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).