8 - 11 july program

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12:00-17:00h WELCOME-DESK at the Swissôtel optional: 16:00h MEETING POINT hotel lobby 16:30h GUIDED TOUR Gerhard Richter & Galerie Neue Meister

20:00h OPENING RECEPTION at Italienisches Dörfchen Theaterplatz 3

20:00h DINNER presented by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

20:00h CLOSING EVENT at Villa Marie Fährgässchen 1

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CINEMA 3 10:30h RITTER TRENK TRENK THE LITTLE KNIGHT 75 Min > page 20 Global Screen

13:00h HIGHWAY TO HELLAS 89 Min > page 14 ARRI Media World Sales

16:00h MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER MARA AND THE FIREBRINGER 94 Min > page 15 Sola Media

Friday

CINEMA 4 9:30h BECKS LETZTER SOMMER BECK'S LAST SUMMER 95 Min > page 7 ARRI Media World Sales

11:30h HEIL 103 Min > page 12 Beta Cinema

14:30h HERBERT A HEAVY HEART 111 Min > page 13 Picture Tree Internatinal

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CINEMA 3 10:45h DIE WILDEN V(8)IER V82 - REVENGE OF THE NITROS 93 Min > page 21 ARRI Media World Sales

14:00h DER NACHTMAHR 88 Min > page 17 K5 International

16:00h ALS WIR TRÄUMTEN AS WE WERE DREAMING 117 Min > page 6 The Match Factory

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9:00h PROMO REELS > page 22 9:30h COCONUT HERO 97 Min > page 8 Beta Cinema

12:30h EIN ATEM A BREATH 110 Min > page 9 ARRI Media World Sales

15:00h GESPENSTERJÄGER AUF EISIGER SPUR GHOSTHUNTERS ON ICY TRAILS 99 Min > page 10 Beta Cinema 17:00h RETTET RAFFI! MY FRIEND RAFFI 93 Min > page 18 Mimi & Crow Filmproduktion

10:30h RICO, OSKAR UND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN THE PASTA DETECTIVES 96 Min > page 19 Beta Cinema

CINEMA 4 9:30h MARRY ME! 91 Min > page 16 ARRI Media World Sales 11:30h HEDI SCHNEIDER STECKT FEST HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK 92 Min > page 11 The Match Factory

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CINEMA SCREENINGS ALS WIR TRÄUMTEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 BECKS LETZTER SOMMER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 COCONUT HERO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 EIN ATEM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 GESPENSTERJÄGER – AUF EISIGER SPUR.. . . . . 10 HEDI SCHNEIDER STECKT FEST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 HEIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 HERBERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 HIGHWAY TO HELLAS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 MARRY ME!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 DER NACHTMAHR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 RETTET RAFFI!.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 RICO, OSKAR UND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN. . . . . . . 19 RITTER TRENK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 DIE WILDEN V(8)IER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 PROMO REELS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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Genre Drama Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Andreas Dresen Screenplay Wolfgang Kohlhaase Cinematography Michael Hammon Cast Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Joel Basman, Marcel Heuperman, Frederic Haselon, Ruby O. Fee Producer Peter Rommel Co-Producers Andreas Dresen, Andreas Leusink, Tom Dercourt Production Company Rommel Film/Berlin, in co-production with Iskremas Filmproduktion/Berlin, Cinema Defacto/Paris, RBB/Berlin & Potsdam, BR/Munich, MDR/Leipzig, ARTE France Cinéma/Paris Length 117 min Original Version German Festivals Berlinale 2015 (In Competition), FEST Belgrade 2015, CPH PIX Copenhagen 2015, Hong Kong 2015

A N D R E A S D R E S E N was born 1963 in Gera. He studied Directing at the „Konrad Wolf“ University of Film & Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since 1992, he has been working as a writer and director for film, TV and theater. A selection of his award-winning films includes: SILENT COUNTRY (1992), NIGHT SHAPES (1998), THE POLICEWOMAN (2000), GRILL POINT (2001), VOTE FOR HENRYK! (2003), WILLENBROCK (2004), SUMMER IN BERLIN (2005), CLOUD 9 (2008), WHISKY WITH VODKA (2009), STOPPED ON TRACK (2011), and AS WE WERE DREAMING (2015).

Daniel, Mark, Rico, Pitbull and Paul. A group of East German friends grow up in the early 90s. The first years of reunified Germany – when everything was colliding, when everything seemed possible. From boyhood to rough-and-tumble teenagers, the Leipzig suburbs were their whole world. Daniel was in love, Rico was the greatest boxer. And Starlet was the prettiest girl they had ever known. They party, they riot, they run a techno club, they run from neo-Nazis, their parents and the future. They are coming of age in a time of anarchy.

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BECKS LETZTER SOMMER B E C K ’ S

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Genre Comedy Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Frieder Wittich Screenplay Oliver Ziegenbalg, Frieder Wittich Cinematography Christian Rein Cast Christian Ulmen, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Eugene Boateng, Friederike Becht, Fabian Hinrichs Producers Uli Putz, Jakob Claussen Co-Producers Ulf Israel, Josef Reidinger, Antonio Exacoustos, Franz Kraus Production Company Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion/Munich in co-production with Senator Film Produktion/Berlin, ARRI Film & TV Services/Munich, B.A. Produktion/Munich, 23/5 Filmproduktion/Berlin Length 95 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Wild Bunch Germany/Munich 17-year old Rauli is the outsider in his school until his music teacher Robert Beck discovers his outstanding musical talent: he plays the guitar and is a gifted singer. Beck is willing to manage and promote Rauli. But he follows his own hidden agenda: once a promising young musician himself, he is trying to make his comeback into music business. But also Rauli has his little secrets.

There is the young waitress Lena, trying to find a balance between her tender feelings for Beck and making her own living. Rauli‘s mysterious family background. Anna Lind - the incarnation of the erotic teenage queen for every teacher and pupil. And Beck‘s only friend Charlie - the gigantic African-German philosopher. All of them are on a journey to their inner selves – and they all will arrive – but not always as expected. F R I E D E R   W I T T I C H was born in 1974 in Stuttgart. From 1993-1995, he served as a camera assistant for the broadcasters SAT.1 and the Landesstudio Stuttgart, followed by an internship from 1995-1996 with the scriptwriters Krystian Martinek and Neithard Riedel in Hamburg. From 19961998, he co-wrote four TV movies together with Krystian Martinek. From 1998-2005 he studied at the University of Television & Film in Munich. His films include: the shorts MOSQUITO (1999) and OPUS (2002), numerous commercials, and his feature debut 13 SEMESTERS (2009).

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COCONUT HERO Genre Comedy, Coming-of-Age Story, Drama, Love Story, Tragicomedy Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Florian Cossen Screenplay Elena von Saucken Cinematography Brendan Steacy Cast Alex Ozerov, Krista Bridges, Sebastian Schipper, Bea Santos Producers Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach, Paul Scherzer Co-Producers Wolf Bauer, Frank Evers, Helge Neubronner Production Company UFA Fiction/Ludwigsburg, in co-production with SWR/Baden-Baden, ARTE/Strasbourg, UFA Cinema/ Potsdam, cine plus Filmproduktion/Berlin Length 90 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.35 Original Version English Festivals Munich 2015 German Distributor Majestic Filmverleih/Berlin The story of Mike Tyson. Not the boxer, a different one. It is not easy being a teenager and Mike, sixteen-years-old, is having the very worst of times. He lives with his mother Cynthia, a notorious nagger, in Faintville, a town based around the timber industry, set in its days and ways, deep in the Canadian forests. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite food. Basically, his sole wish is to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike decides to put an end to the cynical joke that fate has played on him, or life as it is called in other words: he places his own obituary and shoots himself! To his greatest disappointment he wakes up the next day not in heaven but at the local hospital. And suddenly Mike’s fate takes a very

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different turn when, during a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his head. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself so as to avoid undergoing the operation that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike’s view of life. For example, it causes him to re-evaluate his opinion of the crazy and enchanting Miranda, the first human being who appears to understand him. And slowly but surely, Mike develops a completely new wish. F LO R I A N C O S S E N was born in Tel Aviv in 1979 and spent his childhood in Israel, Canada, Spain and Costa Rica before completing high school in Germany. He began working as an assistant director before studying Film Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg from 2002-2009. During that time he made several short films. He was a visiting student at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires in 2006 and received a scholarship to attend a Hollywood Perspective workshop at UCLA (2005). COCONUT HERO is his second feature film after his multi-award winning THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN (DAS LIED IN MIR) in 2010.

WO R L D S A L E S Beta Cinema · Grünwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany phone +49-89-67 34 69 828 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 · [email protected] · www.betacinema.com

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B R E A T H

Genre Drama Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Christian Zübert Screenplay Christian Zübert Cinematography Ngo The Chau Cast Jördis Triebel, Chara Mata Giannatou, Benjamin Sadler Producer Ulf Israel Co-Producers Costas Labropoulos, Josef Reidinger, Antonio Exacoustos, Bart van Gemert, Hubert von Spreti Production Company Senator Film Köln/ Cologne, in co-production with Senator Film Produktion/Berlin, ARRI Film & TV Services/Munich, BVG Filmproduktion/Munich, BR/Munich Length 110 min Format DCP, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German, English, Greek Subtitled Version English German Distributor Senator Film Verleih/Berlin Due to the financial crisis in Greece, Elena decides to move to Frankfurt. She has become pregnant by her Greek boyfriend. In order to abort her child, she needs money which is why she takes a job working as a nanny for Tessa and Jan. Despite a few struggles with 1½ year-old Lotte at first, Elena

starts enjoying the time with the little girl and becomes friends with Tessa. In a careless moment, she loses Lotte and escapes from her responsibility and her conscience. Out of a powerless feeling, blind with grief and hatred, Tessa follows Elena to Athens. In Greece, she gets pushed to her limits of humanity and sanity. One breath decides on her ability to forgive herself and Elena. C H R I ST I A N Z Ü B E RT was born in 1973 in Würzburg and studied German Philology before he became a scriptwriter and director. His films as a director include: LAMMBOCK - SHIT HAPPENS (2001), THE TREASURE OF THE WHITE FALCONS (2005), HARDCOVER (2008), THREE QUARTER MOON (2011), and TOUR DE FORCE (2014). He has also (co-)written the scripts for the films FANDANGO, GIRLS ON TOP, COMPLETE IDIOT, RED ZORA, and VICKY AND THE TREASURE OF THE GODS, among others.

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Genre Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Tobi Baumann Screenplay Tobi Baumann, Murmel Clausen, Martin Ritzenhoff, Christian Tramitz, Roland Slawik, Mike O‘Leary Cinematography Thomas Kiennast Cast Milo Parker, Anke Engelke, Bastian Pastewka, Christian Tramitz, Karoline Herfurth, Christian Ulmen, Julia Koschitz, Ruby O. Fee, Amy Huberman Producers Oliver Schündler, Boris Ausserer Co-Producers Tommy Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn, Dominic Wright, Jacqueline Kerrin Production Company Lucky Bird Pictures/Munich, in co-production with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany/Hamburg, Lotus-Film/Vienna, Ripple World Pictures/Dublin, Immer Wieder Gerne Film/Berlin, ARRI Media/Munich, Satel/Vienna Length 99 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version English German Distributor Warner Bros. Entertainment/Hamburg The often fearful 11-year-old Tom discovers a green ghost in his cellar! Slimy Hugo is an ASG, an Averagely Spooky Ghost, whom Tom soon realizes is not only completely harmless but also desperately in need of his help. Hugo cannot go back to his haunted house, because a dangerous AIG, an Ancient Ice Ghost, has moved in and is spreading an arctic cold over the

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entire town in the middle of summer. Tom and Hugo enlist the services of professional Ghosthunter Hetty Cuminseed who has just lost her job at the CGI, the Central Ghosthunting Institute. Hetty doesn‘t like children or ghosts very much, but Tom and Hugo convince her to teach them the basics of ghosthunting. The three become an unlikely team - only with friendship, courage and self-confidence can they overcome their adversary and save the town from the AIG. TO B I B A U M A N N was born 1974 in Koblenz and started his career in the TV industry in 1994 as a freelance writer for German late-night shows. Besides his work behind the camera he has worked on stage as an actor and comedian. He has created and directed numerous hit comedy series and most recently the first German pay TV production, the dramedy ADD A FRIEND. His other work includes comedy events like FRÖHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN, the TV adventure movie VISUS – EXPEDITION ARCHE NOAH, the two-part TV Christmas comedy classic ZWEI WEIHNACHTSMÄNNER, his feature film debut DER WIXXER, an adaption of Tommy Jaud’s bestselling novel VOLLIDIOT, and GHOSTHUNTERS – ON ICY TRAILS.

WO R L D S A L E S Beta Cinema · Grünwalder Weg 28 d · 82041 Oberhaching/Germany phone +49-89-67 34 69 828 · fax +49-89-6 73 46 98 88 · [email protected] · www.betacinema.com

photo © Komplizen Film/Pandora Film 2015

HEDI SCHNEIDER STECKT FEST H E D I

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Genre Drama Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Sonja Heiss Screenplay Sonja Heiss Cinematography Nikolai von Graevenitz Cast Laura Tonke, Hans Löw, Leander Nitsche, Melanie Straub, Simon Schwarz, Margarita Broich, Matthias Bundschuh, Rosa Enskat, Urs Jucker, Kathleen Morgeneyer Producers Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade Production Company Komplizen Film/Munich & Berlin, in co-production with MER Film, FilmCamp, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, in cooperation with ARTE/Strasbourg Length 92 min Format DCP, color, cs Original Version German Festivals Berlinale 2015, Seattle 2015 German Distributor Pandora Film Verleih/Aschaffenburg Hedi, Uli and their son, Finn, have life sorted out. They take each day as it comes, all the while dreaming of the future. Then, suddenly: Hedi gets stuck. The lift she’s traveling in breaks down – and then her head does, too. All of a sudden, nothing is the same. Hedi and Uli try to hold on to each other, but their world spins out of control. In a last-ditch attempt to rescue their love, they take a trip to Norway. The aim: to be happy again – for 24 hours, at least.

With a light touch and tender humor, HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK shows that, for the 30-something generation, love is what it has always been: a very fragile thing. After HOTEL VERY WELCOME, director Sonja Heiss once again demonstrates her exceptional skill in treading the thin line between tragedy and comedy. With great affection for her characters, she explores what happens when “normal life” suddenly comes to an end. S O N JA H E I S S was born in 1976 in Munich and studied at the University of Film & Television Munich. Since 1997, she has been working as a casting director for commercials and since 2002 has been directing commercials herself. Her films include: FAST & CLEAN (short, 1999), KARMA COWBOY (short, 2001), CHRISTINA WITHOUT (short, 2004), HOTEL VERY WELCOME (2007), and HEDI SCHNEIDER IS STUCK (2015).

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HEIL Genre Comedy Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Dietrich Brüggemann Screenplay Dietrich Brüggemann Cinematography Alexander Sass Cast Benno Fürmann, Jacob Matschenz, Daniel Zillmann, Liv Lisa Fries, Jerry Hoffmann, Oliver Bröcker, Anna Brüggemann, Thelma Buabeng, Richard Kropf Producer Katrin Goetter, Michael Lehmann Production Companies REAL FILM/Berlin, Studio Hamburg Film Produktion/Hamburg, in co-production with Bella Firma/Berlin Length 103 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Festivals Munich 2015, Karlovy Vary 2015 Subtitled Version French, English

among them. Smirking, he appears on talk shows and mouths the slogans that Sven whispers to him. A ‘blackie’ railing against integration – the public goes crazy. And Sven sees himself finally on his way to becoming an opinion leader. But he isn’t impressing his beloved, Nazi girlfriend Doreen. She wants to see action. Historic deeds. And so Sven prepares his people for a big showdown – while at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and neither can get online at the moment. What can save the world now? And Nina and Sebastian’s love?

The acclaimed Afro-German author Sebastian Kleinis on a reading tour in the East German backwater and is given a fitting welcome by local neoNazis: a blow to the head. Sebastian promptly loses his memory and parrots everything people tell him. Nina, Sebastian‘s pregnant girlfriend in Berlin, is highly agitated. Without further ado she travels to Prittwitz and teams up with the village policeman Sascha to track down her boyfriend. He is in the hands of the neo-Nazis and their leader Sven and feels right at home

D I E T R I C H B R Ü G G E M A N N was born in 1976 and studied at the “Konrad Wolf” University of Film and Television in Potsdam. His films include: the shorts HEAVY ROTATION (2001), MEHR LICHT (2003), WARUM LÄUFT HERR V. AMOK (2003), KATJA KANN FAST ALLES (2004), numerous music videos, and the features NINE TAKES (NEUN SZENEN, 2006), RENN WENN DU KANNST (2010), MOVE (3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, 2011), and STATIONS OF THE CROSS (KREUZWEG, 2014).

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HERBERT A

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Genre Drama Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Thomas Stuber Screenplay Thomas Stuber and Clemens Meyer based on a story by Paul Salisbury Cinematography Peter Matjasko Cast Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Lena Lauzemis, Edin Hasanovic Producers Undine Filter, Thomas Král, Anatol Nitschke Production Company DEPARTURES Film/Leipzig, in co-production with deutschfilm/Berlin Length 111 min Format HD, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Wild Bunch Germany/Berlin Former Eastern German boxing champ Herbert has not been a winner in life since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a hard-up bouncer and debt collector, he tries to revive the past by coaching his young boxing protégé, Eddy. After a training session, Herbert suddenly collapses with spasms of pain; however, he initially chooses to ignore the signs. When his physical deficiencies become more and more apparent, Herbert finally sees a specialist who ultimately diagnoses him with a fatal neural disease. With not much time left,

Herbert struggles with himself and the hard outer shell he‘s cultivated over time. Not many things really matter to him apart from his ‘lost’ daughter Sandra, whom he abandoned when the family fell apart. Now a mother herself, Sandra is still deeply hurt and afraid of allowing her dying father to be a part of her life again. Student Academy Award winner Thomas Stuber tells the touching story of a lone wolf who takes a long time to find the meaning of his life. T H O M A S ST U B E R , born in Leipzig in 1981, worked as a script supervisor for various film and TV productions before studying at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His student feature TEENAGE ANGST (2008) was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival and he received a Silver Student Academy Award for his short film adaptation of Clemens Meyer’s short story OF DOGS AND HORSES (2012). The two writers teamed up once more for the script of A HEAVY HEART, which was nominated for the German Script Award.

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HIGHWAY TO HELLAS Genre Comedy Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Aron Lehmann Screenplay Arnd Schimkat, Moses Wolff, Aron Lehmann Cinematography Nikolaus Summerer Cast Christoph Maria Herbst, Adam Bousdoukos, Akillas Karazisis, Christos Valavanidis, Giorgos Kotanidis, Errikos Litsis, Georgia Tsagaraki, Kleopatra Markou Producers Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann, Matthias Schweighöfer Co-Producer Josef Reidinger Production Company Pantaleon Films/Munich in co-production with ARRI Film & TV Services/Munich, Warner Bros. Entertainment/Munich Length 89 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.35 Original Version German, Greek, English Subtitled Version English German Distributor Warner Bros. Entertainment/Munich The Germans are coming! To nose around and control the Greeks; because they are - as always - under suspicion of lying and cheating. With good reason! Joerg Geissner, employee of the Munich AVA bank, arrives on the Greek island Paladiki to check a loan granted some years ago. He has the suspicion that the hospital and power station set as collateral do not exist at all.

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But the Greeks aren’t foolish: Geissner, constantly accompanied by GermanGreek Panos, a clever gigolo who ensures that Geissner won’t be too fast with his investigations, shall come and prove that there are no collaterals at all. An odyssey begins for the bank employee, him against the rest of the island. But the more Geissner gets to know about Paladiki’s people, the more he becomes aware of the significance of his own role: The result of his visit will settle the future of the island. So Geissner has to ask himself to whom he really feels responsible - the bank or the people of Paladiki. A RO N L E H M A N N was born in Wuppertal in 1981 and grew up in the Bavarian countryside. He worked for several television production companies from 2003-2005 before starting his studies in Film Directing at the “Konrad Wolf” University of Television and Film in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His films include: LIED (short, 2006), SO G‘SELL SO (short, 2007), LIEBE GEMEIN DE (short, 2008), GERHOLD SELLE – RENTNER (short doc, 2009), MONDWÄRTS (short, 2010), and his graduation film KOHLHAAS OR THE PROPORTIONALITY OF MEANS (2012).

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MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER M A R A

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Genre Adventure Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Tommy Krappweis Screenplay Tommy Krappweis Cinematography Stephan Schuh Cast Lilian Prent, Jan Josef Liefers, Esther Schweins, Christoph Maria Herbst, Heino Ferch Producer Christian Becker Production Company Rat Pack Filmproduktion/Munich Length 94 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Constantin Film Verleih/Munich

TO M M Y K R A P P W E I S was born in 1972. Active as a writer and director, his films include: DREI FÜR ROBIN HOOD (2003), BERND DAS BROT (2007), ROOKIE - FAST PLATT (2011), and MARA UND DER FEUERBRINGER (2015).

Mara faces many challenges. She is being bullied at school and her single mom is turning into an extreme esoteric. She just wants to be a normal kid! But when Mara starts to have visions of ancient gods, she soon discovers that her biggest challenge is hidden in the past. With the help of a professor for ancient mythology she discovers that the Twilight of Gods is approaching and that she is the only one who has the ability to travel back in time and the power to save us all.

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MARRY ME! Genre Comedy, Family, Culture Clash Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Neelesha Barthel Screenplay Neelesha Barthel Cinematography Florian Foest Cast Maryam Zaree, Bharati Jaffrey, Steffen Groth, Fahri Yardim, Mira Kandathil, Wolfgang Stumph, Renate Krößner, Rebecca Rudolph, Lila Marschall Producers Yildiz Özcan, Stefan Schubert Co-Producers Antonio Exacoustos, Josef Reidinger, Christian Cloos, Doris Hepp Production Company Wüste Film Ost/Berlin, in co-production with Arri Film & TV Services/Munich, ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, in collaboration with ARTE Length 91 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.35 Original Version German, English, Hindi Subtitled Version English German Distributor NFP/Berlin Marriage? Eternal Love? Forget about it! But, what if suddenly, as a convinced single, you would need to stage a Bollywood-style wedding and not just as a guest but as the bride herself? And what if while pretending to marry your ex-boyfriend you would be unable to resist falling in love… with an innocent bystander? Kissy, a German-Indian woman in her late twenties, happily living with her seven-year-old daughter Meena in Berlin, oversees a building of rented apartments in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which has seen better days but not

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lost any of its charm. In the same house she also runs her cosy Café Devi. And everything is just tickety-boo, if it were not for her mega traditional grandmother, who has travelled all the way from India to Germany with the express intention of ensuring that Kissy is married to her daughter’s father, otherwise the building, along with the café, will be sold! What granny does not know, nor should she find out, is that Kissy and Robert have long since gone their own separate ways. Kissy, now out of options, persuades her ex to play the game. But Granny does not accept a simple, civil wedding only, it absolutely has to be a traditional Indian one. And so Kissy has to undergo exactly what she really does not want: not only getting married, but also Indian style .. N E E L E S H A B A RT H E L was born in 1977 in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She has been working as a director, writer, director of photography and editor for film, TV and advertising since 1999. Since 1995 she has also been working as an actress, in such films as SAMSARA (2001) and ALLTAG (2002), among others. Before taking up studies at HFF “Konrad Wolf” in 2002, she produced the documentary films BLING BLING (2001) and FIFTY FIFTY (2002). In film school she concentrated on fictional storytelling and graduated in 2008 with the short film ZWEI ZU DRITT (2007). MARRY ME! (2015) is her feature debut.

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DER NACHTMAHR Genre Mindbender, Psychological, New Phantastic German Cinema Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director AKIZ (Achim Bornhak) Screenplay AKIZ (Achim Bornhak) Cinematography Clemens Baumeister Cast Carolyn Genzkow, Kim Gordon, Julika Jenkins, Arnd Klawitter, Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht, Sina Tkotsch, Lynn Femme, Alexander Scheer Producers Amir Hamz, Christian Springer, AKIZ, Simon Rühlemann Production Company OOO-Films/Stuttgart, in co-production with Bon Voyage Films Length 88 min Format DCP, color, 1:2,39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals Munich 2015 German Distributor Alamode/Munich It’s a hot, humid and sweaty summer. Like every year, this season seems likely to become one endless, sexy and gorgeous party under the open sky. Tina and her friends are living the dream of a whole generation of decadent Berlin-party-kids. But after one excessive night she’s haunted by a mysterious ugly creature which visits her in her nightmares. The only person she talks to about her fears is her psychologist. He advises her to confront her fears and to reach out to the creature. At first Tina refuses, but after she hears about her parents plans to put her in a mental hospital she overcomes her panic and starts talking to creature.

Slowly she realizes that the creature is more of an incarnation of her fears and that the Nachtmahr has her exact same feelings. Out of fear of being called a freak, she starts hiding the creature in her room. She feeds it, with time she even gets close to it. It is almost like a relationship to a wild stray animal. It almost seems as if Tina has the courage for the first time in her life to be herself. But then her parents and her friends get to see the creature themselves… A K I Z studied directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His diploma film was nominated for an Oscar. In 1995, he attended the University of Southern California for postgraduate studies. He produced documentaries and worked as a freelancer until 2004. At the same time, he worked on sculptures, paintings and other art projects. His short film PAINTING REALITY (2010) was featured in Banksy‘s film THE ANTIC‘S ROAD SHOW. AKIZ founded the production company OOO-Films in 2012 which produced DER NACHTMAHR as its first feature film. Kim Gordon presented AKIZ’s work within „PopRally“ at the MoMA in New York together with AdRock (Beasty Boys) in 2014. DER NACHTMAHR is AKIZs first part of the “demoniac trilogy“, which deals with the triptych “birth/love/death“ as a cinematic cycle.

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RETTET RAFFI! M Y

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Genre Action, Adventure, Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2014 Director Arend Agthe Screenplay Bettina Kupfer, Arend Agthe Cinematography Thomas Benesch Cast Nicolaus von der Recke, Albert Kitzl, Sophie Lindenberg, Henriette Heinze, Claes Bang, Bettina Kupfer, Josef Ostendorf, Rainer Strecker, Dirk Martens, Philip Schmitz-Elsen, Martin Dudeck, Genia Karasek Producers Bettina Kupfer, Arend Agthe Production Company Mimi&Crow Filmproduktion/Hamburg Length 93 min Format DCP, color, 1:1.78 Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals FIFEM Montreal 2015, Kristiansand 2015, Zlín 2015, International Children‘s Film Carnival Hong Kong 2015, Children‘s Film Festival Munich 2015, International Children‘s Film Festival Brussels 2015, Jerusalem 2015, La Matatena Mexico City 2015 German Distributor MFA+ FilmDistribution/Regensburg Sammy is eight years old. He lives with his mother Helene and his sister Molly. Sammy’s father left the family a year ago, as he needed some “time off”. Before he left he gave Sammy a present: a hamster named Raffi. The little rodent is something very special. Not only can he kick goals with a football but he can also sniff out smuggled goods. Raffi and Sammy are best friends. However, one day Raffi is ill and it turns out to be worse

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than anyone thought: a heart disease, which needs to be operated. This, being bad enough as it is, gets worse when Raffi is suddenly gone! Raffi is stolen by Rocky, a ruthless criminal. As Helene is busy working and Molly prefers spending time with her boyfriend, Sammy secretly begins his search for Raffi alone. He is worried about his little hamster, and his search soon turns out to be an odyssey through the big city of Hamburg. In the end, and after a tremendous and long search, Sammy reaches the famous hamster show. However, suddenly everyone wants Raffi: the show-master, Rocky and Sammy himself. Can Sammy stand up against all grown-ups? Can he save Raffi? A R E N D AGT H E studied German Literature, Philosophy and Drama in Frankfurt. After working as a cartoonist and journalist he became a writer and director for cinema and TV. In 2012 he founded, together with his wife Bettina Kupfer, the Mimi & Crow Filmproduktion to produce MY FRIEND RAFFI, based on the novel he and his wife wrote together. A selection of his other films includes: RIVER - TRIP WITH A HEN (1984), FALCON SUMMER SKY (1987), YEARS OF WONDER (1990) KARAKUM (1993), and OVER THE SEA TO FREEDOM (2011).

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RICO, OSKAR UND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN T H E

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Genre Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2014 Director Neele Leana Vollmar Screenplay Christian Lerch, Andreas Bradler, Klaus Döring Cinematography Torsten Breuer Cast Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, Karoline Herfurth, Axel Prahl, Ronald Zehrfeld, Ursela Monn, David Kross, Milan Peschel, Katharina Thalbach, Anke Engelke Producers Philipp Budweg, Robert Marciniak Co-Producer Marco Mehlitz Production Company Lieblingsfilm/Munich, in co-production with Fox International Productions (Germany)/Berlin Length 96 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English German Distributor Twentieth Century Fox/Frankfurt

N E E L E L E A N A VO L L M A R was born in 1978 in Bremen and studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg from 2000-2005. In 2003 she also participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Hollywood Masterclass. Her films include: the shorts WATTENMEER (1999), ZU ZWEIT (1999), EINE REISE (2000), SANS UNE PAROLE (2001), WEISS (2001), TOTE FISCHE SCHWIMMEN OBEN (2002), MY PARENTS (2003), the features VACATION FROM LIFE ( 2004), PEACEFUL TIMES (2008), WEDDING FEVER IN CAMPOBELLO (2009), and THE PASTA DETECTIVES (2014).

Searching for the owner of a ”lost and found macaroni“ the lowly gifted Rico meets the highly gifted Oskar and the two become friends for life. Across Berlin they are after Mr. 2000, a notorious kidnapper. But suddenly Oskar disappears and Rico has to pluck up all his courage to find his friend…

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Genre Animation, Children’s Film, Family Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Anthony Power Screenplay Gerrit Hermans Producers Corinna Mehner, Gisela Schäfer Production Company blue eyes Fiction/Munich, WunderWerk/Hamburg, in co-production with Dor Film/Vienna, Universum Film/ Munich, ZDF/Mainz Length 75 min Format DCP, color, 1:1.85 Original Version English German Distributor Universum Film/Munich A fairytale land in the early Middle Ages has a dragon issue: the Duke announces a tournament to find the best knight who will fight against it. In exchange, the lucky winner will have a wish granted. Meanwhile, 10-yearold Trenk – peasant and property of evil Sir Wertolt – saves his pet piglet from the mean knight, but cannot prevent his father from being thrown into Wertolt‘s dungeon. Trenk does not hesitate a minute: he must learn to fight so that he can free his family. In the city, he embraces the unique opportunity to swap places with Zink, a cowardly page who doesn‘t want to fight. Attacked again by Wertolt, Trenk is now saved by young Thekla von Hohenlob, the mistress of Hohenlob Castle. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Trenk has to replace Thekla‘s father in the tournament. Trenk loses and Wertolt has to defeat the dragon, but it wins hands down. Or nearly: Trenk and Thekla have followed the dragon

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into the beast‘s lair, where they are pushed in and locked up by the tirelessly wicked Wertolt. However, during their ordeals, the youngsters discover another side of the dragon, which explains its tempestuous behavior... A N T H O N Y P OW E R was born in Waterford/Ireland and studied Art & Design, graduating with a degree in Graphic Design and Communications in 1986. After a year working as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator, he started working in 1988 as an assistant animator on THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES for Murakami Wolf Swenson, eventually moving up to the position of senior animator. In 1995 he moved to Cologne to direct his first series URMEL for Hahn Film, as well as RENADA seasons 1 and 2, and the title sequence for the award winning series, SIMSALLAGRIMM. In 2000, he directed the feature film UNDER THE BLACK FLAG, which won the Bimini Prize for Best Feature Film. Since then he has directed several TV series including the multi award winning CG/Live Action series MIA & ME. In 2013, he started work on TRENK, THE LITTLE KNIGHT, based on the successful books by Kirsten Boie, due for release in 2015.

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Genre Action, Adventure, Family Entertainment Category Feature Year of Production 2015 Director Joachim Masannek Screenplay Joachim Masannek Cinematography Benjamin Dernbecher Cast Georg Sulzer, Maya Lauterbach, Samuel Jakob, Klara Merkel Producer Christian Becker Co-Producers Franz Kraus, Antonio Exacoustos, Josef Reidinger, Reinhard Schürk Production Company Rat Pack Filmproduktion/Munich, in co-production with B.A. Produktion/Munich, ARRI Film & TV Services/Munich, Universal Pictures Productions/Hamburg Length 93 min Format DCP, color, 1:2.39 Original Version German Subtitled Version English The V8 team we already got to know and love in their first film is back! In a new and even more spectacular adventure, David, Robin, Luca, and Kiki Lilou have to show what they are made of. After their glorious win against the Baracudas, the V8 team got closer to a place at the legendary “Castle”,

N I T R O S where kids are taught in racing. However, Robin‘s father Rasmus V. Eight is hard on their heels. He still wants to get the control over his son and, much more, to ban the secret racings. Meanwhile, the V8 team has to deal with a new competitor, the crazy Nitros, who kidnap Robin and force him to drive against his own team. Can V8 win without Robin against the Nitros and will Rasmus V. Eight stop the racings? J OAC H I M M A S A N N E K was born in 1960 in Hamm and studied German, Philosophy, and Film in Munich. Since 1985, he has worked as a production designer, lighting technician, cameraman and author. After working on various animation projects, he wrote the children‘s book Die Wilden Fussballkerle based on the soccer team he founded in Munich. His films include: numerous short films and TV movies, all five of the award-winning THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH films (2002-2007), and both V8 (2013/2015) films.

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FACK JU GOEHTE 2

FRANCOFONIA

Genre Comedy Length of Trailer 2:40 Completion September 2015 Director Bora Dagtekin Cast Elyas M’Barek, Jella Haase, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Max von der Groeben

Genre Historical Essay Length of Trailer 3:00 Completion 2015 Director Alexander Sokurov Cast Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Johanna Korthals Altes

Everyone loves Zeki Müller at the Goethe Comprehensive School, but he’s beginning to lose enthusiasm for his accidental vocation: waking up early, delinquent students and endless paperwork. And now, overly-ambitious Principal Gerster has set her sights on stealing the Thailand school partnership away from the elite Schiller School. Her dream: to boost the image of her derelict school in order to become the model for the Ministry of Education’s new public campaign. Müller and Schnabelstedt are condemned to accompany the class on a trip to a remote Thai village. Chantal, Zeynep, Danger & Co. are in prime form during their first trip abroad, rampantly displaying their full spectrum of social incompetence and cultural ignorance. And if that wasn’t enough already for Zeki, to have to deal with the constant teachers vs. students war, he also has to lead the charge against the snobby Schiller School and their pompous überTeacher, Hauke Wölki - whose sole goal is to end Müller’s career!

June 1940: German troops march into Paris. Alone, Franz Wolff-Metternich, a German officer makes his way toward the Louvre Palace. He is received by Jacques Jaujard, director of the museum, but the Louvre is empty: its treasures have been removed just before the declaration of war... WO R L D S A L E S Films Boutique

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RAVEN THE LITTLE RASCAL - THE BIG RACE

Genre Family Entertainment Length of Trailer 1:08 Completion January 2016 Director Sven Unterwaldt Jr. Cast Oskar Keymar, Anja Kling, Justus Von Dohnányi, Axel Stein, Otto Waalkes, Lina Hüesker, Georg Sulzer

Genre Family Entertainment Length of Trailer 1:51 Completion Autumn 2015 Directors Ute von Münchow-Pohl, Sandor Jesse

Who will ever believe 11-year-old Felix (Oskar Keymer) that it was he who „shrunk“ the universally hated school principal Dr. Schmitt-Gössenwein (Anja Kling) to a height of just 15 centimetres? Even he does not know how it happened and whether it maybe has something to do with the ghost of the school‘s founder (Otto Waalkes). But he now has the problem on his hands or, more accurately, in his rucksack, because that is where the mini-principal is now and she is still shrinking. Together with his friend Ella and in the face of resistance by his rival Mario and the latter‘s father (Justus von Dohnányi), Felix has to try everything to get her back to her normal size. If only she would just stop being so annoying!

Cheeky little Raven accidentally destroyed the stocks the animals need to survive in the winter. To refill the storage, he sets out to win a soapbox car race and earn the prize money. But the tumultuous race through the forest is full of twists and surprises, and in the end Raven has gained something money can’t buy: he understands the value of teamwork, true friendship and responsibility... WO R L D S A L E S Sola Media

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LUIS UND DIE FREUNDE AUS DEM ALL

DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER

LUIS AND HIS FRIENDS FOM OUTER SPACE

T H E S TAT E V S . F R I T Z B A U E R ( W T )

Genre Family Entertainment Length of Trailer 1:45 Completion 2018 Directors Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein

Genre Political Thriller Completion 2015 Director Lars Kraume Cast Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld

12-year-old Luis is often lonely. He doesn’t have any friends and his father, UFO-logist Arnold Sunday, doesn’t have any time for him. He‘s obsessed with proving the existence of intelligent life in space, spends all night at his telescope and all day sleeping. The principal thinks Luis is neglected and should be sent to a home. Then, three goofy aliens crash on Luis‘s doorstep: Mog, Nag and Wabo are in search of a massage mat they saw on earth‘s home shopping TV, the NubbiDubbi. Luis is thrilled, quickly befriends them and hides them from his dad, who is convinced aliens are dangerous and should be shockfrosted at first sight. When boarding school director Miss Diekendaker shows up and wants to take Luis away, Luis and his alien friends have to come up with a plan to contact the mother ship and get the ETs rescued. Luis is even tempted to leave his home planet and go explore the galaxy with his cool new friends.

Germany, 1957. Attorney general Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, tries to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since he returned from Danish exile. So far without success, due of the fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Because of his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and, by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not bending on revenge for the holocaust – he is concerned with the German future. WO R L D S A L E S Beta Cinema

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