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22. International Screenwriters' Workshop & Master Class
25. October - 1. November 2018
Mannheim, Germany
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Shaping. The City
The ecologically and socially balanced urbanity of Mannheim offers the benefits of a metropolis
in a relatively confined area without the negative features otherwise connected with major
cities.
Mannheim is a real metropolis. The city offers the region a lively and ambitious cultural scene,
outstanding retail trade, a colourful nightlife and a tangible diversity of cultures. Thanks to
a well developed public transport network, everything can be reached quickly and easily. In
Mannheim urban community and a relaxing natural environment can be experienced in the
centre of the city.
Ever since the hour of its birth, the chessboard-like shape of the City of Squares represents its
thinkers and creative minds. In 1607 the Palatinate elector Frederick IV had it built according to
what was then thought to be an ideal city. Since then, Mannheim has stood out against the rest
of the region like an island, is enthroned gracefully between the rivers Rhine and Neckar and,
as viewed from above, reminds the visitor of Manhattan which is approximately the same age.
Latest standards make the city a didactic play of strategic planning.
Trying something new, exceeding the limits: This is especially true for Mannheim. Architec-
ture is an essential part of the history, culture and lifeworld of the city on the river Neckar.
Mannheim does not only continuously extend and improve its living space by committed
building projects, but already set standards in the past for a demanding life of a modern urban
community.
The mayor wants to make Mannheim one of the most modern city administrations in Germany.
The path to this goal was titled CHANGE² –
Things are on the move in the City of Squares.
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Table of Contents The Advisors Claire DOBBIN (Australia)
Mary Agnes DONOGHUE (USA)
Table of Contents 4-5 Lisa FRUCHTMAN (USA)
Randa HAINES (USA)
Foreword 6-7
With the support of the Creative Europe Media sub-programme of the European Union Laurie HUTZLER (USA)
The Advisors 10 - 15 Mark O'HALLORAN (Ireland)
This programme intends to help the cultural and creative sectors in achiev-
The Selected Writers 16 - 24 ing the following two general objectives: Martin SHERMAN (United Kingdom)
• to safeguard, develop and promote European cultural and linguistic
Recreation Areas 26 - 27
diversity and to promote Europe's cultural heritage;
Germany, Baden-Württemberg • to strengthen the competitiveness of the European cultural and creative
and Mannheim 28 - 30 sectors, in particular of the audiovisual sector, with a view to promoting
smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
The Selected Writers Jan GASSMANN (Switzerland)
NC HEIKIN ( France)
MFG, Filmakademie
More specifically, the MEDIA sub-programme of the Creative Europe Christina IOAKEIMIDI (Greece)
and Film subsidies 31 - 33 Programme targets audiovisual players and focuses its support on either
Angelina MACCARONE (Germany)
end of the value chain rather than on production, such that it is largely
Arts and culture Mannheim 34 - 35 complementary to Member States' support and to EURIMAGES. Jane MEIKLE (Canada)
Zvonimir MUNIVRANA (Croatia)
Technoseum, C-HUB 36 - 37 A core priority for the MEDIA sub-programme in order to achieve the objec-
tives of cultural diversity and competitiveness is to support the capacity of Ilja RAUTSI (Finland)
Street Art Mannheim 38 the European cultural and creative sector to operate transnationally and Dren ZHERKA (Germany)
internationally.
Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region 39
Innovations between then and now 40 - 41
Special Sessions 42 - 47 The Selected Scripts ANGELS OF FIRE AND ICE
CLANDESTINE
NC HEIKIN
Angelina MACCARONE
eQuinoxe Europe e.V. 48 - 51 FEDORA Jan GASSMANN
Financial Partners & Sponsors 52 - 67 HERON FLIES NORTH Zvonimir MUNIVRANA
HOTLINE Dren ZHERKA
Workshop Staff 68 - 69
MEDIUM Christina IOAKEIMIDI
Epilogue ...Coming Soon 71 MEMORY OF WATER Ilja RAUTSI
YEAR OF THE WOMAN Jane MEIKLE
Masthead 74
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Foreword
Ellen WINN WENDL, Chairman, eQuinoxe Europe e.V.
Welcome to the 22. Intl. Screenwriters Workshop! This opportunity is made available to us due to the
financial partners who have accompanied our journey
Mannheim may not, auf den ersten Blick, appear to be for the past 17 years and 220 projects. Thank you to
a city of creativity, but if one considers that the first the Creative Europe MEDIA Subprogramme of the Euro-
automobile, the first bicycle and the first agricultural pean Union; the German Federal Ministry of Culture; our
motored equipment were conceived, designed, and host in this region – MFG Film Fund Baden-Württem-
manfufactured here, then one realizes that Mannheim berg; Austrian Film Institute; Ontario Media Development
has played a central role in our lives and an impact on Corporation; FOCAL (CH), Finnish Film Foundation; and
the 21st century. the Western Norway Film Center and Western Norway
Film Commission for your support.
Where would we be without the films that have im-
pacted our lives, influenced us to tell stories that relay We are fortunate to have some of the best and bright-
a better understanding of our world? est firms support our efforts including Dr. Hauschka/
WALA Heilmittel located in Baden-Württemberg, Anke
The processes in conceiving, designing and manufac- Zindler - Just Publicity in Munich, Charles McDonald
turing are similar to a film. It takes thought and input, Public Relations in London, and Bela von Raggamby of
more thought and input and execution to conceive Lippert von Raggamby in Berlin. Thank you!
the story and get it right before it goes into the next
phase. The goal of our program is to support your efforts to
find the most compelling story that will travel. You
This is why we are here to concentrate and work on want your work and films to reach a global audience.
these projects to champion them into a next phase so Honorary Chairman and producer Lord David Puttnam
that you can successfully continue with the project embodies the qualities of producing stories and films
into financing, production and distribution. All sounds of substance, and the script was always the beginning.
easier than it is!
Mannheim's original street design hundreds of years
The gifted advisors, all of whom, support your projects ago has been maintained - all streets begin with one
this week for no remuneration are here because they letter. In a profession where we are busy with letters,
love the process of creating. Our deep, deep thanks to words, idioms, it all begins with one letter. A perfect
Claire Dobbin, Martin Sherman, Randa Haines, Mary Ag- beginning for script development, a city of letters.
nes Donoghue, Mark O'Halloran, Lisa Fruchtman, Laurie
Hutzler and Dr. Stefan Rüll for their creative time and On behalf of all of us from eQuinoxe Europe, wel-
generosity of spirit! come to Mannheim in the German state of Baden
Württemberg, delighted you are with us!
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Mannheim - palace
Mannheim Palace - panoramic view
Mannheim Palace is one of the largest palaces in Europe and also one by inheritance and he moved his court to Munich. Although Mannheim The site of the palace is impressive – to the southwest, it faces the with a capacity for up to 65 guests after the war. Today it is used as
of the most well-conserved ones. The lavish interior of this baroque kept the title of “residence”, the palace was used merely as accommo- Rhine and Ludwigshafen. To the northeast the palace presents its occasional exposition space for modern and urban art, e.g. during the
palace is a specimen of architectural genius. The ornate ceremonial dation for several administrative bodies. 450 m long front to the Mannheim city centre. By surrounding an Long Night of Museums in Mannheim.
staircase and the Rittersaal (knights’ hall) drop jaws every single time. In World War II, the palace was heavily bombed and partly destroyed. area of 6 hectare the castle is one of Europe's biggest Palaces and
A guided tour of the palace gives visitors the chance to feast their Many people supported demolishing it after the war to create space the second biggest one in barock style, second only after Versailles The northern wing includes the impressive Schlosskirche (palace
eyes on almost 800 exhibits, tapestries, furniture, porcelain items, for a more modern city architecture. These plans came to nothing (in France). Thereby and for reasons of prestige the architects made church) and the law section, as well as Mannheim's Amtsgericht (lower
silverware and paintings. and in recent years the palace has been renovated extensively thanks sure that Mannheim Palace has one more window than Versailles. The district court). The southern/eastern wing is much larger than the
to private donations and government funding totaling more than 54 Breite Straße runs from the palace to Mannheim's central square, the northern one, including the Schneckenhof yard (a popular university
Mannheim Palace is a large Baroque palace in Mannheim. It was origi- million euro. Paradeplatz. party ground) and holding most of the university's central institutions,
nally the main residence of the Prince-electors of the Electorate of the as well as the largest lecture halls and the central Hasso Plattner
Palatinate of the House of Wittelsbach. Part of the palace is used by Elector Karl Theodor founded the Kurpfälzische Akademie der Wis- The central part of the palace is the Mittelbau with its representative Library. Two sculptures are located on the central courtyard and
the University of Mannheim. The State of Baden-Württemberg offers senschaften as early as 1763, and although there was no continuous halls. Today, the Mittelbau holds university library halls and the represent the two founders of the Mannheim Palace Charles III Philip,
tours of parts of the reconstructed and restored Baroque palace, which existence of a scientific college in Mannheim, the Wirtschaftshoch- Rittersaal hall. A Palace museum was opened here in 2007. The Elector Palatine and Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.
features tapestries, furniture, paintings, porcelain and silverware. schule, or business college, founded in 1907, saw itself in the tradition Mittelbau is flanked by the Ehrenhof West and Ehrenhof Ost wings,
of Karl Theodor's earlier college. The college expanded its subjects which include the Ehrenhof yard in front of the Mittelbau. In those There is currently considerable building activity in the palace, due
The actual palace dates from the 18th century. During the reign of the program in 1967, thus gaining “university” status. The University of two wings, there are mainly lecture halls and offices of the university's to Mannheim's anniversary in 2007. The palace has been repainted
young Count Palatine of Sulzbach and later Duke of Bavaria Charles Mannheim still uses Mannheim Palace as its central building complex humanities section. Below the Ehrenhof, there is a massive bunker in a bright ocher/yellow, the Mittelbau has been thoroughly rebuilt
Theodor the palace and the city of Mannheim saw their zenith. The and although many university buildings are dispersed all over the city dating from World War II. Initially constructed as defensive military (including a new roof construction), and the Ehrenhof yard is to be
glamour of the Elector's court and Mannheim's then famous cultural center, key institutions such as the rectorate or the main library are ac- fortification designed to protect up to 1,500 residents or valued restructured and paved with granite.
life lasted until 1778, when Karl Theodor became Elector of Bavaria commodated in the palace, besides countless lecture halls and offices. materials from Russian and Allied bombing attacks, it served as a hotel
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The Advisors
Claire DOBBIN (Australia)
Mary Agnes DONOGHUE (USA)
Lisa FRUCHTMAN (USA)
Randa HAINES (USA)
Laurie HUTZLER (USA)
Claire DOBBIN I AU I Script Editor Mary Agnes DONOGHUE I USA I Sreenwriter, Director
Claire Dobbin is an Australian script advisor / editor who A native New Yorker, Mary Agnes Donoghue now divides her time
Mark O'HALLORAN (IRELAND) works with development agencies and filmmakers in Australia, between Los Angeles, London and the southwest of France.
New Zealand, Norway, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, UK and France. She wrote and directed the film PARADISE, which featured
Martin SHERMAN (United Kingdom) Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood and Thora Birch in the
Claire is Deputy Chair of the international script development program leads and wrote original screenplays for the films DECEIVED,
eQuinoxe Europe e.V. and is a script advisor to international which starred Goldie Hawn and John Heard and THE BUDDY
participants of the workshop. She has taught screenwriting at both SYSTEM in which Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss starred.
the Victorian College of the Arts Masters program and RMIT Screen-
writing Program. Her adaptation of the novel BEACHES starred Bette Midler
and Barbara Hershey and WHITE OLEANDER featured
Claire has run script workshops in Australia, New Zealand and Abu Michelle Pfeiffer, Renne Zelwigger and Robin Wright Penn in
Dhabi and has been a guest lecturer at the Abu Dhabi film festival and the lead roles. She also wrote the screenplay for VERONICA
at Royal Holloway, London. For 14 years she was the Senior Script GUERIN in which Cate Blanchette played the title role.
Executive at the Australian Film Commission and Director of the Mel-
bourne office of the AFC. She has script consulted / edited Australian Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French appeared in her
films including CANDY (Berlin 2006), MALLBOY (Cannes 2000), stage play ME AND MAMIE O’ROURKE which ran
ROAD TO NHILL (Best Film Thessaloniki Film Festival), SMALL at The Strand Theater on London’s West End after hav-
TREASURES (Baby Lion Venice), RABBIT PROOF FENCE (AFI ing an earlier run at The Palace Theater in Watford.
Award winner), JAPANESE STORY (Cannes 2003 and AFI Award win- Her film JENNY´ S WEDDING, which she wrote, directed
ner), BLAME (Toronto 2010) and HERMANO (Venezuela’s entrant in and produced was released in 2016 after its premiere at the
the Academy awards 2014). Outfest Festival in Los Angeles. It stars Katherine Heigl, Tom
Wilkinson, Alexis Bledel, Grace Gummer and Linda Emond.
For 7 years Claire was on the board of the Melbourne Writers´ Festival
and is currently Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Claire was president of the international jury of the 2012 Fajr Film
Festival in Tehran.
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Lisa FRUCHTMAN I USA I Editor, Producer Randa HAINES I USA I Director, Screenwriter Laurie HUTZLER I USA I Media Consultant, Screenwriter Mark O´HALLORAN I IE I Screenwriter, Actor
Lisa Fruchtman is an Academy Award–winning film Editor, who has Randa Haines began her career as an actress, studying with Lee Laurie Hutzler assists entertainment industry professionals develop Mark O‘Halloran is a writer/ actor from Ireland. As an actor he has
worked in both feature film and television. Strasberg. Her first feature, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, was feature films and television program formats for both the domestic worked with all the major theatre companies in Ireland, most recently
nominated for three Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and five Academy and international markets. She created the Emotional Toolbox®, a in the acclaimed production of THE IMPORTANCE OF NOTHING
Among her many film projects as editor are APOCALYPSE NOW, Awards. The film received a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, unique method that offers a set of specific techniques, exercises and with Pan Pan theatre company and THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN
THE RIGHT STUFF, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, THE GOD- a Director’s Guild Nomination for Haines, and launched Marlee tools to create and strengthen emotion-based creative content. with The Abbey Theatre Dublin. On screen he has appeared in numer-
FATHER PART III, THE DOCTOR, MY BEST FRIEND` S WED- Matlin's career with an Oscar for Best Performance by a Leading ous films, most notably as one of the eponymous heroes in ADAM
DING, DANCE WITH ME and THE WOODSMAN. For television, Actress. Other feature credits include THE DOCTOR, WRES- Laurie has worked as a story and character consultant to the BBC, & PAUL for which he also wrote the screenplay and the lead role of
she has edited such HBO films as TRUMAN, WITNESS PROTEC- TLING ERNEST HEMINGWAY, and DANCE WITH ME. Channel 4, ITV, talkbackTHAMES, Mersey Television/Lime Pictures MP in HISTORY’S FUTURE directed by Fiona Tan for which he was
TION, POINT OF ORIGIN and NORMAL. and Aardman Animation Studio (UK), for Pixar University, Disney and nominated as Best Actor at IFTA awards 2017. He also appears in THE
Haines’ television credits include the innovative series HILL STREET Dreamworks (US), Endemol Netherlands (NL), RTL, Weidemann Berg GUARD and CALVARY and in VIVA, a film set in Havana for which he
Her awards and honors include an OSCAR for THE RIGHT STUFF, BLUES and the critically acclaimed movie SOMETHING ABOUT and Grudy UFA (Germany), GloboMedia (Spain) and TNT (Russia) among also wrote the screenplay. More recent acting work includes, Bates in
Best Editing Academy Award Nominations for THE GODFATHER AMELIA, which is one of the highest-rated television films ever, others. DUBLIN OLDSCHOOL, Kassel in CELLAR DOOR and the part of
PART III and APOCALYPSE NOW, an Emmy Nomination and a garnering 70 million viewers on one night. Haines was nominated Craigie in Shane Meadows’ forthcoming TV series, THE VIRTUES. He
Cable ACE Award for TRUMAN. CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD for both an Emmy and a Directors Guild of America Award for the She is a consultant for Endemol and for FremantleMedia across a is also currently filming THE DEVILS for Sky Italy.
was nominated for Best Picture. frank and sensitive handling of the subject of incest. For Showtime, variety of scripted and entertainment formats in the UK, Europe and
Haines directed THE OUTSIDER, a Western starring Naomi Watts Australia. Mark‘s writing credits include the multi award winning film GARAGE,
More recently, she produced and directed - SWEET DREAMS, an and Tim Daly, and for TNT, THE RON CLARK STORY, starring the television series PROSPERITY, VIVA a Spanish language feature
award winning documentary about Rwanda (www.sweetdreamsr- Matthew Perry. The film was nominated for three Emmy awards, Laurie Hutzler has had several plays produced in theaters across the set in Cuba, CITIZEN LANE and mostly recently, RIALTO, a feature
wanda.com). and earned Haines her third DGA nomination. Haines lives in US, winning two Madoline Cervantes Awards at Lincoln Center in script adapted from his own stage-play which is currently in post-
Paris, where a long-time passion for Opera led to connecting with New York City. She was a staff writer and story consultant on Oscar- production. His theatre writing includes TRADE, contributing text to
Current projects in development include an adaption of the novel singers. Creatively adapting her skills with actors, she is immersed winner Paul Haggis’ NBC series, THE BLACK DONNELLYS. She the award winning theatre production LIPPY and 2019 will see the
STONES FROM THE RIVER (Co-producer) and SHELTER, a docu- in working with opera artists on presentation and performance. also worked with Haggis on his films: IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH premiere of his new play, CONVERSATIONS AFTER SEX.
mentary exploration of homelessness (Producer / Director). and QUANTUM OF SOLACE. She consulted on two Oscar-winning
foreign language films; as a story advisor on TSOTSI (South Africa) Mark has been nominated for numerous awards including a European
and on THE COUNTERFEITER (Austria), as an eQuinoxe Europe Film Award for the screenplay of ADAM & PAUL, Irish Film and
script advisor. Television Awards where he won for both “Best Screenplay“ and “Best
TV writer“ 2007. He also won the London Evening Standard award
Laurie taught screenwriting in the MFA program at the UCLA Film for “Best Screenplay“ in 2005. TRADE was named as “best play” at
School for 10 years, and was served as an Artist-in-Residence in the Irish Theatre Awards 2012. LIPPY was “Best Production” at 2014
Television and Digital Entertainment at Southern Methodist University Irish Theatre Awards as well as winning a Fringe First at Edinburgh
in Dallas. She has taught for the Royal Literary Fund in Cambridge, and 2 Obie Awards in New York. VIVA was shortlisted for best foreign
England; The Sorbonne in Paris, France; Royal Holloway College, language Oscar and nominated for Best Screenplay at the IFTA awards
University of London, London England; DFFB film school in Berlin, 2016. Mark was also nominated as “Best Actor” in the Irish Time
Germany and IFS film school in Cologne, Germany. Theatre Awards for his performance as Donal Davoren in the Abbey
Theatre’s production of Shadow of a Gunman.
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List of trainers – excerpt
• Simon Aeby (CH - THREE DEGREES BELOW ZERO) • Annemarie Jacir (PS - WHEN I SAW YOU)
• Angela Allen MBE (UK - THE MISFITS ) • Terry Jones (GB - MONTY PYTHON FILMS)
• Frank Barhydt (USA - SHORT CUTS ) • David Keating (IRE - WAKE WOOD)
• Ron Bass (USA - RAIN MAN) • Callie Khouri (USA - THELMA AND LOUISE)
• Simon Beaufoy (GB - SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) • Danny Krausz (AT - ZELARY)
• Dev Benegal (IN - ENGLISH, AUGUST / SPLIT WIDE OPEN) • David Magee (USA - LIFE OF PI)
• Marcos Bernstein (BR - CENTRAL STATION) • Anthony McCarten (NZ - THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING)
Martin SHERMAN I UK I Playwright, Screenwriter • Michael Blake (USA - DANCES WITH WOLVES) • Stephen Metcalfe (USA - PRETTY WOMAN)
Martin Sherman was born in Philadelphia, educated at Boston • Andrew Bovell (AUS - A MOST WANTED MAN) • Shandi Mitchell MacLeod (CAN - THE DISAPPEARED)
University, and resides in London. His plays have been produced • Ulf Breistrand (NOR - YOU HAVEN´T GOT A CHANCE, TAKE IT!) • Jocelyn Moorhouse (AUS - THE DRESSMAKER)
in over sixty countries and include BENT (twice in London with • † Kit Carson (USA - PARIS, TEXAS) • Marcia Nasatir (USA - THE BIG CHILL)
Ian McKellen and once with Alan Cumming, and on Broadway with
• Pauline Chan (AUS - 33 POSTCARDS) • Sandra Nettelbeck (GER - MR. MORGAN´S LAST LOVE)
Richard Gere), MESSIAH, A MADHOUSE IN GOA, WHEN SHE
DANCED (the latter two starring Vanessa Redgrave on London‘s • Laurence Coriat (F - WONDERLAND) • Mark O´Halloran (IRE - VIVA)
West End), SOME SUNNY DAY, ROSE (London’s National Theatre • Luke Davies (AUS - LION / LIFE) • † Frank Pierson (USA - CAT BALLOU)
and Broadway with Olympia Dukakis) and ONASSIS (on London’s
• Claire Dobbin (AUS - Script Editor) • Eric Pleskow (AT/USA - RAGING BULL / AMADEUS)
West End, with Robert Lindsay). His stage adaptations include E.M.
Forster’s A PASSAGE TO INDIA; a new version of a Pirandello • Mary Agnes Donoghue ( Usa - WHITE OLEANDER) • Lord David Puttnam CBE (UK - THE MISSION / CHARIOTS OF FIRE)
play, ABSOLUTELY (PERHAPS!) (directed by Franco Zeffirelli • Bille Eltringham (UK - YELLOW) • Richard Reitinger (GER - WINGS OF DESIRE)
in London, with Joan Plowright); and Chekhov‘s THE CHERRY • Delia Ephron (USA - YOU`VE GOT MAIL) • Danny Rubin (USA - GROUNDHOG DAY)
ORCHARD (Los Angeles, with Annette Benning and Alfred
• Jacques Fieschi (F - NELLY & MONSIEUR ARNAUD) • Stefan Rüll ( G ER - LEGAL ADVISOR / TONI ERDMANN)
Molina). He wrote the musical THE BOY FROM OZ which caused
a sensation on Broadway starring Hugh Jackman. His newest play • Mike Figgis (GB - LEAVING LAS VEGAS) • Ana Sanz Magallón (E - BAJO LAS ESTRELAS)
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM premiered in New York in March. • † Florian Flicker (AT - HOLD UP) • Stephen Schiff (USA - LOLITA)
• Stephen Frears (UK - THE QUEEN) • Susanne Schneider (GER - THE DAY COMES)
Martin’s screenplays include THE CLOTHES IN THE WARDROPE
(US title: THE SUMMER HOUSE), with Jeanne Moreau, Joan • Lisa Fruchtman (USA - APOCALYPSE NOW) • † Lorenzo Semple (USA - THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR)
Plowright and Julie Walters; ALIVE AND KICKING with Jason • Alain Godard (F - IN THE NAME OF THE ROSE) • Martin Sherman (GB - BENT )
Flemyng, Anthony Sher and Bill Nighy; the film version of BENT with • Akiva Goldsman (USA - A BEAUTIFUL MIND) • Zachary Sklar (USA - JFK)
Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Mick Jagger and Ian McKellen; Franco
• Carl Gottlieb (USA - JAWS) • Ed Solomon (USA - MEN IN BLACK )
Zeffirelli‘s CALLAS FOREVER with Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons;
THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE with Helen Mirren, Olivier • Paul Haggis (CAN - L.A. CRASH) • Michael Steinberg (USA - THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MARY )
Martinez and Anne Bancroft; and MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS, • Randa Haines (USA - CHILDREN OF A LESSE GOD) • Tim Squyres (USA - CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON)
directed by Stephen Frears with Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. He
• Jim Hart (USA - BRAM STOKER´S DRACULA) • Mary Sweeney (USA - MULHOLLAND DRIVE )
has been nominated for two Tonys, two BAFTAS and two Oliviers.
• Axel Hellstenius (N O R - ELLING) • Robin Swicord (USA - THE STRANGE CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON)
• Agnieszka Holland (P - EUROPA, EUROPA!) • Anthea Sylbert ( G R - CHINATOWN)
• Hannah Hollinger (GER - DIE MUTTER) • Joan Tewkesbury (USA - NASHVILLE )
• Neil Hunter (UK - SPARKLE) • Christopher Vogler (USA - THE WRITER´S JOURNEY)
• Laurie Hutzler (USA -Creative Media Consultant) • Michael West (IRE - FREE FALL)
• Gregory Widen (USA - HIGHLANDER)
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The Selected Writers
Jan GASSMANN (Switzerland) І FEDORA
Jan GASSMANN I Switzerland I Screenwriter, Director
NC HEIKIN (France) І ANGELS OF FIRE AND ICE
Jan Gassmann (1983) comes from Zurich. He began making films in 1999 Six months later: They are playing at an affair when it has
Christina IOAKEIMIDI (Greece) І MEDIUM for the television show "VideoGang" on Tele24. After a year abroad in already grown into much more. And Bigna is planning to leave:
Ecuador he won first awards at youth film festivals. In 2003 his work on A tsunami researcher, she is finally given the opportunity to
Angelina MACCARONE (Germany) І CLANDESTINE VIVRE AUTREMENT led him from Mexico over Senegal to India, where he do field work in Chile. As her departure inevitably approaches,
then made several films. In the same year he began his studies at the HFF she decides against her career. They confess their mutual love,
in Munich in Directing Documentary Film. His first full-length feature film resolve to stay together and become vulnerable.
Jane MEIKLE (Canada) І YEAR OF THE WOMAN CHRIGU premiered at the 57th Berlinale and further worldwide festivals
followed. The film was seen by an audience of 20,000 in Switzerland and A few weeks later. The airplane takes off, with her. Because the
Zvonimir MUNIVRANA (Croatia) І HERON FLIES NORTH was also distributed to cinemas in France. In 2008 Jan Gassmann received feelings grew too smothering. Because Bigna, afraid of being
the Bern and Zurich Film Awards and the Swiss Film Critics Award and the abandoned, decided to test her love. Three in a bed; his body
Ilja RAUTSI (Finland) І MEMORY OF WATER Prix Walo for CHRIGU in 2009. 2009 winner of the Kirch Media Scholarship and that other woman. An injury there is no coming back from.
with STUMBLING BULB. His next film, OFF BEAT, a feature film, premiered She leaves, a car burns and darkness descends within Frank.
in February 2011 in the Panorama section of the 61th Berlinale, and
Dren ZHERKA (Germany) І HOTLINE was later shown at festivals worldwide and was released in cinemas in A year and a half later. Bigna returns to Switzerland, successful
Switzerland and Germany. The film was nominated for "Best Camera" by and married to a colleague. Frank, however, is trapped in his
the Swiss Film Academy. rage and has lost his apartment and his friends. He is thirsting
for revenge. Forgetting is hard for both of them, their love had
Since 2010, Jan has returned to Zurich. 2013 he won the first prize in the been a powerful drug. A wedding. Lovingly putting her hand
international competition of Visions du Réel Nyon for KARMA SHADUB on her husband's shoulder, Bigna watches the bridal couple
together with Ramon Giger. In addition to the crazy road movie STYLE intended to love each other forever. The waiter in the crowd
WARS 2, that he contributed to as dramaturge and editor, Jan worked has black-rimmed eyes. She has not spotted Frank yet. He will
with Michael Krummenacher on developing the idea for HEIMATLAND, a take his revenge.
political collective film with nine other directors about the fictional ruin of
Switzerland, which had its world premiere at the festival in Locarno in the Her husband forgives her. Frank watches the flaring crack co-
summer of 2015, was honoured with the Bern and Zurich Film Awards and caine illuminated by his lighter and draws deep in his striving
drew an audience of 15,000 to the cinemas. for a final stroke. When Bigna finds him, he is unconscious. She
holds him tight, distant sirens wail, she'll never let him go now.
His last film EUROPE, SHE LOVES opened the Berlinale Panorama 2016
and was selected for the European Film Awards after a major festival tour. Two years later. Frank, his face sunny, is serving hikers in his
The film was distributed to Austria, Germany and Switzerland and won, tea house on the edge of the forest while Bigna presents her
among other honours, the Zurich Film Award 2016. research in Geneva. The idyll they have created is as uncom-
promising as their love. But Bigna gets pregnant and wants to
abort, with Frank frantically trying to persuade her that love
FEDORA (Synopsis) may be lived by three people. She swallows the pills because
2011 - A tsunami is raging in Japan as lightning strikes in Swit- she never wanted to be a mother. He carries Bigna, convulsing
zerland. True love only comes once. and shivering, into the bathroom. Pain becomes poison, the
tidal wave never reverses.
Bigna (27) has everything under control. As a scientist, she
likes to work alone, and she satisfies her sexual needs in secre- Three and a half years later. A gray forest wrapped in wintry
tive ways. Frank (30) is on the path to recovery – he no longer patches of fog. Bigna, alone, is walking her puppy when she
seeks relief in a drug-induced haze but feeds on other people's sees a man carrying a child on his shoulders. As her dog begins
affection without giving any. to bark madly, he turns around. And there it is again, all of it,
that shiver, that first love, that fear of losing this person forever,
Two people who would never turn to look at each other in the that fear of the golden shot. The windshield wipers push the
street, two loveless people, stranded in the same city: Zurich. rain aside, the traffic light is red and if you ever wanted to
Until, one day, they are struck by chance. He drags her into her change anything in your life, now would be the time. Frank
car because she wants him to. He can't forget her and searches unobtrusively glances at Bigna, she returns his gaze: Now.
for her when she doesn't want to be found.
«Fedora»: Seven years of love, a tale in five chapters.
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NC HEIKIN I France I Screenwriter, Director, Christina IOAKEIMIDI I Greece I Screenwriter, Director,
NC Heikin, Sundance and Film Independent Fellow, worked in that Rip made Joan get an abortion. Shockingly, they come Christina Ioakeimidi was born in Athens, Greece. She studied stills pho- MEDIUM (Synopsis)
theatre for many years before making her film-directing debut with to blows, which Harry and Niki are powerless to stop. Later, tography in Greece and filmmaking at the London Film School. During Eleftheria (16), escapes the suffocating reality of her life in
the prize-winning French-language narrative comic short, mañana, Harry is galled by the idea he might be a prematurely old her stay in London, she wrote, directed and photographed short films. Skyros, a remote island of the Aegean Sea, where she lives
produced by Gaby Tana. Her documentary Kimjongilia, about North fart. with her depressive father, and seeks refuge in Athens. She
Korean refugees and dissidents, premiered at Sundance, won the Upon returning to Athens, she worked as an assistant director for short visits her sister Alexandra who is about to give birth to
One World Festival Human Rights Award, and went on to play all Caringly, Niki tends Joan’s bruises. Joan confides she had films, commercials and feature films, with acclaimed director Panos H. her first child. It is August, during a dreadful heat wave,
over the world, including South Korea, Viet Nam and Cambodia. a brutal father. Meanwhile, Harry’s discomfort rises. He Koutras, amongst others. the time most Athenians abandon the city. It won’t take
Worldwide bestselling author Michael Connelly produced her blames Niki for saddling him with all the childcare. Rip her long to realize the extent of her solitude, in an ugly,
critically acclaimed film Sound of Redemption, The Frank Morgan ridicules him for it. As Niki and Joan grow closer, Niki and Her first feature film "Harisma" (writer, director, producer) well unwelcoming city, with her sister too immersed in her own
Story, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2014, and Harry’s relationship frays. received critically was released in 2010 in Greece and participated in situation as an expectant mother.
theatrically in 2015. It has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. numerous festivals around the world.
Everything explodes when Rip’s gallery assistant shows up During the sleepless, boiling-hot nights, through the closed
It was while filming Sound of Redemption that Heikin met obviously pregnant. She inspires Niki into a frenzy of draw- She has also directed documentaries for the Greek television broad- shutters of her bedroom she spies on Angelos (26), whose
the subject of her current documentary film Life Crime, which ing—luscious fertile women. But it turns out it’s Rip’s child. caster. She lives in Greece and is a mother of two. house shares the same yard with Alexandra’s. When she
explores the question, “What is a just sentence for murder?” Joan crumbles into emotional rubble. She slashes her paint- finds the courage to approach him, he generously invites her
ings. Niki comes to her aide, and divulges her own trauma: to his semi-delinquent world and the eccentric people who
her father’s sexual abuse, her breakdown. Painting began constitute it. They become inseparable. She is immediately
as therapy, and she never wants to quit. Joan, former super- drawn to the older, evasive, enigmatic, shadowy, medical
critic, turns compassionate. Niki has an idea and grabs one student. Just when she is beginning to taste the realm of
ANGELS OF FIRE AND ICE (Synopsis) of Harry’s shirts. emotions and physical desire associated with falling in love
France. 1959. Fledgling artist Niki de Saint Phalle, 27, her for the first time, he disappears without a word.
husband writer Harry Mathews, 28, and their small children Shouldering rifles, Niki and Joan shoot at the shirt. They’ve
Laura and Philip, arrive at the country home of Joan Mitchell filled it with paint balloons and the colors spurt out During his insufferable absence she will learn of his homo-
and Jean-Paul Riopelle (Rip), both painters and ten years spectacularly. Transgressive, liberating. But Harry takes it sexual preferences. She will fight the fear and inhibitions
older. personally. It was his shirt. Niki really wants to shoot him, associated with opening up to someone else and upon his
doesn’t she? Fed up, he announces he needs adventure. He return she will have the chance to taste how exhilarating it
Joan launches, uninvited, into excoriating criticism of Niki’s must travel for a year and leave the children with Niki—a can be to finally do so.
painting. Niki takes it in, but doesn’t fold. Later, however, a man’s prerogative. Niki is outraged. They fight bitterly. She
very drunk Joan demolishes Niki with accusations that she is loves Harry, but she’s desperate to work on her art. Joan
nothing but a writer’s wife, a dabbling dilettante. Now Niki quotes Van Gogh to suggest that Niki take herself seriously,
wants to fold, but Harry insists they stay. that what she needs is peace and quiet to work. Niki feels
this, but can she act?
Ever the fighter, Niki reclaims her power by taking a rifle to
her painting and shooting it. She races with Rip in his Bu- Niki spends a tortured night finishing an emblematic first
gatti and interrogates him on his painting techniques. When sculpture. With the dawn she comes to a terrifying, radical
Niki fashions a fantastical toy scepter for her son, Rip urges decision. It is she who will leave to see the world. She
her to try sculpture, though Joan scoffs. clasps her children to her, swearing she’ll be back. She
ignores Harry’s pleas that she stay. She takes Rip’s car and
Soon Joan and Rip get drunk again. They tease their young drives away.
guests for being old farts, then ignore them and fight with
each other—over who is the better painter, who earns more,
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Angelina MACCARONE I Germany I Screenwriter, Director Jane MEIKLE I Canada I Screenwriter
Angelina Maccarone started out as a writer of song lyrics before She only realizes that Malik has already made it to Brussels Jane Meikle is an award-winning screenwriter with a background in YEAR OF THE WOMAN (Synopsis)
she got her MA in literature. In 1994 she wrote and co-directed her illegally when she is confronted with hosting the boy for a Canadian national television. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, Reykjavik, 1975. The debate over how to mark the United
first feature. In her work as a filmmaker she explored various genres: week when Richard has to go on to London and cannot take Jane is currently based in the United Arab Emirates, where she has Nations International Year of the Woman turns controversial
comedy, thriller and drama. Her films were shown in film festivals Malik with him without a visa. Meanwhile, Malik pursues his collaborated with partners such as Comedy Central Studios Arabia when ESTER (20’s), a radical university student, proposes
all over the world, winning her numerous awards, like the Golden own plans: his uncle Yussuf has promised to pick him up and and Imagenation Abu Dhabi. Along with YEAR OF THE WOMAN, Jane a nation-wide women’s strike. HILDA (40’s), the genteel
Leopard at Locarno Film Festival. Her first documentary THE LOOK take him to Cologne. Malik waits and is stuck in Matilda's is currently developing projects in the United States, England and President of the Reykjavik Ladies’ Society, initially finds it
- about and with actress Charlotte Rampling - was part of the official apartment. The politician pretends that he is not there; but Canada. unseemly, but finally agrees to throw her weight behind the
selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. In 2014 she initiated with his living presence he turns her orderly world upside strike if they change the name to ‘Women’s Day Off.’ It’s an
an internet campaign against homophobia: TOLERANT? THAT’S US! down. Malik's English is marginal and Matilda refuses to immediate hit: women from all walks of life from around
speak French despite her job in Brussels. So she calls in the country believe that Iceland would come to a standstill
Angelina Maccarone is based in Berlin, where she works on her new her assistant Amina as a linguistic and cultural mediator without their invisible, thankless labour—and they resolve to
feature CLANDESTINE which won the German Film Award for best because of her „Arab roots“. Although born in Belgium, put their differences behind them to see if they’re right!
screenplay in 2017 and will be shot in Tanger, Brussels and London. Amina bears the stamp of eternal arrival as the "second
Since 2014 she is full professor for film directing at Film University generation" and is not perceived as a European by her boss. When strike fever reaches the national airline, the main
Babelsberg. Dependent on the job as a single mother, Amina is forced to banks, and the telephone exchange, Hilda’s powerful hus-
swallow her anger about it. band THOR (50) realizes this is more than a few housewives
in a tizzy, and mobilizes a men’s anti-strike movement
CLANDESTINE (Synopsis) The end of the week is approaching, Richard's return from to stop the rolling juggernaut. But the women press on,
London is imminent. Finally trough the bottleneck of the fighting self-doubt and family chaos as they discover a
The seventeen-year-old Malik is eager to break out of the border to Europe, Malik does not want to go back to Tangier strength and unity they didn’t know they possessed. This
lack of prospects of Morocco and to work on a better life in with him and sets off on his own to Cologne by train. On social comedy about an event that brought together women
Europe. Due to the strained situation Malik has no chance the way he arouses the distrust of a railway official and across an entire nation explores how the Year of the Woman
to get a visa on the official way. Secretly, however, he is asked by him to identify himself. In panic the boy runs transformed the roles, relationships and aspirations of its
manages to enter Europe, as a stowaway in the transporter away. The officer who gets in his way, crashes unhappily participants forever.
of the artist Richard, an exiled Brit, who spends his twilight and injures himself. Malik is caught and arrested under
years in Tangier, as he could only live on his pension at terror suspicion. In his distress he names Matilda as a
the lower subsistence level in his hometown London; an contact person; due to her position she is his only chance.
„economic refugee“ with reverse signs. The sixty-year-old The politician has to decide now whether she is ready to
has fallen in love with the boy and hopes to win his favor exchange her power for human relations.
with the promise of the "big wide world“.
From the perspectives of four very different protagonists,
His old friend Matilda, who sits in the unpopular Belgian CLANDESTINE describes fateful interconnections in a
labor exile in the European Parliament for the British globalized world with our (mutual) dependencies. We are
Conservatives and longs for Brexit, promises Richard, that getting closer and evermore confronted with the escalating
she will obtain a visa for Malik with the aid of her relations. consequences of colonization and exploitation and the
But Matilda is worried about her political career as she has tensions that have long since spread to our European
a reputation as "iron lady reloaded" to lose. In order not to societies and the supposedly secure fortress cracks. The
unnecessarily burden the friendship with Richard, she claims privileges now want to be shared. No one can elude, we are
to have tried everything, but unfortunately without success. all involved and everyone is required to position themselves.
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Zvonimir MUNIVRANA I Croatia I Screenwriter, Director, Actor Ilja RAUTSI I Finland I Screenwriter, Director,
Ilja Rautsi (b. 1979) is a writer and filmmaker who loves to play with a secret freshwater spring hidden deep in the tundra. If
Zvonimir Munivrana graduated from the University of Zagreb with a HERON FLIES NORTH (Synopsis)
genres. His past work includes the feature documentary "Spandex discovered, the military would take it over and kill them,
degree in psychology. He then moved to Los Angeles where he studied Nada, 45-year-old Croat woman working as a court typ-
Sapiens". This year he wrote and directed "Helsinki Mansplaining because all water criminals are executed. Before Noria has
acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute and Stella Adler Academy. He ist lives at odds with her next-door Serbian neighbor and Massacre", a short horror comedy that debuted at the Bucheon time to settle into her role as the new Tea Master, her father
graduated from the Theatre of Arts in Hollywood. During his four year school friend Mira in ethnically divided village of eastern International Fantastic Film Festival, where it won the award for dies, leaving her alone with the dangerous secret. Making
stay in the US, he performed in numerous plays (notably in The Merry Croatia. Nada believes that Mira is responsible for the Best Short and will be playing at Fantastic Fest & the New York Film matters worse, an arrogant new commander, TARO, tightens
Wives of Windsor – Master Ford, and The Midsummer Night’s Dream – death of her fiancée during the war in Croatia, and hasn't Festival. Alongside "Memory of Water", Ilja is currently working on a the military’s hold on the already scarce water rations,
Theseus), and independent films. spoken to her since her return to the liberated part of feature horror comedy, as well as a children's fantasy comedy. dooming the poorest to die. But Taro befriends with Noria
Croatia. and a mutual respect settles between them.
BASED ON AN ACCLAIMED BOOK
He wrote his first feature screenplay entitled ‘Children of the Fall’. Noria’s only relief is her best friend SANJA, a tomboy who
"Memory of Water" is Emmi Itäranta’s award-winning speculative
Upon returning to Croatia, he submitted feature film screenplay en- One night, young Syrian refugee named Aylan, running from lives alone taking care of her sick little sister MINJA. On
fiction debut novel. It was published to high praise in Finland in 2012,
titled to the Croatian audiovisual center and received a grant. The film the police and local vigilante, finds shelter in Nada's house. one of their excursions to The Plastic Grave, a gigantic trash
drawing comparisons to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret
was directed by Goran Rukavina and featured at Centeast (Warsaw, What starts as a one night bed and breakfast, turns into a dump full of broken things from the past, Noria and Sanja
Atwood. Honours include the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize 2013, the Kalevi
Moscow) and Braunschweig film festivals. In addition, he wrote a 13- relationship of mutual need and help, not only in Nada's find a mysterious silver disc.
Jäntti Literary Prize 2012 and first place in the Teos Fantasy and Sci-
episode sitcom series entitled ‘Lov u mutnom’ for Nova TV of Croatia. effort to open a kindergarten where both Croat and Serb Fi Literary Contest 2011 in Finland. The book has been featured on They manage to play the CD finding information from the
The series is set to enter production soon. children can go together, but also mending relationship with several shortlists in both the US and the UK - the Philip K. Dick Award, past that claims the Oil War accident was planned by the
Mira and bringing Nada back to trust people and her own Compton Crook Award, Golden Tentacle Award and Arthur C. Clarke regime and the Lost Lands may be clean again. Being
He is currently developing a coming-of-age feature screenplay life. Award. The novel also appeared on the 2014 James Tiptree, Jr. Award idealistic, Noria gets exited. If this is true, it will change
Honor List. "Memory of Water" has been published in 21 languages to everything. It would mean the military rule is based on
‘Planted’, and a migrant inspired story set in a divided village of
date. a lie. As Minja’s condition is getting worse, Sanja wants
eastern Slavonia entitled ‘Heron Flies North’ (recently invited to Through the clash with Nada's cousin Drago, who was
nothing to do with the dangerous information. To convince
the European Script Meeting/Riga under working title ‘Aylan’, and ostensibly going to help Aylan get across the border, Nada
MEMORY OF WATER (Synopsis) her, Noria takes her to the secret spring. But too late, the
Sources2 workshop). learns the real truth of her fiancé’s fate in which Mira played Over time, part of the Eastern lands was lost to risen seas water cannot save Minja anymore. She dies and leaves
no part. Now both women work together not only on and ordinary people had to immigrate to live near new Sanja bitter and hopeless. At the same time Taro is closing
Zvonomir is a Screen Actor’s Guild and Croatian Dramatist Union Aylan’s getaway but rebuilding their friendship - a first step freshwater sources. Some ended up in Scandinavia. But a in on Noria’s secret and more people die. To save them,
member. He attended Berlinale Talents in 2015 as director/writer, in bringing the whole village and society back to true peace. drastic Oil War in the Arctic destroyed most of the sources, Noria needs to reveal the truth. Now more than ever,
and was selected as an assistant trainer at the Mediterranean Film creating a deadly zone called the Lost Lands up in the she has to prove the Lost Lands are clean. When Noria is
Institute (MFI) advanced script & project development workshop in North. Since the war, an Eastern military regime from far preparing to leave, Taro’s men capture Sanja as a water
- flung Xinjing is ruling Scandinavian Union and controls criminal. Noria confronts Taro and discovers he’s been
2015 held in Greece. In addition, he was selected to the three-module
all remaining freshwater resources with an iron grip. The playing her all along, sneaking his way close to her so
Maia Workshop 2016
opportunistic regime set the time back to zero and the year she would reveal what she knows about the true nature
is now 72, New Quian time. of things. Noria surprises Taro and manages to escape
believing Taro dies in the fire she set in the military
NORIA is an idealistic young woman living in a village in
compound. Noria fights to free Sanja and they struggle to
Lapland with her aging FATHER, the village Tea Master.
get to the Lost Lands together, finding proof that there is
This Eastern tradition has blended well into the Finnish
clean water and uncontaminated lands up North. But little
way of sharing things silently. Noria follows her father’s
do they know that Taro survived and is still after them. In
footsteps even though there have been no female Tea
the verge of the crystal clear water, Noria sacrifices herself
Masters before. Noria has always been taught to believe,
to save Sanja and to ensure that the truth gets out with
that the tea ceremony purifies and cleanses the dirty water
her. In the end, Noria learns that knowledge and power are
bringing the people a moment of ease.
irrevocably connected – and that her choices will determine
the fate of everyone she loves.
But what she discovers from her father upon graduating is
P.4
that the clean water in the ceremony actually comes from
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Dren ZHERKA I Germany I Screenwriter, Director "Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
Friedrich Schiller, Poet
Dren Zherka (1980, Kosovo) gathered his first experience in film at with each other Uwe is evasive about her being selected on
home in Kosovo working in film production companies mainly produc- the scholarship as he would like to keep her in Prishtina and
ing short films, music videos, documentaries and advertisement, is afraid of her being so close to his family in Germany. Her
where he went through a lot of roles in the set, from location scout to Albanian professor from whom she also needs a good grade
production assistant. and a recommendation makes sexual advances on her as
exchange for the grade. Edona feels she needs this
In 2003 he moved to New York, where he was involved in creat- scholarship to get out of the country and just escape this
ing independent videos, short films, and documentaries especially quicksand she finds herself sinking deeper, away from these
concentrating in the Albanian community there. In 2007 he moved to strings that are pulling up tighter around her.
Berlin, Germany that he now calls home, and has studied in Filmarche,
a filmmaking network and self-organized school, besides studying Coming from a religious conservative family in the rural
Ethnology in Humboldt University. In 2016 he directed his debut province that still try to control and pry on her life univer-
feature “Eho”, that went to premiere in Montreal World Film Festival sity is a way of liberation for her. Now also her brother, a
and win Silver Zenith in First Films Category as well as participate in fundamentalist Muslim is returning home and trying to stop
other festivals. her from studying and lock her at home. The ex-soldier that
keeps calling her is deep in depression and she can’t help
him besides listening to him. One night when the line gets
HOTLINE (Synopsis) cut between them because of a power outage, she is certain
Edona (22), a young student of psychology in the aftermath she has lost him. She leaves the hotline project the next day
of war is confronted with the traumas of a post-war society and intends to leave the country.
in a university training program for a new crisis hotline.
An anonymous former rebel army soldier creates a special Being caught in this web spanned from the men all around
telephonic bond with Edona in his insomniac suicidal agony, her, she needs the scholarship and she intends to get it by
which reflects the wounds that are still scarring the social any means. She blackmails Prof. Hasan to get the grade
fabric around Edona’s world. Edona’s cold and distant rela- and after her brother is chasing her around Prishtina in
tion to the war transforms into a feeble affection for one order to lock her back home he confronts and threatens her
wounded fragile man that talks to her in contrast to the and Uwe as they are leaving for Ohrid where they are to
other self-righteous men she is surrounded by. talk about Uwe’s selection for the scholarship before he flies
home for holidays. After a night where she realizes Uwe
She has to navigate her will through sexism and the sub- won’t be signing her into the selection, the next morning
ordinated position of women in a society dominated by the she menacingly remarks to him that if needed she would An old human dream becomes reality on August 10, 1888: The Wölfert engine-airship succeeds ©Mercedes-Benz Passion
traditional men’s mindset. She sways between a swelling threaten his position in his family and his institution to get in the world's first powered flight with an internal combustion engine.
rage that erupts in violent acts and the conformist apathy it. Uwe leaves for the airport as Edona stays behind with a
of the day-to-day reality. She is trapped in a vicious circle confirmation letter for her studies abroad while her past and
of relationships with men coming in the mold of her macho her country hovers like a storm in the background.
boyfriend and Uwe, an older German professor on the
international mission who is in charge of and decides the
participants in a newly established scholarship program for
continuing studies abroad in Germany. Being in relationship
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luisenpark and herzogenriedpark
recreation areas
Luisenpark is the ultimate relaxation and fun destination in Attractions
Mannheim for the entire family. Winding tree-lined walkways The park contains a number of amusements and gardens, including a
criss-cross through Luisenpark, known to be one of the Chinese garden, rose garden, arboretum, and greenhouses for display
loveliest parks in the continent. The park is punctuated with and for tree ferns.
fountains, colorful flower beds, several themed and adventure
playgrounds and exotic shrubs. It is also home to animals The Kutzerweiher (40,000 m²), a lake forming a side-channel (slough)
from all over the world, including everybody’s favorite – of the (old) Neckar river. Gondolettas, tow boat ride: boats pulled by
penguins! The Chinese Garden in this park boasts the largest an underwater rope, follow a 1,840 meter long looped course around
Chinese tea-house in Europe. the lake.
The Luisenpark (41 hectares) is a municipal park in Mannheim, An open-air stage with approximately 1,000 seats has offered since
whose attractions include a greenhouse, "gondoletta" boats, 2006 a place for concerts, operas, musical shows and plays.
and a variety of facilities for children. Along with the Her-
zogenriedpark (33 hectares; on the other side of the Neckar The Chinese garden (5,000 m²), Duojingyuan = garden of the many
river) it is operated by the non-profit Stadtpark Mannheim opinions, and its tea house were built in co-operation with Mannheim's
GmbH. Chinese twin city Zhenjiang (province Jiangsu), the Klaus Tschira chari-
table trust in Heidelberg, and the East Asia Institute (Ostasieninstitut)
The Luisenpark was built between 1892 and 1903. Conditions Ludwigshafen. The donation of 1,77 million Deutsche Mark (DM) from
for the ascent of the Luisenparks for supraregional meaning the estate of Diplom-Kaufmann George, provided the financial founda-
was the developing of the Luisenpark as well as the Herzo- tion for the garden and tea house.
genriedpark (to accomplish the Bundesgartenschau 1975). At
that time the park was extended to a size of 41 hectares by The Pflanzenschauhaus (2,700 m²), a greenhouse and exhibition
the inclusion of a former racecourse. garden, is located at the site of the Palmenhaus (palm house) which
was destroyed in the Second World War. It contains a butterfly house,
bird exhibits, as well as salt and fresh water aquariums.
Towering over the Luisenpark is a 205 meter high telecommunication
tower (Fernmeldeturm) with its rotating restaurant at 125 meters
above the ground.
The Spielwiese (2,700 m²), a large playground and leisure meadow,
located on the grounds of the original race track, borders on a model
farm with domestic animals enclosures, and a Chinese tea house
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