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JAN 29–FEB 1, 2015
Castro Theatre
San Francisco
19th Festival
of new films from Germany,
Austria & Switzerland
FEB 1–2 Goethe-Institut, S.F.
FEB 2 Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto
FEB 3 California Theatre, Berkeley
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2015 BERLIN & BEYOND SCHEDULE OF FILMS
INDEX
3 Schedule of Films
4 Sponsors & Partners
5 Welcome Remarks
6 Tribute to Hannelore Elsner
7 Opening Night Film
8 About Berlin & Beyond
9 Opening Night Party
CASTRO THEATRE
GOETHE-INSTITUT AUDITORIUM
9 Conversations with the Stars
429 Castro Street (near Market)
San Francisco, CA 94114
530 Bush Street (ground floor entry)
San Francisco, CA 94108
10 Tribute to Ronald Zehrfeld
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015
6:30 pm TO LIFE!
8:30 pm Opening Party @ Tank18 9:15 pm STEREO
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015
1:00 pm MISSION SPUTNIK
3:00 pm MIND TRIPS Shorts 2015
5:30 pm VULVA 3.0
13 Centerpiece
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015
10:00 am RUN BOY RUN
1:30 pm MACONDO
4:00 pm MY SISTERS
6:30 pm INBETWEEN WORLDS
9:15 pm THE KINGS SURRENDER
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015
11:00 am ALPHABET
1:00 pm THIS LOVELY SHITTY LIFE
4:00 pm I AM THE KEEPER
7:00 pm EXIT MARRAKECH
10:00 pm THE DARK VALLEY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015
11:00 am BELTRACCHI – THE ART OF FORGERY
1:00 pm UNLIKELY HEROES
3:30 pm AMOUR FOU
6:00 pm BEST CHANCE
8:30 pm THE WHOLE SHEBANG
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015
6:00 pm CONCRETE LOVE – THE BÖHM FAMILY
8:00 pm MY SISTERS
11 Spotlight
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16 Austrian Cinema
17 Late Show
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18 Swiss Window
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20Educational Program:
Youth 4 German Cinema
22 Children's Matinée
AQUARIUS THEATRE
23 German Panorama
430 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015
4:45 pm UNLIKELY HEROES
7:00 pm PHOENIX
9:15 pm THE KINGS SURRENDER
15 Castro Closing Night
29 Short Films
30 Become a Member
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31 CineScene
33 Credits & Acknowledgements
36 Tickets, Hours & Venues
36 Contact & Connect
CALIFORNIA THEATRE
2113 Kittredge Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015
5:00 pm BELTRACCHI – THE ART OF FORGERY
7:00 pm BEST CHANCE
9:15 pm INBETWEEN WORLDS
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Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
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WELCOME – WILLKOMMEN
Sabine Erlenwein © Barak Shrama, Sophoan Sorn © Shannon Sorn
Welcome to the 19th Berlin & Beyond
Film Festival! Join us in San Francisco at
the iconic Castro Theatre (January 29 – February 1, 2015) and at the Goethe-Institut
(February 1–2), and for first time ever, at the
Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto (February 2)
and the California Theatre in Berkeley
(February 3rd). Celebrate America’s
leading annual showcase of contemporary
film productions from Germany, Austria,
Switzerland and beyond. Since 1996, Berlin
& Beyond has been a cultural gateway
for the American public to experience the
universal spirit and vision of filmmakers from
this global region. Dotted with red carpet
premieres, the festival welcomes top talents
and films of the year from major hits to
award winners to noteworthy discoveries of
world cinema’s independent film scenes.
In Search of Truth is the pulsing theme of
this year's compelling program. Through
these cinematic journeys, we connect with
life-affirming and thought-provoking stories
that reflect on life, love, loss, memory,
leading us to reach new understandings of
ourselves and our world. The Castro's velvet
curtains will open with the US Premiere
of Uwe Janson's "To Life!" starring the
legendary actress Hannelore Elsner. We
are very honored that Ms. Elsner will be
in San Francisco to accept the Lifetime
Achievement Award in Acting, as we
celebrate her extraordinary career that has
spanned over five decades, and she is still
hard at work. The acclaimed veteran director
and author Doris Dörrie is back in town with
two new films: the compassionate mariachi
documentary "This Lovely Shitty Life" shot
in Mexico, and Castro Closing Night's
recollection comedy "The Whole Shebang"
(based on her own novel), that reunites her
with Hannelore Elsner following "Cherry
Blossoms" (2008).
With the California Premiere of "Phoenix,"
the thrilling new work from the Berlin School
leading light Christian Petzold, we continue
an ongoing showcase of a unique auteur
whose work has been captivating us since
his first cinema film, "The State I Am In"
(2000). His latest collaboration with the great
Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld garnered
astounding buzz at its Toronto premiere this
past fall. Speaking of Ronald Zehrfeld, we are
excited to celebrate his ongoing achievement
with our inaugural Spotlight Award and
to present "Phoenix" and his two other
films in this year's line-up: Feo Aladag's
Afghanistan-set "Inbetween Worlds" and
Philipp Leinemann's police force drama
"The Kings Surrender."
In its second year, our educational program
Youth 4 German Cinema (Y4GC) is bringing
eight jury members from across the US,
Canada and Mexico to San Francisco. They
have helped us pick two winning films for the
Festival Field Trips series that will screen for
students from across Northern California.
The Y4GC 2015 winner is the heartbreaking
true-life drama "Run Boy Run" by Oscarwinning director Pepe Danquart, and the
runner-up is Sudabeh Mortezai's "Macondo,"
about a refugee boy in modern-day Vienna.
Both films boldly tell of young people living
on society's margins.
A festival of discovery, Berlin & Beyond
continues to bring rare gems to its audiences,
including the first-ever international
screening of Marcus H. Rosenmüller's "Best
Chance", and the North American premiere
of the four-time Swiss Film Award winner,
"I Am The Keeper." Also lighting up the
screen are highly-anticipated works from
the festival circuit: Austrian auteur Jessica
Hausner's Cannes selection "Amour Fou";
Swiss filmmaker Peter Luisi's Locarno
Audience Award winner, "Unlikely Heroes";
Oscar-winner Caroline Link's return to Africa
with the father-and-son journey film, "Exit
Marrakech," as our Centerpiece.
And, of course, thank you our filmgoers
and film lovers, for attending the festival
year after year. We wish you an adventurous
experience with cinematic memories
to treasure.
Vielen Dank.
Respectfully,
Sabine Erlenwein
President
Sophoan Sorn
Festival Director
We gratefully acknowledge the affirming
support of our sponsors, partners
and friends from near and far, whose
empowering generosity makes this festival
possible. Likewise, we extend our heartfelt
gratitude to our hardworking and dedicated
staff, volunteers, board members, and
creative and technical collaborators. Special
thanks to the film talents and film industry
professionals for sharing their cinematic
works with us.
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Lifetime Achievement Award Tribute
HANNELORE ELSNER
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD IN ACTING
Born in Burghausen, Bavaria, in 1942,
Hannelore Elsner was classically trained at
the Munich School of Acting before becoming
a member of ensembles at Münchner
Kammerspiele and Hebbel Theatre in Berlin
and other national stages. As she honed
her stagecraft, she also took a number of
small roles in television and film until she
left the theatre to give her full attention to
the screen. Almost immediately, she saw
acclaim for the first time in Will Tremper’s
The Endless Night (1963), receiving a Best
Actress nomination at the German Film
Awards. She began carving out a powerful
niche as a character actor, working with the
auteur filmmakers of the 1970s and 1980s,
including Trip to Vienna (1973) by Edgar
Reitz, Berlinger (1975) by Alf Brustellin
and Bernhard Sinkel and the international
production Der grüne Vogel (1979) by
Hungarian director István Szabó. In 1973, in
Celino Bleiweiß's musical Aus dem Leben
eines Taugenichts, she became the first
West German film star to play a leading role
in a DEFA film, since the construction of the
Berlin Wall.
Her television milestones are myriad,
beginning in the 1960s with a role in Jürgen
Roland’s legendary Stahlnetz police series.
For her role in Oswald Döpke’s Iwanow
(1971), she won the Golden Camera. Through
the years, she graced numerous productions
including Karola Hattop’s Ich Schenk Dir
Meinen Mann (1999); Stefan Krohmer’s Ende
Der Saison (2001), for which she received
a Grimme Award; Oskar Rehler’s Beloved
Sister (2002); and the unforgettable ARD
series Die Kommissarin (Lady Cop), where
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© CCC Filmkunst
We feel immensely thrilled and honored
to welcome back to San Francisco the
legendary Hannelore Elsner, and to present
her with the Lifetime Achievement Award
in Acting, celebrating her extraordinary
career that has spanned over five decades.
A special tribute program will lead the
Opening Night screening of her latest film
To Life! on Thursday, January 29th, 2015 at
6:30 pm, at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre.
she beguiled audiences in 65 episodes from
1994 through 2006, as investigator Lea
Sommer, and won two Telestar awards in the
Best Actress category.
At turn of the new millennium, she made
a powerful comeback to the big screen,
garnering two German Film Awards (Lola)
in Gold for Best Leading Actress in her
bravura and fearless performances as Hanna
Flanders in Oskar Roehler’s No Place to Go
(Die Unberührbare, 2000), and as Marie in
the one-woman, tour de force monologue,
Mein letzter Film (2003), directed by Oliver
Hirschbiegel. Her transformative powers and
acting brilliance can also be experienced in:
Dani Levy’s Jewish-themed comedy Go for
Zucker! (2005); Doris Dörrie’s Ozu-inspired
Cherry Blossoms (2008), which opened the
14th Berlin & Beyond in 2009, with Hannelore
Elsner in person; and Hans Steinbichler’s
Promising The Moon (2011). Inexhaustible
and nonstop, she can be seen in six cinema
films that are released in 2014, including:
Christian Zübert’s Tour de Force; The
Last Mentsch, her on-screen reunion with
Mario Adorf; and two 2015 Berlin & Beyond
selections, Opening Night’s sensational
To Life!, directed by Uwe Janson, and her
reunion with director Doris Dörrie at Castro
Closing Night with The Whole Shebang.
Her list of awards is endless. Next to
the Lolas, she has been celebrated and
honored with all of the other prestigious
German film awards, including the Adolf
Grimme Prize, the Bambi, the Bavarian
Film Awards, and the German Film Critics
Award. Internationally, she received Best
Actress honors from Monte Carlo to Chicago
to Istanbul. For her involvement in the
AIDS Foundation, she has twice received
the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic
of Germany. In addition, she received the
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2006
Bavarian TV Awards; the Bavarian Order of
Merit; the Honorary Award from the Bavarian
Film Awards in 2011; and the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Hessen Film
and Cinema Prize in 2012.
Previous recipients of the Berlin & Beyond
Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award:
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Peter Sehr, 2014 (directing, posthumous)
Mario Adorf, 2012 (acting)
Wim Wenders, 2009 (directing)
Ulrich Mühe, 2008 (acting, posthumous)
Michael Verhoeven, 2006 (directing)
Bruno Ganz, 2005 (acting)
(Editorial Sources: Beta Cinema,
Beethovenfest Bonn, Global Screen)
© CCC Filmkunst /Julia Terjung
Opening Night
TO LIFE!
LUFTHANSA OPENING NIGHT FILM
AUF DAS LEBEN!
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
Presented by
US Premiere
In Person: Hannelore Elsner
95 mins. Germany (2014). DCP.
In German with English subtitles.
Director: Uwe Janson
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Max Riemelt,
Sharon Brauner, Aylin Tezel, Andreas
Schmidt
Screenwriter: Thorsten Wettcke
DoP: Peter Joachim Krause
World Sales: Global Screen, Munich
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Tank18 at 8:30 pm
Details on page 9.
This film is preceded by the Opening Night
ceremony and the Lifetime Achievement
Award tribute to Hannelore Elsner.
Adapted from the original story “If Stones
Could Cry” by Stephen Glantz. Jonas, a
young man on the run, arrives in Berlin just
in time to save Ruth's life. Evicted from her
apartment, the sarcastic but warm-hearted
Ruth, an aging Jewish cabaret singer,
saw no other way out than suicide. Jonas,
meanwhile, is driven by a secret, and is
fleeing from his love and his future. As Ruth
recovers, she and Jonas begin to form a deep
bond. Age-old Jewish culture and music
are brought into the light of day as she tells
him the story of her own impossible, tragic
love for a non-Jewish man in post-WWII
Germany, a love burdened by the legacy of
the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
As Jonas discovers Ruth's past and takes
part in her present, his companionship and
the passionate Yiddish songs of her youth
help her find the way back to life. And, upon
learning of Jonas' incurable illness, it is
she who will help Jonas find the strength
to tackle his fears, to stop fleeing, and to
forcefully propose "L'Chaim – To Life!"
© Global Screen
Thu., Jan. 29, 2015 – 6:30 pm
Uwe Janson was
born in Königswinter
in 1959. His directing
debut, the postwar
drama Verfolgte
Wege (1990) received
the Bavarian Film
Award and the
Prix Jeunesse at
the Film Festival
Locarno. He is established in the television
field in Germany as a multifaceted director
with a variety of films, including Gefährliche
Verbindung (1993), and the experimental
screen adaptation of Brecht’s Baal. In 2011
he won the Germany Comedy Prize for his
hit television series Danni Lowinski. In 2013,
The Minister received the German Film
Award nomination for Best Film. To Life! is
his most recent production.
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About Berlin & Beyond
MARIO ADORF
AYLIN TEZEL
THE FESTIVAL
Now entering its 19th year, the Berlin &
Beyond Film Festival has been the leading
festival of contemporary German cinema
in the Americas since 1996. With an annual
attendance of over 10,000 film-goers, the
festival has presented over 500 motion
pictures from German-speaking countries
in its history. It has welcomed to the San
Francisco screen and stage many celebrated
international film talents, including Mario
Adorf, Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Daniel
Brühl, Hannelore Elsner, Florian David Fitz,
Bruno Ganz, Barbara Sukowa and Wim
Wenders.
Since its inauguration in 1996, the main
venue of the festival has always been the
Castro Theatre, the famous movie palace
which celebrated its 90th anniversary in
2012. The festival is an annual tradition
for San Francisco Bay Area, and has been
a gateway for the American public to
experience the diversity, history and progress
of German-speaking countries; while
celebrating the universal spirit and vision of
filmmakers from this global region.
Top images, clockwise: (a) The famous Castro Theatre marquee
lights up for the annual Berlin & Beyond Film Festival. (b) Legendary
German actor Mario Adorf was honored with a Lifetime Achievement
Award in Acting and a mini-retrospective at the 2012 Festival. (c) Over
10,000 people attend the festival for a dazzling world of film. (d) German's rising star Aylin Tezel at the North American Premieres of her
two films, "Breaking Horizons" and "Inhale" on January 19, 2014.
(All four photographs are by Barak Shrama.)
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Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
The Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is comprised of
160 institutes in 94 countries. The San
Francisco branch has been promoting
German culture and language since 1967.
In addition to its presentation of the Berlin
& Beyond Film Festival, its year-round
cultural activities include art exhibitions,
weekly film screenings, partnerships
with local cultural institutions. Details:
www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco
Educational Program
Youth 4 German Cinema is an educational
program generously supported by Germany’s
Federal Foreign Office in conjunction with
the North American youth portal Step
Into German. Its goals are to increase
multicultural awareness among students
and educate them on the subject of
international film and film criticism, as well
as provide an entry point for youth to the
world of German cinema.
Seasonal Offerings & Expansions
For its 19th year, Berlin & Beyond has
expanded into a seasonal series that kicked
off on October 11, 2014, with the Autumn
Showcase at New People Cinema in San
Francisco's Japantown. In partnership with
the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawai’i,
Berlin & Beyond Honolulu returned for
the second year to the museum’s Doris
Duke Theatre with a weekend festival from
November 21–23, 2014, with rare films
from the 18th festival line-up, special
presentations and two "sneak preview"
films from the 19th festival, including
Doris Dörrie's The Whole Shebang on
Opening Night.
This year’s program includes a youth jury
with students from across North America, a
film camp to make a short film with visiting
filmmakers, mentored talks with experts,
and the festival field trips, which welcome
registered students from across Northern
California to free screenings. Read more on
pages 20 and 21.
Also for the first time, Berlin & Beyond
presents encore screenings at the Aquarius
Theatre in Palo Alto on February 2nd, 2015,
and at the California Theatre in Berkeley
on February 3rd. Adding to the excitement,
Christian Petzold's highly-anticipated new
film Phoenix will only screen in Palo Alto
during the festival.
GET INVOLVED
Annual Fund: Tax-deductible donations can
be made to the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Berlin & Beyond, Inc., to support the
film festival.
For information on the membership
program and benefits, go to page 30.
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For business sponsorship inquiries, email
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Opening Night Party / Special Guests
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Thu., Jan. 29, 2015
8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
© Barak Shrama (all three photos)
1345 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Celebrate the 19th Berlin & Beyond Film
Festival in San Francisco’s SoMA district at
this charming urban winery. Meet visiting
guest stars, be entertained, and savor
culinary delights and signature drinks from
San Francisco and beyond!
$45.00 film & party package includes
one admission to the 6:30 pm Lufthansa
Opening Night Film To Life! by Uwe Janson
at the Castro Theatre, one admission to the
Opening Night Party, one drink ticket and
appetizers.
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE STARS
Pepe Danquart
Doris Dörrie
Hannelore Elsner
© Stefan Klüter
© Peter Luisi
© Wilfried Witters
© CCC Filmkunst
© Jim Rakete
© Flying Moon Filmproduktion
The 19th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival is proud to welcome a glorious delegation of veteran and award-winning film talents from
German-speaking countries.
Philipp Leinemann
Peter Luisi
Ronald Zehrfeld
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Spotlight Award Tribute
RONALD ZEHRFELD
SPOTLIGHT AWARD
IN ACTING
Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1977, Ronald
Zehrfeld graduated from the prestigious
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art. It
was while he was studying there that he
was discovered by one of the great names
in theatre, Peter Zadek. He subsequently
took on leading roles in German theatre.
Following his studies he first worked
exclusively in theatre, principally with Zadek
at the Berliner Ensemble, the St. Pauli
Theater in Hamburg and the Deutsches
Theater Berlin.
In 2006, he made his film debut in Dominik
Graf’s East German coming-of-age tale,
The Red Cockatoo. In 2009 he appeared
on the big screen again in the role of
German folk hero Klaus Störtebeker in Sven
Taddicken’s 15th-century, pirate adventure
film, 12 Paces Without a Head. In 2010 he
worked with Dominik Graf for a second time,
in the acclaimed and award-winning TV
series Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (In the
Face of Crime).
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© Stefan Klüter
We are proud to celebrate the ongoing
career achievements of the talented Ronald
Zehrfeld. On this special occasion of his
visit to our festival, we will honor him with
the first-ever Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
Spotlight Award in Acting, and screen three
of his latest films, Inbetween Worlds,
The Kings Surrender and Phoenix. The
Spotlight Award will be presented on Friday,
January 30, 2015, at the Northern California
Premiere of Inbetween Worlds, at San
Francisco's legendary Castro Theatre.
He appeared in Christian Schwochow’s
Cracks in the Shell (2011), Toke Constantin
Hebbeln’s Shores of Hope (2011) as well as
giving an impressive performance alongside
Nina Hoss as the male lead in Christian
Petzold’s Barbara (2012), set in 1980s East
Germany. Barbara premiered in competition
at the Berlinale in 2012 and in the same
year Ronald Zehrfeld was nominated for Best
Actor at the German Film Awards, and the
film became Germany's Oscar entry.
All three films have screened at past editions
of the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival.
In 2013 he was in the controversial tragicomedy Finsterworld, directed by Frauke
Finsterwalder. 2014 brought two sensational
reunions. First, in Dominik Graf's historical,
menage-a-trois drama Beloved Sisters,
which premiered in the 2014 Berlinale
Competition section and was selected as
Germany's Oscar entry. Next, Zehrfeld
collaborated with director Christian Petzold
and his long-time muse, the actress Nina
Hoss, in the spellbinding postwar drama
Phoenix, garnering astounding acclaim
from the international press at its Toronto
world premiere.
2014 has truly been a busy year for the
versatile actor. He played the leading role
as a German soldier in Afghanistan in
Feo Aladag's Inbetween Worlds, which
premiered in the main competition of the
Berlinale. In the summer, Filmfest München
premiered Philipp Leinemann's The Kings
Surrender, with Zehrfeld as a member
of a special police force, caught between
corruption and friendships.
In 2015, he can be seen in the drama Die
Heimatlosen/Fritz Bauer, directed by Lars
Kraume.
(Editiorial Source: The Match Factory)
© Björn Kommerell / Majestic
Spotlight
INBETWEEN WORLDS
SPOTLIGHT
ZWISCHEN WELTEN
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
Tue., Feb. 3, 2015 – 9:15 pm
California Theatre, Berkeley
Northern California Premiere
In Person: Ronald Zehrfeld
102 mins. Germany (2014). DCP. In German,
English, Dari and Pashto with English
subtitles.
Director: Feo Aladag
Cast: Ronald Zehrfeld, Abdul Salam Yosofzai,
Saida Barmaki, Salam Yosofzai, Burghart
Klaußner, Felix Kramer
Screenwriter: Feo Aladag
DoP: Judith Kaufmann
World Sales: The Match Factory, Cologne
Sponsored by
At the Castro Spotlight screening, this film
will be preceded by special remarks and
the presentation of the Spotlight Award to
Ronald Zehrfeld.
Official Selection, 2014 Berlin International
Film Festival Competition. German soldier
Jesper (Ronald Zehrfeld) signs up for a
mission in Afghanistan, despite having
lost his brother during an operation in the
war-torn country. Jesper and his squad are
assigned to protect a village outpost from
increasing Taliban influence. With the help
of young and inexperienced interpreter Tarik
(Abdul Salam Yosofzai), Jesper seeks the
trust of the local community and the allied
Afghani militia. More than ever, he discovers
the immense differences between the two
worlds. When the lives of Tarik and his
sister Nala are threatened by the Taliban,
conflicted Jesper is torn between his military
obligations and his conscience.
© Bothor / Majestic
Fri., Jan. 30, 2015 – 6:30 pm
Feo Aladag was
born in Vienna in
1972. From 1990
until 1995 she
studied acting in
Vienna and London
and communication
psychology in
Vienna. In 2000
she gained her
doctorate. She completed two years of
study at the German Film and Television
Academy and attended numerous master
classes at the European Film Academy.
In 2005 Feo Aladag founded the Berlinbased Independent Artists Filmproduktion
and worked on its first project, When We
Leave (Die Fremde) as producer, writer
and director. Released in 2010, it won 47
awards including two German Film Awards
(including Best Film) and the LUX Prize of the
European Parliament, was Germany's Oscar
entry, and was the 2010 Berlin & Beyond
Centerpiece film. Inbetween Worlds is Feo
Aladag's second feature film which she has
once again produced, written and directed.
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Centerpiece
EXIT MARRAKECH
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
California Premiere
122 mins. Germany (2013). DCP.
In German, English, French and Arabic with
English subtitles.
Director: Caroline Link
Cast: Samuel Schneider, Ulrich Tukur, Hafsia
Herzi, Marie-Lou Sellem, Josef Bierbichler
Screenwriter: Caroline Link
DoP: Bella Halben
US Distributor: Adopt Films, NYC
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When 17-year-old Ben (captivating newcomer
Samuel Schneider) visits his father Heinrich
(Ulrich Tukur, The Lives of Others, The
White Ribbon) in Marrakech, it is the start
of a journey through a foreign country with
a picturesque charm and a rough beauty
where everything appears possible, including
the reconciliation between father and son.
Heinrich, a celebrated theater director,
is taking part in a festival in Morocco, but
with father and son being unused to such
proximity, their old grievances and conflicts
resurface. As Ben opens himself up
increasingly more to the foreign country, he
tries to find his own way in this unknown
world, far from his father's luxury hotel. He
falls in love with the young Karima (Hafsia
Herzi, The Secret of the Grain), escapes with
her to her distant home and encounters an
archaic society in which the highest value is
placed on family honor. —German Films
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CENTERPIECE
Caroline Link was born in Bad Nauheim
in 1964 and studied at the University of
Television & Film in Munich. Her 1996 feature
debut Beyond Silence received an Academy
Award nomination and the German Film
Award in Silver. The 2003 Berlin & Beyond
opener, Nowhere in Africa (2001), won Best
Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy
Awards in 2003, and five Lolas at the 2002
German Film Awards, including Best
Film and Best Director. Her latest feature
Exit Marrakech (2013) will be released
theatrically in the US in spring 2015.
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THE WHOLE SHEBANG
CASTRO CLOSING NIGHT
Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 8:30 pm
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
California Premiere
In Person: Doris Dörrie & Hannelore Elsner
124 mins. Germany (2014). DCP. In German
with English subtitles.
Director: Doris Dörrie
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl, Hinnerk
Schönemann, Axel Prahl, Peter Striebeck
Screenwriter: Doris Dörrie
DoP: Hanno Lentz
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1967, the Summer of Love. Torremolinos in
Southern Spain is a hotbed of hippy culture,
home to free-spirited Ingrid (Hannelore
Elsner), and her daughter, Apple (Nadja
Uhl). Thirty years later, Apple prefers to
forget her upbringing. Unlucky in love and
consoled only by her paralytic dog, she’s
still looking for an ever-elusive stability. Her
mother, meanwhile, lives in her rebellious
past, but when she returns to Torremolinos
to rejuvenate following a hip replacement,
it is not the paradise she remembers.
High-rise hotels and sunburned tourists
abound, and a cross-dressing lounge singer
forces her to reflect differently on her
memories. When Apple decides to join her
mother, revelations ensue and things get
complicated! Absolutely Fabulous by way of
Shirley Valentine, The Whole Shebang is a
thoughtful comedy for mothers, daughters,
fathers, sons, friends and lovers everywhere.
–Abbie Algar, Honolulu Museum of Art
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ALLES INKLUSIVE
Doris Dörrie was
born in 1955 in
Hanover, Germany.
Since 1976 she
has over 30 feature
films and received
numerous national
and international
awards. She is also
a writer of novels
and short stories, a director of operas, and
runs the writing department of the Munich
Film School (HFF München). Connecting
both her devotion to Buddhism and the Bay
Area: her documentary How To Cook Your
Life (2007) profiled Zen cook Edward Espé
Brown, while Enlightenment Guaranteed
received San Francisco's Buddhism and Film
award in 2002, and the life-affirming drama
Cherry Blossoms (2008), starring Hannelore
Elsner, opened the 2009 Berlin & Beyond.
The Whole Shebang (2014), reuniting Dörrie
with Elsner, is based on her 2011 novel "Alles
inklusive." Her other well-known works
include Am I Beautiful? (1998), Nobody
Loves Me (1994) and the international
sensation, Men… (1985).
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Austrian Cinema
AMOUR FOU
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
West Coast Premiere
96 mins. Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
(2014). DCP.
In German with English subtitles.
Director: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel,
Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller
Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner
DoP: Martin Gschlacht
US Distributor: Film Movement, NYC
Austrian Cinema section is presented with
the support of:
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Official Selection, 2014 Festival de Cannes
Un Certain Regard.
Forever underappreciated and melancholy,
Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era
Berlin who determines his best way out
of despair is to end it all, and he sets
about finding a woman to join him in his
predetermined departure. Recently
diagnosed with a terminal illness, the welloff but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated
by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise
of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit
strange. And yet, she agrees to navigate the
uncharted journey towards a suicide pact
with him, at once awkward and enlightening
for them both. Rather than a declaration of
passionate devotion, Amour Fou – inspired
by the actual suicide in 1811 of Heinrich von
Kleist and Henrietta Vogel – goes against
expectations to become a wry and curious
denunciation of dying for love.
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Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 - 3:30 pm
AUSTRIAN CINEMA
Jessica Hausner
was born in 1972 in
Vienna, Austria. She
studied directing
at the Vienna Film
Academy, where in
1996 she made the
short film Flora,
which won the
Léopard de Demain
at the Film Festival Locarno. Interview,
her graduation film, won the Prix du Jury of
the Cinéfondation at Festival de Cannes in
1999. Her first feature, Lovely Rita (2001),
and Hotel (2004) both screened in Cannes's
Un Certain Regard section. Lourdes (2009)
premiered at Venice Film Festival in the
International Competition where it won
the international critics' FIPRESCI Prize.
Hausner’s latest film, Amour Fou, is set
around 1810 in Berlin and is based on the
tragic life of the German writer Henrich
von Kleist.
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ALPHABET
THE DARK VALLEY
LATE SHOW SPECIAL
DAS FINSTERE TAL
Sat., Jan. 31, 2015 – 11:00 am – Castro Theatre, SF
Sat., Jan. 31, 2015 – 10:00 pm – Castro Theatre, SF
North American Premiere
109 mins. Documentary. Austria, Germany (2013). In German,
English, French, Spanish, Chinese with English subtitles
Northern California Premiere
114 mins. Austria, Germany (2014). DCP.
In German with English subtitles.
Ninety-eight percent of all children are born highly gifted. After
schooling, only two percent remain so.” Erwin Wagenhofer
approaches the subject of education much more comprehensively
and radically than is usually the case. Almost all discussions of
education limit themselves to considering those forms of competitive
schooling in which pupil-performance is optimized. Wagenhofer, by
way of contrast, pursues the thought-structures behind them. What
we learn shapes our reserves of knowledge, but it is how we learn
that shapes our way of thinking. Alphabet concludes a trilogy that
featured We Feed the World and Let‘s Make Money. It revisits the
themes of both, concentrating its lense and magnifying to the point
of ignition. Alphabet is Erwin Wagenhofer’s most radical film.
—Berlin International Film Festival
Austria’s entry to the 2015 Academy Awards for Best Foreign
Language Film consideration. Seven-time winner at the 2014
German Film Awards. British actor Sam Reily (Disney’s Maleficent)
speaks German in this Alpine tale: A lone rider arrives in a small
high mountain village; nobody knows where he’s from and nobody
wants him there. Greider introduces himself as a photographer
from America, and the town’s patriarch, Old Brenner, provides him
with shelter for the harsh winter ahead. When the village is cut off
by heavy snowfall, a tragic accident leads to the death of one of
Brenner’s beloved sons. When another son is mysteriously killed, it
is clear this is not a coincidence.
Director: Andreas Prochaska Cast: Sam Riley, Paula Beer, Tobias
Moretti, Thomas Schubert Screenwriters: Martin Ambrosch,
Andreas Prochaska DoP: Thomas W. Kiennast US Distributor: Film Movement, NYC
Erwin Wagenhofer was born 1961 in Lower
Austria. He graduated from the Vienna
Institute of Technology and worked for years
as camera assistant for various productions,
feature films and documentaries. Since 1987
he has been a freelance filmmaker.
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Director: Erwin Wagenhofer With: Gerald Hüther, Yakamoz Karakurt,
Pablo Pineda, Ken Robinson, Thomas Sattelberger Screenwriters:
Sabine Kriechbaum, Erwin Wagenhofer DoP: Erwin Wagenhofer
World Sales: The Match Factory, Cologne
Andreas Prochaska was born in Vienna,
Austria, in 1964. He was editor on a score
of films, including Michael Haneke's The
Castle and Funny Games. His films have
become box office hits in Austria, including
the horror-thriller Dead in 3 Days (2006) and
the comedy The Unintentional Kidnapping of
Elfriede Ott (2010).
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Swiss Window
CONCRETE LOVE — THE BÖHM FAMILY UNLIKELY HEROES
DIE BÖHMS — ARCHITEKTUR EINER FAMILIE
SCHWEIZER HELDEN
Mon., Feb. 2, 2015 – 6:00 pm
Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 1:00 pm
Goethe-Institut, SF
Castro Theatre, SF
West Coast Premiere
85 mins. Documentary. Germany, Switzerland (2014). In German with
English subtitles.
Mon., Feb. 2, 2015 – 4:45 pm
Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto
Northern California Premiere – In Person: Peter Luisi
94 mins. Switzerland (2014). DCP. In Swiss-German & German with
English subtitles.
Winner of the Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe-Institut at
the prestigious 57th DOK Leipzig in Germany. Gottfried Böhm is
considered to be one of Germany’s most important architects. The
Pritzker prize winning father learned his trade from his father. At
the age of 94, Gottfried still works every day on construction projects
with his sons, Stephan, Peter and Paul, who are also architects.
But then the family loses its emotional center: Elisabeth – who was
also an architect – wife, mother and their most important source of
inspiration. Gottfried Böhm embarks on a journey to the significant
buildings and milestones in his life. —Swiss Films
Audience Award (Prix du Public UBS) Winner at the 67th Locarno
International Film Festival in Switzerland. Sabine is slightly down
on her luck. Her kids are on vacation, her husband has left her, and
things aren‘t going very well at work. Over Christmas, she decides
to volunteer at a refugee camp, preparing a stage production of
William Tell with the residents in time for New Year‘s. While Sabine
concentrates on directing the group, the asylum seekers have other
problems to deal with: staying in the country, love, family, and, of
course, the German language. Will they be ready for the curtain call?
Maurizius Staerkle-Drux was born in
1988 in Cologne, Germany. He studied film
directing (BA) at the Zurich University of the
Arts. He also works as a sound designer. In
2013, he founded Maxdrux Multimedia & Film
GmbH. Concrete Love is his first featurelength documentary film.
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Director: Peter Luisi Cast: Esther Gemsch, Karim Rahoma,
Komi Togbonou, Klaus Wildbolz, Newroz Baz, Elvis Clausen
Screenwriters: Peter Luisi, Jürgen Ladenburger
DoP: Nicolò Settegrana World Sales: M-Appeal, Berlin
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© Maurizius Staerkle-Drux
Director: Maurizius Staerkle-Drux With: Elisabeth Böhm,
Gottfried Böhm, Paul Böhm, Peter Böhm, Stephan Böhm
Screenwriter: Maurizius Staerkle-Drux DoP: Raphael Beinder
World Sales: Lichtblick Film, Cologne
Peter Luisi has attracted attention with his
feature films Verflixt Verliebt (B&B 2005),
Love Made Easy and The Sandman (B&B
2011), as well as being co-author of Fredi
Murer’s Vitus. His films have earned the
Zurich Film Prize, eight nominations for the
Swiss Film Awards, the Grant Award, and
audience awards at both Locarno and Max
Ophüls film festivals.
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Swiss Window
I AM THE KEEPER
Sat., Jan. 31, 2015 – 4:00 pm
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
North American Premiere
92 mins. Switzerland (2014). BD.
In German with English subtitles.
Director: Sabine Boss
Cast: Marcus Signer, Sonja Riesen,
Pascal Ulli
Screenwriters: Jasmine Hoch, Sabine Boss,
Pedro Lenz
DoP: Michael Saxer
World Sales: C-Films AG, Zürich
Swiss Window is presented in cooperation
with the Consulate General of Switzerland
in San Francisco.
Winner of four 2014 Swiss Film Awards,
including Best Film. It’s at the end of the
eighties, and the hedonist Ernst (Marcus
Signer, 2014 Swiss Film Award Best Actor),
whom everyone calls “Goalie,” returns to the
small town of Schummertal after spending
one year in prison. This is where he grew
up; everyone here knows him. Goalie wants
a new start, this time a life without drugs.
He looks for a job and falls in love with a
waitress named Regula (Sonja Riesen). It
doesn’t matter to him that his best friend
Ueli thinks he has become bourgeois.
Strong-willed, somewhat naive and with a
great deal of charm, he wants to get his life
back on the right track. But just as his life is
about to take a lucky turn, his past catches
up with him. —Swiss Films
© Patric Gutenberg
DER GOALIE BIN IG
Sabine Boss was
born in 1966 in
Aarau, Switzerland.
She studied directing
from 1992-1996 at
the Zurich University
of the Arts. This
was followed by
her work as an
assistant director
on various productions and projects for the
broadcasting company Schweizer Radio und
Fernsehen (SRF). Her first cinema feature,
the political comedy Crisis in Havana (2002),
received two Swiss Film Award nominations.
She has worked as an independent director
and screenwriter for film, television and
theatre in Switzerland and Germany since
2000. Nationally celebrated, her latest film,
I Am The Keeper, won four Swiss Film
Awards this past spring, and recently both
the Bernese Film Award and the Zurich Film
Award.
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YOUTH 4 GERMAN CINEMA
2015 Y4GC INTERNATIONAL JURY
Karla Daniela Sequelis Briones, 17, Mexico City, México
Grace Chin, 17, Sudbury, Massachusetts
• Jeremy Guyard, 17, Montréal, Canada
• Mark Kuhn, 16, Montréal, Canada
• Aron Malatinszky, 16, Fairfax County, Virginia
• Jenna Marvet, 15, Palo Alto, California
• Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins, 15, Guadalajara, México
• Frances Youmans, 18, State College, Pennsylvania
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Photo: Y4GC 2014 jury member Ethan Miller onstage with film director Katja von Garnier of the 2014 winning film "Windstorm" and Julia Koch of the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.
2015 marks the second successful year of the Youth 4 German
Cinema program, organized by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco's
Language Department, the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival and the
North American youth portal Step Into German.
Made possible by generous support from Germany’s Federal
Foreign Office, it is designed to give high school age students input
into the workings of an international film festival. Its goal is to
increase multi-cultural awareness among students and educate
them on the subject of international film and film criticism, as well
as provide an entry point for youth to the world of German-language
cinema.
Following last year’s success, this year’s program expanded
beyond its original Bay Area scope to include international entrants
from across the United States, Mexico and Canada. The expansion
was well-received, with students submitting over 100 applications
in total for eight jury positions. This year, both the application
and judging processes were done entirely online – once the original
applications were refined down to the final eight, each juror
was tasked with reviewing the films in competition via an online
platform at their local Goethe-Institut. The selected jurors will be
flown to San Francisco to participate in the festival, meet industry
professionals, join onstage discussions, go behind the scenes
and make a short film.
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The 2015 Youth 4 German Cinema jury chose Oscar-winner Pepe
Danquart’s true-life drama Run Boy Run as this year’s winning
film and awarded runner-up to Iranian-Austrian director Sudabeh
Mortezai’s debut feature, Macondo.
FILM CAMP
The 2015 Youth 4 German
Cinema jury will participate
in a unique film production
workshop during their San
Francisco stay led by Glocal
Films, an international
studio practice combining
filmmaking, social work
and visual anthropology, utilizing participatory filmmaking as an
engagement tool. The completed film will be shown during this year’s
festival and online on the new Step Into German youth portal.
Kerstin Rickermann co-founded
Glocal Films in London/UK
in 2004. Before Glocal, Kerstin
worked for various social
institutions worldwide, specializing
in photography, art, radio and
video workshops and completed a broadcast documentary about
immigration in the UK.
Silke Beller, Glocal Films co-founder, received an MA in Visual
Anthropology from Goldsmiths College in London and spent
4 years as a freelance journalist. She has worked on various
broadcast documentaries as a researcher as well as teaching Visual
Anthropology in the film department of the National College of Arts in
Lahore/Pakistan.
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RUN BOY RUN
MACONDO
LAUF JUNGE LAUF
Fri., Jan. 30, 2015 – 10:00 am – Castro Theatre, SF
Fri., Jan. 30, 2015 – 1:30 pm – Castro Theatre, SF
In Person: Pepe Danquart
107 mins. Germany, France (2013). DCP. In German, Polish, Yiddish
and Hebrew with English subtitles.
California Premiere
98 mins. Austria (2014). DCP. In German, Chechen and Arabic with
English subtitles.
Winner of the 2015 Youth 4 German Cinema Award, presided by an
international youth jury. Based on the bestselling novel by Israeli
author Uri Orlev, Run Boy Run is the unbelievable true story of a
young Polish boy who struggles, alone, to outlast the Nazi occupation
of Poland. After escaping the Warsaw ghetto, nine-year old Srulik
flees to the woods, surviving by his wits until a kind farmer’s wife
takes him in. Passing as a Christian war orphan, he makes his way
across the changing countryside, relying on little more than the
kindness of others for his very survival. Some will help him and
others will betray him, but a final chance meeting will determine his
fate and whether he loses himself or his fleeting childhood.
Runner-up of the 2015 Youth 4 German Cinema Award, presided
by an international youth jury. This is the story of Ramasan, the
11-year-old Muslim living in Macondo, a refugee settlement on the
outskirts of Vienna. The fatherless boy tries his best to live his role as
the “man of the house” despite his young age. Caught in a precarious
maze of cultural and identity ideals, Ramasan finds his life thrown
out of balance when Isa, a man who once knew his father, suddenly
arrives. With documentary precision, Mortezai elicits amazing
performances from her young actors that move far beyond the broad
strokes of other similar works.
Director: Sudabeh Mortezai Cast: Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev,
Kheda Gazieva Screenwriter: Sudabeh Mortezai DoP: Klemens
Hufnagl World Sales: Films Boutique, Berlin
Pepe Danquart received an Oscar in 1994
for his short film Schwarzfahrer. In 2000,
Home Game won the German Film Award
for Best Director. His documentary Joschka
& Mr. Fischer (2011) made its International
Premiere at Berlin & Beyond. He was a cofounder of the German Film Academy and
presently teaches at the University of Fine
Arts in Hamburg.
Courtesy: Sudabeh Mortezai
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Director: Pepe Danquart Cast: Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz, Elisabeth
Duda, Jeanette Hain, Rainer Bock, Itay Tiran Screenwriter: Heinrich
Hadding DoP: Daniel Gottschalk US Distributor: Menemsha Films,
Santa Monica
Sudabeh Mortezai was born in 1968 in
Ludwigsburg, Germany, to Iranian parents.
She grew up in Tehran and Vienna, and
studied at both the University of Vienna
and UCLA. Following her acclaimed
documentaries Children of the Prophet
(2006) and In the Bazaar of Sexes (2013),
Macondo is her dramatic feature debut.
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MISSION SPUTNIK
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Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 1:00 pm
OPENS DOORS
Goethe-Institut, SF
West Coast Premiere
90 mins. Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic (2013). In German with
English subtitles.
“One language sets you in a corridor for life.
Two languages open every door along the way.”
— Frank Smith, Psychologist
In Malkow, in the middle of the German Democratic Republic,
everything is going its usual way. In the shadows, though, 10 year old
Rike together with her friends Fabian and Jonathan is working on a
spectacular invention, that will beam back her uncle Mike from WestBerlin to Eastern Germany. The experiment takes an unexpected
turn: it is not Mike, who lands back in Malkow, but the villagers on the
Berlin Wall. —
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and imaginative thinking, academic
excellence and an appreciation
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Director: Markus Dietrich Cast: Flora Li Thieman, Finn Fiebig, Luca
Johannsen, Yvonne Catterfeld, Devid Striesow, Maxim Mehmet
and Andreas Schmidt Screenwriter: Markus Dietrich DoP: Philipp
Kirsamer World Sales: Attraction Distribution, Montreal
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Markus Dietrich was born in 1979 in
Strausberg. He studied Media Design at the
Bauhaus University Weimar. He has made
several short films, including Outsourcing
(2007) and My Robodad (2008). Mission
Sputnik (2013) is his first feature. He also
works as a director with children and young
adults at the Thalia Theater Halle/Saale.
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German Panorama
BEST CHANCE
BESTE CHANCE
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
Tue., Feb. 3, 2015 – 7:00 pm
California Theatre, Berkeley
International Premiere
102 mins. Germany (2014). Filmed in Upper
Bavaria and India. In German and English
with English subtitles.
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Cast: Anna Maria Sturm, Rosalie Thomass,
Volker Bruch, Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow,
Heinz Josef Braun, Andreas Giebel, Martin
Schick Screenwriters: Karin Michalke,
Marcus H. Rosenmüller DoP: Stefan Biebl
Production: Lieblingsfilm GmbH, Munich
Sponsored by
The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival is proud
to present the international premiere of
the third film in Marcus H. Rosenmüller's
celebrated "Best" Trilogy.
Since graduating from high school five years
ago, best friends Jo (Rosalie Thomass) and
Kati (Anna Maria Sturm) have not been in
touch with each other. While Jo has been
traveling the world – ending up in India – Kati
has been struggling with college life and
her final exams. After receiving a disturbing
voicemail from Jo, Kati immediately drops
everything and returns to her hometown in
rural Bavaria to round up the old buddies in
order to launch a rescue mission for Jo. Time
has passed there, too. Rocky (Ferdinand
Schmidt-Modrow, The Wave) and Toni
(Volker Bruch, Generation War) are caught
up in their own marriages and family lives,
so naturally their response to Kati’s idea is
not filled with enthusiasm. Outraged and
disappointed, but still convinced she’s doing
the right thing, Kati sets off on her own en
route to an Ashram in India, as Jo is on her
way home.
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Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 6:00 pm
Marcus H.
Rosenmüller
was born in 1973
in Tegernsee, in
Bavaria. He studied
at the University
of Television and
Film Munich from
1995 to 2002. His
breakthrough
came with his first feature, Grave Decisions
(2006), winning three German Film Awards,
including Best Film in Silver and Best
Director, and the Bavarian Film Award Best
Newcomer Director. He began work on
the successful Tandern trilogy in 2006 with
Beste Zeit. After filming Beste Gegend, he
shot the concluding part, Beste Chance in
Upper Bavaria and India in 2013. His second
passion is the stage where he tours Germany
together with the composer Gerd Baumann,
performing their poems. In 2014, he was
honored with the Ernst Hoferichter-Preis by
the City of Munich. He has also received the
silver Bavarian Constitution Medal.
—Lieblingsfilm
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BELTRACCHI – THE ART OF FORGERY
THE KINGS SURRENDER
BELTRACCHI – DIE KUNST DER FÄLSCHUNG
WIR WAREN KÖNIGE
Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 11:00 am – Castro Theatre, SF
Tue., Feb. 3, 2015 – 5:00 pm – California Theatre, Berkeley
Fri., Jan. 30, 2015 – 9:15 pm – Castro Theatre, SF
Mon., Feb. 2, 2015 – 9:15 pm – Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto
Northern California Premiere
90 mins. Documentary. Germany (2014). In German with English
subtitles.
West Coast Premiere
In Person: Philipp Leinemann & Ronald Zehrfeld
104 mins. Germany (2014). DCP. In German with English subtitles.
2014 Winner of the German Film Award for Best Documentary.
According to Vanity Fair: “Without any doubt he is the biggest forger
of our times.” Beltracchi is an engaging rogue, a warm-hearted
husband and father, and an impossibly self-confident artist who tells
a journalist: “I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why?
You couldn't sell it.” The fast-paced film is full of witty dialogues
with Beltracchi and his wife, showing Beltracchi’s incredible talent
as a painter and reveals his expertise in forging paintings from the
early 20th century, which were so masterfully done that art experts,
museums and auction houses around the world were duped
and exposed.
Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 2014 Austin Film
Festival. A police special forces team, a youth gang: two parallel
worlds, traversed by electric tensions and magnetic bonds. Chance
and a shy thirteen-year-old first bring these worlds in contact and
then smash them together in a fight for survival. A gloomy and
tense metropolitan noir, suspended between traces of Scorsese and
references to Scandinavia’s take on the genre; it gives nobody a break
and starkly depicts truth, justice, friendship and loyalty.
—Festival Scope
Director: Philipp Leinemann Cast: Ronald Zehrfeld, Mišel Mati evi ,
Mohamed Issa, Hendrik Duryn, Tilman Strauß, Oliver Konietzny
Screenwriter: Philipp Leinemann DoP: Christian Stangassinger
World Sales: Walker+Worm Film, Munich
Arne Birkenstock was born in 1967 in
Siegen. Since 1994 he has been working
as a freelancer for several public television
broadcasters in Germany. His documentary
films also include 12 Tangos – Adios Buenos
Aires (2005), the German Film Awardwinning Chandani: The Daughter of the
Elephant Whisperer (2010) and Sound of
Heimat – Germany Sings! (2012, B&B 2014).
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© Arne Birkenstock
Director: Arne Birkenstock With: Wolfgang Beltracchi, Helene
Beltracchi, Henrik Hanstein Screenwriter: Arne Birkenstock
DoP: Marcus Winterbauer World Sales: Global Screen, Munich
Philipp Leinemann was born in 1979 in
Braunschweig, Germany, and studied at
the University of Television & Film Munich.
His first feature Transit (2010) won the
Production Prize at Filmfest München.
His second feature, The Kings Surrender
(2014), was praised by The Hollywood
Reporter as “a superior, sprawling copsand-crooks saga.”
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© Christian Schulz/Schramm Film
German Panorama
MY SISTERS
PHOENIX
PALO ALTO SPECIAL
MEINE SCHWESTERN
Fri., Jan. 30, 2015 – 4:00 pm – Castro Theatre, SF
Mon., Feb. 2, 2015 – 8:00 pm – Goethe-Institut, SF
Mon., Feb. 2, 2015 – 7:00 pm – Aquarius Theatre, Palo Alto
California Premiere
104 mins. Germany (2014). DCP. In German with English subtitles.
US Premiere
88 mins. Germany, France (2013). DCP.
In German with English subtitles.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Sebastián International
Film Festival. A screen reunion of Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld,
following Barbara in 2012: Nelly Lenz is a concentration camp
survivor who has been left severely injured with a disfigured face.
Following her facial reconstruction surgery, Nelly begins the search
for her husband Johnny. When she finally does find him, Johnny does
not recognize her. Nevertheless he approaches her with a proposal.
Since she resembles his wife, whom he believes to be dead, he asks
her to help him claim his wife's considerable inheritance. Nelly
agrees, and becomes her own doppelganger.
Official Selection, 2013 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.
Because of a heart defect, Linda (Jördis Triebel) hasn’t that long left
to live. The doctors have been telling her this for the last 30 years, but
this time it seems serious. So Linda asks her sisters Katharina (Nina
Kunzendorf) and Clara (Lisa Hagmeister) to spend one possibly last
weekend with her. Linda's illness has also left its mark on her sisters.
While Katharina's constant worrying gets on everyone's nerves, the
unstable Clara tries to ignore the subject altogether. On a trip to
the North Sea and Paris, old conflicts and roles reemerge – and get
reallocated. A moving road movie about facing death.
—Filmfest Hamburg
Director: Christian Petzold Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld,
Nina Kunzendorf Screenwriter: Christian Petzold DoP: Hans Fromm
US Distributor: IFC Films, NYC
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Lars Kraume was born in Chieri, Italy in
1973 and grew up in Frankfurt am Main. He
studied at the German Film & Television
Academy in Berlin (dffb) in 1994. His films
include Dunckel (1998), Viktor Vogel –
Commercial Man (2001), Guten Morgen Herr
Grothe (2007) and The Days to Come (2010).
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© Hans Fromm
Director: Lars Kraume Cast: Jördis Triebel, Nina Kunzendorf, Lisa
Hagmeister, Béatrice Dalle, Angela Winkler Screenwriter: Esther
Bernstorff DoP: Jens Harant
Christian Petzold, the leading light of the
Berlin School movement, was born in 1960,
in Hilden, Germany, and graduated from the
German Film and Television Academy Berlin.
Along with Phoenix (2014), all of his cinema
films have screened at Berlin & Beyond,
including the 2012 opener Barbara, Jerichow
(2008), Yella (2007), Ghosts (2005), Wolfsburg
(2003) and The State I Am In (2000).
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© Stephan Rabold/Frisbeefilms
German Panorama
STEREO
THIS LOVELY SHITTY LIFE
DIESES SCHÖNE SCHEISSLEBEN
QUE CARAMBA ES LA VIDA
Thu., Jan. 29, 2015 – 9:15 pm – Castro Theatre, SF
Sat., Jan. 31, 2015 – 1:00 pm – Castro Theatre, SF
West Coast Premiere
95 mins. Germany (2014). DCP. In German with English subtitles.
San Francisco Premiere – In Person: Doris Dörrie
86 mins. Documentary. Germany, Mexico (2014).
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Official Selection, 2014 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.
A feverish thriller that unites two powerhouse actors: Eric (Jürgen
Vogel, The Wave) is a motorcycle mechanic who leads a quiet life
with his girlfriend Julia and her daughter. But his bucolic and almost
perfect routine is disturbed when Henry (Moritz Bleibtreu, Run Lola
Run), a strange character, begins to appear in his workshop and Eric
is the only one who can see him. Henry insists on provoking Eric until
he’s at the brink of insanity when even more shadowy figures start to
appear. They start to threaten Eric and his family to do as they say.
Increasingly confused, Eric has no option other than to trust Henry.
Official Selection, 2014 South by Southwest (SXSW). Mariachi is
an essential part of Mexican culture. It's more than just music; it's a
lifestyle that views the world from a macho perspective. The business
is tough and women are seldom appreciated in this strictly male
domain. Nevertheless, a handful of female musicians choose to be
Mariachi. The first women mariachi band that formed in 1958 is still
performing. And then there's a band of young female musicians who
struggle with family issues and their vocation. Against the backdrop
of the folky 'Día de los Muertes' celebrations, director Doris Dörrie
accompanies them to their performances on the streets of Mexico
and throughout their daily lives, singing about death, love and poverty.
—Munich International Film Festival
—Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
Maximilian Erlenwein was born in 1975 in
Berlin. He studied directing at the German
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directing several short films, his first feature,
Gravity (2009), was much acclaim, including
the New Director's Showcase Award at the
Seattle International Film Festival. Stereo
(2014) is his second feature.
Director: Doris Dörrie With: Magdalena ‘Malena’ Berrones,
María del Carmen, Estrellas de Jalisco, Las Pioneras de Mexico
Screenwriter: Doris Dörrie DoP: Daniel Schönauer, Doris Dörrie
Production: Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Berlin
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© Stephan Rabold/Frisbeefilms
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Moritz
Bleibtreu, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Georg Friedrich, Rainer Bock
Screenwriter: Maximilian Erlenwein DoP: Ngo The Chau
World Sales: Beta Cinema, Munich
Doris Dörrie is one of the most renowned
filmmakers in Germany. Since 1976 she
has made more than 30 feature films and
received numerous national and international
awards. Among her well-known films are
Cherry Blossoms (2008, German Film Award
in Silver/Bavarian Film Prize), Naked (2002),
Am I Beautiful? (1998), and the international
sensation, Men… (1985).
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NOCEBO
MIND TRIPS
SHORT FILMS 2015
Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 5:30 pm – Goethe-Institut, SF
Sun., Feb. 1, 2015 – 3:00 pm – Goethe-Institut, SF
Special Sneak Preview
52 mins. Documentary. Germany (2014).
In German with English subtitles.
NOCEBO
Winner of the 2014 Student Academy Award Best Foreign Film in
Gold: Christian, 22, is on the run. He took part in a drug study and
together with his girlfriend Anna discovered the death of a fellow
participant. When Anna also starts showing signs of the same deadly
side effects, Christian breaks out of the test center to get help, but
neither the police nor doctors believe his story. What is the real story
behind Christian's escape? Where is the line between psychosis and
reality? Director: Lennart Ruff. Germany (2014). 38 mins.
Official Selection, 2014 Berlin International Film Festival Panorama.
We live in hyper-sexualized times. The press, advertisements and
TV are constantly putting naked women and their genitalia on
display. But many women are still deeply prudish when it comes to
the relationship with their own body. The resultant insecurity many
women feel about their own bodies has proven to be a goldmine for
cosmetic genital surgery which promises to manufacture the perfect
vagina via the surgeon's scalpel. With their comprehensive and
unflustered research into the history of this particular aspect of
the female anatomy in the 21st century, the directors shed light on
every facet of the matter at hand and celebrate the diversity and
uniqueness of the female body.
Directors: Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann With: Marion
Hulverscheidt, Claudia Gehrke, Mithu Sanyal Screenwriter: Ulrike
Zimmermann DoP: Claudia Richarz US Distributor: Icarus Films, NYC
Claudia Richarz was born
in 1955, she studied visual
communications at the University
of Fine Arts of Hamburg, and has
been making documentaries as
a director and cinematographer.
In 2000, her ten-part WDR/
arte series Abnehmen in Essen
received the Grimme Award.
Ulrike Zimmermann was born
in 1960. She graduated from
the University of Fine Arts of
Hamburg in 1988. She founded
MMM film production in 1989
and has worked as a production
manager/line producer and
independent producer.
ABDULLAH
Migrant musician Abdullah faces a psychosis. Director: Jakob
Besuch. Germany (2013). Animated film. 9 mins.
ROADTRIP
Julius has chronic insomnia. To empty his head he decides to go on a
roadtrip, but somehow, he just can't manage to leave. Director: Xaver
Xylophon. Germany (2014). Animated film. 20 mins.
WHERE WE ARE (WO WIR SIND)
Christina has lost custody of her daughter. In a desperate attempt,
she and nine-year-old Paula attempt to leave their old life behind.
Director: Ilkar Catak. Germany (2013). 14 mins.
81 minutes in total running time.
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Director of the Institute
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aug&ohr medien, Berlin:
Markus Kaatsch
Jenny Einter
Bettina Westhausen, CCC Filmkunst
C-Films AG, Zürich
Christina Gerhardt
Consulate General of Austria, L.A.:
Simone Bliss
Consulate General of Germany, S.F.:
Consul General Stefan Schlüter
Consul Ulrike Julia Reinhardt
Consulate General of Switzerland, S.F.:
Consul General
Hans-Ulrich Tanner
Martin Schwartz
Devyn McNichol, SF Media Co.
Film Movement, NYC:
Rebeca Conget
Maxwell Wolkin
Flying Moon Filmproduktion:
Anh Trieu
Helge Albers
German Films:
Nicole Kaufmann
Martin Scheuring
German World Magazine:
Petra Schürmann
Gisela Wiltschek, Global Screen
Goethe-Institut Zentrale, Munich:
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Bruno Gross, Business Director
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Robert Distelrath
Hans Kohl
Maren Niemeyer
Christoph Muecher
Goethe-Institut, New York:
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Wenzel Bilger
Ulrich Lindner
Christoph Veldhues
H & V Entertainment GmbH:
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Herwig Krawinkler
IFC Films:
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Kim Kalyka
Jennifer Louie, Titan360
Landmark Theatres:
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Martina Jansen
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Montage Services, Inc.:
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Patrick MacCartee, Tank18
Will Ovando, Holiday Inn
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Festival Director
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Cultural Program
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Programming
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19th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
January 29 – February 3, 2015
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