KEIMZELLEN by Rébecca Déraspe
Director: Michael Steindl
German translator: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
Aude and Lou are best friends. For 35 years they have been able to find solace in each other’s sorrows. Now Aude is pregnant and her fetus has trisomy 21. Lou insists on an abortion, Aude wants to keep the child.
The two ruthlessly argue about life and their own values – a declaration of love to female friendship.
The premiere will take place on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & further dates: link
DER VEREIN (THE ASSOCIATION) by Steffen Link
Director: Theresa Thomasberger
There’s not much to do in a small German town, which is why a group of adults get together to form a Bible reading group. Gradually, the self-appointed pastor becomes a fanatical leader who makes decisions about the lives of the members of his ‘association’.
The world premiere will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Schauspielhaus Wien.
Tickets & further dates: link
ELLEN BABIĆ by Marius von Mayenburg
Director: Oliver Reese
When Astrid invites her supervisor Wolfram Balderkamp for an informal work meeting, her partner Klara is outraged. Balderkamp teaches at the same school where Klara was Astrid’s pupil ten years ago. What happens when he remembers her?
Like a spider, Wolfram prowls through the apartment and weaves a dangerous questioning web: where did the two of them meet? and when exactly? What happened with this one girl on the school trip?
The German-language premiere will take place on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets & further dates
Following its successful premiere at the 40th Munich Film Festival, Erol Afşin’s drama IT’S BURNING (ES BRENNT) has toured through national and international festivals.
The debut will screen for the first time in Berlin on February 20, 2024 at Maxim Gorki Theater at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets available under this link.
Amal, Omar and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. In the playground, they meet a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. A court case is initiated. During the hearings, an incident occurs that will completely change the family’s life.
Based on a true story.
Text by: Annika Henrich
Director: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Scenes from the marriage of Martin and Katja – he is a coach, she is a therapist, both now are astronautics trainees – who fly to Jupiter in a space capsule…
The premiere will take place on February 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm.
Tickets & further dates under this link.
Libretto: Seth Bockley
Composition: Russell Hepplewhite
It is 2008 and the US real estate bubble bursts. The Lehman Brothers investment bank announces insolvency. What follows is a global financial crisis and the search for the culprits.
British composer Russell Hepplewhite and American librettist Seth Bockley create a blackly humorous farce about a system that enabled a few players to amass wealth at the expense of ordinary people.
In English language with German surtitles.
Premiere on Februar 9, 2024 at 8:oo p.m.
Tickets & futher dates under this link
German cinema release for Tina Satter’s film REALITY starts on February 8, 2024. REALITY premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Reality Winner, a young U.S. Air Force employee, is suspected of being a whistleblower. First, the FBI agents search her house. Then a grueling interrogation begins… Based on true events.
REALITY
Written and directed by: Tina Satter
Based on Tina Satter’s play IS THIS A ROOM, 2019
Starring: Sydney Sweeney (as Reality), Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
USA, 2022, Seaview production
BUCKET LIST by Yael Ronen and Shlomi Shaban is one of the ten most remarkable productions invited to the Theatertreffen 2024. This was announced by the jury, consisting of Eva Behrendt, Janis El-Bira, Valeria Heintges, Martin Thomas Pesl, Katrin Ullmann, Theresa Luise Gindlstrasser (was involved until the end of 2023) and Sascha Westphal, on January 26, 2024.
The musical BUCKET LIST reflects on human memory mechanisms and questions artificial interventions in these mechanisms. The evening unfolds like gaps in the memory of a man for whom nothing seems the same after October 7, 2023.
BUCKET LIST premiered on December 9, 2023 at the Schaubühne Berlin in co-production with Théâtre de Liège.
Link to the complete jury’s statement. Link to tickets & dates at the Schaubühne Berlin.
The FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS initiative shines a spotlight on some of the most influential German talent currently working in the industry, representing just some of the many dynamic “faces” of German filmmaking today. Since its first edition, the annual campaign has established itself as a platform to give German film talent international visibility and draw the attention of the global film industry to some of the country’s most sensational newcomers and professionals.
The faces of the 2024 FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS – THE FILMMAKERS campaign are:
Jan Bülow (DIE UNIVERSELLE THEORIE, LINDENBERG, KAFKA), actor Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay (ORAY, LOVE, GERMAN MARK AND DEATH), writer, director, producer
Banafshe Hourmazdi (NO HARD FEELINGS, LOVING HER, NO BEAST SO FIERCE), actor
Moritz Müller-Preißer (WIR SIND DATEN, HAEBERLI, GOTTES ANDERER PLAN), screenwriter and director
Mona Cathleen Otterbach (FRANKY FIVE STAR, MILK TEETH), production designer
Eva Trobisch (ALLES GUTE, IVO), screenwriter and director
Soleen Yusef (SAM A SAXON, DEUTSCHLAND 89, WINNERS), screenplay and director
Roman Wegera’s short film WHEREVER PARADISE IS has its TV premiere on January 27, 2024 on ARTE and can be streamed afterwards in the arte-Mediathek.
WHEREVER PARADISE IS
Script by: Roman Wegera
Directed by: Roman Wegera
DE, 28 min., 2023
For Anja – a Russian-German teenager, – Germany is nothing more than a gray backdrop. During the day she skips the school and makes up gangster scenes with her little brother, at night she eats sausage or challenges her boyfriend’s courage. Anja dreams of leaving for America one day, meanwhile the Russian-Ukrainian war in is also making itself noticeable in Germany.
As one day her mother receives a phone call, Anja decides to take care of herself and her younger brother.
