GFQ GERMAN FILMS QUARTERLY THE BERLINALE ISSUE NEW GERMAN FILMS AT THE BERLINALE SHOOTING STAR Louis Hofmann DIRECTORS Aslı Özge & Jan Zabeil PRODUCERS ONE TWO FILMS ISSUE 1-2017 CONTENTS GFQ 1-2017 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 2 GFQ 1-2017 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE IN BERLIN GESCHICHTE EINER LIEBE – FREYA LOVE IN THE TIME OF RESISTANCE – FREYA Antje Starost, Hans Helmut Grotjahn ....... 39 BEUYS Andres Veiel ......................................................................... 4 IM EXIL IN EXILE Tin Win Naing .................................................... 39 HELLE NÄCHTE BRIGHT NIGHTS Thomas Arslan .......................... 5 MYANMARKET Eva Knopf .............................................................. 40 RÜCKKEHR NACH MONTAUK UNTER ALLER AUGEN RETURN TO MONTAUK Volker Schlöndorff ..................................... 6 FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE Claudia Schmid .............................. 40 IN ZEITEN DES ABNEHMENDEN LICHTS EL VIAJE – EIN MUSIKFILM MIT RODRIGO GONZALEZ IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT Matti Geschonneck ........................... 7 EL VIAJE – A ROAD TRIP INTO CHILE’S MUSICAL HERITAGE BACK FOR GOOD Mia Spengler ....................................................... 8 Nahuel Lopez ................................................................................... 41 EISENKOPF IRONHEAD Tian Dong .................................................. 9 WIR SIND JUDEN AUS BRESLAU WE ARE JEWS FROM BRESLAU Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies ................................... 41 MIKEL Cavo Kernich ....................................................................... 10 NEW SHORTS SELBSTKRITIK EINES BÜRGERLICHEN HUNDES SELF-CRITICISM OF A BOURGEOIS DOG HOMEWORK Annika Pinske ............................................................. 42 Julian Radlmaier ............................................................................... 11 KALTES TAL Johannes Krell, Florian Fischer .............................. 42 EIN WEG PATHS Chris Miera ........................................................... 12 TIMECODE Petra Lottje ................................................................. 43 ZWISCHEN DEN JAHREN END OF THE SEASON Lars Henning .............................................. 13 EINE UNIVERSELLE LIEBESGESCHICHTE A UNIVERSAL LOVE STORY Natalie MacMahon ............................. 43 DIE HÄSCHENSCHULE – JAGD NACH DEM GOLDENEN EI RABBIT SCHOOL – GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN EGG UPCOMING FILMS Ute von Münchow-Pohl .................................................................. 14 AUS DEM NICHTS Fatih Akin .......................................................... 44 SHOOTING STAR 2017 CONNI & CO 2 Til Schweiger .......................................................... 44 GERMANY’S SHOOTING STAR CREDO Christian Schwochow .......................................................... 44 A portrait of actor Louis Hofmann ................................................. 16 CULPA – NIEMAND IST OHNE SCHULD Jano Ben Chaabane ..... 45 PORTRAITS DARK Baran bo Odar ........................................................................ 45 STYLE, SPACE AND SERENDIPITY HIGH SOCIETY Anika Decker ........................................................... 45 A portrait of director Aslı Özge ..................................................... 18 HIMMEL UND HÖLLE Uwe Janson .................................................. 46 CONCENTRATING ON THE IMAGE A portrait of director Jan Zabeil ..................................................... 20 ICEMAN Felix Randau ...................................................................... 46 AN INTERNATIONAL FOCUS FOR SUCCESS IN MY ROOM Ulrich Köhler ............................................................. 46 22 A portrait of One Two Films ............................................................. JIM KNOPF UND LUKAS DER LOKOMOTIVFÜHRER NEWS & NOTES ................................................................................ 24 Dennis Gansel .................................................................................. 47 DER KLEINE RABE SOCKE – SUCHE NACH DEM NEW FEATURES VERLORENEN SCHATZ Verena Fels, Sandor Jesse ...................... 47 AMELIE RENNT MOUNTAIN MIRACLE – LASS DEN SOMMER NIE WIEDER KOMMEN AN UNEXPECTED FRIENDSHIP Tobias Wiemann ........... .............. 31 Alexandre Koberidze ....................................................................... 47 AXOLOTL OVERKILL Helene Hegemann ...................................... 32 MARINA, MABUSE UND MORITURI Kathrin Anderson .................. 48 DIE BLUMEN VON GESTERN MATA HARI & MADEMOISELLE DOCTEUR Kai Christiansen ......... 48 THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY Chris Kraus .................................. 33 NUR GOTT KANN MICH RICHTEN Özgür Yildirim .......................... 48 ICH HAB VON DIR ERZÄHLT OSTWIND – AUFBRUCH NACH ORA I SPOKE ABOUT YOU Christoph Otto ............................................... 34 Katja von Garnier ................. 49 EINE SACHLICHE ROMANZE MANIFESTO Julian Rosefeldt .......................................................... 35 Laura Lackmann ............................. 49 RAKETE PERELMAN SO WAS VON DA Jakob Lass .......................................................... 49 ROCKET PERELMAN Oliver Alaluukas ........................................... 36 DER UNSICHTBARE FILM Anton Gonopolski ................................. 50 WESTERN Valeska Grisebach .......................................................... 37 URSULA MAYER GEGEN DEN REST DER WELT Petra Lüschow ............................................................................... 50 NEW DOCUMENTARIES WAS UNS NICHT UMBRINGT Sandra Nettelbeck .......................... 50 DRIES Reiner Holzemer .................................................................. 38 Shareholders & Supporters ............................................................ 53 FRANCOS ERBE – SPANIENS GERAUBTE KINDER FRANCO’S Film Exporters ................................................................................. 54 LEGACY – SPAIN’S STOLEN CHILDREN Inga Bremer .................. 38 Imprint .............................................................................................. 55 3 IN BERLINLIN GFQ 1-2017 IN COMPETITION © zero one film/bpk/Stiftung Schloss Moyland/Joseph Beuys Archiv/Ute Klophaus BEUYS euys, the man with a hat, some felt, ANDRES VEIEL was born in 1959 in Stuttgart GENRE Biopic, Documentary YEAR OF PRO - and the Fettecke. Thirty years after and studied Psychology in Berlin. After DUCTION 2017 DIRECTOR Andres Veiel CINE- his death he still seems to be a attend ing seminars in Directing and Drama- MATOGRAPHY Jörg Jeshel PRODUCER visionary, way ahead of his time. turgy at the Artist House Bethanien in Berlin, Thomas Kufus CO-PRODUCER Christoph BBack then he was trying to patently explain he has been active writing film and theater Friedel PRODUCTION COMPANY zero one how “money shouldn’t be a commodity.” scripts and lectures at the Free University in film, in co-production with TERZ Film, SWR, He knew that money trade would undermine Berlin. His films include: A WINTERNIGHT’S ARTE, WDR RUNTIME 107 min LANGUAGE democracy. But there’s more. Beuys boxes, DREAM (doc, 1992), BALAGAN (doc, 1993) German, English FESTIVALS Berlinale 2017 parleys, lectures, and explains pictures to a winner of the IFFS Main Prize and the Ger- (In Competition) dead hare. He asks with a grin: “Do You Want man Film Award in Silver, THE SURVIVORS a Revolution Without Laughter?” His ex - (doc, 1996) winner of the Main Prize at SALES panded concept of art leads him smack in the DOK.fest München and the Adolf Grimme Beta Cinema middle of socially relevant discourse, even Award in 1998, the highly-acclaimed BLACK [email protected] today. BOX GERMANY (2001) which received the www.betacinema.com German Film Award for Best Documentary in A congenial montage of countless, previously 2002 and the European Film Award, DIE untapped visual and audio sources, director SPIELWÜTIGEN (2004), THE KICK (2006) Andres Veiel and his team created a one-of- which won the Grand Prix Cinema du Réel, a-kind chronicle: BEUYS is not a portrait in the feature IF NOT US, WHO (2011) which the common sense but an intimate look at a screened in Competition in Berlin, and his human being, his art, and his world of ideas. latest documentary BEUYS (2017). 4 GFQ 1-2017 ININ BERLINBERLIN IN COMPETITION © Marco Krüger/Schramm Film HELLE NÄCHTE BRIGHT NIGHTS erlin-based engineer Michael must THOMAS ARSLAN was born in 1962. He GENRE Drama YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2017 travel to Norway for his father’s studied Germanics and History in Munich DIRECTOR Thomas Arslan SCREENPLAY funeral. When his sister is un - and Film at the German Film & Television Thomas Arslan CINEMATOGRAPHY Reinhold willing to travel, Michael decides to Academy (DFFB) in Berlin. He has been work - Vorschneider CAST Georg Friedrich, Tristan Btake along his 14-year-old son Luis, with ing as a writer and filmmaker since 1992. His Göbel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg whom he has always had minimal contact. films include: MACH DIE MUSIK LEISER PRODUCERS Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael hopes to bond with Luis while ex - (1994), the trilogy, GESCHWISTER (1996), Michael Weber CO-PRODUCERS Maria ploring the remote region of northern Norway DEALER (1998) and A FINE DAY (DER Ekerhovd, Svein Andersen, Kjetil Jensberg, for a few days. But their first trip together SCHÖNE TAG, 2000), IM SCHATTEN (2009), Andrea Hanke PRODUCTION COMPANY is much more difficult than expected. Daily GOLD (2013), and BRIGHT NIGHTS (HELLE Schramm