MASTERS & TALENTS THRILLS & CHILLS FAMILY & FUN EFM 2019 Martin-Gropius Bau #10 CONTENT MASTERS & TALENTS THE ASPERN PAPERS LYSIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER GIPSY QUEEN THRILLS & CHILLS THE SONATA HANNA‘S HOMECOMING PARTY HARD, DIE YOUNG FAMILY & FUN Double Trouble AND The Magical Mirror LITTLE MISS DOLITTLE Scene from: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER SCREENING Drama Feb. 9TH | 9:30 am CineStar 2 Original Title The Aspern Papers THE ASPERN PAPERS YeaR 2018 MASTERS TALENTS & Based on one of Henry James‘s most acclaimed novellas, THE ASPERN PAPERS is directed by Julien Landais, Cast starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Joely Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave. Jonathan Rhys Meyers Joely Richardson Set in Venice in the late 19th century, it tells of an American editor determined to get his hands on the letters his and icon, the Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, wrote to his beautiful lover and muse, Juliana Bordereau. Juliana lives in a Vanessa Redgrave Venetian palazzo with her niece Miss Tina, who she seems to control and Morton tries to manipulate. But when the ambitious adventurer trifles with Miss Tina’s affections she learns to see through his scheme. The Aspern Papers Director tells a story of obsession, grandeur lost and dreams of Byronic Julien Landais adventures. The film was shot where Henry James actually wrote PRoducer it – on original locations in Venice. Gabriela Bacher Julien Landais From script stage on, French director Julien Landais was supported by Executive Producer and recent Academy Award Production Company winner James Ivory. Summerstorm Entertainment Princeps Film Cohen Media VERsion English (OV), German DUB STAtus Completed LOCal Distributor Cohen Media (North America) RUnning Time 90 min Market Premiere DRAMA Feb. 8TH | 4:25 pm CinemaXX 8 World Premiere Original Title Lysis LYSIS – A FATHER AND SON STORY Year 2018 MASTERS TALENTS & Director Rick Ostermann‘s previous films KRIEG and Cast WOLFSKINDER both premiered at Venice Film Festival. Oliver Masucci Louis Hofmann Two actors, Oliver Masucci (DARK, LOOK WHO’S BACK) and Louis Hofmann (DARK, LAND OF MINE) Director DIRECTED BY RICK OSTERMANN Rick Ostermann were left out in the wilderness, each with a story of their own given by the director, without a script … but ProdUcer with 3 action cams that are an integral part of the plot. Stefan Sporbert We follow their story as it unfolds for each character Rüdiger Heinze and step into a breathtaking story of survival, guilt ProdUcton Company and hope! This is an intense father and son story. Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion After Felix’s mother has died in an accident his estranged father that he hasn’t seen in ten years takes Version him along a rafting trip in the mountains. While the German (OV) with English subt. father hopes to reconnect with his son through the STATUS Completed shared adventure, Felix refuses to open up to him. After losing their equipment, the trip turns into a struggle for Local DistribUtor TBA survival during which father and son learn to see the painful events of the past through each other’s eyes… A FATHER AND SON STORY RUNNING TIME 92 min DELIVERY Q1 / 2019 Market Premiere DRAMA Feb 9TH | 1:10 pm CineStar 6 Original Title IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER In the Middle of the River MASTERS TALENTS & Year 2018 A wounded military veteran returns home to face the war within his own dysfunctional family, as he tries to piece Cast together the reasons behind his sister‘s mysterious death. Eric Hunter Max Thayer Nikki Lowe Led to believe his abusive Grandfather is responsible for his twin sister’s recent death, GABRIEL (26) returns to his Director humble home on a Native American Reservation in rural New Damien John Harper Mexico. Yearning to protect his family he swears to secretly kill his Grandfather. Yet at the moment of truth his plan is ProdUcer ruined and they are forced to spend the day together. On Jonas Weydemann Jakob D. Weydemann the road the two war veterans begin speaking about their distinct yet similar traumatic war experiences. Despite his Version rage Gabriel realizes the world is not as black and white as he English (OV) once thought and slowly he is forced to accept responsibility for his part in the family crisis to find peace. STATUS Completed Local DistribUtor Farbfilm Verleih RUNNING TIME 100 min DELIVERY Q1 / 2019 DRAMA Post ProdUction Original Title Gipsy Queen GIPSY QUEEN MASTERS TALENTS & Year 2019 Director Hüseyin Tabak gained critical acclaim with such films as „Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing“ and Cast „The Legend Of The Ugly King“. Alina Serban Tobias Moretti GIPSY QUEEN is a powerful and inspiring boxing story of the Roma single mother ALI (30), who uses Irina Kurbanova everything she‘s got trying to keep the heads of her two children Esmeralda (11) and Mateo (5) above water and enable them to get a good start in life in their new home in a foreign country. It‘s hard not to like young Director Ali. She has the heart of a lion, is proud, doesn‘t complain and works herself to the bone for her two children Hüseyin Tabak as a cleaner in Hamburg‘s famous „Ritze“ underground club. But deep in her heart Ali carries a wound: after she became an unmarried mother in Romania she was disowned by her father – for whom, until then, she ProdUcer Danny Krausz was the Gipsy Queen, the queen of all Roma. When Ali discovers the boxing ring in the „Ritze‘‘‘s basement Kurt Stocker one day and gets to watch a fight it brings back memories of boxing Version training with her father. Frustrated German (OV) with and disappointed by life, Ali vents all English subt. her fury on the punching bag in the STATUS basement of the „Ritze“ one evening. Post Production Tanne, ex-boxer and owner of the „Ritze“ sees her and recognizes her Local DistribUtor talent. She starts to box again and Filmladen Filmverleih GmbH sees the chance of a better life. RUNNING TIME 112 min DELIVERY Q2 / 2019 SCREENING HORROR Feb. 8TH | 4:30 pm Gropius Bau Cinema Feb. 11TH | 5:45 PM CineStar 1 THE SONATA Original Title The Sonata A young violinist unravels her long lost father’s past, YeaR 2019 triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination… CAST Freya Tingley After being informed of the sudden death of her long lost Simon Abkarian composer father, a young virtuoso violinist Rose inherits James Faulkner Matt Barber an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she Catherine Schaub-Abkarian discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score Rutger Hauer marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles, DIrector her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, Andrew Desmond little by little, starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a THRILLS CHILLS & PRoduction Companies somber plan imagined since the very day she was born. The Project Featuristic Films CTB Film Company Tasse Film VErsion English & French (OV) StatuS Completed LOCal Distributor Nashe Kino RUNNING TIME 88 min 52. internationale hofer filmtage 2018 52nd SCREENING hof HORROR international Feb. 9TH | 11:10 am film festival Cinemobile 2018 Original Title Wo kein Schatten fällt Hanna‘S Homecoming Year 2018 After three years at boarding school, Hanna is returning Cast home to her little village to help her father‘s butcher‘s Valerie Stoll shop during her break. Soon she learns that she is not Milena Tscharntke welcome in the village. Everyone remembers the horrific Godehard Giese news story about her mother‘s death which was followed VALERIE MILENA by the discovery of three dead men in the marsh. While STOLL TSCHARNTKE Director superstition rules the village, everyone believes her Esther Bialas mother was a witch and had lured these men into the Producer marsh directly to their death. Struggling to make friends, MARCELWEISHEIT.COM Mathieu Miville she meets the extroverted city girl Eva. Thinking she has YOU Nathan Nill THRILLS CHILLS & finally found a friend, scary accidents start happening CAN'T Andrea Schütte DROWN around her … while Hanna‘s confidence and with that her THE TRUTH Version „power“ starts to grow… English DUB, German (OV) with English subt. Status Completed Local Distributor TBA EIN FILM VON ESTHER BIALAS MIT VALERIE STOLL MILENA TSCHARNTKE GODEHARD GIESE SASCHA ALEXANDER GERšAK SEBASTIAN HÜLK RICK OKON ANNE LEBINSKY ALISSA WILMS TOM GRONAU KEN JACOBSEN U.V.A. CASTING SIMONE BÄR PATRICK DREIKAUSS IRIS TRESCHER-LORENZ KATRIN ASCHENDORF LOUISE FAERBER LALE YILMAZ CORINNA ZINK THEKLA DEMELIUS RALPH THIEKÖTTER MARCO DRECKKÖTTER CHRISTIANE BUCHMANN SCHNITT JAN RUSCHKE, BFS CHRISTOPH DETWEILER RAUM230 JAN PHILIP LANGE REDAKTION SABINE HOLTGREVE DREHBUCH LENA KRUMKAMP PRODUZENTEN MATHIEU MIVILLE NATHAN NILL ANDREA SCHÜTTE REGIE ESTHER BIALAS EINE PRODUKTION DER DAS KIND MIT DER GOLDENEN JACKE FILMPRODUKTION IN ZUSAMMENARBEIT MIT TAMTAM FILM INITIIERT DURCH NORDDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN RUNNING TIME 96 min NORDMEDIA FILM- UND MEDIENGESELLSCHAFT NIEDERSACHSEN/BREMEN IM WELTVERTRIEB VON ARRI MEDIA INTERNATIONAL HORROR OFFICIAL Selection OFFICIAL Selection OFFICIAL Selection GROSSMANN FANTASTIC SCREENER MORBIDO FEST DIAGONALE GRAZ FILM & WINE FESTIVAL 2018 2018 2018 Original Title Die letzte Party deines Lebens Party Hard, Die Young Year 2018 Finally graduated. No more school! The Party is on! Cast Elisabeth Wabitsch This calls for celebrations and is the reason why Julia, her Michael Glantschnig classmates and thousands of fellow graduates are on their Michael Ostrowski way to an island resort in Croatia, and it is supposed to be the party of their lives! The harmless fun, however, soon Director turns dead serious.When Julia’s friend is killed in a tragic Dominik Hartl accident, the party people’s euphoria is crushed.