Beta Cinema takes stack of films to Cannes Market

by B.P.

06/05/2011 - Munich-based international seller Beta Cinema will take the German hit of the year to Cannes: Kokowääh [trailer], by and starring Til Schweiger as a father who has to take care of a little daughter he didn’t know he had. The film has so far exceeded 4.2m admissions at the German box office (€30m in takings). It will have its international avant-premiere at the market.

Beta will also sell Promising the Moon by Hans Steinbichler (Winter Journey [trailer]), about a girl who rediscovers her elderly mother’s past. Produced by Uli Aselmann/die film, the title won Best Film at the Bavarian Film Awards and stars Hannelore Elsner, Juliane Koehler, David Kross and Karoline Herfurth.

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Buyers will also get the chance to acquire Sebastian Grobler’s Lessons of a Dream [trailer], in which Daniel Brühl brings a funny sport called football back from England to Prussia. Produced by deutschfilm, Cuckoo Clock and Senator, the film also stars Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon [trailer, film focus]) and Justus von Dohnányi ( [trailer, film focus]).

Beta’s Cannes line-up also includes Irina Probost’s family animated film The Tigerduck Gang; some titles that made their mark at the latest Berlin Film Festival (Yasemin Samdereli’s Almanya – Welcome to Germany [trailer], which drew 1m viewers in theatres and scooped two German Film Awards; and [trailer] by Austria’s Wolfgang Murnberger); Augustí Villaronga’s Spanish film Black Bread [trailer], winner of nine Goyas (including Best Film); Young Goethe In Love [trailer] by Philipp Stölzl (North Face [trailer]); and Florian Cossen’s outstanding debut movie The Day I Was Not Born [trailer], which received two German Film Awards, among other accolades.

(Translated from French)