Angela Schan­elec, Max Linz, David Dietl, and oth­er DFFB Alum­ni at the Berli­nale

Journal,

The 69th Berlin Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val presents nine films cre­at­ed with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of DFFB alum­ni.

 

ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER (I WAS AT HOME, BUT) from grad­u­ate Angela Schan­elec screens in com­pe­ti­tion. The film tells the sto­ry of a moth­er and her 13-year-old son, who returns home with­out a say­ing word after dis­ap­pear­ing for a week.

  • Tues­day, 12.2., 16:00, Berli­nale Palast (World Pre­miere)
  • Wednes­day, 13.2., 9:30, Friedrich­stadt-Palast
  • Wednes­day, 13.2., 12:30, Haus der Berlin­er Fest­spiele
  • Wednes­day, 13.2., 18:00, Friedrich­stadt-Palast
  • Thurs­day 14.2., 15:30, Odeon, Berli­nale Goes Kiez

 

Alum­nus Jonas Wey­de­mann pro­duced SYSTEMSPRENGER (SYSTEM CRASHER) by Nora Fin­gschei­dt, which is screen­ing in com­pe­ti­tion. The dra­ma focus­es on a nine-year-old girl (Hele­na Zen­gel), who is prov­ing to be too much to han­dle for all the ped­a­gog­i­cal sys­tems involved in her case.

  • Fri­day, 08.02., 15:30, Berli­nale Palast (World Pre­miere)
  • Sat­ur­day, 09.02., 9:30, Friedrich­stadt-Palast
  • Sat­ur­day, 09.02., 12:00, Haus der Berlin­er Fest­spiele
  • Sat­ur­day, 09.02., 20:30, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1), Berli­nale Tal­ents
  • Thurs­day, 14.02., 17:00, JVA Plötzensee, Berli­nale Goes Kiez (no tick­ets required)
  • Sun­day, 17.02., 18:30, Berli­nale Palast

 

Max Linz’s film WEITERMACHEN SANSSOUCI (MUSIC AND APOCALYPSE) (cam­era: Car­los Andrés López) cel­e­brates its world pre­miere in Forum. The Insti­tute for Cyber­net­ics and Sim­u­la­tion Research is threat­ened with closure—this is the start­ing point for this satire about the trans­for­ma­tion of the uni­ver­si­ty sys­tem into a tur­bo-cap­i­tal­ist research machine.

  • Tues­day, 12.02., 18:30, Del­phi Film­palast
  • Wednes­day, 13.02., 13:45, CineS­tar 8
  • Fri­day, 15.02., 20:00, Cubix 9
  • Sun­day, 17.02., 19:30, Colos­se­um 1

 

Uli M. Schuep­pel presents DER ATEM (THE BREATH) (cam­era: Cor­nelius Plache) screen­ing in Panora­ma. The film shows a col­lec­tion of exis­ten­tial expe­ri­ences tak­ing place at night in Berlin—fragments of por­traits, stitched togeth­er to form a com­po­si­tion.

 

  • Wednes­day, 13.02., 21:30, Zoo Palast 1
  • Thurs­day, 14.02., 12:30, Cin­e­maxX 7
  • Fri­day, 15.02., 22:00, Colos­se­um 1
  • Sat­ur­day 16.02., 20:00, Inter­na­tion­al

 

David Dietl’s doc­u­men­tary BERLIN BOUNCER (cam­era: Eric Ferranti/​Raphael Bein­der, pro­duced by Mar­tin Heisler/​Gabriele Simon)—also pre­oc­cu­pied with Berlin at night—celebrates its world pre­miere in Per­spek­tive Deutsches Kino. This doc­u­men­tary tells the sto­ry of three leg­endary Berlin bouncers—Frank Kün­ster, Smi­ley Bald­win and Sven Marquardt—working in the once-divid­ed city and in today’s night­club metrop­o­lis.

  • Sun­day, 10.02., 22:30, Cin­e­maxX 1,
  • Mon­day, 11.02., 22:00, Colos­se­um 1
  • Sat­ur­day, 16.02., 20:00, Cin­e­maxX 1

 

Ute Aurand’s film RASENDES GRÜN MIT PFERDEN (RUSHING GREEN WITH HORSES) will screen in Forum Expand­ed. RASENDES GRÜN MIT PFERDEN (RUSHING GREEN WITH HORSES) is a col­lec­tion of short obser­va­tions and encoun­ters filmed between 1998 and 2018.

  • Fri­day, 8.2., 16:15, Kino Arse­nal
  • Sat­ur­day, 9.2., 17:00, Werk­stat­tki­no des silent green

 

The film UMWEG (DETOUR), direct­ed in 1982 by Ute Aurand and Ulrike Pfeif­fer, screens in Ret­ro­spek­tive.

  • Tues­day, 12.2., 16:30, Cin­e­maXX 8
  • Wednes­day 13.2., 21:30, Zeughauski­no

 

Screen­play grad­u­ate Ari­ana Berndl wrote the script for OH BEAUTIFUL NIGHT with direc­tor Xaver Böhm, and the film screens in Panora­ma. Although Juri is young, his life is dom­i­nat­ed by the fear of dying. Noc­tur­nal pan­ic attacks are famil­iar to him.

  • Tues­day, 12.02., 20:00, Inter­na­tion­al
  • Wednes­day, 13.02., 12:30, Cin­e­maxX 7
  • Thurs­day, 14.02., 22:00, Colos­se­um 1
  • Fri­day, 15.02., 17:45, CineS­tar 3
  • Sat­ur­day, 16.02., 19:30, Zoo Palast 2

 

The cin­e­matog­ra­phy for BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree, screen­ing in Per­spek­tive Deutsches Kino, was exe­cut­ed by DFFB grad­u­ate Siri Klug. The chil­dren who were born in Iran’s most noto­ri­ous prison Evin and then grew up in the West wit­nessed tor­ture, mur­der, and human rights vio­la­tions. Ger­man-Iran­ian actress Maryam Zaree is one of these chil­dren. When she learns that she was born in Evin, Zaree sets out to search for oth­er chil­dren also born there in order to bet­ter under­stand her own sto­ry.

 

  • Sat­ur­day, 09.02., 19:00, Cin­e­maxX 3
  • Sun­day, 10.02., 12:00, Colos­se­um 1
  • Sun­day 10.02., 20:00, Cin­e­maxX 1

 

We wish you a fan­tas­tic fes­ti­val and film expe­ri­ence at the Berli­nale!