KINO: The German Film Magazine
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KINO: The German Film Magazine
Film history at the Berlin International Film Festival: the documentary Reverse Angle looks back at the young German cinema of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Cherry Blossoms and a Heart of Fire -- German Films in the International Competition German director Doris Dörrie presents her latest film at this year's Berlinale. CHERRY BLOSSOMS -- HANAMI is a very personal story that is also being published as a novel. Doris Dörrie has already won the Bavarian Film Prize; now CHERRY BLOSSOMS -- HANAMI is going up against films from around the world in competition for the Golden Bear. The second German film in the running is HEART OF FIRE, the film version of the controversial story of Senait Mehari, a former child soldier in Eritrea, now a pop singer in Germany. KINO reports on both German films in competition and on the winners. Hannah Herzsprung -- Germany's Shooting Star 2008 She's one of the new faces in German cinema and European film: Hannah Herzsprung has been chosen as a Shooting Star 2008 along with eight other actors. Her breakthrough came with the prize-winning film FOUR MINUTES. During the Berlinale, Hannah Herzsprung and her fellow actors will not only be presented with the Shooting Star Awards at a glitzy ceremony, they'll also be introduced to international casting agents and the press. We meet the German Shooting Star in Berlin.Generation 14plus -- Love, Peace & Beatbox The Berlinale section Generation presents fresh cinema for a younger audience -- and its success is growing. Last year. Some 50,000 people watched both short and feature-length films from around the world. Now documentaries are also being shown. LOVE, PEACE & BEATBOX presents a group of Berlin teenagers who beatbox, a genre of hip-hop produced solely with the mouth. Their message is one of non-violence. KINO looks at a documentary about an unusual music project.Reverse Angle -- Rebellion of the Filmmakers They're the icons of German Cinema: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders. Their films represent the young, rebellious cinema of Germany's post-Adenauer era. The documentary REVERSE ANGLE -- REBELLION OF THE FILMMAKERS illuminates the story of an unusual auteur' collective, from its beginnings in Munich through success in Cannes to the group's split in 1977. KINO looks at a fascinating piece of German cinema history.New German Cinema -- Then and Now Ute Soldierer interviews Alfred Holighaus, head of Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.Perspektive Deutsches Kino -- Looking at the Painful Parts Culture clash, violence, a search for support -- these are the topics concerning young German directors showing their first films in the Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. KINO presents an unusual feature film project: BERLIN -- 1ST OF MAY. An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two teenagers from western Germany and a cuckolded policeman -- each finds himself in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on May Day, where emotions traditionally run high. The three directing teams shot their stories on location in Berlin on May Day -- reality in the midst of a fiction film.
YouTube | February 17, 2008
