New German Cinema: The Berlin School
New German Cinema: The Berlin School
- Date
- Feb 10th 2014
- With
- Rajendra Roy, Christian Petzold, Maren Ade, Christoph Gröner, Benjamin Heisenberg
Many of the acclaimed German art house films that have made the festival rounds in recent years have the distinctive characteristics of the Berlin School. This movement has been associated with intimate characterdriven dramas such as Christian Petzold‘s The State I Am In and Barbara. Petzold is joined by fellow filmmakers Benjamin Heisenberg (Superegos) and Maren Ade (Everyone Else) to imdiscuss their award-winning work in the context of the movement. Rajendra Roy, Chief Curator of Film at MoMA, who co-curated a Berlin School programme in New York, will join them.
Rajendra Roy
Rajendra Roy is the chief curator of film at MoMA New York, where he manages a collection of over 30,000 works and has created exhibitions on Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders and Julia Reichert. He co-authored the book “The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule”. He is a member of the selection committee for New Directors/New Films, presented with Film at Lincoln Center. In addition, he serves on the National Film Preservation Board, and co-chairs the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences International Film Award Executive Committee.
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Christian Petzold
Christian Petzold is one of the most distinguished directors of contemporary German cinema. His cinema debut “The State I am In” (2000) was invited to the Venice Film Festival and won the German Film Award. After “Wolfsburg” screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2003, he was selected for the Competition for the first time in 2005 with “Ghosts.” Five more Competition entries followed. In 2012, he was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director for “Barbara,” and in 2023, “Afire” received the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
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Maren Ade
Maren Ade studied production and feature film direction at the HFF Munich. In 1999, she co-founded Komplizen Film with Janine Jackowski. EVERYONE ELSE premiered at Berlinale 2009 and was awarded the Silver Bears for Jury Grand Prix and Best Actress for Birgit Minichmayr. TONI ERDMANN celebrated its world premiere in competition at Cannes 2016 and won the International Critics' Award and FIPRESCI Grand Prix, European and German Film Awards, was nominated for a Golden Globe, César, BAFTA and an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Christoph Gröner
Christopher Gröner is a film festival programmer and film journalist who has written for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt and the trade magazine Blickpunkt: Film, among others. He is a programmer for Filmfest München, where he handles the New German Cinema section and other world premieres. Additionally, he works as a competition programmer for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and is a consultant on German-speaking regions for the Zurich Film Festival.
Benjamin Heisenberg
German director, screenwriter and artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Television and Film Munich. In 1998 he was co-founder and remains co-editor and co-publisher of the German film magazine Revolver. His feature films include SLEEPER (2005), THE ROBBER (2010), which premiered in the Berlinale Competition in 2010, and SUPEREGOS (2014), which can be seen in the Berlinale Panorama in 2014. His projects in development are titled “Noricum” and “Quartett”.