEBANG (ALLESINKLUSIVE, 2014). HAIRDRESSERBLISS2010), (DIEFRISEUSE, (GLÜCK,THE WHO­ and 2011), CHERRY BLOSSOMS FRAUEN NIEGENUGBEKOMMEN,HOW2005), TO COOK YOUR LIFE(2007), WOMEN NEVER GETENOUGH(DERFISCHERUNDSEINEFRAU – WARUM TIERT,NAKED (NACKT,2000), THE FISHERMANANDHISWIFE 2002), – WHY ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED SCHÖN?,1998), (ERLEUCHTUNGGARAN ­ NOBODY LOVES LIEBT ME(KEINER AM IBEAUTIFUL?(BINICH MICH,1994), tion to directing, sheisalsoanovelist. Heraward-winning filmsinclude: wherein Munich, shenow runstheCreative Writing Inaddi Department. and Psychologyin theUS,shestudied attheUniversity of Television &Film visit hermother, sheisinfor surprise. abig bender, force Ingridto reflect onherpast. WhenApple arrives to inSpain refugeewith a landingbythe acquaintanceand boat gender a withTim, hideous new hotels, invasive animators youths. andpartying Anencounter hasgoneandshehardly beach hippie recognizes theplace, now distorted by still afree spirit,returns asapackage holiday tourist to Torremolinos. The and confidantthe once beingherdog.Ingrid, topless queenofthebeach, DORIS DÖRRIE was born in Hanover. After studying Acting, Philosophy - HANAMI(KIRSCHBLÜTEN THE – HANAMI,2008), ­

Photo © Mathias Bothor Photo © Julia Terjung, CCC Film GmbH CCC © Julia Terjung, Photo

AUF DAS LEBEN! TO LIFE!

Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Auf das Leben!, which translates into English as “To Life!“ and into Director Uwe Janson Screenplay Thorsten Wettcke Director of Photo- Hebrew as “L‘Chaim!“, the celebrated Jewish toast, is the unashamedly graphy Peter Joachim Krause Cast Hannelore Elsner, , Sha­ Harold-and-Maude-like story of two very unlikely individuals. Starring the ron Braune, Aylin Tezel, Andreas Schmidt, Matthieu Carrière Producers grande dame of German cinema, Hannelore Elsner, and Max Riemelt, one of Alice Brauner Co-Producers Michael Zechbauer Production Companies the most acclaimed young stars of German and international films. CCC-Filmkunst/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF/Mainz; MZ-Film/Munich; ARTE/Strasbourg Length 95 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version UWE JANSON was born in 1959. He began his film career with the short German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Camino Filmverleih, RASTLOS (1987). It was only two years later that he directed the highly-acc­ Stuttgart laimed feature film VERFOLGTE WEGE (1989), which won a German Camera Award in 1990 and a Bavarian Film Award in 1990 for Best Young Direction. Strokes of fate have taken their toll on the ageing cabaret singer Ruth and A selection of his award-winning films includes: the TV movies BUSINESS the seriously ill young Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their WITH FRIENDS (1991), TO RUN AND TO DIE (1994), THE THERAPIST (1997), entirely opposite lifetime experiences, they form an intense bond and give RHAPSODY IN BLOOD (1998), WHISKY SOUR (2000), DIE GEISELN VON COS­ each other a reason and purpose to live. TA RICA (2000), MS. CUPID (2001), VULKAN (2009), THE SINKING OF THE LACONIA (2011), and the feature film AT NIGHT IN THE PARK (2001).

WORLD SALES Global Screen GmbH · Sonnenstr. 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-24 41 25 95 00 · fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20 · [email protected] · www.globalscreen.de ••• 9 Photo © IMBISSFILM/Bastian Fischer © IMBISSFILM/Bastian Photo

CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS ABOUT A GIRL

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Di- something‘s wrong with her, but Charleen only wants to be left in peace. rector Mark Monheim Screenplay Mark Monheim, Martin Rehbock Director One day, feeling especially melodramatic and rebellious, she decides to call of Photography Daniel Schönauer Cast Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Heike Makatsch, it quits with life. Luckily, her botched suicide attempt doesn‘t take her to the Aurel Manthei, Simon Schwarz, Lauritz Greve, Dorothea Walda, Sandro Loh­ hereafter, but to the here-in-the-hospital. Now comes real stress - with her mann Producers Martin Rehbock Co-Producers Uli Aselmann, Andreas Ch. crazy family, a creepy therapist, a by-the-book social worker, a perplexed Tönessen (Die Film GmbH); Solveig Fina, Helge Sasse (Senator Film GmbH) best friend and a classroom full of idiots. Production Companies Imbissfilm, Stehle & Rehbock GmbH & Co KG/Mu­ But wait a minute, there‘s also Linus, the school nerd whom she meets at nich, in co-production with Die Film GmbH/Munich, Senator Film GmbH/ the therapist‘s. Weird for sure, but somehow caring, interested and fun to Berlin Length 104 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,39 Original Version German be with. In fact, life is really starting to be fun. After her first kiss with Linus Subtitled Version English German Distributor Senator/Berlin and their first tentative embraces, it dawns on Charleen that the opposite of death is love - and that life deserves a second chance. Charleen, nearly 16, is one of those teens who seem to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Maybe it‘s her traineeship at an under­ MARK MONHEIM, was born in 1977 and studied at the HFF Munich. taker‘s, or her passion for Kurt Cobain - Charleen seems drawn to the darker He made several of short films such as Mit sechzehn bin ich weg regions, even though she won‘t pass up such Hollywood-worthy, communi­ (30min) in 2008. Charleen macht Schluss is his feature debut, for on-with-nature moments like getting soaked in the rain. Her mom thinks which he was honored with the “Emder Drehbuchpreis” for best screenplay.

WORLD SALES Global Screen GmbH · Sonnenstr. 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany 10 ••• phone +49-89-24 41 25 95 00 · fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20 · [email protected] · www.globalscreen.de Photo © 2014 Summerstorm · Warner Bros. · Warner © 2014 Summerstorm Photo

COMING IN

Genre Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production edgy Berlin neighborhood run by the sassy, gut-honest Heidi. 2014 Director Screenplay Marco Kreuzpaintner, Jane Heidi outfits Tom with a wig and a soccer T-shirt, and mischievously re­ Ainscough Director of Photography Daniel Gottschalk Cast Kostja Ullmann, names him “Horst.” A few days into his undercover work, the bewildered Aylin Tezel, Ken Duken, August Zirner, André Jung, Mavie Hörbiger, Denis Tom starts to enjoy his role. Heidi‘s selfless and unpretentious nature Moschitto, Hanno Koffler, Bruno Eyron, Tilo Prückner, Hildegard Schmahl, gives Tom a whole new take on things and helps him create a shampoo Frederick Lau, Paula Riemann and Katja Riemann Producers Gabriela that will drive both sexes crazy. His main source of amazement, though, Bacher, Christoph Müller, Christian Angermeyer Production Companies is Heidi herself, who puts up with a soccer-crazed boyfriend and has fal­ Summerstorm Entertainment/Berlin, in co-production with Warner Bros. len madly in love with the unattainable Tom. He, meanwhile, is being Entertainment/Hamburg Length 104 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,35 Origi- put in his place by his friends, for he, too, has fallen in love: with Heidi... nal Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Warner Bros. Entertainment/Hamburg MARCO KREUZPAINTNER made his breakthrough with Summer Storm, a coming-of-age and coming-out drama also starring Kostja Ull­ Tom Herzner, 30, is the hair stylist for men in Berlin. He‘s attractive, glamo­ mann. In 2009, Kreuzpaintner’s fantasy film Krabat won three German rous, runs a posh salon and is an openly gay celebrity who is seen as a role Film Awards. Kreuzpaintner also directed the Roland Emmerich-produced model for the gay community. But when he plans his first hair-product line, thriller Trade, starring Kevin Kline, in 2007. the cosmetic company rep gets jittery: he feels that just targeting men is too restrictive. What about women? To get an idea of what women want, Tom is forced to work incognito at a hair salon-cum-barber-shop somewhere in an

WORLD SALES Global Screen GmbH · Sonnenstr. 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-24 41 25 95 00 · fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20 · [email protected] · www.globalscreen.de ••• 11 Photo © Eitan Riklis © Eitan Photo

DANCING ARABS

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 secret until it falls apart and Eyad leaves the school. Eyad is an outsider, Director Eran Riklis Screenplay Sayed Kashua Director of Photography Mi­ but he wants to belong, not really knowing to whom and to what… and so he chael Wiesweg Cast Tawfeek Barhum, Yael Abecassis, Ali Suliman, Michael realizes that he must sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. He has to Moshonov, Danielle Kitzis Producers Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami take a decision that will change his life forever. Leon, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Michael Eckelt, Bettina Brokemper Production Companies U.C.M. United Channels Movies/Tel Aviv, Mact Pro­ Eran Riklis is one of Israel’s most acclaimed filmmakers. His most ductions/Paris, Riva Filmproduktion/Hamburg, Heimatfilm/Cologne Length recent film is ZAYTOUN (2012) starring Stephen Dorff, a UK-France-Israel 105 min Format DCP, 35mm Original Version Hebrew, Arabic Subtitled co-production from the producer of the Academy Award winner The King’s Version English With backing from The Israel Film Fund, Filmförderung Speech. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image ani‑­ won the Audience Choice Award (Runner up). Selected filmography – as mée German Distributor NFP marketing & distribution/Berlin a director-screenwriter PLAYOFF (2011), THE MISSION OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER (2010), LEMON TREE (2008), THE SYRIAN The story of Eyad, a boy who grows up in an Arab town in Israel, and is given BRIDE (2004), TEMPTATION (2002), ZOHAR (1993), CUP FINAL (1992), the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem – the ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE DAMASCUS (1984). first and only Arab to be accepted to it. Eyad desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish piers and Israeli society. He develops a friendship with Jonathan, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of Jonathan’s family, lending strength to Edna, Jonathan’s single parent. Eyad falls in love with a Jewish girl – Naomi – and their relationship develops in

World Sales The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber · Balthasarstr. 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany 12 ••• phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910 · [email protected] · www.the-match-factory.com Photo © Constantin Film Verleih/Christoph Assmann Film Verleih/Christoph © Constantin Photo

FACK JU GOEHTE SUCK ME SHAKESPEER

Genre Comedy, Family Entertainment, Romantic Comedy Category Feature more problem, i.e. the craziest teacher of all time. At night, Zeki digs Film Cinema Year of Production 2013 Director Bora Dagtekin Screenplay secretly for his loot: during the day, he uses drastic yet effective methods Bora Dagtekin Director of Photography Christof Wahl Cast Elyas M‘Barek, to bring the unruly kids of class 10B back on track. Although his prim and Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Alwara Höfels, Jana Pallaske, Uschi Glas, proper fellow teacher Lisi Schnabelstedt condemns the unorthodox pe­ Anna Lena Klenke, Max von der Groeben, Jella Haase, Aram Arami, Gizem dagogical approach taken by her new „colleague“, she nevertheless finds Emre, Farid Bang, Laura Osswald Producers Lena Schömann, Christian herself falling in love with Zeki and even helps him dig up something Becker Co-Producer Martin Moszkowicz Production Company Rat Pack more valuable than cash, namely the remains of his own moral integrity. Filmproduktion/Munich, in co-production with Constantin Film Produktion/ Munich Length 118 min Format DCP, color, cs Original Version German BORA DAGTEKIN graduated from the Film Academy Ludwigsburg Subtitled Version English Festivals Miami 2014, Okinawa 2014, Monte-Car­ in 2006. In that same year, his first comedy as a writer, WHERE IS FRED, lo Film Festival de la Comédie 2014 Awards Bavarian Film Award 2013 hit the big screen, just as ARD also began broadcasting TURKISH FOR (Audience Award), Best Director (Bora Dagtekin)/Best Leading Actor (Elyas BEGINNERS. The series, written by Bora Dagtekin, was awarded with two M‘Barek)/Jury Special Prize (Cinematographer Christof Wahl) Monte Carlo Nymphs in Monaco, a BANFF Award in Canada, a Grimme Prize and a 2014 With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film German TV Prize. He also won the latter two in 2007 for the DOCTOR’S DI­ Board, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Fund Ger- ARY TV Show. Bora Dagtekin’s debut feature TURKISH FOR BEGINNERS – man Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich THE MOVIE was the most successful German movie 2012 and sold nearly 2.4 million tickets. In 2013, the comedy received a Bambi Award, a Video Somebody built a goddamn school gym directly over the stolen cash his Champion Award and a Bavarian movie audience award. SUCK ME SHAKE­ table-­dancing girlfriend Charlie buried for him. And now, ex-con Zeki Müller SPEER is his second feature as writer/director and has attracted more than has no choice but to pass himself off as a substitute teacher at the Goe­ 7 million ticket buyers so far, making it one of the top ten grossing German the Comprehensive School, thus providing the educational system with one films of all time.

World Sales Picture Tree International GmbH · Zur Börse 12 · 10247 Berlin phone +49 30 420 824 80 · [email protected] · www.picturetree-international.com ••• 13 Photo © 2 Pilots Filmproduktion © 2 Pilots Photo

HANNAS REISE HANNA‘S JOURNEY

Genre Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production JULIA VON HEINZ was born in 1976 in Berlin. After a degree in Cine­ 2013 Director Julia von Heinz Screenplay Julia von Heinz, John Quester matography, she worked as an assistant to at the “Kon­ Director of Photography Daniela Knapp Cast Karoline Schuch, Doron Amit, rad Wolf” University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 2007 Lore Richter, Maximilian Mauff, Trystan Pütter, Suzanne von Borsody, Lia she founded Kings & Queens Filmproduktion with John Quester. Her films Koenig, Daniel Shimshoni, Sigalit Fuchs, Tzachi Hanan Producers Jörg have won important awards including the , Bavarian Siepmann, Harry Flöter, Julia Röskau Production Company 2 Pilots Filmpro­ Television Award and Golden Sparrow and were shown at many internati­ duction/Cologne, in co-production with Black Sheep Film Productions/Tel onal festivals. Her feature films include: WAS AM ENDE ZÄHLT (2007), Aviv, Kings&Queens Filmproduktion/Herrsching, BR/Munich, WDR/Cologne STANDESGEMÄSS (2008), HANNI & NANNI 2 (2011) and ROSAKINDER Length 100 min Format DCP, color, cs Original Version English, German, (2013), an episode film with the directors Chris Kraus, Axel Ranisch, Robert Hebrew Subtitled Version English Festivals Cleveland 2014, Montreal 2013, Thalheim, and Tom Tykwer, and HANNAS REISE (2013). Haifa 2013, Hof 2013

Hanna goes to Israel in order to push her career by working with disabled people. Itay, the israeli social worker picks on Hanna with Holocaust jokes and cynical comments on German history, whilst obviously flirting with her. She initially reacts with rejection, but after a while she becomes interested in her family‘s history, and also in Itay…

WORLD SALES Media Luna New Films UG · Ida Martins · Aachener Str. 24 · 50674 Cologne/Germany 14 ••• phone +49-2 21-51 09 18 91 · fax +49-2 21-51 09 18 99 · [email protected] · www.medialuna.biz Photo © Christian Hartmann © Christian Photo

HIRNGESPINSTER FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Di- pital trainee, he refuses to tell her the truth about his father. He still hopes rector Christian Bach Screenplay Christian Bach Director of Photography that Hans will accept his illness, and that the family can live normally once Hans Fromm Cast Tobias Moretti, Jonas Nay, Stephanie Japp, Ella Frey, again. Yet Simon also fears that he might inherit the illness one day too... Hanna Plass Producers Andreas Richter, Annie Brunner, Ursula Woerner Co-Producers Ralf Zimmermann (Glory Film GmbH), Nathalie Scriba (Roxy Torn between his growing affection for Verena and his love for his increa­ Film GmbH) Production Companies Roxy Film GmbH/Munich, in co-pro­ singly unpredictable father, Simon maneuvers himself into a near-fatal situ­ duction with Glory Film GmbH/Munich, Bayrischer Rundfunk/Munich and ation and realizes that he cannot change his father’s life, but only his own... ARTE/Strasbourg Length 90 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Movienet Filmver­ CHRISTIAN BACH was born 1977 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After high leih/München school he attended the European Film College in Denmark, where he star­ ted making short films as director, screenwriter and editor. Bach worked One thing is certain: 23-year-old Simon loves his parents Hans and Elli and for Gemini Film, Cologne, where he assisted on international feature film little sister Maya, and does everything in his power to help them cope with productions. In 2009, he received his diploma in directing at the Academy for Hans. The once celebrated architect has long been suffering from schizo­ Television and Film in Munich, Germany. At this time, he was still focusing phrenia, and is becoming visibly more afflicted – and violent. It is Simon who on producing short films like HEAT STROKE and BEHIND THE DUNES as essentially runs the household as Elli works long hours, and lovingly takes director and screenwriter. His debut feature was FLIGHTS OF FANCY (2014), care of Maya. When Simon meets the pretty and quick-witted Verena, he with Tobias Moretti and Jonas Nay, who both won Best Actors‘ trophies at falls head over heels in love for the first time. And even though she is a hos­ the Bavarian Film Award 2013 for their performances.

WORLD SALES Global Screen GmbH · Sonnenstr. 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-24 41 25 95 00 · fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20 · [email protected] · www.globalscreen.de ••• 15 Photo © Matteo Cocco © Matteo Photo

HÜTER MEINES BRUDERS MY BROTHER’S KEEPER

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Di- MAXIMILIAN LEO (b. 1979) graduated from the Academy of Media Arts rector Maximilian Leo Screenplay Susanne Finken Director of Photogra- Cologne with a focus in feature film directing in 2009. He maintained excel­ phy Matteo Cocco Cast Sebastian Zimmler, Nadja Bobyleva, Robert Finster lent contacts with young directors and script writers ever since. He is acti­ Producer Jonas Katzenstein Production Companies Augenschein Filmpro­ vely involved in the development of the films dramatic structure. In 2011 and duktion/Cologne Length 88 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,35 Original Version 2012 he was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. In 2014 his debut German Subtitled Version English Festivals Berlinale 2014 film MY BROTHERS KEEPER (HUETER MEINES BRUDERS) had been selected for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Gregor‘s life is running as perfectly as he had planned, until his brother disappears. Gregor keeps his brother’s disappearance as a secret. First because he thinks too little of it, then because he starts thinking too much about it.

WORLD SALES Media Luna New Films UG · Ida Martins · Aachener Str. 24 · 50674 Cologne/Germany 16 ••• phone +49-2 21-51 09 18 91 · fax +49-2 21-51 09 18 99 · [email protected] · www.medialuna.biz Photo © 2013 Mephisto Film © 2013 Mephisto Photo

KAFKAS DER BAU KAFKA’S THE BURROW

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 JOCHEN ALEXANDER FREYDANK was born in 1967 in East Berlin. Director Jochen Alexander Freydank Screenplay Jochen Alexander Freydank He started his career in the early 90s as an editor and assistant director Director of Photography Egon Werdin Cast Axel Prahl, Josef Hader, Kristina for various television and film productions. In 1999, after five rejections Klebe, , Roeland Wiesnekker, Devid Striesow, Fritz Roth, from film schools in Berlin and Potsdam, he decided to set up his own film Erwin Leder Producer Jochen Alexander Freydank Production Company production company, Mephisto Film. His first short film was the macabre Mephisto Film/Berlin Length 110 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original comedy HAPPY END, followed by the short film EMERGENCY. In 2002, he Version German Subtitled Version English With backing from German Fe­ made the satiric short film DUTY, which had its world premiere at the Mon­ deral Film Fund, Nordmedia, Saar Medien German Distributor Neue Visio­ treal World Film Festival and was subsequently shown at more than 40 other nen Filmverleih/Berlin international festivals. Freydank then directed, co-wrote and produced the short film TOYLAND, which was screened around the world at numerous KAFKA‘S THE BURROW is based on the unfinished novel of the same name film festivals and won more than 30 international awards. In February 2009, by Franz Kafka, which has never previously been adapted for film. It tells the TOYLAND won the Oscar® for Best Live-Action Short Film. Parallel to his story of a man in his prime who, having seemingly achieved everything, has work as a short film director, Freydank also wrote screenplays for several entrenched himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But TV movies and series, and directed commercials, stage plays and two TV no matter how hard he tries to ignore it, there it is: the world outside. Sur­ movies. KAFKA‘S THE BURROW is his feature film debut. veillance cameras should ensure his safety and security, but the nightmare outside can‘t be stopped: they know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth... and they are on their way.

KAFKA‘S THE BURROW is a film about isolation and dissociation, fear, and loneliness in our time.

World Sales Beta Cinema GmbH · Grünwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany phone +49-89-67 34 69 828 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 · [email protected] · www.betacinema.com ••• 17 Photo ©moneypenny Filmproduktion,Bavaria Pictures Filmproduktion,Bavaria ©moneypenny Photo

MISS SIXTY

Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 in the contemporary art scene. While struggling to redefine themselves, Director Sigrid Hoerner Screenplay Jane Ainscough Director of Photogra- correct past mistakes, make up for lost time and avoid total ridicule, Loui­ phy Matthias Fleischer Cast Iris Berben, Edgar Selge, Carmen Maja Antoni, se’s and Frans’ paths cross. Obsessed with Romy, his 27 year-old intern and Björn von der Wellen, Jördis Richter Producers Corinna Eich, Sigrid Hoerner, regular sex-mate, the last thing Frans needs is to fall in love with a sixty Helge Sasse Production Companies Bavaria Pictures/Munich, Moneypenny year-old woman with frozen eggs and a sperm donor. But he does. Ob­ Filmproduktion/Berlin, Senator Film Produktion/Berlin Length 98 min For- sessed with turning back the biological clock and finally finding out what it mat DCP, color, 1:2,39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English feels like to hold her own baby in her arms, the last thing Louise needs is to German Distributor Senator Film Verleih GmbH/Berlin fall in love with the father of her “anonymous” sperm donor. But she does.

It’s All Downhill after 18. SIGRID HOERNER was born in Cologne and studied Film, Theater and The good news is that you can live until you’re one hundred. The bad news is Media Management at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1998, she founded that society doesn’t need you after sixty. So what to do with the last third of Moneypenny Filmproduktion GmbH, an independent production company your life? Louise and Frans both have a plan. Louise (60), a strong, indepen­ and received numerous awards and nominations for the films she produced. dent molecular-biologist and daughter of Doris (77), decides to get pregnant Hoerner is a member of the German Film Academy, the European Film Aca­ and have a baby. Frans (60), a gallery-owner, life-long bachelor and father demy and, since 2006, the ACE Producer’s Network. Miss Sixty is her debut of Max (27), decides to re-start his career by discovering the next rising star feature as a director.

World Sales Picture Tree International GmbH · Zur Börse 12 · 10247 Berlin 18 ••• phone +49 30 420 824 80 · [email protected] · www.picturetree-international.com Photo © FILMS BOUTIQUE Photo

MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON

Genre Comedy/Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production DARKO LUNGULOV, originally from Serbia, moved to New York City where 2014 Director Darko Lungulov Screenplay Darko Lungulov Director of Pho- he obtained BFA in film and video from City College of New York. From tography Mathias Schoeningh Cast Boris Milivojevic, Natasa Tapuskovic, 1997 to 2003 he has worked as documentaries director at the production Dragan Bjelogrlic Producers Darko Lungulov, Snezana Penev, Felix Eisele, com­pany Spiral Pictures/Ross Institute; most notably: Sonic Convergence - Katja Siegel, Ognen Antov, Aneta Lesnikovska, Bernhard Stegmann, Boris featuring Quincy Jones. At the same time Darko taught production courses Matic Executive Producer Mike Downey Production Companies av medien/ at Long Island University. In 2004 Darko’s documentary ESCAPE won the Stuttgart, Penrose Film/Berlin, Papa Films/Belgrade, This and That Pro­ Au­dience Award at Hamptons International Film Festival and was screened ductions/Belgrade, Dream Factory/Skopje, Aka Film/Skopje, Propeller Film/ at numerous documentary festivals since (IDFA Amsterdam, Leipzig, Go Zagreb Length 95 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,35 Original Version Serbian East and Santiago de Chile Film Festival). Subtitled Version English Festivals Karlovy Vary East of the West At Tribeca Festival 2009 Darko’s debut feature film HERE AND THERE won Best NY Narrative Award at its world premiere. Since Tribeca Festival, In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from HERE AND THERE won a total of 20 awards at more than 50 international the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist-era monument is re­ festivals. It was theatrically distributed in USA, Germany, Switzerland, Hun­ moved from the Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monu­ gary, Greece and sold to total of 21 territories, so far. In 2010 Darko Lungulov ment to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. served as juror at Tribeca Festival. He is also a Film Consultant for Rocket­ But the town’s mayor has his own plans. Hub, a New York based global crowd-funding platform. and president of board of BellDocs - International Festival of Documentary Films, Belgrade.

World Sales Films Boutique GmbH · Köpenicker Str. 184 · 10997 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-69 53 78 50 · fax +49-30-69 53 78 51 · [email protected] · www.filmsboutique.com ••• 19 Photo © Senator Film / Tradewind Pictures Film / Tradewind © Senator Photo

PETTERSON UND FINDUS PETTSON AND FINDUS

Genre Family Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 PETTSON AND FINDUS is based on the Swedish author Sven Nordqvist‘s Director Ali Samadi Ahadi Screenplay Thomas Springer Director of Photo- internationally loved children‘s books of the same name (translated into graphy Mathias Neumann, BVK Cast Ulrich Noethen, Marianne Sägebrecht, more than thirty languages already). Max Herbrechter Producers Thomas Springer, Helmut G. Weber, Helge Sasse, Tania Reichert-Facilides, Sigrid Strohmann Production Company Trade­ Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in 1972 in Iran and took his final school wind Pictures/Köln, Senator Film/Berlin in co-production with Senator examinations in Hanover where he also studied Sociology and Electronic Film/München, Network Movie GmbH & CO. KG/Köln, ZDF/Mainz Length Media Design followed by Film in Kassel. He has been working as an inde­ 86 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Ver­ pen­dent director and editor since 2000. A selection of his films includes: sion English Festivals Giffoni FF 2014 (Section +16) AFRICA-MAYIBUYE (2002), CULTURE CLAN (2003), LOST CHILDREN (2005, in co-direction with Oliver Stoltz), SALAMI ALEIKUM (2009), THE Old man Pettson lives in a small, red house, spending his time chopping GREEN WAVE (2010), 45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH (2013) wood, doing odd jobs, working on his inventions, fishing and taking care of his chickens. It seems he has everything he needs in life. However, some­ times Pettson feels lonely. One day his neighbour, Beda Andersson, who takes care of everything warmheartedly, gives him a small tomcat, so the old man has a bit of company. Pettson names him Findus and raises him lovingly. His happiness is perfect when the small cat begins to speak: it is the start of a wonderful, apparently inseparable friendship.

World Sales ARRI Worldsales · Antonio Exacoustos, Moritz Hemminger · Türkenstr. 89 · 80799 Munich/Germany 20 ••• phone +49-89-38 09 12 88 · fax +49-89-38 09 16 19 · [email protected]; [email protected] · www.arriworldsales.de - Filmproduktion Photo © Veit Helmer © Veit Photo

QUATSCH FIDDLESTICKS

Genre Children’s Film, Comedy, Family Category Feature Film Cinema Year home and convince the adults that just because something looks broken of Production 2014 Director Veit Helmer Screenplay Hans-Ullrich Krause, doesn’t mean it necessarily is. With the help of a coati, the children manage Veit Helmer Director of Photography Felix Leiberg Cast Benno Fürmann, to fill the swimming pool with milkshake. The world record is official! In Fritzi Haberlandt, Alexander Scheer, Rolf Zacher, Samuel Finzi u.a. Pro- annoyance, the product testers leave the village. From now on the children ducer Veit Helmer Production Companies Veit Helmer-Filmproduktion/ and grandparents work together, thinking up new world records. Berlin, in co-production with NDR/Hamburg Length 82 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals VEIT HELMER was born in 1968 and has been making films since he was Zlin 2014 German Distributor Farbfilm Verleih/Berlin 14. He studied Directing at the University of Television & Film in Munich and co-produced A TRICK OF LIGHT by Wim Wenders. He became known for Bollersville is average. Its inhabitants get to test every new product before his offbeat short films which earned him more than 50 awards at numerous it hits the market. In fact, they are not only proud to be average, they do all international film festivals. His features include TUVALU (1999), which was they can to stay average! And if that means putting all the grandparents into shown at 62 festivals and won over 30 awards, GATE TO HEAVEN (2003), an old people’s home to keep to the statistical average, then that’s what ABSURDISTAN (2007), BAIKONUR (2011), and QUATSCH (2014). they do! The children of Bollersville are no longer keen on being human guinea pigs. With the help of sleeping pills, they knock out the adults and start working on their own adventurous plan to set a new world record. The result is... to­ tal chaos! Fear not! Because the grandparents escape from the old people’s

WORLD SALES ending August 2014: Veit Helmer-Filmproduktion · Kastanienallee 55 · 10119 Berlin · phone +49 30 217 77 77 starting from September 2014: Beta Film · Claudia Schmitt · Grünwalder Weg 28d · 82041 Oberhaching phone +49-89 673 469 825 · [email protected] · www.betafilm.com ••• 21 photo © Constantin Film Verleih/Mathias Bothor Film Verleih/Mathias © Constantin photo

SCHOSSGEBETE WRECKED

Genre Comedy, Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 SÖNKE WORTMANN was born in Marl in 1959 and attended the Univer­ Director Sönke Wortmann Screenplay Oliver Berben Director of Photography sity of Television & Film in Munich and the Royal College of Art in London. Maher Maleh Cast Lavinia Wilson, Jürgen Vogel, Juliane Köhler, Anna Stieblich, His graduation film, DREI D (1988), received the Eastman Promotional Stefan Gwisdek, Pauletta Pollmann Producers Oliver Berben, Tom Spieß Pro- Award at the Hof Film Days and was nominated for a Student Oscar® in duction Companies Constantin Film Produktion/Munich, Little Shark Enter­ 1990. His debut feature film MAYBE, MAYBE NOT was released in 1994. tainment/Cologne, in co-production with WDR/Cologne, ARTE/Strasbourg, It became one of the most successful German films of the post-war era. Ger­hard Lidl Film/Wörth Length 93 min Format 35 mm, color, cs Original The two-hour documentary DEUTSCHLAND. EIN SOMMERMÄRCHEN Version German Subtitled Version English With backing from Film- und on the World Cup 2006, produced from over 100 hours of film material, is Medienstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board, the most successful documentary in German cinemas. In addition, his most FilmFernsehFonds Bayern German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich highly-acclaimed films include: ALONE AMONG WOMEN (1991), LITTLE SHARKS (1992), MR BLUESMAN (1993), THE SUPERWIFE (1996), CAM- WRECKED tells the story of three completely normal days in the life of PUS (1998), ST. PAULI NIGHT (1999), THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN (2000), THE Elizabeth Kiehl: parenting, organic food and therapy are just as much a part MIRACLE OF BERN (2003), POPE JOAN (2009), THE WEDDING TAPE of her everyday life as the common visits with her husband to a brothel. The (2012), and WRECKED (2014). young woman in her early 30s is highly neurotic, always worrying and is afraid of pretty much everything – except sex… and that’s why it is so import­ ant to her. She not only wants to be the perfect mother, but also the perfect wife and lover. Radically open, self-confident and full of ferocious humor, WRECKED is the portrait of a vulnerable young woman who tries to please everyone without losing her own sanity.

World Sales Beta Cinema GmbH · Grünwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany 22 ••• phone +49-89-67 34 69 828 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 · [email protected] · www.betacinema.com Photo © Pandora Filmproduktion © Pandora Photo

VERGISS MEIN ICH LOSE MY SELF

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 JAN SCHOMBURG was born in 1976 in Aachen. After receiving a degree Director Jan Schomburg Screenplay Jan Schomburg Director of Photogra- in Visual Communication from the Kassel Art Academy, he studied Directing phy Marc Comes Cast Maria Schrader, Johannes Krisch, Ronald Zehrfeld, at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 2008, he received a scholarship Sandra Hüller Producers Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel Production to attend the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. Company Pandora Film/Cologne Length 93 min Format DCP Original Ver- A selection of his films includes: the award-wining shorts HOTELZIMMER sion German Subtitled Version English Festivals Rotterdam 2014 (In Com­ (1999), TURNVEREIN (2001), NEVER EVEN (NIE SOLO SEIN, 2004), petition), Sofia 2014 With backing from FiSti, DFFF, FFA, MEDIA German ESTHER (2005), INNERE WERTE (TV, 2007), his feature debut ABOVE US Distributor Real Fiction ONLY SKY (ÜBER UNS DAS ALL, 2011), and LOSE MY SELF (VERGISS MEIN ICH, 2014). Lena Ferben has lived almost half a lifetime when she loses all of her me­ mories, the entire “I” of her self. Her husband is suddenly a stranger, her friends are unknown to her, her whole life is a fictional narrative. She must decide whether to become who she was or to remain someone else…

World Sales The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber · Balthasarstr. 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910 · [email protected] · www.the-match-factory.com ••• 23 Photo © Yoshi Heimrath © Yoshi Photo

WIR SIND JUNG. WIR SIND STARK. WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG.

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG. recounts the incident from the per­ Burhan Qurbani Screenplay Burhan Qurbani, Martin Behnke Director of Pho- spectives of three very different characters. Lien is a Vietnamese woman tography Yoshi Heimrath Cast Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Joel who settled in Germany, but at the end of the day she will be fighting for her Basman, Saskia Rosendahl, Thorsten Merten, Paul Gäbler, David Schütter, Jakob life wondering if the place she called home could ever be one for her. Ste­ Bieber, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Mai Duong Kieu, Aaron Le, Larissa Füchs, Axel Pape fan and his friends are part of the night’s violent turmoil. Young and angry, Producers Jochen Laube, Leif Alexis Co-Producers Frank Evers, Helge Neu­ bored during the daytime, they look forward to the nightly riots and clashes bronner Production Company UFA Fiction/Ludwigsburg, in co-production with with the police and foreigners. Unable to cope with his grief at the loss of ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, in cooperation with ARTE/Strasbourg, cine a friend, Stefan gets lost in a circle of violence. Stefan’s father Martin is an plus Filmproduktion/Berlin, UFA Cinema/Potsdam Length 116 min Format DCP, ambitious local politician, trapped in a dilemma: does he advance his career color/b&w, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Versions English, French or stand up for his ideals and take responsibility, which includes that for With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Bran­ his son? denburg, Nordmedia, BKM, German Federal Film Fund, Jerusalem International Film Lab German Distributor Zorro Film GmbH /Munich BURHAN QURBANI‘s family fled Afghanistan in 1979, seeking political asylum in Germany. After finishing school in Stuttgart, he worked in the It is impossible to forget the images from the 24th August 1992 when, in the theater as a dramatist‘s assistant and later as a director‘s assistant. In 2002, eastern German city of Rostock, a rampaging mob, to the applause and chee­ he enrolled at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg to study Directing. ring of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential buil­ His short films have been screened at festivals around the world and won ding containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and numerous prizes. SHAHADA (2010), his graduation project and feature de­ children on what has since become known as „The Night Of The Fire.“ The but, premiered in the competition of the Berlinale (2010) and won, among riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. other awards, the Golden Hugo in Chicago.

World Sales Beta Cinema GmbH · Grünwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany 24 ••• phone +49-89-67 34 69 828 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 · [email protected] · www.betacinema.com PROMO REELS

••• 25 DIE VAMPIRSCHWESTERN 2 – FLEDERMÄUSE IM BAUCH VAMPIRE SISTERS 2

Genre Family Entertainment Length of Promo 2:06 Completion due in Fall 2014 Director Alain Gsponer Cast Marta Martin, Laura Roge, Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg, Richy Müller

Trambow Film/Tom © CWP Photo The Vampire Sisters‘ adventure continues, this time Daka, 12-year-old half- vampire, wants to tour with her idol Murdo, the leadsinger of Krypton Krax, her favourite vampire rockband, during summer break. Her parents don’t let her go, but she plans the trip anyway. Without even noticing she tumbles into big trouble. Daka’s sister, Silvania, who is also a half-vampire, needs to prevent the worst and follows Daka…

World Sales ARRI Worldsales

V8 – DIE RACHE DER NITROS V8²

Genre Family Entertainment Length of Promo 2:57 Completion due in Fall 2014 Director Joachim Masannek Cast Georg A. Sulzer, Maya Lauterbach, Samuel Jakob, Klara Merkel

The sequel of V8 – Start your Engines! is again a fun and action loaded “Fast & Furious” for kids family movie. This time the V8 team needs to defend its championship and beat the Nitro-Freaks.

World Sales ARRI Worldsales Photo © Marc Reimann/Rat Pack Film/B.A. Produktion/Universal Pictures Germany Pictures Film/B.A. Produktion/Universal Pack Reimann/Rat © Marc Photo

THE FAREWELL PARTY

Genre Drama/dark comedy Length of Promo 1:59 Completion due in 2014 Director Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon Cast Zeev Revah, Levana Finkelstein, Alisa Rozen, Ilan Dar, Rafael Tabor

A compassionate dark comedy about friendship and knowing when to say good­ Hochstein © Pie Films / Max Photo bye. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma.

World Sales Beta Cinema

26 ••• Film / Heike Ulrich - Film / Heike © CWP Photo Photo © WunderWerk / DKM / Zeitsprung Pictures / DKM Zeitsprung © WunderWerk Photo

DER KLEINE MEDICUS IM LABYRINTH BODYNAUTS - THE LITTLE MEDIC LABYRINTH OF LIES

Genre Animated family feature, 3D stereoscopic Genre Drama Length of Promo 2:13 Length of Promo 2:08 Completion due in 2014 Completion due in 2014 Director Peter Claridge Director Giulio Ricciarelli Voice artists Steve Hudson (Dr. X), Jan Klingemann (deceased; Grandma Rose), Cast Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Gert Voss, Johann von Bülow, Paul Bendelow (Grandpa Erwin), Julie Ann Dean (Lilly), Alison Paule Rippier Friederike Becht (Marie), Ellen Wagner (Micro Minitec), Lizzie Waterworth-Santo (Nano), Mark Britton (Professor Schlotter), Mike McAlpine (Rappel), Steve Hudson (Serge) In LABYRINTH OF LIES the economic miracle is changing the life of Germans in postwar Germany. Most of them are sick of the war and prefer to push their Twelve-year-old Nano witnesses a sinister act: evil Professor Schlotter injects guilt to the back of their mind. When a journalist (André Szymanski) identifies Nano‘s Grandpa with a Gobot, a tiny robot that makes it possible to remotely a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz, no one wants control its victim. Nano goes to their family doctor, Dr. X, for help. But incredible to take notice. But a young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling – INGLOURIOUS things are happening in Dr. X‘s practice as well: together with genius scientist BASTERDS / YOUNG GOETHE) takes on the case and can‘t even be stopped Micro Minitec, the doctor has developed a miniaturisation procedure with which by his boss. During his research he realizes that some Germans claim that he shrinks a submarine and sends it through the human body on a journey of they never heard the expression „Auschwitz,“ while others try to forget about it. medical discovery. Nano and his friend Lilly are miniaturised and embark on As the resolute prosecutor doesn‘t give up, the Attorney General Fritz Bauer the risky journey into his Grandpa’s body to defeat the Gobot. But Professor (Gert Voss) retains him to take charge of the investigations. Struggling with an Schlotter and his henchman Serge will not surrender easily. They storm Dr. X’ overload of information, the young attorney blunders into a labyrinth of guilt and practice and overpower the scientists. Now Nano and Lilly are stuck in Nano‘s lies where he almost gets lost. Grandpa‘s body, left to their own devices. They have to face not just the Gobot, but also dangerous killer cells, searing stomach acid and the confusing maze of World Sales Beta Cinema the brain. Time is of the essence because the oxygen supply in the submarine is limited. It‘s a good thing the talking pink rabbit Rappel that Professor Schlotter keeps around for experiments is on their side and has an axe to grind with Pro­ fessor Schlotter...

World Sales Beta Cinema

••• 27 Photo © 2014 RAT PACK FILMPRODUKTION PACK © 2014 RAT Photo Photo © WunderWerk / DKM / Zeitsprung Pictures / DKM Zeitsprung © WunderWerk Photo

DIE EINSAMKHEIT DES KILLERS VOR DEM SCHUSS MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER A HITMAN’S SOLITUDE BEFORE THE SHOT MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER

Genre Black Comedy Genre Live Action Family Fantasy Feature Length of Promo 2:46 Length of Trailer 1:22 Completion due in Fall 2014 Completion due in approx. October 2014 Director Florian Mischa Böder Director Tommy Krappweis Cast Benno Fürmann, Mavie Hörbiger, Wolf Roth Cast Jan Josef Liefers, Anja Kling, Christoph Maria Herbst, Eva Habermann, Maja-Celiné Probst

The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret Mara faces many challenges. She is being bullied at school and her single mom EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn‘t had a is drifting into an extreme esoteric spirituality. She just wants to be a normal single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme‘s strict kid! But when Mara starts to have visions of ancient gods she soon discovers rules – withdrawn, no social contact and constantly undercover. One day, the that her biggest challenge is hidden in the past. With the help of a Professor shy Rosa crashes into his car and life. Before he knows it, Koralnik is having for ancient Mythology she discovers that the Twilight of the Gods is approaching dinner with her. For the first time, he can flee his everyday misery for an eve­ and that she is the only one who has the ability to travel back in time and the ning of company. But then the telephone rings. It’s Koralnik‘s first job. With power to save us all. Rosa alongside, Koralnik sets off on a chaotic odyssey through a night in which nothing goes according to plan. It is only when Koralnik‘s target is revealed to World Sales Sola Media GmbH be none other than one of his colleagues that the rigid concept by which he lives finally comes into question. He is confronted with the dilemma of either pro­ tecting his secret programme or drawing a line under his unfulfilled existence as a killer. It is the biggest liar of them all, Rosa, who forces him to confront his own life’s lie.

World Sales Picture Tree International GmbH

28 ••• IMPRINT Credits not contractual for any of the films mentioned in this publication.

published by GERMAN FILMS Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 16 80331 Munich | Germany phone +49-89-59 97 87-0 fax +49-89-59 97 87-30 [email protected] www.german-films.de

editors Barbie Heusinger Lisa Weyergans Angela Hawkins Bernhard Simek

design PUBLITAS · Dresden

printed by ESTA-DRUCK · Polling

THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 14201 4

GERMAN FILMS PREVIEWS 14201 4 19 - 22 JUNE www.german-films.de PROGRAM