11/02/2011

Beta Cinema’s Andreas Rothbauer and Dirk Schürhoff have an impressive line-up of 16 titles screening at the European Film Market (EFM), including two out-of-competition films in the official selection.

The first is Almanya [+see also:
trailer
interview: Yasemin Samderely
film profile], which has its world premiere tomorrow at the Berlinale, and is the feature debut of Turkish-born, German director Yasemin Samdereli. The story of a Turkish family living in Germany that sets off on a turbulent journey to their homeland is produced by Roxy Film. Concorde will release it domestically on March 10.

Also making it’s world premiere in Berlin, on February 16, My Best Enemy [+see also:
trailer
making of
film profile] is the second film by Wolfgang Murnberger (The Bone Man [+see also:
trailer
film profile]). The story of a Jewish gallery owner (Moritz Bleibtreu) who survives during WW2 by donning an SS uniform is produced by Josef Aichholzer (The Counterfeiters [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]). Filmladen is releasing it in Austria on March 11, and rights have already been sold to the UK (Metrodome), Japan (The Klockworx), Czech Republic/Slovakia (Hollywood Classic Entertainment) and China (ERG Film).

Also on Beta’s slate is the Panorama selection Target by Alexander Zeldovich. The portrait of Russian society in the year 2020 is co-written by best-selling Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin. Viva Riva! [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Djo Tunda Wa Munga, premiering today in the Forum, has already been sold to most English-speaking territories (Music Box in the US, Metrodome in the UK, Rialto for Australia/New-Zealand and Mongrel Media for Canada), following its successful world premiere at Toronto.

Five German films are screening in the new section German Cinema - LOLA@BERLINALE: Florian Cossen’s The Day I Was Not Born [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (Audience Award in Montreal), Granz Henman’s The Devil’s Kickers [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Jo Baier’s The End is My Beginning, Philipp Stölzl’s Goethe! [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and the German box office hit Vincent Wants to Sea by Ralf Hüttner.

Philipp Kadelbach’s English-language drama Hindenburg, starring Stacy Keach and Greta Scacchi, is premiering today at the EFM.