Serial Eyes, Europe’s premier postgraduate training programme for television writers and producers hosted by the DFFB has opened its online application platform. Writers and producer’s from Germany and Europe are invited to apply for the next round.
More information on Serial Eyes as such and the online application process on serial-eyes.com.
German auteur film director Christian Petzold (Yella; Barbara) shares the invisible inspirations for his new feature film Transit, which premieres in this year’s Competition. Based on Anna Segher’s famous novel of the same name, Petzold had originally developed the script together with later deceased filmmaker and friend Harun Farocki: “Transit was our favourite book, we read it once a year. It’s actually our story: this being-thrown-into-the-world.“ In this talk, Petzold and actor Barbara Auer revisit the production process. They explain how they uncovered, rethought and refreshed the core and characters of the historical narration in intensive dialogues and rehearsals with the cast and crew, whom Petzold calls his “partisan group.“
Don’t miss it: Wednesday, 21st Feb. 2018, 5 pm at HAU 2
International Film Festival Rotterdam — IFFR
ELLA UND NELL (R: Aline Chukwuedo, B: Sabina Gröner/Aline Chukwuedo, K: Sebastian Lempe, P: Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan) feiert seine Weltpremiere in der Bright Future Competition des Festivals.
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
Im Wettbewerb für mittellange Filme wird FREMDE (R: Tim Dünschede, B: Marc Vogel, K: Holger Jungnickel, P: Patrick Schorn) seine Weltpremiere freiern.
Im Kurzfilmwettbewerb haben 4,95 (R/B: Timo Bénit, K: Konstantin Kann, P: Grischa Sauter) und NIKOTYNA (R/B: Ewa Wikiel, K: Jesse Mazuch, P: Roxana Richters) ebenfalls ihre Weltpremieren.
SARAH SPIELT EINEN WERWOLF (R: Katharina Wyss, B: Katharina Wyss, Josa Seskin, K: Armin Dierlof, P: Christophe Marzal) und HAGAZUSSA (R/B: Lukas Feigelfeld, K: Mariel Baqueiro, P: Simon Lubinski, Lukas Feigelfeld) laufen im Spielfilmwettbewerb des Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis.
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Kineski zid/Great Wall of China (R/B: Aleksandra Odić, K: Katharina Diessner, P: Natasa Janković, Aleksandra Odić) wird in der Perspektive Deutsches Kino Deutschlandpremiere feiern.
Against the backdrop of the oft-evoked “golden age” of US pay TV, the need to reinvigorate German serials has been on the agenda for years. Seven years after Dominik Graf’s milestone IM ANGESICHT DES VERBRECHENS / IN THE FACE OF CRIME (2010), a new generation of German serial-makers is now at work, largely, albeit with a few exceptions, taking American role models and standards as their point of reference.
In SERIAL GERMANY, the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb), in conjunction with its post-graduate programme Serial Eyes and the Filmnetzwerk Berlin, seeks to enter into dialogue with key players in more current productions. The issues to be explored include production conditions, the role of the “American model” but also the aesthetic and societal significance of serial-format storytelling. Some of the highlights on our guest list: Uli Hanisch (BABYLON Berlin, 2017), Hans-Christian Schmid and Julia Jentsch (DAS VERSCHWINDEN /THE VANISHING, 2017), Hanno Hackfort, Richard Kropf and Bob Konrad (4 BLOCKS, 2016), Christian Schwochow, Oliver Kienle, Jana Burbach, Jan Galli (BAD BANKS, 2017), as well as Jan Bonny and Alex Wissel (ÜBER BARBAROSSAPLATZ /ABOVE BARBAROSSAPLATZ, 2016).