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Over the next three months, Eliza Petkova will be staying in Artist Residency at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, where together with screenwriter and director Zora Rox she will be working on a joint project consisting of several short films. The results will be presented to the public in December in the presence of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany. The residency program is funded by the Goethe-Institut Japan.

The radio play FAUST (HAB’ ICH NIE GELESEN) by Noam Brusilovsky is nominated for the Prix Europa, category: Audio Fiction.

For naturalization in Germany, Israeli-born theater director and audio-play author Noam Brusilovsky needs a confirmation of his outstanding artistic achievements in Germany from his employer the ÖRR. In return, the employer demands that Brusilovsky spontaneously steps in for a colleague and stages Goethe’s “Faust” as a radio play in the shortest possible time. Brusilovsky, however, has never read the classic – THE German-language oevre – which in no way prevents him from getting involved in the deal!

FAUST (HAB’ ICH NIE GELESEN) by Noam Brusilovsky
Duration: 75 min.
With: Bibiana Beglau, Itay Tiran, Walter Kreye, Matthias Leja, Almut Henkel a. o.
Music: Tobias Purfürst
Director: the author
Production: SWR / Deutschlandfunk 2022

The award ceremony will take place on Fritag, October 27, 2023 at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin.
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Premiere DAS GROẞE HEFT by Ágota Kristóf
Directed by: Ran Chai Bar-zvi
at Volkstheater Munich

In search of his brother, a now grown-up twin reflects on their joint childhood in times of war, hunger and misery.
Ran Chai Bar-zvi directs for the first time at the Munich Volkstheater and incorporates into the narrative Ágota Kristóf’s two other books, “The Proof” and “The Third Lie”.

Premiere on October 1, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.
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Guillermo Calderón, one of Chile’s most prolific theater and film makers, has been awarded the Golden Lion for Best Screenplay for EL CONDE, co-written with Pablo Larrain and directed by Pablo Larrain. The film premiered to critical success and will be streaming on Netflix starting September 15th. Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larrain are frequent collaborators (EL CLUB, NERUDA, etc.) and Larrain’s production company fabula just produced Guillermo’s directing debut  MAQUILLAME OTRA VEZ  (available on NETFLIX).

 

EL CONDE
Chile, feature film, 110′
Production:Fabula (Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue)

 

Image: Guillermo Calderón © Sandra Then

MONTAG
from Kate Tarker

Director: Lily Sykes
German by Cornelia Enger

German premiere on 29 September at 7:30 p.m.

Faith and Novella live in a small German town near an American military base. The two friends hide in Novella’s basement apartment and fantasize about an attack – probably fatal. Novella, a sex worker of Turkish descent, is disgusted by the contempt of her neighbors, and she is afraid of her ex-partner’s violent jealousy. Faith rebels against the hierarchies of the military. For seven sleepless days, they’ve been training, building barricades from the furniture and dancing until exhaustion to Beyoncé and club music.
A comedy about obcessions and a cheer for female friendship!
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DAS KRAFTWERK
A theater evening about coal, water and eternity

by Calle Fuhr, in cooperation with CORRECTIV
Director: Aram Tafreshian

Premiere was on 23 September 2023
at Staatstheater Cottbus

Carla, a young journalist, returns to her hometown Cottbus. Shortly before his death, her late grandfather left her a folder with documents about the LEAG company, around Vattenfall, the Jänschwalde power plant, the Baltic Sea and the Gigawatt Factory. Carla’s research begins, and she encounters completely different characters: an activist whose home has already been dredged twice, a young man who is committed to LEAG’s green future. And the CEO of the company, who in turn has to ensure supply security in the event of a coal phase-out.
An interwoven story about the coal industry, based on exclusive research by the investigative journalistic collective CORRECTIV on the region’s water supply.

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50 YEARS OF MILITARY COUP IN CHILE

50th anniversary of the death of Salvador Allende / 49th anniversary of the Chilean Exile Ensemble at the Volkstheater Rostock
11 September, at 8:00 p.m.
Patriotischer Weg 33
18057 Rostock

With this event, the Volkstheater Rostock commemorates the military coup in Chile and the death of Allende 50 years ago and honors the founding of the Chilean exile ensemble Teatro Lautaro at the house. Readings will include excerpts from Guillermo Calderón’s play COLINA (German translation by Franziska Muche).
More information and tickets under this link.

PLANET B from Yael Ronen & Itai Reicher has been nominated for this year’s Friedrich Luft Prize amongst other nine theater productions from the Berlin and Potsdam area (2022/23 season). PLANET B, directed by Yael Ronen, premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin on 6 June 2023 and has been acclaimed by critics accross Germany.
The Friedrich Luft Prize, named after the Berlin theater critic, has been awarded since 1992, and since 2021 jointly by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Berliner Morgenpost. It honors the best Berlin or Potsdam theater performance and is endowed with 7500 euros. The winning play will be announced on 25 August 2023.

MAKING IT UP is a story of  Ana and Rita, two make-up artists who are completely broke. When the unpredictable Alex offers them a job, they just have to say yes – to the gig and to a big ol’ mess.
Guillermo Calderón’s flashy, electrifying directorial debut is now on Netflix.