10.02.2019 | Film brunch @Berlinale 2019
Around 650 guests from the film scene met at the traditional "Hamburg Film Brunch" on Sunday morning at the Hamburg State Representation on the Spree. The occasion was the 69th International Film Festival in Berlin. Among the guests: Berlinale Directors Nora Fingscheidt, Edward Berger with the "All my Loving" actors Nele Mueller-Stöfen and Hans Löw.
Dr Carsten BrosdaSenator for Culture and Media: "The new year begins as the old one ended: extremely successful for Hamburg as a film city! After a shower of prizes and numerous awards for Hamburg's film industry in 2018, we can seamlessly continue the series of successes with two films in competition and many more Berlinale entries. My thanks go to Maria Köpf and her team for their great commitment and to the many filmmakers who have immersed us in new worlds with their stories from Quiberon to the neighbourhood and made the film location shine."
Maria Köpf, CEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "Two Hamburg film teams in the race for the Golden Bear - that's never happened before! With cult director Fatih Akin and young filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt, the Hanseatic city is showing its best side at the Berlinale. We are keeping our fingers crossed for all our film teams here in Berlin."
The annual reception, hosted by the Hamburg Senate and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, honours films in and from Hamburg at the Berlinale and makes them visible on the international stage. It offers the Film Fund and Hamburg's film institutions the opportunity to enter into dialogue with national guests and international partners.
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig Holstein is represented at the Berlinale 2019 with 21 funded projects, two of which are screening in the Competition. Fatih Akin'sThe Golden Glove (bombero int./Warner Bros., Hamburg), based on the novel of the same name by Heinz Strunk, celebrated its premiere in competition at the Berlinale on the eve of the reception. The film was shot entirely in Hamburg in summer 2018. Directors and Script Writer Nora Fingscheidt also made it into the competition with her debut filmSystem sprinkler (Weydemann Bros./Oma Inge Film/kineo Filmproduktion). With over 35 days of filming, most of the shooting took place in Hamburg in early 2018.
The FFHSH is also represented twice in the "Panorama" section. 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. Lars Eidinger, Hans Löw and Nele Mueller-Stöfen can be seen in the leading roles. InBeauty and transience (it works!), funded by Filmwerkstatt Kiel, filmmaker Annekatrin Hendel follows Berlin icon Sven Marquardt and two of his companions from the East Berlin punk era. Directors Bernd Schoch has made it into the Berlinale Forum with his DocumentaryOlanda (Fünferfilm, Hamburg).
In the Berlinale Shorts Louis Fried withFlexible bodies to see. In its own market series "LOLA@Berlinale", the Berlinale, in cooperation with the German Film Academy and German Films, will present the films pre-selected for the 2019 German Film Awards to an international audience of professionals. A total of five FFHSH-funded productions will be screened in the section this year:25 km/h by Markus Goller,Fly Rocket Fly by Oliver Schwehm, Little Teutons by Frank Geiger and Mohammad Farokhmanesh,Talking Money by Sebastian Winkels andOf bees and flowers by Lola Randl.
In the retrospective and in the anniversary edition "Panorama 40", audiences can also look forward to a total of ten film classics from the North.
Image material Photos of the Hamburg film brunch can be downloaded here.
The captions can be found in the image details. Credits: FFHSH/Bildschön
