New German Films

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


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.




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


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.




Der andere Junge
Director: Volker Einrauch, D 2007, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, GV
Actors: Andrea Sawatzki, Peter Lohmeyer, Barbara Auer, Willi Gerke


In a suburb of Hamburg live two perfectly normal families. They have been friends for years, but there is a terrible animosity between their adolescent sons. When some day the one boy shoots the other a desperate and devastating tragedy begins.




Hoffnung
Director: Stanislaw Mucha, D/PL 2007, 101 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Rafal Fudalej, Kamilla Baar, Wojciech Pszoniak


A struggle between a Warsaw art professor stealing a valuable painting from a church and a young man filming this theft and urging the culprit to return of the painting: The relentless fight touches and crosses the border between idealism and insanity. The ultimate motives of the young man remain a matter of speculation.




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


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.




Neben der Spur
Director: Detlef Bothe, D 2007, 90 min, digiBeta, colour, GV
Actors: Tom Schilling, Axel Milberg, Gabriele Scharnitzky, Isabella Jantz, Wotan Wilke-Möhring, Mia Florentine Weiss


Julie and Marcel are on the road and separating after a quarrel. Julie meets a number of out-casts und misfits amongst them ecologist Dieter, who cheats and takes advantage of her. A web of love-hate relationships between Julie’s mother, a successful manager and drug addict Marcel rounds off this black comedy.




Auf bösem Boden (On evil grounds)
Director: Peter Koller, A 2006, 82 min, digiBeta, colour, GV, German premiere!
Actors: Birgit Stauber, Aleksandar Petrovic, Kari Rakkola, Faris Rahoma


Romeo and Julia, a couple living in a rather odd relationship, are viewing a loft in a rundown factory. The owner and the estate agent turn out to be sadistic serial killers, but Romeo and Julia have no intention of becoming their victims… A grotesque splatter movie with a lot of black humour.

Our this year´s midnight movie.




Hotel Very Welcome
Director: Sonja Heiss, D 2007, 90 min, 35 mm, colour, GV/GS
Actors: Eva Löbau, Svenja Steinfelder, Chris O´Dowd


Five protagonists travel with their backpacks through India and Thailand searching for freedom and happiness. Their journeys draw a detailed picture of a generation of western individual tourists, who hope to redeem themselves from themselves.




Der Weiße mit dem Schwarzbrot
Director: Jonas Grosch, D 2007, 73 min, digiBeta, colour, GS
Actors: Christof Wackernagel


German actor Christof Wackernagel joined terrorist brigades in 1977, was arrested and released on parole. Not wanting to be regarded as an ex-terrorist he now lives in African Mali trying to help the population – be it by baking bread or by taking care of garbage. It is a story of fa remarkable personality..




Zigeuner
Director: Stanislaw Mucha, D 2007, 92 min, digiBeta, colour, GS


S. Mucha spent 30 days filming gypsies in East Slovakia. During that time he really got to know the miserable circumstances, in which these gypsies still live today. Anger was the motivation of this film said Mucha, who wants to point out how gypsies still live in squalor – in a country of the EU!




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