The Match Factory Reveals Berlinale Lineup

Worldwide gross sales firm The Match Manufacturing unit has revealed its Berlin Movie Pageant lineup, together with two titles in Competitors: “A E I O U – A Fast Alphabet of Love” by Nicolette Krebitz and “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush” by Andreas Dresen.

The Match Manufacturing unit, which was acquired by MUBI final week, has three movies within the shortlist for the Worldwide Function Movie Oscar: “Nice Freedom,” “Drive My Automobile” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”

After the irreverent “Wild,” which premiered at Sundance in 2016, Krebitz is again with a brand new tackle love in “A E I O U – A Fast Alphabet of Love.”

The movie follows an actress who’s mugged in entrance of a stylish bar in West Berlin. Barging into her, a younger man takes her purse and runs off into the night time. A short time later, they meet once more. She is Anna (Sophie Rois) and he’s Adrian (Milan Herms). This time she is his trainer and supposed to enhance his talking abilities. Adrian is an orphan and thought of a “troublesome case.” Anna is an actress however hasn’t been working for some time. Each have strayed from their path and don’t fairly slot in.

The speech lessons happen at Anna’s house. It belongs to Michel (Udo Kier), who owns the entire home. He’s her largest fan and dearest buddy. Quickly, the teachings flip into dinners, strolls and shared cigarettes. And ultimately Anna and Adrian resolve to tackle the world. Cheered on by one another’s affection, and not using a penny to their title, they go away city. They wish to go to France, to the seaside.

The movie is produced by Germany’s Komplizen Movie in co-production with France’s Kazak Productions, Germany’s kineo Filmproduktion, Südwestrundfunk and Arte. Port au Prince will launch the movie in German cinemas. The challenge was funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Filmförderungsanstalt, Centre nationwide du cinéma et de l’picture animée, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and Movie- und Medienstiftung NRW.

Famend German director Andreas Dresen returns to Competitors on the Berlinale after 2015’s “As We Have been Dreaming.” This time Dresen presents a hopeful drama with a humorousness primarily based on the true story of a tenacious mom who fights in opposition to all the chances for her son Murat’s freedom. He’s incarcerated within the U.S.’ Guantanamo detention camp.

Determined to assist her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mom from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and nearly despairs at their impotence, till she discovers Bernhard Docke. The reserved, level-headed human rights lawyer and the temperamental Turkish mom now preventing side-by-side for Murat’s launch. Docke is affected person, Rabiye isn’t. She’d truly favor to be again house along with her household however finds herself completely enmeshed in world politics. She goes with Bernhard to Washington, and proper as much as the Supreme Court docket to carry authorized motion in opposition to George W. Bush. Bernhard watches out for her, and Rabiye makes him chuckle. And ultimately, in opposition to all the chances, one thing actually outstanding occurs.

Starring Meltem Kaptan and Alexander Scheer, the movie is produced by Germany’s Pandora Movie Produktion along with Germany’s Iskremas Filmproduktion and France’s Cinéma Defacto. The German launch of the movie shall be within the arms of Pandora Movie Verleih.

Along with the 2 titles in this system, The Match Manufacturing unit may even display screen their Sundance premiere “The Cow Who Sang a Music into the Future” by Francisca Alegría on the on-line European Movie Market.

The movie is about when 1000’s of fish die in a polluted river in southern Chile. Magdalena, a girl long-deceased, emerges amongst their lifeless our bodies. Magdalena encounters her widowed husband, sending him right into a state of shock and prompting the return of their daughter, Cecilia. Magdalena’s presence and her impact on the surroundings stirs curiosity and concern amongst her household. Because the previous comes into focus, mom and daughter have the chance to alter the long run.

The movie was produced by Cinéma Defacto and Wooden Producciones, in co-production with Match Manufacturing unit Productions, Jirafa Movies and ZDF – das Kleine Fernsehspiel, in affiliation with Dialectic, Persona Leisure, Whitewater Movies, Bord Cadre movies and Sovereign Movies.