Archive 2007

"Kinema" - German/french youth-award

Wortbrot
Director: Estelle Klawitter/Marcel Richard Saibert, D 2006, 103 min, digiBeta, colour, GV, German premiere!
Actors: Sönke Mohring, Julia Brendler, Sebastian Strobel

We, November 7 5:30 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests:	Estelle Klawitter, Julia Brendler, Nic Romm, Thomas Sprekelsen, Sönke Möhring, Jackie Hardt, Sven Waasner, Mirko Echghi-Ghamsari (Production), Ursula Klawitter (Costume), Claudia Melzer (Costume)
Th, November 8 7:45 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests:	Estelle Klawitter, Julia Brendler, Nic Romm, Sönke Möhring, Sven Waasner, Christoph Jacobi, Ursula Klawitter (Costume), Claudia Melzer (Costume)

One room. Nine people. A thousand words. One gun. In a white room a person in his mid-thirties tells us fractures of different lives. They form more than nine monologues as cuts put the narration in new contexts thus producing a tenth story. An austere film in a minimalist frame.

Family Hero (Le Héros de la Famille)
Director: Thierry Klifa, F 2006, 100 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur, Gérard Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart

Th, November 8 8:00 pm CinemaxX 1
Sa, November 10 10:15 pm CinemaxX 2

When Gabriel the owner of the Blue Parrot a cabaret club dies, his quarreling family has to decide what to do with the legendary club, and to heal old family wounds. The film presents an excellent cast including Catherine Deneuve and Emmanuelle Béart.

Die Anruferin
Director: Felix Randau, D 2007, 81 min, 35 mm, colour, GV, engl. ST
Actors: Valerie Koch, Esther Schweins, Franziska Ponitzt

Th, November 8 10:15 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Felix Randau, Björn Vosgerau
Sa, November 10 5:45 pm CinemaxX 4 Guests: Felix Randau, Vera Kissel, Uwe Nagel (Short Film), Götz Schubert (Short Film)
Su, November 11 3:30 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Felix Randau, Vera Kissel

Irm Krischka is caught between her job in a launderette and her difficult sick mother at home. She finds her compensation in strange games: Using a child’s voice she phones people telling them invented stories. It is only when she picks a new victim – Sina – that her game gets out of hand.

What makes you happy (Ça rend heureux)
Director: Joachim Lafosse, B 2006, 85 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Fabrizio Rongione, Kris Cuppens, Catherine Salée

We, November 7 10:15 pm CinemaxX 2 Guest: Catherine Salée
Fr, November 9 7:45 pm CinemaxX 1

With the help of his unemployed colleagues filmmaker Fabrizio starts to work on his next no-budget movie. The screenplay is simple – it tells the story of a director who makes a film without any money. Enjoyable comedy about filmmaking, and with an excellent mix of fiction and reality.

Wir sagen Du! Schatz
Director: Marc Meyer, D 2007, 97 min, 35 mm, colour, GV, German premiere!
Actors: Samuel Finzi, Nina Kronjäger, Anna Maria Mühe

Tu, November 6 10:15 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Marc Meyer, Margot Nagel, Alexandre Powelz (Vorfilm), Alexander Seib (Vorfilm)
Sa, November 10 10:15 pm CinemaxX 3

Oliver is lonely. So he steals, what he needs the most: a wife, three children, a grandma, a grandpa and a dog. Walled in on the 18th floor of an empty high-rise building he tries to train these complete strangers to be his family. But that is not so easy.

April in Love (Avril)
Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, F 2005, 95 min, 35 mm, colour, GS, German premiere!
Actors: Clément Sibony, Richaud Valls, Sophie Quinton, Miou-Miou, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Fr, November 9 5:30 pm CinemaxX 4 Guests: Sophie Quinton, Nicolas Diologent
Sa, November 10 5:30 pm CinemaxX 3 Guests: Sophie Quinton, Nicolas Diologent

20-year-old Avril grew up in a convent and is about to make her vows. When she learns that she has a brother, she travels to the Camargue region to meet him. Here she discovers not only a family secret but also a different kind of life. This is the film’s first showing in Germany.