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GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT THE BERLINALE 2022

Festivals

72th Berlin International Film Festival (10 February – 20 February 2022)

Competition
AEIOU – A QUICK ALPHABET OF LOVE (AEIOU – DAS SCHNELLE ALPHABET DER LIEBE) by Nicolette Krebitz (DE/FR, Komplizen Film)
A PIECE OF SKY by Michael Koch (CH/DE, Pandora Film Produktion)
RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH (RABIYE KURNAZ GEGEN GEORGE W. BUSH) by Andreas Dresen (DE/FR, Pandora Film Produktion)
RIMINI by Ulrich Seidl (AT/FR/DE, Essential Filmproduktion)

Encounters
AXIOM by Jöns Jönsson (Bon Voyage Films)
THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER (ZUM TOD MEINER MUTTER) by Jessica Krummacher (Walker + Worm Film)

Berlinale Special Gala

ABOUT JOAN by Laurent Larivière (FR/DE/IE, Gifted Films)
THE FORGER (DER PASSFÄLSCHER) by Maggie Peren (DE/LU, DREIFILM)

Berlinale Special
A GERMAN PARTY (EINE DEUTSCHE PARTEI) by Simon Brückner (spicefilm)

Berlinale Shorts

RETREAT by Anabela Angelovska (Anabela Angelovska)
WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME by Mo Harawe (AT/DE/SO, Alexander von Piechowski)

Panorama

BETTINA by Lutz Pehnert (solo:film)
GRAND JETÉ by Isabelle Stever (brave new work)
LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH (LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD) by Cem Kaya (Filmfaust, Film Five)
NO U-TURN by Ike Nnaebue (NG/FR/ZA/DE, Day Zero Film)
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER (ALLE REDEN ÜBERS WETTER) by Annika Pinske (DFFB, New Matter Films, Pennybooth Productions)

Generation Kplus

THE MOST BORING GRANNY IN THE WHOLE WORLD (DIE ALLERLANGWEILIGSTE OMA VON DER GANZEN WELT) by Damaris Zielke (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
I’M NOT AFRAID (ICH HABE KEINE ANGST) by Marita Mayer (DE/NO, Fabian&Fred)
LOUIS I. KING OF THE SHEEP (LOUIS I. KÖNIG DER SCHAFE) by Markus Wulf (Hübner/Wallenfels, autumn song production)

Generation 14+

BLUE NOISE (BLAUES RAUSCHEN) by Simon Maria Kubiena (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth (KMOTO Medienproduktion)

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

ECHO by Mareike Wegener (Petrolio Film)
FORCES (GEWALTEN) by Constantin Hatz (Kinescope Film)
LADIES ONLY by Rebana Liz John (DE/IN, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln)
RONDO by Katharina Rivilis (DFFB)
THE SILENT FOREST (SCHWEIGEND STEHT DER WALD) by Saralisa Volm (Poison, if... Productions)
SORRY COMRADE (SORRY GENOSSE) by Vera Brückner (Nordpolaris)
WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD (WIR KÖNNTEN GENAUSOGUT TOT SEIN) by Natalia Simelnikova (HEARTWAKE films, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

Forum
AFTERWATER by Dane Komljen (DE/ES/KR/RS, Flaneur Films)
L’ETAT ET MOI by Max Linz (Schramm Film Koerner Weber Kaiser)
EUROPE by Philipp Scheffner (DE/FR, pong film, Blinker Filmproduktion)
A FLOWER IN THE MOUTH by Éric Baudelaire (FR/DE/KR, Flaneur Films)
MEMORY LAND by Kim Quy Bui (VN/DE, Scarlet Visions)
REWIND AND PLAY by Alain Gomis (FR/DE, Die Gesellschaft DGS)
SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER’S DAY? by Mohammad Shawky Hassan (DE/EG/LB, Amerikafilm)

Forum Special

COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS (KOMM MIT MIR IN DAS CINEMA – DIE GREGORS) by Alice Agneskirchner (Ehlermann & Agneskirchner Filmproduktion)
DILIM DÖNMÜYOR – MY TONGUE DOES NOT TURN (DILIM DÖNMÜYOR - MEINE ZUNGE DREHT SICH NICHT) by Serpil Turhan (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe)
DIRT FOR DINNER (DRECKFRESSER) by Branwen Okpako (DFFB)
THE EMPTY CENTER (DIE LEERE MITTE) by Hito Steyerl (HFF Munich)
A FINE DAY (DER SCHÖNE TAG) by Thomas Arslan (Pickpocket Filmproduktion, zero film)
FOREIGN (FREMD.YABAN) by Hakan Savaş Mican (DFFB)
IN DER WÜSTE by Rafael Fuster Pardo (DFFB)
THE MAJI-MAJI READINGS by Ricardo Bacallao (BACALAOfilms)
MERRY CHRISTMAS DEUTSCHLAND ODER VORLESUNG ZUR GESCHICHTSTHEORIE II by Raoul Peck (DFFB)
NORMALITY 1–X (NORMALITÄT 1–10) by Hito Steyerl (AT/DE)
THIS MAKES ME WANT TO PREDICT THE PAST by Cana Bilir-Meier (DE/AT)

Forum Expanded

INSTANT LIFE by Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, Andrew Kim (OJOBOCA)
JAIL BIRD IN A PEACOCK CHAIR by James Gregory Atkinson (DE/US)
SUN UNDER GROUND (SONNE UNTER TAGE) by Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet (pong film)

Forum Expanded Exhibition

THE LIGHTING by Musquiqui Chihying (DE/TW/TG, xīzhuāng culture & media)
THE SONG OF THE SHIRT by Kerstin Schroedinger
VOICES AND SHELLS by Maya Schweizer
THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER by Pallavi Paul (IN/DE)

Forum Expanded Screening and Performance
WHITE SANDS CRYSTAL FOXES by Liz Rosenfeld

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage
BROTHERS (BRÜDER) by Werner Hochbaum (Werner Hochbaum – Filmproduktion)
LA CÉRÉMONIE (BIESTER) by Claude Chabrol (FR/DE, Prokino Filmproduktion, Olga Film)
ELLE by Paul Verhoeven (FR/DE/BE,Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion)
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (RETTE SICH, WER KANN (DAS LEBEN)) by Jean-Luc Godard (FR/CH/DE/AT, ZDF)
THE LACEMAKER (DIE SPITZENKLÖPPLERIN) by Claude Goretta (CH/FR/DE, Janus TV)
SUZHOU RIVER by Lou Ye (CN/DE, Essential Filmproduktion)
THINGS TO COME (ALLES WAS KOMMT) by Mia Hansen-Løve (FR/DE, Detailfilm)
Berlinale Series Market Selects
OH HELL by Johannes Boss (Good Friends Filmproduktions)
DIVIDED WE STAND (ZERV) by Gabriela Sperl, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann, Miriam Klein (Gabriela Sperl Produktion for W&B)
REEPERBAHN SPECIAL UNIT 65 by Georg Tschurtschenthaler (gebrueder beetz filmproduktion)

Berlinale Co-Production Market
YELLOW LETTERS by Ilker Catak (if…Productions)

Berlinale Directors

EUNUCH by Udita Bhargava (Schiwago Film)

Co-Pro Series

THE REPORT (Match Factory Productions)