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11.00hAUF DAS LEBEN!TO LIFE!95 minGlobal Screen> page 9

13.30hDER 7BTE ZWERG THE 7TH DWARF 83 min - 3DGlobal Screen> page 6

16.30hThe Match FactorySURPRISE SCREENING

9.30hWIR SIND JUNG. WIR SIND STARK.WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG.116 minBeta Cinema> page 24

13.00hVERGISS MEIN ICHLOSE MY SELF93 minThe Match Factory> page 23

15.30hMISS SIXTY98 minPicture Tree> page 18

12.00hPETTERSON UND FINDUSPETTSON AND FINDUS86 minARRI> page 20

14.30hHÜTER MEINES BRUDERSMY BROTHER'S KEEPER88 minMedia Luna> page 16

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9.00hPROMO REEL> page 26

9.30hSCHOSSGEBETEWRECKED93 minBeta Cinema> page 22

12.30hCOMING IN104 minGlobal Screen> page 11

15.30hFACK JU GOEHTESUCK ME SHAKESPEER118 minPicture Tree> page 13

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10.30hHANNAS REISEHANNA'S JOURNEY100 minMedia Luna> page 14

13.30hMONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON95 minFilms Boutique> page 19

16.30hCHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSSABOUT A GIRL104 minGlobal Screen> page 10

11.30h QUATSCH FIDDLESTICKS82 minVeit Helmer> page 21

14.30h AGNIESZKA98 minARRI> page 7

9.30hDANCING ARABS105 minThe Match Factory> page 12

11.30hALLES INKLUSIVETHE WHOLE SHEBANG124 minARRI> page 8

10.30hKAFKAS DER BAUKAFKA'S THE BURROW110 minBeta Cinema> page 17

12.30hHIRNGESPINSTER FLIGHTS OF FANCY90 minGlobal Screen> page 15

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DER 7BTE ZWERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6AGNIESZKA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7ALLES INKLUSIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8AUF DAS LEBEN! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10COMING IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11DANCING ARABS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12FACK JU GOEHTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13HANNAS REISE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14HIRNGESPINSTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15HÜTER MEINES BRUDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16KAFKAS DER BAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17MISS SIXTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19PETTERSON UND FINDUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20QUATSCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21SCHOSSGEBETE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22VERGISS MEIN ICH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23WIR SIND JUNG. WIR SIND STARK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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Genre Animation Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Harald Siepermann, Boris Aljinovic Screenplay Bernd Eilert, Douglas Welbat, Daniel Welbat, Harald Siepermann Cast Otto Waalkes, Mirco Nont­schew, Boris Aljinovic, Ralf Schmitz, Gustav Peter Wöhler, Martin Schneider, Norbert Heisterkamp, Nina Hagen (Voices) Producers Douglas Welbat Co-Pro-ducers Markus Reinecke Production Companies 7 Dwarves Animation Com­pany GmbH & Co. KG/Hamburg in co­production with Cinemendo GmbH/Mu­nich, Erfttal Film­ & Fernsehproduktion GmbH & Co. KG – Klaus Dohle/Siegburg, CC Medienproduktions und Verwaltungs GmbH/Schweinfurt, Film & Entertain­ment VIP Medienfonds 2 GmbH & Co. KG I.L./Munich, Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 4B GmbH & Co. KG/Munich and Telepool GmbH/Munich Length 83 Min Format 3D and 2D, DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version english Subtitled Version ­ German Distributor Drei Freunde / Universal Pictures

Call it clumsiness, call it bad luck: the 7th dwarf Bobo and his six friends have managed to trigger a mega crisis at Fantabularasa Castle. Just be­fore the twelfth peal of the tower bells on her 18th birthday, Princess Rose still ends up pricking her finger and falling into a deep sleep for 100 years. Thanks to Bobo, the curse of the evil witch Dellamorta has actually come to pass. Bobo and his friends are desperate to correct their mistake. But how can they awaken Rose and the court? Of course! With the kiss of true love!

The dwarves know that Rose loved Jack, the kitchen help. Unfortunately, he is now in the hands of Dellamorta‘s vassal, the terrifying dragon Burner...A hilarious mash­up of the best classic fairy tales for young and old alike, featuring a suicidal dragon, a brave little dwarf, non­stop gags, and toe­tap­ping songs in Stereo 3­D. HARALD SIEPERMANN , born in 1962 in Hattingen, was a comic illus­trator. The comic series ALFRED JODOCUS KWAK made him famous. His works also include Disney Production in the US, as MULAN, THE EMPER­OR‘S NEW GROOVE and WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, where he worked as a character designer. In the 1990‘s he became a professor at Hamburg Animation School, German Film School and Filmacademy Ludwigsburg. Together with co­director Boris Aljinovic, he started working on his direc­tor‘s debut ­ THE 7TH DWARF in 2010, before he passed away in 2013.

BORIS ALJINOVIC was born in 1967 in Berlin. He is a comic illustrator, actor and director. In film, next to many other titles, he acted as the detective in the well­known German TV­Series TATORT and was one of the dwarves in SEVEN DWARVES ­ the live­action comedy in 2006. THE 7TH DWARF is his debut as a film director.

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AGNIESZKAGenre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Tomasz E. Rudzik Screenplay Tomasz E. Rudzik Director of Photo-graphy Dorian Dragoi Cast Karolina Gorczyca, Hildegard Schmahl, Lorenzo Nedis Walcher, Elisa Schlott, Jörg Witte Producers Alexandra Kordes, Meike Kordes Co-Producers Hubert von Spreti, Antonio Exacoustos, Josef Reidinger Production Company Kordes & Kordes Film Süd/Munich, in co­production with BR/Munich, ARTE/Strasbourg, ARRI Film & TV Services/Munich Length 98 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German, Polish Subtitled Version English With backing from German Federal Film Board, German Federal Film Fund German Distributor TBA

AGNIESZKA is the story of a driven, hard­boiled woman, who, through the love of a 16­year­old boy, finds the strength to turn her back on violence and finally stop running. Without a penny in her pocket and on the run from her past, Agnieszka (30) leaves her native Poland in the middle of the night. In Munich she meets the former

ballet star Madame (70), who has now faded entirely from the public eye. She gives the anchorless Agnieszka sanctuary and a job: she starts to work for Madame as a domina. When Agnieszka meets the 16­year­old Manuel, who falls undyingly in love with her, developments pile up. Torn between her loyalty to Madame and her feelings for Manuel, Agnieszka finds the courage to regain her tenderness.

TOMASZ E. RUDZIK was born in 1979 in Poland. After graduating high school in Cologne, he studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1999­2001, followed by studies at the University of Television and Film in Munich from 2001­2009. He participated in the Andrzej Wadja Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw in 2010 and received a scholarship for the Munich Screenplay Workshop in 2010­2011. Active as a writer and di­rector, his films include: FLASCHENDREH (2002, short), TOTE INDIANER (2003, short), GARAGE LOVE (2004, short), DER SPAZIERGANG (2006, short), DESPERADOS ON THE BLOCK (2009), and AGNIESZKA (2014).

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Genre Drama, Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Doris Dörrie Screenplay Doris Dörrie Director of Photogra-phy Hanno Lentz Cast Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl, Hinnerk Schönemann, Axel Prahl Producers Molly von Fürstenberg, Harald Kügler Production Company Olga Film/Munich, in co­production with BR/Munich Length 124 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film Board, German Federal Film Fund, BKM German Distributor Constan­tin Film Verleih/Munich

THE WHOLE SHEBANG is the story of an encounter of some very diverse people, whose lives are intertwined by a fateful incident a long time ago. A melancholic comedy about mothers and daughters, about love‘s ups and downs and the shortcomings of alternative and middle­class life concepts. It‘s about the absurdity of modern traveling and our everlasting longing for the south. Can you book happiness just like a holiday – all inclusive?Apple owes her peculiar first name to her mother Ingrid. Never again does she want to live the chaotic life of her childhood. In 1967, in Spain in a tent at a hippie beach, when Apple‘s mother had a passionate love affair with Karl. Now, thirty years later, Apple‘s love life is a mere disaster, her only friend

and confidant being her dog. Ingrid, the once topless queen of the beach, still a free spirit, returns as a package holiday tourist to Torremolinos. The hippie beach has gone and she hardly recognizes the place, now distorted by hideous new hotels, invasive animators and partying youths. An encounter with a refugee landing by boat and the acquaintance with Tim, a gender bender, force Ingrid to reflect on her past. When Apple arrives in Spain to visit her mother, she is in for a big surprise. DORIS DÖRRIE was born in Hanover. After studying Acting, Philosophy and Psychology in the US, she studied at the University of Television & Film in Munich, where she now runs the Creative Writing Department. In addi­tion to directing, she is also a novelist. Her award­winning films include: NOBODY LOVES ME (KEINER LIEBT MICH, 1994), AM I BEAUTIFUL? (BIN ICH SCHÖN?,1998), ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED (ERLEUCHTUNG GARAN­TIERT, 2000), NAKED (NACKT, 2002), THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE – WHY WOMEN NEVER GET ENOUGH (DER FISCHER UND SEINE FRAU – WARUM FRAUEN NIE GENUG BEKOMMEN, 2005), HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE (2007), CHERRY BLOSSOMS ­ HANAMI (KIRSCHBLÜTEN – HANAMI, 2008), THE HAIRDRESSER (DIE FRISEUSE, 2010), BLISS (GLÜCK, 2011), and THE WHO­LE SHEBANG (ALLES INKLUSIVE, 2014).

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Genre Tragicomedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014Director Uwe Janson Screenplay Thorsten Wettcke Director of Photo-graphy Peter Joachim Krause Cast Hannelore Elsner, Max Riemelt, Sha­ron Braune, Aylin Tezel, Andreas Schmidt, Matthieu Carrière Producers Alice Brauner Co-Producers Michael Zechbauer Production Companies CCC­Filmkunst/Berlin, in co­production with ZDF/Mainz; MZ­Film/Munich; ARTE/Strasbourg Length 95 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Camino Filmverleih, Stuttgart

Strokes of fate have taken their toll on the ageing cabaret singer Ruth and the seriously ill young Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite lifetime experiences, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.

AUF DAS LEBEN!, which translates into English as “To Life!“ and into Hebrew as “L‘Chaim!“, the celebrated Jewish toast, is the unashamedly Harold­and­Maude­like story of two very unlikely individuals. Starring the grande dame of German cinema, Hannelore Elsner, and Max Riemelt, one of the most acclaimed young stars of German and international films.

UWE JANSON was born in 1959. He began his film career with the short RASTLOS (1987). It was only two years later that he directed the highly­acc­laimed feature film VERFOLGTE WEGE (1989), which won a German Camera Award in 1990 and a Bavarian Film Award in 1990 for Best Young Direction. A selection of his award­winning films includes: the TV movies BUSINESS WITH FRIENDS (1991), TO RUN AND TO DIE (1994), THE THERAPIST (1997), RHAPSODY IN BLOOD (1998), WHISKY SOUR (2000), DIE GEISELN VON COS­TA RICA (2000), MS. CUPID (2001), VULKAN (2009), THE SINKING OF THE LACONIA (2011), and the feature film AT NIGHT IN THE PARK (2001).

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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Di-rector Mark Monheim Screenplay Mark Monheim, Martin Rehbock Director of Photography Daniel Schönauer Cast Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Heike Makatsch, Aurel Manthei, Simon Schwarz, Lauritz Greve, Dorothea Walda, Sandro Loh­mann Producers Martin Rehbock Co-Producers Uli Aselmann, Andreas Ch. Tönessen (Die Film GmbH); Solveig Fina, Helge Sasse (Senator Film GmbH) Production Companies Imbissfilm, Stehle & Rehbock GmbH & Co KG/Mu­nich, in co­production with Die Film GmbH/Munich, Senator Film GmbH/Berlin Length 104 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Senator/Berlin

Charleen, nearly 16, is one of those teens who seem to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Maybe it‘s her traineeship at an under­taker‘s, or her passion for Kurt Cobain ­ Charleen seems drawn to the darker regions, even though she won‘t pass up such Hollywood­worthy, communi­on­with­nature moments like getting soaked in the rain. Her mom thinks

something‘s wrong with her, but Charleen only wants to be left in peace. One day, feeling especially melodramatic and rebellious, she decides to call it quits with life. Luckily, her botched suicide attempt doesn‘t take her to the hereafter, but to the here­in­the­hospital. Now comes real stress ­ with her crazy family, a creepy therapist, a by­the­book social worker, a perplexed best friend and a classroom full of idiots. But wait a minute, there‘s also Linus, the school nerd whom she meets at the therapist‘s. Weird for sure, but somehow caring, interested and fun to be with. In fact, life is really starting to be fun. After her first kiss with Linus and their first tentative embraces, it dawns on Charleen that the opposite of death is love ­ and that life deserves a second chance.

MARK MONHEIM , was born in 1977 and studied at the HFF Munich. He made several of short films such as MIT SECHZEHN BIN ICH WEG (30min) in 2008. CHARLEEN MACHT SCHLUSS is his feature debut, for which he was honored with the “Emder Drehbuchpreis” for best screenplay.

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Genre Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Marco Kreuzpaintner Screenplay Marco Kreuzpaintner, Jane Ainscough Director of Photography Daniel Gottschalk Cast Kostja Ullmann, Aylin Tezel, Ken Duken, August Zirner, André Jung, Mavie Hörbiger, Denis Moschitto, Hanno Koffler, Bruno Eyron, Tilo Prückner, Hildegard Schmahl, Frederick Lau, Paula Riemann and Katja Riemann Producers Gabriela Bacher, Christoph Müller, Christian Angermeyer Production Companies Summerstorm Entertainment/Berlin, in co­production with Warner Bros. Entertainment/Hamburg Length 104 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,35 Origi-nal Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Warner Bros. Entertainment/Hamburg Tom Herzner, 30, is the hair stylist for men in Berlin. He‘s attractive, glamo­rous, runs a posh salon and is an openly gay celebrity who is seen as a role model for the gay community. But when he plans his first hair­product line, the cosmetic company rep gets jittery: he feels that just targeting men is too restrictive. What about women? To get an idea of what women want, Tom is forced to work incognito at a hair salon­cum­barber­shop somewhere in an

edgy Berlin neighborhood run by the sassy, gut­honest Heidi.Heidi outfits Tom with a wig and a soccer T­shirt, and mischievously re­names him “Horst.” A few days into his undercover work, the bewildered Tom starts to enjoy his role. Heidi‘s selfless and unpretentious nature gives Tom a whole new take on things and helps him create a shampoo that will drive both sexes crazy. His main source of amazement, though, is Heidi herself, who puts up with a soccer­crazed boyfriend and has fal­len madly in love with the unattainable Tom. He, meanwhile, is being put in his place by his friends, for he, too, has fallen in love: with Heidi... MARCO KREUZPAINTNER made his breakthrough with SUMMER STORM, a coming­of­age and coming­out drama also starring Kostja Ull­mann. In 2009, Kreuzpaintner’s fantasy film KRABAT won three German Film Awards. Kreuzpaintner also directed the Roland Emmerich­produced thriller TRADE, starring Kevin Kline, in 2007.

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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Eran Riklis Screenplay Sayed Kashua Director of Photography Mi­chael Wiesweg Cast Tawfeek Barhum, Yael Abecassis, Ali Suliman, Michael Moshonov, Danielle Kitzis Producers Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon, Antoine de Clermont­Tonnerre, Michael Eckelt, Bettina Brokemper Production Companies U.C.M. United Channels Movies/Tel Aviv, Mact Pro­ductions/Paris, Riva Filmproduktion/Hamburg, Heimatfilm/Cologne Length 105 min Format DCP, 35mm Original Version Hebrew, Arabic Subtitled Version English With backing from The Israel Film Fund, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig­Holstein, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image ani­ mée German Distributor NFP marketing & distribution/Berlin  

The story of Eyad, a boy who grows up in an Arab town in Israel, and is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem – the first and only Arab to be accepted to it. Eyad desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish piers and Israeli society. He develops a friendship with Jonathan, a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of Jonathan’s family, lending strength to Edna, Jonathan’s single parent. Eyad falls in love with a Jewish girl – Naomi – and their relationship develops in

secret until it falls apart and Eyad leaves the school. Eyad is an outsider, but he wants to belong, not really knowing to whom and to what… and so he realizes that he must sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. He has to take a decision that will change his life forever. ERAN RIKLIS is one of Israel’s most acclaimed filmmakers. His most recent film is ZAYTOUN (2012) starring Stephen Dorff, a UK­France­Israel co­production from the producer of the Academy Award winner The King’s Speech. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award (Runner up). Selected filmography – as a director­screenwriter PLAYOFF (2011), THE MISSION OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER (2010), LEMON TREE (2008), THE SYRIAN BRIDE (2004), TEMPTATION (2002), ZOHAR (1993), CUP FINAL (1992), ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE DAMASCUS (1984).

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Genre Comedy, Family Entertainment, Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2013 Director Bora Dagtekin Screenplay Bora Dagtekin Director of Photography Christof Wahl Cast Elyas M‘Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Alwara Höfels, Jana Pallaske, Uschi Glas, Anna Lena Klenke, Max von der Groeben, Jella Haase, Aram Arami, Gizem Emre, Farid Bang, Laura Osswald Producers Lena Schömann, Christian Becker Co-Producer Martin Moszkowicz Production Company Rat Pack Filmproduktion/Munich, in co­production with Constantin Film Produktion/Munich Length 118 min Format DCP, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals Miami 2014, Okinawa 2014, Monte­Car­lo Film Festival de la Comédie 2014 Awards Bavarian Film Award 2013 (Audience Award), Best Director (Bora Dagtekin)/Best Leading Actor (Elyas M‘Barek)/Jury Special Prize (Cinematographer Christof Wahl) Monte Carlo 2014 With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, German Federal Film Board, Medienboard Berlin­Brandenburg, German Federal Film Fund Ger-man Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich Somebody built a goddamn school gym directly over the stolen cash his table­ dancing girlfriend Charlie buried for him. And now, ex­con Zeki Müller has no choice but to pass himself off as a substitute teacher at the Goe­the Comprehensive School, thus providing the educational system with one

more problem, i.e. the craziest teacher of all time. At night, Zeki digs secretly for his loot: during the day, he uses drastic yet effective methods to bring the unruly kids of class 10B back on track. Although his prim and proper fellow teacher Lisi Schnabelstedt condemns the unorthodox pe­dagogical approach taken by her new „colleague“, she nevertheless finds herself falling in love with Zeki and even helps him dig up something more valuable than cash, namely the remains of his own moral integrity. BORA DAGTEKIN graduated from the Film Academy Ludwigsburg in 2006. In that same year, his first comedy as a writer, WHERE IS FRED, hit the big screen, just as ARD also began broadcasting TURKISH FOR BEGINNERS. The series, written by Bora Dagtekin, was awarded with two Nymphs in Monaco, a BANFF Award in Canada, a Grimme Prize and a German TV Prize. He also won the latter two in 2007 for the DOCTOR’S DI­ARY TV Show. Bora Dagtekin’s debut feature TURKISH FOR BEGINNERS – THE MOVIE was the most successful German movie 2012 and sold nearly 2.4 million tickets. In 2013, the comedy received a Bambi Award, a Video Champion Award and a Bavarian movie audience award. SUCK ME SHAKE­SPEER is his second feature as writer/director and has attracted more than 7 million ticket buyers so far, making it one of the top ten grossing German films of all time.

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••• 13WORLD SALES Picture Tree International GmbH · Zur Börse 12 · 10247 Berlinphone +49 30 420 824 80 · pti@picturetree­international.com · www.picturetree­international.com

Genre Romantic Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2013 Director Julia von Heinz Screenplay Julia von Heinz, John Quester Director of Photography Daniela Knapp Cast Karoline Schuch, Doron Amit, Lore Richter, Maximilian Mauff, Trystan Pütter, Suzanne von Borsody, Lia Koenig, Daniel Shimshoni, Sigalit Fuchs, Tzachi Hanan Producers Jörg Siepmann, Harry Flöter, Julia Röskau Production Company 2 Pilots Filmpro­duction/Cologne, in co­production with Black Sheep Film Productions/Tel Aviv, Kings&Queens Filmproduktion/Herrsching, BR/Munich, WDR/Cologne Length 100 min Format DCP, color, cs Original Version English, German, Hebrew Subtitled Version English Festivals Cleveland 2014, Montreal 2013, Haifa 2013, Hof 2013

Hanna goes to Israel in order to push her career by working with disabled people. Itay, the israeli social worker picks on Hanna with Holocaust jokes and cynical comments on German history, whilst obviously flirting with her. She initially reacts with rejection, but after a while she becomes interested in her family‘s history, and also in Itay…

JULIA VON HEINZ was born in 1976 in Berlin. After a degree in Cine­matography, she worked as an assistant to Rosa von Praunheim at the “Kon­rad Wolf” University of Film and Television in Potsdam­Babelsberg. In 2007 she founded Kings & Queens Filmproduktion with John Quester. Her films have won important awards including the German Film Award, Bavarian Television Award and Golden Sparrow and were shown at many internati­onal festivals. Her feature films include: WAS AM ENDE ZÄHLT (2007), STANDESGEMÄSS (2008), HANNI & NANNI 2 (2011) and ROSAKINDER (2013), an episode film with the directors Chris Kraus, Axel Ranisch, Robert Thalheim, and Tom Tykwer, and HANNAS REISE (2013).

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14 ••• WORLD SALES Media Luna New Films UG · Ida Martins · Aachener Str. 24 · 50674 Cologne/Germany

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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Di-rector Christian Bach Screenplay Christian Bach Director of Photography Hans Fromm Cast Tobias Moretti, Jonas Nay, Stephanie Japp, Ella Frey, Hanna Plass Producers Andreas Richter, Annie Brunner, Ursula Woerner Co-Producers Ralf Zimmermann (Glory Film GmbH), Nathalie Scriba (Roxy Film GmbH) Production Companies Roxy Film GmbH/Munich, in co­pro­duction with Glory Film GmbH/Munich, Bayrischer Rundfunk/Munich and ARTE/Strasbourg Length 90 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Movienet Filmver­leih/München One thing is certain: 23­year­old Simon loves his parents Hans and Elli and little sister Maya, and does everything in his power to help them cope with Hans. The once celebrated architect has long been suffering from schizo­phrenia, and is becoming visibly more afflicted – and violent. It is Simon who essentially runs the household as Elli works long hours, and lovingly takes care of Maya. When Simon meets the pretty and quick­witted Verena, he falls head over heels in love for the first time. And even though she is a hos­

pital trainee, he refuses to tell her the truth about his father. He still hopes that Hans will accept his illness, and that the family can live normally once again. Yet Simon also fears that he might inherit the illness one day too...

Torn between his growing affection for Verena and his love for his increa­singly unpredictable father, Simon maneuvers himself into a near­fatal situ­ation and realizes that he cannot change his father’s life, but only his own... CHRISTIAN BACH was born 1977 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After high school he attended the European Film College in Denmark, where he star­ted making short films as director, screenwriter and editor. Bach worked for Gemini Film, Cologne, where he assisted on international feature film productions. In 2009, he received his diploma in directing at the Academy for Television and Film in Munich, Germany. At this time, he was still focusing on producing short films like HEAT STROKE and BEHIND THE DUNES as director and screenwriter. His debut feature was FLIGHTS OF FANCY (2014), with Tobias Moretti and Jonas Nay, who both won Best Actors‘ trophies at the Bavarian Film Award 2013 for their performances.

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••• 15WORLD SALES Global Screen GmbH · Sonnenstr. 21 · 80331 Munich/Germanyphone +49­89­24 41 25 95 00 · fax +49­89­24 41 29 55 20 · info@globalscreen.de · www.globalscreen.de

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Di-rector Maximilian Leo Screenplay Susanne Finken Director of Photogra-phy Matteo Cocco Cast Sebastian Zimmler, Nadja Bobyleva, Robert Finster Producer Jonas Katzenstein Production Companies Augenschein Filmpro­duktion/Cologne Length 88 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,35 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals Berlinale 2014 Gregor‘s life is running as perfectly as he had planned, until his brother disappears. Gregor keeps his brother’s disappearance as a secret. First because he thinks too little of it, then because he starts thinking too much about it.

MAXIMILIAN LEO (b. 1979) graduated from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with a focus in feature film directing in 2009. He maintained excel­lent contacts with young directors and script writers ever since. He is acti­vely involved in the development of the films dramatic structure. In 2011 and 2012 he was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. In 2014 his debut film MY BROTHERS KEEPER (HUETER MEINES BRUDERS) had been selected for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

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16 ••• WORLD SALES Media Luna New Films UG · Ida Martins · Aachener Str. 24 · 50674 Cologne/Germany

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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Jochen Alexander Freydank Screenplay Jochen Alexander Freydank Director of Photography Egon Werdin Cast Axel Prahl, Josef Hader, Kristina Klebe, Robert Stadlober, Roeland Wiesnekker, Devid Striesow, Fritz Roth, Erwin Leder Producer Jochen Alexander Freydank Production Company Mephisto Film/Berlin Length 110 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English With backing from German Fe­deral Film Fund, Nordmedia, Saar Medien German Distributor Neue Visio­nen Filmverleih/Berlin

KAFKA‘S THE BURROW is based on the unfinished novel of the same name by Franz Kafka, which has never previously been adapted for film. It tells the story of a man in his prime who, having seemingly achieved everything, has entrenched himself in his burrow, a fortress­like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to ignore it, there it is: the world outside. Sur­veillance cameras should ensure his safety and security, but the nightmare outside can‘t be stopped: they know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth... and they are on their way.

KAFKA‘S THE BURROW is a film about isolation and dissociation, fear, and loneliness in our time.

JOCHEN ALEXANDER FREYDANK was born in 1967 in East Berlin. He started his career in the early 90s as an editor and assistant director for various television and film productions. In 1999, after five rejections from film schools in Berlin and Potsdam, he decided to set up his own film production company, Mephisto Film. His first short film was the macabre comedy HAPPY END, followed by the short film EMERGENCY. In 2002, he made the satiric short film DUTY, which had its world premiere at the Mon­treal World Film Festival and was subsequently shown at more than 40 other international festivals. Freydank then directed, co­wrote and produced the short film TOYLAND, which was screened around the world at numerous film festivals and won more than 30 international awards. In February 2009, TOYLAND won the Oscar® for Best Live­Action Short Film. Parallel to his work as a short film director, Freydank also wrote screenplays for several TV movies and series, and directed commercials, stage plays and two TV movies. KAFKA‘S THE BURROW is his feature film debut.

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••• 17WORLD SALES Beta Cinema GmbH · Grünwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germanyphone +49­89­67 34 69 828 · fax +49­89­6 73 46 98 88 · beta@betacinema.com · www.betacinema.com

Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Sigrid Hoerner Screenplay Jane Ainscough Director of Photogra-phy Matthias Fleischer Cast Iris Berben, Edgar Selge, Carmen Maja Antoni, Björn von der Wellen, Jördis Richter Producers Corinna Eich, Sigrid Hoerner, Helge Sasse Production Companies Bavaria Pictures/Munich, Moneypenny Filmproduktion/Berlin, Senator Film Produktion/Berlin Length 98 min For-mat DCP, color, 1:2,39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Senator Film Verleih GmbH/Berlin It’s All Downhill after 18.The good news is that you can live until you’re one hundred. The bad news is that society doesn’t need you after sixty. So what to do with the last third of your life? Louise and Frans both have a plan. Louise (60), a strong, indepen­dent molecular­biologist and daughter of Doris (77), decides to get pregnant and have a baby. Frans (60), a gallery­owner, life­long bachelor and father of Max (27), decides to re­start his career by discovering the next rising star

in the contemporary art scene. While struggling to redefine themselves, correct past mistakes, make up for lost time and avoid total ridicule, Loui­se’s and Frans’ paths cross. Obsessed with Romy, his 27 year­old intern and regular sex­mate, the last thing Frans needs is to fall in love with a sixty year­old woman with frozen eggs and a sperm donor. But he does. Ob­sessed with turning back the biological clock and finally finding out what it feels like to hold her own baby in her arms, the last thing Louise needs is to fall in love with the father of her “anonymous” sperm donor. But she does.

SIGRID HOERNER was born in Cologne and studied Film, Theater and Media Management at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1998, she founded Moneypenny Filmproduktion GmbH, an independent production company and received numerous awards and nominations for the films she produced. Hoerner is a member of the German Film Academy, the European Film Aca­demy and, since 2006, the ACE Producer’s Network. Miss Sixty is her debut feature as a director.

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Genre Comedy/Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Darko Lungulov Screenplay Darko Lungulov Director of Pho-tography Mathias Schoeningh Cast Boris Milivojevic, Natasa Tapuskovic, Dragan Bjelogrlic Producers Darko Lungulov, Snezana Penev, Felix Eisele, Katja Siegel, Ognen Antov, Aneta Lesnikovska, Bernhard Stegmann, Boris Matic Executive Producer Mike Downey Production Companies av medien/Stuttgart, Penrose Film/Berlin, Papa Films/Belgrade, This and That Pro­ductions/Belgrade, Dream Factory/Skopje, Aka Film/Skopje, Propeller Film/Zagreb Length 95 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,35 Original Version Serbian Subtitled Version English Festivals Karlovy Vary East of the West

In a dying town in Serbia daydreamer Marko is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. When an old communist­era monument is re­moved from the Main Square, he comes up with the idea to build a monu­ment to Michael Jackson in order to save his town and seduce his wife again. But the town’s mayor has his own plans.

DARKO LUNGULOV , originally from Serbia, moved to New York City where he obtained BFA in film and video from City College of New York. From 1997 to 2003 he has worked as documentaries director at the production com pany Spiral Pictures/Ross Institute; most notably: Sonic Convergence ­ featuring Quincy Jones. At the same time Darko taught production courses at Long Island University. In 2004 Darko’s documentary ESCAPE won the Au dience Award at Hamptons International Film Festival and was screened at numerous documentary festivals since (IDFA Amsterdam, Leipzig, Go East and Santiago de Chile Film Festival).At Tribeca Festival 2009 Darko’s debut feature film HERE AND THERE won Best NY Narrative Award at its world premiere. Since Tribeca Festival, HERE AND THERE won a total of 20 awards at more than 50 international festivals. It was theatrically distributed in USA, Germany, Switzerland, Hun­gary, Greece and sold to total of 21 territories, so far. In 2010 Darko Lungulov served as juror at Tribeca Festival. He is also a Film Consultant for Rocket­Hub, a New York based global crowd­funding platform. and president of board of BellDocs ­ International Festival of Documentary Films, Belgrade.

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••• 19WORLD SALES Films Boutique GmbH · Köpenicker Str. 184 · 10997 Berlin/Germanyphone +49­30­69 53 78 50 · fax +49­30­69 53 78 51 · info@filmsboutique.com · www.filmsboutique.com

Genre Family Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Ali Samadi Ahadi Screenplay Thomas Springer Director of Photo-graphy Mathias Neumann, BVK Cast Ulrich Noethen, Marianne Sägebrecht, Max Herbrechter Producers Thomas Springer, Helmut G. Weber, Helge Sasse, Tania Reichert­Facilides, Sigrid Strohmann Production Company Trade­wind Pictures/Köln, Senator Film/Berlin in co­production with Senator Film/München, Network Movie GmbH & CO. KG/Köln, ZDF/Mainz Length 86 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Ver-sion English Festivals Giffoni FF 2014 (Section +16)

Old man Pettson lives in a small, red house, spending his time chopping wood, doing odd jobs, working on his inventions, fishing and taking care of his chickens. It seems he has everything he needs in life. However, some­times Pettson feels lonely. One day his neighbour, Beda Andersson, who takes care of everything warmheartedly, gives him a small tomcat, so the old man has a bit of company. Pettson names him Findus and raises him lovingly. His happiness is perfect when the small cat begins to speak: it is the start of a wonderful, apparently inseparable friendship.

PETTSON AND FINDUS is based on the Swedish author Sven Nordqvist‘s internationally loved children‘s books of the same name (translated into more than thirty languages already).

ALI SAMADI AHADI was born in 1972 in Iran and took his final school examinations in Hanover where he also studied Sociology and Electronic Media Design followed by Film in Kassel. He has been working as an inde­pen dent director and editor since 2000. A selection of his films includes: AFRICA-MAYIBUYE (2002), CULTURE CLAN (2003), LOST CHILDREN (2005, in co­direction with Oliver Stoltz), SALAMI ALEIKUM (2009), THE GREEN WAVE (2010), 45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH (2013)

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20 ••• WORLD SALES ARRI Worldsales · Antonio Exacoustos, Moritz Hemminger · Türkenstr. 89 · 80799 Munich/Germany

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Genre Children’s Film, Comedy, Family Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Veit Helmer Screenplay Hans­Ullrich Krause, Veit Helmer Director of Photography Felix Leiberg Cast Benno Fürmann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Alexander Scheer, Rolf Zacher, Samuel Finzi u.a. Pro-ducer Veit Helmer Production Companies Veit Helmer­Filmproduktion/Berlin, in co­production with NDR/Hamburg Length 82 min Format DCP, color, 1:1,85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals Zlin 2014 German Distributor Farbfilm Verleih/Berlin Bollersville is average. Its inhabitants get to test every new product before it hits the market. In fact, they are not only proud to be average, they do all they can to stay average! And if that means putting all the grandparents into an old people’s home to keep to the statistical average, then that’s what they do!The children of Bollersville are no longer keen on being human guinea pigs. With the help of sleeping pills, they knock out the adults and start working on their own adventurous plan to set a new world record. The result is... to­tal chaos! Fear not! Because the grandparents escape from the old people’s

home and convince the adults that just because something looks broken doesn’t mean it necessarily is. With the help of a coati, the children manage to fill the swimming pool with milkshake. The world record is official! In annoyance, the product testers leave the village. From now on the children and grandparents work together, thinking up new world records.

VEIT HELMER was born in 1968 and has been making films since he was 14. He studied Directing at the University of Television & Film in Munich and co­produced A TRICK OF LIGHT by Wim Wenders. He became known for his offbeat short films which earned him more than 50 awards at numerous international film festivals. His features include TUVALU (1999), which was shown at 62 festivals and won over 30 awards, GATE TO HEAVEN (2003), ABSURDISTAN (2007), BAIKONUR (2011), and QUATSCH (2014).

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WORLD SALESending August 2014: Veit Helmer-Filmproduktion · Kastanienallee 55 · 10119 Berlin · phone +49 30 217 77 77 starting from September 2014: Beta Film · Claudia Schmitt · Grünwalder Weg 28d · 82041 Oberhachingphone +49­89 673 469 825 · Claudia.Schmitt@betafilm.com · www.betafilm.com

Genre Comedy, Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Sönke Wortmann Screenplay Oliver Berben Director of Photography Maher Maleh Cast Lavinia Wilson, Jürgen Vogel, Juliane Köhler, Anna Stieblich, Stefan Gwisdek, Pauletta Pollmann Producers Oliver Berben, Tom Spieß Pro-duction Companies Constantin Film Produktion/Munich, Little Shark Enter­tainment/Cologne, in co­production with WDR/Cologne, ARTE/Strasbourg, Ger hard Lidl Film/Wörth Length 93 min Format 35 mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version English With backing from Film­ und Medienstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich

WRECKED tells the story of three completely normal days in the life of Elizabeth Kiehl: parenting, organic food and therapy are just as much a part of her everyday life as the common visits with her husband to a brothel. The young woman in her early 30s is highly neurotic, always worrying and is afraid of pretty much everything – except sex… and that’s why it is so import­ant to her. She not only wants to be the perfect mother, but also the perfect wife and lover. Radically open, self­confident and full of ferocious humor, WRECKED is the portrait of a vulnerable young woman who tries to please everyone without losing her own sanity.

SÖNKE WORTMANN was born in Marl in 1959 and attended the Univer­sity of Television & Film in Munich and the Royal College of Art in London. His graduation film, DREI D (1988), received the Eastman Promotional Award at the Hof Film Days and was nominated for a Student Oscar® in 1990. His debut feature film MAYBE, MAYBE NOT was released in 1994. It became one of the most successful German films of the post­war era. The two­hour documentary DEUTSCHLAND. EIN SOMMERMÄRCHEN on the World Cup 2006, produced from over 100 hours of film material, is the most successful documentary in German cinemas. In addition, his most highly­acclaimed films include: ALONE AMONG WOMEN (1991), LITTLE SHARKS (1992), MR BLUESMAN (1993), THE SUPERWIFE (1996), CAM-PUS (1998), ST. PAULI NIGHT (1999), THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN (2000), THE MIRACLE OF BERN (2003), POPE JOAN (2009), THE WEDDING TAPE (2012), and WRECKED (2014).

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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Jan Schomburg Screenplay Jan Schomburg Director of Photogra-phy Marc Comes Cast Maria Schrader, Johannes Krisch, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sandra Hüller Producers Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel Production Company Pandora Film/Cologne Length 93 min Format DCP Original Ver-sion German Subtitled Version English Festivals Rotterdam 2014 (In Com­petition), Sofia 2014 With backing from FiSti, DFFF, FFA, MEDIA German Distributor Real Fiction Lena Ferben has lived almost half a lifetime when she loses all of her me­mories, the entire “I” of her self. Her husband is suddenly a stranger, her friends are unknown to her, her whole life is a fictional narrative. She must decide whether to become who she was or to remain someone else… 

JAN SCHOMBURG was born in 1976 in Aachen. After receiving a degree in Visual Communication from the Kassel Art Academy, he studied Directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 2008, he received a scholarship to attend the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw. A selection of his films includes: the award­wining shorts HOTELZIMMER (1999), TURNVEREIN (2001), NEVER EVEN (NIE SOLO SEIN, 2004), ESTHER (2005), INNERE WERTE (TV, 2007), his feature debut ABOVE US ONLY SKY (ÜBER UNS DAS ALL, 2011), and LOSE MY SELF (VERGISS MEIN ICH, 2014).

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••• 23WORLD SALES The Match Factory GmbH · Michael Weber · Balthasarstr. 79­81 · 50670 Cologne/Germanyphone +49­2 21­5 39 70 90 · fax +49­2 21­5 39 70 910 · info@matchfactory.de · www.the­match­factory.com

Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2014 Director Burhan Qurbani Screenplay Burhan Qurbani, Martin Behnke Director of Pho-tography Yoshi Heimrath Cast Devid Striesow, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Joel Basman, Saskia Rosendahl, Thorsten Merten, Paul Gäbler, David Schütter, Jakob Bieber, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Mai Duong Kieu, Aaron Le, Larissa Füchs, Axel Pape Producers Jochen Laube, Leif Alexis Co-Producers Frank Evers, Helge Neu­bronner Production Company UFA Fiction/Ludwigsburg, in co­production with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, in cooperation with ARTE/Strasbourg, cine plus Filmproduktion/Berlin, UFA Cinema/Potsdam Length 116 min Format DCP, color/b&w, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Versions English, French With backing from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin­Bran­denburg, Nordmedia, BKM, German Federal Film Fund, Jerusalem International Film Lab German Distributor Zorro Film GmbH /Munich

It is impossible to forget the images from the 24th August 1992 when, in the eastern German city of Rostock, a rampaging mob, to the applause and chee­ring of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential buil­ding containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as „The Night Of The Fire.“ The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany.

WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG. recounts the incident from the per­spectives of three very different characters. Lien is a Vietnamese woman who settled in Germany, but at the end of the day she will be fighting for her life wondering if the place she called home could ever be one for her. Ste­fan and his friends are part of the night’s violent turmoil. Young and angry, bored during the daytime, they look forward to the nightly riots and clashes with the police and foreigners. Unable to cope with his grief at the loss of a friend, Stefan gets lost in a circle of violence. Stefan’s father Martin is an ambitious local politician, trapped in a dilemma: does he advance his career or stand up for his ideals and take responsibility, which includes that for his son?

BURHAN QURBANI ‘s family fled Afghanistan in 1979, seeking political asylum in Germany. After finishing school in Stuttgart, he worked in the theater as a dramatist‘s assistant and later as a director‘s assistant. In 2002, he enrolled at the Filmakademie Baden­Württemberg to study Directing. His short films have been screened at festivals around the world and won numerous prizes. SHAHADA (2010), his graduation project and feature de­but, premiered in the competition of the Berlinale (2010) and won, among other awards, the Golden Hugo in Chicago.

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Genre Family Entertainment Length of Promo 2:57 Completion due in Fall 2014 Director Joachim Masannek Cast Georg A. Sulzer, Maya Lauterbach, Samuel Jakob, Klara  Merkel The sequel of V8 – START YOUR ENGINES! is again a fun and action loaded “Fast & Furious” for kids family movie. This time the V8 team needs to defend its championship and beat the Nitro­Freaks.  

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DIE VAMPIRSCHWESTERN 2 – FLEDERMÄUSE IM BAUCHVAMPIRE SISTERS 2 Genre Family Entertainment Length of Promo 2:06 Completion due in Fall 2014 Director Alain Gsponer Cast Marta Martin, Laura Roge, Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg, Richy Müller The VAMPIRE SISTERS‘ adventure continues, this time Daka, 12­year­old half­ vampire, wants to tour with her idol Murdo, the leadsinger of Krypton Krax, her favourite vampire rockband, during summer break. Her parents don’t let her go, but she plans the trip anyway. Without even noticing she tumbles into big trouble. Daka’s sister, Silvania, who is also a half­vampire, needs to prevent the worst and follows Daka… WORLD SALES ARRI Worldsales

THE FAREWELL PARTY Genre Drama/dark comedy Length of Promo 1:59 Completion due in 2014 Director Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon Cast Zeev Revah, Levana Finkelstein, Alisa Rozen, Ilan Dar, Rafael Tabor A compassionate dark comedy about friendship and knowing when to say good­bye. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self­euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma.

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DER KLEINE MEDICUSBODYNAUTS ­ THE LITTLE MEDIC Genre Animated family feature, 3D stereoscopicLength of Promo 2:13Completion due in 2014Director Peter ClaridgeVoice artists Steve Hudson (Dr. X), Jan Klingemann (deceased; Grandma Rose), Paul Bendelow (Grandpa Erwin), Julie Ann Dean (Lilly), Alison Paule Rippier (Marie), Ellen Wagner (Micro Minitec), Lizzie Waterworth­Santo (Nano), Mark Britton (Professor Schlotter), Mike McAlpine (Rappel), Steve Hudson (Serge) Twelve­year­old Nano witnesses a sinister act: evil Professor Schlotter injects Nano‘s Grandpa with a Gobot, a tiny robot that makes it possible to remotely control its victim. Nano goes to their family doctor, Dr. X, for help. But incredible things are happening in Dr. X‘s practice as well: together with genius scientist Micro Minitec, the doctor has developed a miniaturisation procedure with which he shrinks a submarine and sends it through the human body on a journey of medical discovery. Nano and his friend Lilly are miniaturised and embark on the risky journey into his Grandpa’s body to defeat the Gobot. But Professor Schlotter and his henchman Serge will not surrender easily. They storm Dr. X’ practice and overpower the scientists. Now Nano and Lilly are stuck in Nano‘s Grandpa‘s body, left to their own devices. They have to face not just the Gobot, but also dangerous killer cells, searing stomach acid and the confusing maze of the brain. Time is of the essence because the oxygen supply in the submarine is limited. It‘s a good thing the talking pink rabbit Rappel that Professor Schlotter keeps around for experiments is on their side and has an axe to grind with Pro­fessor Schlotter...

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IM LABYRINTHLABYRINTH OF LIES  Genre DramaLength of Promo 2:08Completion due in 2014Director Giulio RicciarelliCast Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Gert Voss, Johann von Bülow, Friederike Becht In LABYRINTH OF LIES the economic miracle is changing the life of Germans in postwar Germany. Most of them are sick of the war and prefer to push their guilt to the back of their mind. When a journalist (André Szymanski) identifies a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz, no one wants to take notice. But a young prosecutor (Alexander Fehling – INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS / YOUNG GOETHE) takes on the case and can‘t even be stopped by his boss. During his research he realizes that some Germans claim that they never heard the expression „Auschwitz,“ while others try to forget about it. As the resolute prosecutor doesn‘t give up, the Attorney General Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss) retains him to take charge of the investigations. Struggling with an overload of information, the young attorney blunders into a labyrinth of guilt and lies where he almost gets lost.

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DIE EINSAMKHEIT DES KILLERS VOR DEM SCHUSSA HITMAN’S SOLITUDE BEFORE THE SHOT  Genre Black ComedyLength of Promo 2:46Completion due in Fall 2014Director Florian Mischa BöderCast Benno Fürmann, Mavie Hörbiger, Wolf Roth 

The over­ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn‘t had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme‘s strict rules – withdrawn, no social contact and constantly undercover. One day, the shy Rosa crashes into his car and life. Before he knows it, Koralnik is having dinner with her. For the first time, he can flee his everyday misery for an eve­ning of company. But then the telephone rings. It’s Koralnik‘s first job. With Rosa alongside, Koralnik sets off on a chaotic odyssey through a night in which nothing goes according to plan. It is only when Koralnik‘s target is revealed to be none other than one of his colleagues that the rigid concept by which he lives finally comes into question. He is confronted with the dilemma of either pro­tecting his secret programme or drawing a line under his unfulfilled existence as a killer. It is the biggest liar of them all, Rosa, who forces him to confront his own life’s lie.

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MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGERMARA AND THE FIREBRINGER

Genre Live Action Family Fantasy FeatureLength of Trailer 1:22Completion due in approx. October 2014Director Tommy KrappweisCast Jan Josef Liefers, Anja Kling, Christoph Maria Herbst, Eva Habermann, Maja­Celiné Probst Mara faces many challenges. She is being bullied at school and her single mom is drifting into an extreme esoteric spirituality. She just wants to be a normal kid! But when Mara starts to have visions of ancient gods she soon discovers that her biggest challenge is hidden in the past. With the help of a Professor for ancient Mythology she discovers that the Twilight of the Gods is approaching and that she is the only one who has the ability to travel back in time and the power to save us all.

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