OPENING Friday, October 4, 7 & 9:30 pm SCHEDULE NIGHT Oh Boy Date Time Title From rousing widescreen historical epics to wryly Discussion with special guest follows the first screening. Film | Neu 2013 st , comic black-and-white slacker meditations, the 21 Friday, October 4 7 & 9:30 pm OPENING Oh Boy annual edition of Film|Neu has something for every filmgoer’s taste. The robust film Germany, 2013, WINNER! Saturday, October 5 1 pm This Ain’t California black and white, 85 min. 2013 German Film Awards industries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland continue to produce diverse slates of Outstanding Feature Film, Director/Screenplay: Best Director, Saturday, October 5 12:30 & 3:15 pm Measuring the World (Die Vermessung der Welt) entertainment that audiences want to see. Best Actor Jan Ole Gerster (Please note: this film will be screened at the Goethe-Institut.) Cast: Tom Schilling, Marc Saturday, October 5 3 pm Life is Nothing for Cowards If Film|Neu 2013 has a theme, it just might be “ring in the new.” All three of the young Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, (Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge) actors nominated for the German Film Award in that category are represented in the Justus von Dohnányi, Arnd Klawitter, Ulrich Noethen, Saturday, October 5 5:15 pm Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) program: Edin Hasanovic in Shifting the Blame, Sabin Tambrea in Ludwig II and winner Michael Gwisdek Tom Schilling in the opening night feature, Oh Boy—the triumphant debut of writer- Sales: Beta Cinema Saturday, October 5 7:30 pm Shifting the Blame director Jan Ole Gerster. Other first-time directors are Stephan Lacant, with the drama (Oberhaching, Germany) (Schuld sind immer die anderen) Free Fall, and Marten Persiel with the exciting documentary This Ain’t California. Saturday, October 5 10 pm Kuma Sunday, October 6 1 pm Kuma As always, we’re grateful to the audiences that enthusiastically support the program each year, bringing keen minds and good taste to each screening. Sunday, October 6 3 pm Shifting the Blame (Schuld sind immer die anderen) © Beta Films Eddie Cockrell Sunday, October 6 5:30 pm Free Fall (Freier Fall) The litany of woes facing today’s young people isn’t much greater Sunday, October 6 7:30 pm Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) in number than the laments of their forebears: losing a job, a rela- Eddie Cockrell is a Washington native and freelance film critic for the trade paperVariety. He is cur- new films from © Beta Films tionship, looking for a good cup of coffee and so forth. What’s chal- Sunday, October 6 9:30 pm Life is Nothing for Cowards rently the program director of the social justice film event The Big Picture Film Festival in Syd- Jan Ole Gerster (b. 1978, lenging is seeing a fresh perspective along such well-trodden cine- (Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge) ney, Australia, and is co-curator of the Film|Neu festival, for which he has written the film notes. Hagen, Germany) is with matic territory. So it is a pleasant surprise indeed to discover Jan Monday, October 7 7 pm This Ain’t California germany | austria | switzerland X-Filme Creative Pool, where Ole Gerster’s Oh Boy, the luminous black-and-white 24-hour misad- he worked on the Tom Tykwer ventures of one disaffected youth in contemporary Berlin. Passive Monday, October 7 9 pm Free Fall (Freier Fall) films The Princess and the slacker Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) can’t seem to do much right but Tuesday, October 8 7 & 9 pm The Shine of Day (Der Glanz des Tages) october 4-10, 2013 Please note that all films have English subtitles. Warrior (2000) and Heaven thankfully doesn’t much care. With its mellow jazz score and obvi- (2002). He assisted Wolfgang ous love for the metropolis, Oh Boy—the title comes from the Bea- Wednesday, October 9 7 & 9 pm Lullaby Ride (Nachtlärm) Becker on the international tles’ A Day in the Life—has echoes of Woody Allen’s Manhattan and hit Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Thursday, October 10 6:15 & 9:30 pm CLOSING Ludwig II and directed the making-of Alexander Payne’s Sideways. Winner of numerous of international A special 3D Saturday, October 5, 12:30 pm & 3:15 pm documentary. Oh Boy is his prizes, including the German Film Award, Oh Boy sets just the right presentation at the feature film debut. tone for another week-long celebration of German-language cinema. Goethe-Institut Measuring the World TICKETS | INFORMATION Washington! (Die Vermessung der Welt) Thursday, October 10, 6:15 & 9:30 pm Germany/Austria, 2012, 119 min. CLOSING Tickets: $11.50, $9.50 Opening Night 7 pm Screening followed by For information call Director: Detlev Buck NIGHT Ludwig II for Students & Friends “Berliner Party” with DJ at Goethe-Institut: $26.50 202-452-7672 of the Goethe-Institut, or visit Screenplay: Daniel Kehlmann, Discussion with special guest follows the first screening. Closing Night Screening and Reception: $16.50 Detlev Buck, Daniel Nocke, $8.50 for Seniors landmarktheatres.com from Kehlmann’s novel Germany/Austria, 2012, 140 min. Cast: Florian David Fitz, WINNER! Special Film|Neu-themed Directors/Screenplay: 2013 Bavarian Film Awards Featuring complimentary beer from Albrecht Abraham Schuch, Best Young Actor combos and drinks will Peter Sehr, Marie Noëlle Sabin Tambrea Tickets can be pur- Gordon Biersch, German wine, Jérémy Kapone, Vicky Krieps, be available at the With: Sabin Tambrea, Sebastian chased at the theater Katharina Thalbach, Sunnyi and food provided by the Embassy of Switzerland, concession stand! Schipper, Hannah Herzsprung, Melles, Karl Markovics, Michael or in advance through Old Europe Restaurant, Cafe Mozart, Edgar Selge, Friedrich Mücke, Maertens, Max Giermann, Justus von Dohnányi, Samuel Moviefone at 202-333- Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe, Whole Foods Market, David Kross Finzi, Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, FILM (Code #781) or German Gourmet, and the Swiss Bakery Sales: The Match Factory Uwe Ochsenknecht www.moviefone.com and Pastry Shop (Cologne, Germany) Sales: Global Screen (Munich, Germany) Tickets for Measuring the World must be purchased at the Goethe-Institut box office or online at www.boxofficetickets.com/goethe. © The Match Factory A Beautiful Mind meets Fitzcarraldo in director Detlev Buck’s bracing- ly vigorous, gloriously widescreen adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s GmBH © Artisan Film Co-presented by the Peter Sehr (b. 1951, Bad Konig, immensely popular 2005 novel that reimagines the friendship be- Germany d. 2013, Munich, Goethe-Institut in Washington, the Austrian Embassy and the Embassy of Switzerland gun by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and geographer Alexan- Germany) formed P’Artisan With support from german films der von Humboldt in the late 1700s. Scripted by Kehlmann with signifi- Film-produktion in Munich cant input from Buck and Daniel Nocke, the film’s structure hews close- with Marie Noëlle in 1988. His © Global Screen award-winning films included © The Match Factory Match © The ly to the book’s inspired chronology. As Gauss (Florian David Fitz) sits Detlev Buck (b. 1962, Bad at home complaining about everything and dreaming up exotic internal Obsession (1997), Love the A big-budget, widescreen historical biography with the soul of a scrap- Segeberg, Germany) was an mathematical theorems, von Humboldt (extraordinary newcomer Al- Hard Way (2001) and The py independent film, Ludwig II brings fresh energy and a unique style accomplished actor, director brecht Abraham Schuch) explores the Amazon with faithful sidekick Ai- Anarchist’s Wife (2008). to the momentous, oft-filmed life of eccentric Bavarian King Ludwig Ot- and screenwriter by the age mé Bompland (Jérémy Kapone). When the pair finally meets in 1828, Marie Noëlle began working to Friedrich Wilhelm. Any film on this provocative subject rises or falls of 22. His feature films behind with Peter Sehr as an editor, their mutual love of exploration, thought and quantification is barely on the strength of its lead performance, and newcomer Sabin Tambrea Film | Neu thanks its generous sponsors. the camera include Rabbit enough to keep their friendship intact. The decision to shoot in 3D was screenwriter and co-director in is nothing short of astonishing as Ludwig: at once delicate and sinewy, Fever (Karniggels, 1991), 1979, and together they have made by Buck’s long-time producing partner Claus Boje, who was “con- nervous and bird-like in his actions yet funereal in repose. These Wash- No More Mr. Nice Guy (Wir directed The Anarchist’s Wife ington premiere screenings are dedicated to the memory of co-director können auch anders…, 1993), vinced that this format can open up completely new kinds of narrative. “ (2008) and Ludwig II (2012). Tough Enough (Knallhart, Her extensive filmography Peter Sehr, who succumbed to a brain tumor in May of this year. With 2006), and Same Same But Tickets (priced as at Landmark) must be purchased at the Goethe-Insti- of collaborations with other Ludwig II, Sehr, with long-time partner Noëlle, has made a film that www.filmneu.org Different (2009). tut box office or online at www.boxofficetickets.com/goethe. filmmakers began in 1995. stands alongside the best of Ken Russell and Terry Gilliam. www.filmneu.org www.facebook.com/FilmNeuDC Saturday, October 5, 1 pm & Monday, October 7, 7 pm Saturday, October 5, 5:15 pm & Sunday, October 6, 7:30 pm Saturday, October 5, 10 pm & Sunday, October 6, 1 pm Tuesday, October 8, 7 and 9 pm This Ain’t California Forget Me Not (Vergiss mein nicht) Kuma The Shine of Day (Der Glanz des Tages) Discussion via Skype with director David Sieveking follows the 10/5 screening. Reception with Austrian treats between the two screenings. Germany, 2012, 90 min.