Manga Bell

Manga Bell

by | Feb 17, 2023

Manga Bell – A good German

Cameroon, 1914: The head of the Duala, King Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, is on trial. The charge is high treason. The accusation is made in connection with the German colonial administration’s expropriation plans, which were driven forward by one man in particular: District Commissioner Hermann Röhm.

Duala Manga attended grammar school in Ulm with the very same Hermann Röhm around 20 years earlier. In the course of the Court Room drama, Rudolf Duala Manga Bell emerges as a perfect example of the “cultural uplift” that the German colonizers ostensibly had in mind when they subjugated the “protectorates”. However, his perfect German, his comprehensive knowledge of German customs and the German legal system and, last but not least, his outstanding intellect meant that he was by no means safe, but was targeted by the colonial administration and its representative Röhm. Against the historical backdrop, the painful story of this friendship, which ends in fatal betrayal through the process of unfriending, forms a metaphor for German behavior as a colonial power.

The story of Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, who loved German culture and whose persistent belief in justice ended in a German judicial murder, is still little known. It is time to tell the story of this special man.

Credits
Screenplay & Director: Lisa Charlotte Friederich
Producer: Philipp Goeser
Production Company: Schiwago Film (Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis)

In cooperation with: SWR
Funded by: the German Federal Film Board (FFA)

Production year: 2026

Rukis erster Sommer

Rukis erster Sommer

by | Feb 17, 2023

Rukis first summer

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.

Credits

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

Inside

by | Feb 17, 2023

Inside

“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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Credits

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Gene Bervoets, Eliza Stuyck

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)

Festival Participations
  • Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2024
  • 23rd Columbus Film Critics Association Awards
  • 30th Palić European Film Festival
  • 27th Sofia International Film Festival
  • Reims Polar – International Thriller Film Festival 2023
  • 73rd Berlin International Film Festival
Awards
  • Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2024:
    Best First Film Director – Vasilis Katsoupis; Best Actor – Willem Dafoe
  • 27th Sofia International Film Festival:
    Best Director – International Competition (Vasilis Katsoupis)
  • 30th Palić European Film Festival:
    Special Mention – International Competition (Vasilis Katsoupis)
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde

Desaster

Desaster

by | Feb 13, 2023

Desaster

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.

Credits

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

Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster

Manifesto

Manifesto

by | Feb 13, 2023

Scene from Manifesto
Scene from Manifesto

Manifesto

The Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin presents a solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt from February 10 to July 10, 2016. Manifesto is an installation consisting of 13 parallel films and a tribute to the moving tradition of artists’ manifestos. Rosefeldt’s work emphasizes the literary beauty and performative energy of artists’ manifestos. He has collaged numerous original historical manifestos into 13 poetic monologues and presents them as a living, highly contemporary call in moving images.

Credits

Cast: Cate Blanchett

Screenplay: Julian Rosefeldt
Director: Julian Rosefeldt
Camera: Christoph Krauss
Editing: Bobby Good
Production design: Erwin Prib
Costume: Bina Daigeler
Mask: Morag Ross
Production Management: Anna K. Guddat
Production management: Vasily Zygouris
Executive producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Vasily Zygouris

Producer: Julian Rosefeldt
Commissioning Editor: Cornelia Ackers (BR)
Production year: 2015