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IN CANNES Cannes Classics THE LOOK – CHARLOTTE RAMPLING by Angelina Maccarone
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portraits 4 HARD WORK FOR KIDS A portrait of director Joachim Masannek 6 EASTERN GLOW A portrait of Ostlicht Filmproduktion 8 DEVELOPING HER CRAFT A portrait of Karoline Herfurth
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in production 14 BIS ZUM HORIZONT, DANN LINKS! Bernd Böhlich CIRCLES Srdan Golubovic 15 DOPPELLEBEN Douglas Wolfsperger DIE ERFINDUNG DER LIEBE Lola Randl 16 GNADE Matthias Glasner IM NEBEL Sergei Loz nitsa 17 INVASION Dito Tsintsadze KLAPPE COWBOY! Timo Jacobs & Ulf Behrens 18 RUBBELDIEKATZ Detlev Buck RUSSENDISKO Oliver Ziegenbalg 19 SECHSTER SINN, DRITTES AUGE, ZWEITES GESICHT Jan Riesenbeck SUSHI IN SUHL Carsten Fiebeler 20 VOICE – SCULPTING SOUND WITH MAJA RATKJE Ingo J. Biermann
new german films 22 4 TAGE IM MAI 4 DAYS IN MAY Achim von Borries 23 BABA George Inci 24 DREILEBEN – EINE MINUTE DUNKEL DREILEBEN – ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS Christoph Hochhäusler 25 DREILEBEN – ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD DREILEBEN – BEATS BEING DEAD Christian Petzold 26 DREILEBEN – KOMM MIR NICHT NACH DREILEBEN – DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND Dominik Graf 27 DIE FARBE DES OZEANS COLOR OF THE OCEAN Maggie Peren 28 FRONTALWATTE Jakob Lass 29 GEKAUFTE WAHRHEIT SCIENTISTS UNDER ATTACK Bertram Verhaag 30 GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING Corinna Belz 31 KADDISCH FÜR EINEN FREUND KADDISH FOR A FRIEND Leo Khasin 32 KRIEGERIN COMBA T GIRLS David F. Wnendt 33 THE LOOK – CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Angelina Maccarone 34 MAMA AFRICA Mika Kaurismäki 35 MANOLO Robert Bohrer 36 NYMAN IN PROGRESS Silvia Beck 37 RABENJUNGE RAVENBOY Andrea Deppert 38 DAS ROTE ZIMMER THE RED ROOM Rudolf Thome 39 SEPPI & HIAS – BAYERISCH-TÜRKISCHE LAUSBUBENGESCHICHTEN SEPPI & HIAS – THE BAVARIAN-TURKISH LITTLE RASCALS Emre Koca 40 SXVAGAN – FORT SXVAGAN – AWAY Tinatin Gurchiani 41 TAGE DIE BLEIBEN A FAMILY OF T HREE Pia Strietmann 42 ÜBER UNS DAS ALL ABOVE US ONLY SKY Jan Schomburg 43 UNDERWATER LOVE Shinji Imaoka 44 DIE VERLORENE ZEIT REMEMBRANCE Anna Justice 45 ZIMMER 67 ROOM 67 Matthias Maasz
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Joachim Masannek (photo © Erika Hauri) seem to end. But without this rigid self-discipline Masannek’s career Masannek’s self-discipline rigid this without But end. to seem is far removed from dusty textbooks. dusty fromremoved far is ic 20 mgt ae en ahr ifrn. vrl, i fv THE five his Overall, different. rather been have might 2002 since ren’s at book the needs same off finishing time, his working days never DIRECTOR PORTRAIT DIRECTOR ren’s film directors in Germany for the past decade. His achievement His decade. past the for Germany in directors ren’sfilm Masannek Joachim Masannek Joachim of portrait A KIDS FOR WORK HARD Joachim Masannek’s working hours are extreme: “I get up and start and up get “I extreme: are hours working Masannek’s Joachim when one moreone when be to has screenplay is based on a solid work children’sethic and an that lives awareness of work between four and half past five,” he says. And at peak times, peak at And says. he five,” past half and four between work ID OCR UC fls ae rw nn mlin iios to visitors million nine drawn have films BUNCH SOCCER WILD emn iea – n boue eod Bt is te hd o be to had they first But record. absolute an – cinemas German 1 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g has been one of the most successful child- successful most the of one been has written i written n six weeks and a child- a and weeks six n ut oig u. n, f ore h hs tre wiig h fourth the writing started has he course, of And, out. coming just already. series book latest his of volume third the incredible time pressure,” he says. pressure,”he time incredible doesn’t have much time for it. He has written 13 written has He it. for time much have doesn’t of one is Masannek worthwhile. tor, with his long striking blond hair, can still escape detection. He says well been has most filmmakers, but Germany’s successful in a Munich café the direc- effort this All written, adapt ed into screenplays and th the e os’ lk big n h pbi ee Ad e’ b hns: he honest: be let’s And eye. public the in being like doesn’t he bo plenty to look forward to, as soon the filmmaker is due to become a become to due is filmmaker the soon to,as forward look to plenty IB, AHRN (hr, 92, E BR cmeca, 1992), (commercial, BÄR DER 1992), (short, CATHERINE LIEBE, n al ie H WL SCE BNH DE IDN KERLE) WILDEN (DIE BUNCH SOCCER WILD THE five all and n cide ke yu vn one. f hs s re w sil have for the father third time. include: His BOMBER films (short, 1992), IN still we true, is this If younger. even you keep children and youth that make it seem certain those years have also been a source a been also have years those certain seem it make that youth changed now, though: he found his inspiration for the greatest ever greatest the for inspiration his found he though: now, changed GRAPE- THE musical children’s his although ears, deaf on fell films Masannek Hep Agent films. two sons were among the original “wild guys”. Todayguys”. Masannek “wild original the among were sons two ot RieWspai, e el sois bu hs hlho and childhood his about stories tells he Rhine-Westphalia, North so we had to occupy ourselves,” he recalls. There was no television, no was There recalls. he ourselves,” occupy to had we so Steinstr. 54 · 81667 Munich/Germany Steinstr.81667 · 54 t s rbby o big o saees o sue that assume to shameless too being not probably is It that as an artist, one probably ought never to grow up completely – completely up grow to never ought probably one artist, an as that FRUIT MOON (1989) received some positive echoes. Things have Things echoes. positive some received (1989) MOON FRUIT children’s for ideas his however, time, long a For consultant. script hn 4-94 844·fx+98-47 995 70 +49-89-44 fax · 484 88 +49-89-44 phone German children’s film success in his work as a football trainer – his – trainer football a as work his in success film children’s German homework, no one took any interest in us until the sun went sun the until us in interest any took one no homework, children’sfilmmaker.a and as author success He his for inspiration of cameraman for various productions, later as a screenplay writ screenplay a as later productions, various for cameraman football, of lot a was there but entertainment, of stream constant no [email protected]· – a whole crowd of kids spent their afternoons together.“Afterour afternoons their spent kids of crowd whole a – else everyone knew whereeveryone community mining a in up grew f ore ntal, aank tde Gra Piooy and Philology German studied at the local school. film As from 1992 he worked as a set designer and Masannek Initially, course. of Philosophy, at the age of 23 Philosophy,he landed in Munich and soon at afterwardsthe age of and sold nine million copies of them); three of seven parts of parts seven of three them); of copies million nine sold and oks ( oks Wildernacht gency peler A peler himself is rather a “wild guy”. Born in 1960 in Born guy”. “wild a rather is himself eis nt e fle – r fnse t dt, and date, to finished are – filmed yet not – series lmed. “Always, there was en fi t i a r t r o p r o t c e r i d ok Tn Pirates Tonk Honky Wild Soccer Bunch Soccer Wild i n Hamm, n Joachim d own, nd er a er s say 4 is S04-05_Port J_Masannek.qxp:A portrait of Volker Bruch 27.04.11 10:17 Seite 2
He goes on reading tours, writes treatments for other planned pro- demonstrated by an anecdote from the shooting of part four. Filming jects, and is already busy with casting for the film version of his a football match with motorbikes caused a lot of confusion in the pirate series. UFA Cinema wants to launch the film as a major event shooting schedule becaus e of technical difficulties. Masannek simply – in 3D and as a franchise, of course. This type of thing has to be ripped the first twelve pages out of the screenplay – and so managed planned well in advance: it won’t be possible to stick to the original to finish the film on time. plan, which was to begin shooting at the end of 2011. But after HET WILD SOCCER BUNCH, Masannek can take his time before going His works are impulsive and the children in them are loud, daring and one better with the child pirates. The new film story centers on 14- wild – in other words, strong characters. That is the most important year-old Will, who sets out with his best friend in search of a trea sure, thing for Masannek when writing: “I’m a bad planner. It’s true I have a competing with other pirates and a quick-witted – and naturally quite concept of sorts for the story, but I am always abandoning it. The pretty – young pirate princess. stories develop from the characters’ interaction with each other.”
Masannek’s material is modern and fast-moving. He says that he The result certainly fascinates his target audiences. But the decisive actually never wanted to be a childre n’s author, but a director from factor behind his success is a maxim which the filmmaker has taken the outset. He found his subject, the process of growing up, through more to heart than any other director in Germany. “Children’s con- his own sons. He wanted to read aloud to his children as much as pos- stant wish is to be grown-up. A three-year-old imagines himself as a sible, but they no longer appreciated children’s books from his own grown-up knight in shining armor when he is playing.” That is why the youth. As a father, therefore, he told them new stories quite spon - “Wild Soccer Bunch” strut about the place like rockers, always shoot - taneously – and the time came when he began to write them down. ing their mouths off. Inevitably, much the same will be true of “All the stories are true,” he writes on his website, and indeed, these Masannek’s film pirates. books and films are close to the worlds that children live in. It’s all about boys who long to be strong and girls who want to speak their Masannek has done a lot of thinking about bringing up children and his minds – whether in the world of football or among pirates. books have been oriented consistently on his attitudes as a father. “In my fictional world, children are not allowed to help adults,” he says. When it comes to filming, Masannek leaves the lonely work behind And: “We educate our children until they reach a point when they no him and relies on the creativity of the whole team. “You should never longer want to be grown-up.” His child characters are the opposite: regard the screenplay as set in stone,” he explains, regarding his own strong and free. And to bring them to life, their creator is more than books as “quarries” for the films – in this way he had already arrived happy to get up early now and then. at material from the thirteenth Wild Soccer Bunch book in the third Christoph Gröner film. The fact that he is capable of radically jettisoning material is GmbH worldwide transport solutions Int. Medienspedition FILMTRANSPORTS . FIRST CLASS SERVICE ! AIRFREIGHT WORLDWIDE: EXPORT . IMPORT . WAREHOUSE INTERNATIONAL COURIERSERVICE: WORLDWIDE „DOOR TO DOOR“ TRUCKING SERVICE . OVERNIGHT FESTIVALS . FILMPRODUCTION-HANDLING
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PRODUCER PORTRAIT Marcel Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab (photo © Ostlicht Simmet) Filmproduktion/Katharina
Ostlicht Filmproduktion was founded in 2003 by the writer- Bulgarian filmmaker Viktor Chouchkov Jr’s debut TILT which won director Hagen Keller and producer G uido Schwab and has three awards at the “Golden Rose” film festival in Varna last autumn belonged to Schwab and Marcel Lenz since 2009. Ostlicht’s avow - and is currently doing very well at the Bulgarian box office. The com- ed goal is “to narrate dramatic, stirring stories for young and old, to pany’s other films include: WHERE IN THIS WORLD (dir: Markus move and inspire.” Keller’s feature debut MEER IS NICH, which was Wambsganß, music video, 2008), THE PIG (DAS SCHWEIN, dir: also Ostlicht’s first feature production, won the 2007 Bavarian Film Erzsebet Racz, 2009, short), FÜR ELISE (dir: Wolfgang Dinslage, in Prize for Best Newcomer Actor for Elinor Lüdde as well as the Young post-production, 2011), THE WOMAN WHO BRUSHED OFF Lion at the second edition of the Filmfest Hach enburg. Ostlicht was HER TEARS (working title, dir: Teona Mitevska, in production, 2011), the German partner on the Serbian-German-Swedish co-production RONNY WORLDWIDE (in development), and SPUTNIK (dir: of Oleg Novkovic’s WHITE WHITE WORLD which premiered at last Markus Dietrich, in development). year’s Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the Leopard for Best Actress for the female lead Jasna Duricic and the CICAE Prix Art & Contact Essai. Novkovic was also awarded the Grand Prix for Best Film in the Ostlicht Filmproduktion GmbH competition at the 20th edition of the Cottbus Film Festiv al. In April Ackerwand 23 · 99423 Weimar/Germany 2011, the film was invited to screen in the new sidebar Viewpoints at phone +49-36 43-41 40 90 · fax +49-36 43-4 14 09 19 the Tribeca Film Festival. In addition, the company co-produced [email protected] · www.ostlicht.de EASTERN GLOW A portrait of Ostlicht Filmproduktion
“The choice of the name Ostlicht was supposed to be a synonym since Ostlicht has been involved to date in three internationa l co-pro- for the fact that light comes from the East, with the sun rising from ductions with East European filmmakers. “It just happened that it was there every day,” says co-founder Guido Schwab about the these projects we boarded because there isn’t any specific focus on Weimar-based company’s name. the East European region.”
“Admittedly, one might have thought that the name had something to However, from the outset, Ostlicht has been particularly interested in do with a focus on Eastern Europe,” partner Marcel Lenz adds, working with filmmakers on their feature debuts, beginning in 2006
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with Hagen Keller’s MEER IS NICH which was released by Kinowelt Ostlicht became the German partner on a project by another EAVE in German cinemas in 2008. alumnus, Macedonian actress-producer Labina Mitevska.
“This film was a little sensation as it introduced the director and our Shooting began at the end of March and wrapped in mid-May on company to a wider public,” Lenz recalls. “It was premiered in Hof in Teona Strugar Mitevska’s third feature THE WOMAN WHO 2007 and then won a Bavarian Film Prize for Best Newcomer Actor BRUSHED OFF HER TEARS which is being co-produced with the for Elinor Lüdde in 2008 as well as picking up the Young Lion Award Mitevskis and Belgium’s Entre Chien et Loup and Slovenia’s Vertigo at the second edition of the Filmfest Hachenburg.” Film.
MEER IS NICH had been one of the first projects developed at The drama focuses on two women – Helena (played by Victoria Ostlicht thanks to slate funding support granted by Mitteldeutsche Abril) living with her husband and son in a West European city, and Medienförderung (MDM) in 2005. “That funding gave us the freedom Aysun (Labina Mitevska) who lives with her son at her father’s home over the period of two years to gradually build up our company,” in a Macedonian mountain village – who, despite their widely varying Schwab observes. living conditions and origins from contrasting cultures, are fighting for the same goal: self-determination. At the same time, the Ostlicht duo has been keen to expand their net- work past Germany’s borders to become involved in in ternational “We have been directly involv ed in the development of the screen- projects. Attending the East-West co-production market Connecting play,” Lenz explains. “Sometimes, one has to work on screenplays so Cottbus in 2008 brought Schwab and Lenz together with the that they become more accessible to an international audience. We Bulgarian broth ers Viktor and Borislav Chouchkov, who were there really are interested in cooperation rather than just giving money.” to pitch Viktor’s feature debut TILT. Parallel to these international projects, Ostlicht has been continuing to “The fact that we came onboard TILT is thanks to Borislav’s per - develop feature debuts by young German directors. Last autumn sistency,” Lenz recalls. “Bit by bit, they moved the project away from saw shooting in Jena and Weima r of Wolfgang Dinslage’s drama being just a Bulgarian film t o stand as a European project which would FÜR ELISE based on a screenplay by Hungarian-born writer-director be understood in other countries. When the film had been eliminated Erzsebet Racz. This project continued a collaboration with Racz that of purely national codes, we were happy to become a partner and had seen Ostlicht producing her short THE PIG, which won the develop the project further.” Audience Award for Best Short at the ARTE Short Film Festival last year. “We had an extremely positive experience with what was our first international co-production,” he continues. “We have had good feed - Selling Thuringia as a region to shoot films has become increasingly back from audiences at the festivals where the film has been shown easier with time. “That has been a large part of our work and we have so far.” been pioneers in helping to develop an infrastructure in the region,” Schwab explains. “For a long time, the number of projects was not big In fact, Ostlicht had a situation in the spring of 2009 where it was enough for people to be based in the region all year round, but that working on two international projects at the same time. The second has improved in recent years to the point where you can’t get certain one – Serbian filmmaker Oleg Novkovic’s WHITE WHITE WORLD people anymore because they are booked up!” – had come to the company’s attention via Connecting Cottbus and through Schwab’s participation in the 2008 edition of the EAVE pro- Moreover, Ostlicht has developed another string to its bow by offer - ducers’ course with the feature film project FÜR ELISE when he met ing to function as a service producer for outside productions coming the Serbian actor-producer Uliks Fehmiu who was looking for part- into the region. ners for Novkovic’s film. At the beginning of February 2010, the company handled the six days “Initially, it was difficult to imagine or formulate what the film would of shooting at locations around Jena for Saverio Costanzo’s look like stylistically,” Schwab says. “It was something we were aware THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS which was produced by of during the financing: people asked if it would be a musical or some- Italy’s Offside srl, together with Bavaria Pictures, France’s Les Films thing like DANCER IN THE DARK. Fortunately, we had a strong des Tournelles, and ZDF Enterprises. partner in MDM who could see the film’s potential and showed their confidence in us as well.” Martin Blaney
WHITE WHITE WORLD had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the Leopard for Best Actress for the female lead Jasna Duricic and the CICAE Prix Art & Essai. The film was also awarded the Grand Prix for Best Film at the 20th edi tion of the Cottbus Film Festival and screened in Tribeca’s new sidebar Viewpoints in April of this year. “The film was a big experiment, but our decision to take a risk has certainly paid off,” Schwab says.
In fact, participation in EAVE, one of the training programs co-financ - ed by the European Union’s MEDIA Program, has played a crucial role in the subsequent development of Ostlicht’s activities and choice of projects. Lenz also attended EAVE last year with the project RONNY WORLDWIDE. Inde ed, it was through this producers’ network that
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Karoline Herfurth (photo © LimeLight PR/Mathias Bothor) young,” the now 26-year-old Karolinerecalls.26-year-old now the young,” ACTRESS PORTRAIT ACTRESS Initially, it was more of a coincidence than by design that design by than coincidence a of more was it Initially, Herfurth Karoline of CRAFT portrait A HER DEVELOPING f h ZF hlrns eis ald CTRAN FLE ÜBER FILME – ACHTERBAHN called series children’s ZDF the of theater dance children’s a in playing was teenager Berlin East The Herfurth group when she group was spotted by a in talent a an scout part epi for sode I ws ie bg detr, u m prns eie ta ta was that that decided parents my but adventure, big a like was “It HEUTE. FREUNDE enough and I should c y l r e t 1 r 1 a 0 u 2 q · s m 2 l i f n a m r e g came to the world of acting. of world the to came ith school – and, in any case, I was too ontinue w Karoline n s hr hsin aet mgt ae a ol oe iig n this in airing one only had have might talents thespian her so And Franziska Schlattner, now an actress who but is was herself working at remains to this day.this to remains hlrns V eis f h hd’ be apoce – gi, y co by - again, – approached been hadn’t she if series TV children’s the time casting for agent Nessie Ne by time This playground. school the in 15 of age the at – incidence 00 Krln sge u wt Ik Sele’ gny wt wo she whom with agency, Stelljes’ Inka with up signed Karoline 2000, in cinemas German in released was which film this on working After CRAZY.Schmid’s Christian ÄCE WIE NCT dr Mra o Hln, 2001), Heland, NAME (MEIN von II FREDERICK VS. Maria BACH – HARMONIES dir: JAGGED NICHT, WEINEN MÄDCHEN (dir: (dir: Hans Steinbichler, 2010), and ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY ICN WNS TO WANTS (dir: VINCENT READER THE 2002), Rivaz, de Dominique dir: BACH, IST earned her the Bavarian F Bavarian the her earned and ensemble acting the of part as Prize Grimme Adolf an awarded (dir: Eron Sheean, 2011). Sheean, Eron (dir: DIE HIMMEL SIND VOM (WIR BLAUE DAS NIGHT 2009), THE Gansel, Dennis ARE dir: WE NACHT, 2009), Levy, Dani dir: opeig eodr sho, aoie tde a te revered the at studied Karoline school, secondary completing Joseph-Haydn-Str. 1 · 10557 Berlin/Germany Joseph-Haydn-Str.10557 · 1 Schauspieleragentur Stelljes Inka Agent Stephen Daldry, 2008), BERLIN 36 (dir: Kaspar Heidelbach, 2008), Heidelbach, Kaspar (dir: 36 BERLIN 2008), Daldry, Stephen (GROSSE CRY DON’T GIRLS BIG include: films other Her asls oig f g cmd GRS N O (MÄDCHEN TOP ON GIRLS comedy age of coming Gansel’s roleDennis leading in first her by followed 2000, Schmid’sin CRAZY Caroline Link’s A YEAR AGO IN WINTER (IM WINTER EIN JAHR) EIN WINTER (IM WINTER IN AGO YEAR Link’sCarolineA was she later,year A MURDERER. A OF STORY THE – PERFUME phone +49-30-25 35 99 02 · fax +49-30-32 fax · 02 99 35 +49-30-25 phone of Ivan Vyrypaev’s Vyrypaev’s Ivan of Berlin-born Berlin-born MDHN ÄCE 2 LF OE LEE i 20. After 2004. in LIEBE) ODER LOFT – 2 2 TOP MÄDCHEN ON (MÄDCHEN GIRLS sequel the in reprised she which MÄDCHEN), [email protected] · www.inka-stelljes.de· [email protected] crs i a etr fl fr e promne n o Tykwer’s Tom in performance her for film feature a in Actress ed in a dance theater group by a talent scout casting for a TV pro- TV a for casting scout talent a by group theater dance a in ed trayal of the traumatized sister of a boy who died in an accident in accident an in died who boy a of sister traumatized por- the Her of trayal LIGA). ANDERE (EINE OFFSIDE Alakus’ Buket of crew Huettner, 2009), LIFE IS TOO LONG (DAS LEBEN IST ZU LANG, ZU IST LEBEN (DAS LONG TOO IS LIFE Huettner,2009), the Prize of the German Film Critics in the category of Best Actress.Best of category the in Critics Film German the of Prize the uto. h ltr ae e fl atn d acting film her made later She duction. the stage has included r included has stage the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. Her work for work Her Berlin. in Busch Ernst Schauspielkunst für Hochschule Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar. She has also been cast in lead in cast Weimar.been in also Nationaltheater has Deutsches She oe fr aiu T poutos agn fo Ue asns PEER Janson’s Uwe from ranging productions TV various for roles GYNT (2006), Roland Suso Richter’s DAS WUNDER VON BERLIN VON Richter’sWUNDER DASSuso Roland (2006), GYNT (2008) to Sibylle Tafel’s fairytale DIE GÄNSEMAGD (2009). In 2007, In (2009). GÄNSEMAGDTafel’s DIE Sibylle to (2008) fairytale aoie eevd h Udn Aad o Bs Young Best for Award Undine the received Karoline Karoline Herfurth Oxygen n the Maxim Gorki Theater production Theater Gorki Maxim the n oles i oles ilm A ilm E (ICN WL ME, i: Ralf dir: MEER, WILL (VINCENT EA S Actress and Newcomer Best wardfor and Ferenc Molnar’s Molnar’s Ferenc and began acting after being discover- looking for girls Hans- for looking for sslauer, t i a r t r o p s s e r t c a 79 77 355 3 bt i ebut n Hans-Christian n Liliom upporting S t the at 8 S08-09_K_Herfurth.qxp:A portrait of Volker Bruch 27.04.11 10:29 Seite 2
“The more films I made and the older I got, people advised me to get Moreover, the young actress has made her first forays into inter - a formal training in this profession,” Karoline continues. She applied to national productions with roles in Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of Patrick various drama schools, but was pleased when an acceptance letter Süskind’s bestselling novel PERFUME – THE STORY OF A came from Berlin’s revered Ernst Busch “because I would not have MURDERER and Stephen Daldry’s take on another German best - wanted to leave home at that stage when I was only nineteen.” seller, Bernhard Schlink’s THE READER.
“One of the deciding factors behind me going to drama school was This spring saw Karoline take one of the leads in Australian filmmaker after having seen Emilia Galotti with Nina Hoss as Countess Orsina,” Eron Sheean’s g entech thriller ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY she says. “I was so overwhelmed by her performance at the time that opposite Michael Eklund (THE DIVIDE). I wanted to be able to be on the stage and have the courage and abili - ty to do what she did. When we worked together on WE ARE THE “Working with this director appealed to me as did the story and the NIGHT, I could at last tell her how important she had been for me.” character,” Karoline says. “And I liked the challenge of playing in English. It’s definitely a different situation when you are performing in Looking back on her studies at Ernst Busch she says that the training your mother tongue than acting in a foreign language. In any case, was a good preparation for her later work. “It gave me the basis and being an actor means that you have to think on two planes: thinking the ability to develop my craft,” she explains. “I had purposely follow - within the figure and the specific situation and, at the same time, ed a course with an emphasis on stage acting because I wanted to blotting out everything happening around you. And then you have a appear on the stage.” third level coming in if you are acting in English.”
“There are, of course, distinctions to be made between working for While some of her actor colleagues are among the “usual suspects” the stage or for film, but the training at Ernst Busch was in essence turning up regularly at premieres or in the gossip columns of the yel- about how one approaches a role, develops la nguage and subtexts low press, Karoline shies away from the full glare of the razzamatazz and can grasp thoughts.” surrounding the life of a film star.
Whilst still at Ernst Busch she appeared in a production of Russian She accepts that glamour and stardom is “part and parcel of the job, film and theater director Ivan Vyrypaev’s Oxygen and was engaged but I would put it at around 10%-20%. It is important for me that this after completing her studies for a staging of Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom at public side has its limits because I am not someone who likes being the Deutsches Nationatheater in Weimar. featured a lot in the media. However, it’s alright when I can speak about a film or a character or my work.” “I would like to have done more theater,” Karoline admits, “but it has been difficult to coordinate theater and film co mmitments. However, In fact, she currently manages to combine follo wing her career as an I hope a chance will come along sometime in the future.” actress with attending courses in Political Science and Sociology at Berlin’s Humboldt University. In just over a decade since her film acting debut in CRAZY, Karoline has taken roles in films as diverse as the teenage comedies GIRLS ON “It’s a bit frustrating at times that I don’t have so much time because TOP and the feel-good comedy VINCENT WANTS TO SEA through I really love my studies,” she says. “There is a lot of reading and such dramas as OFFSIDE and A YEAR AGO IN WINTER to the digesting information, but everything I wished for from this studying vampire film WE ARE THE NIGHT. has been fulfilled 100%. It’s inspiring to go to a place where people are meeting to learn something and others are passing on their know - “The most important thing for me when deciding o n a part is for it to ledge.” be in some way or another a challenge,” she explains. “It can be the period when the film is set that interests me or the character itself; it Martin Blaney could be the subject matter or the collaboration with certain col - leagues or a certain director. Again, my choice may be decided by the genre.”
Kaspar Heidelbach’s BERLIN 36 – based on a true story involving Gretel Bergmann, the leading female high jumper of her time, in the run-up to the 1936 Olympic Games – was a particular challenge for Karoline on various levels. She had a training program in order to be convincing as an athlete, but also set herself the personal challenge of being as close as possible to the real Gretel Bergmann in her charac- terization.
“I had the biography which Gretel had written, so I could read up about how she had felt and thought at certain points when I came to play the scenes. That was a perfect situation,” she recalls. “It depends with each film how much research you have to do, but some produc- tions provide you with lots of background material. Each character has its own set of issues which you take in: in VINCENT WANTS TO SEA, Marie has anorexia nervosa, while Lilli in A YEAR AGO IN WINTER has the subj ect of the death of a sibling.”
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GERMAN OSCAR® RECEPTION professionals have the opportunity to access almost 300 German IN HOLLYWOOD short films from the last five catalogue editions online. Those in ter - ested in the offer can apply for a password via an online form. The Once again this year, German Films and Villa Aurora (the Foundation preview has been established to provide a better service for pro- for European American Relations), in cooperation with the German grammers, festival curators and cinemas as well as journalists and Consulate General and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, invited some various institutions. As requests from the pedagogical sectors world- 300 guests to the traditional pre-Oscar® afternoon reception for all wide increased during the last year, wishing to include German shorts German Oscar®-nominees at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, in media education, intercultural education or langua ge classes, an California. Despite the rainy weather, the guests celebrated with the additional educational preview possibility has been added. By way of German artists nominated in different categories. German Films’ US a password, teachers and media instructors can watch around 60 films representative Oliver Mahrdt welcomed the short film team of THE online, and more films from previous years will be added. GRUFFALO (directors: Jakob Schuh, Max Lang) and Stephan Trojansky, nominated in the category Best Visual Effects for the film HEREAFTER. NEW GERMAN SHORTS IN CANNES
For the eighth time the German Short Film Association (AG EXTENDED ONLINE PREVIEW FOR Kurzfilm) is presenting some of the latest German short films and GERMAN SHORT FILMS CATALOGUES reports about current developments in the German short film scene in co operation with German Films. International buyers and festival The online version of the German Short Films 2011 catalogue, pub - curators are provided with the opportunity to access the short films lished by the German Short Film Association (AG Kurzfilm), in the Short Film Corner, an additional service is the market screening has been available on the association’s website www.ag-kurzfilm.de that will be offered this year. Based on the Short Film Corner selec- since April 2011. Some 80 additional short films from the catalogue tion, the partners have published the 17th volume of the German were added to the online preview offer. Now, inter national industry Short Films DVD edition “GerMany Shorts in Cannes”. International
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festival guests will furthermore have the possibility to meet and estab - department at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture lish contacts with German short film makers at the Short Film Lounge. and the Media (BKM), were all re-elected. Another highlight of this year’s activities in Cannes is the presentation of the new Next Generation Short Tiger program. For the first time, Roman Paul, managing director of Razor Film, who had represented it includes the winners of the Short Tiger Award which is awarded by the German P roducers Alliance in German Films advisory board in the German Federal Film Board. The KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg is 2009 and 2010, resigned from the board. The newly elected advisory also releasing their new ShortFilmDVD edition “Back to Politics” in co - board will serve until 31 December 2012. operation with good! movies. The program was curated by Maike Mia Hoehne, head of the Berlinale Shorts. GERMAN ANIMATIONS IN ANNECY
BETWEEN FILM & ART: STORYBOARDS Supported by German Films, the German Short Film FROM HITCHCOCK TO SPIELBERG Association (AG Kurzfilm) will once again give German short animations a special platform at the International Festival of Animated The Museum für Film und Fernsehen Berlin (11 August-29 November Film in Annecy this year. Under the tit le “Germanimation”, the 2011) and the Kunsthalle Emden (16 April-17 July 2011) are dedicating German Short Film Association, German Films and other partners are an exhibit to a seldom recognized and known art form: the art of the present with a booth at the festival’s film market MIFA for the fourth storyboard. Both museums are presenting an outstanding selection of time. The MIFA is one of the biggest business venues for animated film illustrated screenplays which display their own unique artistic style. worldwide. An additional service for industry professionals is the annual preview DVD “New German Animations” which offers an in - sight into the vivid scene of animated film in Germany. In cooperation with the MFG Baden-Württemberg, the Animations Department of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart and the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, the German Reception is another meeting point for filmmakers and industry professionals. Idyllically situated at the Lac d’Annecy, the reception provides the ideal opport unity for a relaxed meeting of animation professionals from all over the world.
The storyboards of selected films by such influential directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg are presented in comparison with original film sequences, as well as the works of Goetz, Munich) SPELLBOUND Alfred Hitchcock’s visual artists who were involved in the aesthetics and conception of the storyboard. More information is available at www.deutsche-
Tony Oursler, Criminal Eye (photo Oursler, courtesy ofTony Sammlung kinemathek.de. (photo courtesy of Selznick David Collection, O. UT Austin)
NEW GERMAN FILMS ADVISORY BOARD
The advisory board of German Films Service + Marketing GmbH was
newly elected at the shareholders meeting on 14 March 2011. The (photo © Martin Wallner/Stefan Leuchtenberg) shareholders elected Martin Moszkowicz as the new chairman of the advisory board. Martin Moszkowicz, executive board member with responsibilities for film and television at Constantin Film AG and a board member of the German Producers Alliance, took over from The festival awards numerous prizes in its various sections. Among the Alfred Hürmer who had been chairman of the advisory board since 1 short films competing for the Annecy Cristal this year are the German
January 2003. short films A LOST AND FOUND BOX OF HUMAN SENSATIONS Scene from A AND LOST FOUND OF BOX HUMAN SENSATIONS by Martin Wallner and Stefan Leuchtenberg as well as DER GROSSE Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer, managing director of FilmFernsehFonds BRUDER by Jesús Pérez and Elisabeth Hüttermann. The section Bayern, was also newly elected to the advsiory board. Michael Graduation Films features DIE KISTE by Kyra Buschor, HINTERLAND Schmid-Ospach, former managing director of Filmstiftung NRW, re - by Jacob Weyde and Jost Althoff, LOOM by Ilija Brunck, Jan Bitzer and signed from the advisory board. FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and Csaba Letay, OH HAPPY DAY by Justyna Krzyzaniak, as well as Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen are shareholders of German Films WEISS KEIN WEISS by Anna Bergmann. With ANNA BLUME by and traditionally take it in turns every two years to sit on the advisory Vessela Dantcheva, GLOBULI by Stefan Eling and HOW TO RAISE board. Sylke Gottlebe, managing director of the German Short Film THE MOON by Anja Struck, further German shorts will be screening Association (AG Kurzfilm), is another new member of the advisory in the Out of Competition section. Altogether, eleven short anima - board. The German Short Film Association has been one of German tions from Germany have been selected for screening at the festival, Films’ nine shareholders since 2004. taking place this year from 6 – 11 June.
Peter Dinges, board member of the German Federal Film Board (FFA), Antonio Exacoustos as a representative of the Association of German Film Exporters (VDFE), and Ulrike Schauz, head of the film
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NEW PROFILE AT ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN FILM PRODUCERS (VDF)
The Association of German Film Producers (VDF) has polished up its pro - file and won over new members. The VDF clearly defines itself as an association of inde- pendent, medium-sized, young feature film and television producers who are neither bound to broad casters nor major distri - butors. The VDF is a central contact point, consultant and organ for the media policy and production interests of its members. As independent producers must rely on domestic partner ships and international co-productions ever more, it is the VDF’s particular interest to offer an exchange of networking, con tacts,
Klaus Schaefer, Yasemin Samdereli (director/screenplay), Yasemin Klaus Schaefer, know ledge and information. For this reason, representatives of the “ALMANYA” AT THE VDF will be present at this year’s Festival de Cannes to further devel - BAVARIAN PARLIAMENT op partnerships and projects with colleagues from the international fil m industry. On 22 March 2011, the Bavarian Parliament, together with FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the University of Television & VDF is represented in numerous impor- Film Munich, presented the feature film ALMANYA at Munich’s tant committees, including with the Maximilianeum. Over 300 guests from the fields of politics and cul ture German Federal Film Board and the SPIO,
Barbara Stamm (President of the Bavarian Nesrin Parliament), Samdereli (screenplay) were moved and enthusiastic about the touching story of the life of and is a shareholder of the VGF and three generations of a Turkish immigrant family in Ger many. The Arno Ortmair German Films. VDF is represented by the panel that accompanied the film praised it for successfully addressing executive board chairman Arno Ortmair the topic of integration. FFF managing director Klaus Schaefer was and board members Peter Seitz and Alfred proud to report in his opening speech of the film’s success (German Hürmer. More information on VDF is avail - Film Prize in Silver) since its world premiere in this year’s Berlinale offi- able at www.filmproduzentenverband.de. cial program and that it has al ready been sold in eight territories. VDF is also on Facebook under Verband Deutscher Filmpro duzenten.
CINEMA FROM HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTIONS In the coming weeks and months, 13 films funded by the IN SOUTHWEST GERMANY Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein will make their way to German cinemas: May 12th saw the release of Peter Timm’s latest film With films like COLOR OF THE OCEAN (Südart Filmproduktion, THE HUNT FOR HANNIBAL'S TREASURE (NFP – Marketing & Noirfilm, and Starhaus Filmproduktion from Germany with El Olivo Distribution) and Jakob Ziemnicki’s EASTER GOES POLISH (Zorro Producciones from Spain) and WHORE’S GLORY (Quinte Film/ Film). Sandra Trostel’s music documentary UTOPIA LTD. (Rapid Eye Freiburg & Lotus Film/Vienna), the MFG Filmförderung is sup- Movies) about the young Hamburg-based punk band 1000 Robota porting numerous new international co-productions, including AND and Dieter Schumann’s documentary WADAN'S WORLD IF WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER by Stéphan e Robelin. The comedy (RealFiction) can also now be seen on Germany’s silver screens. On with Jane Fonda is a production by Manny Films and Productions May 26th, German audiences will be able to see Joe Wright’s Cinematographiques de la Butte Montmarte in co-production with HANNA (Sony Pictures), with Cate Blanchett in the leading role. Dan Stuttgart-born Peter Rommels’ Rommel Film and Home Run Pictures. Tang’s I PHONE YOU (Reverse Angle Pictures), based on a screen- play by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, will also be released May 26th. Ulrich At the 9th Rhein Co-Production Meeting, which is being organized by Köhler’s SLEEPING SICKNESS (Farbfil m), winner of a Silver Bear at the MEDIA Antenne Strasbourg in cooperation with MFG this year’s Berlinale, will hit local cinemas on June 23rd. Filmförderung from 7-8 July in Strasbourg, filmmakers from Germany, Fran ce, Luxembourg and Switzerland will have the opportunity to pre- One week later, Gernot Roll’s WERNER – EISKALT! (Constantin sent new projects to producers, commissioning editors and financing Film) will celebrate its theatrical premiere. Tran Anh Hung’s feature partners. NORWEGIAN WOOD, based on the novel of the same name by Haruki Murakami, will be released on June 30th by Pandora Film. Daniel Espinosa’s EASY MONEY (Senator Film), part one of the gang- ster trilogy by the Swedish author Jens Lapidus, will be in the cinemas starting July 7th. NFP will also be releasing André Erkau’s comedic road movie ARSCHKALT on July 28th. September 8th will see the release of Radoslaw Wegrzyn’s FATHER, SON & HOLY COW by Farbfilm, and Jan Schomburg’s ABOVE US ONLY SKY (RealFiction) will be out on September 15th. The cast of AND IF WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER (photo courtesy of MFG Filmförderung)
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“THE CONGRESS”: ARI FOLMAN & ROBIN WRIGHT IN NRW
“A great land for filmmaking,” is director Ari Folman’s enthusiastic comment from the set of his new film THE CONGRESS about the shooting conditions and locations in North Rhine-Westphalia. Folman, who won a Golden Globe for WALTZ WITH BASHIR, was shooting his adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s novel The Futurological Congress in March in Dortmund and Cologne. Reinhard Brundig is producing the international co-production between Germany, Israel, Poland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg with Cologne-based Pandora Film.
HAIRDRESSER by Doris Dörrie, THE DAYS TO COME by Lars Julia Overton (Screen Australia) & Wim Wenders
Kraume, CLOSE TO YOU by Almut Getto, SINGLE BY CONTRACT at the Sydney Opera House (photo © Daniel Boud) by Marc Rothemund, JULIA’S DISAPPEARANCE by Christoph Schaub, NANGA PARBAT by Joseph Vilsmaier, THE POLL DIARIES by Chris Kraus, SASCHA by Dennis Todoróvic, COLOURS IN THE DARK by Sophie Heldman, THE MURDER FARM by Bettina Oberli, THE CITY BELOW by Christoph Hochhäusler, and ALMANYA by Yasemin Samdereli, hot off its premiere at the Berlinale.
Eleven audience favorites from past festivals were shown in the Retro Ari Folman, Robin Wright, Petra Müller, Ari Folman, Robin Müller, Wright, Petra
Reinhard Reinhard Brundig (photo © Bernd Spauke) 2001-2010, including: NO PLACE TO GO by Oskar Roehler and EMMA’S BLISS by Sven Taddicken. This year’s festival showed Robin Wright is in the role of an actress whose body is digitalized so Friedemann Fromm’s TV mini-series THE WEISSENSEE SAGA. Young that she can be cast as an eternally young star in all of the studio’s pro- audiences had lots of adventures with TIGER-TEAM by Peter Gersina ductions. Other roles have been cast with Harvey Keitel, Danny and THE DEVIL’S KICKERS by Granz Henman. Five documentaries Huston, Paul Giamatti, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sami Gayle and Jon Hamm. highlighting radical approaches to life could be seen in the sidebar As with his animated-documentary WALTZ WITH BASHIR, Ari Radical Docs, which was organized in cooperation with ZDF and Folman will integrate animated and live-action scenes into this new ARTE. And Björn Richie Lob also traveled to Australia to present his project. Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will be hand- film KEEP SURFING. ling the international sales of the film. The festival was then rounded off in style with the first German dance film in 3D as a premiere in the Southern hemisphere: PINA was 10 YEARS OF THE AUDI FESTIVAL shown in the presence of Wim Wenders as part of a gala event at the OF GERMAN FILMS IN AUSTRALIA famous Sydney Opera House.
Building on the success of last year’s festival, this year the 10th anni - ver sary of the AUDI Festival of German Films in Australia 26TH GERMAN PREMIERE: presented an extensive program of 38 feature films and documenta- “REMEMBRANCE” IN NEW YORK ries and 13 shorts in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide from 6-18 April 2011. At the exclusive German Premieres industry screenings, pro - ducer Sven Woldt (Media Park Film & Fernsehproduktion) and world sales agent Beatrix Wesle (Atrix Films) presented the drama REMEM- BRANCE (DIE VERLORENE ZEIT) by Anna Justice on 21 March 2011 at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York. New York-based screenwriter Pamela Katz and US actor David Rasche were also present. Some 50 journalists and representati ves of the New York buyers’ and distri - butors’ community attended the event organized by German Films and its US representative Oliver Mahrdt.
Actor Burghart Klaußner was in attendance to present the opening film GOETHE! by Philipp Stölzl in Sydney and Brisbane as well as REQUIEM by Hans-Christian Schmid and THE SILENCE by Baran bo Odar. Ralf Huettner’s VINCENT WANTS TO SEA opened the pro- grams in Melbourne and Perth. The tragicomedy was then released in Australian cinemas. Other German-language productions in the sec- (photo © Atrix Films/Jürgen Runge) Klaus Krischok (Goethe-Institut Australia), actor Burghart Klaußner, tion German Currents included: THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN by Andreas Andreas Rothbauer (Beta Cinema), Hans G. Gnodtke (German Consul General), Nicole Kaufmann (German Films) Koprowski) (photo © Tom Florian Cossen, THE DAY OF THE CAT by Wolfgang Panzer, THE Sven Woldt, Sven Beatrix OliverWoldt, Wesle, Mahrdt
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BIS ZUM HORIZONT, DANN LINKS! CIRCLES
Genre Comedy, Family Entertainment, Romantic Comedy Category Genre Drama Category Feature Director Srdan Golubovic Feature Director Bernd Böhlich Screenplay Bernd Böhlich Director Screenplay Srdjan Koljevic, Melina Pota Koljevic Director of of Photography Florian Foest Cast Otto Sander, Angelica Domröse, Photography Aleksandar Ilic Cast Vuk Kostic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Herbert Köfer, Ralf Wolter Producers Eva-Marie Martens, Alexander Aleksandar Bercek, Leon Lucev, Geno Lechner Producers Alexander Martens Co-Producers Torsten Frehse, Matthias Mücke, Frank Everts Ris, Jelena Mitrovic Co-Produc ers Danijel Hocevar, Boris Matic, Emilie Production Company Mafilm/Berlin, in co-production with Neue George Production Companies Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion/ Visionen Filmproduktion/Berlin, Cine Plus Filmproduktion/Berlin Leipzig, Film House Bas Celik/Belgrade, in co-production with La Cine - Original Version German Shooting Dates March-May 2011 With facture/Paris, Vertigo E-Motion Film/Ljubljana, Propeler Film/ backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin- Zagreb Original Version Serbian, German Shooting Dates Brandenburg, German Federal Film Fund, MEDIA World Sales TELE- March-April 2011 With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medien- POOL, [email protected], www.telepool.de förderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Fond Sud, ARTE Worl d Sales Memento Films International, [email protected], BIS ZUM HORIZONT, DANN LINKS! (FLY AWAY) is a romantic www.memento-films.com comedy that shows being elderly does not always have to mean getting old. Inspired by an actual event which occurred during the war in Bosnia in 1993, Srdan Golubovic’s third feature, CIRCLES, is the fourth collabora - The film starts when the proud and extremely attractive Annegret Simon, tion between Germany’s Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion and Belgrade- newly arrived in the retirement home, catches the immediate interest of based Bas Celik after Golubovic’s previous feature THE TRAP, Damjan Herr Tiedgen. Like him, Annegret doesn’t like the change of wallpaper: Kozole’s SLOVENIAN GIRL and Srdjan Koljev ic’s THE WOMAN WITH A movement therapy, choir singing, reading afternoons – life couldn’t be BROKEN NOSE. The film opens in Trebinje in 1993 when a Serbian sol- more boring! The residents might be in their twilight years, but the light is dier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked still burning brightly. So when, one day, they are invited to take a round- by three other soldiers. 15 years later, the consequences of this act of trip in a propeller driven aircraft, Tiedgen has an idea, one that will give heroism are still having their repercussions. them a new direction, you could say, and, he hopes, will impress Annegret above all. “CIRCLES is a film about guilt,” director Golubovic explains. “About whether it is only the ones who committed the crime who are culpable, or No sooner than they have lifted off than Tiedgen slips into the cockpit – whether it’s also those who witnessed the crime and failed to prevent it.” to emerge shortly afterwards as the new captain! And he knows where Moreover, he sees this new project as “a film about repaying debts, about they should be heading – the seaside. Now the leader of a popular, the need to do something good in return. As well as doing evil. About airborne, democratic revolution that has voted unanimously for the one cowardice and helplessness leading to revenge. About the realization of thing they are supposedly no longer allowed – freedom – he and his very the senselessness of revenge – and about forgiveness.” willing passengers want to go where the sun shines and they are in good company. The round-trip has now become a straight line breaking for the “The storyline in the past is based on real-life events, but what happens in border! the present is fictional,” producer Alexander Ris adds. “Part of the later story is set in Germany because one of the main characters, the man who But you cannot simply disappear with an airplane without others noticing. was saved, left Bosnia and has built up a new existence in his adopted While the press and police fall over one another with speculation and country with a German wife and children. We looked in Germany for the rescue plans, the flying pensioners keep on heading for those sunny south - same kind of Socialist architecture as the kind you have in Bosnia and ern climes – until they run out of fuel. found it in Halle-Neustadt. Getting a feel for the life of Bosnians in Germany was not hard for Golubovic and [co-screenwriter] Srdjan SK Koljevic because they both have relatives in Germany and could draw on these experiences for authenticity.”
“The film got a real boost when it took part in Cannes’ L’Atelier last year and won the International Relations ARTE Prize for Best Screenplay,” Ris notes, pointing out that the € 2.05 million project was supported by ZDF/ARTE and ARTE France as part of the Franco-German cultural channel’s “grand accord”. MB
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Genre Tragicomedy Category Documentary Director Douglas Genr e Comedy, Drama, Love Story Category Feature Director Lola Wolfs perger Screenplay Douglas Wolfsperger Director of Pho - Randl Screenplay Lola Randl Director of Photography Philipp tog raphy René Dame Cast Susanne Knoll, Marianne Schätzle, Lothar Pfeiffer Cast Maria Kwiatkowsky, Bastian Trost, Sunnyi Melles Pro - Wunderlich Producer Douglas Wolfsperger Production Company ducers Herbert Schwering, Christine Kiauk Co-Producer Pol Douglas Wolfsperger Filmproduktion/Berlin Original Version German Cruchten Production Company COIN FILM/Cologne, in co-pro- Shooting Dates February-April 2011 With back ing from duction with Red Lion/Luxembourg Original Version German Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Shooting Dates May-July 2011 With backing from Filmstiftung German Federal Film Fund Contact Douglas Wolfs perger Film pro - NRW, BKM, German Federal Film Fund Contact COIN FILM, info@ duktion, [email protected], www.douglas-wolfsperger.de coin-film.de, www.coin-film.de
Would the real Angela Merkel please step forward? Is it Angela Merkel, A young woman, Emily, who aspires to study acting but fails to get ac - German chancellor, European stateswoman, methodical, rational, able to cepted, has a crazy plan. She wants her boyfriend Daniel to marry a ter- doge criticism as if Teflon-coated and the mistress of crisis management, if minally ill, very wealthy, businesswoman, Amine, in order to inherit her maybe not the most imaginative of people? Or is it Susanne Knoll – who fortune. But things take a different turn when the young man appears to just happens to be the spitting image of Angela Merkel – Germany’s most really fall in love with the dying woman. As Amine’s condition takes a popular Rent-An-Angie? surpris ing turn for the better, she expresses the desire to have a child. But in her weakened condition that’s impossible, so Emily comes up with a n - Knoll, who also cares for her terminally ill parents, films commercials, other idea. makes personal appearances and has the goal of looking as Angela-like as the real thing! But here they separate, because Knoll is an active and self- DIE ERFINDUNG DER LIEBE (“The Invention of Love”), writer-director aware Social Democrat politician, determinedly active for her constitu- Lola Randl’s third production with COIN FILM, is an over-ex aggerated ents. love story that uses ironic sub-tones and a great deal of black humor to pose the questions, what happens when a crazy idea becomes reality and And if two Angela Merkels aren’t enough, there’s Marianne Schätzle, what does it take to be happy in life, and love? Knoll’s greatest rival (apart from the real Angela Merkel, that is!). She might need help to achieve the external appearance, but close your eyes and “My film,” says Randl, ”is anchored in today’s ’Crisis’ or ’Intern Gen - Schätzle’s voice and speech patterns are identical. With her love of pro- eration’. What are this generation’s perspectives and wishes as they want vocation, Schätzle’s Merkel treads where the real one would fear to go. to get started on their professional lives but first have to sit on the bench, waiting?” In supporting roles there are Lothar Wunderlich, manager of a travel agency in Leipzig and the active double of Bill Clinton – once in character Randl also tackles such questions as morality and the willingness to com- he’s a real ladies man! – and Kurt Schmidt, an East German pensioner who mit in a time in which politics and everyday life is marked by corruption and waves the flag for the GDR’s most famous socialist, Erich Honecker. 90- lethargy. "How do young people handle love, friendship and betrayal when year-old Schmidt, who starts his shows rising from a coffin, not only looks on the one hand there are the non-binding quasi-social networks and like the very dead former leader, but praises the triumphs of Socialism in singles dating sites, on the other it is again modern to get engaged and the same nasal accent to enthusiastic audiences. marry?"
Director Douglas Wolfsperger’s signature is his eye for the unusual, some- "At first glance," says producer Herbert Schwering, “you can take DIE times reflective but constantly entertaining. Once again he crosses the line ERFINDUNG DER LIEBE as a simple story, but the characters’ com plexity between documentary and feature film, as DOPPELLEBEN shows the life quickly makes it clear: life is a game in itself. There are many solutions, no of a Doppelgänger has something of a double life of its own and can even single ’true’ or ’false’.” be more amusing than that of the original. DIE ERFINDUNG DER LIEBE shows that in the end there is no one gen - SK eral answer that fits everyone. We are responsible for our own happiness.
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Genre Drama Category Feature Director Matthias Glasner Genre Drama Category Feature Director Sergei Loznitsa Screenplay Kim Fupz Aakeson Director of Photography Jakub Screenplay Sergei Loznitsa, from the novel by Vassil Byaku Director Bejnarowicz Cast Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange, Ane of Photography Oleg Mutu Producer Heino Deckert Co- Dahl Torp, Stig Henrik Hoff, Iren Reppen, Maria Bock, Bjørn Sundquist Producers Anna Wydra, Rasa Miskinyte, Vilnis Kalnaellis Production Producers Kristine Knudsen, Matthias Glasner, Andreas Born, Co- Company ma.ja.de. fiction/Leipzig, in co-production Otter Film/Poland, Producer Aage Aaberge Production Companies Schwarz weiss Era Films/Lithuania, Rija Films/Latvia Original Version Russian Film/Berlin, Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur/Berlin, Ophir Shooting Dates October-November 2011 With backing from Film/Berlin, in co-production Neofilm/Oslo, in co-operation with ZDF/ Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MEDIA, Mitteldeutsche Medien - Mainz, ARTE/Strasbourg Original Version German, Norwegian, förderung, Ministry of Culture Lithuania Contact ma.ja.de. fiction, English Shooting Dates January-March 2011 With backing from [email protected], www.majade.de Film förderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Medienboard Berlin-Branden - burg, BKM, German Federal Film Fund, Norwegian Film Institute Con - IM NEBEL (“In The Fog”) is set in wartime Belarus. It is 1942 and the Nazi tact Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur, kk@knudsenstreuber. com, occupation is at its height. The war rages in the German rear, too, with www.knudsenstreuber.com partisans attacking the occupiers from their forest hideouts. They attack German-occupied villages, blow up military transports, exact revenge on GNADE (“Mercy”) is a tale of karma and the need for catharsis. traitors and collaborators.
Nils, Maria and son Markus leave Germany for Norway to give their life A train is blown up close to the home of railway worker Suschenja. new impetus. They find work in Hammerfest, the world’s most northerly Although uninvolved, he is arrested along with the saboteurs. The German city, but soon the initial kick of adventure has gone and old patterns creep investigating officer has the partisans executed, whereas Suschenja is set back in. Nils has a new lover and Maria, a nurse, sacrifices herself for her fre e – as punishment for his refusal to collaborate! The message to the par- terminally ill patients and closes her eyes to her family’s collapse. Young tisans is clear: Suschenja is a traitor and must be liquidated. Markus is unable to find common ground with the local children. Two partisans, Burov and Wojtik travel to Suschenja’s farm to avenge their One evening as Maria is on her way home from work, everything changes. dead comrades. Agreeing not to kill him in front of his wife and child, the She runs over something, most likely an animal. Scared, she drives on: a partisans lead their victim into the forest. But on the way they are ambush - mistake. It wasn’t an animal but a drunk teenage girl, whose body is found ed. Suschenja and his would-be executor Burov, now seriously wounded, the next day. Because there are no witnesses to the accident, Maria and are left alone. Nils decide to say nothing. The girl would still be dead one way or the other. Suschenja now hopes for salvation. He believes he can maybe convince the partisans of his innocence if he can only bring the heavily wounded Burov But the guilt and fear of being found out cause the family to question their to their camp. In the loneliness of the swampy forest, where the line be - view of the world as seen in their new environment. The secret brings Nils tween treason and heroism, friend and foe, war and peace is so very slim, and Maria, who were threatening to split apart, tightly together. In a mar- so very removed from immediate understanding, Suschenja, a victimf o riage that has grown estranged, new and unknown feelings are released; adverse circumstances, fights for his right to live. maybe even a new love. From an apparently reprehensible decision arise new, positive energies. IM NEBEL is written and directed by the award-winning documentary and feature filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, whose very many trophies now include But Nils’ conscience continues to gnaw at him as he keeps on encounter - the Silver Apricot 2010 (Best Feature Film category, Golden Apricot Film ing the dead girl’s parents in the small town. Nils drives more and more Festival, Yerevan) and the Golden Award (Minsk, 2010), both for MY JOY, often to the scene of the accident, sits and observes the wreaths and the which screened in competition at Cannes 2010, to name but two. notes of condolence. When the girl’s mother thanks him for his sympa- thies Nils realizes that he can no longer keep the guilt, which he and Maria have assumed, to himself and has to appeal for mercy … SK
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INVASION KLAPPE COWBOY!
Genre Psycho Thriller, Thriller Category Feature Director Dito Genre Comedy Category Feature Directors Timo Jacobs, Ulf Tsintsadze Screenplay Dito Tsintsadze Director of Photography Behrens Screenplay Federico Avino Director of Photography Ulf Ralf Mendle Cast Burghart Klaußner, Heike Trinker, Merab Ninidze, Behrens Cast Timo Jacobs, Yps van Tule, Peter Koskowski, David Bredin, David Imper Producers Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner Co- Adrian Dittus, Iris Somm erlatte, Tibor Taylor, Terri Laird, Kristian Wanzl Producers Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen Production Producer Timo Jacobs Production Company Prophetfilms/Berlin Companies Pallas Film/Halle, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion/ Original Version German Shooting Dates August 2009-October Berlin, in co-production with WILDart FILM/Vienna Original Version 2010 Contact Pegasus Agency, [email protected], German Shooting Dates December 2010-February 2011 With www.pegasus-agency.de, klappecowboy.de, www.timojacobs.com backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, German Federal Film Fund, Wiener Filmfonds Contact Pallas Film, The ups and downs of low-budget indie filmmaking are the focus of actor [email protected], www.pallasfilm.de Timo Jacobs’ feature directorial debut KLAPPE COWBOY ! which is current ly in post-production after shooting in Berlin over the course of a The Georgian-born director Dito Tsintzadse returned to Central Germany year from August 2009 to October 2010. for his latest feature INVASION after having made the San Sebastian Golden Shell-winner GUN-SHY (SCHUSSANGST) in 2003 in and around Jacobs, whose appearances in front of the camera as an actor have in - Halle. cluded roles in Giorgio Diritti’s THE MAN WHO WILL COME, Olivier Assayas’ CARLOS, the collaborative project DREILEBEN, and GEGEN- At the center of the new film is a lonely man Josef (played by Burghart GERADE, had previously directed the short 84 in 2007 as an entry to a 48- Klaußner) whose very existence gradually becomes more threatened. He hour film challenge. has only recently become a widower when two unexpected visitors sudden ly turn up: a woman named Nina, who claims to be a friend of his “I had shot five feature films with Klaus Lemke and was inspired by his late wife, and her son Simon. Josef is then invited to Simon’s Kendo tour- approach to shooting,” Jacobs explains. “We had also worked together on nament where he meets Simon’s wife Milena. But after only a short time, the screenplays, so I got an insight into the filmmaking process. I had Nina asks Josef if the young couple could live at his place for a while. As various ideas for KLAPPE COWBOY! and then brought a screenwriter time goes on, Nina is at Josef ’s more often than not, and it doesn’t stop friend, Federico Avino, onboard to bring everything into a narrative form. there: her boyfriend and Milena’s son Marco then take up residence. It was like having a puzzle and getting all the pieces together.” Although he had been initially pleased to have some company to take his mind off of his recent loss, these new sub-tenants become increasingly The film, which has been financed out of Jacobs’ own pocket and via threatening in the way they force their way into his life ... and lead to deferrals from cast and crew, centers on the self-proclaimed directing violent consequences. talent Cowboy who comes to Berlin with the goal of finally making that great movie. Brimming with confidence, he takes every job that’s going, Tsintsadze describes his new film as “a whimsical thriller with black humor but this all ends in total chaos. Cowboy happens to know the artist YPS and completely unexpected twists” and draws comparisons with such and shooting an art-porn flick with her stirs up an artistic hornets’ nest classics as Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW and Roman Polanski’s which far exceeds his amateurish qualities. THE TENANT. “The film lives from the comic situations and the flow,” Jacobs observes. INVASION is the second film by Tsintsadze where Burghart Klaußner “I told the actors the basic set-up for each scene, but didn’t give them so (THE WHITE RIBBON and GOETHE!) has been cast in the male lead: he much information so that the camera could move around freely and react had previously appeared in the Georgian director’s 2006 film THE MAN to the actors. Naturally, there were surprises which are genuine and not FROM THE EMBASSY and was awarded a Silver Leopard in Locarno for staged. That’s what will make the film so charming.” his portrayal of a German diplomat in Georgia. Moreover, it will be fascinating to see how Jacobs’ eclectic personal taste After an initial five days of shooting in the Cologne area last December, the in films – from Harmony Korine’s GUMMO and Vincent Gallo’s BUFFALO German-Austrian co-production moved to Saalfeld in Thuringia for 28 66 through Thomas Vinterberg’s DEAR WENDY to the Marx Brothers days between January and February at the Villa Bergfried, which was built and Peter Sellers – will rub off on KLAPPE COWBOY! in the 1920s by the chocolate manufacturer Ernst Hüther. Theatrical re - lease by Neue Visionen is planned in Germany in 2012. MB
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RUBBELDIEKATZ RUSSENDISKO
Genre Comedy, Romantic Comedy Category Feature Director Genre Comedy Category Feature Director Oliver Ziegenbalg Detlev Buck Screenplay Anika Decker, Detlev Buck Director of Screenplay Oliver Ziegenbalg Director of Photog raphy Tetsuo Photography Marc Achenbach Cast Matthias Schweighöfer, Nagata Cast Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Christian Friedel, Alexandra Maria Lara, Detlev Buck, Maximilian Brückner, Denis Moschitto, Peri Baumeister, Susanne Bormann, Pheline Roggan, Rainer Bock, Imogen Max von Thun Producers Henning Ferber, Marcus Welke Co- Kogge Producers Christoph Hahnheiser, Arthur Cohn Co-Producer Producers Claus Boje, Detlev Buck Production Companies Film Stefan Gärtner Production Company Black Forest Films/Berlin, in 1/Berlin, Universal Pictures Germany/Hamburg, Boje Buck co-production with SevenPictures Film/Berlin Original Version Produktion/Berlin Original Version German Shooting Dates German Shooting Dates March-May 2011 With backing from January-February 2011 With backing from Medienboard Berlin- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Fund, German Brandenburg, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Board, MEDIA Contact Black Forest Films, info@black- Federal Film Board, German Federal Film Fund Contact Film 1, forest-films.de, www.black-forest-films.de [email protected], www.film1.de In 2002, producer Christoph Hahnheiser had just moved to Berlin when RUBBELDIEKATZ, which translates as “Hey Presto!” or “Bada Bing Bada two friends gave him Wladimir Kaminer’s bestseller Russendisko as a way Boom!”, or whatever term you prefer for when something is suddenly of introducing him to life in the big city. revealed, is another candidate in the immensely popular gender-bender genre, following in the footsteps of such films as SOME LIKE IT HOT and “In the early 90s, it was a city which was probably one of the most excit- TOOTSIE. Here, unemployed actor Alexander (Matthias Schweighöfer) ing places in the world and a time when the events in Berlin played an who says a job is a job, changes into Alexandra, knocks the competition important role, both for Germany and the world, and made the capital for six and actually lands a female role in a big Hollywood film! But can he into an international metropolis which attracts people from all a round the keep up the act in a padded bra and high heels long-term? Better than he world,” Hahnheiser recalls. “Everything changed extremely rapidly in would like! Berlin after the fall of the Wall and this exciting and wonderful world is described by Kaminer with his own particular humor.” Alex’s colleague starts to get wandering hands syndrome, and the director also finds him irresistible. His ex-girlfriend flips out and his two ram - At the same time, he notes that it was “a challenge to transfer the 52 bunctious brothers and their lunatic pal just make the film set an even stories from the book into a film story that would present the magic of a more dangerous place. modern city fairytale.” After nine years of development and 10 screen - writers, production began in mid-March and wrapped at the end of May Alex would like nothing more than to hang up his wig, but it’s much too on an adaptation by Oliver Ziegenbalg whose previous credits include late for that since he’s fallen madly in love with his acting partner, super- FRIEND SHIP! and 1½ RITTER. star Sarah Voss (Alexandra Maria Lara). Is Alex woman enough to be his own man? The ’fish out of water’ comedy follows the adventures of Wladimir and his two friends, Mischa and Andrej, three young men from Moscow who Featuring a top notch cast, RUBBELDIEKATZ is a charming romantic come to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the comedy with a good pinch of typical Detlev Buck humor. The film has Berlin Wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and encounter already been acquired for local distribution by Universal Pictures all of the strangeness of a new world and Berlin with the spirit of the early International and is scheduled for a winter 2011/2012 release. 90s. “Originally, we thought it would be more of a studio-based film,” Hahnheiser explains. “But, in fact, we are mostly on location and even SK have Berlin-Gropiusstadt standing in for part of Moscow!”
“At the same time, Oliver’s screenplay made it clear that the film would be a modern city fairytale where Wladimir’s world is both larger than life and romanticized. We wanted to keep this particular aesthetic in both the film’s camerawork and production design, and the DoP Tetsuo Nagata and production designer Christian M. Goldbeck are the right people to create that special kind of poetry on screen.”
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SECHSTER SINN … SUSHI IN SUHL
Genre Action/Adventure, Animation, Art, Comedy, Experimental, Genre Comedy Category Feature Director Carsten Fiebeler Drama, Fantasy/Science Fiction Category Short Director Jan Screenplay Jens-Frederik Otto Director of Photography Gero Riesenbeck Screenplay Jan Riesenbeck Director of Photography Steffen Cast Uwe Steimle, Julia Richter, Leander Wilhelm, Angelika Ben Brix Cast Ruben Zumstrull, Anna Fischer, Johann Adam Oest Böttiger, Gen Seto, Ina Paule Klink, Michael Kind, Thorsten Merten Producer Roland Fischer Production Company Ocean Pictures Producers Carl Schmitt, Birger Laube Production Company Filmproduktion/Memmingen, in co-production with Kunsthochschule StarCrest Media/Frankfurt, in co-production with MDR/Leipzig Original Kassel Original Version German, English Shooting Dates Version German Shooting Dates January-April 2011 With December 2010-August 2011 With backing from Hessische backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, German Federal Film Filmförderung, BKM, ZDF/ARTE Contact Ocean Pictures Film - Fund, HessenInvestFilm Contact StarCrest Media, [email protected], produktion, [email protected], www.oceanpictures-film.de www.starcrest.de
Shooting has been underway since last autumn at locations in Kassel, Rolf Anschütz, the passionate cook and restaurateur who realized his Frankfurt, Hamburg, Osnabrück and surroundings on the 25-minute short dream of a Japanese restaurant, the Waffenschmied, in the former GDR project SECHSTER SINN, DRITTES AUGE, ZWEITES GESICHT (“Sixth against all kinds of resistance, provided the inspiration for Carsten Sense, Third Eye, Second Face”) which is being directed by Jan Riesenbeck, Fiebeler’s latest feature film SUSHI IN SUHL. a student at the Kunsthochschule Kassel since 2007. Dresden-born actor Uwe Steimle portrays Anschütz whose culinary skills SECHSTER SINN centers on a blind man who sees the world through the gained a reputation far beyond the GDR’s borders and eventually led him eyes of other people. The images he sees no longer have anything to do to being officially invited to Japan, the land of his dreams, where he was with the kind of life he is now leading. Looking for his own perspective, he accorded the highest of honors. Producer Carl Schmitt of Frankfurt-based is helped by an opthalmologist who is also a philosopher and magician and StarCre st Media describes the film as “a comedy with tragic moments – undertakes a journey with him into his childhood, and then by a woman like GOOD BYE, LENIN!. The film is about a person who by chance sets painter of the invisible who succeeds in using his memories to build a a mechanism in movement that he himself could no longer stop and not mirror in which he can recognize himself. always control.”
The film, which is described as “a unique mixture of fairytale, comedy, On the one hand, Anschütz was “a person who never lost his courage to science fiction, essay and drama” sees Riesenbeck working again with face life, could always find something positive from every defeat and stood actor Ruben Zumstrull who has appeared in many of the director’s pre- by what he did,” Schmitt notes. But he was also “a tragic figure who paid vious films. Most recently, he was a modern Charlie Chaplin in Riesen - for his professional success with the breakup of his family.” beck’s KOPFGEBURTENKONTROLLE which won more than 20 prizes, including the German Young Filmmakers Award in 2009. “SUSHI IN SUHL is based on a real story which nobody who is familiar with the GDR system would believe,” Schmitt adds. “But, in the end, more They collaborated in the new film on the development of the character for than 2 million guests visited the Waffenschmied and you had to make a the blind man, and the project has been accompanied by Oscar®-winning reservation two years in advance.” visual effects wizard Volker Engel (INDEPENDENCE DAY) serving as a mentor as part of the Young Filmmake rs Award. “Rolf Anschütz wasn’t the ‘3/4 Japanese’ he liked to think he was, ” the producer continues. “When he was at the peak of his success and could According to the makers, the film will offer a mélange of associations as up at last travel to the land whose culture he had been promoting to his fel- to 700 different film scenes are brought together along with almost one low-countrymen in the GDR, he came to realize that the land of his hundred different speaking roles: “Fast editing, visual games and linguistic dreams was really back home. He could have never lived in Japan.” wit will determine the narrative style. As in a puzzle, the numerous ideas will come together to form one big image.” Sadly, the real-life Rolf Anschütz will not be able to see the finished film when it is released by Movienet at the beginning of 2012 – he passed away Broadcast rights have already been sold to ZDF/ART E for airing on one of at the age of 75 in 2008. Moreover, the original restaurant no longer exists, ARTE’s short film slots, and there are plans for a theatrical release. so the film team created their version in another restaurant, Wilhelms - burg, which had been standing empty for the past 15 years, in the MB Thuringian village of Schmalkalden. MB
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VOICE – SCULPTING SOUND WITH MAJA RATKJE
Genre Art, Biopic, Music, Road Movie Category Documentary Director Ingo J. Biermann Screenplay Ingo J. Biermann Director of Photography Kai Miedendorp Cast Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Frode Haltli, Spunk, Kathy Hinde, Trondheim Sinfonietta, Garth Knox, Arve Henriksen, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori Producer Andreas Louis Co-Producers Solveig Arnesen, Ingo J. Biermann Production Company Deutsche Film- und Fe rnsehakademie Berlin (dffb), in co-pro- duction with Genesis Film/Hausgesund, IJB/Berlin Original Version English, Norwegian Shooting Dates March 2010-Summer 2011 With backing from German Federal Film Board, Filmkraft Rogaland Contact IJB, [email protected], www.ijbiermann.com Want to see even
The Norwegian composer and performer Maja Ratkje is the subject of a feature documentary currently being made by Berlin-based filmmake r Ingo more German films? J. Biermann who studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin until last year.
Although Biermann doesn’t himself play a musical instrument, he recalls Check out our VOD platform that, from the beginning of his career, he has always regarded filmmaking as “a musical craft and film as being comparable with a musical com - in the Distributors’ Corner position.” of our website www.german-films.de. VOICE – SCULPTING SOUND WITH MAJA RATKJE is not only a por- trait of the singular musician and singer, but also explores the sound and Especially developed for buyers nature of the human voice in all its facets. and festival delegates! The film accompanies Ratkje as she composes and improvises in various constellations, in the studio, for example, while recording the next album of her quartet Spunk and new CDs of her compositions, which are being produced for Rune Grammofon and for John Zorn’s famous Tzadik record label. There will also be footage from concerts such as Passing Images in Bruges or with the trio Poing in Oslo. In addition, Biermann wants to give an insight into the work Ratkje does on her own back home in Norway, as well as including family moments with her two small children.
Citing directors Thomas Riedelsheimer and Claire Denis as inspirational for the making of this film, Biermann explains that he is aiming to make “a sensual film, with images for the big screen. Images one can dive into. A film about this woman, her overwhelming creative spirit and her pas sion which appeals and touches us all. A sensual and unexpected journey into For further information, please contact: the world of voices and sounds with the complex means of cinema.” [email protected] Apart from VOICE and NOCTURNE, Biermann is also currently working on a third documentary, ZEHN FRAUEN, which portrays ten women artists.
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Scene from 4 DAYS IN MAY (photo © X Filme) S23_BABA.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1111:41Seite1 BABA looks behind the faces of “strangers” in our society. our in “strangers” of faces the behind looks BABA Who are these people? Where do they come from? The film survives. who is based on the true story of the filmmaker's father.filmmaker's the of story true the on based is one the is baby thinner the end, the in brother.But thinner h hs’ gt nuh ik o bt bbe, h hs to has she babies, both for milk enough got hasn’t she de cide which one she will give the chance to survive. But survive. to chance the give will de she one which cide His mother birth gives to twins in a time of great hunger. As music. his through life his of story the tells musician old An BABA the healthier one and tries to find other solutions for the for solutions other find to tries and one healthier the she doesn't want t want doesn't she 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Inci-PicturesFilmproduction WorldSales [email protected] · [email protected]· 06 75 92 +49-30-3 phone Berlin/Germany 10555 · 55c Alt-Moabit ake a decision. She gives her milk to milk her gives She decision. a ake o m o the thriller BASIM (2010), and the drama BABA(2010). drama the and (2010), BASIM thriller the Photography Director IN 80 DAYS with Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzen Arnold and Chan films egger.DAYSJackie His 80 with IN Producers Producers Genre OD 20) L PLM (07, I BADE (2007), BRANDNER DIE (2008), WETTEN?! (2007), SEE AM DASHAUS (2007), ELISABETH (2007), DEUTSCH PALOMA - (2003), LA THERAPIE (2006), shorts MOND the include: director a as filmmakers as Wim Wenders, Sigi Rothemund, Bernd Böhlich, Carlo Böhlich, Bernd Rothemund, Wenders,Sigi Wim as filmmakers Format Company Rola and Va and Rola Inci George Drama Mini DV,Mini color, 16:9 Geo dim G dim lowna. He had a role in AROUND THE WORLD THE AROUND in role a had He lowna. niPcue Filmproduction/Berlin Inci-Pictures George Inci, Beatrice von Moreau Moreau von Beatrice Inci, George has been working as an actor since 1992 with such with 1992 since actor an as working been has nci g I rge Category George Inci Screenplay Cast Feature OriginalVersion Beatrice von Moreau, George Inci er f Production of Year s m l i f n a m r e g w e n ere Inci George Length no dialogue no ietr of Director Production 3 min 63 2010 3 2
Scene from BABA (photo © George Inci) S24_DREILEBEN_1.qxp:Unter Strom12.04.1111:11Seite1 o otyt idhm–but it’s got a to de try to find him – n h sme o 06 fl drcos oii Ga, Christian Graf, Dominik directors film 2006, of summer the In DARKNESS OF MINUTE ONE – DREILEBEN DREILEBEN fear starts to get to him. The police use every use police The they’ve him. thing to get to starts fear excitingvariations,analyses. three approaches, styles, three gets closest to the truth. the to closest gets ezl ad hitp Hochhäusle Christoph and Petzold each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Berlin the aesthetics, film of subjects the on other each the knowledge he’s being hunted by police change him, and Frank DARKNESS OF MINUTE ONE – DREILEBEN In tunity to flee. He hides out in a forest. Buttheiso Hehidesoutinaforest. tunity toflee. lation and Molesch, convicted of murder, takes advantage of an op por - in German film magazine Revolver). Two years later they decided they laterTwo Revolver).years magazine film German in published was correspondence (their genre film the and Germany o otne hs hoeia dsuso wt a on fl project: film joint a with discussion theoretical this continue to three in stories dividual revolving around the same “fait the divers”: escape of a convicted criminal from police custo police from criminal convicted a of escape 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Ritter Thorsten · GmbH Media Bavaria of Dept. · International Film Bavaria WorldSales hn 4-96 92 6·fx+98-49 720 37 99 +49-89-64 fax · 86 26 99 +49-89-64 phone Geiselgasteig/Germany 82031 · 7 Bavariafilmplatz [email protected] · [email protected]· b r ea crepnig with corresponding egan tec tive on sick leave who Three films, Three dy. – EINE MINUTE DUNKEL MINUTE EINE – (DREI LEBEN – EINE MINUTE DUNK MINUTE EINE (DREI – LEBEN TD, 00, n DELBN N MNT O DARKNESS OF MINUTE ONE – DREILEBEN and STADT, 2010), PULSE (PULS, 2001), THIS VERY MOMENT (MILCHWALD,MOMENT 2003), VERY THIS 2001), (PULS, PULSE FLIRT1999), (2000), (NACHTSSCHATTEN,(FIEBER, FEVER 1996), O POIE FLCE BKNE, 05, h episode the 2005), BEKENNER, SÉANCE from GERMANY 09, THE CITY BELOW (UNTER DIR DIE (FALSCHER PROFILE LOW nld: IS AD ESE IF, 95, IH SHADOWS NIGHT 1995), HILFE, (ERSTE AID FIRST include: Director Director Genre io aos Ja Psu Hle Delan Prshv Dragus Paraschiva Doellmann, Holger Pascu, Joan Jacobs, Timo Vorschneider Hochhäusler,Peer Klehmet C Producer Subtitled VersionSubtitled min University of Television & Film in Munich from 1996-2002. He is also is He 1996-2002. from Munich Televisionin Film & of University Christoph Hochhäusler Gebhard Henke, Henke, Gebhard rhtcue n eln rm 9319, olwd y tde a the at studies by followed 1993-1995, from Berlin in Architecture the founder and co- and founder the ompany ompany Format Drama etn Brokemper Bettina emtimClge o WDR/Cologne for Heimatfilm/Cologne Christoph Hochhäusler Hochhäusler Christoph Cast C, oo, 1:1.85 color, DCP, Category Bettina Reitz, Jörn Klamroth Klamroth Jörn Reitz, Bettina publisher o publisher f the film magazine film the f Stefan Kurt, Eberhard Kirchberg, Imogen Kogge, Imogen Kirchberg, Eberhard Kurt, Stefan English English Director of Photography Directorof Feature was born in 1972 in Munich. He studied Festivals Co-Producers rgnl Version Original er f Production of Year EL). s m l i f n a m r e g w e n Screenplay Screenplay Berlin 2011 Berlin . His films His Revolver. rn Tönsmann, Frank Production Length Christoph Reinhold German 2011 4 2 90
Scene from DREILEBEN – ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (photo © Reinhold Vorschneider) S25_DREILEBEN_2.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1111:44Seite1 the story of Johannes and Ana – a love story transcending story love a – Ana and Johannes of story the His hospital. flight and the police’s searchhectic accompany night of their first embrace, a sex offender escapes from the DREILEBEN – BEATS BEING DEAD is part of a j a of part is DEAD BEATS– BEING DREILEBEN future. a without boundaries, the During Ana. know to gets Johannes him. recruited has Christoph Hochhäusler.Christoph native national service. The head physician, a family friend, family a physician, head The service. national native rjc wt flo Gra drcos oii Ga and Graf Dominik directors German fellow with project A big hospital on the outskirts of a small city in the middle the in city small a of outskirts the on hospital big A DEAD BEING BEATS – DREILEBEN DREILEBEN of the Thuringian Forest. Here 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Ritter Thorsten · GmbH Media Bavaria of Dept. · International Film Bavaria WorldSales hn 4-96 92 6·fx+98-49 720 37 99 +49-89-64 fax · 86 26 99 +49-89-64 phone Geiselgasteig/Germany 82031 · 7 Bavariafilmplatz [email protected] · [email protected]· ohannes carries out his alter- J oint f oint ilm – ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD DEN ALS BESSERES ETWAS – etn Riz Jr Klamroth Jörn Reitz, Bettina WeberMichael GHOSTS (GESPENSTER, 2004), YELLA (2006), JERICHOW (2008), JERICHOW (2006), YELLA 2004), (GESPENSTER, GHOSTS SOMETHING 2000), SICHERHEIT, INNERE (DIE IN AM I STATE THE (1998), BLEISCHLAFDIEBIN DIE (1996), LIBRE CUBA (1995), F Director Genre n DELBN ET BIG ED DELBN ETWAS – (DREILEBEN TOD,DEN ALS BESSERES DEAD 2011). BEING BEATS – DREILEBEN and O EID E TTR AN 20) WLSUG (2002), WOLFSBURG 2001), MANN, (TOTER ME REMIND TO Format Format Luna Zimic Mijovic Mijovic Zimic Luna Director Photography of tdig t h Gra Fl ad eeiin cdm Bri (dffb) Berlin Academy Television and Film German the at studying from 1988 to 1994. His highly-acclaimed films include films highly-acclaimed His 1994. to 1988 from Berlin since 1981. He studied German Language and Literature be fore VersionSubtitled hita Petzold Christian l Kenr WbrBri fr BR/Munich for Weber/Berlin & Koerner ilm Drama DCP, color, 1:1.85 1:1.85 color, DCP, Christian Petzold Petzold Christian Co-Producers Category Producers English English a br i Hle i 16 ad a lvd in lived has and 1960 in Hilden in born was Feature Festivals Production Company Company Production Hans Fromm Screenplay Frank Tönsmann, Gebhard Henke,Gebhard Tönsmann, Frank rgnl Version Original lra Kenr o Gustorf, von Koerner Florian er f Production of Year s m l i f n a m r e g w e n Berlin 2011 Berlin Cast hita Petzold Christian Length Jacob Jacob Matschenz, ILOTINNEN : P : Schramm German 8 min 88 2011 5 2
Scene from DREILEBEN – BEATS BEING DEAD (photo © BR/Hans Fromm) S26_DREILEBEN_3.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1111:49Seite1 Petzold and Christoph Hochhäusler.Christoph Petzoldand of legends and superstition – a s a – superstition and legends of Jörn Klamroth a joint film project with fellow German directors Christian directors German fellow with project film joint a Genre Somewhere in the Thuringian Forest – a mythical region full AROUND ME FOLLOW DON’T – DREILEBEN DREILEBEN rdcin y V0imMnc fr DEGETO/Frankfurt for TV60Film/Munich by production DREILEBEN – FOLLOWDON’T ARO ME DREILEBEN other. have who Bruno, Vera’sVera husband and friend her with stays She Thuringia. to dispatched is Johanna psychologist Director Subtitled VersionSubtitled min 88 years ago in Munich, they were both in love with the same the lovewith in both were Munich,they in ago years ten that, realize to come women two The surface. feelings Producers Photography of Director an Ssne of, ie Mtcvc Ls Kezr Rdgr Vogler Rüdiger Kreuzer, Lisa Maticevic, Misel Wolff, Susanne Hain, a a te ae ie wtot vr noneig each encountering ever without time, same the at man old and stories now.Old time some for region this in lived Co-Pro 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Ritter Thorsten · GmbH Media Bavaria of Dept. · International Film Bavaria WorldSales hn 4-96 92 6·fx+98-49 720 37 99 +49-89-64 fax · 86 26 99 +49-89-64 phone Geiselgasteig/Germany 82031 · 7 Bavariafilmplatz [email protected] · [email protected]· Format Drama rn Tnmn, ehr Hne Btia Reitz, Bettina Henke, Gebhard Tönsmann, rank ducers Dominik Graf Dominik Graf nra Bris Goi Bret Se Burge meister Sven Burkert, Gloria Bareiss, Andreas Production Companies Category F C, oo, 16:9 color, DCP, English English Screenplay Feature Festivals ihe Wiesweg Michael er f Production of Year rgnl Version Original ffender roams. Police roams. ffender ex o ex Markus Busch, Dominik Graf Berlin 2011 Berlin A BurkertBareiss/Munich UND is part of Cast Length German Jeanette – KOMM MIR NICHT NACH NICHT MIR KOMM – 2011 FELSEN, 2001), DIE FREUNDE DER FREUNDE (TV,FREUNDE DER FREUNDE 200 DIE 2001), FELSEN, GEHEIMNISSE EINER STADT,EINER GEHEIMNISSE HEARTTHE OF MAP A (DER 2000), H IVNILS DE IGR 19) FA B LCT (TV, LACHT BU FRAU 1994), SIEGER, (DIE INVINCIBLES THE ouetr MNC –SCES F CT (ÜCE – (MÜNCHEN CITY A OF SECRETS – MUNICH documentary (1996), DEINE BESTEN JAHRE (TV, 1998), BITTERE UNSCHULD BITTERE 1998), (TV, KNOCK JAHRE BESTEN DR. DEINE (1996), 1996), SKORPION, (DER SCORPION THE 1995), M AAIS T, 02, H RD OKTO DR ROTE (DER COCKATOO RED THE 2002), (TV, PARADIES IM (1999), SPERLING UND DER BRENNENDE ARM (TV, 1997), the 1997), (TV, ARM BRENNENDE DER UND SPERLING (1999), ANE ad a atrae rglry ewe fl ad V pro- TV and film between regularly alternated has and FAHNDER Dominik Graf Graf Dominik DIE KATZE (1987). His film SPIELER (1990) was shown at Venicein at shown was (1990) SPIELER film His KATZE(1987). DIE thriller his for Award Film German a received he 1988, In ductions. DER series TV the of profile the developing in role decisive a played AAU 20) EN SAT ID RRST 20) DER (2006), ERPRESST WIRD STADT EINE 2005), KAKADU, Award for his graduation film DER KOSTBARE film Award his graduation for GAST (1979). He has emn n Mscl cecs h suid t h Uiest of University the at studied he & Television Sciences, Musical and German 90 Hs te fls i films other His 1990. E, E WR IH ZSME GHN 20) from (2008) GEHEN ZUSAMMEN NICHT WIR DEN WEG, AROUND (DREILEBEN – KOMM MIR NICHT NACH, 2011). NACH, NICHT KOMMMIR – AROUND(DREILEBEN EBEHN, 00, n DELBN O’ FLO ME FOLLOW DON’T – DES DREILEBEN and ANGESICHT 2010), (IN VERBRECHENS, CRIME OF FACE THE IN 09, GERMANY ilm in Munich in 1974. He received the Bavarian Film Bavarian the received He 1974. in Munich in ilm F was born in 1952 in Munich. After initially studying initially After Munich. in 1952 in born was IE, ÖE PNHR (1988), PANTHER LÖWE, IGER, cue T nclude: s m l i f n a m r e g w e n 2), H 2), OTTE 6 2
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Scene from FRONTALWATTE (photo © Timon Schäppi) S29_GEKAUFTEWAHRHEIT.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1113:04Seite1 ok 00 Ks 00 Mln 00 Fsia d Nueu Cinéma Nouveau du Festival 2010, Milan 2010, Kos 2010, York otel 00 CE Tie 21, OUA S. ere 2010, George St. DOCUTAH 2010, Taipei CNEX 2010, Montreal ARPA L. A. 2010, Ft. Lauderdale 2010, The Indie Fest La Jolla 2010, Jolla La Fest Indie The 2010, Lauderdale Ft. 2010, A. L. ARPA Thessaloniki Doc Market 2010, OX DOX 2010, Durban 2010, New 2010, Durban OXDOX2010, 2010, Market Doc Thessaloniki mon. They are d are They mon. dent. Can the public still trust our scientists? our trust still public the Can dent. big dan ger for of freedom science and our The democracy is independent. evi- is research the of 5% Only industry. the oo, 1:1.66 color, Genre Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in com- ATTACK UNDER SCIENTISTS WAHRHEIT GEKAUFTE and scientific re scientific and business big search. dominate now that interests vested powerful Both of them are suffering the fate of those who criticize the phenomenon the at look to choose scientists Both ruins. in ukn Fs 21, etvl ut nlo tso ito rno 2010, Trento Piatto stesso nello Tutti Festival 2010, Faso Burkina Planet in Focus TorontoFocus in Medias Planet International Forum 2010, f Production of Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% that prove themselves scientists by made Statements discoveries. important made Both engineering. genetic of Bertram Verhaag Verhaag Bertram of the research in the area of genetic engi genetic of area the researchin the of Hauschild DENKmal 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Gray Calum · Ltd. International MercuryMedia WorldSales 6 Baseline Studios · Whitchurch Road · London W11 4AT/UKW11 London · WhitchurchRoad · Studios Baseline 6 hn 4-072 21·fx+42-217228 +44-20-7221 fax · 7221 +44-20-7221 phone [email protected]· Ecology,Science Education, -Film/Munich Producer rgnl Version Original 2010 istinguished scientists and their careers are careers their and scientists Director of Photography Photography of Director eta Verhaag Bertram L Director ength 8 min 88 Category eta Verhaag Bertram English English rdcin Company Production Format Festivals nee ring is paid by paid is ring Documentary Documentary 5 m HD, & mm 35 Screenplay IA 2010, FIPA Waldemar Sud Nord – GENETIC ENGINEERING IN THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF MONEY OF FIELD MAGNETIC THE IN ENGINEERING GENETIC – Year OEIE OEA I AMERIC IN SOMEDAY SOMETIME YD 19) TE RS-VR RIT 19) TE AGRO THE (1997), ARTIST REBELL (2000), THE LAST MAN ALIVE (2001), 86,000 SECONDS – CROSS-OVER THE (1996), EYED TOO REALLY (1978), LOVE CALLED THIS WHAT'S includes: films their of selection A Strigel. Claus with DENKmal-Film company f eeiin Fl Mnc. n 96 h fudd h production the founded he 1976, In Munich. Film & Television of etr Te ni Fs 21, TT wr fr Environ mental for Award AT&T 2010, Fest Indie The mentary W MUCH (1983), NUCLEAR SPLIT (1987), RUNAWAY(1987), BLUE SPLIT (1992), NUCLEAR (1983), MUCH Maverick Movie Awards Meriden 2010, International Human Rights Human International 2010, Meriden Awards Movie Maverick OTO (04, IE N LSI (08, n SCIENTISTS and (2008), PLASTIC IN LIFE (2004), CONTROL Earth Earth Film Festival Chicago 2011, among others FIELD OF MONEY (2010), among others. among (2010), MONEY OF FIELD osrain n Seadhp 00 Te oubs nttt for Jo Institute Columbus Contemporary The 2010, Stewardship and Conservation on Peace 2011, A. L. Festival Film African Pan 2010, Paris Festival FilmFernsehFonds Bayern FilmFernsehFonds UNDER ATTACK – GENETIC ENGINEERING IN THE MAGTHE IN ENGINEERING GENETIC ATTACKUNDER – NETIC eta Verhaag Bertram 2010 Awards Movie Maverick eea Fl Bad Gra Fdrl im ud Flsitn NRW, Filmstiftung Fund, Film Federal German Board, Film Federal Sociology and Political Economics. After work ing at the Munich City work Munich After the Economics.Political at and ing Sociology D Council's town development department development town Council's ocumentary 2010, ocumentary Best Feature & Documentary Best Orignal Score OMAN – WINONA LA DUKE (2003), LIFE RUNNINGOF LIFE OUT (2003), DUKE LA WINONA – OMAN raim wr 21, coae wr Best Award Accolade 2010, Award urnalism a br i Ssoiz n 94 n studied and 1944 in Sosnowitz in born was ih akn from backing With – GENTECHNIK IM MAGNETFELD DES GELDES DES MAGNETFELD IM GENTECHNIK – (02, THUNDERBIRD (2002), A s m l i f n a m r e g w e n e attended the University the attended e , h , Awards Best Docu - German 9 2
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Scene from COMBAT GIRLS (photo © Jonas Schmager) S33_THE_LOOK.qxp:Unter Strom13.04.1114:26Seite1 DEMONS, DEATH, LOVE.and DEMONS, With companions like Peter and Paul Lindbergh Auster, she international star and a fearless avant-gardist fearless a and star international plumbs in nine chapters the great topics in life, beyond the beyond life, in topics great the chapters nine in plumbs in view the desire”, of “object the as characterized Often others, she is a style icon. But without a doubt, she is an is she doubt, a without But icon. style a is she others, for breaker; taboo a is she some, For Rampling. Charlotte Italy, where her role in Cavani’s THE NIGHT PORTER set PORTER NIGHT THE Cavani’s in role her where Italy, EUY AE RSNNE TBO DESIRE, TABOO, RESONANCE, AGE, BEAUTY, anecdotal and mere ch mere and anecdotal film. the of subject the is she hers: is LOOK THE Ozon. Francois hr i a hod f ytr sronig h fgr of figure the surrounding mystery of shroud a is There LOOK THE off a huge taboo debate. She inspired Helmut Newton to Newton Helmut inspired She debate. taboo huge a off the of London 1960s. ForVisconti swinging his film DAMNED, brought THE her to the in Girl Chelsea the was She career. her for good be will it not or whether about thinking than rather feeling gut her follows es o ok ih atus, ie aia sia and Oshima Nagisa like “auteurs”, with work to fers pre- she Avowedly, Newman. Paul with Hollywood in era Woody Allen in Ne in WoodyAllen for woman perfect the was She photo. nude first very his 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Schrameck Bonnafour, Delphine Juliette · Diffusion MK2 WorldSales 55 rue Traversièrerue Paris/France55 75012 · [email protected] · www.mk2.com· [email protected] 00 30 67 +33-1-44 phone w Yow rk and she stood before the cam the before stood - she and rk cal memories: EXPOSURE, memories: cal ronologi – because she because – CHARLOTTE RAMPLING CHARLOTTE – Schleswig-Holstein, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard Schleswig-Holstein, Angelina Maccarone Angelina Length eea Fl Fn, imtfug R, imödrn Hamburg Filmförderung NRW, Filmstiftung Fund, Film Federal French, English English French, ans 01 Cne Classics) (Cannes 2011 Cannes Production Companies Companies Production ducers of Photography Photography of Locarno in 2006, VIVERE (2006), and THE LOOK(2011). THE and (2006), VIVERE 2006, in Locarno emn n Aeia Ltrtr ad im t h Uiest of University the at Film and Literature American and German ri fr et etr, uy rn Pie t h Itrainl LGBT International the at Prize Grand Jury Feature, Best for preis Genre neia Maccarone Angelina UNVEILED (FREMDE HAUT, 2005) winn HAUT,2005) (FREMDE UNVEILED coming- the with 1994 in debut directorial her made She Hamburg. hc wn h Flmkr o te rsn: odn epr at Leopard Golden Present: the of Filmmakers the won which Feature at Narrative Best Awardfor Jury the Montrealand in Festival ih D/an, stMiz AT France/Issy-les-Moulineaux ARTE 3sat/Mainz, ZDF/Mainz, with NE’ RVNE EN NE SHÄT UÜK 1997), ZURÜCK, SCHLÄGT ENGEL (EIN REVENGE ANGEL’S follow and EVERY RAUS? with MAUSIKOMMT this comedy ed out - Cologne, Prounen Film/Berlin, Les F Les ProunenFilm/Berlin, Cologne, uine wrs n e Yr, oot ad o Agls AN Angeles, of Los winner and Toronto 1997) York, GUT, New WIRD in (ALLES Awards Audience FINE BE WILL THING h Sate & Fl Fsia, ONE (EFLT 2006) (VERFOLGT, HOUNDED Festival, Film G & L Seattle the Documentary Documentary Gerd Haag, Michael Trabitzsch, Serge Lalou, Charlotte Uzu Charlotte Lalou, Trabitzsch,Serge Michael Haag, Gerd 90 min 90 Subtitled Versions Subtitled Format Bernd Meiners Bernd Screenplay er f Production of Year was born in born was 35 mm, color,mm, 35 1:1.85 ih akn from backing With A/RU Filmproduktion/ TAG/TRAUM Cast ilms d’ ilms ici/Paris,co-productionin neia Maccarone Angelina n 1965 and studied and 1965 n Cologne i Cologne German, French German, s m l i f n a m r e g w e n er o er f the Hessischer Film Hessischer the - f Charlotte Rampling Rampling Charlotte OriginalVersion 2011 Festivals Director Director German Pro - 3 3
Scene from THE LOOK – CHARLOTTE RAMPLING (photo © Angelina Maccarone) S34_MamaAfrica.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1113:06Seite1 FBI following her marriage to Black Panther activist Stokely activist PantherBlack to marriage her following FBI exceptional artiste. exceptional where Guinea in settle to 1968,Carmichaelin decided she racism, poverty and promote and poverty racism, ltoa f neves ti fl prry te ie f this of life the portrays film this interviews, of plethora her a and footage documentary rare of use Making land. native in regime Apartheid white the fight to continued she national hit with travel ing the world spreading her political message to fight to message political travel her spreading world the ing o wmn h ebde te oe ad h vie of voice the and hopes the embodied who woman a to century a half spent who Makeba, Miriam singer African Mika Kaurismäki’s documentary world-famous about South AFRICA MAMA Africa. Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) was an inspiration to inspiration an (1932-2008)was Makeba Miriam Africa. musicians all over the world and a delight for international for delight a and world the over all musicians an nr t te S wee h soe he scored she where USA the to entry gain novmn i te ouetr idcmn o Apartheid of indictment documentary the in involvement OE AK ARC, ar Blfne epd e to her helped Belafonte Harry AFRICA, BACK, COME her 1959of in result exile a early as into Forced audiences. 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Netherlands Amsterdam/The CN 1013 · 100 Diemenstraat Van GabrielleRozing · Sales Film Fortissimo WorldSales hn 3-062 21 a 3-062 155 11 26 +31-20-6 fax · 15 32 27 +31-20-6 phone [email protected] · [email protected]· Pata Pata. Finding herself in the sights of the nd peace, is a tribute a is peace, nd a justice is inter irst - f r oo/&, 16:9 color/b&w, Helsinki, ZDF & ARTE/Mainz & ZDF Helsinki, Versions rdcin ih ilnim im/ae on Mran Films/ Marianna Town, Films/Cape Millennium with production HotDocs 2011 Genre 2011 2011 studied at the University of Television from1977- Munich in Film and of University the at studied recently Billy Cobham of the band Sonic Mirror.Sonic band the of Cobham Billy recently Don Edkins Edkins Don uh aeea Aglqe Kidjo Angelique Masekela, Hugh Cast ia K Mika Foundation 1981 and made a name for himself with ironic gangster films such as such films gangster ironic with himself for name a made and 1981 Producers Wolfgang Held, Frank Peter Lehmann, Martina Radwan, Eran Tahor Eran Radwan, Martina Lehmann, Peter Frank Held, Wolfgang (1981) his films have oft have films his (1981) rdcin Compa Production Brazil in 1992. Since making his punk documentary SAIMAA-ILMIÖ documentary punk his making Since 1992. in Brazil to moved and 1986 in Sápmi Sodankylä, in Festival Film Sun Midnight ROSSO (1985) and HELSINKI NAPOLI (1987). He co-founded the co-founded He (1987). NAPOLI HELSINKI and (1985) ROSSO ih akn from backing With Director iim aea Zni oiu Le Nlo Lmma Lee, Lumumba Nelson Lee, Monique Zenzi Makeba, Miriam Biopic au rismäki English, German German English, Don Edkins, Mika Kaurismäki, Hans Robert Eisenhauer Robert Hans Kaurismäki, Mika Edkins, Don ietr o Photography of Directors ategory Awards C ia Kaurismäki Mika rgnl Version Original a br i 15 i Oiatl/iln. He Orimattila/Finland. in 1955 in born was en p en ortrayed Afro-American musicians, most ortrayed tras imrdkinMnc, n co- in Filmproduktion/Munich, tarhaus ny 2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Berlin S Documentary Documentary Festivals Length imtfug R, h Fnih Film Finnish The NRW, Filmstiftung Producer Screenplay s m l i f n a m r e g w e n nls, French English, 90 min 90 eln 01 Tiea 2011, Tribeca 2011, Berlin er f Production of Year anr Kölmel Rainer Format aqe Cheuiche, Jacques ia Kaurismäki, Mika Subtitled HDCam, Co- 4 3
Scene from MAMA AFRICA (photo courtesy of Starhaus Filmproduktion) S35_MANOLO.qxp:Unter Strom12.04.1111:51Seite1 to face his fears: Will he stand up to his big cousin Mike, the On a sunny after sunny a On noo what. knew he only if too, something wants cousin his house, the of out him wants mother His MANOLO notorious splash-diving hotshot? splash-diving notorious him out of his way and Linda, this summer’s princess, wants 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g TinetteLaure Schymik, Juli · (dffb) GmbH Berlin Fernsehakademie und Film- Deutsche WorldSales hn 4-02 59 2·fx+93-57 162 91 75 +49-30-25 fax · 52 91 75 +49-30-25 phone Berlin/Germany 10785 Str.· Potsdamer 2 [email protected], [email protected] · www.dffb.de · [email protected] [email protected], t the pool, 12-year-oldhas pool, Manolo the t n a n DigiBeta, color, cs cs color, DigiBeta, aii Oie on, rc Klotzsch Eric Johne, Odine Saciri, Bohrer duction Genre Fe Specht Christian (2008), and MANOLO(2010). and (2008), Version video editor. in His films WAADclude: ALI VS. (2008), GO MY WAY Robert Bohrer 2010 Award Film Short rnsehakademie Berlin (dffb) (dffb) Berlin rnsehakademie ietr f Photography of Director Coming-of-Age Story Story Coming-of-Age English English 2010 Director Production Company Company Production Festivals was born in 1979 in Bonn and trained as and a film rgnl Version Original oet Bohrer Robert eesug 2011 Regensburg Length Category Producers s m l i f n a m r e g w e n 19 min 19 a Preiss Max Short Short Screenplay German German etce im u Film- Deutsche Format Awards atis Nerlich, Matthias er f Pro of - Year Cast Subtitled HDCam/ German Robert Branco 5 3 nd
Scene from MANOLO (photo © dffb) S36_NymannInProgress.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1116:35Seite1 A’ CNRC, ATC, n te worldw the GATTACA, and CONTRACT, MAN’S uig hc gets ht ae efre fo hs long his from performed are hits greatest which during be and - China, Mexico, Russia, Europe, through London in home his from journey the on Nyman accompanies film the life, working his and composer the to access cedented nopse mve a dvre s H DRAUGHTS- THE as diverse as movies encompassed has years, 30 over spanning career a in which, music, film Michael Nyman – a composer famous for his genre defining PROGRESS IN NYMAN iw, i togt ad mtos hs ol. Recently world. his emotions; and thoughts his views, Nyman’s career. So much so that it has taken the artist fif- artist in the taken has point it that so defining much So career. the Nyman’s people many for for soundtrack was his PIANO of THE success massive The PIANO. THE aer n lv collaborations live and career Band Nyman Michael the with concerts his shows It yond. time in all his diversity and endless energy. Featuring unpre- film ing and photography gives the film an insight into his into insight an film the for gives film passion photography and increasing ing Nyman’s journeys, his Throughout musicians. known talented contemporary composer.contemporary talented film the with association his from free break to years teen 2009, this film shows film this 2009, Starting with the celebrations for his 65th birthday in March multi- a as more once accepted and be mind the public’s in 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Ziannis Stelios · GmbH International Film Aktis WorldSales Altenburgerstr.Leipzig/Germany 04275 · 7 hn 4- 13 02 0·fx+934-50 619 26 00 41-35 +49-3 fax · 10 26 00 41-35 +49-3 phone [email protected] · www.aktis-film.com · [email protected] ne of the great composers of our of composers great the of ne o w ih te internationally other ith d h ide it ( (2010). co-production with Arthaus Musik/Halle Arthaus with co-production Da S, oo, 1:1.85 color, SR, HDCam he dcds f okn wt ohr ietrs visual director’s other with working images. of decades three utte Versions Subtitled Torsten Bönnhoff Genre iva Beck Silvia Medienförderung Mitteldeutsche hn 21, Taipe 2010, Ghent 2010 Nyman, Volker Schlöndorff, Steve Reich Steve VolkerSchlöndorff, Nyman, ih i msc Ti h dsrbs s ‘e lbry, after liberty’, ‘new a as describes he This music. his with them combine and works visual his edit to started Nyman train 1992- From training. editorial by photographer, a followed as ed 1998, she worked as a camera assistant for feature films and docu- and films feature for assistant camera a as worked she 1998, AFR (02, AMN BRIA 20) LENINLAND (2006), BERLINA CARMINA (2002), FANFARE National Film School in the UK. Her films include the documentaries: the include films Her UK. the in School Film National mentaries. From 1997-1999 she then studied Cinematography at the at Cinematography studied then she 1997-1999 Frommentaries. OXFORD 2008), VEIL OF THE TEMPLE (2009), and NYMAN IN PROGRESS IN NYMAN and (2009), TEMPLE THE OF VEIL 2008), Director Music TET 19) I M RM OHR (2001), NOWHERE FROM AM I (1999), STREET a br i 16 i Buha. rm 9718 she 1987-1989 From Bruchsal. in 1967 in born was Category Silvia Beck Silvia Production Company odn os 2010 Horse olden G i ocumentary ocumentary German, English English German, Screenplay D rgnl Version Original s m l i f n a m r e g w e n Producers Length Festivals Silvia Beck Silvia er f Production of Year ih akn from backing With Monarda Arts/Halle, in 82 min 82 nls, German English, Warsaw 2010, Warsaw Cast Erwin Stürzer,Erwin Format Michael 6 3
MICHAEL NYMAN (photo © Monarda Arts GmbH) S37_RABENJUNGE.qxp:Unter Strom12.04.1111:59Seite1 Genre enchanting an day One outsider. the Ravenboy, ridiculing The childrenvillage live by the law on by of the jungle. Led RAVENBOY RABENJUNGE cmt Mda osligBri, aiai ri 20, ed & Gerda 2009, Preis Caligari Consulting/Berlin, Media Schmetz h cide. u wo il h cos t fvr ih her with favor to choose attentions? she will who But children. the Wolfgang Mann Stiftung WolfgangMann 2011 Istanbul 2011, Stuttgart 2011, the meanest, most brutal of the boys, they take pleasure in pleasure take they boys, the of brutal most meanest, the Director Director il arr girl rgnl Version Original berg/Ludwigsburg berg/Ludwigsburg Buchner Photography of Director 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Gairing Sigrid Baden-Württemberg· Filmakademie WorldSales Akademiehof 10 · 71638 Ludwigsburg/Germany 71638 · 10 Akademiehof hn 4-14-69 3·fx+97 19 55 93 51 95 41-96 +49-71 fax · 93 91 41-96 +49-71 phone [email protected] · www.filmakademie.de · [email protected] ives. Se a cm fo fr wy n bgie all beguiles and away far from come has She Animation Production Company Company Production Andrea Deppert Deppert Andrea Length Category o d no ialogue stivals 10 min 10 Short Short Screenplay ek Gabriel Heiko Fe Format With backing from backing With Filmakademie Baden-Württem Baden-Württem Filmakademie - Year of Production of Year HDCam, color,HDCam, 1:1.85 eln 01 Dresden 2011, Berlin Producer nra Deppert Andrea Michael Simon 2011 (2005), TAMTA AND GEORGI (2006), and THE VISITORTAMTA(2008). THE (2005), and GEORGI(2006), AND Her other films include: STADTFÜHRUNGinclude: SAGITARIIV348 (2004), films other Her in 2004. RAVENBOY (RABENJUNGE, 2011) is her graduation film. graduation her is 2011) RAVENBOY(RABENJUNGE, 2004. in the Arts. She began attending the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy nra Deppert Andrea ebi Clee n üign I 19 se ok p rhtcue at Architecture up took she 1998 In Tübingen. in College Leibniz Hamburg College of Fine Arts, but changed her Visual major to study Hamburg College of Communications and moved to Ber to moved and Communications a br i 17 i Gtign n attended and Göttingen in 1977 in born was lin t lin o study at the University of University the at study o s m l i f n a m r e g w e n 7 3
Scene from RAVENBOY (photo ©Filmakademie Baden-Württem berg/Andrea Deppert) S38_DasRoteZimmer.qxp:Unter Strom27.04.1116:38Seite1 for his research leads his wife to file for divorce and to mob- Knaack, Katharina Lorenz, Seyneb Saleh, Hanns Zischler Hanns Saleh, Seyneb Lorenz, Katharina Knaack, p her in “laboratory” her to come to invitation her accepting 2010 Rudolf Thome Thome Rudolf Thome duction Genre obsession Thescience Fred’s of (the kissing) philematologist ROOM RED THE ZIMMER ROTE DAS for Luzie and Sibil and so do both ladies too. And, at And, too. ladies both do so and Sibil and Luzie for exploring book new Luzie’s for analysis be of subject will a he - come that finds Fred that there arrived has he once only is It Sibil. girlfriend her with shares she which house, bing from his colleagues at the institute. A chance meeting chance A institute. the at colleagues his from bing men’s souls. But things simmer in a different way.falls different a Fred in simmer things But souls. men’s ih t with Version Length 2011 1 0 2 · 2 y l r e t r a u q s m l i f n a m r e g Ziannis Stelios · GmbH International Film Aktis WorldSales Altenburgerstr.Leipzig/Germany 04275 · 7 hn 4- 13 02 0·fx+934-50 619 26 00 41-35 +49-3 fax · 10 26 00 41-35 +49-3 phone [email protected] · www.aktis-film.com · [email protected] oint the red room plays an important role … role important an plays room red the oint on Lze n i fvrt boso se him sees bookshop favorite his in Luzie oung e y he ietr f Photography of Director Romantic Comedy Comedy Romantic 101 min German German 2010 Director Format rdcin Company Production Subtitled Version HDCam/35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Category uof Thome Rudolf En Feature t Freund Ute ish gl Screenplay Festivals Moana-Film/Berlin er f Pro - of Year Cast Producer Original Viennale Rudolf some Peter CHAMISSO PLATZAwardCritics’ Film International the and 1981, in n otel n 99 o hs im H PIOOHR Hs film His PHILOSOPHER. THE film his for PARADISO (1999) won a Silver Bear at Berlin in 1989 2000. His other films in Montreal in include: STELLA (1966), RED SUN (ROTE SONNE, 1969), SUPER- 1969), SONNE, (ROTE SUN RED (1966), STELLA include: IL 17) MD I GERMANY IN MADE (1971), GIRL UNSICHTBARE, 2007 UNSICHTBARE, n fl rves n 92 o vros esaes n mgzns In magazines. and newspapers various for 1962 in reviews film ing ul Aad n h ctgr Bs Gra Fl fr BERLIN for Film German Best category the in Award Guild IH IBT 20) SOE IN (ACZIHN 2006), (RAUCHZEICHEN, SIGNS SMOKE 2005), LIEBST, MICH German, Philosophy and in History Philosophy German, Munich and Bonn. He began writ- H VSBE N TE NIIL (A SCTAE N DAS UND SICHTBARE (DAS INVISIBLE THE AND VISIBLE THE p 94 h claoae wt Mx ilan n Kas ek o his on Lemke Klaus and Zihlmann Max with collaborated he 1964, uof Thome Rudolf IS SGT LEE U DN RTN LC, 91, DAS 1991), BLICK, ERSTEN DEN AUF (LIEBE SIGHT FIRST is sot im DE ESHUG H te bcm managing became then He VERSÖHNUNG. DIE film, short first O TL M YU OE E D HS GSG, AS DU DASS GESAGT, HAST (DU ME LOVE 2003), YOU SCHLÄFT, ME TOLD YOU MAN FÄHRT, (FRAU SLEEPING MAN VING, ROTE2010). ZIMMER, director of the directorMunich Film of Critics’ Club in 1965 and founded his ow EEMI (95, UT ARE (98, EU TALKING VENUS DRI- WOMAN 2002), BLAU, (1998), (ROT UND BLUE AND RED (2001), MARRIED JUST (1995), GEHEIMNIS roduction company, Moana-Film, in 1977. He received the 2nd place a br i Wla/an n 99 n studied and 1939 in Wallau/Lahn in born was ), P ), INK (2008), and THE RED ROOM (DAS ROOM RED THE and (2008), INK N U AND S (94, OE AT LOVE (1974), SA s m l i f n a m r e g w e n 8 3 n
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GERMAN FILMS: A PROFILE
German Films Service + Marketing is the national infor - German Films’ range of activities includes: mation and advisory center for the promotion of German films world- wide. It was established in 1954 under the name Export-Union of Close cooperation with major international film festivals, in - German Cinema as the umbrella association for the Association of cluding Berlin, Cannes, Venice, San Sebastian, Locarno, German Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German Rome, Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Shanghai, Feature Film Producers and the Association of German Film Warsaw, and Moscow Exporters, and operates today in the legal form of a limited company. In 2004, the company was reorganized and now operates under the Organization of umbrella stands for German sales companies name: German Films Service + Marketing GmbH. and producers at international television and film markets (Berlin, Cannes, AFM Los Angeles, Shanghai) Shareholders are the Association of German Film Producers, the German Producers Alliance, the Association of German Film Staging of “Festivals of German Films” in selected inter national Exporters, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the Stiftung territories Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Documentary Association, FilmFe rnsehFonds Bayern and Filmstiftung NRW represent ing the Staging of the “German Premieres” industry screenings in New seven main regional film funds, and the German Short Film York, London, Tokyo, and other selected territories Association. Providing advice and information for representatives of the Members of the advisory board are: Martin Moszkowicz international press and buyers from the fields of cinema, video, (chairman), Peter Dinges, Antonio Exacoustos, Sylke Gottlebe, and television Prof. Dr. Klaus Schaefer, Ulrike Schauz Providing advice and information for German filmmakers and German Films itself has 10 members of staff: press on international festivals, conditions of participation, and Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director German films being shown Julia Basler, project co ordinator/documentary film Katherine Grzelak, managing director’s assistant Organization of the annual NEXT GENERATION/SHORT Angela Hawkins, publications & website editor TIGER short film program, which presents a selection of shorts Barbie Heusinger, project coordinator/distribution support and is internationally premiered at Cannes Nicole Kaufmann, project coordinator Kim Liebeck, festival coordinator Publication of informational literature about current German Martin Scheuring, project coordinator/short film films and the German film industry (German Films Quarterly), Konstanze Welz, project coordinator/television as well as international market analy ses and special festival Stephanie Wimmer, project coordinator brochures
In addition, German Films has foreign representatives in key territories An Internet website (www.german-films.de) offering informa - around the world. tion about new German films, a film archive, in formation and links to German and international film festivals and institutions, German Films’ budget of presently €4.7 million comes from film and a VOD platform for buyers and festival delegates export levies, the office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the FFA. The seven main regional film Organization of the selection procedure for the German entry funds (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig- for the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film Holstein, Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden-Württembe rg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, and Nord - Collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV KINO program media) make a financial contribution – currently amounting to which features the latest German film releases and inter - €319,000 – towards the work of German Films. national productions in Germany
German Films is a founding member of the European Film Promotion, Organization of the “German Films Previews” geared toward a network of European film organizations with similar responsibilities arthouse distributors and buyers of German films to those of German Films. The organiza tion, with its headquarters in Hamburg, aims to develop and realize joint pro jects for the pre - Selective financial Distribution Support for the foreign releases sentation of European films on an inter national level. of German films
Organization with Unifrance of the annua l German-French film meeting
In association and cooperation with its shareholders, German Films works to promote feature, documentary, television and short films.
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German Films Quarterly is published by: Editor Angela Hawkins
German Films Production Reports Martin Blaney, Simon Kingsley Service + Marketing GmbH Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 16 Contributors for this issue Martin Blaney, Christoph Gröner 80331 Munich/Germany phone +49-89-5 99 78 70 Translations Lucinda Rennison fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 [email protected] Cover Photo Scene from 4 DAYS IN MAY (photo © X Filme) www.german-films.de Design & Art Direction Werner Schauer, www.triptychon.biz ISSN 1614-6387 Printing Office ESTA DRUCK GMBH, Credits are not contractual for any Obermuehlstrasse 90, 82398 Polling/Germany of the films mentioned in this publication.
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