Bye Bye Berlusconi!

Bye Bye Berlusconi!

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Bye Bye Berlusconi!

If you make a film against one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe, you run the risk of ending up not in the cinema, but in court. Especially when it is the current Prime Minister of Italy.

Spring 2005. A young, dedicated film crew from Genoa is planning a serious political film about the kidnapping of Silvio Berlusconi. The goal of the kidnappers is to finally bring Berlusconi to justice in a fair and independent trial, which he has successfully evaded in real life for years. This film should shake up Italy and lead to the prime minister being voted out of office in April 2006. On the very first day of shooting, however, it becomes clear that the ambitious filming team has overstretched itself with this project. The film is threatened with cancellation, and in order to protect themselves from Berlusconi’s legal attacks and to make their film recognizable as a satire, they use an absurd trick: they move the story from Italy to Duckburg without further ado. Whether that will be enough to prevent a threatened ban on the film, no one knows. It is certain, however, that this film will drive Silvio Berlusconi up the wall.

Credits

Cast: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Franco Leo, Fabio Bezzi, Pietro Bontempo, Pietro Ragusa, Tullio Sorrentino, Lucia Chiarla, Maurizio Antonini, Nina Mair

Screenplay: Lucia Chiarla, Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Director: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Camera: Nicolas Jorey
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Editing: Nicola Undritz
Production design: Carola Gauster
Costume: Elke Zetl
Mask: Samir Atar
Sound: Sebastian Riegel
Production management: Frank Zahl
Production management: Gunnar Juncken
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Sponsor: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (film award funds)
Production year: 2005/2006

Preise
  • Berlinale 2006, Femina Film Award for Best Production Design
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Berlinale 2006 (Panorama)
  • Festival Lubliana
  • Festival Sao Paolo
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A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy)

A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy)

by | Feb 13, 2023

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A Coffee in Berlin (Oh Boy)

Niko is in his late twenties and dropped out of law school a long time ago. Since then, he has lived in the day, drifting through the streets of Berlin and marveling at the people around him. With quiet curiosity, he observes them as they go about their daily lives, not noticing how he himself is becoming an outsider. But suddenly Niko is caught up in reality and confronted with the consequences of his passivity: his girlfriend draws a line in the sand, a psychologist attests to his emotional imbalance, his father cuts him off and there seems to be no more normal coffee in the whole town. When a strange beauty also shows up and confronts him with their shared past, the day takes a surprising turn.

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Cast: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Justus von Dohnányi, Michael Gwisdek, Katharina Schüttler, Arnd Klawitter, Martin Brambach, Andreas Schröders, Ulrich Noethen, Steffen C. Jürgens

Screenplay: Jan-Ole Gerster
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Camera: Philipp Kirsamer
Composer: The Major Minors, Cherilyn MacNeil
Editing: Anja Siemens
Production design: Juliane Friedrich
Costume: Juliane Maier, Ildiko Okolicsanyi
Make up: Dana Bieler
Sound: Magnus Pflüger
Production Management: Susanne Mann
Production management: Alexander Wadouh
Co-producer: Alexander Wadouh, Chromosom Filmproduktion
Producer: Marcos Kantis
Commissioning Editor: Hessischer Rundfunk, Jörg Himstedt
arte, Birgit Kämper
Production year: 2012

Preise
  • German Film Award 2013:
    – Best Feature Film in Gold
    – Best direction
    – Best Screenplay
    – Best leading actor
    – Best Supporting Actor
    – Best Film Music
    – Nomination: Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress
  • Bavarian Film Award 2013:
    – Best Actor
    – Best Screenplay
  • German Film Critics Award 2013:
    – Best Debut Feature Film
    – Best music
    – Nomination: Best Feature Film, Best Actor
  • Romy 2013:
    – Best Book Motion Picture
  • New Faces Award 2013:
    – Best Debut Feature Film
  • Munich Film Festival 2012:
    – Föderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino – Best Screenplay
  • International Film Festival Bratislava 2012:
    – Best Director Award
    – FIPRESCI Price
    – FEDEORA price
  • Oldenburg International Film Festival 2012:
    – German Independence Award – Best Film, Audience Award, Seymour Cassel Award
  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2012:
    – Red Herring Award
    – Audience Award
  • Festival premiers plans d`Angers 2012:
    – Special prize of the jury
    – Audience Award
  • Sofia Int. Film Festival 2012:
    – Focusfox Jury Prize
  • Int. Student Film Festival of the HFF Konrad Wolf 2013:
    – Best Feature Film over 60 minutes
    – Audience Award
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival
  • Munich Film Festival
  • Oldenburg Int. Film Festival
  • Leipzig film art fair
  • Zurich Film Festival
  • Film Art Days Saxony-Anhalt
  • Festival of German Cinema Paris
  • São Paulo Int. Film Festival
  • AFI Fest
  • Singapore German Film Festival
  • Univerciné Allemand – festival de cinéma
  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
  • plus Camerimage
  • Grand Teatret
  • German Films Go North
  • Marrakech Int. Film Festival
  • Tromsø Int. Film Festival
  • Festival premiers plans d`Angers
  • Int. Film Festival Rotterdam
  • ForumImages – Groningen
  • Cinequest Film Festival
  • Vilnius German Language Film Festival
  • Miami Int. Film Festival
  • Festival Int. de Cine en Guadalajara
  • Sofia Int. Film Festival
  • Festival International du Film d`Aubagne
  • Mamers en Mars festival de films européens
  • Lights Film Festival Frankfurt
  • International Istanbul Film Festival
  • Museum of Modern Art – New Films from Germany
  • Festival Prokino – Semaine du cinéma allemande
  • Sehsüchte – International student film festival
  • Attention Berlin – New Berlin Film Award
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Solness

Solness

by | Feb 13, 2023

Solness

The ever-popular star architect Solness has reached the top through talent and a healthy dose of egotism. But it’s lonely at the top. And it is dangerous. Because all at once his wonderful world collapses. His children die in a fire. His wife turns away and begins a relationship with the family’s shady friend. His youthful competitor beats him out in an important tender. Now of all times, as if out of nowhere, the very young Scandinavian architecture student Hilde appears. Beautiful as a Botticelli angel, she forces her way into Solness’s life and soon plays up her attraction icily. More and more the angel becomes a monster

of manipulation. A perfidious, erotically overheated conundrum begins, in the course of which reality and delusion become blurred. Only gradually does Solness realize that something connects him to the girl. Ten years ago, in Lysanger, Scandinavia, he had made her a promise and failed to keep it. Has Hilde come to take revenge? To kill him? Solness must accept the fight for life and death. To do so, he must also confront his always-denied fear of heights….

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Cast: Thomas Sarbacher, Julia Schacht, Robert Stadlober, André M. Hennicke, Dieter Meier, Doris Schretzmayer, Lise Risom Olsen, Maximilian Seidel, Johannes Ahn, Jane Chirwa, Madeleine Krakor, Nicolo Pasetti, Roman Kanonik

Screenplay: Michael Klette
Director: Michael Klette
Camera: Ralf Noack
Editing: Beatrice Babin, Till Ufer
Production design: Annette Lofy
Props: Fritz Jürgens, Sven Kuhnlein
Costume: Daphne Roeder
Make-up: Stefanie Gredig, Hanna Riehm
Sound: Julian Cropp
Production Management: Claudia Schebesta
Co-producer: Dog Ear Films
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny
Commissioning Editor: ZDF/3SAT (Meike Klingenberg, Jule Broda), ARTE (Wolfgang Bergmann)
Production year: 2015

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Der Preis

Der Preis

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Der Preis

Architect Alexander Beck has won a prize with an ambitious project for the conversion of prefabricated buildings in Thuringia. He travels from Frankfurt am Main to the East German province and behaves like a foreign, outsider designer: blocks of houses are to be torn down or modernized, a residential district is to be given a new look according to his plans. Nothing more. But the longer he is at the real construction site, the more difficult it becomes for him to maintain his usual professional distance. After all, the small town in Thuringia is Alex` hometown, and the apartment blocks are those in which he grew up.

Memories that the architect initially wants to avoid gradually break their way during his stay. They lead back to his youth in the GDR, to the year 1988, to the story of the bitter end of a friendship: Alex and the brother and sister Michael and Nicole have been an inseparable trio since childhood. Shortly before graduation, however, the rather system-compliant FDJ secretary Alex and the provocative, loner athlete Michael suddenly find themselves as irreconcilable opponents. At the same time that Nicole and Alex are tentatively falling in love, the rift between the boys grows painfully deep. Alex, who admires the siblings for their apparent independence, finally makes an effort to talk things out. When he is rejected by Michael, also because of his affection for Nicole, the hurt Alex betrays his friend.

There was and is no opportunity to make up for this debt, because Michael took his own life at the end of his school years. Only in today’s vis-a-vis of the familiar concrete buildings, in conversation with a new colleague, and above all in the re-encounter with Nicole, who still lives in their shared hometown, does Alex find his way back to a long-repressed part of his biography.

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Cast:
Florian Panzner, Anne Kanis, Wiebke Bachmann, Guntbert Warns, Sven Gielnik, Vanessa Krüger, Vincent Krüger

Screenplay: Peggy Lehmann
Director: Elke Hauck
Camera: Michael Kotschi
Editing: Stefan Stabenow
Production design: Angelica Böhm
Costume: Sonja Hesse
Make up: Jana Schulze
Sound: Johannes Doberenz
Production Management: Olaf Kirbach
Production management: Michal Pokorny
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny
Commissioning Editor: SWR, Stefanie Groß

Supporters: Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board, The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Production year: 2011

Preise
  • Prize of the German-Polish Youth Jury “Best German Film”, Film Festival Lubuskie Lato Filmowe Lagow 2011
  • Thuringian Award for the Promotion of Building Culture 2012
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Berlinale (perspective)
  • Lubuskie Lato Filmowe Lagow
  • Vancouver Int. Film Festival
  • Braunschweig Film Festival
  • Dhaka Int. Film Festival
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Icewind

Icewind

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Icewind

The Ice Wind tells the story of two mismatched girls growing up on a 1940s Berlin housing estate. They experience the cruelty of the times through their very own eyes. The children live out their fantasy world in a kind of “magic world” that they have set up in their own basement. An important role is played by the red magic cloak, which the children include in their play as a central prop and which ultimately leads to a mix-up. But the story only seems to take a happy turn.

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Cast: Bianca Ambrosi, Maja Schellschmidt, Antje Jandrig, Patrick Merkle, Andrea Köss, Knud Kohr, Bob Grünberg, Ben Braun

Screenplay: Christoph Silber
Director: Christoph Silber
Camera: Axel Fischer
Composer: Ori Barel
Editing: Regina Bärtschl
Production design: Ulrike Litters
Costume: Katrin Berthold
Mask: Natalie von Brunn
Sound: Thomas Pfeiffer
Production Management: Anita Schenk
Producer: Martin Lehwald
Production year: 2005/2006

Festivalteilnahmen
  • BAMkinds Film Festival 2008
  • Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2007
  • Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2006
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