German Films Quarterly 3 · 2010

IN LOCARNO AT ELLEN’S AGE by Pia Marais THE GOALGETTER’S SHIP by Heidi Specogna THE SILENCE by Baran bo Odar WOMB by Benedek Fliegauf

PORTRAITS Directors & Katja von Garnier Producer Heino Deckert/ma.ja.de. Actress Nora von Waldstaetten German Films Quarterly 3 · 2010

directors portraits 4 POLITICAL MOTIVATION & HUMANITARIAN COMMITMENT A portrait of Michael Verhoeven 6 A POSITIVE IMPACT A portrait of Katja von Garnier

producer portrait 8 BETWEEN FACT & FICTION A portrait of ma.ja.de. filmproduktion

actress portrait 10 HAVING HER CAKE & EATING IT A portrait of Nora von Waldstaetten

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in production 16 DER BRAND Brigitte Maria Bertele 16 BURNOUT Verena S. Freytag 17 DAVON WILLST DU NICHTS WISSEN Tim Trachte 18 DAS ENDE DER NACHT Tim Fehlbaum 19 DIE FARBE DES OZEANS Maggie Peren 20 DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN Philip Groening 21 GIRLZ KICKIN’ HIV! Patricia Lewandowska 22 DER HIMMEL HAT VIER ECKEN Klaus Wirbitzky 23 I PHONE Y(O)U Dan Tang 23 KUNG FU MAMA – AGENTIN MIT KIDS Simon X. Rost 24 DER MONDMANN Stephan Schesch 25 TENTH STREET, NEW YORK Caro Jost 26 UEBER UNS DAS ALL Jan Schomburg 26 WER WENN NICHT WIR Andres Veiel 27 ZWILLINGE Robert Thalheim new german films 30 AL-HALQA – IM KREIS DER GESCHICHTENERZAEHLER AL-HALQA – IN THE STORYTELLER’S CIRCLE Thomas Ladenburger 31 DIE FRAU MIT DER GEBROCHENEN NASE THE WOMAN WITH A BROKEN NOSE Srdjan Koljevic 32 GISBERTA Lisa Violetta Gass 33 HANNI & NANNI Christine Hartmann 34 DER HEILER ZWISCHEN DEN WELTEN THE HEALER BETWEEN THE WORLDS Ernst Hunsicker 35 HEIMSPIEL HOME GAME Bogdana Vera Lorenz 36 IM ALTER VON ELLEN AT ELLEN’S AGE Pia Marais 37 JEDEM KIND EIN INSTRUMENT – EIN JAHR MIT VIER TOENEN AN INSTRUMENT FOR EVERY CHILD Oliver Rauch 38 KINSHASA SYMPHONY Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer 39 DER KLEINE UND DAS BIEST THE LITTLE BOY AND THE BEAST Johannes Weiland, Uwe Heidschoetter 40 DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN THE SILENCE Baran bo Odar 41 DER MANN DER UEBER AUTOS SPRANG THE MAN WHO JUMPED CARS Nick Baker-Monteys 42 MY GLOBE IS BROKEN IN RWANDA Katharina von Schroeder 43 NACH KLARA AFTER KLARA Stefan Butzmuehlen 44 NANGA PARBAT 45 ORLY 46 DAS SCHIFF DES TORJAEGERS THE GOALGETTER’S SHIP Heidi Specogna 47 TANZTRAEUME DANCING DREAMS Anne Linsel 48 WOMB Benedek Fliegauf 49 YELLOW CAKE – DIE LUEGE VON DER SAUBEREN ENERGIE YELLOW CAKE – THE DIRT BEHIND URANIUM Joachim Tschirner

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55 foreign representatives · imprint Michael Verhoeven (photo courtesy of Sentana Filmproduktion) HUMANITARIAN COMMITMENT HUMANITARIAN to work exclusively asadirector,to workexclusively producer andscreenplayauthor, Verhoeven oncesaidtohissonMichael.Hisfather’s comment made Verhoeven a deepimpression onhim.AsfromYear New 1973, DIRECTOR PORTRAIT DIRECTOR “Doctors are adimedozen,”actoranddirector thegreat Paul MichaelVerhoevenA portrait of POLITICAL MOTIVATION & finally abandoning the medical profession. “That was a very painful abandoningthemedicalprofession. “Thatwasavery finally finest years, well, apart from my private life. Iwas abletobecomea life. years, private from my well,apart finest my were certainly adoublelife thing, really, becausethoseyears of new person over and over again: first inthisworld andthenmoving personoverandagain:first new to a different one.” to adifferent Like well-knownactress hiswife, SentaBerger, MichaelVerhoeven dedicated himself to that different world professionally when they co- whenthey worldprofessionally tothatdifferent dedicated himself german filmsquarterlygerman 3 ·2010 , who earned hisdoctorateinMedicine1969,wenton , whoearned Michael is asked about most frequently whenever heisabroad; whenever and is asked aboutmostfrequently Mother’s Courage by GeorgeTabori. metwithconsiderable thathave are films They recognition at festivals; all politically motivated films, committedtoa films, motivated allpolitically recognition atfestivals; humanitarian outlook. In addition, they are films dedicatedtothe arehumanitarian outlook.Inaddition, they films founded the production company SentanaFilmproduktion theproduction company founded inMunich in 1965. The company hasproducedprize-winningfeature in 1965.Thecompany several films underhisdirection since,inadditiontoTVmovies. Thecinema films works included the anti-war film works includedtheanti-warfilm que” and the scandal of the Berlinale, which led to the festival being theBerlinale,whichledtofestival que” andthescandalof cut short atthetime; cut short portrait of SophieandHansScholl, of portrait Oscar Hans Scholl, lived in . He has directed prize-winning films suchas inMunich.Hehasdirected prize-winningfilms lived Oscar abrupt termination at the time; the historical portrait of Sophieand of atthetime;historicalportrait abrupt termination (1970), the scandal film of theBerlinale,whichledtofestival’s of (1970), thescandalfilm hasalways in1979.Thefamily in1972andLuca,born Simon, born married to actress since 1966. They have twosons, toactresshave SentaBergersince1966.They married in 1965, he founded hisownproduction company,in 1965,hefounded Sentana tor, producer andscreenplayauthor. MichaelVerhoeven hasbeen medical profession in1973,goingontoworkex asadirec- clusively Dance of Death of Dance Medicinein1957; the camerasafterthis. Verhoeven of beganastudy two documentaries Filmproduktion, madehisdebutasadirector withthefeature film qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1969. He finally abandonedthe medicinein1969.Hefinally asadoctorof qualified tarian outlook.Recently, hehascontinuedthis dedicationwiththe Michael Verhoeven tivals. They are politically motivated films, committedtoahumani films, motivated are politically They tivals. - Munich as early as 1951, and appeared regularly onstageandbefore as1951,andappeared regularly Munich asearly and his wife, actressand hiswife, DorisKiesow. Hemadehis actingdebutin bekannte Soldat bekannte Courage Maedchen famous and director of both theater and film, , boththeaterandfilm, actoranddirector of famous liches Versagen Sentana FilmproduktionSentana GmbH Contact: Gebsattelstrasse 30·81541Munich/ hn 4-944 26 a 4-948 968 19 80 +49-89-4 66·fax 52 48 phone +49-89-4 ® ® -nominated film -nominated film -nominated film -nominated film , 1995), all of which met with considerable acclaim at fes whichmetwith considerableacclaimatfes , 1995),allof - , 1990);and The WhiteRose , 2008). , 2006)and Gefundenes FressenGefundenes (1995) based on the novella of thesamename (1995) basedonthenovellaof The Unknown Soldier The NastyGirl ( Paarungen The NastyGirl was born in in 1938, the son of the inBerlin1938,thesonof was born My Mother’s Courage O.K. ( Human FailureHuman The WhiteRose Die weisse Rose ) in1967,andsub sequently (1970), “somethingquiteuni- (1990), whichVerhoeven ( Das schreckliche (1976); thehistorical director portrait ( , 1982);the ( Der un (1982); the ( Mensch - Mutters O.K. My - 4 examination and illumination of historical events. In general, one location in Ohio, visiting the condemned man and his family. The could refer to Verhoeven’s oeuvre as humanist – with no overtones Kafkaesque situation of a perhaps innocent but condemned man of pathos whatsoever. It is an oeuvre that has always focused on appeals to him, the humanist among Germany’s ac claimed directors. human concerns. Thilo Wydra spoke to Michael Verhoeven The White Rose, probably Michael Verhoeven’s internationally best-known film, went through a long and difficult time in the making. He was finally able to begin shooting at the start of the 80s. “We were prevented from realizing the project for a long time, because we received no support – rejected by film funding boards five times, which is very rare. The struggle for the film went on for years. Today it is very hard to put across the reasons why no one wanted the film at that time, especially as it is still shown now and then.

There is also, for example, a “White Rose Society” in the USA, which was established as a reaction to the film – and other foundations fol- lowed. So perhaps The White Rose is Verhoeven’s most impor- tant, his most significant work: its influence has endured for so long.

It may be no surprise to hear that his two most recent works to date, which are again documentaries – The Unknown Soldier (2006) and Human Failure (2008) – represent critical attempts to come to terms with history. They are remembrance in the film medium, a reminder not to forget, and an uncomfortable commemoration of past events.

The starting point to Michael Verhoeven’s documentary film The Unknown Soldier was the exhibition “Crimes of the Wehr - macht”, a touring exhibition that investigated the war of annihilation in the East from 1941-1944 and triggered extremely controversial reactions among the public and critics. The first stage of the exhibi- tion was the Munich town hall. Verhoeven filmed in both the exhibi - tion rooms and outside, on Marienplatz, the square where people gather ed and protested on many occasions. The result is a 100- minute documentary film which is disagreeable due to the ambiva - lence of its subject alone; it does not aim to please, it is offensive, causing friction and controversy. The Unknown Soldier, which has also been premiered in New York and other places, is an oppressive film in many ways, and also extremely complex. A cinematic witness to the most recent movements in the Federal Republic – just like its successor, Human Failure.

Michael Verhoeven is currently preparing several new projects, in- cluding two features and a documentary – remaining true to both genres. And that can also be said of his themes, of course. The feature film Castles Burning, based on a novel by Magda Denes – the screenplay is already available – is scheduled for the year 2011, like another feature film telling the story of a Jewish woman in Munich. Fittingly, local public broadcaster BR is participating in this project.

The documentary film, for its part, examines the extreme subject of the death penalty in the USA, or to be more precise: a specific case in the state of Ohio, where a black man sentenced to death in 1984, assumed guilty of murder, has been imprisoned for 25 years. Many consider him innocent. He has now been “executed” once, whereby 18 attempts were made to kill him – but he survived. Now he is schedul ed for execution a second time. “That is bound to interest anyone, surely. But once again, it is a topic that I didn’t seek out my- self.” In a similar way to his previous two documentary themes, which apparently came to him: it seems that film material finds him rather than the other way around. Michael Verhoeven has already filmed on

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3 · 2010 5 Katja von Garnier (photo courtesy of Above the Line) DIRECTOR PORTRAIT DIRECTOR A portrait of Katjavon Garnier A portrait of IMPACT A POSITIVE For human spirit, to the magic of existence and the mysteries of the of existenceandthemysteries human spirit,tothemagicof unknown. “Films are so powerful, I think they can have a lot of impact, alotof canhave Ithinkthey unknown. “Filmsare sopowerful, cade, isbackinBerlingettingready toshoot Von Garnier, who has lived in Los Angeles for much of thepastde Von Garnier, muchof inLosAngelesfor whohaslived - the director. a positive impact, and I’d like to be part of the positive impact,”says thepositive impact,andI’da positive of like tobepart Lelord about a young psychiatrist who wants to find out why somany outwhy Lelord aboutayoung psychiatrist whowantstofind EgoliTossell for fall Film.BasedonthebestsellingnovelbyFrançois Garnier’s attentionfrom thestart. of hispatientsare unhappyandthusembarksonaglobetrotting of search for the secret to happiness, it was a story that grabbed von search thesecret for tohappiness, thatgrabbed itwasastory german filmsquarterlygerman 3 ·2010 Katja von Garnier , film can be a gateway tohopeandthe canbeagateway , film Hector’s Journey this “I was really intriguedbythesubjectmatterandIjustloveitbecause “I wasreally it’s very timely.it’s very want tobearecipehappiness, for butIthinkitcaninspire people to think about what makes them happy and maybe offers thepossibility think aboutwhatmakesoffers themhappyandmaybe that in life, complexasitis,that inlife, it’spossibletogetknowourselvesbet- ter, andthat’sabeginning.” It’s also the kind of story that von Garnier hasbeensearching thatvonGarnier for. story “I’m of It’s alsothekind want todomore andmore of.” thehuman topics, thetriumphof life-affirming for looking definitely something that I’ve grown more it’ssomethingthatI something thatI’vegrown consciousof, spirit, storiesthatinstillhopeand make peoplelaughandcry. It’s about escaped female convicts who perform asarock bandwhileon whoperform convicts about escapedfemale for BestForeignfor Film.Von upwith followed Garnier Katja von Garnier 1997. The film, which starred Jasmin Tabatabai, Jasmin whichstarred 1997. Thefilm, NicoletteKrebitz, Hoffmann, was an ode to rock ’n’ roll, a music fantasy road movie roll, wasanodetorock amusicfantasy ’n’ Hoffmann, Taunusstein. History, Art Shewentontostudy Philology, German upinthenearbytownof in1966andgrew Germany western (whoalsoappeared in That same year von Garnier moved from Germany toLosAngeles. movedfromThat sameyear Germany vonGarnier the “Ten IndependentDirectors LeadingNew To Watch” in1998. magazine the run.TheU.S. film Theory of DramaandFilmattheJohannWolfgang GoetheUniversity of Theory Karlstroem produced three films together: Karlstroem together: produced three films in 1989. Shortly thereafter she moved to the University of Television of thereafter shemovedtotheUniversity in 1989.Shortly whichsheattendedbetween1985and1989.Vonin Frankfurt, Garnier directed her first short film, film, short directed herfirst Garnier a short; a short; Ewa KarlstroemVELA-X-Filmproduktion. Von toform and Garnier While based in Southern California, she made the HBO film shemadetheHBOfilm California, While basedinSouthern Bandits and Film in Munich (HFF), where she teamed up with fellow student and FilminMunich(HFF),where sheteamedupwithfellow sen sation afterpremiering attheBerlinalein1993andwentontobe - come a huge hit in German theaters and a favorite ontheinte theatersandafavorite come ahugehitinGerman r - Jawed Angels Jawed love story love story Hector’s Journey year todirect where hernextproject, sheacceptedanoffer national film festival circuit.goun Theromanticdidn’t comedy festival national film noticed overseas. In1994, living inBerlinwithherhusbandandtwochildren. living Above theLineGmbH Agent: Theresienstrasse 31·80333Munich/Germany are stillbasedinLosAngeles, toEurope shereturned last her family hn 4-959 840·fx+98- 03 55 38 50 +49-89-5 4-0·fax 08 99 phone +49-89-5 email: [email protected]·www.above-the-line.de Making Up! Making . Although only 55minuteslong, . Althoughonly Blood &Chocolate Hector , starring Hilary Swank,in2004andthelycanthrope Hilary , starring Making Up! Making , for EgoliTossell for Film.Von iscurrent Garnier , ly is anawakening-of-consciousstory. Itdoesn’t was born in the city of Wiesbadeninsouth inthecityof was born - ( Abgeschminkt! · Sigrid Narjes · Sigrid Variety won the Student Academy Awardwon theStudentAcademy in 2007. Although von Garnier and in 2007.AlthoughvonGarnier Day Trauma named von Garnier asoneof named vonGarnier Making Up! Making Making Up! Making Noiseless ) her first feature; and feature; ) herfirst director portrait ( Tagtrauma Bandits ( ) andJutta Lautlos created a Iron in ), ), ® 6 The power of the human spirit is something that has always fascina- Von Garnier did find an ideal project in , a film ted von Garnier, especially in female characters. In her 1993 debut hit she remains very proud of. “It was really wonderful – a dream expe- Making Up! she offered a portrait of single women overcoming rience.” obstacles to their own happiness, while in 1997’s Bandits, she follow ed four women inmates who form a rock band in prison and Now back in Germany, von Garnier is finding it easier to develop her then escape to freedom. own ideas. “I have several ideas for movies that I want to move for- ward. Here I find myself just doing it. It’s interesting. I really would like Likewise, her U.S. film debut, Iron Jawed Angels, examined the to bridge both worlds. I’ve certainly learned a great deal during my life of American feminist Alice Paul, who led the campaign for time over there and still want to tap into those resources and at the women’s suffrage in the early part of the 20th century. “I’ve always same time tap into where I’m from and that European spirit and com- been interested in carving out a path when it comes to looking at bine them.” female characters, exploring certain kinds of characters that work against a stereotype and with a point of view from my own obser va - She’s currently lining up a number of future projects beyond tions of a feminine spirit. I find myself drawn to it; it’s what I respond Hector’s Journey, including one film set in Ireland with mystical to.” overtones. Another project in the works would reunite much of the cast of Bandits. “It won’t be a follow-up to Bandits. It will be a Even in 2007’s Blood & Chocolate, a young female protagonist, new thing but with a similar cast,” she says. “I’ve had the desire for a driven by forbidden love, struggles against the strict confines of a while to do something with them together because our synergy is close-knit community of werewolves. The mystical love story kicked unique and creative and a lot of fun. I’ve been working on the script. off the modern supernatural romance craze that followed a year later It’s really exciting. I can’t wait.” with the start of the hugely successful Twilight franchise, which ex - plores many of the same themes as Blood & Chocolate. Ed Meza spoke with Katja von Garnier

Like most filmmakers, von Garnier draws inspiration from a broad and eclectic range of cinematic works, from Milos Forman’s Hair to George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Among her more recent favorites are Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, Niki Caro’s Whale Rider and John Cameron’s Avatar.

“Avatar blew me away for various reasons, less about the effects than what it was saying about that world. It makes me feel like I want to live in it. It had a strong impact. It’s like the beginning of a new era – it’s very inspiring.”

Von Garnier points to one particular film, however, that not only captur ed her imagination but also remains a template for her own aspirations: Phil Alden Robinson’s Field of Dreams.

“I’d love to find a movie like Field of Dreams that has one foot in re - ality but also reaches into something unexplainable. I thought it was an amazing story.” Intrigued by the genre of magic-realism, von Garnier says she’s eager to explore the mystical aspects of humanity – “the mystery of our existence, the mystery of why we’re here. I haven’t explored that fully but I have been looking for a great magic-realism story for a long time.”

Although von Garnier slowed down her work schedule in recent years in order to make time for her two young children, she’s now eager to get back to making movies and shortening the gap between projects.

While finding that right project remains a challenge, returning to Germany has led to a number of potential opportunities. “It’s taken me time to pick the right one, to find the one that I can sink my teeth into and feel at home in the subject matter.”

Working in Hollywood is never easy for filmmakers who are eager to maintain their own vision and it’s something von Garnier has also had to grapple with. “As a European filmmaker, you want to keep your own signature whilst being in a different culture. What I didn’t want to have happen is for that signature to be smoothed out.”

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Sergei Loznitsa, Pirjo Honkasalo, Vitali Mansky, Hartmut Bitomsky and Thomas Heise. In 1995, Deckert founded d.net, an informal union of seven European colleagues joining forces to exchange ideas and initia- tives. Since its launch, d.net’s producers have collaborated on 30 international co-productions. In 2005, Deckert founded ma.ja.de. fiction to become involved in international feature film productions under the banner of “Documentary Filmmakers Go Feature”. The first fiction film was Khadak by documentary filmmakers Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, which premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and was awarded the Lion of the Future as Best Feature Film Debut. Deckert has also been actively involved in distribution since 1999, launching his own world sales arm for documentaries, Deckert Distribution, in 2003. He holds a share in Cologne-based Blinker Filmproduktion in addition to ma.ja.de. filmproduktion, which has offices in Leipzig and Berlin. Among the awards received are Leipzig’s Silver Dove (for Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht) and the Luigi di Laurentiis Award (Khadak) as well as an Oscar® nomi- nation for Rabbit à la Berlin (Mauerhasen). His documentary productions include: Diese Tage in Terezin (dir: Sibylle Schoenemann, 1997), Pinochet’s Children (dir: Paula Rodriguez, 2002), Melancholian kolme huonetta (The Three Rooms of Melancholia, dir: Pirko Honkasalo, 2004), Nasha Rodina (Gagarin’s Pioneers, dir: Vitali Mansky, 2005), Im Glueck. Neger (dir: Thomas Heise, 2006), Tailor Made Dreams (dir: Marco Wilms, 2006), Staub (Dust, dir: Hartmut Bitomsky, 2007), Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht (Children. As Time Flies, dir: Thomas Heise, 2007), Revue (dir: Sergei Loznitsa, 2008), Material (dir: Thomas Heise, 2009), Rabbit à la Berlin (Mauerhasen, dir: Bartosz Konopka, 2009, short), Ehre (dir: Aysun Bademsoy, 2010, in post-production) and Vivan Las Antipodas! (dir: Victor Kossakovsky, 2010, in pro duction). ma.ja.de.’s fiction projects include: Khadak (dirs: Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, 2006), Altiplano (dirs: Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, 2009), My Joy (dir: Sergei Loznitsa, 2010), Tony Ten (dir: Mischa Kamp, 2010, in production) and Good Friday Is A Friday (dir: Thomas Heise, in development). Heino Deckert (photo courtesy of ma.ja.de ) Heino Deckert (photo courtesy of ma.ja.de Contact: ma.ja.de. filmproduktions GmbH After graduating from the German Film & Television Academy Berlin Marienplatz 1 · 04103 Leipzig/Germany (dffb), Heino Deckert founded the production company phone +49-3 41-9 83 96 96 · fax +49-3 41-2 15 66 39 ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in 1991. He has since produced more email: [email protected] · www.majade.de than 50 documentaries, including films by such renowned directors as BETWEEN FACT & FICTION A portrait of ma.ja.de. filmproduktion

When he was studying at Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy In 1991, Deckert set up the production company ma.ja.de. film- (dffb) in the 1980s, Heino Deckert would have never expected produktion with two partners – the company’s name is composed that he would become an internationally respected figure in the world of the first letters of the trio’s surnames. of documentaries or make a career as a producer. Early on, he saw that international co-production was the right “The only thing I didn’t make at the dffb were documentaries,” he strategy for the type of films he wanted to produce, whether it was recalls. “I worked more in the field of experimental and short films. German films with foreign financing or becoming the German partner I had never intended to become a producer, but my background of on the projects of foreign filmmakers. studies in Law made colleagues convince me to take on this task.”

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3 · 2010 8 The international dimension was intensified when Deckert parti - Three years later, Brosens and Woodworth’s second feature cipated in the MEDIA Program’s EAVE producers’ training program in Altiplano was invited to the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and has 1995 when he made friends with such producers as Jens Meurer, become a popular title on the international festival circuit over the Leontine Petit, Peter Brosens, Liam O’Neill, and Sigve Endresen. past 12 months.

A concrete result of this pan-European network was the creation of Raising the finance for ma.ja.de. fiction’s third feature My Joy by the d.net cooperative of seven producers who have since collaborat - Sergei Loznitsa, which had its premiere in the Competition in Cannes ed on around 30 international co-productions in the past 15 years. in 2010, proved to be much harder, Deckert recalls. “It would seem obvious from the film’s story that we should want to co-produce with A sales arm – d.net sales – evolved from this collaboration and was Russia, especially since Sergei had made many documentaries with managed from Leipzig by Deckert who has had sole responsibility for Russia and has a very good reputation there. But, there was the real the sales operation since 2003 under the new name of Deckert dilemma of co-producing with Russia: we were often near to getting Distribution. the money, but, in the end, we had to go to the Ukraine.”

“We were about ten years too early with the belief that the Internet However, there was some late satisfaction for the makers when My would be the place to distribute our films. We had taken on many Joy picked up the Prize for Best Direction and the Guild of Russian films in our catalogue, but the promise of the Internet didn’t come Film Scholars and Critics’ “White Elephant” prize at the Kinotavr about as people had originally expected,” Deckert explains. Open Russian Film Festival in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in June. “Consequently, I restructured the sales arm with a much smaller catalo gue of films.” Meanwhile, looking to the future, Deckert sees his company possibly making more fiction films – one or two a year – and fewer bigger Looking back at the connections forged during the EAVE course, he documentaries than had been the case in the past when ma.ja.de. notes that he worked most often over the years with Dutch pro ducer made up to 15 documentaries each year. Leontine Petit’s company Lemming Film, especially now that Deckert is producing feature films. The Dutch colleagues co-produced Peter To make this come true, Deckert started to restructure his company Brosens and Jessica Woodworth’s Khadak and Altiplano as well in order to be ready for the future challenges and opportunities in the as Sergei Loznitsa’s film My Joy. Lemming Film is also involved in international fiction market. Victor Kossakovsky’s new film Vivan Las Antipodas!, a docu- mentary project which took him around the globe and is currently at the post-production stage. Meanwhile, production is currently under- Martin Blaney spoke with Heino Deckert way in Thuringia on the children’s film Tony Ten by Mischa Kamp, again a co-production with Lemming Film.

“I will now be producing Jens Meurer’s fiction feature debut The Dead Wait next year,” Deckert adds. “We were scouting for loca- tions in Namibia near the Angolan border in June for this classic genre drama which has been written by Paul Herzberg. The story has a lot to do with Jens and his past since he grew up in South Africa.”

In 2005, Deckert founded ma.ja.de. fiction to become involved in international feature film productions under the banner of “Documentary Filmmakers Go Feature.”

“I had been thinking of doing this for some time,” he recalls. “I was keen to work on fiction projects with documentary directors who are balancing precariously between the two formats. This is evident with people like Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth and Sergei Loznitsa, and in Germany with someone like Thomas Heise. The films were shot in the Mongolian steppe, the Peruvian Andes and in the Ukraine and confronted us with particular challenges – geographical and the- matic ones. Nevertheless, with feature films, we are much freer in the possibilities, and the financing is also different.”

“The kind of films ma.ja.de. stands for are ones made by auteurs,” Deckert says. “Films with a distinct signature and line by people who want to achieve something. And films aiming for a life in the cinemas.”

The first project to be realized under the new ma.ja.de. fiction label was Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth’s Khadak which pre- miered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and was awarded the Lion of the Future for Best Feature Film Debut.

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3 · 2010 9 Nora von Waldstaetten (photo courtesy of German Films) ACTRESS PORTRAIT ACTRESS cool in white shorts andT-shirt, personalissueand cool inwhiteshorts considersadeeply inBerlin. It’s ablazingsummerday Nora vonA portrait Waldstaetten of EATING IT & CAKE HAVING HER magazine, you would go on to learn howMs.magazine, you wouldgoontolearn vonWaldstaetten isa genuine gourmet, thatshegetsexcitedgenuine gourmet, bygenuineWiener Schnitzel, thiswere afood decides thatyes, thecake shewilltry afterall!Now, if pâté, ripe cheese, that she prefers savories tosweets(hencethebrave savories pâté, ripecheese,thatsheprefers decision to go for thecake), thatweswappedrecipesdecision togofor andrestaurant on for closetotwohours!Andthenweremembered:on for we’re here to decentChinesecuisineinthiscityandso tips, bemoanedthelackof through her classmates. Apart from sky-high ratings and piles of fan mail,von fan through from herclassmates. sky-highratingsandpilesof Apart Herz aus Eis Herz aus was Viktoria,thehot,psycho-killer schoolgirlinthe stuff! fret, it’sstillallgourmet Butdon’t talk film. Every actorhastheirbreak-out role.Every For NoravonWaldstaetten it german filmsquarterlygerman · 2010 3 (“Heart of Ice”), who carves a seemingly unstop aseemingly Ice”),whocarves of (“Heart pable trail Nora von Waldstaetten Tatort episode , ice Waldstaetten created a aclassic, rooted for! Beautiful and viciously deadly, andviciously yet Beautiful rooted Viktoriastillhadtohave for! a specialsomethingtocreate andmaintainthataudiencefascination. “It was quite a journey tocreate thecharacter,”“It wasquiteajourney vonWaldstaetten explains, forking for the chocolate cake with the gooey center. thechocolatecake withthegooey for explains, forking “I need intoher.ed tostretchownmoralsand ethics. Iloveddiving my I prepared three for months, reading booksonmanipulationandthe within, a certain brittleness.”within, acertain clearbreak inher avery wantedtohave killers.Ialways of psychology biography, to find some spot that hurt somuchitlegitimizesher somespot thathurt biography, to find player movingthecharactersasIwanted. Viktoriawassodeepand Von Waldstaetten like achess admitsitwas“quiteatoughshoot.Ifelt actions within her logic. It was very important thatshehasawound important Itwasvery actions withinherlogic. Nora von Waldstaetten Bunte New FacesAward,Bunte New and she started taking ballet lessons as part of theChildren’s BalletGroup of balletlessonsaspart taking she started movedtoBaden,alsoinAustria,whenshewassix,where The family Parkour the Best Newcomer Actress in the BestNewcomer prizeatMaxOphuelsFestival ballerina. At the age of twelve she was offered her “first, real acting her“first, twelveshewasoffered ballerina. Attheageof all”),vonWaldstaetten wantedtobecomeaprima of playground monumental study of aterrorist, of monumental study it!” Her youthful enthusiasmhadtobecurbed,however,it!” Heryouthful untilshe job, me!Iloveit!Just aman!”and“realized actingwasfor playing fuer Zwei fuer of theBadenerTheater. gotthestagebug(“Itwasbest Having of Saarbruecken. Her2009credits includetheTVmovies Players GmbH AgenturManagement Agent: 2010. in May graduat graduat ed from highschoolinVienna.ShethenmovedtoGermany Sophienstrasse 21 · 10178 Berlin/Germany Sophienstrasse 21·10178Berlin/Germany hn 4-028 68 a 4-028 686 16 85 +49-30-2 80·fax 16 85 phone +49-30-2 to study Acting at the University of Arts inBerlin,collectingher Arts of ActingattheUniversity to study email: [email protected] ·www.players.de picked upspeed,appearinginJulieDelpy’s Fremde Tochter RegardherintheTVmovie Certain in2005.2007saw degree in 2006. Her film debutcamewith in2006.Herfilm degree Profile year sheappeared intherenowned ( , the Falscher BekennerFalscher and Tatort Tatort Nachtschicht VII and the feature film and thefeature film episode Herz aus Eis Herz aus was born in1981Vienna/Austria. was born Schwerkraft ), whichscreened inCannes’ Un Tatort Tatort Tatort , as well as Olivier Assayas’ , aswellOlivier killer theaudienceactually killer , whichscreened inCannes Tangerine series and the film series andthefilm Jargo , which garner , whichgarner ed her , whichwonherthe The Countess actress portrait (2003), thenext . In2008she Ein Fall Meine Low , 10 rich. I was allowed to do things one shouldn’t even dare think. I’m not So having established that von Waldstaetten is happy and able to take, going to say what I found in the character’s childhood, but I found it! er, battle damage, is she an extreme method actress? Well … “I think Childhood is when we’re most vulnerable. I always put a certain method is a great, great technique, and I do use it, but in combination. caesura in my characters, give them a childhood twist – it usually I’m a great believer in preparation to build up the character. Before works!” shooting I know to whom she prays. During shooting I sense memo- ries to heat and stir the emotional pool. But I also think of the Dustin How about von Waldstaetten’s own childhood twists then? She Hoffman-Laurence Olivier anecdote: it’s better to put yourself into admits, once she started dancing on stage at such an early age, her the character. Like Viktoria, stretching your morals.” parents suspected what was coming! “So when I graduated high school and told them,” she says, thus confirming their worst fears, “You have areas you usually wouldn’t go to, or deny they’re there,” “my father suggested becoming a lawyer or diplomat, but it felt wrong von Waldstaetten continues, “but unfortunately, or fortunately, we to me.” But when she was chosen to be one of ten from the eight do have all the colors within us and when acting you have to enlarge hundred applicants to study Acting in Berlin “they were relieved and some areas, make others smaller. I totally believe in putting your soul were proud when I made my theater debut. Now they often have a into it. That’s essential. It’s what makes it personal.” better idea of when I’m playing and where than I do!” Recently coming off the opening night of the play Kunst des Fallens, in A quick Internet search reveals von Waldstaetten has an aristocratic which she plays Sigrid, a waitress in a beer garden, von Waldstaetten lineage and more names than the average credit card can take. But is as equally at home on stage as in front of the camera. “It’s essen tial while she might be heirs and grace, she is in no way airs and graces! to do both,” she says. “Of course there are differences to the acting “The title is nice to know where you come from,” she explains, “to and certain circumstances to consider, but both are acting at the bot- know what your ancestors did and how they lived. The record goes tom line. If you’re in front of a big audience or a small one just a few back to 1400, and it’s beautiful to know your great, great grandmother, meters away, you have to use your instinct. It’s the same in front of a say, was close to Mozart, sponsored him and threw his wedding party. camera: you act differently by instinct, taking the different circum- But we live in the here and now and I believe completely in making your stances into account and adapting.” own fate, creating your own life and daring to think very far. Knowing your roots is important, but you have to use your wings and fly!” On von Waldstaetten’s to-do list (producers take note) are “a real good comedy! I would love to do that! Horror, I don’t know, but I This year’s Cannes saw von Waldstaetten on another high, playing think I should do one vampire movie, definitely. And I’d love to do a Magdalena Kopp in Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, which drew unanimous history movie with corsets and huge dresses. When I was a child I was critical and audience plaudits. a big Sissi fan. I should definitely do one of those!” She cites her work with Julie Delpy in The Countess and Carlos, which “was so “Again, I prepped for three months,” von Waldstaetten says, this time brilliant for the costumes and hair do’s. There were so many days of going for the vanilla custard tart. “Usually I write notes, fantasizing fittings to go from the 1970s to the 1980s. Everything seemed so real; about a character’s favorite song and drink. Here, I had so many facts. set design, locations, the details were all amazing. Every department It was about understanding the time in which she lived, and creating did a fantastic job.” the character from that and her autobiography. What she and Carlos spoke about in bed was up to my fiction. I searched for why she is We know about her love of food, but what else is fun? “I love karao- with him, what draws her to such a powerful man. It was a journey to ke!” von Waldstaetten says. “I’m trying to learn to play the guitar. create such a character.” Travel is especially good, to understand yourself in the world, see it and put things into perspective, not just through work, but for plea- Journey indeed! In fact she “met one of the Red Army Faction’s sure. I’d love to learn Russian, but time is a problem. Visit the forgers in a café! I could technically forge an old passport! Not the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and so on. But there’s never enough new ones, though! It was a crazy research period because you’re play- time.” ing someone who exists and you feel the weight on your shoulders. At the end of the day, though, it’s a fiction film so it’s your inter - Right now, having just passed on the tiramisu, von Waldstaetten is pretation.” very happy in her profession. “I don’t feel the urge to produce, direct or write at the moment, but I’d never say never. I feel very happy just In the end, von Waldstaetten decided to make the character her own to be in front of the camera, but maybe one day I’ll write a script. and “be less respectful.” Working with Assayas she describes as Maybe! But what I always look for is the start and end, a character’s “amazing. He wrote the script and trusts you completely, gives you development, the caesura in that character and a story that’s worth the character and creates an on-set atmosphere where you can com- telling! A lot of time and effort goes into it, and also a lot of myself, pletely let loose, knowing he’ll catch you if need be.” so the journey has to be worth it, and for the audience too. It all has to be worthwhile.” The depth of von Waldstaetten’s letting completely loose becomes clear as she explains what was a nine month shoot taking in Lebanon, Simon Kingsley spoke with Nora von Waldstaetten France, Germany and Hungary. “It was hard to endure the dynamics with Carlos and keep the energy going. I had bruises everywhere the whole time since she (Magdelena Kopp) is pushed and thrown around a lot! What Edgar (Ramirez, who plays Carlos) and I did was to show the bond they had, the love. Edgar and I trusted each other and we decided to be really courageous and go really far: everything but the hospital!”

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3 · 2010 11 NEWS 3/2010 Oliver Ralf Mahrdt, Dirk Schuerhoff Huettner, (photoKohlberg) © Karin

25TH GERMAN PREMIERE IN NEW YORK

At the exclusive German Premieres industry screenings, director The majority of the New York-based buyers are enthusiastic about Ralf Huettner and sales agent Dirk Schuerhoff (Beta Cinema) present - the opportunity of being able to see current films from Germany on ed the hit film Vincent Wants to Sea on 14 June 2010 at the Tribeca a regular basis. In addition to the buyers being able to talk with the Cinemas in New York. Some 50 journalists and representatives of the director and negotiate with the sales agents on their own territory, the New York buyers’ and distributors’ community attended the event Premieres often lead to invitations to other festivals and events. organized by German Films and its US representative Oliver Mahrdt. Of the 24 films which have been presented at the Premieres in New Ralf Huettner, who can claim over 720,000 admissions to his film in York, eight films were then sold to US distributors, including Sophie Germany, assesses the film’s chances of success realistically: “Given Scholl – The Final Days by . Even before the film went the fact that foreign films have only a 7% share of American cinemas, into the running for Germany in 2005 for the Best Foreign Language one can easily realize the competition German films have in the USA Oscar®, New York-based distributor Zeitgeist had taken the film into and just how important events like these really are.” its portfolio.

Dirk Schuerhoff is optimistic and maintains: “It was a great pleasure to Other “sold!” films in the series include: Agnes and his brothers by see just how well the film came across. This first impression is en - Oskar Roehler, Go for Zucker! by Dani Levy, The Big Sellout by Florian couraging that we will find a US distributor for Vincent Wants to Sea.” Opitz, Four Minutes by Chris Kraus, and Kebab Connection by Anno Saul. And most recently: EVA Distribution closed a US deal in Cannes The German Premieres series was called to life in November 2004, with Corinth Films for Habermann by Juraj Herz, which kicked off the over five years ago: back then, Dennis Gansel presented his film Premieres series this year in March. Napola, which had just won the Audience Award at the renowned Hamptons International Film Festival. The film was sold to the USA and, with the help of the German Films Distribution Support program, was released in American cinemas.

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3 · 2010 12 INCREASED ATTENDANCE AT AUDI KNIGHTLEY, BINOCHE & BERGER: FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS IN AUSTRALIA FILM STARS IN NRW

This year’s AUDI Festival of German Films in Australia (24 Summer in North Rhine-Westphalia offers not only the highlights of April – 9 May 2010), which was jointly organized by German Films and the European Cultural Capital RUHR.2010, but also numerous film the Goethe-Institut Australia and mainly sponsored by AUDI shoots with international film stars. Keira Knightley, under the direc- Australia, posted around 26,000 admissions in Sydney, Melbourne, tion of David Cronenberg, was in Cologne shooting A Dangerous Mind Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. The comedies and large-scale pro - about the tense relationship between psychiatrists Carl Gustav Jung ductions, in particular, made for full cinemas and a 30% increase in and Sigmund Freund, played by Michael Fassbender and Viggo attendance. A total of 30 feature films, TV movies and five shorts Mortensen. This international co-production was supported by the were shown. Filmstiftung NRW, as was the new film by Polish director Malgoska Szumowska. Juliette Binoche is in the leading role of this film – about a journalist doing research on the topic of student prosti tution – which is being co-produced by Cologne-based Zentropa Int. and has been shooting in NRW and Paris since July. The German director Isabel Kleefeld is also working on her first feature film for the cinemas, entitled Ruhm, an adaptation of the bestselling work by Daniel Kehlmann (Die Vermessung der Welt). Senta Berger is in one of the leading roles of this Filmstiftung NRW-supported co-production being produced by Soenke Wortmann's Little Shark Entertainment based in Cologne.

WELCOME TO GERMANY, EURIMAGES!

For the first time in over 18 years, a session of the Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s EURIMAGES Fund took place in Germany. On the initiative of the new President, Jobst Plog, and following the invitation of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture & the Media (BKM), 65 participants from 34 member states of the Council of Europe met from 14 – 17 June 2010 in Hamburg.

A total of 4.78 million Euros were awarded to 14 projects, in cluding German co-productions such as Emir Kusturica’s Cool Water (Brave New Work Film Productions) and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (Zentropa International Cologne). 165 Flags forFestival the AUDI of German Films in Sydney Koprowski) (photo © Tom In addition to the committee sessions, the Board of Management also Fatih Akin’s comedy Soul Kitchen had already become the front-runner took part in various official events, such as a reception at the Hamburg during advance ticket sales and was presented with the Golden City Hall, the “President’s Dinner” with Dr. Ingeborg Berggreen- Gnome Audience Award. The film was launched in Australian cinemas Merkel (BKM), Peter Dinges (German Federal Film Board), Eva after the festival. Hubert (Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein) and the direc- tor of the local public broadcaster NDR, Lutz Marmor, as well as a Other favorites at the festival included: by Michael summer boat trip on the river Elbe. Haneke, by , The Crocodiles 1 + 2 by Christian Ditter as well as My Words, My Lies – My Love by Alain Gsponer, John Rabe by Florian Gallenberger, Whisky With Vodka by Andreas Dresen, Wedding Fever in Campobello by Neele Leana Vollmar, The Door by Anno Saul, and Berlin 36 by Kaspar Heidelbach, which attracted an enthusiastic audience and received very good feed- back in the media.

Festival guest Soenke Wortmann, who was honored with three films in the festival program, was on hand to answer the audience’s ques- tions and sign posters after the packed screenings of Pope Joan. The writer Erica Fischer, who penned the literary original, experienced a very interested and open-minded audience during the conversations about Aimee & Jaguar by Max Faerberboeck, and an intense panel dis- cussion followed after the sold-out performances of Storm by Hans- Christian Schmid in Melbourne and Sydney. The EURIMAGES Board with President Jobst Plog at the with President Board The EURIMAGES Hamburg City Hall (photo © Dirk Uhlenbrock)

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3 · 2010 13 film with an extensive German Focus at their 29th edition from 25 to 31 October 2010. The Swedish and international audience can look forward to a plunge deep into the past and present of the German short film scene. There will be screenings of the 30 best German shorts from the last 20 years featuring award-winning pieces by film- makers such as Corinna Schnitt, Matthias Mueller, Joerg Wagner, Hanna Nordholt and Fritz Steingrobe, Gil Alkabetz and Lola Randl. With the support of the Goethe-Institute and German Films, the fes - tival has the opportunity to invite a number of filmmakers to present their films. Other programs will include East German short animations produced in the famous DEFA studios during the years 1964 to 1989 and short films by famous German directors, such as Wolfgang Petersen and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Furthermore, the festival will organize at least one exhibition with art works from Germany in collaboration with the Uppsala Art Museum and a seminar on German short film with the filmmakers who are present at the festival. Scene from “The Goalgetter’s Ship” “The Goalgetter’s Scene from (photo courtesy of MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg)

15 YEARS OF FILM FUNDING IN THE SOUTHWEST

MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg can look back on 15 successful years of film funding, during which time the film location Baden- Wuerttemberg has continued to develop. In the last two years, the annual budget was increased around 50% to now almost 15 million Euros. The budget increase is primarily aimed at supporting produc- tion funding and the up-and-coming generation. But the some 650 theater screens in Baden-Wuerttemberg can also expect assistance in the conversion to new technology with a special program entitled “Cinema Digitalization”. The last 15 years have also seen numerous MFG-supported films winning prizes at festivals around the world, i.e. Scene from “Einmart” (photo © PROGRESS Film-Verleih) “Einmart” Scene from (photo © PROGRESS in Locarno, where the MFG is a regular guest and supporter. Such films as Das Verlangen (Golden Leopard 2002), Silent Waters (Golden Leopard 2003), Brudermord (Silver Leopard 2005), and Das Fraeulein Founded in 1982, the Uppsala International Short Film Festival has (Golden Leopard 2006) all took home awards from Locarno. This since become Sweden's premier arena for short film, having attained year’s festival in Locarno is presenting Heidi Specogna’s film The both national recognition of the Swedish Film Institute and genuine Goalgetter’s Ship. international renown. Every year the festival shows more than 300 short films in five different sections exploring the diversity and rich - ness of the short film. Additionally, buyers, distributors and festival 10TH FILMKUNSTMESSE IN LEIPZIG representatives have access to a videotheque during the festival.

The Filmkunstmesse (“Film Art Fair”) in Leipzig is celebrating its 10th year anniversary this year from 13 – 17 September in various cinemas FIRST MOTION NETWORK around Leipzig. With support from Mitteldeutsche Medien- foerderung (MDM), the arthouse film scene gathers every year in FIRST MOTION – a network for the Leipzig to exchange ideas with colleagues and partners in discussions, research and development of cross - seminars and workshops on subjects such as “The Present and Future media in the Baltic Sea Region, co- of Digital Arthouse Cinemas” and “Working with Children and Youth funded by the EU BSR program and in the Arthouse Segment”. The heart of the fair is the screening of headed by the Filmfoerderung current productions: more than 60 films from German arthouse Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein distributors are shown prior to their release. A further highlight is the – has chosen its first projects: So far award ing of the Cinema Program Award by MDM and the Central seven projects from the Baltics have German Film and Television Producers Association. Festive special been selected to receive funding and have participated in an inter - events round off the program during this anniversary year. More in - national workshop to be further devel oped in Tallinn. The workshop formation is available at: www.filmkunstmesse.de. is part of the FIRST MOTION program. Now they have started pro- duction and are currently shoot ing in the Baltics. The first parts of the crossmedia projects will be finished and presented early next year. GERMAN FOCUS IN UPPSALA Before that they will take part in another international workshop as part of the production scheme. Among the selected projects are two In cooperation with German Films and the AG Kurzfilm German productions: Superhero.Blog, produced by Stefan Gieren and (German Short Film Association), the International Short directed by Sascha Zimmermann, as well as Peipsi, produced and Film Festival in Uppsala creates a meeting place for the German short directed by Marc Brummund.

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relational aspects so as not to have to face the fear of what rape en- tails. Der Brand is a very quiet, slow and accurately narrated drama in which the unspoken is given its space.”

Bertele’s previous credits include the 2008 feature film Nacht vor Augen, also written by Johanna Stuttmann, which had its world Scene from “Der Brand” Scene from premiere in the Berlinale’s Forum. It won Bertele an NDR Newcomer Award at the 19th Internationales Filmfest Emden 2008 and the DEFA Newcomer Award at the 18th Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg- Vorpommern 2008. Both women were also nominated for the Adolf Grimme Award 2010. Stuttmann’s trophy case includes the Baden- Wuerttemberg Script Award 2007 and she was also nominated for (photo © Filmsyndikat UG/Christina Laube) the 2009.

Der Brand premieres in public broadcaster SWR’s Debut im Dritten slot, established especially for first time, or as close as, Der Brand features such as this; films, in the words of commissioning editor, Stefanie Gross, that are “gripping, quiet, sometimes loud, but Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama always have unusual stories and have their own, radical, viewpoint.” Production Company Filmsyndikat/Baden-Baden, in co-produc- Previous candidates include such critical and audience hits as Die Fetten tion with SWR/Baden-Baden With backing from MFG Baden- Jahre sind vorbei, Kroko, Vier Minuten, Emmas Glueck, Reine Wuerttemberg Producer Hartwig Koenig Director Brigitte Maria Geschmacksache, Novemberkind and Alle Anderen, which shows how Bertele Screenplay Johanna Stuttmann Director of Photog- high the quality bar has been set. Production company raphy Hans Fromm Editor Dominique Geisler Music by Filmsyndikat was co-founded in 2009 by Hartwig Koenig, Christian Biegai Production Design K.D. Gruber Principal who can look back on over twenty year’s with the Debut im Dritten Cast Maja Schoene, Mark Waschke, Wotan Wilke Moehring, Florian series. David Fitz, Ursina Lardi Casting Simone Baer Format Super 16 mm, color, blow-up to 35 mm, 1:1.85, Dolby 5.1 Shooting SK Language German Shooting in , Karlsruhe, February- April 2010

Contact Filmsyndikat UG · Hartwig Koenig Varnhalter Weg 31 · 76534 Baden-Baden/Germany phone +49-72 23-9 91 93 10 · fax +49-72 23-9 91 93 13 email: [email protected] · www.filmsyndikat.net Scene from “Burnout” Scene from

After an evening out, the 35-year-old, self-confident Judith is raped on her way home. She fights with all possible means to prevent her life being changed, wanting to remain the strong woman she was before. Her lawyer advises her to press charges and she makes plans with her partner Georg to start a family. (photo Hubner) © Jost Hering Filme/Richard But the destructive consequences force their way into Judith’s life. Her sexual relationship breaks down as she becomes increasingly obsessed with thoughts of retaliation as legal proceedings against her attacker suffer one setback after another. Burnout When the perpetrator’s false statement causes her hopes of legal Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Pro - redress to collapse, Judith looks for another way to get justice. She duction Company Jost Hering Filme/Berlin, in co-production with observes the man, brings about encounters and it almost looks like ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/ With backing from she is out for revenge. But Judith is pursuing another, unusual, radical Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia, Medien - path to prove the criminal’s guilt and bring him to account. board Berlin-Brandenburg Producer Jost Hering Director Verena S. Freytag Screenplay Suelbiye Guenar Director of Photog- “Der Brand throws up the question whether there can be any way raphy Ali Olcay Goezkaya Editor François Rossier Music by whatsoever to recover from being raped,” says director Brigitte Roland Satterwhite Production Design Olivier Meidinger, Rita Bertele. “The grim reality is that it can happen to anyone at any time, Maria Hallekamp Principal Cast Maryam Zaree, Tilla Kratochwil, anywhere. Instead of an empathy for the victim, social and legal de- Lukas Steltner Casting Suelbiye Guenar, Jan Wagner, Katja Ginnow bates are often dominated by a rhetoric in which the victim is shut out Format 35 mm, color, cs, Stereo Shooting Language German and the causes are sought in the woman’s conduct, appearance and Shooting in Berlin, Fehrman, Wangerland, March – June 2010 german films quarterly in production

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Pelin is a young, single mother from the Wedding district of Berlin, an area with, let’s say, a higher degree of social dysfunction than others in the German capital. She has three children by different fathers from

different countries. There is Robby (9), Elvis (4) and Roxanne (just 19 (photo Ulrich) © CWP-Film/Heike months). The social services have sent them on what is known as a Mother-Child-Cure, essentially a family retreat, in a beautiful country-

side location in a spa town in northern Germany. The idea is to give On the set of “Davon willst Du nichts wissen” Pelin, who is on a continual collision course with youth services and the judicial system, time to reconsider her behavior and also recover physically as well as mentally. Davon willst Du Unfortunately neither her roommate Christa, who suffers from a lack of self-esteem and seeks to form a bond with her, nor the dedicated nichts wissen staff at the clinic are able to bring clarity to the young mother’s chaotic daily existence. When Pelin’s former boyfriend, Edin, comes Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama, Psycho across her in the small town, Pelin is forced to finally make a decision. Thriller Production Company Claussen+Woebke+Putz Film- produktion/Munich, in co-production with viaFilm Boellhoff & Producer Jost Hering describes Burnout as “a story of root- Frauenknecht/Geiselgasteig, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz lessness, how the social state is now ‘Father Social State’, about a With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Producers Uli society structur ed by class and the longing for love.” Putz, Jakob Claussen Commissioning Editor Joerg Schneider Director Tim Trachte Screenplay Tim Trachte Director of A typical ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel production, which means look Photography Fabian Roesler Editor Ulrich Ringer Production for depth of character and human drama, Burnout is most de- Design Markus Dicklhuber Principal Cast Andreas Lust, Sophie finitely an actor’s film. Pelin is played by Maryam Zaree, whose von Kessel, Alina Levshin, Nikolas Beyer, Thomas Loibl Casting credits include the main role in Shahada, which featured in com- Daniela Tolkien Format S16 mm, color, 1:1.87, blow-up to 35 mm, petition at this year’s Berlinale. Previously, with Mein Vogel fliegt 5.1 Dolby SR Shooting Language German Shooting in schneller, she was one of the contenders for the 31st Max Ophuels Munich, April – May 2010 Award. Equally at home on television as well as in the theater, she has appeared in the Tatort series as well as at the Staatstheater Hannover. Contact Claussen+Woebke+Putz Filmproduktion GmbH Tilla Kratochwil, who plays Christa, can claim numerous credits Uli Putz across film, television and theater, including Tatort, films such as 10 Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 27 · 80331 Munich/Germany Seconds and Die Ritterinnen, as well as treading the boards at the Thalia phone +49-89-23 11 01 0 · fax +49-89-26 33 85 Theater Hamburg and the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater email: [email protected] Berlin. www.claussen-woebke-putz.de

Last but by no means least, Lukas Steltner (Edin), was discover- Director Tim Trachte came to producer Uli Putz’s attention ed in 2007 for the main role in Dominik and Benjamin Reding’s Fuer when she saw his graduation film from Munich’s University of den unbekannten Hund. His performance won him, among others, the Television & Film, Der Herrscher von Edessa, at the HFF Screenings a Audience Award at the Festival des Deutschen Films Mannheim- couple of years ago. Ludwigshafen as well as the Otto Sprenger Award at the Oldenburg International Film Festival. He is also a professional break dancer. The medium-length film, which won the City of Munich’s Starter Film Prize and the EON Bayern Culture Award in 2008, was very much to Burnout’s director, Verena S. Freytag, first studied at the Music Putz’s liking. “Tim has his own particular style as a director and show - Academy Stuttgart and then, from 1995 to 2000, Film and Television ed in this film that he knows how to generate suspense. He is some- Direction at the dffb in Berlin. Since graduation she has worked as a one who dares to stay with a scene rather than cut,” she says. freelance director’s assistant, line producer, scriptwriter and casting agent. Her last two feature films were Karamuk (2002) and Sanyies After Putz met with the director, they decided to work together with Lust (2003), which garnered festival play and several awards at various ZDF’s Das kleine Fernsehspiel on developing his feature debut, the international festivals. In 2004 she won the German CIVIS Television psychological thriller Davon willst Du nichts wissen (“You Award in the Entertainment category for Karamuk. Don’t Want To Know”) which was then shot this April and May.

SK One evening, a man’s life takes an unexpected turn from respect- ability into the unknown after he attempts to protect his wife and him- self from two aggressive youths. In a struggle with one of the youths, the boy falls on the tracks and is run over by a freight train. Believing that there were no witnesses, the man decides to simply conceal german films quarterly in production

3 · 2010 17 what has happened. But when he starts receiving anonymous, threaten ing letters, he realizes that someone else knows his secret …

“Logistically, it was quite a challenge to shoot the scenes on the tracks with the boy being run over,” Putz recalls, “but Tim had everything storyboarded and was extremely well prepared. Moreover, he al- ready knows during the shooting how he will edit the film later on.” (photo © Caligari Film)

The performance of Austrian actor Andreas Lust in Goetz Spielmann’s Revanche at the 2008 Berlinale prompted the producers and Trachte to consider him for the role of the family man harboring a secret. “He was the ideal person for the role,” Putz says. “He’s someone you just have to like and you want to be on his side. And Markus Foerderer Fehlbaum, Lisa Vicari, Tim Sophie von Kessel is perfect as his wife.”

Putz had approached viaFilm, the young company of two HFF graduates Benedikt Boellhoff and Max Frauenknecht, to Das Ende der Nacht handle the production management for the film. “They have the status of co-producers on the project because we also see our Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Thriller function at Claussen+Woebke+Putz Film in supporting the Production Company Caligari Film/Munich, in co-production next generation of producers as well as directors,” she explains. with Vega Film/Zurich, Seven Pictures Film/Munich With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, “Moreover, it is great fun working with people like Tim and his team, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, who clearly want to achieve something and are still fresh,” Putz adds. Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Zuercher Filmstiftung Pro ducers “I can definitely imagine us working with Tim again in the future.” Gabriele M. Walther, Thomas Woebke Executive Producer Roland Emmerich Director Tim Fehlbaum Screen play Tim MB Fehlbaum, Thomas Woebke, Oliver Kahl Director of Photog- raphy Markus Foederer Editor Andreas Mann Production Design Heike Lange Principal Cast Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, Stipe Erceg, Angela Winkler, Lisa Vicari Casting An Dorthe Braker, Corinna Glaus Casting Format 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby Surround Shooting Language German Shooting in Branden - burg, , Corsica, April-June 2010

Contact Caligari Film GmbH · Andrea Heijnen Reisingerstrasse 5 · 80337 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-54 80 95 11 · fax +49-89-54 80 95 22 email: [email protected] www.caligari-film.de

The honor of being the very first local production to be taken on by Paramount Pictures Germany goes to Das Ende der Nacht (“The End of Night”), a post-apocalyptic thriller in the finest genre film tradition.

It is the near future and the world as we know it no longer exists. The sun has turned super hot, dividing the Earth into two halves, one unin- habitable and lashed by storms, the other parched and unable to sup- port plant life. Europe has not been spared, famine sweeping away much of the population. Survivors exist on what has already been hoarded, those in the cities lucky enough to have anything are plun- dered and robbed. Rumors spread that life in the mountains is better: it has, it’s said, even rained there!

Marie (Hannah Herzsprung) and her sister Leonie (Lisa Vicari) undertake the journey with Philip (Lars Eidinger) in his clapped-out car. It’s a purely business arrangement: Marie provides sex, he feeds and looks after them. But a long way from their destination they run out of fuel and the engine gives out. Whilst foraging they are surprised by Tom (Stipe Erceg), who takes Leonie hostage in order to get their supplies. Philip manages to over-

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The car and Leonie are captured. Tom proves to be more reliable than Philip but he, too, is taken hostage. Marie gradually realizes that the robbers are interested in more than just the provisions, and if she wants to see Leonie again she has to overcome her fears and, also without Philip, take on not only the merciless climate but also the thieves. It’s a challenge that will take her to greater depths than she Scene from “Die Farbe des Ozeans” Scene from first realizes …

Swiss-born director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum, who studied (photo © Suedart Filmproduktion/Pere Pueyo) (photo © Suedart Filmproduktion/Pere Directing at the University of Television & Film in Munich (2002- 2009), describes Das Ende der Nacht as “a look into a post-apo- calyptic scenario. It’s an exciting odyssey about courage, love and rediscovering hope in a world which appears hopeless.” In 2004 he Die Farbe des Ozeans beat out 140 other competitors to win that year’s Shocking Shorts Award, while the 2005 documentary Kinder der Schlafviertel Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama (Fehlbaum serving as DoP) took, amongst others, the Best Production Company Suedart Filmproduktion/Munich, in co- Documentary awards at the Tau Film Festival Tel Aviv and the production with Starhaus Filmproduktion/Munich, noirfilm filmpro- Sehsuechte Filmfest. duktion/Karlsruhe, El Olivo Producciones Audiovisuales/Alicante, BR/Munich, /Strasbourg, SWR/Baden-Baden With backing Gabriele M. Walther, Caligari Film’s founder and managing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film Board (FFA), director, is producing Das Ende der Nacht together with MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) Thomas Woebke, with Hollywood heavy hitter Roland Producers Boris Jendreyko, Thomas Klimmer Director Maggie Emmerich executive producing. All three have known each other Peren Screenplay Maggie Peren Director of Photography for many years. Walther was the producer of Emmerich’s first feature Armin Franzen Editor Simon Blasi Production Design Julian film, The Noah’s Ark Principle, which screened at the 1984 Berlinale. Wagner Principal Cast Sabine Timoteo, Friedrich Muecke, Alex Woebke and Emmerich have already produced two films together, Gonzalez, Hubert Koundé Casting An Dorthe Braker, Barbie High Crusade (1994) and Trade (2007). “But until now,” Gabriele M. Heusinger, Rafael Contreras Palomino, Javier Sacristan Format 35 Walther says, “we have never had the chance to produce a film with mm, color, cs, Dolby Digital Shooting Languages German, this three-way constellation. Das Ende der Nacht has an amazing French, Spanish Shooting in Alicante, Gran Canaria, June – July screenplay, we’ve all put together the best talent in front of as well as 2010 behind the camera. This is going to be a superb thriller!” World Sales SK TELEPOOL GmbH · Amelie von Kienlin Sonnenstrasse 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-55 87 62 10 · fax +49-89-55 87 61 88 email: [email protected] · www.telepool.de

Writer-director Maggie Peren has followed her feature debut Special Escort (Stellungswechsel) with Die Farbe des Ozeans (“The Color of the Ocean”) which marks the first feature film pro- duction by the Munich-based company Suedart Film - produktion of Boris Jendreyko and Thomas Klimmer.

The two have been working together as a producers duo since meet- ing during their studies at the University of Television & Film and were thrown into the deep end of international co-production with this film that was shot over 30 days in Alicante and one day on Gran Canaria.

“We hadn’t planned to start with an international production, but Maggie’s screenplay was so good that we couldn’t say ‘No’,” recalls Jendreyko.

“The script’s quality enabled us to attract strong partners like Starhaus Filmproduktion who brought in their extensive inter- national networks,” Klimmer adds. “And we found the Spanish part- ner El Olivo Producciones Audiovisuales who is at a similar stage of development to our company.”

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3 · 2010 19 Die Farbe des Ozeans tells the story of a young German couple who are holidaying on Gran Canaria when a boat with African refugees lands on the beach one day. Two of the refugees, a father and his son, ask the wife for water. Shortly afterwards, they are taken by the police to a reception camp, but the father and son manage to escape. The German woman goes against her husband’s wishes and decides to help the two ... but finally ends up in the office of the in - vestigating police officer.

“The more I began to research and to reflect on the reasons for the (photo courtesy of LimeLight PR)

flow of refugees, the more I asked myself the question what one can On the set of “Die Frau des Polizisten” actually do about it as an individual,” Maggie Peren explains. “What is actually help and where does this begin? How does one define the correctness of one’s actions? Or has the world we know now just become much too complicated to really do anything?”

According to Peren, “Die Farbe des Ozeans is intended to be a Die Frau des Polizisten political film without, however, wanting to lecture” and she argues that seeing the film’s events through the perspective of a German Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama Pro - couple on holiday is “the rather unusual approach to dealing with the duction Company Philip Groening Filmproduktion/Duesseldorf, refugee problem. I want to confront the audience directly with the in co-production with Bavaria Film/Munich, 3L Film/Dortmund question: how would I myself react?” With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM Producer An impressive multi-national cast was won for the German-Spanish Philip Groening Director Philip Groening Screenplay Philip co-production ranging from Swiss actress Sabine Timoteo (The Groening, Carola Diekmann Director of Photography Philip Free Will) through Germany’s Friedrich Muecke (Friendship!) to Groening Editors Philip Groening, Karl Riedl Production up-and-coming Spanish actor Alex Gonzalez (Luz de Domingo). Design Petra Barchi, Petra Klimek, Adan Hernandez Principal Cast Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied, Pia and Chiara “Maggie had always had the French actor Hubert Koundé in mind Kleemann Casting Suse Marquardt Format Digital 4K, color, to play the part of the refugee Zola,” Jendreyko says. “He was imme- 1:1.85, blow-up to 35 mm, Dolby SRD 5.1 Shooting Language diately enthusiastic about the role and remained true to the project German Shooting in Stadtlohn, April – July 2010 over the past two years as we worked on closing the financing.” World Sales Meanwhile, this project is unlikely to be Suedart’s last outing into The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber international co-production, according to Klimmer: “We see our- Balthasarstrasse 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany selves working in the future on both national and international pro- phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 · fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910 jects, and serving as a partner for foreign producers shooting in email: [email protected] Germany.” www.the-match-factory.com

MB Ten years have passed since Philip Groening’s last fiction feature film L'Amour, L'Argent, L'Amour premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it won the Bronze Leopard for actress Sabine Timoteo.

Since then, Groening directed the internationally acclaimed docu- mentary Into Great Silence (Der grosse Stille), which first screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2005, and the Duesseldorf/Berlin-based filmmaker had then been developing two new feature projects.

One of these – Die Frau des Polizisten (“The Policeman’s Wife”) – began shooting at outside locations at the end of March with principal photography in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Stadtlohn from April to July.

The screenplay, co-written with Carola Diekmann, centers on a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.

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3 · 2010 20 there is an incredible tonality to the architecture. You have two or Contact three kinds of brick, so it is like a symphony in red.” High5Films GmbH · Mike Dehghan Torstrasse 125 · 10119 Berlin/Germany “It is a rather simple, small film about a man, a woman and a child,” phone +49-30-2 19 65 57 13, +49-1 51-58 76 76 83 he continues. “Formally, the film has a rigorously constructed concept fax +49-30-2 19 65 57 20 with abstract images and many levels.” email: [email protected] · www.high5films.com www.girlzkickinhiv.com Moreover, Groening dispensed with having a concrete screenplay in order to be able to concentrate on working with the and, in The graduation film of director and cinematographer Patricia particular, the twin sisters Pia and Chiara Kleemann playing the Lewandowska, Girlz kickin’ HIV! is a documentary about daughter Clara. young girls in South Africa who use street soccer in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Filmed before, during and after the World Cup 2010, “We really had great luck in finding the twins because they perfectly the film deals with the girls’ vitality and courage, showing how the complement one another and motivated each other on set,” he adds. young and vulnerable develop their own personalities and life skills, journeying through their teenage problems and the ongoing fight for The fact that Groening juggles many functions on his projects is prevention and safety. nothing new for him. Apart from serving as his own producer, he had also directed and edited his last feature film as well taking on most of Through the strength of street soccer, young girls such as Kwinji, the chores as DoP. Portia and Mtuli, some HIV positive since birth, others the victims of sexual violence, help themselves and others to become more in- The new project also sees him donning several hats although he could dependent and confident to endure their male-dominated world. draw on the services of a second camera unit and will be joined as co- Girlz kickin’ HIV! is above all a story of hope. editor by Karl Riedel who had worked with him on Into Great Silence. For the girls, football and especially the World Cup occupies a huge place in their lives: it is more, so much more than just about sport, it MB outshines their fears and sorrows. But what happens when the World Cup circus has packed its tents and left town? Will football continue to set the tone for the girls’ lives or do they run the risk of falling back into the pre-existing behavioral patterns of others and thus resigning to their fate?

“My film is about these girls’ little joys and sorrows,” says Patricia Lewandowska. “About kids and teenagers who are kicking around a worn-out leather football and feel so much happiness while doing so. It’s about them not having much at all and us having too much. And it’s about them having found a meaning in life and that they can still enjoy themselves and experience real happiness alongside all the prob lems they have to live with on a daily basis.”

Aid organizations, such as ‘stars of tomorrow’, try to protect the girls by conducting vital awareness training. These bodies help them expe-

(photo courtesy of High5Film) rience football and the physical exercise gives them joy and strength, Scene from “Girlz kickin’Scene from HIV!” as well as the chance to gain some fundamental life experiences – such as how good it feels to be part of a team and the spirit that comes with that.

In 2011 Germany hosts the Women’s Soccer World Cup. With HIV and AIDS as universal a theme as the beautiful game itself, Girlz kickin’ HIV! is a perfect example of producer High5Film’s belief that commercially viable films need not be without brains, but that Girlz kickin’ HIV! engaging with cultural and socio-political issues can also create enter- taining and thought provoking cinema. Type of Project Documentary Cinema Genre Society Production Company High5Films/Berlin, in co-production with SK dffb/Berlin Producers Natalia Imaz, Anja Dehghan, Mike Dehghan, Georg Dehghan Director Patricia Lewandowska Screenplay Patricia Lewandowska Director of Photography Patricia Lewandowska Format HD, color, blow-up to 35 mm, 1:1.85, Dolby SR Shooting Languages English, German, Afrikaans Shooting in Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria, Soshanguve, Mamelodi, Durban, Edendale, Cape Town, May – July, October 2010

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3 · 2010 21 sister Tatjana’s dream of escaping from the confines of the rundown tenement to become a boxing champion.

“We didn’t have to look far for the courtyard because we found the ideal place in the Muenzhof near Hamburg’s main railway station,” Schneider recalls. “It’s a popular location with filmmakers, but we did not have any problems with the residents about shooting there.”

Principal photography had begun at the end of April in Lueneburg at a school in the architectural style of the 1970s for an attic scene, and other locations included an underground station, football ground and the harbor area in Hamburg. In addition, several scenes were shot at

schneider+groos filmproduktion/Josef Wutz) various places on the studio lot of Studio Hamburg where the film’s editing and sound mix will also be done. Scene from “Der Himmel hat vier Ecken”(photo © Scene from

While casting sessions were held over three months in Hamburg and Der Himmel hat Schleswig-Holstein to find the child actors, Wirbitzky’s screenplay made such an impression on LA-based actor Udo Kier that he took vier Ecken no time in deciding to play the vampire. In fact, they already knew each other from working together on the 4 gegen Z series where Kier Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Children and Family played the villain. Production Company schneider+groos filmproduktion/Ham- burg, in co-production with NDR/Hamburg With backing from Meanwhile, the production landed something of a coup by casting Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia, German Niko’s sister Tatjana with the real-life flyweight boxing world Federal Film Fund (DFFF) Producers Ute Schneider, Christof champion Susianna Kentikian in her first acting role. Groos Commissioning Editors Angelika Paetow, Ole Kampovski Director Klaus Wirbitzky Screenplay Klaus Wirbitzky Other parts are taken by Charly Huebner, Sandra Director of Photography Michael Toetter Editor Sebastian Borgmann, Lisa Maria Potthoff, and Mark Zak who recent- Thuemler Production Design Andreas Lupp, Nils Tuennermann ly appeared opposite Angelina Jolie in Florian Henckel von Principal Cast Moritz Jahn, Lukas Mrowietz, Susianna Kentikian, Donnersmarck’s The Tourist. Udo Kier, Lisa Maria Potthoff, Charly Huebner, Sandra Borgmann, Doris Kunstmann, Mark Zak Casting Marion Haack Casting “It is our first film with children, but I have to say that they were very Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby digital Shooting Language professional and well prepared,” Schneider notes. “It is quite a German Shooting in Lueneburg, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, different kind of shooting situation because you have to keep to the April – May 2010 legally fixed maximum times the children are allowed to work.”

Contact MB Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH Christiane Wittich Jenfelder Allee 80 · 22039 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-40-66 88 54 45 · fax +49-40-66 88 53 99 email: [email protected] www.studio-hamburg.de

Shooting was completed at the end of May on Klaus Wirbitzky’s first feature film for the cinema, Der Himmel hat vier Ecken.

However, he is no stranger to the director’s chair since he has work - ed extensively for television on such children’s TV series as Die Pfefferkoerner and 4 gegen Z or the drama series Die Rettungsflieger.

“The story is about two boys coming from different social back - grounds,” says producer Ute Schneider of Hamburg-based schneider+groos filmproduktion. “To begin with, there is the sensitive loner Joschi who had to move here with his father from a better district after his parents’ separation. And then, we have Niko, full of bravado, whose family came to Germany from Kazakhstan, staying out of the way of his drunken father.”

In the neighborhood cinema, the two friends secretly idolize the figure of a vampire up on the screen. In a magical twist, Count Karpatovicz steps out of the screen to help the boys realize Niko’s

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“Wolfgang’s very special laconic humor which we know from such films as Summer in Berlin is very much present in this new screenplay,” Schwartzkopff notes, pointing out that the Berlin appearing in the film will not be the usual ‘picture postcard’ option taken by many films set in the capital. “You will be able to recognize Berlin, but we want to find other images which are rather special and serve our story.”

This will be Dan Tang’s first feature film shot in Germany – she had previously directed two features in China, The Autumn for Guoguo

Front: Jiang Yiyan, Zhao Ying Ying, Deng Jia Front: (2005) and Dream Team (2007) – and is also Schwartzkopff ’s first pro- Back: Dan Tang, Peter Schwartzkopff Peter (photo © Back: Dan Tang,

Reverse Angle Production GmbH/Peter Hartwig) Reverse AngleGmbH/Peter Production duction with China. His Chinese partner, Wang Yu, of Beijing-based Ray Production has previously worked with such directors as Jia I Phone Y(o)u Zhang-ke and Yang Li. Meanwhile, the role of Ling has been cast with Jian Yiyan who Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Comedy, Drama appeared in Nanjing! Nanjing! … City of Life and Death, while German Production Company Reverse Angle Production/Hamburg, actor Florian Lukas – known to international audiences from such in co-production with Ray Productions/Beijing, RBB/Potsdam, films as Good Bye, Lenin! and North Face – has taken on the role of ARTE/Strasbourg, BR/Munich With backing from German Marco. Federal Film Board (FFA), Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig- Holstein, Medien board Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film MB Fund (DFFF) Producer Peter Schwartzkopff Co-Producer Wang Yu Director Dan Tang Screenplay Wolfgang Kohlhaase Director of Photography Andreas Hoefer Editor Sebastian Thuemler Production Design Susanne Hopf Principal Cast Jian Yiyan, Florian Lukas Casting Simone Baer Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85, Dolby SR Shooting Languages Chinese, German, English Shooting in Chongqing/China and Berlin, July – August 2010

Contact Reverse Angle Production GmbH Peter Schwartzkopff Am Kaiserkai 10 · 20457 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-40-80 81 82 83 · fax +49-40-80 81 82 84 email: [email protected] Fu Mama” “Kung from Team www.reverse-angle.com (photo Entertainment) © Dreamtool “I have now known Wolfgang Kohlhaase for some 30 years,” recalls producer Peter Schwartzkopff, who graduated from Babelsberg’s University of Film & Television (HFF) in 1974.

“At one point, we had worked together on developing a project about Konrad Wolf and, over the years, kept on looking for a project to do together. Then, three years ago, he came to me with the story Kung Fu Mama idea for I Phone Y(o)u (working title),” he continues. – Agentin mit Kids Through Kohlhaase, he met the young female Chinese filmmaker Dan Tang, who studied at the HFF from 2003 to 2007, and they all Type of Project TV Movie Genre Action/Adventure Pro - worked together on developing the treatment into a screenplay and duction Company Dreamtool Entertainment/Munich With finding a co-production partner in China. backing from Filmstiftung NRW, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, MEDIA Producers Stefan Raiser, Felix Zackor Director Simon X. In her mid-20s, Ling works for a florist’s shop delivering flowers dres- Rost Screenplay Derek Meister, Simon X. Rost Director of sed in a clown’s costume in the metropolis of Chongqing when one Photography Jochen Staeblein Editor Martin Rahner Pro - day she meets a Chinese businessman, Yu, who is visiting from Berlin. duction Design Matthias Kammermeier Principal Cast Claudia As a parting gift, he gives her an iPhone and they begin a tender long- Hiersche, Ben Braun, Alexander Radszun, Bernhard Schir, Masha distance affair by phone. Eventually, she decides to travel to Berlin to Tokareva Casting Daniela Tolkein Format 16 mm, color see Yu, but is met at the airport by his bodyguard and chauffeur Shooting Language German Shooting in Cologne and Marco. There is no sign of Yu, and Marco’s job is to show her Berlin surround ings, Munich, Wilhelmshaven, June – July 2010

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She was the most powerful weapon in the German Secret Service armory. Nina Wenzel’s (Claudia Hiersche) greatest success was arresting the international arms smuggler Wolf Geiger (Bernhard Schir). But when her sister dies, the top agent’s life changes totally: “Der Mondmann” (photo courtesy of she quits, takes in her sister’s three kids and looks after them lovingly. Now, five years on, Geiger is due to stand trial, but the unscrupulous gun runner makes a spectacular escape. Nina’s former boss Heinrich Husen (Alexander Radszun) sees only one hope, his best under- cover agent must return to active service. After initially hesitating, Nina agrees, but juggling raising kids and the secret service takes all Der Mondmann she’s got. She can’t blow her cover whatever happens, which makes the budding romance between Nina and her neighbor Ruby (Ben Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Animation Braun), a cool biker, extremely complicated. Production Company Schesch Filmkreation/Berlin in co-pro- duction, with Le Pacte/Paris, Cartoon Saloon/Kilkenny With For the casting of Kung Fu Mama – Agentin mit Kids, pro- backing from Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, BKM, MEDIA, ducers Dreamtool Entertainment took a bold approach. German Federal Film Board (FFA) Producer Stephan Schesch Together with Munich-based casting agent Daniela Tolkein they Director Stephan Schesch Screenplay Stephan Schesch, Ralph sent the details for the two main roles to all agencies. Actors had five Martin Editor Sarah Clara Weber Voices Katharina Thalbach, weeks to play an actual scene from the script in front of a video , Ulrich Noethen Format 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby SR camera and upload the film to a server. More than 500 took part: not Shooting Language German Shooting at studios in Germany only were the two leads, Claudia Hiersche and Ben Braun, found, but and Ireland, Autumn 2010 – Summer 2011 also the bad gal, Masha Tokareva. Contact “We got the perfect cast,” says producer Stefan Raiser. Casting is Le Pacte · Elisabeth Perlie often pursued too half-heartedly. People prefer to rely on tried and 5 rue Darcet · 75017 Paris/France tested actors and often pass on a great potential. We’ve now met phone +33-1-44 69 59 45 · fax +33-1-44 69 59 42 many new faces and noted some of them for later productions.” email: [email protected] · www.le-pacte.com

Dreamtool Entertainment was founded by Stefan Raiser and Felix Producer Stephan Schesch has returned to Tomi Ungerer for his Zackor in 1999. Together, they have produced, to date, more than directorial debut with the adaptation of Tomi Ungerer’s children’s 1400 minutes of cinema and television films. From arthouse to main- classic Der Mondmann (“Moon Man”). stream, from commissioned productions to international co-pro- ductions, from a small television play via TV movies to TV events, “Moon Man and The Three Robbers are my favorite books by Tomi Dreamtool seeks to cover the largest possible variety. Of course, that Ungerer,” Schesch says. “After our good experiences on working would be meaningless if the company didn’t also get results. together on The Three Robbers – which was seen by over 600,000 cinema-goers in France – it was clear that we would then make this The 120-minute action adventure Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der film.” Nibelungen, which tells the exciting story of the hunt for the lost treasure of the Nibelungs, was commercial broadcaster RTL’s most A classic story examining the themes of loneliness, difference, under- successful event movie in 2008, drawing 4.16 million viewers for a standing and acceptance, Der Mondmann was written and 21.6% share in the 14-49 age group. It also garnered four German TV illustrat ed by Ungerer in 1967 at the height of the space race when he Awards nominations, including Best TV Movie/Mini Series. The was living in New York. sequel, Die Jagd nach der Heiligen Lanze, aired on 1 April 2010 and was that day’s ratings winner with a 20.8% share. As Schesch explains, he has taken a different approach to preparing the new project compared to the strategy adopted for The Three Success like this is down to getting all the elements, in front of as well Robbers. as behind the camera, right. Or, as Raiser and Zackor so pertinently encapsulate it in their company slogan, “It’s our teamwork that makes “I had several brainstormings with Tomi about his original book, and the dream work!” he gave me various new ideas which I could incorporate into the film’s screenplay in his spirit,” he says. SK Moreover, he followed a different kind of development by producing an animatic version with its combination of voices and storyboard drawings to give an idea of how the final film would look. “We had three public test screenings in Berlin and Munich in front of invited

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3 · 2010 24 audiences of children, parents and grandparents to see how well the In Tenth Street, New York, artist and documentary filmmaker film functioned,” Schesch recalls, pointing out that this animatic Caro Jost takes viewers to the original locations at which the version – with characters’ voices recorded by actors Katharina Abstract Expressionists were active from ca. 1940 to the be ginning of Thalbach, Ulrich Noethen and Ulrich Tukur – had also the 1960s. These locations, at which art history was made, are the attracted distributors from Germany and France to come onboard. former studios and apartments, meeting places and bars, exhibition spaces and galleries. Describing the positioning of this film, Schesch sees Der Mondmann as being “quite atypical for Germany because it isn’t Caro Jost follows in the footsteps of the artists of an era. In a mix ture linked with a merchandising campaign or a long-running TV series. It of walk and detective hunt, she shows what has now become of is an original feature film for the cinema which will be more complex, these once important places, e.g. designer lofts, a second hand shop, subtle and cinematographic than The Three Robbers. Moreover, the a business consultancy, whereas others, including entire buildings, figure of the man in the moon is someone every child knows.” have been replaced by skyscrapers.

Schesch’s Berlin-based company Schesch Filmkreation has The few still living witnesses provide interview testimony. The now attracted France’s Le Pacte as co-producer, theatrical distributor and world-famous artist Alex Katz (born 1927) meets his colleagues in world sales agent, while Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon, the makers of the the former rooms of a gallery where their careers first started. Peggy Oscar®-nominated The Secret of Kells, has boarded as a co-producer. Guggenheim’s granddaughter visits her grandmother’s former gallery, today a sewing shop. Concrete production based on the animatic storyboards is set to begin this autumn so that Der Mondmann can be released in “The idea for the film came when I was working on a project about November 2011 to coincide with Ungerer’s 80th birthday. the artists of Abstract Expressionism in 2008,” says Caro Jost, “and found out that some of these places still existed. They’re not pro - MB tected in any way and haven’t been granted any official historic re- cognition either. In May 2010 I started preliminary filming. The title, Tenth Street, New York, stands symbolically for all the cru- cibles worldwide in which artists have come together, created some- thing and surrender ed to their calling; the continued development of art.”

“Tenth Street, a street section between 3rd and 4th Avenue,” Jost continues, “was in the 1950s the meeting place for many artists of the first generation of Abstract Expressionism. Directly close by were (photo Jost) © Caro also artists’ meeting places such as The Club and the Cedar Tavern. After 1953 many of the younger artists, the second gener ation of Abstract Expressionists, came to live and work in the Tenth Street area.”

The crew of “Tenth Street, New The crew ofStreet, York” “Tenth Left to their own devices, they jointly organized and ran galleries which became important exhibition spaces and also served as meeting places in which to exchange ideas and further develop their artistic positions. “In fact,” says Jost, “these galleries often offered them the only possibility of exhibiting their works. I think it’s essential their story be told and would welcome a co-director to further develop Tenth Street, the project.”

New York Abstract Expressionism was the most important current for all sub- sequent artistic directions of abstract painting around the world. It Type of Project Documentary TV Genre Art, History Pro - arose in the mid 1940s in New York, hence the representatives of duction Company Kunst gesehen/Munich Producer Caro Jost Abstract Expressionism also being known as the New York School, Director Caro Jost Screenplay Caro Jost Director of the city itself having finally displaced Paris, and hence also Europe, to Photography Hans Albrecht Lusznat With Alex Katz, Philip become the world center of artistic experimentalism. Pearlstein, Irving Sandler, Jay Maisel and others Format HD, color, 16:9/1:1.78, Mono Shooting Language English Shooting in Among the most important representatives of the first generation of New York, May 2010 Abstract Expressionism are Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still, as well as Barnett Contact Newman and Adolph Gottlieb. Paintings by some of these artists Walter Storms Galerie · Caro Jost today sell for high two-figure $million sums. Ismaninger Strasse 51 · 80799 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-27 37 01 62 · fax +49-89-27 37 01 63 SK email: [email protected] www.tenthstreetnewyork.com

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3 · 2010 25 and Filmstiftung NRW put up the Euros 800,000 budget.

“Jan had very concrete ideas about the cast from the outset,” pro - ducer Claudia Steffen recalls. “He rehearsed with them before the shoot and was very well prepared.”

Martha is played by Sandra Hueller, known, inter alia, for her Lola-winning performance in Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem, while the role of Paul was taken by Felix Knopp, who has been a member of the company at Hamburg’s Thalia Theater since 2001. Sandra Hueller in “Ueber uns das All” (photo © Pandora Film/Marc Comes) Film/Marc (photo © Pandora Meanwhile, the new man in Martha’s life, Alexander, was cast with the Austrian actor Georg Friedrich who appears in another Pandora Film production, At Ellen’s Age by Pia Marais.

“What fascinated us about this film’s story was that, despite the serious subject matter of suicide and the loss of a loved one, the Ueber uns das All screen play is positive in suggesting that one may not only have one great love in life, but could have a second or third.” Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama, Love Story Production Company Pandora Film Produktion/Cologne, in co- Steffen points out that the decision to shoot with the Canon D8 production with WDR/Cologne With backing from Filmstiftung camera was “something of an experiment, but we are very pleased NRW, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Producers with the results and the small cameras gave the actors a greater free- Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel Commissioning Editor dom in what is a particularly intimate chamber piece.” Andrea Hanke Director Jan Schomburg Screenplay Jan Schomburg Director of Photography Marc Comes Pro - MB duction Design Cordula Jedamski, Cora Pratz Principal Cast Sandra Hueller, Felix Knopp, Georg Friedrich Casting Susanne Ritter, Regina Tiefenthaller Format HD, color, 1:1.85, Dolby SR Shooting Language German Shooting in Cologne, May – June 2010

Contact Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH · Claudia Steffen Balthasarstrasse 79-81 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-97 33 20 · fax +49-2 21-97 33 29 email: [email protected] · www.pandorafilm.com

Is it possible to miss a deceased person so much that you re-discover wenn nicht wir” “Wer Scene from them in someone else? (photo one film) © Markus Jans/zero

This is the question posed by Jan Schomburg in his feature debut Ueber uns das All (working title) which wrapped shooting in Cologne at the beginning of June.

Schomburg’s original script initially focuses on the young couple who Wer wenn nicht wir are seemingly happily married. Martha works as a teacher, while Paul has been studying Medicine and is now planning to take up a post Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Drama as a doctor in Marseilles. A day after his departure to France, two Production Company zero one film/Berlin, in co-production policemen appear at the door to inform Martha that her husband has with Senator Film Produktion & deutschfilm/Berlin, SWR/Baden- committed suicide in the hospital’s car park. Baden, Degeto/Frankfurt am Main, WDR/Cologne With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, German Federal Film Searching for reasons as to why he should have taken his own life, Fund (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden- Martha is shocked to learn that Paul had long stopped studying Wuerttemberg, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, and had never been offered a job in Marseilles. On a visit to the uni- Hessische Rundfunk Filmfoerderung Producers Thomas Kufus, versity, she meets the history lecturer Alexander who reminds her in Anne Leppin Director Andres Veiel Screenplay Andres Veiel many ways of Paul. Without telling him about her loss, she falls in love Director of Photography Judith Kaufmann Editor Hansjoerg and begins an affair … Weissbrich Music by Annette Focks Production Design Christian M. Goldbeck Principal Cast August Diehl, Lena Two years ago, Jan Schomburg a graduate of Cologne’s Academy of Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Thomas Thieme, Michael Wittenborn, Media Arts (KHM), whose past films included the award-winning Susanne Lothar, Maria Victoria Dragus, Sebastian Blomberg Casting short Nie solo sein and the 60-minute TV film Innere Werte, had ap - Simone Baer Format 35 mm, color, cs, Dolby Digital Shooting proached Pandora Film to produce his feature debut which is Language German Shooting in Tuebingen, Berlin, Schleswig- being made as part of the Six Pack initiative where broadcaster WDR Holstein, South Tyrol, April – June 2010 german films quarterly in production

3 · 2010 26 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 Scene from “Zwillinge” Scene from

Following on from numerous award-winning documentaries, Andres Veiel has now come up with his first fiction feature film. (photo courtesy of credo:film) Wer wenn nicht wir relates the events in the run-up to the onset of German terrorism, but above all narrates the story of an intense love affair, a passion too deep to survive .

Bernward Vesper, son of Nazi writer Will Vesper, meets his great love in the early 1960s: Gudrun Ensslin. They swear absolute and undying love, joining the student rebellion to unearth the truth behind ’s façade. Bernward, a publisher, makes good money from Zwillinge the era’s radical chic, seeking enlightenment on endless drug trips. For Gudrun, seeing through the façade is not enough; she wants to take Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Melodrama, Love action and turn the world upside down. They have a child and seem Story Production Company credo:film/Berlin, in co-production to become closer again. But then another man comes along – with Laokoonfilm/Budapest With backing from German Federal Andreas Baader, more unequivocal and forceful than Bernward, and Film Board (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal all three are caught up in the force of a story from which there will be Film Fund (DFFF), Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung Producers no turning back. Susann Schimk, Joerg Trentmann Director Robert Thalheim Screenplay Ilja Haller Director of Photography Eeva Fleig For the film, production company zero one film has been able to Editor Stefan Kobe Production Design Susanne Abel win a top notch cast, including August Diehl (Bernward Vesper), Principal Cast Friederike Becht, Luise Heyer, Franz Dinda, Volker Lena Lauzemis (Gudrun Ensslin) and Alexander Fehling Bruch, Hans Uwe Bauer, Albrecht Schuch, Hannes Wegener, Golo (Andreas Baader). Euler, Ole Fischer Casting Simone Baer Format HD Red, color, 1:1.85, blow-up to 35 mm, Dolby SR Shooting Language Andres Veiel, who is perhaps best known for his award-winning Black German Shooting in Siofok/Hungary, Bad Schmiedeberg, May- Box Germany, based Wer wenn nicht wir on the non-fiction June 2010 book by historian Gerd Koenen, Vesper, Ensslin, Baader – Primal Scenes from German Terrorism. Veiel, who also spent several years developing Contact and writing the script, talked to over 30 contemporary eyewitnesses credo:film GmbH · Katharina Bergfeld and conducted original archive research. Schiffbauerdamm 13 · 10117 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-2 57 62 40 · fax +49-30-25 76 24 22 In fact, Veiel has won more than thirty national and international email: [email protected] · www.credofilm.de awards for his work on such films as Black Box Germany, The Survivors and Balagan. These include the Grimme Award, the German and Based on a true story, Zwillinge (“Twins”) narrates the tale of European Film Awards and the Konrad Wolf Award of the Academy Doreen and Isabel, two 17-year-old girls from the then Eastern of the Arts for his oeuvre, as well as the DEFA Foundation Award for German state of Saxony. It is summer 1988, a year before the Berlin the Advancement of German Film Culture. Wall came down, and as future members of a rowing club they are both given permission to travel abroad on holiday. This still being the zero one film, based in Berlin, has worked closely with Veiel over the GDR, that means to what was called the “socialist abroad”, that is years. Headed by Thomas Kufus, the company is known for pro- another country behind the Iron Curtain. In this case, the two teen- ducing high-quality cinema documentaries and innovative formats for agers travel to Balaton, in Hungary, and right away meet a group of German and international television. zero one film has also co-pro- young West Germans from Hamburg. Doreen falls in love with Arne. duced several films with the renowned Russian director Aleksandr For the first time there is something the two girls don’t share with Sokurov, such as Mother & Son and Moloch. The company also deve- each other and both are subsequently forced to make the most far loped and produced the 24-hour television event 24h Berlin – A Day reaching decision of their lives. in the Life. Zwillinge’s cast’s credits encompass a selection of some of the most successful contemporary German films: Friederike Becht SK (Der Vorleser and the upcoming Goethe!), Luise Heyer (here making her debut), Franz Dinda (Im Winter ein Jahr, Die Wolke), Hannes Wegener (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, Drei), Volker Bruch (Der Vorleser, Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) and Hans Uwe Bauer (Good Bye, Lenin!, Das Leben der Anderen).

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3 · 2010 27 enrolled in the Directing course at the University of Film and credo:film was founded in 2001 by Susann Schimk and Joerg Television “Konrad Wolf ” in Potsdam-Babelsberg, graduating in 2004. Trentmann, both of whom graduated from the Babelsberg film school. Since then they have produced various feature films and docu- Although still active as a theatrical director, Thalheim’s film credits mentaries, with the emphasis on debut arthouse projects. In 2005 the include Netto (his 2004 graduation film) and And Along Come Tourists company founded its own distribution arm, credo:verleih. Bringing (2007). The former screened at numerous international festivals, engagement and enthusiasm to their work, credo:film is also involved including the Berlinale 2005 in the Perspectives German Cinema sec- with hybrid crossover formats and European co-productions. tion, as well as in Moscow, Copenhagen and Kiev. His second feature, And Along Come Tourists, garnered a nomination in the Best Film cate- That credo:film has reaped numerous awards, such as the Variety gory of the German Film Awards 2008 and was also screened at Critics’ Choice (Frei Nach Plan, Karlovy Vary 2008), is a given. That many international festivals, including Cannes 2007 (Un Certain same film also took the 2008 Best Feature Film and Best Actress Regard), Karlovy Vary 2007, Toronto 2007, Warsaw 2007 (In awards at the 10th Shanghai Film Festival, while Torpedo won the Best Competition), Sevilla 2007, Thessaloniki 2007, Palm Springs 2008, Medium Length Film 2009 at the 30th Max Ophuels Festival in Berlin 2008 (German Cinema), Miami 2008, Shanghai 2008, and Saarbruecken. Havana 2008. SK Also behind the camera, scriptwriter Ilja Haller’s credits include Valerie and Wo ist Fred? while director of photography Eeva Fleig can claim Wir and Nichts als Gespenster as her own. Producers Susann Schimk and Joerg Trentmann proudly put their hands up to 7 Brueder, Jagdhunde, Die Boxerin, Kombat Sechzehn, Frei nach Plan, Der irrationale Rest, Valerie, Wir, and Torpedo. GmbH 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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Scene from “Hanni & Nanni” (photo © 2009 Universal Pictures International) insight into the intellectual world of shamanism. Italso worldofshamanism. insight intotheintellectual rituals anddaytime hikes. shows imagesthatconveytheintensityofitsnocturnal The aneasilyunderstandableandfascinating filmgives look foranalternative,which heeventuallyfoundin South American shamanism. South Americanshamanism. cy of conventional methods of treatment. He began to Hebegan cy ofconventionalmethodstreatment. Hunsicker chiatrist was confronted bywhathesawchiatrist wasconfronted astheinefficien- raphy During hisclinicalactivitiesinvarioushospitals Genre Hampejs atworkintheVenezuelan Andes. This documentaryshows theshamanDr. Valentin Welten den THE HEALERBETWEENWORLDS zwischen Heiler Der Bondy Bondy Germany and Austria, the specialist neurologist andpsy neurologist Germany andAustria, thespecialist Antilope Filmproduktion/Pirmasens mentary TV mentary DigiBeta, color, 16:9 Version Screenings german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales Antilope Filmproduktion ·ErnstHunsicker · 2010 3 Adlerstrasse 63b ·66955Pirmasens/Germany hn 4-33- 86 a 4-33-83 48 30 31-28 +49-63 66 ·fax 08 31-7 phone +49-63 email: [email protected] ·www.antilope-film.deemail: Producer Ernst HunsickerErnst Education, Environment/Ecology Education, Environment/Ecology Screenplay English English Festival PSYFrance2010 Festival Year Production of (please contact) (please Sound Technology Ernst HunsickerErnst Original Version Editor Ernst HunsickerErnst Michaela Jordan Length Production Company Director of Photog - Director Photog of 2010 German German Category Stereo 60 min Music by Director Subtitled Festival Format Docu - Arpad Ernst - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. With a grant from Erlangen-Nuremberg.theEuropean Withagrant of University at Kamp-Lintfort. He then established himself asafreelance camera Hethenestablishedhimself at Kamp-Lintfort. - Union inthemid1990s, hegainedhisdiplomainMediaTechnology man, film editorandauthor.man, film docu- In1999hepresented hisfirst AudiovisualMediaatthe in TheaterStudiesfrom theInstituteof the Gurus. from Images Journey Indian an publicbroadcaster ontheGerman SWR, mentary Ernst Hunsicker der Gurus –BildereinerIndienreise at the Himalaya Film Festival inAmsterdam FilmFestival in2004.Hisotherfilms at theHimalaya include: ed for “docs for sale”attheIDFA, “docsfor ed for and (2006), which screened at the festival Cinéfleuve. (2006), whichscreened atthefestival The Land of Many Waters Many of The Land was born in 1961 and graduated withanMA in1961andgraduated was born (2005), whichwasselect - Goodbye Sauvage ), whichalsoscreened In the Land of In theLand new german films german new ( Im Land 34

Scene from “The Healer Between the Worlds” (photo © Ernst Hunsicker 2009) on the battlefield. Vossenon thebattlefield. packs apunch. new studentthreatenshisdoublelife,aduelstarts,one that corners the teacher in both worlds. Finallytheymeet worlds. that cornerstheteacher inboth Genre a around, aCLOUT, yourface!…righthandH I! SMASH! HOME GAME Heimspiel Andreas Vossen isanEthicsteacher. Asa Andahooligan. FASTER! TOU Director Photography of Director Andreas Menn Alexandra Gail Company Isabel Schosnig,Kai Malina with CNA/Luxembourg german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales ifs internationalefilmschule koeln ·SimoneStewens · 2010 3 Glueckauf-Haus ·WerderstrasseGlueckauf-Haus 1·50672Cologne/Germany hn 4- 192 88 a 4- 19 18 99 88 01 21-92 +49-2 80·fax 18 20 21-9 phone +49-2 email: [email protected] ·www.filmschule.de [email protected] email: Drama Bogdana Vera Lorenz ifs internationale filmschule koeln, inco-production filmschule ifs internationale Music by (please contact) (please Category GHER! I AM THE WINNER!!! Producer Principal Cast Jens Groetzschel Length KICK in the groin! HARDER! Short Short Max Permantier Screenplay Peter Schuettemeyer Year Production of 22 min Wotan Wilke Moehring, Production Design Format René Schumacher OOK. … turn Production HD, color, Editor 2009 1:1.85 2009, Max Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2010,Fussballfilmfest 2009, MaxOphuelsFestival Sound Technology 2010, ISFFTel 2010,Wendland 2010,Emden-Norderney Aviv Berlin 2010,SehsuechtePotsdam 2010,Dresden 2010,Oberhausen Shorts 2010 Shorts Feature Bogdana VeraBogdana Lorenz Humanities at the Humboldt University in Berlin, followed bytrain inBerlin,followed Humanities attheHumboldtUniversity - ing as a photographer and work as a journalist. From andworkasajournalist. 2006-2009she ing asaphotographer studied at the ifs internationale filmschule in Cologne and served as inCologneandserved filmschule studied attheifsinternationale Masterclass with Danny Boyle in 2009. Her films include:theshorts Boylein2009.Herfilms Masterclass withDanny a traineeonLarsvonTrier’s film Transit Loreley Airport (2008), Original Version ’89 and Yours’89 and Mine and With backingfrom (2009), and Awards (2006), Home Game Dolby SRD German FilmCritics’Award:German BestShort German German Vola! grew upinEastBerlin.Shestudied grew Filmstiftung NRW Antichrist Festival Screenings (2008), Subtitled Version (2009, withJosephLippok), (2009). and completedanEFA The Interrogation new german films german new Luenen English 35

Scene from “Home Game” (photo © Kai Schulz) to venture a new beginning … to ventureanewbeginning cific place in the world where she is needed, Ellenisready cific placeintheworldwheresheisneeded, Inwardly matured and convinced that there must be a spe- thattheremustbe andconvinced Inwardly matured is Karl. Theis Karl. twoareinstantlydrawn tooneanotherand has become, Ellenfindsshe’sgrowing stronger.has become, following They histrail. setoutonacrusadetodestroy the industry of animal torture and liberate asmanyofits industry ofanimaltortureandliberate Amongstthem withagroupofyoungactivists. acquainted victims as they can. Yetvictims astheycan. thissituation however unbalanced the people and groups she encounters. Ellenbecomes andgroupssheencounters. the people atouristinthelivesof andindoingso,becomes belong Driven by a sense of alienation, Ellen seeks aplaceto Driven byasenseofalienation,Ellenseeks that she is leaving her old life behind. that sheisleaving heroldlifebehind. start. Asshecrossestheairfield,knowsstart. instinctively to disembark and abandon anairplanethatispreparingto andabandon to disembark She evensuffersapanicattack whilstonduty,causingher the sensation of security she needs sobadly. sheneeds the sensationofsecurity she finds her private life has become a placebo, lend aplacebo, she findsherprivatelifehasbecome as aflightattendantkeeps herrotatingaroundtheglobe, Genre Ellen mustfacesomenewturnsinlife.Althoughherjob Ellen AT ELLEN’SAGE von Alter Im duction Markgraf, PiaMarais Markgraf, german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales The Match Factory GmbH·Michael WeberThe MatchFactory · 2010 3 Balthasarstrasse 79-81 ·50670Cologne/Germany hn 4- 153 09 a 4- 153 0910 70 39 21-5 +49-2 90·fax 70 39 21-5 phone +49-2 email: [email protected]: ·www.the-match-factory.com Drama 2010 Category Director Director Photography of Feature FilmCinema Pia Marais Screenplay Year Pro of Hélene Horst ing - Development Pia Marais Steffen, ChristophFriedel Steffen, Roehm Filmfoerderung, German Federal German Filmfoerderung, FilmFund(DFFF),MEDIA Amsterdam and Duesseldorf before going on to study Filmatthe beforegoingontostudy Amsterdam andDuesseldorf academiesinLondon, atart studied Sculpture andPhotography Louvart Louvart Hanke, Georg Steinert Hanke, GeorgSteinert Cologne, inco-production withWDR/Cologne,ARTE/Stras bourg German Film&TelevisionGerman inBerlin.Shemade (dffb) Academy Hummer, AlexanderScheer, EvaLoebau,Clare Mortimer, Ian Principal Cast mm Festival Screenings Subtitled Version With backingfrom Roberts, Jasna Bauer,Roberts, Jasna Patrick Bartsch several shorts, including several ments in the film businessasacastingdirector andassistantdirec- ments inthefilm tor, debutwith shemadeherfeature Tricky People Alter von Ellen Unerzogenen in Rotterdam. film Hersecondfeature Cannes. festivals andwonvariousprizes, includingtheTiger Awardfestivals in2007 Blow-up Production Design Editor grew upinSouthAfrica,SwedenandSpain.She grew 35 mm,color, 1:1.66 ), which has screened at many international film ), whichhasscreenedinternational atmany Mona Braeuer Jeanne Balibar, GeorgFriedrich,Julia Stern, Stefan ) was developed in the Résidence du Festival de intheRésidencedu Festival ) wasdeveloped (1999), and English English Production Company Locarno 2010 (International Competition) 2010(International Locarno Loop Commissioning Editors Filmstiftung NRW, BKM,Hessische Sound Technology 17 Music by Petra Barchi (1996), (2003). After several engage- (2003). Afterseveral Length Original Version The Unpolished At Ellen’sAge Horst Markgraf, YoYoHorst Markgraf, Deranged Producers 95 min new german films german new Pandora Film/ Dolby Digital Format Format German (1998), Claudia Andrea ( Die ( Im 16 36

Scene from “At Ellen’s Age” (photo © Pandora Film Produktion) social environmentthroughmusic? them? Andhow willthechildren themselveschange their possible without music. Willpossible withoutmusic. themusicmove somethingin social harmonyorapositiverelationshiptonatureisnot We thegreatYehudi recall Menuhin,whooncesaidthat for ayear. accompanies theyoungpupilsintheirclassesandfamilies takesOliver Rauch acloserlookatfourchildren ofdif immigrants; Motomu, Japanese; and Joana, German. He immigrants; Motomu,Japanese;andJoana,German. ferent agesandmilieus:Kerem andEsraguel,Turkish plotsandkioskculture,director garden dent, between wherethepastindustrialageisstillvisiblyevi- In aregion is already a subject ofdiscussionalloveris alreadyasubject Germany. provides insight into an ambitious educational project that provides project insightintoanambitiouseducational or her choice, become familiarwithitandplay The it. film or herchoice, become largest federal state will receive amusicalinstrumentofhis statewillreceive largest federal The title is the name of the game. Everysingleoneofthe The titleisthenameofgame. Instrument AN INSTRUMENT FOREVERY CHILD ein Kind Jedem over 200,000 primaryschoolover children 200,000 inGermany’s german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales SUR Films · Detlef Ziegert SUR Films·Detlef · 2010 3 Neumarkt Galerie ·Richmodstrasse 6·50667Cologne/Germany hn 4- 19 42 8·fx+922-20 200 22 04 21-92 +49-2 88·fax 24 04 phone +49-221-92 email: [email protected]·www.surfilms.comemail: ·www.jeki-derfilm.de (please contact) (please - Documentary Cinema Documentary Genre Oliver Rauch Rauch Oliver Blow-up Plus Filmproduktion/Cologne raphy Subtitled Version SUR Films/Cologne,inco-production withWDR/Cologne,Cine Stockhausen With backingfrom Oliver Rauch Oliver Rauch Federal FilmFund(DFFF),FilmstiftungNRW Literature andTheater&MediaStudiesattheFreie Universitaet Berlin. In 2000 he graduated from the “Konrad Wolf ” University of ”University from the“KonradBerlin. In2000hegraduated Wolf Film &Television inPotsdam. Hisworkasawriteranddirector of Former Future Sound Of documentary; his fiction short films films short hisfiction documentary; anddocumentariesincludes: both fiction Murnau AwardMurnau amongothers)and the Empire State Festival in NYC), both of whichwere shownat the EmpireinNYC), StateFestival bothof tary tary numerous international festivals. His latest feature lengthdocumen- Hislatestfeature festivals. numerous international sultant/doctor and lectures at several film schools. sultant/doctor andlecturesfilm atseveral theaters. Additionally Oliver Rauch alsoworksasascriptcon Rauch Oliver theaters. Additionally - An Instrument forEvery Child Boris Becker Children andYouth, Education,Family, Music 35 mm,color, 1:1.85 Producer Screenplay was born in1966Goslar.was born HestudiedPsychology, Editor English English Year Production of German Federal FilmBoardGerman (FFA), German Detlef Ziegert Ziegert Detlef Oliver Rauch Rauch Oliver Sound Technology Klemens Radke Klemens Radke Length , an award-winning feature length feature , anaward-winning The Climber Original Version Chinese Whispers Production Company Director of Photog Director Photog of 90 min Oskar Sala–The Oskar is currently inGerman is currently Music by 2010 new german films german new – EinJahrmitvierToenen (Silver Torch at Format Dolby Digital Category Director German Simon (F.W. HD - 37 Scene from “An Instrument for Every Child” (photo © SUR Films/Juergen Metzendorf) Munich 2010, Real Life Documentary Festival Ghana2010,Ecrans Festival Documentary Munich 2010,RealLife Leuven2010,OpenDoekTurnhoutFilmfestival 2010,DOK.fest Screenplay duction Genre and thegraceofGod. forbyatalentimpromemory arecompensated Most ofthemknowSmalllapses theirpartsbyheart. thisisnoreasontostoprehearsing. But foritsmembers wheretheorchestrafêtes”, akindofopengarage practices. city. thelightshave Onceagain goneoutinthe“Salledes the 8millioninhabitantsofwhatisAfrica’sthird-largest toall main networksareinsufficienttosupplyelectricity Kinshasa’spower ofthework. stationsand last section the before districtofKinshasa,onlyafewbars Ngiri Ngiri Burana Carmina Two orchestral hundred musiciansareplaying Orff’s Kinshasa Symphony Noire Yaoundé desdeutschen FilmsLudwigshafen 2010,Festival 5.1 Versions mm, color, 1:1.85 dam-Babelsberg images/Berlin, inco-production withWDR/Cologne,RBB/Pots - Producer Baer Martin · 2010 3 filmsquarterly german [email protected]: ·www.cmajor-entertainment.com 64 64 30 phone +49-30-30 Kaiserdamm 31·14057 Berlin/Germany KruseC MajorEntertainmentGmbH ·Elmar World Sales Festival Screenings Music German, English, French English, German, 2010 Stefan PannenStefan Editor Claus Wischmann Category Length Directors Original Version in total darkness. Apowerin totaldarkness. cuthashitthe Peter Klum 95 min Documentary Cinema Documentary Production Company Berlin 2010,Nyon 2010,Afrika Claus Wischmann, Martin Baer Claus Wischmann,Martin Format Director Photography of Music by Sound Technology French, Lingala HDCam Jan TilmanJan Schade Year Pro of Blow-up Subtitled sounding visation Dolby 35 - ment attheProms orchester Enlighten theOrchestra and theAgeof of taries include:thedocumen- Hisfilms inFrankfurt. studied MusicandLaw Wischmann Claus Film Fund(DFFF) Board (FFA), MedienboardFederal Berlin-Brandenburg,German 2010 Egypt Egypt ra operator, authoranddirector. include: Hisfilms Techniques,Optics andPhotographic asacame- working hestarted Martin Baer (2009), and Barca attheTeatroSchiff Andrea Olimpico –Cappella Truls MorkDvorak PlaysChopinand (2008), singer, Hitler’s Siegfried –TheTenor Max Lorenz Treasure theBarents of Sea Anatolia Vamos alaplaya Hisbollah Symphony War Against theHereroWar Against the LicensetoKill theKreuzbergerand Salon-Orchester With backingfrom Royal Fireworks –TheFreiburger Barock (2008), The Art of Belcanto –EditaGruberova Belcanto The Art of (short, 1989)andthedocumentaries (short, (2007), Kinshasa Symphony (1994), (2010). Splendour of theEarth–IronSplendour of from China was born in1963Saarbruecken.was born Afterstudying Upswing intheArctic –The Ocean Free Africa! (2001), was born in1966Wittena.d.Ruhr.was born He (1991), (2007), White Ghosts–TheColonial MEDIA Plus,Federal German Film Dance withtheDead Dance (2008), (1999), Cook’n Live –InEast (2010). (2004), and Wagner’s Meister A Headhunt Rudolph MarcksRudolph (2008), new german films german new (1990), Kinshasa Beyond András (2008), (2001), (1992), With - - - 38

Scene from “Kinshasa Symphony” (photo © sounding images GmbH) Genre alotofthings When intoabeast, yourmotherhasturned THE LITTLE BOY ANDTHEBEAST Der KleineunddasBiest Marcus Sauermann Directors change … Rudolph, Johannes Schiehsl, Hugo Hernandez Rudolph, JohannesSchiehsl,HugoHernandez Compositing Carsten Bunte DigiBeta, color, 16:9 for ZDF/Mainz for Version Annecy 2010,ArsElectronicaAnnecy 2010,GoldenSparrow 2010, Screenings Shanghai TV Festival 2010, CIAK 2010, Banff 2010, Animafest 2010, 2010,Animafest 2010,CIAKBanff Shanghai TVFestival Frankfurt 2010, IndieLisboa2010,LilleAnimabisauriITF Frankfurt Mundos Digitales2010,SICAFAnimaMundiLUCAS Stuttgart 2010, Oberhausen 2010, Giffoni 2010 2010,OberhausenGiffoni Stuttgart Hiroshima Children's2010, 2010,Lahore FilmFestival International Golden Sparrow2010,MagnoliaAward Shanghai2010, Jeunesse 2010,PulcinellaAward 2010,BestTVProduction Annecy Main PrizeCIAK2010,HonorableMentionOberhausen2010 MentionArsElectronica 2010,BestScreenplay 2010, Honorary german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales ZDF Enterprises GmbH·Silke Wagner · 2010 3 Erich-Dombrowski-Strasse 1·55127Mainz/Germany hn 4-13- 11 6·fx+96 199 612 16 91 31-9 +49-61 16·fax 16 91 31-9 phone +49-61 email: Silke.Wagner@-enterprises.deemail: ·www.zdf-enterprises.de Animation English English Johannes Weiland, UweHeidschoetter Prix Jeunesse 2010, Cartoons on the Bay 2010, ontheBay Prix Jeunesse2010,Cartoons Production Company Voice Bin-Han To Category Music by Sound Technology Original Version Ruben Schaller Sound Short Short Andy GrollAndy Year Production of Christian Heck Length Studio Soi/Ludwigsburg German German Animation Stereo 7 min Awards Rendering/ Screenplay Subtitled Producer Festival Format Philip 2009 Prix Chance Chance Kleine unddasBiest Uwe Heidschoetter des Arts etMétiersinLuxembourg.des Arts with Heisananimationartist marks hisdirectorial debut. the main focus oncharacterdesign. the mainfocus Johannes WeilandJohannes James James ses. Duringhisstudies, hedirected theanimatedshort Baden-Wuerttemberg where henowalsoinstructsAnimation clas- Award ® . His other short films are: films . Hisothershort (2000), which was nominated for aStudentAcademy (2000), whichwasnominatedfor (2006), Datenuebertragung studied AnimationattheFilmakademie studied AnimationattheLycèe technique (2009). Der KleineunddasBiest Annie &Boo (2008) and new german films german new (2003), Hessi Der Olis 39

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She,inturn,hasthe uncertainty, theirdaughter’sfateripsopenoldwoundsin parents are trapped inanagonizingperiodofwaitingand parents aretrapped together withhisyoungercolleagueDavid.While Sinikka’s ful; this time, he is determined tobringhimjustice ful; thistime,heisdetermined His efforts to capture the killer back thenwereunsuccess His effortstocapturethekillerback vinced that there’s a connection between thetwocrimes. between thatthere’saconnection vinced happened nowhappened to13-year-old Sinikka? Krischan, there tired police inspector who led the first investigation, iscon- thefirstinvestigation, wholed policeinspector tired raped and murdered at this exact spot. Hasthesamething atthisexactspot. andmurdered raped repeating itself? 23 years ago, a young girl named Piawas named repeating itself?23yearsago,ayounggirl A bicycle found in a wheat field. A missing girl. Ishistory Amissinggirl. A bicyclefoundinawheatfield. THE SILENCE Das letzteSchweigen german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales Bavaria Film International · Dept. of BavariaBavaria MediaGmbH·Thorsten of FilmInternational ·Dept. Ritter · 2010 3 Bavariafilmplatz 7 · 82031Geiselgasteig/Germany hn 4-96 92 6·fx+98-49 720 37 99 +49-89-64 86 ·fax 26 99 phone +49-89-64 email: [email protected]: ·www.bavaria-film-international.com ing skills ture. - - - duction Companies duction Companies Mainz, incooperationwithARTE/Strasbourg & SchneiderFilmproduktion/Munich, inco-production withZDF/ Evers, JoergSchulze,FlorianSchneider, Maren Luethje Design Katrin Sass,Klaussner, Burghart Karoline Roeland Eichhorn, Editor Wiesnekker, Stokowski, JuleBoewe ClaudiaMichelsen,Oliver Ulrich Thomsen,Wotan Wilke Moehring,Sebastian Blomberg, Casting bo Odar Genre Production cs Medien foerderung, FilmFernsehFondsMedienboard Bayern, Berlin- 2010 (PiazzaGrande) Sound Technology also studied in the Master Class of Commercial andImageFilms. 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Hehasalsobeenaguestlecturer cinemaandtelevision. for films aftertheWallBerlin in1990shortly camedown.Sincethenhehas worked in Germany asawriter,worked inGermany director andscriptconsultanton and tutor at the German FilmandTelevisionand tutorattheGerman in (dffb) Academy directed, ishisdebutfeature. Berlin. The Man Who Jumped Cars WhoJumped The Man Principal Cast Format ophir film/Berlin, BurkertBareiss Development/Berlin & BurkertBareiss Development/Berlin ophir film/Berlin, MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Medienboard Berlin- Digital, color, cs English English Robert Stadlober,Robert JessicaSchwarz,Martin was born inBerlin1964.Hegaineda was born Casting Sound Technology Original Version Tina Boeckenhauer , whichhewrote and new german films german new Dolby Length German With 41

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After Conservatory, films. making duringwhichtimehealsostarted Babelsberg in 2007. His films include: Babelsberg in2007.Hisfilms (short, 2003), (short, FilmandTelevision inPotsdam- of ”University the “Konrad Wolf experience asadirector’s Directing studying at assistant,hestarted (short, 2007), (short, tary short, 2008), short, tary Klara (short, 2010). (short, Stadt, Land, Fluss Stadt, Land, Mein linker, linker Platzistfrei Jonas Geburtstag Jonas Geburtstag studied ActingattheVienna (2006), (short, 2008),and (short, Der Souvenirjaeger Mutter undKind new german films german new (documen- Nach 43 Scene from “After Klara” (photo © HFF “Konrad Wolf ”) on earth. After a bad weather forecast, ReinholdMessner weatherforecast, Afterabad on earth. makes tothecampalive… itback Guenther suffersfrommountainsickness and,onthede Thenexperience thanhisbrother,Guentherfollows him. totake butwithless decides tothetopalone.Determined scent, the struggle for survival begins. 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In1961,he Pfarrkirchen. He undertook anapprenticeship Heundertook atARRIfrom 1953to Pfarrkirchen. (1990), Kaspar Harmonists Brother Sleep of Rock Crystal letzte Zug Stalingrad (2008), and 35 mm,color, cs , 2006), (1997), ( FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film FilmFernsehFonds German Bayern, Bergkristall ( Herbstmilch English English Nanga Parbat Nanga was born in 1939 and grew upinMunichand in1939andgrew was born ( Marlene Schlafes BruderSchlafes (1992), Die Geschichtevom Brandner Trento 2010(InCompetition) Sound Technology Original Version , 2004), Charlie &Louise (1999), ), followed by ), followed (2009). The LastTrain Leo &Claire , 1995), Length Principal Cast new german films german new Rama Dama Rama German German Dolby Digital Comedian Awards 104 min (1993), (2001), With Sub ( Der - 44

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Completely absorbed infollowing Completelyabsorbed All waitfortheirplanes. young womanontheway fallsfor hometoherhusband Schanelec Editor Schanelec Paris Production Companies Perrier, Falkner, EmileBerling,JirkaZett, LinaPhyllis Maren Eggert, mittag Film/Berlin,inco-production withLaVieEstBelleFilms/ german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales Films BoutiqueGmbH·Laura Inoka · 2010 3 Skalitzer Strasse 54a ·10997Berlin/Germany hn 4-06 37 0·fx+93-95 851 78 53 +49-30-69 50 ·fax 78 53 phone +49-30-69 email: [email protected] ·www.filmsboutique.com [email protected] email: uation. Principal Cast Drama Mathilde Bonnefoy Mathilde Bonnefoy 2010 Director Photography of Co-Producers Director Category Natacha Régnier, BrunoTodeschini, Mireille Angela Schanelec Producers Feature FilmCinema Céline Maugis, ChristopheDelsaux Ringel Filmproduktion/Berlin, Nach - Gian-Piero Ringel,Angela Reinhold Vorschneider Screenplay Year Pro of Angela - - Josse dePauw Original Version Technology Indie Lisboa2010,LosAngelesPusan2010 Berlin-Brandenburg, CNC, Cinécinéma Berlin-Brandenburg, CNC, Angela Schanelec from films include: films (1991), Fortune with Berlin from 1990-1995,graduating She studied at the German Film&TelevisionShe studiedattheGerman in (dffb) Academy amMainfrom MusicandPerforming inFrankfurt Arts College of ueber inBerlin ueber geblieben ( Schaubuehne andtheSchauspielhausinBochumfrom 1984-1991. the 2010BerlinaleForum. Regard in1998, 1982-1984, andworked attheThaliaTheaterinHamburg,Berlin’s (2004), 2001) presented attheBerlinale’s Forum in2001, Plaetze inStaedten German Federal FilmBoardGerman (FFA), BKM,Medienboard Nachmittag Prag, Maerz92 Prag, , winner of the German Critics’ Prize1996.Herother theGerman , winnerof Schoene gelbeFarbe Dolby SRD5.1 Passing Summer Length French was born in1962.ShestudiedActingatthe was born (2007), and , 1998)presented inCannes’UnCertain 84 min Subtitled Version Festival Screenings (1992), Orly Format Format (1993), ( Mein langsames Leben Mein langsames Ich bindenSommer (1991), (2010), whichscreened at My Sister’s Good Places inCities 35 mm,color, cs Weit entfernt With backing new german films german new English English Berlin 2010, Marseille Sound , 45 Scene from “Orly” (photo courtesy of Films Boutique) humans. about dreams,lifeplansandthetradingcommodity about The createaGerman-Africanstory accountsandmeetings exist? today forNouman,theyoungboy fromBenin?What for theTogolese Adakou? girl What doesthefuturehold for the children on board theship?Howfor thechildren onboard didlifecontinue became ofthestriker’s Andtheferry–doesitstill career? became opportunity to begin asearch fortheprotagonistsat opportunity tobegin time: What ofthefatefuljourney weretheconsequences The theeventsandusesthemasan filmreconstructs footballer’s guiltwasneverproven. footballer’s and sold: to the Nigerian football player Jonathan and sold:totheNigerianfootball mediately parted companywithitsNigerianstriker. parted mediately The the owner ofthisshipwas,hisclubVfLWolfsburg im In 1964, in theisland ferry Nordbywaslaunched THE GOALGETTER’S SHIP Das Schiff des Torjaegers off thecoastofWest known When Africa. who itbecame Akpoborie who wished tosupporthisfamilywiththe whowished Akpoborie the international media – as a suspected child slavery – asasuspected ship the internationalmedia theferryinhismother’sname:Etireno. He christened Soon afterwards, the Etireno appeared intheheadlinesof Soon afterwards,theEtirenoappeared league. lateritwastaken Threedecades outofservice Denmark. money he earned playingmoney heearned intheGermannationalfootball german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales teamWorx Television &FilmGmbH·Jochen Laube · 2010 3 Alleenstrasse 2·71638Ludwigsburg/Germany hn 4-14- 91 0·fx+97 129 861 18 99 41-2 +49-71 60·fax 18 99 41-2 phone +49-71 email: [email protected] ·www.teamworx.de [email protected] email: (please contact) (please - Genre Production Specogna, KristineKretschmer Rainer Hoffmann Hoffmann Rainer Ludwigs Ludwigs burg, inco-production withFAMA Film/Zurich Schmid Producers min English, French, German, AfricanLanguages French, German, English, German, English English German, Screenings Baden-Wuerttemberg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,German Federal FilmBoard (FFA), BAK, Zuercher Filmstiftung Heidi Specogna 1988, she studied Directing at the German Film&Television1988, shestudiedDirecting attheGerman Academy (dffb) inBerlin.ShealsolecturesFilm (dffb) inDocumentary Academy - making at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg attheFilmAcademy andtheLucerne making Art School. Her films in School.Herfilms Art clude: Dischibuti Faehrten 1985), tary, 1991), Kinder 2002), Life of JoséAntonioGutierrezLife of Zeit derroten Nelken José AntonioGutierrez Goalgetter’s Ship tary, 2010), and Format Das SchwindenderSchwelle Eine Familienangelegenheit Production Company Society (1995), Deckname Rosa Deckname (documentary, 1984), Jochen Laube,LisaGroetzinger (short, 1988), (short, Locarno 2010 Locarno 2010 HD/35 mm,color, 1:1.85 Die Ermittler Sound Technology Category Tupamaros Editor Director was born in1959Switzerland.Fromwas born 1982- ( Das Schiff desTorjaegersDas Schiff Ursula Hoef Ursula Hoef Tania LaGuerrillera With backingfrom (documentary, 2006), Heidi Specogna Documentary Cinema Documentary Die Beichte Director Photography of (1996), (documentary, 1993), , documentary, 2006), (documentary, 2010). teamWorx Television &Film/ Das Indianerkind ( Das kurze des Leben Kaprun Music by Dolby Digital Subtitled Versions (documentary, 2004), (documentary, 1987), Original Version Co-Producer Screenplay (short, 1983), (short, new german films german new (documentary, The Short Length Hans Koch BKM, MFG , documen- (documen- Z-Man’s Year of Year Festival (short, Heidi The Die Rolf 91 46 Scene from “The Goalgetter’s Ship” (photo © Heidi Specogna 2007) Scene from “Dancing Dreams” (photo © Ursula Kaufmann) revolutionary work. Pina Bausch died in 2009. The filmisatestimonyofher in2009. died Pina Bausch dancers discover geniusandtheirown Bausch’s bodies. Within 10 monthstilltheopeningnight,young name to be partofthedanceperformance“Kontakthof”. name tobe Bausch selected 40 teenagers whohadneverheardher teenagers 40 selected Bausch Genre Pina worldfamousdancerandchoreographer In 2008, DANCING DREAMS Tanztraeume Year Production of Anne Linsel Editor duction withWDR/Cologne,incooperationARTE/Stras - Company Company Version bourg Westphalia, Dr. Werner Foundation Jackstaedt HorizonsEra New Poland 2010,SANFICSantiagoMelbourne 2010, IstanbulTaipei GoldenHorse 2010,Jerusalem Technology Film Fund (DFFF), Minister President of the State of North-Rhine theStateof Film Fund(DFFF),MinisterPresident of 2010 german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales Films BoutiqueGmbH·Laura Inoka · 2010 3 Skalitzer Strasse 54a ·10997Berlin/Germany hn 4-06 37 0·fx+93-95 851 78 53 +49-30-69 50 ·fax 78 53 phone +49-30-69 email: [email protected] ·www.filmsboutique.com [email protected] email: With backingfrom Length Art, Dance,Education Art, Mike Schloemer German German TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion/Cologne, inco-pro- Director Photography of Optical DolbySR 89 min Subtitled Version 2010 Format Format Producer Director Filmstiftung NRW, Federal German Category Festival Screenings 35 mm,color, cs Gerd Haag Anne Linsel Documentary Cinema Documentary Rainer Hoffmann Rainer English English Production Screenplay Original Sound Berlin Anne Linsel and German Language Studies. She was active for many years many asa for LanguageStudies. Shewasactive and German (1996), host for various television cultural programs and works today asa andworkstoday culturalprograms varioustelevision host for Nach allenRegeln derKunst die Welt formen (1989), cultural journalist and author. A selection of her films includes: herfilms andauthor.cultural journalist Aselectionof Gegen denStrich schminkte imBergischen (2001), eine Legende Bruder Johannes im Westen – Johannes Rau Johannes im Westen – ( Tanztraeume Das Wunder von Bilbao Shalom heisstFrieden Spurrensuche was born in Wuppertal and studied Art, Art History inWuppertal Art was born andstudiedArt, , 2010). (2001), (2004), (1999), (1985), (1992), ruRu–First Lady – Frau Rau Pina Bausch (2000), Wuppertal – Die Unge Die Wuppertal – (2007), and Spielwut Nelken inIndien (1997), (1995), (2001), Die Kunstkathedrale (2006), Dancing DreamsDancing Mit Kunst-Stoff Stoerfall KunstStoerfall (1988), Pablo Picasso– new german films german new Die Besten Endspiel (1994), (2003), - 47 about them… about Thomas leadanalmostnormallifeuntilRosefindsout mentions cloning. In spite of their secret, Rebecca and Rebecca Inspiteoftheirsecret, mentions cloning. grandfather’s remoteoldhouse,Thomas grows upbe lieving his father died in an accident. Rebecca never Rebecca inanaccident. lieving hisfatherdied bringing her lost love to life (again). LivinginRebecca’s herlostlove tolife(again). bringing not fully accept it yet, she plans to give birthtoThomas, not fullyacceptityet,sheplanstogive consolation in the idea of cloning. Althoughsocietydoes consolation intheideaofcloning. the youngwomancontemplatessuicideuntilshefinds left off, until Thomas dies in a car accident. Devastated, left off,untilThomas diesinacaraccident. leaves Roseandtheirlove picks hisgirlfriend upwhereit meets her childhood sweetheart Thomas again. Thomas Thomas herchildhood sweetheart again. meets Genre When returnstohergrandfather’shouse,she Rebecca Womb duction Benedek Fliegauf Benedek Fliegauf Editor Design Andràs Muhi Berlin, Inforg Stúdió/Budapest,inco-productionBerlin, Inforg withA.S.A.P. Paris, ZDF/Mainz Films/Paris, BojeBuckProduktion/Berlin, ARTE FranceCinéma/ german filmsquarterlygerman World Sales The Match Factory GmbH·Michael WeberThe MatchFactory · 2010 3 Balthasarstrasse 79-81 ·50670Cologne/Germany hn 4- 153 09 a 4- 153 0910 70 39 21-5 +49-2 90·fax 70 39 21-5 phone +49-2 email: [email protected]: ·www.the-match-factory.com Drama Erwin Prib Xavier BoxXavier 2010 Production Companies Category Principal Cast Director Photography of Director Producers Music by Feature FilmCinema Benedek Fliegauf Benedek Fliegauf Gerhard Meixner, RomanPaul, Eva Green, MattSmith,Lesley Max Richter Razor Film Produktion/ Razor Year Pro of Peter Szatmári Production Screenplay - - Fund (DFFF),MEDIA,Eurimages, MotionPicture PublicFoundation of Hungary, ScriptEast,L’Atelierof deCannes duFestival Benedek Fliegauf Benedek Fliegauf a “normal dysfunctional middleclassfamily.” Hehadwantedtobe dysfunctional a “normal - foerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federalfoerderung HamburgSchleswig-Holstein,German Film Federal FilmBoard (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,Film - come a writer but eventually realized that he was simply toorest- realized thathewassimply come awriterbuteventually Competition) (International less to sit down and write. He never attended any sort of film of sort attendedany less tositdownandwrite.Henever Manville, PeterManville, Wight,IstvanLenárt most important filmmakers of theHungarianavant-garde, Benedek of filmmakers most important school, but started working as an assistant director for television to asanassistantdirectortelevision for working school, butstarted mm, color, 1:1.85 screenplay writing and sound engineering. Judged as one of the screenplay writingandsoundengineering.Judgedasoneof continuedonthepathwithdirecting, andsuccessfully make aliving nology Fliegauf ’s films have been invited to and awarded at festivals world world toandawarded atfestivals beeninvited ’shave films Fliegauf - Present in Locarno for Present for inLocarno wide. Recently he won the Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Filmmakers of hewontheGoldenLeopard – wide. Recently Prize at Barcelona l’Alternativa. 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Filmfoerderung Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung GmbH Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH Hainstrasse 17-19, 04109 Leipzig/Germany Friedensallee 14–16, 22765 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-3 41-26 98 70, fax +49-3 41-2 69 87 65 phone +49-40-398 37-0 fax +49-40-398 37-10 email: [email protected], www.mdm-online.de email: [email protected], www.ffhsh.de

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH nordmedia – Die Mediengesellschaft August-Bebel-Strasse 26-53 Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg/Germany Expo Plaza 1, 30539 Hanover/Germany phone +49-3 31-74 38 70, fax +49-3 31-7 43 87 99 phone +49-5 11-1 23 45 60, fax +49-5 11-12 34 56 29 email: [email protected], www.medienboard.de email: [email protected], www.nordmedia.de

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3 · 2010 50 ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS

Verband deutscher Bavaria Film International Films Boutique Filmexporteure e.V. (VDFE) Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH Skalitzer Strasse 54A please contact Edith Forster Bavariafilmplatz 7 10997 Berlin/Germany Robert-Koch-Strasse 1 82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany phone +49-30-69 53 78 50 80538 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-64 99 26 86 fax +49 30-69537851 phone +49-89-570 877 53 fax +49-89-64 99 37 20 email: [email protected] fax +49-89-570 877 60 email: [email protected] www.filmsboutique.com email: [email protected] www.bavaria-film-international.com www.vdfe.de The Match Factory GmbH Beta Cinema Balthasarstrasse 79-81 Berlin office: Dept. of Beta Film GmbH 50670 Cologne/Germany Joachimstrasse 7 Gruenwalder Weg 28d phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90 10119 Berlin/Germany 82041 Oberhaching/Germany fax +49-221-53970910 phone +49-89-67 34 69 80 email: [email protected] fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 www.the-match-factory.com email: [email protected] Action Concept Film- & www.betacinema.com PROGRESS Film-Verleih GmbH Stuntproduktion GmbH Immanuelkirchstrasse 14b An der Hasenkaule 1-7 cine aktuell Filmgesellschaft mbH 10405 Berlin/Germany 50354 Huerth/Germany Werdenfelsstrasse 81 phone +49-30-24 00 32 25 phone +49-22 33-50 81 00 81377 Munich/Germany fax +49-30-24 00 32 22 fax +49-22 33-50 81 80 phone +49-89-7 41 34 30 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] fax +49-89-74134316 www.progress-film.de www.actionconcept.com email: [email protected] www.cine-aktuell.de SOLA Media GmbH Aktis Film International GmbH Osumstrasse 17, 70599 Stuttgart/Germany Altenburgerstrasse 7 Constantin Film Verleih GmbH phone +49-7 11-4 79 36 66 04275 Leipzig/Germany Feilitzschstrasse 6 fax +49-711-4792658 phone +49-3 41-35 00 26 10 80802 Munich/Germany email: [email protected] fax +49-3 41-35 00 26 19 phone +49-89-44 44 60 0 www.sola-media.net email: [email protected] fax +49-89-44 44 60 666 www.aktis-film.com email: [email protected] CINEPOOL www.constantin-film.de A Division of TELEPOOL GmbH ARRI Media Worldsales Sonnenstrasse 21, 80331 Munich/Germany Tuerkenstrasse 89, 80799 Munich/Germany EEAP Eastern European phone +49-89-55 87 60 phone +49-89-38 09 12 88 Acquisition Pool GmbH fax +49-89-55 87 62 29 fax +49-89-38 09 16 19 Alexanderstrasse 7 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] 10178 Berlin/Germany www.telepool.de www.arri-mediaworldsales.de phone +49-30-25 76 23 30 fax +49-30-25 76 23 59 Transit Film GmbH Atlas International Film GmbH email: [email protected] Dachauer Strasse 35 Candidplatz 11, 81543 Munich/Germany www.eeap.eu 80335 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-21 09 75-0 phone +49-89-59 98 85-0 fax +49-89-21 09 75 81 Exportfilm Bischoff & Co. GmbH fax +49-89-59 98 85-20 email: [email protected] Isabellastrasse 20, 80798 Munich/Germany email: [email protected], www.atlasfilm.com phone +49-89-2 72 93 60 [email protected] fax +49-89-27 29 36 36 www.transitfilm.de ATRIX Films GmbH email: [email protected] Aggensteinstrasse 13a www.exportfilm.de 81545 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-64 28 26 11 fax +49-89-64 95 73 49 email: [email protected] www.atrix-films.com

german films quarterly association of german film exporters

3 · 2010 51 GERMAN FILMS: A PROFILE

German Films Service + Marketing is the national infor- German Films’ range of activities includes: mation and advisory center for the promotion of German films world- wide. It was established in 1954 under the name Export-Union of Close cooperation with major international film festivals, in- German Cinema as the umbrella association for the Association of cluding Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Locarno, San German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German Sebastian, Montreal, Karlovy Vary, Moscow, Nyon, Shanghai, Feature Film Producers and the Association of German Film Rotterdam, San Francisco, Sydney, Gothenburg, Warsaw, Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. Thessaloniki, Rome, and Turin, among others In 2004, the company was reorganized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Marketing GmbH. Organization of umbrella stands for German sales companies and producers at international television and film markets Shareholders are the Association of German Film Producers, the (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shanghai) German Producers Alliance, the Association of German Film Exporters, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the Stiftung Staging of “Festivals of German Films” worldwide (Madrid, Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Documentary Association, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Stockholm, Tokyo, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Filmstiftung NRW represent ing the Sydney, Melbourne) seven main regional film funds, and the German Short Film Association. Staging of the “German Premieres” industry screenings in New York, Rome, Copenhagen, and Stockholm Members of the advisory board are: Alfred Huermer (chairman), Peter Dinges, Antonio Exacoustos, Roman Paul, Ulrike Schauz, Providing advice and information for representatives of the Michael Schmid-Ospach. international press and buyers from the fields of cinema, video, and television German Films itself has 13 members of staff: Christian Dorsch, managing director Providing advice and information for German filmmakers and Mariette Rissenbeek, public relations/deputy managing director press on international festivals, conditions of participation, and Petra Bader, office manager German films being shown Julia Basler, project co ordinator/documentary film Katherine Grzelak, managing director’s assistant/project co ordinator Organization of the annual NEXT GENERATION short film Angela Hawkins, publications & website editor program, which presents a selection of shorts by students of Barbie Heusinger, project coordinator/distribution support German film schools and is premiered every year at Cannes Nicole Kaufmann, project coordinator Michaela Kowal, accounts Publication of informational literature about current German Kim Liebeck, PR assistant/festival coordinator films and the German film industry (German Films Quarterly), Martin Scheuring, project coordinator/short film as well as international market analy ses and special festival Konstanze Welz, project coordinator/television brochures Stephanie Wimmer, project coordinator An Internet website (www.german-films.de) offering informa- In addition, German Films has foreign representatives in key territories tion about new German films, a film archive, as well as in- around the world. formation and links to German and international film festivals and institutions German Films’ budget of presently €4.8 million comes from film export levies, the office of the Federal Government Commissioner Organization of the selection procedure for the German entry for Culture and the Media, and the FFA. The seven main regional film for the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film funds (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig- Holstein, Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV KINO program Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, and Nord - which features the latest German film releases and inter- media) make a financial contribution – currently amounting to national productions in Germany €324,000 – towards the work of German Films. Organization of the “German Films Previews” geared toward German Films is a founding member of the European Film Promotion, arthouse distributors and buyers of German films a network of European film organizations (including Unifrance, Swiss Films, Austrian Film Commission, Holland Film, among others) with Selective financial Distribution Support for the foreign releases similar responsibilities to those of German Films. The organization, of German films with its headquarters in Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint projects for the presentation of European films on an inter national Organization with Unifrance of the annual German-French film level. meeting

In association and cooperation with its shareholders, German Films works to promote feature, documentary, television and short films.

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German Films Production Reports Martin Blaney, Simon Kingsley Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 16 Contributors for this issue Martin Blaney, Simon Kingsley, 80331 Munich/Germany Ed Meza, Thilo Wydra phone +49-89-5 99 78 70 fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 Translations Lucinda Rennison email: [email protected] www.german-films.de Cover Photo Scene from “Womb” (photo © Wolfgang Borrs) ISSN 1614-6387 Design & Art Direction Werner Schauer, www.triptychon.biz Credits are not contractual for any of the films mentioned in this publication. Printing Office ESTA DRUCK GMBH, Obermuehlstrasse 90, 82398 Polling/Germany © German Films Service + Marketing GmbH German Films supports the use of paper from sustainable forestry. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of The pages of this magazine are made of PEFC certificated cellulose. this publication may be made without written permission. PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is the largest independent organization worldwide for securing and continuously improving a sustainable forest management and it guarantees ecological, social and economic standards. Currently there are 215 million PEFC/04-31-1180 hectares of PEFC certificated forest worldwide. german films quarterly foreign representatives · imprint

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