VENICE/TORONTO 2018 NEVER LOOK AWAY by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE by Sven Taddicken · WOMAN AT WAR by Benedikt Erlingsson STYX by Wolfgang Fischer · I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude · WHAT DOESN‘T KILL US by Sandra Nettelbeck THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD by Adilkhan Yerzhanov · AS GREEN AS IT GETS by Florian Gallenberger · TWO MEN IN SUITS by Josef Bierbichler BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani · WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT by Caroline Link · 25 KM/H by Markus Goller · THE TOBACCONIST by Nikolaus Leytner · FLAWLESS by Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit · LARA by Jan-Ole Gerster · TRAUTMANN by Marcus H. Rosenmüller
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VENICE/TORONTO 2018
NEVER LOOK AWAY by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE by Sven Taddicken · WOMAN AT WAR by Benedikt Erlingsson STYX by Wolfgang Fischer · I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude · WHAT DOESN‘T KILL US by Sandra Nettelbeck THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD by Adilkhan Yerzhanov · AS GREEN AS IT GETS by Florian Gallenberger · TWO MEN IN SUITS by Josef Bierbichler BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani · WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT by Caroline Link · 25 KM/H by Markus Goller · THE TOBACCONIST by Nikolaus Leytner · FLAWLESS by Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit · LARA by Jan-Ole Gerster · TRAUTMANN by Marcus H. Rosenmüller
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CONTENT
OFFICIAL SELECTION VENICE/TORONTO
NEVER LOOK AWAY by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Page 4
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE by Sven Taddicken Page 8
WOMAN AT WAR by Benedikt Erlingsson Page 12
STYX by Wolfgang Fischer Page 14
I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude Page 16
PRIVATE SCREENINGS
WHAT DOESN‘T KILL US by Sandra Nettelbeck Page 18
THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD by Adilkhan Yerzhanov Page 20
LINE-UP
AS GREEN AS IT GETS by Florian Gallenberger Page 22
TWO MEN IN SUITS by Josef Bierbichler Page 24
UPCOMINGBERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ by Burhan Qurbani Page 28
WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT by Caroline Link Page 29
25 KM/H by Markus Goller Page 30
THE TOBACCONIST by Nikolaus Leytner Page 31
FLAWLESS by Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit Page 32
LARA by Jan-Ole Gerster Page 33
TRAUTMANN by Marcus H. Rosenmüller Page 34
SCREENING SCHEDULE
TUE 4 SEP 8:00 AM SALA GRANDE PRESS & INDUSTRYTUE 4 SEP 10:45 AM SALA DARSENA PRESS & INDUSTRYTUE 4 SEP 9:30 PM SALA GRANDE WORLD PREMIEREWED 5 SEP 4:45 PM PALABIENNALE PUBLIC SCREENING
SAT 8 SEP 2:00 PM RYERSON THEATRE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERESAT 8 SEP 9:00 PM SCOTIABANK 9 PRESS & INDUSTRYMON 10 SEP 8:30 AM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 3 PUBLIC SCREENING THU 13 SEP 1:15 PM SCOTIABANK 6 PRESS & INDUSTRY
FRI 7 SEP 2:30 PM SCOTIABANK 4 PRESS & INDUSTRY MON 10 SEP 6:30 PM SCOTIABANK 1 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIEREWED 12 SEP 9:45 PM SCOTIABANK 4 PUBLIC SCREENING
THU 6 SEP 8:45 PM SCOTIABANK 3 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIEREFRI 7 SEP 9:45 AM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 3 PUBLIC SCREENINGFRI 7 SEP 2:00 PM SCOTIABANK 13 PRESS & INDUSTRY SAT 15 SEP 2:45 PM SCOTIABANK 3 PUBLIC SCREENING
SAT 8 SEP 6:45 PM SCOTIABANK 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY THU 13 SEP 2:45 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 3 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIEREFRI 14 SEP 12:00 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 3 PUBLIC SCREENINGSUN 16 SEP 8:30 PM SCOTIABANK 6 PUBLIC SCREENING
SUN 9 SEP 9:30 AM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 7 PRIVATE SCREENING
I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE
NEVER LOOK AWAY(TORONTO)
NEVER LOOK AWAY(VENICE)
STYX
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE
When writing about Tenessee Williams and Marlon Brando, the director Elia Kazan said that the talent of geniuses was merely the scab on the wounds they had been dealt in their early childhoods. This would mean that humans have an almost alchemistic ability to turn trauma into something glorious. NEVER LOOK AWAY is a look into that alchemy. Through the prism of the historical traumas of my own country, Germany.
THE DIRECTOR
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, born 1973 in Cologne, studied Directing at the Munich Film Academy. His first student short film DOBERMANN (1998) won the Max Ophüls Award and the Shocking Shorts Award among many others. His first feature as writer and director, THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006) won the German and European Film Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Lead Actor, and the BAFTA, David di Donatello and Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His second feature, THE TOURIST (2010), was nominated for three Golden Globes in the Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress categories. He is a member of the Bavarian and Northrhine Westfalian Orders of Merit, was elected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013 and serves as a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin.
VENICE COMPETITION TORONTO SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
NEVER LOOK AWAYb y F l o r i a n H e n c k e l v o n D o n n e r s m a r c k
Young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by experiences in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the GDR-regime. When he meets fellow
student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.
AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER RIDE ACROSS THREE PERIODS OF GERMAN HISTORY.
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ACADEMY AWARD WINNING “THE LIVES OF OTHERS”.
DRAMA, THRILLER / GERMAN / 188 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE WERK OHNE AUTOR
DIRECTOR Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
DOP Caleb Deschanel (THE PATRIOT)
CAST Tom Schilling (OH BOY, GENERATION WAR) Paula Beer (FRANTZ) Sebastian Koch (THE LIVES OF OTHERS) Saskia Rosendahl (LORE) Oliver Masucci (DARK)
PRODUCERS Jan Mojto, Quirin Berg, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Max Wiedemann and Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck
PRODUCED BY Pergamon Film and Wiedemann & Berg Film in co-production with Beta Cinema, ARD Degeto and Bayerischer Rundfunk
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE World excluding USA, Canada, Latin America, UK, Ireland, France, German-speaking territories, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ex-Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and AUS/NZ.
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THE MOSTBEAUTIFULCOUPLE
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE
I am interested in and impressed by Liv and Malteʼs story, the story of the ”most beautiful couple“, who are brave and open-minded enough to confront the consequences of a sexual assault. They soon push their limits, which they, two well-reflected and open-hearted human beings, neglect to accept for a long time, until they can finally accept their fear and deal with it.
I believe to know that most people do not have the opportunity to cope with their emotions such as depression and anger after such an assault. One is forced to act, if he or she does not want to lose his or her life, work, or relationship. Liv and Malte are not an exception to this rule. And they act on it. Each of them in their own way. To watch them do so touches and worries me at the same time. I am touched because their actions reveal a strong will for life and their relationship. And it worries me because they will inevitably fall short.
Although it deals with trauma management, the film is not supposed to be traumatising in itself. The full life – happiness – anger – tenderness – before and after this horrible experience – shall be relived again and again. For in a story, happiness is best told in the face of great pain. And vice versa.
THE DIRECTOR
Sven Taddicken was born in 1974 in Hamburg and studied directing in Ludwigsburg from 1996-2002. His shorts were shown and awarded at numerous festivals worldwide, including a nomination for the Student Oscar® in 2000 and the German Short Film Award in 2003. In 2000 he received the Caligari-scholarship. 2004 followed the grant of the Akademie der Künste Berlin ”Junge Akademie“, and 2007 the grant of the Villa Aurora/Los Angeles. His first feature MY BROTHER THE VAMPIRE received several awards at national and international film festivals (Brooklyn, Rotterdam, London). His 2nd feature EMMAʼS BLISS was released all over Europe, won many festivals and gained 4 nominations for the German Film Awards. His 3rd feature, the elaborate historical drama 12 PLACES WITHOUT A HEAD told the story about the adventures of the legendary pirate Klaus Störtebeker. In 2016, his feature film ORIGINAL BLISS starring Martina Gedeck and Ulrich Tukur won two awards in Karlovy Vary and was released widely all over Germany.
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Two young teachers, Malte and Liv, are spending their summer holiday on the Mediterranean coast, when they are suddenly attacked by three young men. The incident escalates and Liv is assaulted. Two years later Malte and Liv are not only still together, but are demonstrating an amazing strength in dealing with the traumatic experience. They are determined that it will not tear them apart. But when Malte has a chance encounter with one of
the perpetrators, he finds himself driven to seek revenge and sets out in pursuit. However, once he is facing the longed for confrontation, he realises that the situation has gotten out of control once again. He hasnʼt told Liv, he didnʼt call the police and now the couple‘s fragile relationship, which they have fought so hard to preserve, is put to the test once more.
LIV AND MALTE ARE FORCED TO REVISIT THEIR PASTWHEN MALTE SPOTS THE MAN WHO ASSAULTED LIV TWO YEARS AGO.
FROM THE PRODUCERS OF “THE TALE”.
DRAMA, THRILLER / GERMAN / 95 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE DAS SCHÖNSTE PAAR
DIRECTOR Sven Taddicken (EMMA‘S BLISS)
DOP Daniela Knapp (THE POLL DIARIES)
CAST Maximilian Brückner (CHERRY BLOSSOMS) Luise Heyer (JACK) Leonard Kunz Jasna Fritzi Bauer (AXOLOTL OVERKILL)
PRODUCERS Sol Bondy and Jamila Wenske
PRODUCED BY One Two Films in co-production with Arsam International
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding Germany and Austria.
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TORONTO DISCOVERY
HALLA DECLARES A ONE-WOMAN-WAR ON THE LOCAL ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY. SHE IS PREPARED TO RISK EVERYTHING TO PROTECT THE PRISTINE ICELANDIC HIGHLANDS SHE LOVES… UNTIL AN
ORPHAN UNEXPECTEDLY ENTERS HER LIFE.
ENVIRONMENTAL ARTHOUSE THRILLER / ICELANDIC / 100 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE KONA FER I STRID
DIRECTOR Benedikt Erlingsson (OF HORSES AND MEN)
DOP Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson (OF HORSES AND MEN)
CAST Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (OF HORSES AND MEN) Davíð Þór Jónsson Ómar Guðjónsson Jóhann Sigurðsson
PRODUCERS Marianne Slot, Carine Leblanc and Benedikt Erlingsson
PRODUCED BY SLOT MACHINE and GULLDRENGURINN in co-production with Solar Media Entertainment, KÖGGULL SF and Vintage Pictures
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
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“An intelligent feel-good fi lm that knows how to tackle urgent global issues with humor.”
VA R I E T Y
“An impressive follow-up to his strikingly eccentric debut.”
T H E H O L LY W O O D R E P O R T E R
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. As Hallaʼs actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new aluminium smelter in the mountains. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything. Her application to adopt a child has finally been accepted and there is a little girl waiting for her in Ukraine. As Halla prepares to abandon her role as saboteur and saviour of the Highlands to fulfil her dream of becoming a mother, she decides to plot one final attack to deal the aluminium industry a crippling blow.
THE DIRECTOR
Benedikt Erlingsson is an Icelandic director, author and actor. Erlingsson is well known as a stage director as well as for his roles in Theatre , TV series and films. His solo performances are some of the most successful in the history of the Icelandic theatre and were performed on stage by Erlingsson himself for 6 years. OF HORSES AND MEN, Erlingssonʼs first feature film as a writer-director, won over 20 international awards including the New Directors prize at the 2013 San Sebastián Film Festival and the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize.
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Rike - 40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rikeʼs everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a fatal decision.
THE DIRECTOR
Wolfgang Fischer was born in 1970 in Vienna, Austria. He studied Psychology and Painting at the University of Vienna followed by Film Studies at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf and at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne. Besides various teaching assignments he worked as an assistant for Paul Morrissey and Nan Hoover. He was awarded a scholarship by the Munich Screenplay Programme and by Equinoxe Europe.His films include: IN TIME (experimental, 1994), 9H11 (1999), REMAKE OF THE REMAKE (documentary, 1999), DISK-DUSK (1999), SCHOEN 2000 (2000), GRAU (2001) and WHAT YOU DONʼT SEE (2009).STYX is his latest directorial project. He is also in preproduction for the feature film THE BEAR and the TV series THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS and DESERTED.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF A STRONG WOMAN TORN FROM HER CONTENTED WORLD DURING A SAILING TRIP.
“A spinning moral compass and a topical dimension that proves even more gripping than its brilliantly achieved visceral action.”
VA R I E T Y
“Wolff is never less than remarkable.”T H E H O L LY W O O D R E P O R T E R
“Filmmaking stripped back, retracted to its most basic elements,which gives it a power and complexity that elicits a tangible emotional response.“
T H E U P C O M I N G
DRAMA / ENGLISH, GERMAN / 94 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE STYX
DIRECTOR Wolfgang Fischer (WHAT YOU DON‘T SEE)
DOP Benedict Neuenfels (THE COUNTERFEITERS)
CAST Susanne Wolff (RETURN TO MONTAUK) Gedion Wekesa Oduor Alexander Beyer (GOOD BYE LENIN!) Inga Birkenfeld (THE LIVES OF OTHERS)
PRODUCERS Marcos Kantis, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Martin Lehwald
PRODUCED BY Schiwago Film GmbH in co-production with Amour Fou Vienna GmbH
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
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A young artist is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.
One of contemporary Europeʼs most distinctive creators has come out with an ingeniously conceived film. While it unfolds slowly and in detail, it hits the viewer with a singular emotional punch.
THE DIRECTOR
Radu Judeʼs (1977) debut feature film, THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009) was awarded with the CICAE prize in Berlinale-Forum 2009. It was selected in more than 50 film festivals including Toronto, New Directors/New Films - NY, Thessaloniki, Sarajevo and London. His second feature film which premiered in Berlinale-Forum, received the Heart of Sarajevo Film Festival, Le Bayard dʼOr for Best Film and Best Actor at Namur IFF, CinEast IFF Grand Prix and was selected in more than 30 film festivals around the world. Radu Jude was premiered with the Silver Bear for the Best Director for his third feature, AFERIM! (2015). His fourth feature, SCARRED HEARTS (2016) received the Special Jury Prize at Locarno Film Festival amongst many others. SCARRED HEARTS was also selected for Sarajevo International Film Festivalʼs Competition and BFIʼs section “Dare”. I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS is his sixth feature. It world premiered in the Official Competition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018, where it won the main prize – the Crystal Globe. He also successfully directed many short films, commercials, theatre plays and a documentary.
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DRAMA / ROMANIAN / 140 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE IMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA IN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI
DIRECTOR Radu Jude (AFERIM!)
DOP Marius Panduru
CAST Ioana IacobAlexandru Dabija
Alex Bogdan
PRODUCER Ada Solomon
PRODUCED BY Hi Film Productions in co-production with Endorfilm, Les Films d‘Ici, Klas Film, Komplizen Film, ZFD/Arte and TVR
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
World excluding France, German-speaking territories, Poland, Hungary, Ex-Yugoslavia, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS
THE LATEST WORK BY BERLINALE SILVER BEAR WINNER RADU JUDE (AFERIM!).
“A dazzlingly dialectical and daring comedy/drama.”S C R E E N I N T E R N AT I O N A L
“A provocative, sarcastic, and momentous actof interrogation between the past and the present.”
VA R I E T Y
“Jude‘s ambitious meta-drama puts a bold moderntwist on an infamous wartime massacre.”
T H E H O L LY W O O D R E P O R T E R
OSCAR®
E N T R YROMANIA
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THE DIRECTOR
Sandra Nettelbeck was born in Hamburg. With the short film A CERTAIN GRACE she graduated at San Francisco State University. From 1992 she worked as a journalist and freelance producer/editor in Hamburg. LOOSE ENDS was her debut on German TV in 1994, two years later she wrote and directed MAMMAMIA which won Best Screenplay and Best Film at the Max-Ophüls-Festival in Saarbrücken. With her debut theatrical feature MOSTLY MARTHA, which had its world premiere on the Piazza Grande in Locarno, she gained international success in 2001. In 2004 Sandra Nettelbeck realized her first childrenʼs movie SERGEANT PEPPER, a turbulent comedy about the friendship between a 6-year-old and a dog. With HELEN, starring Ashley Judd, she wrote and directed her first English language production in 2009, followed by MR MORGANʼS LAST LOVE in 2013, starring Michael Caine, Clemence Poesy, Justin Kirk and Gillian Anderson.
As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesnʼt need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive gambler with a boyfriend problem, regularly shows up late for her appointments, she rocks his world in ways heʼs not ready for. Itʼs not supposed to happen and it happens anyway: a therapist falls in love with a patient. And the more Max attempts to keep it professional, the more their lives get entangled.
So how can he manage to help her without getting involved? How can loving her not lead to losing her altogether? Wrestling with his conscience and his heart, torn between the patient and the woman heʼs in love with, he has no choice but to stick to the old airplane rule: you must help yourself before you can help others.
Populated with a colorful range of characters, WHAT DOESNʼT KILL US is a heart-wrenching yet delightful mosaic of stories just past the midlife crisis, of matters of the heart and identity, of everyday struggles and longtime conflicts. It takes a tender and humorous look at the highs and lows that can either save us or haunt us when we realize that the second half time is already well on its way.
TORONTO PRIVATE SCREENING
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO GAMBLE EVERYTHING FOR LOVE.
DRAMA, COMEDY / GERMAN / 129 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE WAS UNS NICHT UMBRINGT
DIRECTOR Sandra Nettelbeck (MOSTLY MARTHA)
DOP Michael Bertl
CAST August Zirner (COLONIA DIGNIDAD, BELLA MARTHA) Johanna Ter Steege (GOODBYE) Barbara Auer (THE BOOK THIEF) Christian Berkel (ELLE, DOWNFALL) Mark Waschke (DARK) Deborah Kaufmann (DARK)
PRODUCERS Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach
PRODUCED BY Sommerhaus Filmproduktion GmbH in co-production with Cine Plus Filmproduktion GmbH and Ruhrsoundstudios
TERRITORIES AVAILABLE
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“A crowd-pleaser.”S C R E E N I N T E R N AT I O N A L
“Should strike a chord with a mature demographic who have embraced a range of titles from the Marigold Hotel series to the surprise British hit Finding Your Feet.”
S C R E E N I N T E R N AT I O N A L
“A sparky, and let‘s face it, touching satire delivered at a sustained pace.”C I N E U R O PA
SUNDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER | 9:30 AM | TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 7
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THE DIRECTOR
Adilkhan Yerzhanov, film director and screenwriter, was born in Kazakhstan in 1982. In 2009 he graduated from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Adilkhan was a participant at the Berlinale Talents in 2014 and is a Member of the Asia-Pacific Screen Awards Academy. His feature film projects include THE OWNERS (2014), which was in the official selection for Cannes, participated at Moscow IFF, was nominated for two Asian Pacific Screen Awards, won the Free Spirits award at Warsaw IFF, was awarded the special mention plaque at Chicago IFF, won the NETPAC Award at Lebanon IFF and the Special Jury Award at Listopad, Minsk, THE PLAGUE AT KARATAS VILLAGE (2015), which won the NETPAC award at IFF Rotterdam, was awarded the Grand-Prix and Critics Diploma at Kinoshock, Russia and won the Best Director Award at Eurasia IFF, HISTORY OF KAZAKH CINEMA (2015, documentary) and NIGHT GOD (2018), which world-premiered at Moscow IFF. THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD will premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2018.
UN CERTAIN REGARD
After her fatherʼs untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel city. She has to find money to pay off the large family debt that her father left behind, in order to save her mother from jail. Friends since their village childhood, her loyal, but penniless admirer Kuandyk follows her just to make sure his sweetheart is safe. Saltanatʼs uncle introduces her to a possible groom, who promises to pay off her familyʼs debts. But Saltanatʼs hopes are dashed, when she discovers that the men in this city donʼt keep their word. When Kuandyk tries to help Saltanat get the money through other ways he ends up finding himself in more trouble than he bargained for. Although life keeps dealing them bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give up, no matter what the odds.
LOVE WILL ALWAYS BE ABOVE LIFE, FEAR, DEATH AND MONEY.
TRAGICOMEDY / KAZAKH, RUSSIAN / 100 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE
DIRECTOR Adilkhan Yerzhanov (THE OWNERS)
DOP Aidar Sharip
CAST Dinara Baktybayeva Kuandyk Dyussembaev
PRODUCERS Olga Khlasheva, Serik Abishev, Akan Sataiev, Ernar Kurmashev, Aliya Mendygozhina and Guillaume de Seille
PRODUCED BY Astana Film Fund, Short Brothers in co-production with Arizona Productions
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TORONTO PRIVATE SCREENING
“An absolute masterpiece.” T H E U P C O M I N G
“Yerzhanov is surely one of the most incredible talents of our era.”
T H E U P C O M I N G
“A voice to watch in world cinema.” C I N E M A B L O G R A P H E R
FRIDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER | 3:15 PM | TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX CINEMA 6
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Georg is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn‘t like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Georg feels truly free.
When the owner of the local golf course tries to rip him off his pay, because the shade of green of the grass Georg has planted there is not “as green as it gets”, Georg snaps. Just when his airplane is about to be impounded, he grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself.
He embarks on a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters – and with every take-off and every landing, this tough manʼs heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness...
THE DIRECTOR
Florian Gallenberger was born in Munich in 1972. He studied at the renowned University of Television and Film in Munich. With his thesis film QUIERO SER (2000) Gallenberger received the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards® and an Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short Film. His debut feature SHADOWS OF TIME (2004) won the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director. His second feature, JOHN RABE (2009) premiered at the International Film Festival in Berlin and received two Bavarian Film Awards and four German Academy Awards, including Best Film. His third feature film, COLONIA (2015) received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Film and was nominated for five German Film Awards. Gallenberger is also a professor at the University of Television and Film in Munich.
A GRUMPY AND HARD-DONE-BY GARDENER ESCAPES HIS OLD LIFE AND EXPLORES GERMANY VIA THE SKY. WHAT HE FINDS IS REGAINED CURIOSITY, PEACE AND A LIFE WORTH LIVING FOR.
COMEDY, DRAMA / GERMAN / 115 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE GRÜNER WIRDʼS NICHT
DIRECTOR Florian Gallenberger (JOHN RABE, COLONIA)
DOP Daniela Knapp (THE POLL DIARIES)
CAST Elmar Wepper (CHERRY BLOSSOMS) Emma Bading (BERLIN SYNDROME) Monika Baumgartner Dagmar Manzel (JOHN RABE) Ulrich Tukur (THE LIVES OF OTHERS) Sunnyi Melles (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX)
PRODUCERS Benjamin Herrmann, Luca Verhoeven and Christian Hofer
PRODUCED BY Majestic Filmproduktion, new!move films, Degeto Film and WS Filmproduktion
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ONE CENTURY – ONE FAMILY – THREE GENERATIONS.
A BAVARIAN “WHITE RIBBON” MEETS EDGAR REITZ’ “HOME FROM HOME”.
Bavaria, summer 1984. It is the day of motherʼs funeral. The funeral reception is over, the guests have left. An embittered father and his estranged son are staying behind. The two aren‘t particularly close, actually they never have been. Still the father decides that itʼs time to tell his son the whole story – all of the memories, all of the experiences, his entire life. The son responds with his own version of the events and together they bring their individual and shared moments back to life.
Josef Bierbichlerʼs adaptation of his novel inspired by his own family history portrays around 100 years of cross-generational German history. The representation of the generation of two wars, which had been kept from pursuing their dreams due to external circumstances, forms the central pillar of the film. From the revolution against the king, the rise of the Nazis and the capitalism to the protagonistʼs personal experiences with the Catholic Church, abuse, refugees and economic miracles, TWO MEN IN SUITS tells a very personal story within a universal historical context.
THE DIRECTOR
Josef Bierbichler was born in 1948. He graduated from the Otto Falckenberg Drama School in Munich. When Bierbichler met the director Herbert Achternbusch in the mid-seventies the two formed a creative alliance and worked together on the films THE ATLANTIC SWIMMERS (1975), BEER CHASE (1977) and BYE-BYE BAVARIA (1977). In 1987 he made his script writing and directorial debut with TRIUMPH OF THE JUST, after a story by Oskar Maria Graf. Furthermore he worked with directors such as Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, Jan Schütte and Tom Tykwer. Bierbichler is successful both in film and on stage. He was awarded Actor of the Year multiple times by the industry magazine “Theater heute” and was awarded, amongst others, the ”Gertrude-Eysoldt-Ring.” For HIERANKL (2003) directed by Hans Steinbichler he was nominated as Best Actor at the German Film Awards and won the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in gold. For his role in WINTERREISE (2006) Bierbichler won the German Film Award for Best Actor in 2007. In 2009 he was nominated as Best Actor at the German Film Awards again for his role in A YEAR AGO IN WINTER by Caroline Link. TWO MEN IN SUITS is his newest directorial work, based on the novel “Mittelreich” also written by Josef Bierbichler.
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TWO MEN IN SUITS
DRAMA / GERMAN / 128 MIN / COMPLETED
ORIGINAL TITLE ZWEI HERREN IM ANZUG
DIRECTOR Josef Bierbichler
DOP Tom Fährmann
CAST Josef Bierbichler (THE WHITE RIBBON) Martina Gedeck (THE LIVES OF OTHERS) Simon Donatz Irm Hermann
PRODUCERS Stefan Arndt and Uwe Schott
PRODUCED BY X Filme Creative Pool Entertainment in co-production with BR, WDR, Arte, Lucky Bird Pictures, Arri Media and X Verleih
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“A fi lm that moves you, touches you and becomes unforgettable.” B I L D
“Bavarian avant garde cinema in the most rebellious and wonderous way.” F R A N K F U R T E R A L L G E M E I N E Z E I T U N G
“Josef Bierbichler owns the big stage.”D E R S P I E G E L
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DRAMA / GERMAN / IN PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE ALS HITLER DAS ROSA KANINCHEN STAHL
DIRECTOR Caroline Link (NOWHERE IN AFRICA)
DOP Bella Halben
CAST Riva Krymalowski Carla Juri (BLADE RUNNER 2049) Oliver Masucci (NEVER LOOK AWAY, LOOK WHO‘S BACK)
PRODUCERS Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach
PRODUCED BY Sommerhaus Filmproduktion in co-production with Warner Bros. Entertainment, Nextfilm Filmproduktion, La Siala Entertainment and Hugofilm Production
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Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing it became dangerous for some people to live in your country. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people.
That is what happens to Anna in 1933. Anna is not sure who Hitler is. She is nine years old when everything begins, too busy to take much notice of his face on posters all over Berlin. But when her own father goes missing one day, she comes to realize that the man on the posters is about to change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life.
She is forced to uproot her entire existence. Anna and her family hastily flee Germany, leaving even her favourite stuffed pink rabbit behind. From now on Anna encounters life in exile, not speaking the language, not knowing customs and manners, missing her friends and loved ones. To find a school for Anna is difficult, money is getting very short and they are fearful as they also encounter xenophobia. Yet Anna grows up, finds new friends, and learns to take responsibility. So when her family has to move away yet again, she is certain she can do anything.
BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL BY JUDITH KERR. FROM THE DIRECTOROF THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING “NOWHERE IN AFRICA”.
GERMANY 1933 – A JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE IN SEARCH OF SAFETY AND A NEW HOME.
As Francis, 30, the only survivor of an illegal crossing from Africa, awakes at a beach in Southern Europe, he swears an oath to God: From now on he wants to be a new, a better, a decent man. Soon after Francis finds himself in Berlin where he realizes how hard it is to be righteous when you are an illegal refugee in Germany – without papers, without nation
and without a work permit. When he receives an enticing offer from the charismatic German Reinhold, 31, to earn easy money, Francis initially resists the temptation, maintains his oath and stays away from Reinhold‘s shady dealings. But eventually he is sucked into Berlinʼs underworld and his life spirals out of control.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZA BOLD AND TIMELY ADAPTATION OF RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER’S EPONYMOUS CLASSIC.
THIS IS THE STORY OF FRANCIS, HOW HE ARRIVES IN BERLIN, HOW HE ENTERS THIS CITY THRICE,HOW HE STUMBLES, TRIPS AND FALLS, HOW BERLIN BECOMES HIS UNDOING AND HOW HE FINALLY
RESURRECTS AS A BETTER PERSON.
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ORIGINAL TITLE BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ
DIRECTOR Burhan Qurbani (WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG)
DOP Yoshi Heimrath (WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG)
CAST Welket Bungué Jella Haase (FACK JU GOEHTE) Albrecht Schuch (PAULA) Joachim Król (RUN LOLA RUN)
PRODUCERS Leif Alexis, Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach
PRODUCED BY Sommerhaus Filmproduktion in co-production with Lemming Film
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COMEDY / GERMAN / IN POST-PRODUCTION
ORIGINAL TITLE 25 KM/H
DIRECTOR Markus Goller (MY BROTHER SIMPLE)
DOP Frank Griebe (BABYLON BERLIN)
CAST Lars Eidinger (BABYLON BERLIN) Bjarne Mädel (24 WEEKS) Sandra Hüller (TONI ERDMANN) Franka Potente (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) Alexandra Maria Lara (RUSH)
PRODUCERS Markus Goller and Oliver Ziegenbalg
PRODUCED BY SUNNYSIDEUP Filmproduktion in co-production with Pictures in a Frame, Deutsche Columbia Pictures, Traumfabrik Babelsberg, 26. Babelsberg Film and Mythos Film
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After long years of estrangement, brothers Christian (43) and Georg (45) finally cross paths at their fatherʼs funeral. A fist fight at the cemetery and a booze-fuelled wake later, they drunkenly decide to realize their boyhood dream of driving across Germany on their mopeds.
And so begins a journey full of exciting highs and comically-dramatic lows. A journey that allows the two brothers to reconnect and leads them to a turning point in their lives.
A HEART-WARMING COMEDY ABOUT TWO ESTRANGED BROTHERS AND THEIR MOPED JOURNEY ACROSS GERMANY FROM THE BLACK FORREST TO THE BALTIC SEE - NEVER FASTER THAN 25 KM/H,
BUT ALWAYS FULL OF SEX, DRUGS & PING PONG.
Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as
big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazisʼ arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud, and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?
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THE TOBACCONISTBASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY ROBERT SEETHALER.
A TENDER, HEART-BREAKING STORY ABOUT ONE YOUNG MAN AND HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH SIGMUND
FREUD DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF VIENNA.
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ORIGINAL TITLE DER TRAFIKANT
DIRECTOR Nikolaus Leytner
DOP Hermann Dunzendorfer
CAST Bruno Ganz (THE PARTY, DOWNFALL) Johannes Krisch (REVANCHE) Simon Morzé Emma Drogunova Regina Fritsch
PRODUCERS Dieter Pochlatko, Jakob Pochlatko and Ralf Zimmermann
PRODUCED BY epo-film produktionsges.m.b.h. Wien and Glory Film München
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Eden a 17-year-old high school student discovers that her two best friends are planning to sell their kidneys to pay for cosmetic surgery and a dress for prom. Eden, who is secretly a trans woman, realizes that this may be the answer to her prayers. She joins the others on their journey to Kiev to
exchange their kidneys for the flawless body of their dreams. Their trip does not go as planned and when Edenʼs secret is exposed, all three of them need to come to terms with the prejudices they have and redefine who they really want to be in this world.
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FLAWLESSFROM THE MAKERS OF “THE FAREWELL PARTY” COMES ANOTHER TIMELY
AND SENSITIVE STROKE OF GENIUS.
NOMINATED FOR 12 ISRAELI ACADEMY AWARDS, FLAWLESS IS A POIGNANTAND PROFOUND STORY ABOUT RACE, GENDER AND SOCIAL PREJUDICE.
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DRAMA / HEBREW, ENGLISH / IN POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT AVAILABLE
ORIGINAL TITLE HANESHEF
DIRECTOR Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit (THE FAREWELL PARTY)
DOP Giora Bejach
CAST Stav Strashko Netsanet Zenaneh Mekonnen Noam Lugasy
PRODUCERS Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, Moshe Edery and Leon Edery
PRODUCED BY Pie Films, United King Films and Pallas Film
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LARA
It is Laraʼs sixtieth birthday and it is surely no coincidence that her son Viktor is giving the most important piano concert of his career – since it was her, who mapped out and forced Victorʼs musical career in the first
place. Yet the day does not go as expected and Lara has to discover that Viktor is using the concert to finally free himself from her grip.
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ORIGINAL TITLE LARA
DIRECTOR Jan-Ole Gerster (OH BOY)
DOP Frank Griebe (RUN LOLA RUN, CLOUD ATLAS)
CAST Corinna Harfouch (DOWNFALL) Tom Schilling (OH BOY, GENERATION WAR) Rainer Bock (THE WHITE RIBBON) Volkmar Kleinert (THE LIVE OF OTHERS)
PRODUCER Marcos Kantis
PRODUCED BY Schiwago Film GmbH in co-production with Studiocanal
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THE NEW FILM OF EUROPEAN FILM AWARD WINNER JAN-OLE GERSTER (OH BOY).
“BIRTHDAY PARTIES ARE ALL THE SAME. BELIEVE ME, IF YOU’VE LIVED THROUGH 59 OF THEM, YOUR ENTHUSIASM GRADUALLY DECREASES. I’D LIKE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE…” - LARA
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Bernd Trautmann, born in 1923 in Germany, is captured by the British in WWII. During a football match between the prisoners, the goalkeeper is noticed by Jack Friar, manager of an amateur club. Forced upon the team, Trautmann soon surprises on and off the field. Prejudice subsides, friendships start to develop and Trautmann loses his heart not only to football but to his managerʼs beautiful daughter Margaret. However, Trautmann could not have foreseen the wave of outrage resulting from his engagement at Man City FC. Thousands take to the streets against the signing of the “Nazi.” Feeling alienated and alone, Trautmannʼs and Margaretʼs loyalty to each other is being seriously put to the test. But they
receive support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Alexander Altmann, who fled the Nazis, publishes an open letter against the anti-German slogans. Trautmannʼs path to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man City by playing on despite a broken neck. Yet fate twists the knife and Trautmannʼs son is killed in a car accident. Heartbroken, Trautmann wants to give up. But a whole nation has learned to accept him, and so he starts to prepare for his comeback. For all those who learned to forgive, for those who had lost someone and most of all for his son, who admired him the most, he must step back onto the pitch.
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DRAMA, LOVE STORY / ENGLISH / IN POST-PRODUCTION PROMO AVAILABLE
ORIGINAL TITLE TRAUTMANN - GELIEBTER FEIND
DIRECTOR Marcus H. Rosenmüller (GRAVE DECISIONS)
DOP Daniel Gottschalk (TRADE)
CAST David Kross (THE READER) Freya Mavor (THE SENSE OF AN ENDING) John Henshaw (THE ANGELS‘ SHARE) Harry Melling (HARRY POTTER) Gary Lewis (BILLY ELLIOT) Dervla Kirwan (ONDINE)
PRODUCERS Robert Marciniak and Chris Curling
PRODUCED BY Lieblingsfilm, Zephyr Films Trautmann Ltd. and BFC in co-production with SquareOne Entertainment, ARRI Media and ARD/Degeto
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TRAUTMANNHE CAME AS AN ENEMY AND TURNED INTO THEIR HERO. A TRUE STORY ABOUT COURAGE AND RECONCILIATION, ABOUT A LOST HOME AND A NEW ONE FOUND. AND ABOVE ALL,
