German Film Focus. 2017.
13-23 July
Contents Welcome notes
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Films
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Talents Durban Turns Ten
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New Dimensions
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About
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Welcome. Programmer’s Note. Long considered as a highly politicized cinema that placed social and political criticism at the heart of its creation, today, German cinema is dominated by a new generation of directors who distance themselves from the so-called “German genre cinema”. From diverse origins, free and gifted, these German directors are at the foreground of the vivacity of the production of German cinema, which is recognized all over the world. They bring the concerns of their generation in an intimate sphere on screen and discuss the tribulations of a new Germany that has opened itself to the world particularly by receiving many people in distress. While these films delight the German public and continue to be appreciated and awarded at numerous international festivals, they remain almost unknown on the African continent. The GERMAN FILM FOCUS at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) in 2017 presents itself as a unique platform for the discovery of a program of new, diversified, exciting and engaging German films of all kinds – a cinema that places German people from all origins at the heart of its creation.
Alex Moussa Sawadogo Curator
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German Embassy.
Nicole Harms
The German Embassy Pretoria, as a reliable and proud partner, has been contributing to the promotion of young talents within this framework of the Durban Film Festival for several years. We are very excited that Talents Durban already celebrates its 10th anniversary. In 2017 the German Embassy will, once again, support the Talents program at the 38th Durban International Film Festival. Talents Durban is one of the six Talent International Initiatives formed by the Berlin International Film Festival. Being part of this initiative is a great opportunity for us to gladly support not only local emerging filmmakers but also cross a range of disciplines in gaining access to a global network of over 4400 alumni of the Berlinale Talents. It is through this initiative that we strive to intensify the cultural dialogue through the medium of film. We are certain that movie friends from all over Africa will enjoy a great Festival – this year with a focus on German film.
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German Films.
We are very happy that the Durban International Film Festival, one of the most important film events in Africa, provides such a prominent platform to German film this year. With ten very different productions – some of them commercial, others more artistic – the Focus Germany shows the variety of German filmmaking. Many of the films have already been internationally rewarded at festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Toronto, Rome or Rotterdam, and we are excited about the take that South African audiences will have on them, on this very interesting market. It is very important to us that some of the filmmakers will be able to personally show their work in Durban and therefore have the opportunity to not only interact with the audience, but also with other filmmakers.
Mariette Rissenbeek Managing Director German Films
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Goethe-Institut.
Lien HeidenreichSeleme Regional Head of Cultural Programmes, Goethe-Institut
Over the past 22 years, we’ve been working together closely with filmmakers from Germany, South Africa and the African continent in organizing screenings, festivals, workshops and co-productions. Our goals are to support film within the creative industries and to undo stereotypes through visual storytelling. We do this with training and networking initiatives, through supporting interdisciplinary and panAfrican collaborations, and by increasing access to the variety of German filmmaking. In this light, we are excited about this year’s German focus at DIFF, and we welcome that it coincides with celebrating 10 years of Durban Talents. As a supporter of Talents since its inception, we have had the chance to work with some of the most interesting emerging filmmakers on the continent. In addition to our support of the German Film Focus as well as Durban Talents, we will showcase a special project at this year’s DIFF: “New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa” is an insightful look at how young creatives use technology to tell stories in refreshing ways.
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Berlinale Talents.
Talents Durban Turns Ten. For Berlinale Talents, the tenth anniversary of Talents Durban is a cause for celebration. Since its beginnings in 2008, over 330 filmmakers from across the African continent – from Algeria to Zimbabwe – have participated. Berlinale Talents’ seven international offshoots were set up in emerging film industries to give filmmakers there the chance to participate in Berlinale Talents and gain access to a wider international festival circuit. In Durban, we work closely with the DIFF organisers to create a programme that promotes diversity and gender equality, and that helps African filmmakers develop their own voices, strategies and markets. Sustainable talent development is important to us, so we cultivate strong links to the Durban FilmMart and the Realness scriptwriting residency, for example. Looking back, we are grateful to the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Embassy in Pretoria and the Goethe-Institut South Africa for making Talents Durban possible. Here’s to another successful ten years!
Christine Tröstrum Project Manager Berlinale Talents
8 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Auf Einmal / All Of A Sudden GENRE: DRAMA CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 DIRECTOR: ASLI ÖZGE
After the party in Karsten’s apartment, everybody leaves except Anna. Admiringly, Karsten approaches this mysterious woman. How could he have known, that in a moment of weakness, his well-established life would spiral out of control and turn into a disaster? In this small provincial German town, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
9 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Das Versprechen / The Promise The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were a media sensation. The murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through Bedford County. After being arrested in 1986, they have now spent over 30 years behind bars. This beautifully crafted film reveals a mismanaged, completely corrupted, judicial process. Investigations over the past 3 years have turned up stunning evidence that was previously suppressed or deemed inadmissible. New forensic techniques have disproven evidence that was key to Soering’s original conviction. Unidentified fingerprints, evidence that points to sexual abuse, the presiding judge’s friendship with the victims, a missing FBI profile — all point to a very different story, one that is revealed in the film.
GENRE: CRIME HISTORY CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 DIRECTORS: MARCUS VETTER, KARIN STEINBERGER DIRECTOR KARIN STEINBERGER IN ATTENDANCE
10 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Der Geilste Tag / The Most Beautiful Day GENRE: COMEDY, ROAD MOVIE CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 DIRECTOR: FLORIAN DAVID FITZ
The quirky, overambitious pianist Andi (33) and the more laid back and relaxed Benno (36) have just one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide after some trouble at the hospice, to have the most awesome day before it’s too late. First thing they need is money, which they cleverly scam, since going to prison is considering the limited amount of time out of the question. Then they set off for Africa! It will not only be a nightmare for Andi the hypochondriac, but also a huge deal for Benno, who will have to face his past for the first time in his life. The journey leads them through hazards, a number of comedic, tragic, dramatic and dangerous moments and finally to their original aspiration: The most awesome day of realizing that you need to take life into your own hands to not miss out on it‌
11 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer / The People vs Fritz Bauer 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, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, with no success so far due to 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 seeking revenge for the Holocaust – he is concerned with the German future.
GENRE: BIOPIC, DRAMA, THRILLER CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 DIRECTOR: LARS KRAUME
12 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Die Dunkle Seite des Mondes / The Dark Side of the Moon GENRE: PSYCHO THRILLER CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 DIRECTOR: STEPHAN RICK DIRECTOR STEPHAN RICK IN ATTENDANCE
Corporate lawyer, Urs Blank, is the undisputed star of his profession. He has money and the perfect wife. But the suicide of a business colleague throws him off track and leads to an attraction with Lucille and her alternative lifestyle. Seduced into experimenting with hallucinogenic mushrooms, his dark side emerges, as with merciless power, long suppressed aggressions burst out and go wild. The once civilised lawyer turns into an instinct-driven individual and erratic murderer. Deeply unsettled by the change he flees to the woods in search of an antidote but the police and his vindictive business partner are already on his tracks.
13 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Fado Young doctor Fabian travels to Lisbon to win back his ex-girlfriend Doro. While the two of them are gradually getting closer again they are being haunted by their fears. Fabians jealousy once again puts their relationship to the test…
GENRE: DRAMA CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 DIRECTOR: JONAS ROTHLAENDER
14 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Grüsse aus Fukushima / Greetings From Fukushima GENRE: DRAMA CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 DIRECTOR: DORIS DÖRRIE DIRECTOR DORIS DÖRRIE IN ATTENDANCE (TBC)
Young German woman Marie escapes to Fukushima to change her life. Working with the organization Clowns4Help, she hopes to bring joy to 2011 nuclear disaster survivors, some still living in emergency shelters. Marie soon realizes she‘s absolutely unsuited to the task of making tragedy less wearisome. But instead of running away, Marie decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi, the last geisha of Fukushima, who of her own accord has decided to retreat back to her ruined house in the formerly radioactive Exclusion Zone. Two women who couldn‘t be more different, but who – each in her own way – are trapped in the past and must learn to liberate themselves from guilt and the burden of memory.
15 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Karl Marx City Twenty-five years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), filmmaker Petra Epperlein returns to the proletarian Oz of her childhood to find the truth about her late father’s suicide and his rumored Stasi past. Had he been an informant for the secret police? Was her childhood an elaborate fiction? As she looks for answers in the Stasi’s extensive archives, she pulls back the curtain of her own ostalgia and enters the parallel world of the security state, seeing her former life through the lens of the oppressor. Reconstructing everyday GDR life through declassified Stasi surveillance footage, the past plays like dystopian science fiction, providing a chilling backdrop to interrogate the apparatus of control and the meaning of truth in a society where every action and thought was suspect.
GENRE: GERMAN HISTORY CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 DIRECTORS: PETRA EPPERLEIN, MICHAEL TUCKER DIRECTOR PETRA EPPERLEIN IN ATTENDANCE
16 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Paula GENRE: BIOPIC, DRAMA CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW DIRECTOR CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW IN ATTENDANCE
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules. The exuberant 24-year-old woman rejects the conventional and explores her unique style. She flourishes in the countryside art community of Worpswede, where she develops friendships with artist Clara Westhoff and poet Rainer Maria Rilke. By marrying painter Otto Modersohn, she hopes to find a creative soulmate. He allows her to continue painting while assuming her duties as a good wife. Five years of domesticity take its toll on Paula’s spirit, and she travels alone to modern Paris, where she studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and soon begins a romantic affair. Headstrong Paula is unstoppable: she embarks on a period that will become her most compelling; a long-awaited period of creative fulfilment and self-realization...
17 Films. German Focus. DIFF 2017.
Tschick / Goodbye Berlin While his mother is in rehab and his father is on a ‘business trip‘ with his assistant, 14-year-old outsider Maik is spending the summer holidays bored and alone at his parents’ villa, when rebellious teenager Tschick appears. Tschick, a Russian immigrant and an outcast, steals a car and decides to set off on a journey away from Berlin with Maik tagging along for the ride. So begins a wild adventure where the two experience the trip of a lifetime and share a summer that they will never forget.
GENRE: COMEDY, LITERATURE CATEGORY: FEATURE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 DIRECTORS: FATIH AKIN MAIN ACTORS ANAND BATBILEG AND TRISTAN GÖBEL IN ATTENDANCE
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Talents Durban Turns Ten
Over 330 filmmakers from across the African continent – from Algeria to Zimbabwe – have participated in Talents Durban (formerly Talent Campus Durban) since its first edition in 2008.
Achille Brice E., Rukuka Byaruhanga, Lindiwe Cele, Robert De Mezieres, Stephen Dushimirimana, Blessing Effiom, Azad Essa, Ryan Fortune, Bertrand Guillemot, Latif Duduzile Zamantungwa Mabaso, Patrick Mahlasera, Tumelo Matobako, Peter Michae Nazmy, Villant Ndasowa, Rabbecca Ngoma, Daniel Nyalusi, Luke Pallett, Esley Philand Vuyisa B Yoko, Vanessa Zachos, Solomon Luxolo Zilani, Barry Abibata, Sodzine Agbo Alberto Botelho, Jonathan Boynton-Lee, Jessy Chisi, Sarah Dawson, Sakhile Dlamini, W Hart, Akpor Harley Kagho, Jessica Klein, Feisal Malik, Sicelo Mamle, Lodi Matsetel Thavanashen Mudaly, Tenjiwe Mutiti, Daniel Negatu, Vusi Nhlapo, Cynthia Niyonsa Spencer, Deborah Sprowson, Matthew Von Abo, Gertzon Witbooi, Raisedon Baya, As Olga Fantognon, Neerhan Gad, Kyla Herrmannsen, Ricardo Joaquim, Mark Kaigwa, K Zarina Maharaj, Veronica Mahlaba, Sejake Matsela, Michael Moagi Matsie , Sizwe Mkh Ndarimani, Hyacynthe Lypart Ndongo, Matt Nefdt, Ernest Nkosi, Neo Ntlatleng, Meli Megan Steyn, Mark Strydom, Joselyne Umutoniwase, Solomon Yeboah, Nadine Sa Chakanyuka, Lydia Chitunya, Daouda Coulibaly, Simon De Swardt, Yinekachew Shu Ghonemi, Cédric Ido, Bodunrin Iruemiobe, Matthew Jankes, Ssebaggala Joseph Kenn Mthokozisi Lembethe, Gavillan Letsoalo, Natasha Likimani, Calum Macnaughton, D Mohapeloa, Tshegohatso Molete, Richard Mugwaneza, Tiny Mungwe, Rudzani Patienc Omewiri - Pius, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kwaku Duah Premeph, Rishane Rajkoomar, Z Narcisse Wandji Ngassa, Mandilakhe Yengo, Stephen Abbott, Oghomwensemwen Ad Christa Assam, Martin Bleazard, Lisa Carlini, Mogamad Fuad Casker, Sungeni Chitha Katarina Hedren, Shanelle Jewnarain, Daryne Garth Joshua, Dominique Jossie, Joan Boitshepo Makabanyane, Mlamleli Maki, Clea Mallinson, Bahrar Marouane, Ines Ma Mkhize, Yolanda Keabetswe Mogatusi, Habi Mohamed Seoud Ahmed Nofal, Enathi Yves Montand Niyongabo, Sandile Francis Nzuza, Marouan Omara, Nyanzi Robert, L Van Heerden, Cornelius Johannes Van Rooyen, Anneke Villet, Alistair Wray Heath, M Carson, Tapiwa Chipfupa, Inadelso Cossa, Adeyinka Edward Daniyan, Pierre Paul De Hiveluah, Ahmed Jlassi, Polly Kamukama, Ari Kruger, Nathan Magoola, Zethu Mashika Sarah Muhoho, Ng›Endo Mukii, Kayambi Musafiri, Mercy Mkaiwawi Mwakaba, Sipham Radebe, Thiaw Rama, Saad Eddine Said, Nduduzo Shandu, Pierre Loti Tawokam Sim Agbedeh, Oribhabor Kelvin Aigbokhaevbolo, Mustafa Aiman, Abdellatif Amajgag, F Caroline Doherty, Bahaaeldin Elgamal, Willem Grobler, Marcus Hebbelmann, Harold Kritzinger, Jozua Malherbe, Miklas Simeon Manneke, Alexander Melck, Mark Middlew Nicholson, Manqoba Nkosi, Monica Obaga, Donovan Orr, Udoka Oyeka, Sesonga P Penelope Tshilwane, Shane Vermooten, James Walsh, Susan Wanjiru, Aidan Whytock, Akinseye, Kassim Braimah, Bentley Brown, Lucky Nhlanhla Cele, Karien Cherry, Joan Hikwa, Benjamin Johnson, Njata Joseph, Andrew Kaggwa, Joel Kapungwe, Godisama Mwangola, Samantha Nell, Simphiwe Ngcobo, John Nyoka, Roselidah Obala, Agbor Ob Davashni Rajoo, Charne Simpson, Samson Ssenkaaba, Tendayi Charles Tshuma, Am Tamara Dawit, Desmond Denton, Njeri Margaret Wachera, Sakhumzi Nigel Mati, Same Peter Sedufia, Thea Small, Willem Steytler, Amirah Tajdin, Oghenewome Uyeye, Hiw
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The Nest Collective (Nairobi)
Let This Be A Warning A group of Africans have left the Earth to create a colony on a distant planet. They respond with disquiet to the arrival of an uninvited guest.
Ng’endo Mukii (Nairobi)
Nairobi Berries Two women and a man wrangle. Each must hollow out the other’s core for fruits promised but only ever borne in dreams. A poetic symphony on Nairobi.
Selly Raby Kane (Dakar)
The Other Dakar A little girl is chosen to discover the invisible Dakar.
Jonathan Dotse (Accra)
Spirit Robot VR documentary which explores the Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Accra.
On show at Africa’s premier film finance and co-production Forum, the Durban FilmMart (DFM), from 14-17 July.
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About this partnership The German Embassy in Pretoria as the official representation of the Federal Government of Germany in South Africa works on strengthening the relationship as well as building bridges between both countries. We work for an intercultural dialogue that comprises an open and respectful exchange between groups with different cultural backgrounds. The Embassy promotes political and economic relations but also intensifies the cooperation of research, technology, social policy, agriculture, development policy and culture. Our daily work contains a wide range of diverse projects from the field of renewable energies to research cooperation to dance collaborations. www.southafrica.diplo.de
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23 Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 250 emerging filmmakers. In addition to an extensive programme of master classes and panel discussions with top-notch experts, Berlinale Talents offers a range of Project Labs, in which filmmakers develop and present their own projects, and Studio workshops concentrating on specific disciplines. Berlinale Talents has international offshoots in Beirut, Buenos Aires, Guadalajara, Durban, Sarajevo, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. With a similar structure and purpose as their German counterpart, they each retain a regional perspective and draw on the expertise and support of a local international film festival. www.berlinale-talents.de
The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. Our Cultural Programmes Department focuses on a variety of different artistic approaches from the visual arts to drama, dance, literature, film, and interdisciplinary work. Our goal is to support the local cultural scenes and strengthen pan-African dialogue through the arts. www.goethe.de
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