The 45th Berlinale Forum hosts Karl Markovics’ second feature film SUPERWORLD and Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s new documentary
OVER THE YEARS. Peter Kern’s satire THE LAST SUMMER OF THE RICH is selected for Panorama Special, Jakob M. Erwa's HOMESICK
is scheduled by Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
PANORAMA SPECIAL
THE LAST SUMMER OF THE RICH
directed by Peter Kern (nanookfilm)
Vienna’s high society of the gossip pages parties with sex, drugs, alcohol and young models. Hanna von Stezewitz stands
in the center of it all. She’s young, attractive and rich, head of a corporate group and one of Vienna’s most important
financiers.
with: Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder, Paul Matic, Margarethe Tiesel, Nicole Beutler
FORUM
OVER THE YEARS
directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter (NGF Geyrhalterfilm)
OVER THE YEARS IS an observation of what happens to a few manual laborers from a former textile company who became unemployed,
over a period of more than ten years. A film about the use of time, about work and life and a memorial to industrial sectors
in the process of dying out in Europe.
SUPERWORLD
directed by Karl Markovics (epo-film)
Gabi Kovanda, supermarket employee, leads an ordinary life between family and job, between single-family home and local food
store. One day when Gabi comes home from work something happens that changes her life in a single moment. It isn’t visible,
it makes no sound, and yet it strikes her like a bolt from the sky – an encounter with God. A person is snubbed by their
own existence. Without external cause, without hardship. How do you cope with it? And how do your surroundings cope with it?
with: Ulrike Beimpold, Rainer Wöss, Nikolai Gemel, Sibylle Kos
PERSPEKTIVE DEUTSCHES KINO
HOMESICK
directed by Jakob M. Erwa (Mojo Pictures)
HOMESICK tells the story of ambitious cello student Jessica who moves into her first own flat with her boyfriend Lorenz. When
she receives the honorable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classic music it seems to be her
great opportunity – at the same time it means, an enourmous pressure and stress begin to noticeably gnaw on Jessica's
everday life and pretty soon reality and imagination blur.
with: Esther Maria Pietsch, Tatja Seibt, Mattias Lier, Hermann Beyer
