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BERLINALE 2017
ANA, MON AMOUR by Calin Peter Netzer . BEUYS by Andres Veiel . SPOOR by Agnieszka Holland . IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT by Matti Geschonneck A PROMINENT PATIENT by Julius Ševcík . THE KING’S CHOICE by Erik Poppe . THE SAME SKY by Oliver Hirschbiegel . THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY by Chris Kraus . COLD HELL by Stefan Ruzowitzky . TEXT FOR YOU by Karoline Herfurth . BIBI & TINA – PERFECT PANDEMONIUM by Detlev Buck . THE LEGEND OF TIMM THALER OR THE BOY WHO SOLD HIS LAUGHTER by Andreas Dresen . CONNI & CO by Franziska Buch . RICO, OSKAR AND THE MYSTERIOUS STONE by Neele Leana Vollmar . SHIVERSTONE CASTLE by Ralf Huettner . THE DAY MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH by Nicole van Kilsdonk . THE HAPPY PRINCE by Rupert Everett . WERK OHNE AUTOR by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck . REFUGE (WT) by Eran Riklis . 3 WAY JUNCTION by Juergen Bollmeyer . THE INVISIBLES by Claus Räfle . THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER by Aku Louhimies
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONANA, MON AMOUR by Calin Peter Netzer .................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 6
BEUYS by Andres Veiel .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 10
SPOOR by Agnieszka Holland .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 14
IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT by Matti Geschonneck ...........................................................................................................................................................................................Page 18
A PROMINENT PATIENT by Julius Ševcík .................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 22
THE KING’S CHOICE by Erik Poppe .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 26
THE SAME SKY by Oliver Hirschbiegel .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 30
MARKETTHE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY by Chris Kraus ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 32
COLD HELL by Stefan Ruzowitzky .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 34
TEXT FOR YOU by Karoline Herfurth ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 36
FAMILY ENTERTAINMENTBIBI & TINA – PERFECT PANDEMONIUM by Detlev Buck .............................................................................................................................................................................. Page 38
THE LEGEND OF TIMM THALER OR THE BOY WHO SOLD HIS LAUGHTER by Andreas Dresen ................................................................................................. Page 38
CONNI & CO by Franziska Buch ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 38
RICO, OSKAR AND THE MYSTERIOUS STONE by Neele Leana Vollmar ...................................................................................................................................................Page 40
SHIVERSTONE CASTLE by Ralf Huettner ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 40
THE DAY MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH by Nicole van Kilsdonk ...................................................................................................................................................................Page 40
UPCOMINGSTHE HAPPY PRINCE by Rupert Everett ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 42
WERK OHNE AUTOR by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ...........................................................................................................................................................................Page 43
REFUGE (WT) by Eran Riklis ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Page 44
3 WAY JUNCTION by Juergen Bollmeyer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Page 45
THE INVISIBLES by Claus Räfle ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 46 THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER by Aku Louhimies .........................................................................................................................................................................................................Page 47
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SCREENING SCHEDULE SCREENING SCHEDULE
WED Feb 15th 12:15 pm Zoo Palast 3 LOLA AT BERLINALE
MON Feb 13th 11:00 am CinemaxX 14 MARKET SCREENING
FRI Feb 17th 12:00 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA AT BERLINALE
SUN Feb 12th 12:15 pm dffb-Kino MARKET SCREENING
FRI Feb 10th 11:10 am EFM Cinemobile MARKET SCREENINGTUE Feb 14th 9:00 am CineStar 1 MARKET SCREENING
THU Feb 16th 12:15 pm Zoo Palast 3 LOLA AT BERLINALE
SAT Feb 11th 3:30 pm CinemaxX 10 PRIVATE SCREENINGSUN Feb 12th 11:00 am CineStar 4 PRIVATE SCREENING WED Feb 15th 9:30 pm CinemaxX 9 PRESSFRI Feb 17th 8:00 pm Kino International PREMIERESAT Feb 18th 6:00 pm Cubix 8 BERLINALE SPECIALSUN Feb 19th 2:00 pm CinemaxX 7 BERLINALE SPECIAL
SAT Feb 11th 10:45 am CinemaxX 4 PRIVATE SCREENINGMON Feb 13th 9:00 am CinemaxX 4 PRIVATE SCREENINGFRI Feb 17th 11:45 am Berlinale Palast PRESSFRI Feb 17th 7:00 pm Berlinale Palast PREMIERESAT Feb 18th 12:00 pm Friedrichstadt-Palast COMPETITIONSAT Feb 18th 3:00 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITION SAT Feb 18th 6:30 pm Friedrichstadt-Palast COMPETITIONSUN Feb 19th 3:30 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITION
FRI Feb 10th 12:50 pm CinemaxX 4 PRIVATE SCREENINGMON Feb 13th 1:30 pm CinemaxX 10 PRIVATE SCREENINGTUE Feb 14th 12:45 pm Berlinale Palast PRESSTUE Feb 14th 7:00 pm Berlinale Palast PREMIEREWED Feb 15th 9:30 am Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITIONWED Feb 15th 12:00 pm Friedrichstadt-Palast COMPETITIONWED Feb 15th 6:00 pm Friedrichstadt-Palast COMPETITIONSUN Feb 19th 9:30 am Zoo Palast 1 COMPETITION
SAT Feb 11th 12:45 pm CineStar 1 MARKET SCREENINGTUE Feb 14th 12:40 pm CinemaxX 1 MARKET SCREENING
SAT Feb 11th 5:30 pm CinemaxX 10 PRIVATE SCREENINGTUE Feb 14th 11:30 am CinemaxX 10 PRIVATE SCREENINGWED Feb 15th 6:30 pm CinemaxX 9 PRESS THU Feb 16th 9:30 pm Zoo Palast 1 PREMIERESAT Feb 18th 9:30 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele BERLINALE SPECIAL GALA
FRI Feb 10th 2:45 pm CinemaxX 4 PRIVATE SCREENINGSUN Feb 12th 9:00 am Berlinale Palast PRESSSUN Feb 12th 4:00 pm Berlinale Palast PREMIEREMON Feb 13th 9.30 am Friedrichstadt-Palast COMPETITIONMON Feb 13th 12:00 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITIONMON Feb 13th 3:30 pm CinemaxX 10 MARKET SCREENINGTUE Feb 14th 12:15 am Zoo Palast 1 COMPETITIONTHU Feb 16th 15:45 pm CinemaxX 9 MARKET SCREENINGSUN Feb 19th 9:30 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele COMPETITION
FRI Feb 10th 5:00 pm CinemaxX 4 MARKET SCREENINGMON Feb 13th 2:00 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA AT BERLINALE
FRI Feb 10th 9:00 am EFM Cinemobile MARKET SCREENINGSUN Feb 12th 4:15 pm Zoo Palast 2 LOLA AT BERLINALE
FRI Feb 10th 8:00 pm CineStar 3 PRESS & INDUSTRYSUN Feb 12th 5:20 pm CineStar 4 MARKET SCREENINGTUE Feb 14th 5:30 pm CinemaxX 17 MARKET SCREENINGTHU Feb 16th 6:00 pm Zoo Palast 1 PREMIEREFRI Feb 17th 9:00 am CinemaxX 7 PANORAMASAT Feb 18th 5:00 pm Cubix 9 PANORAMASUN Feb. 19th 6:30 pm Zoo Palast 1 PANORAMA
THU Feb 16th 3:00 pm Haus der Berliner Festspiele PREMIERE
A PROMINENT PATIENT
TEXT FOR YOU
ANA, MON AMOUR
THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY
BEUYS
THE KING’S CHOICE
COLD HELL
THE SAME SKY
IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT
SPOOR
THE LEGEND OF TIMM THALER
BIBI & TINA – PERFECTPANDEMONIUM
CONNI & CO
RICO, OSKAR AND THEMYSTERIOUS STONE
SHIVERSTONE CASTLE
THE DAY MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH
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ANA, MON AMOUR is a story about a man’s struggle to find out how the unseen, the unspoken, even the unthought shaped his life.
“I think it’s important you understand what kept you with Ana.” Toma is told during a therapy session.
The film doesn’t deal with the erosion of Toma’s relationship with Ana, but rather with the actual impossibility of properly building a relationship. The lovers behave like communicating vessels in physics; they flow into each other with their own unfulfilled needs. They are caught up deeply in what psychoanalysis calls transference: the redirection of existing feelings and desires towards a new object.
The truth always finds a way to survive its denial.
THE DIRECTOR
Calin Peter Netzer was born in 1975 in Petrosani, Romania. His first feature film MARIA (2003) was screened in prestigious festivals, won awards in Locarno (Special Prize of the Jury and the Bronze Leopard) and it was nominated for the EFA Awards. His second feature, MEDAL OF HONOR (2009), was selected in more than 30 festivals and awarded in Thessaloniki, Turin, Miami, Durres, Los Angeles and Zagreb. CHILD’S POSE (2013) received the Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and is the only Romanian feature to have won this award. With his most recent feature, ANA, MON AMOUR (2017), Netzer returns to the Official Selection at Berlinale.
FEB 11TH, 10:45 AM, CINEMAXX 4 (PRIVATE SCREENING) / FEB 13TH, 9:00 AM, CINEMAXX 4 (PRIVATE SCREENING)COMPETITION
ANA, MON AMOUR
Toma meets Ana while they are both studying literature. Ana has a mild neurotic disorder and suffers from panic attacks. Toma follows her to every dark corner she ends up in, he fights his parents when they reject her, finally accepts being a father and marries her, becoming her babysitter, her driver, her everything. Toma appears to be in control of the couple’s relationship, when in fact he is just gravitating towards a woman he cannot understand,
pushing his endurance to the limit trying to save her.
When Ana overcomes her fears and adapts to the outside world, Toma remains alone, trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, striving to understand the whirlwind that he has gone through.
DRAMA / ROMANIAN / 127 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE ANA, MON AMOUR
DIRECTOR Calin Peter Netzer (CHILD‘S POSE)
DOP Andrei Butica (CHILD‘S POSE)
CAST Mircea Postelnicu Diana Cavalioti Adrian Titieni Vasile Muraru
PRODUCER Calin Peter Netzer and Oana Iancu
PRODUCED BY Parada Film in co-production with augenschein Filmproduktion and Sophie Dulac Productions
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding Romania, Germany, Austria, France, Greece, Turkey, China and Ex-Yugoslavia
THE NEW FILM BY GOLDEN BEAR WINNER CALIN PETER NETZER (CHILD’S POSE).
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Beuys was a hero of my youth. He was important because he wanted to reach the heart of society with his art, liberating it from its museum-confined straitjacket. His vision of art was dynamite in the Swabian suburb where I grew up. When I once again turned intensively to his work in 2013, I realized that Beuys was just as relevant as ever. This is why I decided to make a feature film about him. I viewed 300 hours of video and nearly as much audio material by and about Beuys. Beuys always revealed and concealed himself in riddles and contradictions, not least through his agile humor. We realized that this openness should also be the film’s leitmotiv. The project, in which we were planning to use 30 percent archival material, turned into a film that currently consists of nearly 95 percent archival material. No one could have foreseen that the film would be completed during a time when more and more people are longing for a past that never existed. In light of these anti-Utopias, Joseph Beuys is more important to me today than ever, since he insists on the possibility that the world can be changed, based on the capabilities of each individual person: “Nothing needs to remain the way it is.”
THE DIRECTOR
Andres Veiel was born in 1959 in Stuttgart and studied Psychology in Berlin. He then attended seminars in Directing and Dramaturgy at the Artist House Bethanien in Berlin from 1985-1989. Since then, he has been active writing film and theater scripts and lectures at the Free University in Berlin. His films include: A WINTERNIGHT‘S DREAM (documentary, 1992), BALAGAN (documentary, 1993) winner of the IFFS Main Prize and the German Film Award in Silver, THE SURVIVORS (documentary, 1996) winner of the Main Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival Munich and the Adolf Grimme Award in 1998, the highly-acclaimed BLACK BOX GERMANY (2001) for which he received the German Film Award for Best Documentary in 2002 and the European Film Award, DIE SPIELWÜTIGEN (2004), THE KICK (2006) which won the Grand Prix Cinema du Reel, and IF NOT US, WHO (2011).
BEUYS
Beuys, the man with a hat, some felt, and the Fettecke. Thirty years after his death he still seems to be a visionary, way ahead of his time. Back then he was trying to patiently explain how “money shouldn´t be a commodity.” He knew that money trade would undermine democracy. But there is more. Beuys boxes, parleys, lectures and explains pictures to a dead hare. He asks with a grin: “Do You Want a Revolution Without Laughter?“ His expanded
concept of art leads him smack in the middle of socially relevant discourse, even today.A congenial montage of countless, previously untapped visual and audio sources, director Andreas Veiel and his team created a one-of-a-kind chronicle: BEUYS is not a portrait in the common sense but an intimate look at a human being, his art and his world of ideas.
DOCUMENTARY / GERMAN & ENGLISH / 107 MIN. / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE BEUYS
DIRECTOR Andres Veiel (IF NOT US, WHO?)
DOP Jörg Jeshel
PRODUCER Thomas Kufus
PRODUCED BY zero one film in co-production with Terz Filmproduktion, SWR/ARTE and WDR
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding Germany and Switzerland
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT A VISIONARY ARTIST. SEEN THROUGH A CONGENIAL MONTAGE OF ARCHIVAL SOURCES BEUYS APPEARS MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER BEFORE.
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FEB 10TH, 12:50 AM, CINEMAXX 4 (PRIVATE SCREENING) / FEB 13TH, 1:30 PM, CINEMAXX 10 (PRIVATE SCREENING)
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Our film could be called: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD WOMEN.The world in which we live in, certainly Poland in which this story takes place, is such a place. The main character of Spoor – Janina Duszejko (Agnieszka Mandat) is honest, passionate but also mad. Mad with anger, obsessions, love for animals and with compassion for marginalized people. She is full of rebellion and outrage.Her cruel, anarchic revolt is not meant to outrage us. On the contrary – the viewer should identify with her. Is that immoral? Yes, but only thanks to extreme provocation (which is often underlined with humour and tenderness) can we uncover the injustice and cruelty of the world that Duszejko inhabits. She and her contemporaries, she and her animals. The protagonist leads us through a landscape in which the beauty of nature and human friendship are mixed with mud, corruption, cruelty, stupidity and blood.Spoor does not end with a simple moral. The genres are mixed, as are reality and imagination. The audience may come away thinking that it was all just in the mind of Duszejko who suffers from an allergy to light...
THE DIRECTOR
Agnieszka Holland, born in Warsaw, graduated from FAMU, the Prague film school in 1971. She began her film career working with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. Her film debut was AN EVENING AT ABDON‘S (1975) and her first feature film was PROVINCIAL ACTORS (1978), one of the flagship pictures of the „cinema of moral disquiet“ and the winner of the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. EUROPA EUROPA (1990) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay, a Golden Globe and a New York Film Critics Circle Award. Holland had also received an Academy Award nomination in 1985 as Best Foreign Language Film for ANGRY HARVEST (1985). She also collaborated with her friend, Krzysztof Kieslowski, on the screenplay of his trilogy, THREE COLOURS (1993). In 2008 Holland was honored with a retrospective of her films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Her film IN DARKNESS (2011) received numerous awards and a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards.
SPOOR
Duszejko, an eccentric retired construction engineer, an astrologist and a vegetarian, lives in a small mountain village on the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved dogs disappear. A few months later she discovers a dead body of her neighbour, a poacher. The only traces leading to the
mysterious death are those of roe deer hooves around the house…As time goes by, more grisly killings are discovered. The victims, all hunters, belonged to the local elite. The police investigation proves ineffective. Duszejko has her own theory: all murders were committed by wild animals…
BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL “DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD”ADAPTED BY THE THREE TIMES ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINEE AND DIRECTOR OF “HOUSE OF CARDS”
DRAMA / POLISH / 128 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE POKOT
DIRECTOR Agnieszka Holland (IN DARKNESS, BURNING BUSH)
DOP Jolanta Dylewska (IN DARKNESS) and Rafal Paradowski
CAST Agnieszka Mandat Wiktor Zborowski Jakub Gierszal Miroslav Krobot Patricia Volny
PRODUCER Krzysztof Zanussi and Janusz Wachala
PRODUCED BY TOR Film Production in co-production with Heimatfilm, Nutprodukce, Nutprodukcia, Chimney, Agora, Odra-Film, National Audiovisual Institute, HBO Europe, ZDF, Arte, Czech Television, Film Väst
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding Poland, Hungary, German Speaking Territories, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Scandinavia
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FEB 10TH, 2:45 PM, CINEMAXX 4 (PRIVATE SCREENING) / FEB 13TH, 3:30 PM, CINEMAXX 10 (MARKET SCREENING)
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IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT – the radiance of the communist utopia grows pale. A system is dying, a family is breaking apart.Four generations. Wilhelm and Charlotte, dyed-in-the-wool communists. People who sank with the ship, who believed in a righteous world and fought for it, sacrificed themselves for it. With their rigid tunnel vision, they ignored the life that was going on around them. The euphoric utopia of communism proved to be an illusion.Charlotte’s son Kurt, a historian, disenchanted after being interred in Soviet labor camps, but believing in the possibility of democratic socialism. His Russian wife Irina, who served in the Red Army. Grandson Sascha, who escaped to the West and who believes that individual freedom and socialism are irreconcilable opposites. Great-grandson Markus, for whom the GDR will remain little more than a childhood memory.I lived with these people, I experienced them. It is worth telling their story while they are still in our memories – also to help us understand the turmoil of our own days.
THE DIRECTOR
Matti Geschonneck was born May 8, 1952 in Potsdam, son of well-known Brechtian and DEFA actor Erwin Geschonneck and studied directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Moving to West
Germany in 1978, he started gathering initial practical experiences working as a directorial assistant for many years.In the early nineties, Geschonneck made his cinematic directorial debut with the surreal mystery drama „MOEBIUS“. After that, he dedicated himself to the small screen and for 18 years he would direct many, often multi-award winning features.His thriller “ANGST HAT EINE KALTE HAND“ received the Special Prize for Directing of the Deutsche Akademie für Darstellende Künste. He is a two-time winner of the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award), most recently in 2013 for “DAS ENDE EINER NACHT”.He received the Student Jury Award at the Television Film Festival in Baden-Baden in 2015 as well as the Goldene Kamera Award in 2016 for his production “EIN GROSSER AUFBRUCH”.
THE SCREENWRITER
WOLFGANG KOHLHAASE was born in 1931 in Berlin and is regarded as one of the most important screenwriters in German film history. He gained international recognition and numerous awards for works such as BERLIN, SCHOENHAUSER CORNER (1957), THE GLEIWTZ CASE (1961), I WAS NINETEEN (1968), SOLO SUNNY (1980), THE LEGEND OF RITA (2000), SUMMER IN BERLIN (2005), AS WE WERE DREAMING (2015), and IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT (2017).
IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT
East Berlin, in the early autumn of ’89. The Powileit family celebrates the 90th birthday of Wilhelm, a former resistance fighter, returned expatriate and incorrigible Stalinist. His wife Charlotte is hosting the festivities where neighbors, acquaintances and dignitaries deliver flowers and give speeches as if nothing were amiss in the outside world. But someone is missing, and he is the only one who in Charlotte’s opinion knows how to set up the
extending table for the cold buffet: Sascha, her grandson. No one suspects that Sascha fled to West Germany just a few days ago… Through the eyes of Sascha’s father, Kurt – a historian, Gulag survivor, unhappily married to to his Russian wife Irina – we experience IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT as a snapshot in time, showing us disintegration of a family and a political system.
BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL BY EUGEN RUGE, TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES AND SOLD TO 40 COUNTRIES.
HISTORICAL DRAMA / GERMAN / 100 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE IN ZEITEN DES ABNEHMENDEN LICHTS
DIRECTOR Matti Geschonneck
SCREENWRITER Wolfgang Kohlhaase
DOP Hannes Hubach
CAST Bruno Ganz (DOWNFALL) Hildegard Schmahl (THE TASTE OF APPLE SEEDS) Sylvester Groth (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) Evgenia Dodina (THE ATTACK) Natalia Belitski (JOY OF FATHERHOOD) Alexander Fehling (LABYRINTH OF LIES) Gabriela Maria Schmeide (THE WHITE RIBBON)
PRODUCER Oliver Berben and Sarah Kirkegaard
PRODUCED BY MOOVIE in co-production with ZDF
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding German Speaking Territories
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FEB 11TH, 5:30 PM, CINEMAXX 10 (PRIVATE SCREENING) / FEB 14TH, 11:30 AM, CINEMAXX 10 (PRIVATE SCREENING)
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A PROMINENT PATIENT is a deep journey into the soul of a man as well as an insight into European pre-war politics and Czechoslovakia’s role in it. The film is built around two storylines. One tells an intimate and crude story of JAN MASARYK, a son of the founder of Czechoslovakia, who finds himself in a mental institution after losing his land to Nazi Germany. The other is an insight into European pre-war politics as experienced by the main character. The rhythm of the film is based on the constant clash between light and dark. The retrospective storyline is imbued with the feel of permanent “fog”, symbolizing what is in store for Europe in late 1930s. In a personal dimension, conversely, the film “brightens” as its protagonist regains his desire to fight back.I created a contemporary feel within a historical picture as I believe the conflict between submitting to a greater power and standing up for European values is constantly present. Today, once again, European countries must re-define their values and their sense of European unity and heritage in the face of an aggressor, this time against the Russian Federation.
THE DIRECTOR
Born in Prague, Julius Ševcík studied at the New York film academy and the Directing Department of the Film and TV School (FAMU) in Prague, receiving a master’s degree in 2006. Over the years, he shot numerous short films, his graduation feature film RESTART, and his debut co-production feature NORMAL - THE DUSSELDORF RIPPER. His movies have been acclaimed and awarded at film festivals in New York, Clearmont Ferrand, Mannheim Heidelberg, Taipei, and Moscow. In 2009, Ševcík received the Best Director award at Shanghai International Film Festival for NORMAL - THE DUSSELDORF RIPPER.
A PROMINENT PATIENT
Winter 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man without a nation. In America, he tries to forget the personal and political betrayals he and his country have suffered – but these events shadow his every step. Having served as the Czechoslovak
ambassador in London, Masaryk had failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the ruination of his country. With the help of Dr. Stein, a German immigrant and psychiatrist, and the beautiful writer Marcia Davenport, Masaryk tries to overcome his demons and relives the dramatic events leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War.
THE TRUE STORY DEVOTED TO THE LIFE AND FORTUNES OF JAN MASARYK, A DIPLOMAT AND LATER CZECHOSLOVAK FOREIGN MINISTER, TAKES US BACK TO THE RUN-UP TO WORLD WAR II.
DRAMA / ENGLISH & CZECH / 114 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE MASARYK
DIRECTOR Julius Ševcík (NORMAL)
DOP Martin Štrba
CAST Karel Roden (BOURNE SUPREMACY) Hanns Zischler (MUNICH) Arly Jover (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) Oldrich Kaiser (THE RED CAPTAIN) Paul Nicolas (TOMMY) Milton Welsh (THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) Eva Herzigová (MODIGLIANI) Emília Vášáryová (UP AND DOWN)
PRODUCER Rudolf Biermann and Julius Ševcík
PRODUCED BY IN Film Praha and Rudolf Biermann Slovakia in co-production with Czech Televison, Radio and Television Slovakia and ZDF/ARTE
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding Czech, Slovakia and Hungary
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FEB 11TH, 3:30 PM, CINEMAXX 10 (PRIVATE SCREENING) / FEB 12TH, 11:00 AM, CINESTAR 4 (PRIVATE SCREENING)
NOMINATIONS
CZECH FILM AWARDS14
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KING’S CHOICETHE
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History has always been a huge part of my life. Books, articles, research, films. And Norway during World War II has probably received most attention by historians. But the most central part of the war has not yet been told, neither on TV nor film, the part that helps us to understand the event, and the gravity of it, the fact that war is death and danger.
THE KING’S CHOICE is the dramatic story of those who were the primary target for the attack, those who were pressured, and those whom the Nazis finally attempted to murder - the King, his family and the Government. It is the story of King Haakon, and of the attack on Norway. But it’s also a universal story about a loving father and his son.
THE KING’S CHOICE is a dream come true, a moving period drama and a portrait of a central but also mythical moment in our common history. With this film we aspired to enthrall the audience and to broaden the scope of what a biographical fiction film can be.
THE DIRECTOR
Erik Poppe (born 24 June 1960) started his career as a war photographer working for the newspaper Verdens Gang and Reuters. He was soon awarded by the Norwegian press association and World Press Photo. In 1991, he graduated as a cinematographer at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm and worked as Director of Photography on several features, amongst them EGGS by Bent Hamer.
His subsequent work as a commercials and feature films director gathered him numerous national and international, and both jury and audience, awards. Among others, Poppe received the Norwegian Film Critics‘ Award for Best Feature for HAWAII, OSLO in 2005, TROUBLED WATER in 2009 and A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT in 2014. He is the only filmmaker to have received the price three times.
A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT was his first English-language film, which won the Special Grand Prix of the jury at its world premiere in Montreal. His “Oslo Trilogy” and A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT have been sold to over fifty territories worldwide.
PANORAMA
THE KING’S CHOICE
THE KING’S CHOICE is based on the true the story about the three dramatic days in April of 1940, when the King of Norway is presented with the monstrous ultimatum from the Germans: surrender or die.With German Air Force and soldiers hunting them down, the royal family is forced to flee from the capital. They decide to go separate ways, not knowing if they’ll ever see each other again.
While Crown Princess Märtha leaves Norway with the children to seek refuge in Sweden, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav stay on to fight the Germans.After three days of desperately trying to evade the Germans, King Haakon makes his final decision, one that may cost him, his family and many Norwegians their lives.
WAR DRAMA / NORWEGIAN & GERMAN / 130 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE KONGENS NEI
DIRECTOR Erik Poppe (1,000 TIMES GOOD NIGHT, TROUBLED WATER)
DOP John Christian Rosenlund (O‘HORTEN)
CAST Jesper Christensen (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) Anders Baasmo Christiansen (KON-TIKI) Tuva Novotny (JALLA! JALLA!) Karl Markovics (THE COUNTERFEITERS) Katharina Schüttler (GENERATION WAR) Juliane Köhler (NOWHERE IN AFRICA)
PRODUCER Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae
PRODUCED BY Paradox Film 1 AS in co-production with Nordisk Film Production, Film Väst, Zentropa Sweden, Copenhagen FilmFund, Newgrange Pictures
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, France, Germany, Austria, Ex-Yugoslavia, China, Taiwan, Colombia, Japan and Australia
ERIK POPPE'S COMMANDING TAKE ON THE TRUE EVENTS THAT TURNED A BRAVE MAN INTO THE PEOPLE'S KING.
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East Germany (GDR), 1974. Lars Weber – young, ambitious, impenetrable – will soon have to prove his loyalty to his country; the 25-year-old knows that every step forward in the GDR comes with strings attached... For Lars, this means being sent to West Berlin as an East-German “Romeo” agent. His mission is to seduce women working in sensitive positions in the West. One of them is Lauren Faber, a high-ranking British intelligence officer and lonely single mother of a rebellious teen. Lauren’s younger colleague Sabine Cutter is deeply attracted to Lars. However, none of the two is aware of the secret they share…While Lars and Lauren constitute the core of this volatile saga of passion and deceit, other richly detailed characters on both sides of the Wall are also moving deftly among Stasi and CIA spies. The gay teacher Axel cannot bear the oppressiveness of the GDR any longer. He and a group of friends undertake one of the most foolhardy escape attempts imaginable: digging a tunnel beneath the Wall. Lars’ cousin Klara, in turn, is an excellent swimmer who’s blissful when she gets the chance to join the GDR Olympic Swim Team.
Having grown up in the shadow of her brilliant sister Juliane, Klara will do anything to become a winner and starts taking pills that produce disturbingside effects...As the the Iron Curtain seems impenetrable, the protagonists on either side of the wall seek security, humanity and freedom. They may have different systems and different lives, but they all share the same sky.
THE DIRECTOR
Academy Award nominee Oliver Hirschbiegel, who has already brought films like DOWNFALL and, most recently, 13 MINUTES to the screens,once again dedicates himself with THE SAME SKY to another important chapter of contemporary German history, the 1970s. The distinguished castincludes Tom Schilling (GENERATION WAR); Sofia Helin (THE BRIDGE); Ben Becker, Friederike Becht and others.
PERIOD DRAMA / GERMAN / 6 X ONE HOUR & 3 X TWO HOURS / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE DER GLEICHE HIMMEL
DIRECTOR Oliver Hirschbiegel (DOWNFALL, 13 MINUTES)
DOP Judith Kaufmann
CAST Tom Schilling (GENERATION WAR, OH BOY) Sofia Helin (THE BRIDGE) Ben Becker (COMEDIAN HARMONISTS) Friederike Becht (LABYRINTH OF LIES, THE READER) Hannes Wegener (GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) Anja Kling
EXECUTIVE Benjamin Benedict, Nico Hofmann, PRODUCER Sebastian Werninger, Jan Mojto, Ferdinand Dohna, Paula Milne and Tracy Scoffield
PRODUCED BY UFA FICTION / Beta Film for ZDF in co-production with Mia Film in association with Rainmark Films
ORDINARY PEOPLE LIVING IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES.
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Totila Blumen is a Holocaust researcher. As such, he has no sense of fun. This applies in a general sense and specifically when his colleagues try to turn an Auschwitz conference into a corporate-sponsored media event. In the process, they trample all over the memory of the recently deceased Professor Norkus – whom Totila revered. On top of all this, Totila is lumped with an intern: a very young and irritating French student named Zazie. As she follows Totila like a puppy and has a fling with his boss, the otherwise serious and measured academic becomes a nervous wreck.
But it’s no good moaning about it – certainly not to his stressed wife, who demands that he gripe less and learn to accept what his life has to offer. And so Totila ploughs on with his work, aided by the overwrought, eccentric Zazie. She, however, appears to have an agenda of her own – and it’s closely related to Totila’s background and well-guarded family secret.
ROMANTIC COMEDY / GERMAN / 123 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE DIE BLUMEN VON GESTERN
DIRECTOR Chris Kraus (FOUR MINUTES)
DOP Sonja Rom
CAST Adèle Haenel (THE UNKNOWN GIRL) Lars Eidinger (CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, EVERYONE ELSE) Hannah Herzsprung (FOUR MINUTES, THE READER) Jan Josef Liefers (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX)
PRODUCER Danny Krausz, Kathrin Lemme, Chris Kraus, Gerd Huber and Kurt Stocker
PRODUCED BY Dor Film West and FOUR MINUTES Filmproduktion in co-production with Dor Film, SWR, ARD Degeto, NDR, ORF, BR and HR
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FEATURING TWO TIMES CESAR-WINNER ADÈLE HAENEL AND LARS EIDINGER IN AN IMPOSSIBLE ROMANTIC COMEDY, IN EFFECT, A LOVE STORY PROGRAMMED TO SELF-DESTRUCT.
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As audacious but uneven as you’d imagine an offbeat romantic comedy exploring the legacy of the Holocaust two generations on would be.
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Özge is a young Turkish-born taxi driver, who attends evening classes and is also an ambitious Thai-boxer. She rarely speaks and trains hard. One day she witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The suspect is an insane serial killer, inspired by Islam. And he is convinced that Özge has seen him. A life-and-death struggle ensues.
In his job as a police officer, Christian Steiner often has contact with people from immigrant backgrounds. Some years ago his wife left him, taking their child with her. Since then Steiner has been living with his father and cares for him as best he can. Steiner finds it very difficult to trust other people, especially women.
THRILLER / GERMAN / 92 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE DIE HÖLLE – INFERNO
DIRECTOR Stefan Ruzowitzky (THE COUNTERFEITERS)
DOP Benedict Neuenfels (THE COUNTERFEITERS)
CAST Violetta Schurawlow (HEAD FULL OF HONEY) Tobias Moretti (THE DARK VALLEY) Sammy Sheik (AMERICAN SNIPER) Friedrich von Thun (SCHINDLER‘S LIST) Robert Palfrader
PRODUCER Helmut Grasser and Thomas Peter Friedl
PRODUCED BY Allegro Film in co-production with The Amazing Film Company
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VIENNA. A YOUNG WOMAN WITNESSES A BRUTAL MURDER. THE OFFENDER SEEMS TO BE A CRAZED SERIAL KILLER. A LIFE-AND-DEATH STRUGGLE ENSUES...
Powerful genre cinema. Intoxicating.
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Clara simply can’t get over the loss of her beloved Ben, who died two years ago in a car accident. Even her headstrong roommate Katja is barely able to coax her friend back to life. However, Clara continues sending wistful text messages to Ben’s old cell phone number . . . without realizing that the number has been recently reassigned. With the result that her romantic,
loving memories pop up directly in the display window of sports journalist Mark. Perplexed yet touched, he reads through all this longing-turned-SMS . . . and in his confusion, stumbles from one blunder to the next regarding his girlfriend Fiona. All the same: he’s got to find the mysterious stranger at all costs, and enlists his best friend David to help him in the search . . .
DRAMEDY / GERMAN / 107 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE SMS FÜR DICH
DIRECTOR Karoline Herfurth
DOP Andreas Berger
CAST Karoline Herfurth (SUCK ME SHAKESPEER) Friedrich Mücke (FRIENDSHIP!) Nora Tschirner (RABBIT WITHOUT EARS) Frederick Lau (VICTORIA)
PRODUCER Christopher Doll and Lothar Hellinger
PRODUCED BY Hellinger/Doll Filmproduktion in co-production with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany
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A ROMANTIC DRAMEDY ABOUT A WOMAN SENDING TEXTS TO HER LATE FIANCÉ AND FINDING NEW LOVE WHERE SHE DIDN´T EXPECT TO.
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SOFIE CRAMER.
A German romcom on an American level of quality. (FAZ)
The German answer to SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE.Sad, funny, sassy, touching, real.
Great romantic cinema.(FILMSTARTS)
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€ 6 MILLION BOX OFFICE
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BIBI & TINA - PERFECT PANDEMONIUM
GERMAN / 110 MIN / COMPLETEDIt’s perfect pandemonium when Bibi and Tina meet a runaway boy with an attitude problem, who turns out to actually be a girl, named Adea.Adea‘s uncle is so narrow-minded and stubborn that even with all her magic spells, Bibi can’t manage to get the two to reconcile.Meanwhile, Falkenstein Castle is being renovated, which is driving the Count to his wits‘ end. Especially since Alex is planning to hold a music festival at Falkenstein and is determined to go through with it over his father’s objections.And if all that was not enough, Tina gets kidnapped. Despite the complete chaos, one thing is clear - in the end, real change comes from everybody working and pulling together, not by magic.
DIRECTOR Detlev Buck (HANDS OFF MISSISSIPPI)
DOP Marc Achenbach
PRODUCER Sonja Schmitt, Christoph Daniel, Detlev Buck and Marc Schmidheiny
PRODUCED BY DCM Pictures GmbH in co-production with Boje Buck Produktion GmbH, Kiddinx Studios GmbH and ZDF
THE INVENTIVE LIVE-ACTION ADAPTION OF TEEN-ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE IN THE BELOVED BIBI & TINA UNIVERSE FROM PROLIFIC MAVERICK FILMMAKER DETLEV BUCK.
CONNI & CO
GERMAN / 104 MIN / COMPLETEDFor twelve-year-old Conni, things get off to a rough start in seventh grade when she has to change schools. And even worse: she’s not allowed to keep her runaway dog, Frodo. Frodo’s owner is the ruthless principal Möller, who makes life hell not only for his students: when Conni and her friends discover that Möller is also a cruel animal abuser, they vow to take desperate action to save Frodo. With courage, solidarity, and resourceful-ness, Conni & Co. plunge into an exciting and fun-packed adventure.
DIRECTOR Franziska Buch
DOP Konstantin Kröning
PRODUCER Christian Popp and Siegfried Kamml
PRODUCED BY Producers at Work Film in co-production with Barefoot Films and Warner Bros. Entertainment
BASED ON THE BESTSELLING CHILDREN’S BOOK SERIES “CONNI”.
THE LEGEND OF TIMM THALEROR THE BOY WHO SOLD HIS LAUGHTER
GERMAN / 102 MIN / COMPLETEDTimm Thaler is poor, but he laughs a lot, and often. His laughter is so charming and contagious that the diabolical Baron Lefuet wants, at all costs, to have it for himself. And so the world’s richest man makes the boy a dubious offer: if Timm agrees to sell him his laugh, he’ll win every bet he ever makes in the future. After hesitating at first, Timm signs the contract. But though he can now seemingly fulfill his every wish, without his laugh, he is a different person.
Of all of Timm’s friends, only Ida and Kreschimir continue to stick with him. Together they hope to rescue Timm from the clutches of the baron and, through a clever trick, win back his inimitable laugh.
DIRECTOR Andreas Dresen (CLOUD 9)
DOP Michael Hammon
PRODUCER Oliver Berben
PRODUCED BY Constantin Film in co-production with ZDF, ARRI Media & B.A. Produktion, Trixter & Cinemendo and Rolize
BASED ON THE YOUNG-ADULT FICTION BY JAMES KRÜSS.
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THE DAY MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH
DUTCH / 91 MIN / COMPLETEDTen-year-old Toda lives in a bakery with her dad, the best pastry chef in town. Toda knows everything there is to know about cakes and pastries and loves it when her dad plays the trumpet. But one day, everything changes: her dad is called away unexpectedly to defend his country. Toda has to undertake an adventurous and challenging journey to the unknown neighbouring country where her mother lives in order to stay safe. On the way she meets strange people, encounters absurd situations and finds a special new friend. Toda is a bright, optimistic and resilient girl who doesn’t give up easily, but will she eventually find her mum?
DIRECTOR Nicole van Kilsdonk
DOP Gregg Telussa N.S.C
PRODUCER Fleur Winters, Eva Eisenloeffel and Leontine Petit
PRODUCED BY Lemming Film in co-production with Nukleus Film, A Private View and Minds Meet
SHIVERSTONE CASTLE
GERMAN / 93 MIN / COMPLETEDAs if Stephan’s parents’ constant quarrels weren’t enough, his mother now reveals that they’re going to send him to boarding school, hoping to improve his grades. But the boys at Shiverstone Castle turn out to be a far cry from teacher’s pets. After initial hesitation, Stephan is admitted into a secret brotherhood, and that’s when the fun at boarding school begins, since the boys are at war with the girls from the nearby Rosenfels boarding school. While the girls are plotting revenge against the “Shiveries,” the boys are planning their next prank. What they don’t know yet is that they’ll all have to be together at the castle celebration, of all times. A disaster. . . or maybe not?
DIRECTOR Ralf Huettner (VINCENT WANTS TO SEA)
DOP Armin Dierolf
PRODUCER Annie Brunner, Andreas Richter, Ursula Woerner, Alexis v. Wittgenstein
PRODUCED BY Roxy Film and Violet Pictures in co-production with Tele München
BASED ON THE BESTSELLING CHILDREN’S BOOK SERIES BY OLIVER HASSENCAMP.
BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JOKE VAN LEEUWEN.
RICO, OSCAR AND THE MYSTERIOUS STONE
GERMAN / 94 MIN / COMPLETEDRico is happy - his best friend Oskar and his father now live with him in the same building. But then their neighbor Fitzke dies and Rico inherits his stone collection. Even though Oskar thinks they are worthless, Rico disagrees. Sure enough, in the very night after the funeral, someone breaks in to Fitzke´s apartment. As they investigate the next day, they find the most precious stone missing!To Rico, the case is clear-cut: They will have to get the stone back. The boys quickly decide to take the train to Prerow where they hope to find the main suspect, Fitzke´s foster daughter Julia.Their journey to the Baltic Sea will not only be their biggest adventure but also become the greatest test their friendship has ever had to endure…
DIRECTOR Neele Leana Vollmar
DOP Felix Novo de Oliveira
PRODUCER Philipp Budweg and Robert Marciniak
PRODUCED BY Lieblingsfilm in co-production with Fox International Productions (Germany)
BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING CHILDREN’S BOOK.
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THE HAPPY PRINCE
This great man of letters is now a superstar on the skids. We are taken on a final nocturnal ramble through Paris. Totally inebriated Oscar falls off a table at a Varieté. In bed, dying, the past floods back. We immerge into the great love stories of Oscar Wilde, notably his relationship to Lord Alfred Douglas which, observed under the microscope of death, is revealed for what it really is – a passionate affair based on snobbery. And yet, through the smoky fumes of cigars and absinthe, appears a twinkle of love: Robbie.
Sternly devoted to Oscar like no other friend before. Oscar’s visions intensify. Past scenes of passion, ignorance and humiliation are reviewed in his minds eye. By now, Oscar’s brain has flickered into oblivion, the spectres of memory haunt him: His wife Constance, who he failed miserably and who still loves him, his sons, ashen and unforgiving, and at last Jesus Christ. Oscar tries to encounter suffering with irony and desperately performs the tragedy of his life to the very end.
TRAGICOMEDY, BIOPIC / ENGLISH, ITALIAN & FRENCH / APPROX. 120 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE THE HAPPY PRINCE
DIRECTOR Rupert Everett (AN IDEAL HUSBAND)
DOP John Conroy (LUTHER, THE SEA)
CAST Rupert Everett (MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING) Colin Firth (THE KING’S SPEECH, A SINGLE MAN) Edwin Thomas Colin Morgan (MERLIN) Emily Watson (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING) Tom Wilkinson (THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) Miranda Richardson (SLEEPY HOLLOW)
PRODUCER Sébastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer and Jörg Schulze
PRODUCED BY maze pictures and Entre Chien et Loup in co-production with Palomar and in association with BBC Films, Beta Cinema, Lionsgate UK, Concorde Filmverleih, Raindog Films, Movie Management Corporation, Zielke GmbH, Daryl Prince Productions, Strat et Go International and co-produced by cine plus Filmproduktion, Tele München Group, Radio Television Belge Francophone and Proximus
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THE STORY OF THE LAST DAYS OF OSCAR WILDE IN EXILE.STARRING COLIN FIRTH, EMILY WATSON, TOM WILKINSON AND RUPERT EVERETT.
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WERK OHNE AUTOR
Young artist Kurt Barnert has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets the student
Ellie, he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / GERMAN / APPROX. 120 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE WERK OHNE AUTOR
DIRECTOR Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (THE LIVES OF OTHERS)
DOP Caleb Deschanel (THE PATRIOT, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL)
CAST Tom Schilling (OH BOY, GENERATION WAR) Paula Beer (FRANTZ) Sebastian Koch (THE LIVES OF OTHERS) Saskia Rosendahl (LORE) Ina Weisse
PRODUCER Jan Mojto, Quirin Berg, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Max Wiedemann
PRODUCED BY Pergamon Film and Wiedemann & Berg Film in co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD Degeto
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FIRST OFFICIAL TEASER & SCRIPT AVAILABLE
AN EPIC PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT THREE PERIODS OF GERMAN HISTORY.FROM THE DIRECTOR OF OSCAR WINNING “THE LIVES OF OTHERS”.
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REFUGE (WT)
LEMON TREE meets JOHN LE CARRÉ in a thriller set in Germany involving a Lebanese woman (Mona - Golshifteh Farahani) and an Israeli Mossad agent (Naomi - Neta Riskin) sent to protect her. Mona and Naomi - together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg. A safehouse. A safe house. A refuge. No one saw what was coming, no one knew that this supposedly quiet fortnight would turn into a nightmare and that refuge would need to
be found elsewhere. The intimacy of the relationship that develops between the two women is exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned and choices are made that are not their own. And yet their fates take a surprising turn in this suspense laden, elegant neo-noir.
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / ENGLISH, HEBREW & ARABIC / APPROX. 105 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE REFUGE (WT)
DIRECTOR Eran Riklis (LEMON TREE)
DOP Sebastian Edschmid (THE LAST STATION)
CAST Golshifteh Farahani (PATERSON) Neta Riskin (SHTISEL) Lior Ashkenazi (WALK ON WATER, NORMAN) Haluk Bilginer (WINTER SLEEP) Yehuda Almagor (PLAYOFF) Mark Waschke (BARBARA)
PRODUCER Bettina Brokemper, Michael Eckelt, Eran Riklis and Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre
PRODUCED BY Heimatfilm, Riva Film, Eran Riklis Productions and MACT Productions in co-production with Orange Studio, ARTE France Cinema, ZDF and ARTE
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PROMO & SCRIPT AVAILABLE
TWO WOMEN TRAPPED IN A SAFEHOUSE WHERE NOTHING IS SAFE AND NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED.
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3 WAY JUNCTION
Suffering from a massive career disappointment, London architect Carl Walters travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. However, destiny soon strikes and he finds himself stranded alone in the African nowhere, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes.
Carl embarks on a bitter rite of passage, a trial only overcome if he is willing to radically change his attitude towards life. In the face of his own demise, Carl learns the simple truth: To survive, you need to act.
ADVENTURE THRILLER / ENGLISH / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE 3 WAY JUNCTION
DIRECTOR Juergen Bollmeyer (Cannes 2014 Silver Lion)
DOP Kay Madsen
CAST Tom Sturridge (ON THE ROAD) Stacy Martin (NYMPHOMANIAC I & II) Tommy Flanagan (SONS OF ANARCHY)
PRODUCER Maggie Monteith, Oliver Stoltz and Michael Auret
PRODUCED BY Spier Films, Dignity Film Finance and Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduction
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BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF UNDEFINED DESIRE, A LONGING AND A CRAVING FOR A FULL AND DARING LIFE.
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THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
The Unknown Soldier is an explosive war drama about a platoon of Finnish soldiers fighting the Soviets in the Second World War.Based on the best-selling novel by Väinö Linna and drawing from the author’s own experiences, The Unknown Soldier’s historical accuracy embraces the harsh realities of war—gritty and realistic, yet an unpolitical
and humane account.The story revolves around a diverse group of men, all at odds with how they see themselves, each other, and the common cause. Warm humour, camaraderie, and basic survival instincts are requisite for them to retain their humanity on the excruciating journey to Russia and back again.
WAR DRAMA / FINNISH / 165 MIN AND 4 X 50 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE TUNTEMATON SOTILAS
DIRECTOR Aku Louhimies
DOP Mika Orasmaa F.S.C.
CAST Eero Aho Aku Hirviniemi Jussi Vatanen Joonas Saartamo Johannes Holopainen Samuli Vauramo Arttu Kapulainen Paula Vesala
PRODUCER Aku Louhimies and Mikko Tenhunen
PRODUCED BY Elokuvaosakeyhtiö Suomi 2017 in co-production with Scope Pictures and Kvikmyndafélag Íslands
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PROMO AVAILABLE
THERE ARE STORIES THAT EVERY GENERATION SHOULD TELL THEMSELVES. THE PRESENT DOES NOT ERASE HISTORY, BUT CERTAIN THINGS FADE AWAY AND ARE LEFT IN THE BACKGROUND.
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THE INVISIBLES
Berlin, February 1943: The NS regime declares the Reich’s capital “free of Jews.” At this point in time, 7000 Jews have succeeded in going underground. Almost 1700 will survive the horrors of the war in Berlin. The Invisibles tells the stories of four of these contemporary witnesses.Hanni Lévy, who has just turned 17, has lost both of her parents. Thanks to her dyed, blonde hair, she is practically invisible to her pursuers, and strolls along the Ku’damm to pass the time away.Cioma Schönhaus has also gone underground and leads an adventurous life that consists of buying a sailboat, dining in Berlin’s best restaurants,
and becoming a forger of passports, through which he saves the lives of dozens of other Jews.And while Eugen Friede joins a resistance group that distributes anti-government leaflets, Ruth Arndt and a friend dream about life in America during the daytime; at night, she pretends to be a war widow and serves black-market gourmet foods in the apartment of an NS officer.The dramatic re-enactments are supplemented with impressive interviews with the actual people whose lives inspired this film. The two levels blend together into an intensive, emotionally moving feature film.
DRAMA / GERMAN / APPROX. 100 MIN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE DIE UNSICHTBAREN
DIRECTOR Claus Räfle
DOP Jörg Widmer (PINA, TREE OF LIFE)
CAST Max Mauff (BRIDGE OF SPIES) Alice Dwyer Ruby O. Fee (GHOSTHUNTERS - ON ICY TRAILS) Aaron Altaras Florian Lukas (GOOD BYE LENIN!) Andreas Schmidt
PRODUCER Claus Räfle, Jörg Schulze and Frank Evers
PRODUCED BY cine plus Filmproduktion in co-production with Look! Film and maze pictures
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TEASER & SCRIPT AVAILABLE
BASED ON A TRUE STORY. FOUR YOUNG JEWS SURVIVE THE THIRD REICH IN THE MIDDLE OF BERLIN BY LIVING SO RECKLESSLY THAT THEY BECOME “INVISIBLE”.
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