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Director and screenwriter Sueheyla Schwenk shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, presented at Berlinale Series Market 2023, produced by Studio Zentral for ZDF.

16-year-old Alva has the feeling of being different and not belonging to the world around. After moving to the countryside, she meets Esma, who doesn’t care about what others think. FEELINGS portrays teenage self-doubt and the power of friendship, hope and love.

Screenings take place on:
Fr., 14.4. at 6:00 p.m. in Acud
Sa., 15.4. at 5:45 p.m. in Babylon

Tickets under this link

Podcast KEIN KOMMENTAR
with Alina Schaller, Ashwien Sankholkar, Calle Fuhr

Since 2020, the journalists of the Austrian investigative magazine DOSSIER (including Ashwien Sankholkar) have been researching the OMV group and its former CEO Rainer Seele. There was hardly any critical reporting on the billion-dollar corporation before – because OMV is one of the biggest advertising partners in the Austrian advertising business and a major sponsor. However, it is not possible to advertise in the DOSSIER magazine due to it’s ad-free policy.
That’s why the research collective decides to embark on a high-risk investigation of the OMV’s shady businesses…

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music & Podbean.

Translation: Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner
Directed by Roger Vontobel

“…an absolute theater must-see …” – Berliner Morgenpost

After the successful German premiere in December 2022 at the Schillertheater , the Swiss premiere at the Bühnen Bern now takes place.

Further dates in Berlin: Komödie am Kurfürstendamm at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz.
from March 10, 2023.

 

 

 

The film THREE THOUSAND NUMBERED PIECES by Ádám Császi will have its Hungarian premiere on 6 April 2023. It shows rehearsals for a play about Hungarian romani lead by an outlived white director at a fictional Berlin city theater.

The world premiere of the film was in November 2022 at the Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn.

MEISTER ROECKLE
A fairy tale based on Karl Marx

After bitter fields, it is now les dramaturx‘ (Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner) second production at the Theater Magdeburg. Visitors can expect a political fairy tale about Karl Marx’s preliminary studies for Capital, retold and performed by the two authors.

Premiere: 1 April 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & information under this link (external)

We congratulate Eliza Petkova on the 20th Sofia Meetings Award for her project in development DISSONANCE (BG). Eliza and her producer Veselka Kiryakova have been granted a script consultancy in the amount of 5.000 Euro with Steven Goldsmith, an Irish-American script doctor and writer.

German cinema release: 9 March 2023 at 8 p.m., in presence of the movie team at
Kino Krokodil, Greifenhagener Str. 32, 10437 Berlin.
Further details & tickets under this link (external)

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