Lots of competition and a look back

Fatih AkinsThe Golden Glove (bombero int./Warner Bros., Hamburg), based on the novel of the same name by Heinz Strunk, is celebrating its premiere in competition at the Berlinale. The film was shot entirely in Hamburg in summer 2018. Shooting star Jonas Dassler, who is barely recognisable in his mask, slips into the role of wife-killer Fritz Honka.

Directors and Script Writer Nora Fingscheidt also made it into the competition with her debut filmSystem sprinkler (Weydemann Bros./Oma Inge Film/kineo Filmproduktion). Helena Zengel plays nine-year-old Benni, who drives her fellow human beings to despair and is kicked out of every foster family after a very short time. With over 35 days of filming, the majority of the shoot took place in Hamburg in early 2018. The multi-award-winning script was honoured with the Emden Screenplay Award 2016, among others.

InAll My Loving (Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion/Pandora Film Produktion), Directors Edward Berger takes us into the turbulent lives of the Hoffmann siblings in the Berlinale Panorama. The film stars Lars Eidinger, Hans Löw and Nele Mueller-Stöfen, who also co-wrote the script with Berger. Filming took place in 2018 on the outskirts of Hamburg in Wedel, among other locations.

InBeauty and transience (it works!), filmmaker Annekatrin Hendel follows the Berlin icon Sven Marquardt and two of his companions from the East Berlin punk era, whose careers are characterised by their artistic view of the world. The film was funded by the Filmwerkstatt Kiel and is screening in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.

Directors Bernd Schoch made it into the Berlinale Forum with his DocumentaryOlanda (Fünferfilm, Hamburg), which tells the story of some mushroom pickers in the southern Carpathian Mountains of Romania, most of whose mushrooms are sold abroad for many times the price - a juxtaposition of microcosm and international economic structures.

In the Berlinale Shorts Louis Fried withFlexible bodies to see.

In the retrospective and in the Panorama 40 anniversary edition, audiences can look forward to a total of ten film classics from the North.

Bandits (Olga Films) Directors: Katja von Garnier Script: Katja von Garnier, Uwe Wilhelm

Bungalow (Peter Stockhaus Film Production) Directors: Ulrich Köhler Script: Ulrich Köhler, Henrike Goetz

Charlotte Rampling - The Look (Prounen Film) Directors + script: Angelina Maccarone

A celebration for Beyhan (Martin Rohrbeck Film Production) Directors: Ayşe Polat

Female Misbehaviour (Hyena Films) Directors + script: Monika Treut

In the circle of loved ones (Josefine Film Production) Directors + script: Hermine Huntgeburth

The diners Directors + script: Hermine Huntgeburth

MAX (Hyena Films) Directors + script: Monika Treut

Never sleep again - never go back (Pia Frankenberg Musik- und Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG ) Directors: Pia Frankenberg Script: Pia Frankenberg, Karin Aström

Daughters of two worlds (Gülsen-Film) Directors + script: Serap Berrakkarasu

A total of five subsidised productions are screening in the LOLA at Berlinale section this year.

25 km/h (Sunnysideup Film GmbH) Directors: Markus Goller Script: Oliver Ziegenbalg

Fly Rocket Fly (Lunabeach TV and Media, Hamburg) Directors + script: Oliver Schwehm

Little Teutons (brave new work, Hamburg) Directors: Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh Script: Frank Geiger, Armin Hofmann, Mohammad Farokhmanesh

Talking Money (credo:film; solo:film) Directors + script: Sebastian Winkels

Of bees and flowers (Detailfilm, Hamburg) Directors + script: Lola Randl

EVENTS

Panel: Sustainability in Motion Saturday, 9 February 2019, 2:30 p.m., at the Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the Federal Government

For the fifth time, the FFHSH is organising a Green Panel at the Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in Berlin. The panel will be moderated by film journalist Birgit Heidsiek, whose seventh issue of the magazine "Green Film Shooting" is being published in cooperation with the FFHSH to coincide with the Berlinale.

European Film Market Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein is represented at the European Film Market in the Martin Gropius Bau at the stand of Focus Germany, the association of the eight major German film funding organisations.

Receptions During the Berlinale, the Hamburg Film Brunch will take place at the Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as well as the Baltic Motion Reception, hosted by the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Filmwerkstatt Kiel and Nordic Film Days Lübeck.

Photo: bombero int./warner bros./Boris Laewen