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PORTRAITS  NEW SHORTS

“LYRICISM PUNCTUATED BY VIOLENCE” RULES OF PLAY A portrait of director Carolina Hellsgård ...... 4 Merlin Flügel ...... 28

A PASSION FOR GENRE TRACING ADDAI A portrait of director Özgür Yildirim ...... 6 Esther Niemeier ...... 28

LOOKING BEYOND ’S BORDERS A portrait of INDI FILM ...... 8  UPCOMING FILMS MODESTY & CONFIDENCE A portrait of actor Fahri Yardim ...... 10 ALS HITLER DAS ROSA KANINCHEN STAHL Caroline Link ...... 29 NEWS & NOTES ...... 12 BEZNESS Ilker Çatak ...... 29

 NEW FEATURES CLUB DER ROTEN BÄNDER – WIE ALLES BEGANN Felix Binder ...... 29 25 KM/H Markus Goller ...... 17 DEM HORIZONT SO NAH Tim Trachte ...... 30 100 DINGE 100 THINGS Florian David Fitz ...... 18 DIE DREI !!! Viviane Andereggen ...... 30 ABGESCHNITTEN CUT OFF Christian Alvart ...... 19 GESCHWISTER (WT) Edward Berger ...... 30 ENDZEIT ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER Carolina Hellsgård ...... 20 MEIN LOTTA-LEBEN Neele Leana Vollmar ...... 31 GOETHES FAUST Karsten Pruehl ...... 21 NARZISS UND GOLDMUND ...... 31 KLASSENTREFFEN CLASS REUNION Til Schweiger ...... 22 RATE YOUR DATE David Dietl ...... 31 MANOU, DER MAUERSEGLER MANOU – THE SWIFT Christian Haas, Andrea Block ...... 23 ROCCA – VERÄNDERT DIE WELT Katja Benrath ...... 32 TRAUTMANN Marcus H. Rosenmüller ...... 24 TAGUNDNACHTGLEICHE Lena Knauss ...... 32 WO KEIN SCHATTEN FÄLLT HANNA’S HOMECOMING Esther Bialas ...... 25

Shareholders & Supporters ...... 37

 NEW DOCUMENTARIES Film Exporters ...... 38

BEYOND THE VISIBLE – HILMA AF KLINT Imprint ...... 39 Halina Dyrschka ...... 26

BOY OF WAR Cyprien Clément-Delmas, Igor Kosenko ...... 26

LORD OF THE TOYS Pablo Ben Yakov ...... 27

DIE SINFONIE DER UNGEWISSHEIT THE SYMPHONY OF UNCERTAINTY Claudia Lehmann ...... 27

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o, not the lady herself, although Carolina Hellsgård hails from Sweden and Biberacher Filmfestspiele and also the Best she could be handy in a fight, moved to Germany in 2001 to study Experi - Screenplay at Valetta IFF in 2015. but rather Carolina Hellsgård’s mental Media Design at the University None liner to her latest film, the of Arts, where she worked with Hartmut Prior to Berlin, Hellsgård gained an MA in apocalyptic zombie horror and female re - Bitomsky, Thomas Arslan and others, “and Film Theory and History at Stockholm lationship drama that is ENDZEIT – EVER making several shorts, som etimes with Uni versity, that giving her an exchange to AFTER, which has just taken the Toronto people from the DFFB.” On graduating in the Berlin University of Arts “where I stayed. Inter national Film Festival 2018 by storm. It 2008 she won a grant and a year at CalArts to The theoretical background to a film is very garnered any number of plaudits, such as study film Directing and Screenwriting. Re - important for me, I’m formal in my approach. The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Dalton turning to Berlin she made her first feature, I look for a cinematic form which ties into the calling it “An enjoyably grim fairy tale that in - WANJA, “about a female bank robber who state of being that the characters are pre - jects fresh life into the undead genre... a leaves prison to go straight. It showed at the sently in: the person in the film influences smart and stylish treat, with two engaging 2015 Berlinale and went on to other festivals, the cine matic image since it reflects the cha - leads and plenty of fresh ideas” and is now, getting a release in 2016.” It was nominated racters’ inner state.” Right. So how does that according to sales agency Picture Tree Inter - for the Berlinale Best First Feature Award work with zombies? Incredibly well, as we national, selling like hot cakes. 2015, won the Best Feature Film Debut at the now know.

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and in conflict with each other. I remember how the holidays allowed us to take on new personas, and how our teenage-selves evolved as we encountered new people,” she continues. “It was an intoxicating feeling, closely related to the promise of leaving our Directed by Based on a Graphic Novel by CAROLINA HELLSGÅRD OLIVIA VIEWEG childhood behind. Our road to adulthood often took place against the backdrop of poverty A fi lm by CAROLINA HELLSGÅRD with ANNE RATTE-POLLE and political unrest in the countries we and NELE TREBS visited. But like most tourists we indulged in the food, people and culture, instead of re flect ing upon the circumstances. SUN - WANJA BURNED is about all this; tourism, immigra - tion and ultimately the dream about Europe. The film centers around the story of two young people and their shared longing for a better existence.”

A FLICKFILM PRODUCTION in coproduction with STORYTELLERS with ANNE RATTE-POLLE, NELE TREBS, ROBERT VIKTOR MINICH, Mehmet Yilmaz, MARKO DYRLICH, MICHAEL Every film she makes, Hellsgård explains, “is BADERSCHNEIDER // Cinematographer KATHRIN KROTTENTHALER // Production Designers NADIN MEISTER + LEA WALLOSCHKE // Costume Designers ELENA NEUTHINGER + LENA NIENABER // Make-up Artist JESSICA KRAUSE // Sound Engineer Robert Fuhrmann // Sound Design CHRISTIAN OBERMAIER // Sound Mix Jochen Jezussek // Sound Mastering CHAUSSEE FILMTON // Music Composer STEFFEN W. SCHOLZ // Editors CAROLINA HELLSGÅRD a reaction to the one before.” So where + ANTONELLA SARUBBI // Casting CHRISTIANE LILGE // Produced by JOHANNA AUST in coproduction with KIM NEUMANN, JÜRGEN SCHAUM + SEBASTIAN WOLTERS // Written and Directed by CAROLINA HELLSGÅRD // Supported by NORDMEDIA FONDS, KURATORIUM JUNGER DEUTSCHER FILM + BKM WANJA is “strict and minimalistic,” ENDZEIT is “maximalistic!”. “SUNBURNED, will have a different pace.” And for the one after that, “I want it to be a thriller. I absolutely love a A plague has swept the world. Weimar and has her own style and provided a very strong good plot. It gives me lots of freedom to make Jena, the only surviving cities, have very costume concept, which I loved.” The com - it more atmospheric. I plan to make a very different approaches to the epidemic. In Wei - poser Franziska Henke and producers Inge - plot driven and hard boiled thriller, a Berlin mar, Vivi (Gro Swantje Kohlhof), vulnerable lore König and Claudia Schröter are also Noir. I like it where you can’t trust the main and numb as a result of apocalypse-triggered female, and, of course, the two leads, Gro character. Evil or good is too easy.” tragedies, reluctantly volunteers at the city’s Swantje Kohlhof and Maja Lehrer. But a read perimeter. It is at the ramshackle outer of the end crawl shows the production was Apart from her love of film, Hellsgård has a fences, requiring constant defence from actually 50-50 male and female, Hellsgård special place in her heart for Berlin as well: attacks by infectious cannibal revenants, believing that to be the best ratio. “I feel privileged to be here,” she enthuses. that she meets Eva (Maja Lehrer), whose icy “There are lots of very talented people around stoicism makes a striking contrast to Vivi’s She certainly knows her way around genre as and Berlin is a great city! I graduated ten delicate fragility. Following an attack at their well, perhaps growing up with all those years ago and have been working extremely post, they board an automated supply train Swedish trolls! “I grew up with Nordic fairy hard, collaborating with new people, it’s a bound for Jena, whose more humane ap - tales with trolls in the forest and moral very dynamic place to be. You need a certain proach to the victims of the epidemic offers questions about right and wrong,” Hellsgård amount of luck as a director, you need good some hope for the future. When the train un - expands on the theme. “Zombies are like people and I found them here.” expectedly breaks down, Vivi and Eva are left trolls. They embody existential anxieties. Here to fend for themselves in a countryside they also embody how we treat the environ - Ticking off names that inspire her, Hellsgård teeming with dangers and marvels they never ment and how we relate to nature.” Bringing mentions Lynne Ramsay, Claire Denis, dreamed of. all the elements together, and her love of Valeska Grisebach, Andrea Arnold, as well as anti-heroes, of people who are outsiders in her admiration of actors such as Michael “When I read Olivia Vieweg’s screenplay, I was society, marginalized, how they live and deal Fassbender, Léa Seydoux and Joaquin fascinated by the topic of guilt,” Hellsgård with problems, daily struggles, their dreams Phoenix. And for the obligatory “What do you explains. “As a person, you often feel guilty and emotions,” and a post-apocalyptic zombie do when you are not doing this?” question, about certain things. It’s about all the bad film, “arthouse horror” as she calls it, is the she says she reads, “A lot! A lot!” and after a stuff we did and all the good things we did not perfect vehicle. She cites 28 DAYS and THE thought, “I also play badminton!” do. A horror movie is a great tool to confront GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (“One of the best the characters with their own lives, and endings ever”) as two of her favorites, along This just in: ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER has just question their own morals, as well as chal - with RAW and GET OUT. been sold to yet another territory. Market pre - lenge their inner demons. How does one exist mieres are scheduled for Rome’s MIA market, as a human being in this world? How do I Hellsgård, who used to be a film critic before AFM has now been confirmed and there are treat other people? And when I face chaos there was an Internet and took herself off to numerous festival enquiries rolling in. Not at and difficulties, how do I react?” Cannes, is now working on feature all bad for a second feature. film, SUNBURNED, in which 12-year-old At the time of this interview Hellsgård was Claire is holidaying with her family in . As Yuan Rothbauer, co-managing director of unsure if she was even allowed to mention While being neglected by her mother and si - Picture Tree International says: “Carolina TIFF taking the film for the Discovery sidebar, ster, she meets a Senegalese immigrant cal - Hellsgård is without a doubt one of the most “We were not even finished, it was still in the led Amram on the beach. As a part of a interesting and versatile young filmmakers rough cut”, and the official announcement yet childish game she makes him a promise she working in German cinema today.” to be made. But she was certainly unstinting can’t break. in praising her key and female team: DoP Simon Kingsley Leah Striker “a fantastic and very experienced “It’s my own script,” Hellsgård continues, camerawoman. I had been an admirer of the “based on my childhood memories, the eter - set designer Jenny Rösler’s work for a long nal power struggle between my sister and I, time. The costume designer Teresa Grosser and how we alternated between being friends

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have always had a passion for writing Inter national Short Film Festival in 2000, and broiled in working for the local drug lord “ and when I started making my first he also won other prizes for shorts made dur - Brownie (). The film – which films, I saw this as being the ideal ing his studies at the Media School premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama in Icombination,“ says 39-year-old Özgür (2002-2004), including LIEBE AUF TÜRKISCH 2008 – received German Film Awards for Best Yildirim who has made four features since and ALIM MARKET, the latter being nomi - Screenplay and Best Editing as well as nomi - his debut with the drama CHIKO in 2008. nated for the Short Tiger Award at the Film - nations for Best Film and Best Leading Actor Hamburg-born Yildirim had published a col - fest München in 2005. and established Yildirim with one fell swoop lection of horror short stories under the title as one of the most exciting new filmmaking of Grey Nights at the tender of age of 14, but Produced by fellow Hamburg-based director talents to appear on the German film scene. subsequently borrowed a Hi-8 camera from Fatih Akin’s production outfit corazón inter - a friend and started experimenting in mak - national, Yildirim’s feature directorial debut Three years later, he followed his debut with ing short films. It didn’t take long before he CHIKO focused on two young men of Turkish the hip-hop comedy BLUTZBRÜDAZ, pro - had caught the film bug and then concen - background from the suburban ghettos of duced by corazón with Constantin Film and trated his writing talents on devel oping Hamburg – played by Denis Moschitto as starring real-life rap artists Sido and B Tight screenplays for the cinema. Chiko and Volkan Özcan as his best friend as two talented rappers who have a habit of Tibet – who believe that money, power and re - attracting trouble. He then started a collabo - One of his Hi-8 films – DON JUAN DE TÜRKO spect are all important until their friendship ration with local Hamburg production house – won the Audience Award at Hamburg’s is put to the test when Chiko becomes em- Wüste Medien from 2012 on directing

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and gangsters in Germany and that some resort to the AK47.“

Authenticity is also something he aims to achieve when working with his actors. “It’s al - ways important for me that I can believe what’s happening to them at a particular mo - ment and that I’ll believe the emotions they are expressing. Every word must be spot on and that’s a big challenge,“ he explains. “I’m someone who goes through the lines with the actors on set and discusses the scenes and characters so that I can give them a clear idea about each character and their actions. I give them a framework for them to move within.“

Meanwhile, a new exciting chapter in Yildirim’s career began this year when he was hired to direct four episodes in the second season of the high-end series 4 BLOCKS, which is produced by Munich-based production house Wiedemann & Berg for pay TV channel TNT Serie.

episodes of the North German strand of the Oliver Hirschbiegel,“ he says. “I admit that I “It was an exciting new experience,“ he ob - TATORT detective series. do have a soft spot for this milieu, but, as a serves. “You have the chance to tell a longer director, I like telling stories wherever they story and have more time for each of the In 2014, Yildirim then directed BOY 7, a might be set. I have never planned to make char acters. A particular challenge is that German adaptation of Mirjam Mous’ novel films about gangsters my particular trade - there is less shooting time on set: on ONLY starring David Kross, Emilia Schüle and Ben mark. But there aren’t so many people mak - GOD CAN JUDGE ME we had 31 shooting Münchow, which was made at the same time ing gangster films in Germany, so that’s why days, but there were only 37 days for four epi - as a Dutch version by Lourens Blok, with the they come on this label.“ sodes of 4 BLOCKS, so it meant that I had German film subsequently awarded the practically shot two feature films in almost Newcomer Producer Award to producer At the same time, Yildirim, who has drawn the same time.“ Dorothee Beinemeier at the 2016 Bavarian inspiration from watching films by the likes of Film Awards and receiving Jupiter Award Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma, Danny The gangster drama set in Berlin’s Neukölln nominations for Best Film and Best Actor. Boyle, and Denis Ville - district – which began airing on TNT in neuve, has made his contribution to the October – also marked the continuation of Meanwhile, Yildirim’s fourth feature, ONLY develop ment of a genre cinema in Germany a collaboration with the Swiss-born DoP GOD CAN JUDGE ME, saw him reunited with over the past decade. “The Americans, French Matthias Bolliger whom Yildirim has known Moritz Bleibtreu almost 10 years after CHIKO and Scandinavians are a lot further than the since his student days in Hamburg. “I rate for another drama set in the world of petty Germans as far as genre films are con - him highly because he is always prepared to gangsters, but this time with a change of set - cerned,“ he explains. “There’s more risk tak - re-invent himself from one project to the ting from Hamburg to the mean streets of ing and more writers and directors interested next,“ the director says about his cinematog - Frankfurt. Bleibtreu, who also co-produced in working in this field. There have been im - rapher. “We always come together to talk the hard-hitting film through his own produc - provements in Germany in recent years, but about the projects at a very early stage before tion company Paloma Entertainment, plays a it is still much harder to convince people to the actual shoot to decide on the kind of small-time gangster Ricky who has served back a genre film than, say, a comedy or a visual style we want to follow. He is someone time in prison for a botched heist by his drama. I have always been interested in I can trust unconditionally, and the same goes brother Rafael and partner in crime Latif. genre,“ Yildirim continues. “It began with the for my editor Sebastian Thümler who has Shortly after his release, he is made an offer horror stories that I wrote, and genre allows worked on my feature films as well as the by Latif that seems too good to be true and one to express certain things in a much more TATORT episodes.“ ultimately too good to refuse. But none of abstract and profound way than if one has to them have reckoned with the crooked cop adhere to the need for authenticity.“ As for the future, Yildirim is loathe to make Diana who needs the loot to save her child’s any high-falluting statements about future life. Produced by Constantin Film subsidiary “In Germany, audiences always have certain projects for the cinema, although one cur - Rat Pack Filmproduktion, ONLY GOD CAN expectations if a film is from Germany: it has rently in development could see him making JUDGE ME was presented with the 2017 to be credible. If something happens which a foray into quite a new area. Certainly, with Film and Cinema Prize for Best wouldn’t happen like that in Germany, they his ability to move seemingly effortlessly be - Feature Film and was released in German then say that the film isn’t any good. That’s tween cinema and TV projects, Yildirim looks cinemas at the beginning of this year. why genre films have a hard time of it in set to remain a name to watch in the future. Germany because a large part of the audience CHIKO and ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME isn’t prepared to accept this. However, the Martin Blaney have led some critics to label Yildirim as story in an English film is so far away that ‘Germany’s gangster filmmaker’. “I can they will accept what is presented. The best under stand to a certain extent why people combination is to have a mix of fiction and the think this way when you look at my past films, authentic,“ he suggests. “This worked in even BLUTZBRÜDAZ, and now the second CHIKO and ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME be - season of 4 BLOCKS which I have shot with cause people could see that we have crime

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NDI FILM’s co-founders Arek Gielnik and In July of that year, the two decided to set up “We see ourselves as having created a Dietmar Ratsch first met and started their joint production company INDI FILM in special niche for ourselves in the German working together over 20 years ago when Ludwigsburg. This was followed by a branch documentary landscape,” Ratsch explains. IGielnik was studying Audiovisual Media office in Berlin in 2003 where Ratsch is now “Our documentaries have an observational at the Stuttgart Media University (HBM) and based along with producer Sonia Otto, who style and are structured dramaturgically in Ratsch following the course of Documentary studied Cultural Studies at the Humboldt such a way that they meet the demands for Direction at the Filmakademie Baden-Würt - University in Berlin and Audiovisual Commu - a feature-length film.” temberg in Ludwigsburg. nication at the Universidad de Sevilla. The company’s main office is now located in Looking back over the last 16 years of pro - “Parallel to our studies, we worked on some Stuttgart since 2011. ducing documentaries, Gielnik suggests that short films and realized that we were inter - there are certain common threads running ested in following similar subject matter for The first production under the INDI FILM through the films they have worked on. films and so decided to make our graduation label was the SWR commission COUNTRY “If you take films like AFGHANS DON’T film together,” Gielnik recalls. The result was LOVE (2003) where Ratsch served as direc - FLIRT, LAND IN SIGHT, NEUKÖLLN UN- the feature documentary ICED LEMONADE tor, author and DoP, and many of the pro - LIMITED or BASTION OF SIN, they all focus FOR HONG LI (2000), a portrait of two diffe - duction outfit’s subsequent productions – on how different cultures are able to live to - rent generations in today’s Vietnam, with such as AFGHANS DON’T FLIRT (2004), gether whether it be in Germany or in other Ratsch directing and Gielnik producing, JUDGE LIFELONG (2006), and NEUKÖLLN countries, how we can live together with which was subsequently invited to the Berli - UNLIMITED (2010) – have seen him behind different perspectives on life,” he says. “That nale’s Forum section in 2001. the camera or in the director’s chair. has always moved us and continues to do so.”

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“We have also been interested in making on our own German-based productions, but political films in the widest sense of the then the success of a film like NEUKÖLLN word,” Sonia Otto adds, pointing to David UNLIMITED with its Crystal Bear at the Bernet’s DEMOCRACY about the political Berlinale got us known outside of Germany,” fight for a new data protection law in the EU Otto says. or currently Evelyn Schels’ BODY OF TRUTH accompanying the internationally famous Since then, INDI FILM has looked beyond artists Marina Abramovic, Sigalit Landau, Germany’s borders to scout for interesting Katharina Sieverding and Shirin Neshat on projects and like-minded partners such an emotional journey through their bio- as ’s SEPPIA (DEMOCRACY, THE graphies addressing such complex topics as CATHEDRAL), Poland’s Centrala Film power, violence, and sexuality in a very (MONK OF THE SEA), Austria’s Mischief human and sensual way. Films (GIRLS DON’T FLY), and Switzer land’s Mons Veneris Films (#FEMALE PLEASURE) “Many of our films have been regularly or DokLab (BODY OF TRUTH). shown by the Goethe-Institute, Bundes- zentrale für Politische Bildung and other “The pitch of #FEMALE PLEASURE by the educational institutes,” Ratsch notes. “It has director Barbara Miller and the Swiss pro - always been important for us that our films ducer immediately attracted us, we liked have a political message and highlight social their vision,” says Gielnik about the portrait injustices, but do this in an accessible way.” of five courageous, smart and self-deter - mined women breaking the silence imposed “David Bernet’s DEMOCRACY is a case in by their archaic-patriarch societies and re - point,” Gielnik suggests. “We worked on this ligious communities. Miller’s film premiered film for six years and its initial logline was accidentally discovers her family’s secret in the Semaine de la Critique in Locarno in very dry since the film’s subject was about plan to relocate there. August this year where it received the Pre - the proposed legislation for data protection. mio Zonta Club Locarno 2018 for a film with That didn’t make it easy to finance. But our “The resulting film was so rewarding when special social commitment, and will have its approach was to reach the audience through you see how the children react to the film German premiere at this year’s DOK Leipzig. emotions by way of its style and the two pro - and see the young audience’s enthusiasm. tagonists. The result was a very emotional That stays with you and we want to keep on After the success of DEMOCRACY, INDI FILM film about the work of the EU politicians and this track.” Among other prizes, NELLY’S is pleased to be working again with David lobbyists.” DEMOCRACY was nominated for ADVENTURE was named Best Film at the Bernet on the development of his new docu - the 2016 and won the Giffoni Film Festival and Flora Li Thiemann mentary project SOLIDARITY, a film about 2017 German Documentary Award. – who plays the title figure – received the the multifaceted present and the secret of prize for Best Young Actress at the Minsk solidarity. “And we attach great importance to the films International Film Festival ‘Listapad’, while being character-driven and for the subject the audience at the Seattle Children’s Film While the company is embarking on new col - matter to be told via the protagonists,” Festival voted the film as Audience Favorite laborations with other members of its “film Ratsch adds. and also awarded the Special Jury Prize family” such as Michael Baumann, Dominik for Best Ensemble for a Feature Film for Wessely, and Jens Becker, INDI FILM also From its very beginnings, INDI FILM has had Ages 8+. has two projects in development with Polish a particular focus on documentaries and this partner Centrala whose MONK OF THE SEA will continue to be the case in the future, but The company is now preparing its second had premiered in Locarno two years ago. Gielnik, Ratsch and Otto have now also made project for young audiences – LUCY GOES their first foray into the domain of fiction fea - GANGSTA – to be directed by Till Endemann Kuba Czekaj’s genre mix LIPSTICK ON THE tures with films aimed at young audiences. who has co-written the screenplay with GLASS is described as “a story of sweet de - Andreas Cordes about a little girl who plans sire, promises that seduce like a tender kiss, “The decision to also make films for children a bank raid. The project received develop - and of bloody, inescapable revenge”, while and young people has something to do with ment support from the Special Children’s Munich-based Tomasz Emil Rudzik’s tragi - our own personal developments,” Gielnik ex - Film initiative, which was set up to promote comedy BLACK MADONNA centers on a plains. “We were both in our early thirties more original screenplays for young audi - staunch atheist and misanthrope who has when we set up the company and have since ences, and has been pitched at various indu - grown weary of life until he meets a see m - had families.” stry events throughout Europe, including ingly life-affirming Polish medical student. CineKid Pro in Amsterdam last autumn After producing its first feature, HABIB where it won the Burny Bos Award. “We had “These projects mark a new chapter in our RHAPSODY by Michael Baumann, INDI some very positive feedback from foreign company’s development with larger art - FILM’s second feature, NELLY’S ADVEN - producers,” Gielnik recalls. “The story isn’t house crossover projects. We now want to TURE, was in development for 7-8 years seen as being typically German and has move out of that low-budget bracket of from the moment that screenwriter Jens more of an international appeal because we under 2 million euros to higher budgets with Becker brought the project to the company are looking at universal truths, at good greater commercial potential in the in Stuttgart. Gielnik admits that getting the and bad from a child’s perspective.” future,” Gielnik concludes. financing together for an original screenplay was much harder than for the films based on In fact, co-production has become an increa - Martin Blaney existing bestselling children’s books. Direc - singly important element of INDI FILM’s ted by Dominik Wessely and premiering in work with the company either serving as a 2016, NELLY’S ADVENTURE centers on 13- minority co-producer on third party projects year-old Nelly whose holiday in Romania or attracting partners for its own produc - takes a very dramatic turn when she tions. “We started the classic way, working

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episodes, HALF BROTHERS and DON’T. GET. OUT!, he plays a leading role in the second German series DOGS OF BERLIN. “I had the greatest respect for the marathon of a series production. But that was out- weighed by my interest in being able to get right to the heart of a character and follow his development over the full stretch,” he says with regard to his part as Erol, a gay police man with Turkish roots, who has to investigate the murder of a national football player as well as cases involving neo-Nazis and Mafia clans.

The fact that he will reach a world-wide audi ence with DOGS OF BERLIN is an addi - tional attraction for him. “It will be possible to see the series in 190 countries at the same time, and that’s really something,” he admits. “Without falling into wrong-headed narcissism, of course it means that the limits previously imposed on my work have been crossed now. The context has expanded radically. And there’s no doubt it’s an amaz - have often answered that one. I’m well-viewed – in every respect – TATORT epi - ing opportunity to present yourself on such “ just saying this so I don’t bore sodes, there is scarcely a day that passes an international stage.” anyone.” There are probably very few when he isn’t recognized on the street. “I’ve I people who can express modesty so gotten used to that now,” Yardim says in our However, Yardim does not want this project charmingly as Fahri Yardim, and yet simul - interview, laughing. “But I am really glad to be seen as him eyeing up Hollywood, al- taneously make it clear to their opposite that I wasn’t blessed with such a rocket though he has great respect for the career number that a question is not particularly launch into my career as Elyas M’Barek, for of Sylvia Hoeks, for example, with whom he original. Straight out with it, with no airs and example. I think that could have spoiled me, acted last year in WHATEVER HAPPENS, and graces – that’s the Hamburg-born actor’s as I would have been overwhelmed by the he also recalls with immense pleasure the trademark, and so naturally, he answers noise of my own ego. The more difficult but chance he had to work with Ben Kingsley on again more than willingly the question of why healthy route was actually a smoother one the bestseller adaptation of THE PHYSICIAN: his colleague Moritz Bleibtreu played a key for me.” “I was literally shaking when I came face to role in Yardim’s decision to act after his face with him. But that encounter forced me school graduation more than 20 years ago The key to success for the 38-year-old actor to grow beyond myself. I wanted to hold my (and soon afterwards to abandon the teach - – besides talent and his charming, sym- own. I think being slightly over-challenged ing degree he had embarked on in parallel). pathetic character – has always been hard does you good.” work. “Earlier on, I was also driven by a “When I saw him as Abdul in KNOCKIN’ ON certain panic,” he says to explain the fact More than ever now, the father of a young HEAVEN’S DOOR at that time, I realized that that until recently, he could be seen four or daughter living in Berlin wishes to direct the a little black-haired guy could also make his five times a year on average on the big energy won from hard work and new chal - way on the big screen,” he remembers. “It screen or television. “I never could bear the lenges towards projects of his own. The seemed as if the things people like Fatih sequence of jobs to end, I wanted to be act - meta comedy series JERKS developed to- Akin or Til Schweiger were doing in German ing all the time. I only felt like an actor when geth er with Christian Ulmen – thanks to cinema at the end of the 90s were almost I was working.” And he adds with a laugh: which he has “grasped more than ever that inviting me to get involved as well.” “It’s only now, in so-called maturity, that I’m [he] won’t settle for any more weak compro - overcome by a need for quiet now and then, mises” – will soon be entering a third Two decades later Yardim, born to Turkish and I am passionate about including more season. In addition, since 2017 he has been parents in Hamburg in 1980, has long since frequent breaks.” When he is working before running the production company Bon Voyage found his personal place in German cinema. the cameras, however, there can be no ques - Films with Amir Hamz and Christian Sprin - The journey from his first screen appearance tion of applying the brakes: “I am totally ger, hoping to embark upon projects that in ’s KEBAB CONNECTION to his shattered at the end of a day’s shooting. I combine high standards with entertainment. latest film for the cinema, CUT OFF (in sweat and suffer because I truly give it my A task that again reveals Yardim’s modesty which, by the way, Bleibtreu is also part of all. Not because that’s the only way I can see and simultaneous confidence when he con - the team) was actually remarkably straight - it as great art, but more because I can’t firms as we say good-bye: “I would recom - forward: for years he played one supporting seem to do things differently. I lack control mend producing to every actor. It dampens role after another before drawing increased over my impulses a bit, and that would be your egoism! Experiencing what a long jour - attention with the festival and audience suc - necessary to pace my energy in a healthier ney a film has covered even before you get cess ALMANYA – WELCOME TO GERMANY by way.” involved, and how much further it sails after the sisters and Nesrin Samdereli you have long gone from board – that taught (receiving prizes not only at the German Film The latest outcome of Yardim’s exhausting me humility.” Awards but also in Chicago, Odessa and dedication can be seen from the start of Antalya) in 2011. December – and not only in Germany. Under Patrick Heidmann the auspices of his regular director Christian Since he was seen alongside Til Schweiger Alvart, with whom he has made, along with two years later as a detective in the latter’s CUT OFF and the aforementioned TATORT

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NEVER LOOK AWAY IS GERMANY’S SUBMISSION FOR THE OSCAR®

At the end of August, an independent jury ap - which is still relevant today: Finding one’s thing he possibly can to destroy the relation- pointed by German Films selected NEVER own stance.” ship. But what no one knows is that their LOOK AWAY by Florian Henckel von Donners - fates are already intertwined through a marck to represent Germany as the official For director Florian Henckel von Donners - horrible crime Seeband committed many submission for the 91st Oscar ® in the cate - marck, this is second time in the running for years ago. NEVER LOOK AWAY is an emotion- gory Best Foreign Language Film. A total of the Oscar ® for Best Foreign Language Film: al rollercoaster ride through three decades 11 films were submitted for the selection in 2006, his film was of German history, told through the eyes of process. selected as the German submission and won a young artist in whose family the paths of the Oscar ® for Best Foreign Language Film both victims and perpetrators tragically The nine-person jury, headed by jury repre - in 2007. cross. sentative Moritz Hemminger (Association of German Film Exporters), substantiated its Inspired by true events, NEVER LOOK AWAY Sales agent and co-producer Beta Cinema decision as follows: “With great epic breadth, tells the story of the art student Kurt Barnert has already sold Florian Henckel von NEVER LOOK AWAY tells a moving story of an (Tom Schilling) who falls in love with his Donnersmarck’s film in over 60 territories, artist’s fate in post-war Germany, in a time fellow student Ellie Seeband (Paula Beer). including Spain, , France, UK, Latin where it was difficult to find one’s own But Ellie’s father, the celebrated medical America, and the USA. Sony Pictures artistic language. Supported by a terrific professor Carl Seeband (), Classics will release the film in US cinemas. ensemble of actors, the film has great poetic sees everything he hates and despises in this moments and poses an essential question potential future son-in-law. He does every-

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THREE GERMAN SHORTS EWIP: NEW PLATFORM FOR FACE TO FACE WITH NOMINATED FOR THE EUROPEAN PRODUCERS, FINANCERS, GERMAN TALENT IN LONDON SHORT FILM AWARD SALES AGENTS & DISTRIBUTORS For the first time, German Films partnered The European Film Awards are traditionally The first edition of the European Work in Pro - with the Regent Street Cinema in London presented in December, and the European gress (EWIP) presented a special to present FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN Short Film 2018 will also be awarded. Films premiere at the beginning of October during TALENT: THE GERMAN FILM WEEKEND to qualify for nomination by winning an award the 28th Film Festival Cologne: on the local London audiences from 21-23 Septem - at one of 15 European film festivals. Three initiative of the Consortium of Independent ber 2018. The program was curated by The German short films and co-productions are Distributors (AG Verleih), German and inter - Daily Telegraph’s film critic Tim Robey and already on the nomination list this year. national producers came together to present presented five films from and featuring CONTAINER by Sebastian Lang was awarded their “works in progress” to distributors, directors and actors from the FACE TO FACE at the Cork Film Festival 2017, BURKINA other co-producers, buyers, financers, WITH GERMAN FILMS campaigns. The week - BRANDENBURG KOMPLEX by Ulu Braun is festival representatives and market experts. end event opened with Emily Atef introducing the Short Film Nominee of the Berlinale The project was supported by the Film- und the UK premiere of her film 3 DAYS IN 2018, and I SIGNED THE PETITION by Mahdi Medienstiftung NRW. More than 100 film QUIBERON, followed by screenings of 24 Fleifel – a co-production by Germany, UK projects from 49 countries were submitted. WEEKS with leading actress Julia Jentsch in and Switzerland – found its way onto the The jury – consisting of Jonas Dornbach, attendance, WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE nomination list by winning at the Sarajevo Olimpia Pont Cháfer, Aisté Racaityté and STRONG. presented by director Burhan Film Festival in August. The winners of the Pernille Munk Skydsgaard – selected 25 Qurbani, as well as the London premiere of International Short Film Festival in Drama high-quality European feature film projects THE CAPTAIN (featuring Alexander Fehling), (Greece) and the Encounters Short Film and with the potential to attract an international and closed off with OH BOY starring Tom Animation Festival Bristol (UK) have not yet cinema audience. In addition to pitchings, Schilling. The attending talent was welcomed been nominated. moderated panels also took place during the by enthusiastic audiences and was able to event and prizes were handed out at an engage in lively discussions with them during awards ceremony. the Q&As following the films. The event was 3 met with very positive feedback from both filmgoers and press alike. F6OUR GERMAN SHORTS AMONG FINALISTS FOR STUDENT OSCARS®

In August, the Academy of Motion Picture 5 Arts and Sciences published the list of finalists for this year's Student ® and this year there were four films from Germany among them: in the category Animation AUGENBLICKE – A BLINK OF AN EYE by Kiana Naghshineh (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg), in the Documentary category TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF ) and F32.2 by Annelie Boros (University of Television and Film Munich), and in the Narrative category WAS BLEIBT by Eileen Byrne (University of Television and Film Munich) were among the finalists. Mariette Rissenbeek, Emily Atef, Burhan Qurbani, Eve Gabereau, Tim Robey (© German Films/Dan Wooller)

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SUSTAINABILITY SAVES MONEY: FFA HONORARY INSPIRATION AWARD 18TH FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS PRESENTS ENVIRONMENTAL HAND - FOR CARL BERGENGRUEN IN BUENOS AIRES BOOK FOR CINEMA OPERATORS Within the framework of the German Actor’s The Festival of German Films in Buenos Resource management, environmental and Award ceremony in September, Prof. Carl Aires attracted 6,000 spectators this year climate protection are increasingly important Bergengruen, managing director of the MFG to the Village Cines Recoleta and Caballito topics in the film industry – especially as the Baden-Württemberg, was honored for his cinemas. The audience’s passion for German digitalization in film theaters is leading to a initiative in upholding social standards in film cinema is not only demonstrated in figures, drastic rise in energy costs. The German production with the Honorary Inspiration but also in the enthusiastic reception given Federal Film Board (FFA) has therefore de- Award. to the filmmakers when they come to Buenos cided to compile an extensive compendium Aires. The director Hans Weingartner opened on the subject of sustainability: the Green In 2018, MFG became the first film funding this year’s 18th edition (which took place Cinema Handbook. institution in Germany to integrate social from 13-19 September) with his new film 303, standards criteria into their funding guide- which world premiered as the opening film A more efficient use of electricity, heating lines for production support. When applying of the Berlinale’s GENERATION sidebar. And and cooling as well as winning energy for funding from MFG, producers must de - all three screenings of the film during the through renewable sources provide an enor - clare that they will uphold industry-level and festival were sold out! mous saving potential, benefitting cinema social standards. Should this not be the theaters and environmental protection in case, the producers must offer explanation In total, 15 German feature films and docu - equal measures. The objectives of the Green for why this is not possible. Film projects mentaries as well as the German Films pro - Cinema Handbook include, among others, which cannot guarantee that the production gram of short films NEXT GENERATION encouraging an exchange of experiences and of the project will not subject the employees, SHORT TIGER were shown over the course lessons learned amongst cinema operators cast and crew to precarious conditions may of the festival week. Local audiences had in the areas of energy efficiency, eco-power, be declined by the funding committee for this the opportunity to see the whole range of concessions and waste management. Tried reason. German filmmaking: from genre cinema to and tested solutions and concepts for sus - arthouse, from international festival suc - tain able cinema management will be pre - cesses of such festivals as Berlin, Locarno, sented in the form of best practice cases. Toronto and Shanghai to documentaries and family entertainment. In cooperation with the The vast range of possibilities reaches from Goethe-Institut in Buenos Aires, the program minor proposals with very little cost to elab - was complemented by the silent film classic o rate investments that can be supported JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT by Friedrich through various funding initiatives. The 172- Wilhelm Murnau with musical accompani - paged reference guide was presented at this ment by Marcelo Katz playing one of his own year’s cinematic art market, the Filmkunst - compositions. The festival’s audience award messe, in September in Leipzig. The Green when to WEIT by Gwendolin Weisser and Cinema Handbook is available online at Patrick Allgaier. www.ffa.de and www.grüneskino.de. As in previous years, the Argentinian VOD provider QubitTV also accompanied the festi - val with an online presence, giving Argenti - nian film buffs the chance to also see even more German films on the “small screen“.

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fter long years of estrangement, MARKUS GOLLER was born in 1969 in GENRE Comedy, Road Movie YEAR OF PRO - brothers Christian (43) and Georg Munich. He began his career as a freelance DUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Markus Goller (45) finally cross paths at their editor. In addition to directing numerous SCREENPLAY Oliver Ziegenbalg CINEMA- Afather’s funeral. A fist fight at the commercials for well-known companies such TOGRAPHY Frank Griebe CAST Lars Eidinger, cemetery and a booze-fueled wake later, they as McDonald’s, Kellogg’s and Coca-Cola, he Bjarne Mädel, Sandra Hüller, Martin Bram - drunkenly decide to realize their boyhood has also directed the feature films MASK bach, Jella Haase, Alexandra Maria Lara, dream of driving across Germany on their UNDER MASK (2001), FRIENDSHIP! (2009), Wotan Wilke Möhring, Jördis Triebel PRO - mopeds. And so begins a journey full of ex - HOT LINE (2011), FRAU ELLA (2013), MY DUCERS Markus Goller, Oliver Ziegenbalg citing highs and comically-dramatic lows. BROTHER SIMPLE (2016), and 25 KM/H CO-PRODUCERS Jan Gallasch, Tobias Herr - A journey that allows the two brothers to re - (2018). mann PRODUCTION COMPANY Sunny Side connect and leads them to a turning point in Up, in co-production with Pictures in a Frame, their lives. Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion, MYTHOS FILM, 26. Babelsberg Film, Traum - A heart-warming comedy about two es - fabrik Babelsberg RUNTIME 109 min tranged brothers and their moped journey LANGUAGE German across Germany, from the Black Forest to the Baltic Sea - never faster than 25 km/h, but SALES always full of sex, drugs & ping pong. Beta Cinema [email protected] www.betacinema.com

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100 THINGS

oni loves his espresso machine. you wear underwear before they qualify as GENRE Comedy YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 Paul adores his smart phone. Toni hazardous waste? Suddenly, everyday life be - DIRECTOR Florian David Fitz SCREENPLAY can’t do anything without his hair- comes immensely complicated, but also in - Florian David Fitz CINEMATOGRAPHY Bern - Tgrowth pills. Paul can’t function credibly simple. Of course, Toni and Paul hard Jasper CAST Matthias Schweighöfer, with out Amazon, Siri and his sacred sneak - would notice this too, that is, if they weren’t Florian David Fitz, Katharina Thalbach, ers. More importantly, Paul and Toni can’t still blinded by their desire to win the wager. Hannelore Elsner, Miriam Stein PRODUCERS make it through one day without each other. Indeed, Toni and Paul are capable of many Dan Maag, Daniel Sonnabend, Matthias They just don’t know it. Instead, the two men things: they can starve, laugh, suffer, love and Schweig höfer, Marco Beckmann CO-PRO - engage in a constant battle to see who’s the cheat. But there’s one thing they can’t do, and DUCERS Klaus Dohle, Florian David Fitz biggest and the best. One day, however, every - that’s lose. Or can they? PRODUCTION COMPANY PANTALEON Films, thing changes and they find themselves sit - in co-production with Warner Bros. Film Pro - ting at home without any possessions, naked FLORIAN DAVID FITZ studied drama at the ductions Germany, Erfttal Film & Fernseh - and freezing, just waiting for midnight to Boston Conservatory. His acting credits in - produktion RUNTIME 115 min LANGUAGE come. It’s Day 1 of a 100-day wager Toni and clude internationally acclaimed films such as German Paul have made with one another. They’ve MEASURING THE WORLD (2013) and audi - given up everything they own and will only get ence favorites such as VINCENT WANTS TO SALES one item back per day. The two men imme - SEA (2009). JESUS LOVES ME (2012) marked Picture Tree International diately find themselves faced with questions his debut as a director, followed by THE MOST [email protected] they’ve never thought about before. How BEAUTIFUL DAY (2016), which sold more than www.picturetree-international.com much do we really need? How should we re - 1.6 million tickets in Germany. 100 THINGS is ally live our lives? Have we all become mind - his latest project as writer-director and actor less robot consumers? Do we own our alongside fellow German star Matthias possessions or do they own us? What are we Schweighöfer. without our possessions? Is there such a thing as free will? And how many times can

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erforming an autopsy, coroner Paul CHRISTIAN ALVART was born in 1974. He He has acquired the worldwide rights for Herzfeld finds a note in the skull of never attended film school, yet – self-taught CAPTAIN FUTURE and is working on a live- a corpse with a phone number on it. – he still managed to make the leap to be - action version of the series. PThe clue leads him into a life-and- coming a director. After teaching himself death game – the life and death of his the craft in various assistant positions, he GENRE Thriller YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 daughter! Following a trail of corpses, he has founded his production company Syrreal DIRECTOR Christian Alvart SCREENPLAY to ask cartoonist Linda for help. He finds the Entertainment in 1997 in Berlin. In 1999, he Christian Alvart CINEMATOGRAPHY Jakub next lead not in his home town of Berlin but made his feature film debut with CURIOSITY Bejnarowicz CAST Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna on the island of Helgoland, which is cut off & THE CAT, which was nominated for the Max Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger, Fahri Yardim, from the outside world. Finally giving in to Ophüls Prize. After his second feature film Enno Hesse, Christian Kuchenbuch, Urs Herzfeld’s pleading, Linda performs her very ANTIBODIES (2005), he moved to Hollywood, Jucker, Barbara Prakopenka PRODUCERS first autopsy in the deserted basement of the where he was able to prove his passion for Regina Ziegler, Sigi Kamml, Barbara Thielen, island’s little clinic, together with caretaker genre films on a grand scale. For Paramount, Christian Alvart, Hartmut Köhler PRO - and handyman Ender Müller. The autopsy he directed horror-thriller FALL 39 (2007), DUCTION COMPANIES Ziegler Film, Syrreal isn’t the only nerve-wracking part: The killer followed by the sci-fi thriller PANDORUM Entertainment, in co-production with Warner and kidnapper seems to be here on the lonely (2008). Back in Germany, Alvart worked as a Bros. Film Productions Germany RUNTIME island as well, keeping Herzfeld stuck on the director for the TATORT series and was hired 131 min LANGUAGE German mainland. Herzfeld has his intern drive him as the director for the Hamburg episodes of toward Helgoland. Clue by clue, they unravel the series featuring Til Schweiger. His thriller SALES the riddle they’re caught up in – an evil and BANKLADY was released theatrically in 2013. Global Screen vengeful plan. Will they be able to save Herz - In 2015, he directed the buddy-comedy [email protected] feld’s daughter in time...? HALF BROTHERS followed by the TATORT www.globalscreen.de feature film TSCHILLER – OFF DUTY in 2016. Currently, he serves as showrunner for the dark new Netflix series DOGS OF BERLIN.

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wo years after zombies have over - CAROLINA HELLSGÅRD is a writer-director, GENRE Horror, Zombie, Post-Apocalyptic run the earth, the German towns of born in Sweden and based in Berlin. After YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Weimar and Jena are possibly the studying Experimental Media Design in Berlin Carolina Hellsgård SCREENPLAY Olivia Tlast hold-outs of human civilization. and Film at Cal Arts in L.A., she made her Vieweg, based on her graphic novel Endzeit feature debut with WANJA which premiered published by Carlsen CINEMATOGRAPHY ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER follows two very dif - at the Berlinale 2015 and was nominated for Leah Striker CAST Gro Swantje Kohlhof, ferent young women, Vivi (22) and Eva (26), the Berlinale Best First Feature Award. Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm, Barbara Philipp, who must involuntarily join forces. While In 2017, she was a Villa Aurora Fellow in Los Axel Werner, Amy Schuk, Muriel Wimmer fighting against the undead, they develop a Angeles. ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER is her sec - PRO DUCER Claudia Schröter EXECUTIVE strong friendship and are forced to confront ond feature film as a director and the first PRO DUCER Ingelore König PRODUCTION the demons of their past. Vivi is desperately zombie film with an all-female team. COMPANY Grown Up Films RUNTIME 90 min trying to find out what happened to her little LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Toronto 2018 sister, whereas Eva dreams about starting anew, far away from both her role as the ex - SALES pert zombie-killer and from Weimar, which Picture Tree International they have left behind. Their adventurous jour - [email protected] ney takes place in a lush and beautiful post- www.picturetree-international.com apocalyptic landscape; now that the humans are gone, nature is taking over. But nature knows no boundaries and soon the two young women must deal with a new and fantastic reality and the biggest test of their friend - ship...

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OETHES FAUST is set in a modern KARSTEN PRUEHL studied Art, Film and GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 metropolis made of concrete and Design at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar DIRECTOR Karsten Pruehl SCREENPLAY glass. The people have turned and the York University in Toronto, followed by Karsten Pruehl CINEMATOGRAPHY Daniel Gtheir backs to nature. Here, the work as a freelance filmmaker, photographer Goede CAST Bernardo Arias Porras, Runa hacker Faust is on a quest for higher meaning and illustrator. After several TV-productions Pernoda Schaefer, Helena Siegmund- and transcendence. He loves to expand his in which he worked as a production assistant, Schultze, David Halina, Gabi Herz, Kalle Perl - consciousness with LSD. But his latest trip he began directing for the European Film mutter, Heidrun Bartholomäus, Simone becomes horrific. A woman appears and Philharmonic, Free University Berlin, DAAD, Geißler PRODUCER Maik Schuntermann claims to be Mephisto herself. She convinces Grazia and Converse. His first feature-length PRODUCTION COMPANY Picturis Produktion Faust that she’d change his life and he enters film WITH LOVE FROM MADAGASCAR (2014) RUNTIME 105 min LANGUAGE German a pact with her to be his maidservant. Soon was a docu-fiction about the cycling journey after, Faust encounters an innocent girl, of two lovers through the unique but dying SALES Gretchen. In order to win her trust, he uses nature of Madagascar where they will find a Picturis Produktion Mephisto’s powers. He thinks he loves her, new kind of love. The film earned awards and [email protected] but after he has taken her virginity, he loses nominations (including Best Documentary www.picturis.de interest and strives for even greater pleas - Camgaroo Award Munich, Award of Excel - ures. Mephisto leads him to a festival of lust lence The Indie Fest, and was nominated as and drugs, where Faust sheds himself. Mean - Best Documentary Feature IFAB Berlin, while Gretchen‘s life falls apart... among others). GOETHES FAUST is his se - cond feature.

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t eighteen, classmates Nils, TIL SCHWEIGER was born in 1963 in Frei - GENRE Comedy YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2018 Thomas and Andreas felt im - burg. An acting, directing, writing and pro- DIRECTOR Til Schweiger SCREENPLAY Til mortal. But the invitation to a ducing multi-talent, he is one of Germany’s Schweiger, Lo Malinke CINEMATOGRAPHY Aclass reunion thirty years after most popular actors and most successful Adrian Cranage CAST Til Schweiger, Samuel their graduation reminds them how quickly filmmakers today. Schweiger’s films as an Finzi, Milan Peschel, Lilli Schweiger PRODU - time flies – and serves as a welcome excuse actor include some of the most successful CERS Til Schweiger, Christian Specht CO- to let it rip again: party, booze and girls, that’s German and international films of recent PRODUCERS Tomas Radoor, Stefan Gärtner, the plan. But the boys carry first ailments of years: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, PHANTOM René Ezra PRODUCTION COMPANY Barefoot old age and broken hearts with them. Not to PAIN, MAYBE, MAYBE NOT, KNOCKIN’ ON Films, in co-production with Warner Bros. forget rebellious Lili, daughter of Thomas’ HEAVEN’S DOOR, LARA CROFT TOMB Film Productions Germany, Nordisk Film Pro - new girlfriend, who never wastes an opportu - RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE, and duction, SevenPictures Film RUNTIME 120 nity to mock the three of them and remind T(R)AUMSCHIFF SURPRISE – PERIODE 1. min LANGUAGE German them they’ve seen better times. With lots of His films as a director are BAREFOOT, helium gas, dozens of delicious Pornstar 1 and 2, 1 1/2 RIT - SALES Martinis and a highly-anticipated final speech TER, KOKOWÄÄH, GUARDIAN ANGEL, and Barefoot Films at the reunion, held under the influence of HONEY IN THE HEAD. CLASS REUNION is his [email protected] ecstasy, the friends wreak absolute havoc on latest film as a director, writer, producer as www.barefootfilms.de the party. On their way back home they finally well as lead actor. realize what really counts: family, friendship and love!

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© LUXX Film MANOU, DER MAUERSEGLER MANOU – THE SWIFT

anou grows up believing he is CHRISTIAN HAAS and ANDREA BLOCK are GENRE Animation, Adventure, Children & a seagull like his parents. He both graduates of the Filmakademie Baden- Youth, Family Entertainment YEAR OF PRO - strives to swim, fish and fly like Württemberg. Also active as producers and DUCTION 2018 DIRECTORS Christian Haas, Mthem but seems not very gifted. VFX supervisors, they have contributed to the Andrea Block SCREENPLAY Axel Melzener, At the summer race he discovers why. To his animation and VFX of such blockbusters as Andrea Block VOICES , Willem great shock he finds out that he was adopted INDEPENDENCE DAY and GRAND BUDAPEST Dafoe PRODUCERS Andrea Block, Christian as an offspring of the much-hated swifts. His HOTEL, among others. MANOU – THE SWIFT Haas PRODUCTION COMPANY LUXX Film family still stands by him, claiming he is a bird marks their directorial debut. RUNTIME 88 min LANGUAGE English like them. Especially his seagull brother Luc admires him wildly. One night Manou fails to SALES guard the eggs and surrenders one to the Sola Media rats. The seagulls are outraged and Manou is [email protected] expelled from home. Utterly disappointed, he www.sola-media.com retreats and stumbles across Parcival, a funny guinea fowl who cannot fly but turns out to be a deep-rooted pal. Manou checks out the swifts’ ways with his new buddies Yusuf and Poncho when he bumps into Kalifa, a stunning lady swift. Suddenly he is struck by an entangling flirt on top of all of his other troubles. The stakes are high as the rats hijack the swift eggs and a big storm threatens the seagulls. Manou is committed to save them both – courageous like a seagull and inventive like a swift.

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© Lieblingsfilm/Jürgen Olczyk TRAUTMANN

ernd Trautmann, born in 1923 in killed in a car accident. Heartbroken, Traut - GENRE Biopic, Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION Bremen, is captured by the British mann wants to give up. But a whole nation 2018 DIRECTOR Marcus H. Rosenmüller in WWII. During a football match has learned to accept him, and so he starts SCREENPLAY Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Bbetween the prisoners, the goal - to prepare for his comeback. For all those Nicholas J. Schofield CINEMATOGRAPHY keeper is noticed by Jack Friar, manager of who learned to forgive, for those who had lost Daniel Gottschalk CAST David Kross, Freya an amateur club. Forced upon the team, someone and most of all for his son, who Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Gary Trautmann soon surprises on and off the admired him the most, he must step back Lewis, Dervla Kirwan PRODUCER Robert field. Prejudice subsides, friendships start to onto the pitch. Marciniak CO-PRODUCER Chris Curling PRO - develop and Trautmann loses his heart not DUCTION COMPANY Lieblingsfilm, in co- only to football but to his manager’s beautiful MARCUS H. ROSENMÜLLER was born in 1973 production with Zephyr Films RUNTIME 120 daughter Margaret. However, Trautmann in Tegernsee and studied at the University of min LANGUAGE English, German FESTIVALS could not have foreseen the wave of outrage Television & Film in Munich. Also active in Zurich 2018 resulting from his engagement at Man City theater, a selection of his award-winning FC. Thousands take to the streets against the films includes: GRAVE DECISIONS (WER SALES signing of the “Nazi.” Feeling alienated and FRÜHER STIRBT IST LÄNGER TOT, 2006), Beta Cinema alone, Trautmann’s and Margaret’s loyalty to HEAVYWEIGHTS (SCHWERE JUNGS, 2007), [email protected] each other is being seriously put to the test. BEST TIMES (BESTE ZEIT, 2007), BESTE www.betacinema.com But they receive support from an unexpected GEGEND (2008), RÄUBER KNEISSL (2008), direction: Rabbi Alexander Altmann, who fled LITTLE WHITE LIES (DIE PERLMUTTER - the Nazis, publishes an open letter against FARBE, 2009), SUMMER IN ORANGE the anti-German slogans. Trautmann’s path (SOMMER IN ORANGE, 2011), SOMMER to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 DER GAUKLER (2011), WER’S GLAUBT WIRD FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man SELIG (2012), BESTE CHANCE (2014), City by playing on despite a broken neck. Yet BRENNA TUATS SCHO LANG (doc, 2015), and fate twists the knife and Trautmann’s son is TRAUTMANN (2018).

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© Christiane Buchmann/Das Kind mit der goldenen Jacke Filmproduktion WO KEIN SCHATTEN FÄLLT HANNA’S HOMECOMING

fter three years at boarding ESTHER BIALAS was born in Wiesbaden in GENRE Mystery, Thriller YEAR OF PRODUC - school, Hanna is returning home 1982 and studied Audiovisual Media and TION 2018 DIRECTOR Esther Bialas SCREEN - to her little village to help out in Directing in Berlin and Hamburg. Her films PLAY Lena Krumkamp CINEMATOGRAPHY Aher father’s butcher’s shop during include: the shorts A LATE FAME (2009), Christiane Buchmann CAST Valerie Stoll, her break. Soon she learns that she is not GONE FISHING (NICHTS VON BEDEUTUNG, Milena Tscharntke, Godehard Giese, Sascha welcome in the village. Everyone remembers 2009), CAT’S DANCE (DIE KATZE TANZT, Alexander Geršak, Sebastian Hülk, Rick Okon the horrific news story about her mother’s 2011), STRAWBERRY FIELDS (LAND - PRODUCERS Mathieu Miville, Nathan Nill, death which was followed by the discovery of ERDBEEREN, 2012), TUMBLING BIRDS Andrea Schütte PRODUCTION COMPANY Das three dead men in the marsh. While super - (STÜRZENDE TAUBEN, 2013), two episodes of Kind mit der goldenen Jacke Filmproduktion stition rules the village, everyone believes her the TV series COME ON – THERAPY FOR THE RUNTIME 99 min LANGUAGE German FESTI M mother was a witch and had lured these men UNDECIDED (KOMM SCHON!, 2015), and her VALS Hof 2018, Nordic Film Days Lübeck into the marsh directly to their death. While feature debut HANNA’S HOMECOMING (WO 2018, Filmfest Biberach 2018, exground Wies - struggling to make friends, she meets the KEIN SCHATTEN FÄLLT, 2018). baden 2018 extroverted city girl Eva. Thinking she has finally found a friend, scary accidents start SALES happening around her … while Hanna’s con - ARRI Media International fidence and, with that, her “power” starts to [email protected] grow… www.arrimedia.de/international

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ow can an artist discover abstrac - tion by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody notices? A Hwoman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer at a time where only male colleagues were inventing abstraction. The first solo-exhibition of her work caused an outcry in the art world. Hilma af Klint painted her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? Focusing on af Klint’s ignored part as a pioneer of modern art, this first film on her is about her life, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. This is a cinematic ap - proach to an artist whose quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led to an out- standing oeuvre. Her paintings crossed borders to last until today. © Ambrosia Film

HALINA DYRSCHKA was born in Berlin and is GENRE Art, Biopic YEAR OF PRODUCTION SALES active as a producer and director. She studied 2018 DIRECTOR Halina Dyrschka CINE - Ambrosia Film Acting, Classical Singing and Film Production MATOG RAPHY Alicja Pahl, Luana Knipfer [email protected] and founded the production company Ambro - PRODUCER Eva Illmer PRODUCTION COM - www.ambrosiafilm.de sia Film. BEYOND THE VISIBLE marks her PANY Ambrosia Film RUNTIME 93 min directorial debut. LANGUAGE Swedish, English, German

hy are you here? Are you “ mentally sick? Do you want to kill people?“ the W Ukrainian commander asks Artiom in the recruiting interview.

Artiom is eighteen, lives in the countryside of the , and is enthusiastic about weapons. He plays war with his friends in abandoned places. He considers himself an expert and lives in a bubble that romanticizes war. Artiom believes that he is ready to be an elite soldier. But his announcement to prove himself in the volunteer army against the Pro-Russian separatists has less effect than he hopes: his friends and family see him as a dreamer.

© Fabian&Fred

Active in the fields of photography, cinema - GENRE Drama, Coming-of-Age Story YEAR min LANGUAGE Ukrainian FESTIVALS Jihlava tography and directing, CYPRIEN CLÉMENT- OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTORS Cyprien 2018 DELMAS and IGOR KOSENKO met while Clément-Delmas, Igor Kosenko CINEMATOG - studying at the ESCAC in Barcelona. They RAPHY Ivan Castiñeiras PRODUCER Fabian SALES have worked on numerous projects together, Driehorst CO-PRODUCER Veronika Kührová Fabian&Fred including THE LAST TAPE (short doc, 2017) PRODUCTION COMPANY Fabian&Fred, in co- [email protected] and BOY OF WAR (doc, 2018). production with Analog Vision RUNTIME 79 www.fabianfred.com

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ax “Adlersson” Herzberg (20) re - views all sorts of things, talks about himself, bawls in town, Mcracks borderline jokes and crosses every boundary he sees – Max is a YouTube creator and makes a decent living off of it.

Most of Max’s friends have their own social media channels too, some are even quite suc - cessful. They are dubious role models, but without a doubt celebrities of their genera - tion.

Is Max a violence-glorifying influencer with far-right tendencies or just a normal adoles - cent, simply trying to find himself? He might be both, possibly without being overly aware of it. LORD OF THE TOYS portrays him and his gang during one summer and studies the © Roland Scheliga

milieu, in which their lifestyle is thriving: the and freelance editor. He is currently studying LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS DOK Leipzig West in general and in parti - Directing/Documentaries at the Film aka - 2018 (German Competition) cular. demie Baden-Württemberg. SALES PABLO BEN YAKOV was born in 1986 in Saar - GENRE Coming-of-Age Story YEAR OF PRO- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg brücken. He started his career in film as DUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Pablo Ben Yakov [email protected] a child actor and has worked as a graphic CINEMATOGRAPHY André Krummel PRODU - www.filmakademie.de designer, editing and production assistant, CER Pablo Ben Yakov RUNTIME 95 min

en years after receiving her docto - rate degree at the German Electron Synchrotron, one of the world‘s Tleading research facilities for theo - retical elementary particle physics and home to the second-largest particle accelerator, Claudia Lehmann seeks discussion with her supervisor and mentor, Professor Gerhard Mack. One of the most respected physicists in Germany, Mack has always been known for intertwining the complexities of physics with political and social themes. Together, they try to find answers to one of the most fundamen - tal questions: What is the meaning of our existence, of life even?

© Tamtam Film/Eike Zuleeg

THE SYMPHONY OF UNCERTAINTY

CLAUDIA LEHMANN is a visual artist and GENRE Science, Society YEAR OF PRODUC - SALES active in the fields of performance art, video TION 2018 DIRECTOR Claudia Lehmann Tamtam Film installations, experimental music, com - COMPOSER Konrad Hempel CINEMATOG - [email protected] posing, and film and video directing. THE RAPHY Eike Zuleeg PRODUCERS Andrea www.tamtamfilm.com SYMPHONY OF UNCERTAINTY is her third Schütte, Dirk Decker PRODUCTION COMPANY feature film. Tamtam Film RUNTIME 95 min LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS DOK Leipzig 2018

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group of tired playground visitors GENRE Animation, Art, Experimental YEAR meet at night for a last contest. OF PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Merlin RULES OF PLAY is all about the Flügel SCREENPLAY Merlin Flügel CINEMA - Aphenomenon of playing. The play - TOGRAPHY Merlin Flügel ANIMATION Merlin ing field is the center of the ritual activities: Flügel PRODUCER Merlin Flügel PRODUC - Role play, gambling, competition and intoxi - TION COMPANY Merlin Flügel Films RUN - cation. Play is free. Play is not “ordinary” or TIME 8 min LANGUAGE no dialogue “real” life. Play creates order. Play demands FESTIVALS DOK Leipzig 2018 order, absolute and supreme. Today the bor - der between work and play gets smaller and SALES smaller. What happens if nobody questions Miyu Distribution the rules anymore? [email protected] www.miyu.fr MERLIN FLÜGEL was born in 1987 in Naila and studied at the Offenbach University of Art and Design (HfG). His films include the short animations HOW TO DISAPPEAR (2011), ECHO (2012), the video installation PERIPHERIE (2012), and RULES OF PLAY (2018).

© Merlin Flügel

true story about a war and the GENRE Animated Documentary YEAR OF tragic impact it has on the lives of PRODUCTION 2018 DIRECTOR Esther three people. Niemeier SCREENPLAY Esther Niemeier, A Sarah-Christin Peter, Britta Strampe CINE - MATOGRAPHY Omri Aloni ANIMATION Jan In his early 20s, Addai leaves his entire life be - Koester, Gregor Dashuber, Inês Gomes hind and moves to Syria to help victims of the Ferreira, Anne Isensee, Laurine Kotte, Sonja civil war. At first he is assigned kitchen duty Rohleder, Deniz Zagli CAST Kais Setti, together with Ilias. Addai writes to his Benito Bause PRODUCER Britta Strampe mother: “Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.” Two PRODUCTION COMPANY Filmuniversität years later Addai’s mother receives a letter Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF , in co-production from prison. Ilias has been sentenced for ter - with RBB RUNTIME 30 min LANGUAGE rorism by a German court. He wants to meet German FESTIVALS Tampere 2018, Docaviv her and writes: “One thing you have to believe 2018, Krakow 2018, Shortynale Klosterneu - me, we went there with good intentions.” burg 2018, Telluride 2018, San Sebastián 2018, Milan 2018, La Roche-sur-Yon 2018, ESTHER NIEMEIER is a director and producer Animatou 2018, Hot Springs 2018 AWARDS working in both the UK and Germany. Audience Award Tampere 2018, Best Produc - Her films as a director include: WALZ (short tion Sehsüchte 2018, Best Short Docaviv 2018, doc, 2007), STERNE (music video, 2016), Audience Award Open Eyes Marburg 2018, SIMULANT (short, 2016), and TRACING ADDAI Special Jury Prize Shortynale 2018 (animated doc, 2018), which is her graduation film from the Film University Babelsberg SALES KONRAD WOLF and was among the finalists MAGNETFILM for the 2018 Student Academy Awards ®. [email protected] www.magnetfilm.de

© Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

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ALS HITLER DAS ROSA KANINCHEN STAHL

his summer saw the Oscar ®-winning GENRE Children & Youth, Drama, Family writer-director Caroline Link em - Enter tainment, History, Literature CATEGORY Tbarking on her latest feature, WHEN Feature DIRECTOR Caroline Link SCREEN - HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT, based on PLAY Caroline Link, Anna Brüggemann, British writer Judith Kerr’s semi-autobio - Michael Gutmann CAST Riva Krymalowski, graphical story about a young Jewish girl and Carla Juri, Oliver Masucci, Marinus Hohmann, her family escaping the Nazis in 1933 by Justus von Dohnányi, Ursula Werner PRO - travelling to Switzerland and Paris before DUCERS Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach finally arriving and settling in England in PRODUCTION COMPANY Sommerhaus Film - 1936. produktion, in co-production with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, Next Film, Newcomers Riva Krymalowski and Marinus La Siala Entertainment, Hugofilm Produc - Hohmann appear alongside Carla Juri and tions LANGUAGE German Oliver Masucci in the adaptation of the award- winning novel which is often used in German SALES and British schools as a way of introducing Beta Cinema

© Frederic Bartier pupils to a dark chapter in German history [email protected] and life as a refugee. www.betacinema.com BEZNESS

aran, a Turkish gigolo, dreams of life GENRE Melodrama, Love Story CATEGORY in Europe. German pilot Marion has Feature DIRECTOR Ilker Çatak SCREENPLAY Bhad a mastectomy. They meet in Nils Mohl, Ilker Çatak CAST Anne Ratte-Polle, Marmaris and soon marry. What starts as a Arman Uslu PRODUCER Ingo Fliess PRO - purely pragmatic arrangement changes as DUCTION COMPANY if... Productions, in co- they get to know one another: Marion cuts production with Loin derrière L’Oural ties with her previous life, Baran learns LANGUAGE German, Turkish, English German and does well in his new job as a baggage handler. But then Marion discovers CONTACT she is pregnant. Baran is kept in the dark if... Productions while she is unsure whether to return to work [email protected] or keep the child. She fears Baran is slowly www.ifproductions.de turning criminal when he is fired after lug - gage is stolen. He denies it but she pushes him till he is left with only one thing, his pride. Without saying goodbye, Baran returns home

and becomes a baggage handler at a Turkish © if… Productions/Erik Mosoni airport. Then, one day, he sees her suitcase. CLUB DER ROTEN BÄNDER – WIE ALLES BEGANN

fter working as a writer and director GENRE Drama, Dramedy CATEGORY Feature for television – including 10 episodes DIRECTOR Felix Binder SCREENPLAY Arne Aof VOX’s award-winning audience Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf CAST Tim Oliver favorite RED BRACELETS (CLUB DER ROTEN Schultz, Damian Hardung, Luise Befort, Ivo BÄNDER) based on the Catalan drama Kortlang, Timur Bartels, Nick Julius Schuck, series POLSERES VERMELLES – Felix Binder Jürgen Vogel PRODUCERS Gerda Müller, has now made his directorial debut for the Jan Kromschröder, Tobias Ketelhut PRODUC - cinema which is inspired by the hit format. TION COMPANY Bantry Bay Productions, in co-production with VOX Television, Universum The screenplay by Arne Nolting and Jan Film LANGUAGE German Martin Scharf takes the fans of RED BRACELETS back to a time before the series’ SALES lead characters – teenagers Leo, Jonas, Filmax International Emma, Alex, Toni and Hugo – had arrived in [email protected] the hospital’s pediatric ward and formed a www.filmaxinternational.com club simply to survive and charts the first

© Universum Film & Bantry Bay Productions/Martin Rottenkolber signs of a strong friendship against all odds.

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DEM HORIZONT SO NAH

TUDIOCANAL’s German production GENRE Romantic Drama CATEGORY Feature arm, STUDIOCANAL Film, is partner- DIRECTOR Tim Trachte SCREENPLAY Ariane Sing with PANTALEON Films for the very Schröder CAST Luna Wedler, Jannik first time to produce Tim Trachte’s adaptation Schümann, Luise Befort, Denis Moschitto, of Jessica Koch’s bestselling debut novel. Frederick Lau, Victoria Mayer, Stephan Kampwirth PRODUCERS Kristina Löbbert, The story of trust, courage, pain and despair, Dan Maag PRODUCTION COMPANY and the strength to let go is based on Koch’s PANTALEON Films, in co-production with real-life experiences, with the central roles of STUDIOCANAL Film, SevenPictures Film the two young lovers being taken by the 19- LANGUAGE German year-old Swiss actress Luna Wedler – who was selected as one of the European Shooting SALES Stars at the 2018 Berlinale – as the fun-loving STUDIOCANAL Jessica and Jannik Schümann (CENTER OF [email protected] MY WORLD) as the dashing, confident Danny www.studiocanal.com who is harboring a dark secret beneath his

© STUDIOCANAL/Tom Trambow seemingly perfect façade...

DIE DREI !!!

ports-mad Franzi, bookworm Kim and GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain - fashionista Marie are best friends – ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Viviane Sand junior detectives. During the Andereggen SCREENPLAY Doris Laske, Sina school holidays they are taking part in a thea - Flammang CAST Alexandra Petzschmann, ter project. But during a rehearsal there are Lilli Lacher, Paula Renzler, Jürgen Vogel, suddenly strange noises, lights flicker, cos- Thomas Heinze, Hinnerk Schönemann, tumes are cut and a threatening message ap - Sylvester Groth, Bibiana Beglau, Armin Rohde pears on the make-up mirror. Is a strange PRODUCER Christian Becker PRODUCTION phantom haunting the place, thirsting for re - COMPANY Westside Filmproduktion, in co- venge? But some of the other participants are production with Constantin Film Produktion also behaving strangely. Who could have a LANGUAGE German motive for damaging the theater? It’s a new case for Franzi, Kim and Marie! With more SALES than 4 million books and tapes sold since ARRI Media International 2006, DIE DREI !!! has become a huge hit with [email protected] girls aged 7-13 years and is now having its www.arrimedia.de/international

feature film debut, scheduled for release in © Constantin Film Verleih/Bernd Spauke July 2019. GESCHWISTER (WT)

fter directing TV event series such as GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR DEUTSCHLAND 83 and PATRICK Edward Berger SCREENPLAY Edward Berger, AMELROSE, Edward Berger has now Nele Mueller-Stöfen CAST Lars Eidinger, returned to the cinema for the first time since Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Hans Löw, Matilda his award-winning second feature JACK to be Berger, Christine Schorn, Manfred Zapatka, reunited with his co-author and lead actress Valerie Koch PRODUCERS Jan Krüger, Jörg Nele Mueller-Stöfen for the drama SIBLINGS Trentmann, Raimond Goebel PRODUCTION (working title) which also stars Lars Eidinger COMPANY Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Pro - (MACK THE KNIFE) and Hans Löw (IN MY duktion, in co-production with Pandora Film ROOM). Produktion, WDR LANGUAGE German

Siblings Stefan, Julia and Tobias have all SALES reached a point in their lives where they must Beta Cinema change something as a matter of urgency. [email protected] Moving between chaos, mistakes and uncer - www.betacinema.com tainty, each one of them is searching for a way

© Christian Schoppe/Port au Prince Pictures that might also lead to personal happiness.

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ased on the worldwide bestselling GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain - children’s books of the same title, ment, Literature CATEGORY Feature DIREC - BMEIN LOTTA-LEBEN is the snotty and TOR Neele Leana Vollmar SCREENPLAY funny story of 11-year-old Lotta’s chaotic, Bettina Börgerding CAST Carolin Kebekus, crazy life. Her mother is into Ayurvedic cook - Laura Tonke, Oliver Mommsen, Lukas Rieger, ing and works in a meditation studio. Dad is Meggy Marie Hussong, Yola Streese PRO - mostly grumpy and her stupid brothers annoy DUCERS Dagmar Blume-Niehage, Philipp her all day. Luckily, she has a best friend, Budweg, Robert Marciniak PRODUCTION Cheyenne. But when class snob Berenike COMPANIES Dagstar Film, Lieblingsfilm, in throws a big party and invites everyone except co-production with Senator Film Produktion Lotta and Cheyenne, it’s war! The two girls LANGUAGE German come up with plan after plan, but not even the idea of bringing the famous singer Marlon SALES with them works out. It comes to an argument Wild Bunch Germany and the two friends fall out. But Lotta would [email protected] not be Lotta if she didn’t succeed in saving the www.wildbunch-germany.de

© Wild Bunch Germany/Martin Rottenkolber friendship with Cheyenne and, so doing, learn ing what true friendship means. NARZISS UND GOLDMUND

ermann Hesse’s 1930 novel, the in - GENRE Drama CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR ternational bestseller Narcissus and Stefan Ruzowitzky SCREENPLAY Stefan HGoldmund , has been adapted by the Ruzowitzky, Robert Gold CAST Jannis Nie - Oscar ®-winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky wöhner, Sabin Tambrea, André M. Hennicke, (together with co-author Robert Gold) for the Sunnyi Melles, Henriette Confurius, Elisa big screen with principal photography at Schlott, Emilia Schüle, Jessica Schwarz, locations in Austria and the Czech Republic , Georg Friedrich, Uwe running from mid-August to mid-October Ochsen knecht, Kida Khodr Ramadan PRO - 2018. The conflict between flesh and spirit DUCERS Helge Sasse, Christoph Müller, and between emotional and contemplative Tommy Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn PRODUC - man focuses on the title characters played by TION COMPANIES Tempest Film, MYTHOS Sabin Tambrea as Narcissus, who is quietly FILM, Lotus-Film, in co-production with content with his religion and monastic life, Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion and Jannis Niewöhner as his friend Gold - LANGUAGE German mund, who is in fervent search of more worldly salvation. SALES Beta Cinema

[email protected] © Jürgen Olczyk/Sony Pictures Entertainment Deutschland www.betacinema.com RATE YOUR DATE

ith the comedy RATE YOUR DATE, GENRE Comedy CATEGORY Feature DIREC - director David Dietl and producer TOR David Dietl SCREENPLAY Katharina WThomas Peter Friedl have turned Eyssen, David Dietl CAST Alicia von Rittberg, their attention to the trials and tribulations of Marc Benjamin, Edin Hasanovic, Nilam dating and the impossibility of love in times of Farooq, Anke Engelke, Trang Le Hong, unlimited digital possibilities. Frederik Götz, Alexander Khuon, Leopold Hornung PRODUCER Thomas Peter Friedl Dating junkie Teresa and her best friend PRODUCTION COMPANY The Amazing Film Patricia no longer want to have their hearts Company, in co-production with SevenPic - broken or be constantly faced by unexpected tures Film LANGUAGE German surprises, but then they hit on a brilliant idea for a dating app after Teresa meets the neu - CONTACT rotic computer nerd Anton one evening. The The Amazing Film Company app starts dividing all the users into such [email protected] categories as #Crazybitch, #Sextremist and www.amazing-film.de #Heartbreaker, but they soon realize that

© 2018 Twentieth Century Fox maybe love cannot be that easily pigeonholed and logarithms won’t prevent a broken heart.

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hooting wrapped at the end of August GENRE Children & Youth, Family Entertain - on ROCCA – VERÄNDERT DIE WELT, ment CATEGORY Feature DIRECTOR Katja Sthe feature film debut by Katja Benrath Benrath SCREENPLAY Hilly Martinek CAST whose graduation project WATU WOTE: ALL Luna Maxeiner, Barbara Sukowa, Fahri OF US won a Student Academy Award ® last Yardim, Mina Tander, Volker Bruch, Detlev year and was then nominated for the Aca - Buck, Cordula Stratmann PRODUCER Tobias demy Award ® as Best Live Action Short Film. Rosen PRODUCTION COMPANIES Relevant Film, Rocca, in co-production with Warner Hilly Martinek’s (HONIG IM KOPF) screenplay Bros. Film Productions Germany LANGUAGE tells the story of the 11-year-old Rocca, a German clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the SALES authorities. Rocca – played by Luna Maxeiner Beta Cinema who previously appeared in episodes of the [email protected] RED BRACELETS and SANKT MAIK TV series www.betacinema.com – has to fight to keep her independence and

© Gordon A. Timpen prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world... TAGUNDNACHTGLEICHE

lexander never believed in true love GENRE Drama, Love Story CATEGORY till he met Paula, a performer. He Feature DIRECTOR Lena Knauss SCREEN - Asees her on stage and is lost in her PLAY Lena Knauss CAST Thomas Niehaus, world of illusions, falling head over heels for Sarah Hostettler, Aenne Schwarz, Godehard her. But her sudden death tears him apart. Giese, Lina Wendel, Walter Kreye, Ines When he meets her estranged sister Marlene Westernströer, Julia Richter, Mercedes at the cemetery, a misunderstanding sees Müller PRODUCERS Andrea Schütte, Dirk him welcomed into the grieving family – as Decker PRODUCTION COMPANY Tamtam Paula’s boyfriend. It’s a mistake Alexander Film LANGUAGE German fails to clear up, he is too curious to learn more about the woman he never got to know. CONTACT However, Marlene remains skeptical: The ver - Tamtam Film sion of Paula Alexander is talking about is not [email protected] consistent with the image she has. At the www.tamtamfilm.com same time, she is attracted to this strange man who claims to have known her enigmatic

sister so well. Through their shared grief, the © Alexander Thiel/Tamtam Film two slowly grow closer.

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GERMAN FILMS: A PROFILE GFQ 4-20 18 GERMAN FILMS SERVICE + MARKETING

is the national infor mation and advisory S. UPERVISORY BOARD center for the promotion of German films worldwide. It was established in 1954 under Peter Herrmann Chairman the name Export-Union of German Cinema as Jana Cernik the umbrella association for the Association Katharina Cramer-Hadjidimos of German Feature Film Producers, the Peter Dinges Association of New German Feature Film Antonio Exacoustos Producers and the Association of German Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer Film Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. In 2004, the TEAM company was re organized and now operates under the name: German Films Service + Mariette Rissenbeek Managing Director Marketing GmbH. Mai Anh Do Accounts Christine Harrasser Press & PR, Television SHAREHOLDERS are the German Pro - Angela Hawkins Communications & Marketing ducers Association, the German Pro ducers Anne Heidebrecht Distribution Support & Animation Alliance, the Association of German Film Ex - Nicole Kaufmann Regional Coordinator: USA, UK & Northern Europe porters, the German Federal Film Board Dennis Ruh Festival Relations (FFA), the Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Fides Schäffer Regional Coordinator: Asia & Australia Documentary Association, FilmFernsehFonds Maike Schantz Regional Coordinator: Southern Europe & Latin America Bayern, Film- und Medien stiftung NRW, Martin Scheuring Project Coordinator & Short Film Medien board Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Andrea Schiefer Monitoring & Strategic Development, Administration German Short Film Association. Sabrina Schrödl Assistant to the Managing Director Bernhard Simek Regional Coordinator: Eastern Europe, Documentary Film German Films’ budget of presently €4.82 million comes from film export levies, the RANGE OF ACTIVITIES office of the Federal Government Com - missioner for Culture and the Media, and  Close cooperation with major interna -  Publication of informational literature the FFA. The eight main regional film funds tional film festivals, in cluding Berlin, Cannes, about current German films and the German (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderung Venice, San Sebastian, Locarno, Rome, film industry, as well as international market Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film- und Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Toronto, New York, analy ses and special festival brochures Medien stiftung NRW, HessenFilm, Medien - Shanghai, Warsaw, Moscow, and Busan board Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden-  A website (www.german-films.de) offer - Württemberg, Mittel deutsche Medien-  Organization of umbrella stands for ing in forma tion about new German films, a förderung, and Nord media) make a financial German sales companies and producers at film archive, in formation and links to German contribution towards the work of German international television and film markets and international film festivals and institu - Films. (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shanghai, tions Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy) German Films is a founding member of the  Organization of the selection procedure European Film Promotion, a network of  Staging of Festivals of German Films in for the German entry for the Oscar ® for Best European film organizations with similar selected inter national territories in coopera - Foreign Language Film responsibilities to those of German Films. tion with the Goethe-Institut The organiza tion, with its headquarters in  Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint  Staging of industry screenings in key DW-TV KINO program which features the projects for the pre sentation of European international territories latest German film releases and inter national films on an inter national level. productions in Germany  Providing advice and information for rep - In association and cooperation with its share - resentatives of the international press and  Organization of the German Films Pre - holders, German Films works to promote fea - buyers from the fields of cinema, home views geared toward arthouse distributors ture, documentary, television and short films. entertain ment, and television and buyers of German films

In addition, German Films has foreign re p -  Providing advice and information for  Selective financial Distribution Support resentatives for Eastern Europe and China/ German filmmakers and press on inter - for the foreign releases of German films Southeast Asia. national festivals, conditions of participation, and German films being shown  Organization with UniFrance of the annual German-French film meeting  Organization of the annual Next Genera - tion Short Tiger short film program, which presents a selection of shorts and is inter - nationally premiered in Cannes 36 GFQ4_18_Endversion final.qxp_Layout 1 09.10.18 16:45 Seite 37

GFQ 4-20 18 SHAREHOLDERS & SUPPORTERS

Allianz Deutscher Produzenten – Film & Fernsehen e.V. German Producers Alliance Kronenstr. 3 | 10117 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-2 06 70 88 0 | fax +49-30-2 06 70 88 44 | [email protected] | www.produzentenallianz.de

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm e.V. German Documentary Association Schweizer Str. 6 | 60594 Frankfurt am Main/Germany phone +49-69-62 37 00 | fax +49-61 42-96 64 24 | [email protected] | www.agdok.de

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kurzfilm e.V. German Short Film Association Förstereistr. 36 | 01099 Dresden/Germany phone +49-3 51-4 04 55 75 | fax +49-3 51-4 04 55 76 | [email protected] | www.ag-kurzfilm.de

Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen Potsdamer Str. 2 | 10785 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-30 09 03-0 | fax +49-30-30 09 03-13 | [email protected] | www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Medien in Bayern Sonnenstr. 21 | 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-54 46 02-0 | fax +49-89-54 46 02 21 | [email protected] | www.fff-bayern.de

Filmförderungsanstalt German Federal Film Board Große Präsidentenstr. 9 | 10178 Berlin/Germany phone +49-30-27 57 70 | fax +49-30-27 57 71 11 | [email protected] | www.ffa.de

Film- und Medienstiftung NRW GmbH Kaistr. 14 | 40221 Düsseldorf/Germany phone +49-2 11-93 05 00 | fax +49-2 11-93 05 05 | [email protected] | www.filmstiftung.de

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH August-Bebel-Str. 26-53 | 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg/Germany phone +49-3 31-74 38 70 | fax +49-3 31-7 43 87 99 | [email protected] | www.medienboard.de

Verband Deutscher Filmexporteure e.V. (VDFE) Association of German Film Exporters Robert-Koch-Str. 1 | 80538 Munich/Germany | Berlin office: Winterfeldtstr. 56 | 10781 Berlin/Germany phone +49-173-577 08 38 | fax +49-89-57 08 77 60 | [email protected] | www.vdfe.de

Verband Deutscher Filmproduzenten e.V. German Producers Association Häberlstr. 5 | 80337 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-22 84 50 45 | fax +49-89-12 19 76 03 [email protected] | www.verbanddeutscherfilmproduzenten.de Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Federal Government Commissioner for Culture & the Media Köthener Str. 2 | 10963 Berlin/Germany | phone +49-30-18 68 10 fax +49-30-1 86 81 54 43 51 | [email protected] | www.kulturstaatsminister.de

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH Friedensallee 14–16 | 22765 Hamburg/Germany phone +49-40-398 37-0 | fax +49-40-398 37-10 | [email protected] | www.ffhsh.de

HessenFilm und Medien GmbH Am Steinernen Stock 1 | 60320 Frankfurt am Main/Germany phone +49-69-15 32 404-0 | fax +49-69-15 32 404 99 | [email protected] | www.hessenfilm.de

MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH Bereich Filmförderung | Breitscheidstr. 4 | 70174 Stuttgart/Germany phone +49-7 11-90 71 54 00 | fax +49-7 11-90 71 54 50 | [email protected] | www.film.mfg.de

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Hainstr. 17-19 | 04109 Leipzig/Germany phone +49-3 41-26 98 70 | fax +49-3 41-2 69 87 65 | [email protected] | www.mdm-online.de

nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH Expo Plaza 1 | 30539 Hanover/Germany phone +49-5 11-1 23 45 60 | fax +49-5 11-12 34 56 29 | [email protected] | www.nordmedia.de

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ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS GFQ 4-20 18 ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM EXPORTERS

Verband deutscher Filmexporteure e.V. (VDFE) Robert-Koch-Str. 1 80538 Munich/Germany Berlin office: phone +49-173-577 08 38 Winterfeldtstr. 56 fax +49-89-570 877 60 10781 Berlin/Germany [email protected] phone +49-30-8 61 23 93 www.vdfe.de

ARRI Media International Films Boutique GmbH Picture Tree International GmbH Türkenstr. 89 Köpenicker Str. 184 Husemannstr. 7 80799 Munich/Germany 10997 Berlin/Germany 10435 Berlin/Germany phone +49-89-38 09 12 88 phone +49-30-69 53 78 50 phone +49-30-420 824 80 fax +49-89-38 09 16 19 [email protected] fax +49-30-420 824 812 [email protected] www.filmsboutique.com [email protected] www.arrimedia.de/international www.picturetree-international.com

Beta Cinema GmbH Global Screen GmbH SOLA Media GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28d Sonnenstr. 21 Rotebühlplatz 29 82041 Oberhaching/Germany 80331 Munich/Germany 70178 Stuttgart/Germany phone +49-89-6 73 46 98 28 phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00 phone +49-7 11-96 89 44 40 [email protected] fax +49-89-55 87 61 91 06 fax +49-7 11-96 89 44 51 www.betacinema.com [email protected] [email protected] www.globalscreen.de www.sola-media.com

Constantin Film Verleih GmbH Media Luna New Films UG Feilitzschstr. 6 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 38, 6 th Floor 80802 Munich/Germany 50672 Cologne/Germany phone +49-89-44 44 60 0 phone +49-2 21-51 09 18 91 fax +49-89-44 44 60 666 fax +49-2 21-51 09 18 99 [email protected] [email protected] www.constantin-film.de www.medialuna.biz

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GFQ 4-20 18 IMPRINT & FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES

German Films Quarterly is published by: Editor FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES Angela Hawkins German Films Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 16 Contributors Eastern Europe 80331 Munich/Germany Martin Blaney, Patrick Heidmann, phone +49-89-5 99 78 70 Simon Kingsley Simone Baumann fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 Saxonia Entertainment [email protected] Translations Altenburger Str. 9 www.german-films.de Lucinda Rennison 04275 Leipzig/Germany phone +49-3 41-35 00 45 36 Cover fax +49-3 41-35 00 77 45 36 ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER [email protected] (© Anke Neugebauer/Grown Up Films/ZDF/ARTE) China

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