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Disney+ has announced a new in-house production. HABIBI BABA BOOM, written by Sascha Vredenburg and Omar El-Saeidi, is produced by Bantry Bay.

ICH KANN ALLES FÜR DICH SEIN will be Fritzi Wartenberg’s second work at the Berliner Ensemble. After her successful production of THE WRITER by Ella Hickson, she seeks a historical approach to the themes of gender, feminism and representation in her new directorial work.

After works in NYC, Basel and Stockholm, a new work by Guillermo Calderón appears. A piece about Chile and Germany, new beginnings and colonialism, folk songs and missionary work.

Director: Guillermo Calderón

On the occasion of the Berlinale, the film by Cem Kaya and Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay was awarded the prizes for best documentary and best editing by the Association of German Film Critics on Sunday.

This continues the success story of the film, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2022 and won the Panorama Audience Award.

Director and screenwriter Süheyla Schwenk has shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, which will be presented at the 2023 Berlinale Series Market, produced by Studio Zentral for funk on behalf of ZDF.

Süheyla Schwenk is currently shooting a series for Bantry Bay and is in preparation for a television film for degeto/ARD.

Tina Satter’s film is based on her successful play IS THIS A ROOM and will be screened at the Berlinale in the Panorama section.
IS THIS A ROOM was initially created as an Off-Broadway production. Due to its great success, the play then also ran on Broadway starting in the fall of 2021. Subsequently, the production made guest appearances at international festivals in Europe (including the Wiener Festwochen, FIND Festival/Schaubühne Berlin).
In parallel, Tina shot REALITY, starring Sydney Sweeney (pictured) and Josh Hamilton.

Young U.S. Air Force employee Reality Winner is suspected of whistleblowing. FBI agents first search her home, then begin a grueling interrogation.

The cinema comedy by Guillermo Calderón, produced by Juan and Pablo Larraín’s company Fabula, will celebrate its world premiere in Mexico City on February 07.

In this Mexican-Chilean co-production, Guillermo, who has written numerous film scripts, including for Pablo Larraín (NERUDA, EL CLUB), makes his debut as a film director.

“In speaking of these deep, lingering wounds that colonialism and racism have inflicted, and how she speaks of them, Diouf does the only thing that can perhaps help heal trauma at least a little bit: She brings them out of the repressed, the concealed, the forgotten into our consciousness, and she does it in such a poetic and empathetic way that when we listen to them, they also deeply touch white people, descendants of the European colonial powers, and move them to think about the causes of these wounds and to relate to them.” – The jury’s statement on the selection of the 2022 Radio Play of the Year.

The award ceremony will take place on Friday, March 3, 2023, at the Funkhaus Köln.
Start: 6:30 pm, free admission,
Registration required at <koelner-kongress.de>.

PISTONS by Penda Diouf
dt. by Annette Bühler-Dietrich
Director: Christine Nagel
Production: NDR
length: 80 min

For the radio play and the jury’s detailed statement, please follow this link.

DYKE DOGS SALON is an event series curated by the eponymous collective consisting of Eva Tepest and Lynn Takeo Musiol. Together they have been writing, curating and performing since 2018.
Their maxim: Dyke is a riot. Dyke is tragic. Dyke is always inadequate.

Date: 23.02.2023, 19:30
Venue: Schaubühne Berlin and online

The phenomenal podcast “SHIT HAPPENS – Memories of a Big Dealer” by Magda Woitzuck is brought to the stage by Calle Fuhr and Charlotte Sprenger in the districts of the Volkstheater.

The ex-drug dealer Andrea M. tells about her life as the biggest hashish dealer in Vienna in the 90s.
Direction: Charlotte Sprenger

You can listen to the podcast in the SWR Mediathek.