Masters
SAFARI
directed by Ulrich Seidl
produced by Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
International sales: Coproduction Office
Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.
Contemporary World Cinema
A DECENT WOMAN
directed by Lukas Valenta Rinner
produced by Nabis Film Group
International sales: FiGa Films
with: Iride Mockert, Martin Shanly, Andrea, Mariano Sayavedra
A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.
MISTER UNIVERSO
directed by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
produced by Vento Film
International sales: Be for Films
with: Tairo Caroli, Wendy Weber, Arthur Robin, Lilly Robin
Tairo, a young lion-tamer, is unhappy. Losing his lucky charm gives him a reason to set off for a journey across Italy in search of Arthur Robin, a former Mister Universe, who gave him the charm a long time ago.
Wavelengths
THE DREAMED ONES
directed by Ruth Beckermann
produced by Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
with: Anja Plaschg, Laurence Rupp
At center stage are the two poets Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan. Their dramatic postal exchange creates the textual basis of the film. Two young actors meet in a recording studio to read the letters. Yesterday’s love, today’s love and tomorrow’s: where the lines are blurred lies the heart of the film.
Special Presentations
TONI ERDMANN
directed by Maren Ade
coproduced by coop99 filmproduktion with Komplizen Film (D)
International sales: The Match Factory
with: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller
Practical joker Winfried disguises himself as flashy “Toni Erdmann” to get busy Ines’ attention and change her corporate lifestyle. The father-daughter challenge reaches absurd proportions until Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life
