GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY THE BERLINALE ISSUE NEW GERMAN FILMS AT THE BERLINALE SHOOTING STAR Jella Haase DIRECTORS Katja von Garnier & Lars Kraume PRODUCERS Philipp Budweg & Robert Marciniak of Lieblingsfilm ISSUE 1-2016 CONTENTS GFQ 1-2016 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 35 40 GFQ 1-2016 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE IN BERLIN SEX & CRIME Paul Florian Müller ................................................. 41 24 WOCHEN 24 WEEKS Anne Zohra Berrached ............................. 4 SIMON SAGT AUF WIEDERSEHEN ZU SEINER VORHAUT 42 ALONE IN BERLIN TIME TO SAY GOODBYE Viviane Andereggen .................................. JEDER STIRBT FÜR SICH ALLEIN Vincent Perez ........................... 5 SIN & ILLY STILL ALIVE Maria Hengge ........................................... 43 AUF EINMAL ALL OF A SUDDEN Aslı Özge ..................................... 6 TSCHILLER: OFF DUTY NICK: OFF DUTY Christian Alvart ............. 44 GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA WILD Nicolette Krebitz .................................................................... 45 7 FUKUSHIMA, MON AMOUR Doris Dörrie ........................................ WO WILLST DU HIN, HABIBI? JONATHAN Piotr J. Lewandowski .................................................... 8 WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HABIBI? Tor Iben .................................. 46 LIEBMANN Jules Herrmann ............................................................. 9 ZAZY M. X. Oberg ............................................................................ 47 METEORSTRASSE METEOR STREET Aline Fischer ......................... 10 ZWEITE HAND SECOND HAND Nikolas Jürgens ......................... 48 DIE PRÜFUNG THE AUDITION Till Harms ..................................... 11 NEW DOCUMENTARIES TED SIEGER’S MOLLY MONSTER BIR Mumin Baris .............................................................................. 49 12 Ted Sieger, Michael Ekblad, Matthias Bruhn .................................. FURUSATO Thorsten Trimpop ...................................................... 49 ZUD Marta Minorowicz ..................................................................... 13 DER KUAFÖR AUS DER KEUPSTRASSE SHOOTING STAR 2016 THE BARBER AND THE BOMB Andreas Maus .............................. 50 EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON MANCHE HATTEN KROKODILE A portrait of actress Jella Haase ............................................... 14 SOME HAD CROCODILES Christian Hornung ................................ 50 PORTRAITS NIGHTSESSION Philipp Dettmer ..................................................... 51 EVERY FILM A NEW ADVENTURE VIOLENTLY HAPPY Paola Calvo ...................................................... 51 16 A portrait of director Lars Kraume .................................................. VOICES OF VIOLENCE Claudia Schmid .......................................... 52 POSITIVE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE NEW SHORTS A portrait of director Katja von Garnier ......................................... 18 90 GRAD NORD EMBRACING NEW CHALLENGES 90 DEGREES NORTH Detsky Graffam ........................................... 53 A portrait of Lieblingsfilm ................................................................ 20 DIORAMA Clemens Pichler .............................................................. 53 NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 22 IN THE DISTANCE Florian Grolig .................................................... 54 NEW FEATURES ROSE Claudio Franke ................................................................... 54 BACH IN BRAZIL Ansgar Ahlers ....................................................... 26 STADT DER ELEFANTEN BECKS LETZTER SOMMER CITY OF ELEPHANTS Marko Mijatovic ........................................... 55 BECK’S LAST SUMMER Frieder Wittich ......................................... 27 UPCOMING FILMS DIE DUNKLE SEITE DES MONDES THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Stephan Rick .............................. 28 DIE BLUMEN VON GESTERN Chris Kraus .................................... 56 ENKLAVE ENCLAVE Goran Radovanovic ......................................... 29 BURG SCHRECKENSTEIN Ralf Huettner ....................................... 56 FADO Jonas Rothlaender ................................................................. 30 GLEISSENDES GLÜCK Sven Taddicken .......................................... 56 FERIEN Bernadette Knoller ........................................................... 31 HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD Rüdiger Suchsland ................................... 57 DER GEILSTE TAG KÄPT’N SHARKY Hubert Weiland .................................................. 57 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY Florian David Fitz ............................. 32 DER KLEINE DIKTATOR Dani Levy .................................................... 57 HENRY Philipp Fussenegger ........................................................... 33 DER KLEINE DRACHE KOKOSNUSS ......................................... 58 JESUS CRIES Brigitte Maria Mayer ................................................. 34 LUNA Khaled Kaissar ....................................................................... 58 LENALOVE Florian Gaag .............................................................. 35 RITTER ROST 2 Thomas Bodenstein ............................................... 58 LOOPING Leonie Krippendorff ........................................................ 36 TSCHICK Fatih Akin .......................................................................... 59 MARRY ME! Neelesha Barthel ........................................................ 37 VOLT Tarek Ehlail ............................................................................. 59 MORRIS AUS AMERIKA VORWÄRTS IMMER! Franziska Meletzky ......................................... 59 MORRIS FROM AMERICA Chad Hartigan .................................... 38 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 61 DER NANNY THE MANNY Matthias Schweighöfer ......................... 39 Film Exporters .................................................................................. 62 SCHROTTEN! SCRAPPIN’ Max Zähle ............................................... 40 Imprint ............................................................................................ 63 3 IN BERLIN GFQ 1-2016 photo © Friede Clausz/zero one film IN 24 WOCHENCOMPETITION 24 WEEKS he stage lights, the applause – ANNE ZOHRA BERRACHED was born in GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 Astrid loves being a cabaret per - Erfurt. After studying Social Education in DIRECTOR Anne Zohra Berrached SCREEN- Tformer, and loves her tol erant and Frankfurt, she worked as a theater peda - PLAY Carl Gerber, Anne Zohra Berrached supportive husband Markus. Every gogue in London for two years. She also CINEMA TOGRAPHY Friede Clausz CAST Julia decision is taken together, and this one is no work ed as an assistant director in Berlin for Jentsch, Bjarne Mädel, Johanna Gastdorf, different: what will they do with the child that the Hansatheater in the Theater Ballhaus Ost Emilia Pieske PRODUCERS Thomas Kufus, Astrid is carrying, now, six months into the and on the film MUST LOVE DEATH by Melanie Berke, Tobias Büchner PRODUCTION pregnancy, that she learns it will be severely Andreas Schaap. After an internship as a pro- COMPANY zero one film, in co-production disabled? She and Marcus have a choice, but duction assistant for a television show, she with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Filmaka- little time… shot her first short film, COMIC RELIEF. Since demie Baden-Württemberg LENGTH 102 min 2009, she has been studying Film Directing LANGUAGE German FESTIVALS Berlinale A strong nature with a witty answer to every- at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. 2016 (In Competition) thing, Astrid now feels lost, on her own, im- Her films include: DOGS LIKE US (short, possible to continue her comedy routine. 2012), SAINT & WHORE (doc, 2012), TWO SALES Ultimately only she who is bearing the child MOTHERS (2013), and 24 WEEKS (2016). Beta Cinema can take this weighty decision. What will she [email protected] do? Who decides whether the child will have www.betacinema.com a life worth living? 4 GFQ 1-2016 IN BERLIN photo © X Filme Creative Pool/Marcel Hartmann IN ALONE IN COMPETITION BERLIN JEDER STIRBT FÜR SICH ALLEIN erlin 1940. The city is paralyzed by VINCENT PEREZ was born in 1964 in Lau- GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2016 fear. Otto and Anna Quangel are a sanne/Switzerland. As an actor, he has work - DIRECTOR Vincent Perez SCREENPLAY Bworking-class couple living in a ed with many of cinema’s greatest film- Achim von Borries & Vincent Perez, in coope- shabby apartment block trying, like makers before beginning his own promising ration with Bettine von Borries, based on everyone else, to stay out of trouble under directing career. His films as a director in- the novel by Hans Fallada CINEMA TOG- Nazi rule. But when their only child is killed clude: L’ECHANGE (short, 1992), RIEN DIRE RAPHY Christophe Beaucarne CAST Emma fighting at the front, their loss drives them to (short, 1999), ONCE UPON AN ANGEL (2002), Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl, an extraordinary act of resistance. They start THE SECRET (2007), and ALONE IN BERLIN Mikael Persbrandt, Monique Chaumette, to drop anonymous postcards all over the city (2016). Joachim Bissmeier, Katrin Pollitt, Lars attacking Hitler and his regime. If caught, it Rudolph, Uwe Preuss, Daniel Sträßer PRO- means certain execution. Soon their cam- DUCERS Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, Marco paign comes to the attention of the Gestapo Pacchioni, James Schamus,