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Each year in San Francisco, we roll out the red carpet to welcome top films and talents of the year from Europe. We are thrilled to bring some of the best films from this year’s lineup to Honolulu for their Hawaiʻi premieres, including the three Audience Award winners: Center of My World (Narrative Feature Premiere), Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (Narrative Feature Gala), and Silicon Valley Revolution (Documentary).
Sigrid Savelsberg Director, Goethe-Institut San Francisco President, Berlin & Beyond Sophoan Sorn Festival Director, Berlin & Beyond
TICKETS
SCHEDULE
Regular (afternoon & evening films) $12.00 General, $10.00 Senior, $9.00 Student
Saturday, April 8, 2017
(opening night reception + film Scrappin’) $25.00 Special Price (no further discounts)
• 11:00 AM - At Eye Level • 1:00 PM - Eva Hesse • 3:00 PM - Fukushima, mon Amour • 5:30 PM - Opening Night Reception at BMW of Honolulu • 7:30 PM - Opening Night Film: Scrappin'
Honolulu Priority Pass
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Family Matinée (morning films) $8.00 Special Price (no further discounts) Opening Night Package
(all films + opening reception + priority entry) $100.00 General, $90.00 Senior, $80.00 Student Photo credits: © Loredana La Rocca and © Barak Shrama
Mahalo nui loa/thank you very much to our sponsors and partners whose generosity has made this fourth Honolulu program possible, particularly lead sponsor BMW of Honolulu and our lead collaborator in Honolulu, German Honorary Consul Denis Salle. We thank you, the festivalgoers, for attending our cinematic adventure. Lastly, congratulations to the Honolulu Museum of Art on turning 90 on this April 8th.
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• 11:00 AM - Heidi • 1:00 PM - Silicon Valley Revolution • 3:30 PM - Center of My World • 6:45 PM - Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe VENUES
Youth 4German Cinema
AT EYE LEVEL
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Join us for two sensational days at the Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre for a vivid selection of films, crossing various cultures, experiences, and histories. Since 1996, Berlin & Beyond has been North America’s leading annual showcase solely dedicated to the cinematic cultures and movements of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Our 22nd edition will run February 9-11, 2018, at San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre. Berlin & Beyond is presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, an official cultural center of Germany, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
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ALOHA - WILLKOMMEN
EVA HESSE
AUF AUGENHÖHE
Sat. Apr. 8, 2017 11:00 a.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
Sat. Apr. 8, 2017 1:00 p.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
Directors: Evi Goldbrunner, Joachim Dollhopf Starring: Luis Vorbach, Jordan Prentice, Ella Frey, Marco Licht, Anica Dobra Production: Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Martin Richter Filmproduktion, Westside Filmproduktion
Director: Marcie Begleiter Featuring: Eva Hesse, William Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Selma Blair, Bob Balaban, Patrick Kennedy U.S. Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
99 mins. Germany (2016). DCP. German w/ English subtitles. 2017 Berlin & Beyond Youth 4 German Cinema Winner and 2017 German Film Award Best Children’s Film nominee. Michael, an 11 year old orphan, lives in a children's home and has to fight each day to win the respect of the other children. One day, he finds out who his real father is and writes him a letter. His father, Tom, happens to be a person of short stature, who is even shorter than Michael. He wants to accept the challenge of fatherhood, even though he knew nothing about Michael until now. For Michael, Tom’s handicap is a disaster, as he feels that it is the opposite of the manliness and strength he envisioned his father to have.
108 mins. USA, Germany (2016). DCP. English Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with complex, intriguing works that defy easy categorization. This documentary features her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, along with interviews with artists Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, and Dan Graham, who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality. The documentary also captures the psychic struggles of an artist who, in the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, was one of the few women to make work that was taken seriously in a field dominated by male pop artists.
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FUKUSHIMA, MON AMOUR
SCRAPPIN’
GRÜßE AUS FUKUSHIMA
SCHROTTEN!
Sat. Apr. 8, 2017 3:00 p.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
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HEIDI
SILICON VALLEY REVOLUTION
Sat. Apr. 8, 2017 7:30 p.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere - Opening Night
Sun. Apr. 9, 2017 11:00 a.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
Sun. Apr. 9, 2017 1:00 p.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
Director/Screenwriter: Doris Dörrie Starring: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Moshe Cohen, Nami Kamata World Sales: The Match Factory
Director: Max Zähle Starring: Lucas Gregorowicz, Frederick Lau, Anna Bederke, Lars Rudolph World Sales: Tamtam Film
Director: Alain Gsponer Starring: Anuk Steffen, Bruno Ganz, Quirin Agrippi, Isabelle Ottmann, Anna Schinz, Katharina Schüttler U.S. Distributor: Film Movement
104 mins. Germany (2016). DCP. English, German & Japanese w/ English subtitles.
96 mins. Germany (2016). DCP. German w/ English subtitles.
Director/Writer: Jan Tenhaven Featuring: Dan Bricklin, Bruce Damer, Mary Eisenhart, Lee Felsenstein, Bob Frankston, Andy Hertzfeld, Daniel Kottke, John Markoff, Tim Paterson, Heidi Roizen, Larry Tesler, Jennifer Warnes, Jim Warren World Sales: ZDF Enterprises
Winner of the Audience Award Runnerup at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival. Young German woman Marie escapes to Fukushima to change her life. Working with the organization Clowns4Help, she hopes to bring joy to survivors of the 2011 disaster, some of whom still live in emergency shelters. Marie soon realizes that she is absolutely unsuited to the task of making tragedy less wearisome. Instead of running away, Marie decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi, the last geisha in Fukushima, who of her own accord has decided to return to her ruined house in the formerly radioactive Exclusion Zone. Two women who couldn't be more different, but who – each in her own way – are trapped in the past and must learn to liberate themselves from guilt and the burden of memory. A universal and poetic tale about life and letting go from acclaimed writer-director Doris Dörrie (Cherry Blossoms, Enlightenment Guaranteed, Men).
2016 Film Festival Max-Ophüls-Preis Audience Award Winner. Following his Oscar®-nominated short Raju, Max Zähle dedicates his feature film debut to a largely unknown culture marked by long-standing tradition: scrap dealers. Scrappin’ sheds light on this sometimes weird but loveable milieu and tells the story of a family that needs to overcome its differences in order to keep the family business alive. Mirko thought he had left his family’s provincial scrapyard behind, but his father had some unfinished business before he died and left Mirko the run-down scrapyard, along with his brother Letscho (Frederick Lau, Victoria). Faced with financial uncertainties, the brothers realize that the Talhammers can only have a future if they can pull themselves together and fulfill their father’s last wish: to rob a train filled with valuable copper.
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
105 mins. Switzerland, Germany (2015). DCP. German & Swiss German w/ English subtitles. The most successful Swiss film in Swiss box office history and winner of the 2016 German Film Award for Best Children's Film. Orphan girl Heidi spends the happiest days of her childhood together with her eccentric grandfather in an isolated cabin in the Swiss mountains. Together with her friend Peter, she tends to her grandfather's goats and enjoys freedom in the mountains to the fullest. But these carefree times come to an abrupt end when Heidi is taken to Frankfurt by her Aunt Dete. Based on the 1881 children’s fiction by Johanna Spyri.
90 mins. Germany (2017). BD. English and German w/ English subtitles. Winner of the 2017 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Audience Award (Documentary). This documentary tells the forgotten stories of some of the most influential personal computer pioneers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the late 1960s, big mainframe computers owned by large corporations and the government were seen as tools of control. The Hippie movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests served as a hotbed for a revolutionary idea: creating an affordable home computer to be used by ordinary people – as a counterbalance to Big Brother. The rest is history, but what has happened to the early ideals and the initial ethos of free sharing? As one of the visionaries puts it: “It’s true that what I helped to create is today’s establishment. That’s what I was trying to get rid of: the establishment.”
5:30-7:00 p.m. at BMW of Honolulu Celebrate the festival with drinks and pupus. Patrons in attendance will have access to valet parking (limited) and a shuttle service to the Opening Night Film. 4
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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS GERMAN FILMS/UFA © X-Filme
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CENTER OF MY WORLD
STEFAN ZWEIG:
DIE MITTE DER WELT
FAREWELL TO EUROPE VOR DER MORGENRÖTE
Sun. Apr. 9, 2017 3:30 p.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
Sun. Apr. 9, 2017 6:45 p.m. Hawaiʻi Premiere
Director: Jakob M. Erwa Starring: Louis Hofmann, Jannik Schümann, Sabine Timoteo, Ada Philine Stappenbeck World Sales: m-appeal
Director: Maria Schrader Starring: Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz, Matthias Brandt U.S. Distributor: First Run Features
115 mins. Germany, Austria (2016). DCP. German w/ English subtitles. Winner of the 2017 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Audience Award (Narrative Feature Premiere). Best Feature Film (ex-aequo) winner at the 2016 Florence Queer Festival in Italy. After a summer away at camp, Phil returns home to find that his mother and twin sister are not speaking to each another. Not willing to confront his family during the last days of the summer holidays, Phil escapes to hang out with his best friend, Kat, eating ice cream and playing dressup. As the school year begins, a new student arrives – the handsome and mysterious Nicholas. Smitten, Phil watches his crush as he runs around the track after school, and is thrilled when Nicholas returns his feelings. However, when first love’s volatility comes to light, Phil realizes he must deal with the problems of his past, in order to deal with the issues of his present.
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106 mins. Austria, Germany, France (2016). DCP. German w/ English subtitles. Winner of the 2017 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Audience Award (Narrative Feature Gala). Austria’s Official Entry to the 2017 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Maria Schrader’s drama episodically tells the story of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and his life in exile between 193642. Having been driven into emigration at the peak of his worldwide fame, Stefan Zweig falls into despair at the sight of Europe’s down-fall, which he had anticipated early on. It’s the story of a refugee, a tale of losing one’s homeland, and of the search for a new one. Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, New York, Petrópolis are four stations of an expatriate unable to find peace. Despite the generous welcome and the overwhelming opulence of tropical vegetation he encounters, nothing can replace his homeland. This visually stunning historic picture about a great artist is at the same time a film about a time in which Europe was coming apart.
The German Embassy proudly supports the 4th Berlin & Beyond Honolulu Film Festival Learn more about German film at www.germany.info/film
GERMANY MEETS THE U.S.
Photos courtesy picture-alliance, left to right: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (p-a/kpa); Nosferatu (p-a/United Artists/TopFoto); Der blaue Engel (p-a/Keystone); M (p-a/ZB); Metropolis (p-a/ZB)
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4TH BERLIN & BEYOND HONOLULU PRESENTED BY
WITH SUPPORT FROM
HONOLULU LEAD SPONSOR
HONOLULU PARTNERS Denis Salle, Lead Honorary Consul of Germany, Honolulu
Theres Desai Honorary Consul of Switzerland, Honolulu
BMW of North America Consul General Stefan Schlüter Consulate General of Germany, San Francisco
Embassy of Germany, Washington, D.C. German Benevolent Society J. Hans Strasser Honorary Consul of Austria Emeritus, Honolulu
SPECIAL THANKS Taylour Chang Honolulu Museum of Art, Doris Duke Theatre Director
Tim Palms BMW of Honolulu, General Manager
Christina Gerhardt
– Associate Professor, UH Manoa
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERS • Austrian Association of Hawaiʻi • German Club Hawaii • Hawaii European Cinema • Hawaii Schüler • Honolulu Museum of Art • Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival • Swiss Society of Hawaii – • UH Manoa Department of Art & Art History