GFQ4_18_Endversion final.qxp_Layout 1 09.10.18 16:40 Seite 1 GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTE RLY 8 THE FALL ISSUE 1 0 DIRECTORS Carolina Hellsgård & Özgür Yildirim 2 - PRODUCERS Arek Gielnik , Sonia Otto & Dietmar Ratsch of INDI FILM 4 ACTOR Fahri Yardim E U S S I GFQ4_18_Endversion final.qxp_Layout 1 09.10.18 16:40 Seite 2 CONTENTS GFQ 4-20 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 28 2 GFQ4_18_Endversion final.qxp_Layout 1 09.10.18 16:40 Seite 3 GFQ 4-20 18 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE 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 GERMANY’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 Stefan Ruzowitzky ........................................................................... 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 3 GFQ4_18_Endversion final.qxp_Layout 1 09.10.18 16:40 Seite 4 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT GFQ 4-20 18 d r å g s l l e H a n i l o r a C © “LYRICISM PUNCTUATED BY VIOLENCE” A PORTRAIT OF DIRECTOR CAROLINA HELLSGÅRD 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 Berlin 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. 4 GFQ4_18_Endversion final.qxp_Layout 1 09.10.18 16:41 Seite 5 GFQ 4-20 18 DIRECTOR’S PORTRAIT 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 CHRISTIANE LILGE JOHANNA AUST // Casting // Produced by 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