Cameroon, 1914: Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, king of the Duala tribe in Cameroon after his father and grandfather, speaks German, he reads Goethe, Schiller and Lessing, he wears elegant men’s skirts and knows the German legal system, because Cameroon at this time belongs to the German Empire as a “protectorate”. In the spirit of Immanuel Kant, he dares to use his own intellect. The benevolence of the German colonial officials in the face of his cultural inquisitiveness turns into brutal violence when they discover that Manga Bell understands and applies their legal system better than they do. To assert their claim to power against his sound legal reasoning, they eventually murder him and his closest associate on the gallows in a mock trial for “high treason”. To this day, there is no official German statement on this judicial murder.
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Buch & Regie: Lisa Charlotte Friederich
Producer: Philipp Goeser
Produzent: Schiwago Film (Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis)
9-year-old Sarah spends the summer holidays alone with her dad in Tunisia for the first time and rescues a chicken from the oven. Together they have an adventure in the desert and in the middle of an impenetrable sandstorm Sarah begins to see clearly for the first time.
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Director: Frédérique Veith Written by: Zazou Röver Producer: Philipp Goeser Producer: Schiwago Film (Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis) Fundings: Kuratorium junger deutscher Film und Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM)
“Inside” tells the story of Nemo an art thief who enters a collector’s penthouse apartment hunting for valuable works of art. As he enters, the security system locks everything down. And then malfunctions. He is locked inside. At Sirst, he expects his partners in crime to arrive, then the security guards or the police. Or the owner. But no one comes. Then he hopes and prays for a cleaning lady to come. A servant. Someone to clean the aquarium. Anyone. But no one comes. And days stretch out into months. He is locked inside a prison adorned with exquisite, strange, even eerie works of art: works that he both covets and admires, but which are now, for him, useless. Instead he must use all of his cunning and invention to survive. To break into all the locked spaces to Sind all the food and liquid he will need. The luxury penthouse – this locus of perfection and aspiration – has become a prison. A desert island. A torture chamber. And then a place of revelation.
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Written by: Ben Hopkins Director: Vasilis Katsoupis Director of Photography: Steven Annis Production Design: Thorsten Sabel Art Curator: Leonardo Bigazzi Editor: Lambis Haralambidis Composer: Frederik van de Moortel Producer: Giorgos Karnavas (Heretic), Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film), Dries Phlypo (A Private View)
Rike – a doctor from Europe, 40 years old – embodies a Western idea of happiness and success. She is educated, self-confident, determined and dedicated. Rike makes her daily living as an emergency doctor in Cologne before she starts her vacation in Gibraltar. There she sets sail alone with her sailboat. The destination of her journey is the Atlantic island Ascension Island. Her vacation comes to an abrupt end when she finds herself in the immediate vicinity of an overloaded, wrecked fishing boat after a storm at sea. Several dozen people are in danger of drowning. Rike first follows the usual rescue chain and requests assistance by radio. When her pleas for help go unanswered, time is running out, and a third-party rescue proves unlikely, Rike is forced to act.
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Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Odour Wekesa Screenplay: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Kuenzel Director: Wolfgang Fischer Camera: Benedict Neuenfels Composer: Dirk von Lowtzwow Editing: Monika Willi Production design: Wolfgang Fischer, Benedict Neuenfels, Ina Kuenzel, Volker Rehm Costume: Nicole Fischnaller Make up: Elke Hahn Sound: Andreas Turnwald Production Management: Dirk Seibert Line Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz Co-producer: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck Producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny Editors: Andrea Hanke (WDR), Georg Steinert (Arte) Broadcaster: WDR, Arte Sponsor: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW Eurimages Austrian Film Institute Malta Film Commission German Film and Television Fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg German Federal Film Board (FFA) Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)
Preise
Bavarian Film Award:
Best image design
Berlinale:
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
2nd place Panorama Audience Award
Label Europe Cinemas (initiative for the promotion of European cinema)
Heiner Carow Prize of the DEFA Foundation
German Film Award:
Silver LOLA for Best Feature Film
Best female lead
Best image design
Best sound design
German Human Rights Film Award:
Best feature film
Emden-Norderney Film Festival:
Creative Energy Award for outstanding individual achievements: Susanne Wolff (Acting) and Benedict Neuenfels (Cinematography)
Island scholarship “A desk by the sea” for director Wolfgang Fischer
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg Vorpommern:
Main prize “Flying Ox
Audience Award
Award for best music and sound design
Austrian Film Award:
Best direction
Best Screenplay
Best cut
Festivalteilnahmen
68th Berlin International Film Festival (Section: Panorama Special)
29th Emden-Norderney Film Festival
28th Film Art Festival Mecklenburg Western Pomerania
14th Festival of German Film Ludwigshafen am Rhein
After the surprise success of “Bis zum Ellenbogen”, the new, pitch-black gangster comedy by and with Justus von Dohnányi, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Kurt, Anna Loos and Milan Peschel.
The two professional killers Ed and Mace get the order from the corrupt lawyer Dr. Würsch to rob gunrunner Mischa in his villa in St. Tropez. A plan that other petty criminals also forge, and so begins an absurd chase for big money, in which people die for all they’re worth without a single shot being fired.
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Cast: Justus von Dohnányi, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Kurt, Anna Loos, Milan Peschel, Max Simonischek, Angela Winkler, Oskar Ortega Sanches
Screenplay: Justus von Dohnányi Director: Justus von Dohnányi Camera: Ralf Noack Editing: Olivia Retzer Production design: Johannes Fischer Props: Maxi von Dohnányi Costume: Katrin Aschendorf Mask: Peter Bour Sound: Claudia Mattai del Moro Production Management: Jonas Witsch Co-producer: Ellenbogen Film, Radio Doria Entertainment, STUDIOCANAL Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny Commissioning Editor: Hessischer Rundfunk, Jörg Himstedt Broadcaster: HR, arte Funding: German Federal Film Board, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Production year: 2015