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Gone are the days when the prophet had no voice in his home country – when German films only succeeded and won festival awards abroad. Gone are the days when the thought-heavy, leaden works of art of German directors were considered box-office poison. In 2008, domestic productions secured a piece of almost 27% of Germany’s cinema cake. And German film makers not only defy Hollywood when it comes to blockbusters – a filmscape of special quality and originality also grows in the shadows. exground filmfest honours this fact with its new program "Neues aus Deutschland (Germany brand new").
DESPERADOS ON THE BLOCK by Tomasz Emil Rudzik, an episodic film about three foreign students in Munich, will open the festival. FLIEGEN by Piotr J. Lewandowski, MORUK by Serdal Karaça, and JEDEM DAS SEINE by Stefan Schaller, also deal with the subject of migration. Also represented: Thomas Sieben with his nightmarish thriller DISTANZ and Jörg Buttgereit and Thilo Gosejohann with their vampyre-trash comedy CAPTAIN BERLIN VERSUS HITLER. Another guest is Jochen Hick with THE GOOD AMERICAN – a portrait of gay icon Tom Weise which opens the strong documentary program: DIE ANWÄLTE - EINE DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTE by Birgit Schulz about the RAF lawyers Schily, Ströbele, and Mahler, EIN TRAUM IN ERDBEERFOLIE by Marco Wilms about underground fashion in the GDR of the 80s, and DIE B KLASSE - PIONIERE DER LETZTEN STUNDE from East Berlin by Maren Erdmann. Unusual insights into far-away worlds are offered byKLEINE WÖLFE by Justin Peach about street kids in Katmandu as well as MANENÉ by Maité Delcourt and Christoph Lemmen about Indios in Panama’s rain forest. Hollywood is represented as well – with WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE - DORIS DAY SUPERSTAR by Andrew Davies and
André Schäfer.
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