Toronto loves (Dusseldorf composer) Volker Bertelmann and Bertelmann loves Toronto (and will be back soon). We talked to him when he was presenting his latest film One Life starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter at TIFF23. Next up for Bertelmann: Reuniting with London-based German director Edward Berger after their collaboration on All Quiet On The Western Front with the thriller Conclave, already in post-production. The Robert Harris adaptation stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow.
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Tuesday, September 19. 2023
3 Q for Oscar winner Volker Bertelmann
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Friday, September 15. 2023
GOETHE FILMS launches with Akin's Rheingold Oct 3 (win tix)

GOETHE FILMS @ TIFF Lightbox
3+5+10 October 2023
The genre of music films is as diverse and inventive as music itself, from culture-defining docs (Buena Vista Social Club) and cult musicals (The Sound of Music) to biopics and concert films. GOETHE FILMS spins three recent fiction films that take us on wild sonic rides, driven by characters engrossed in their aural worlds. Based on real events, Fatih Akin’s latest drama Rheingold pours the musical (and treasure hunting) exploits of German-Syrian gangster rapper Xatar into a hard-hitting international political thriller on a Wagnerian scale. The indie hit Orphea in Love flips gender on the Orpheus saga by following talented young opera singer Nele as her new love and musical dreams are threatened by her past. Leif in Concert mixes tunes and togetherness in a neighbourhood bar into a joyful reflection of life. From jazz to rap to an opera-of-sorts, the series Definitely Not the Opera invites viewers to immerse themselves in new sounds, with charismatic protagonists for whom music is passion and calling, lifeline and salvation. Continue reading "GOETHE FILMS launches with Akin's Rheingold Oct..." »
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Tuesday, September 12. 2023
#TIFF23 GOETHE FILM BRUNCH
The highlight of our year is hosting Canadian, German and international filmmakers, talent, producers and programmers at our Goethe Film Brunch during TIFF. Thank you everyone for coming, see you next September! 
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, at TIFF23 with the premiere of his latest film Seven Veils, in conversation
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Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, at TIFF23 with the premiere of his latest film Seven Veils, in conversation
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TIFF23: German Films on the Road

Perfect Days by Wim Wenders: Starting with the non-German "German film" at TIFF3. In the by the Dusseldorf veteran filmmaker of road movies like Alice in the Cities and previous Tokyo homages like Tokyo-Ga, we get to follow CAnnes Best Actor Koji Yakusho as a contented toilet cleaner as he drives (and in his off-time bikes) around Tokyo, showing us its highways but more so it's bars and bath houses. The jury is still out in how far Perfect Days is an evolution or departure from Wenders' earlier road movies, as an audience member wondered in the Q&A after the North American premiere (see photo). Continue reading "TIFF23: German Films on the Road" »
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Wednesday, August 30. 2023
TIFF TITLE THE TEACHERS‘ LOUNGE is Best International Oscar entry

Independent jury spokesperson Torsten Koch of the German Distributors Association commented on the choice:
"With THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE, the jury has chosen a highly topical, universal feature film that is impossible to resist. Continue reading "TIFF TITLE THE TEACHERS‘ LOUNGE is Best..." »
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Friday, August 18. 2023
German composers x TIFF

Often with three or more international productions in the works alongside his busy touring schedule as a sought-after live performer, my first thought when TIFF announces their line-up is "Let me check what Volker has in the festival." For the 48th TIFF, Bertelmann has scored James Hawes' world premiering UK drama One Life starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who helped rescue hundreds of children from Europe on the verge of the Second World War.
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Monday, August 14. 2023
GERMAN FILMS @ TIFF 2023

The drama NOT A WORD (KEIN WORT) by Hanna Slak will have its first screening in the Platform section. The German-Slovenian-French production follows the conductor Nina, who leads a structured life and pursues an ambitious artistic career. When her teenage son Lars has a strange accident at school, she decides to take time out from city life and together they head for her holiday home on the rugged Atlantic coast. Their already brittle relationship is further strained by their silence and unspoken emotions. The leading actress Maren Eggert (I’M YOUR MAN) will be in Toronto and present the film. Continue reading "GERMAN FILMS @ TIFF 2023" »
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12 German films submitted for the 96th Oscars

ANSELM by Wim Wenders
THE TEACHERS‘ LOUNGE by Ilker Çatak (at TIFF23)
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Thursday, July 13. 2023
Interview: Christian Petzold on Afire & upcoming projects

Jutta Brendemuhl: Dear Christian Petzold, you are in New York, I am in Toronto. What connects us both right now are the very near and threatening effects of massive forest fires. That's also the haunting background noise of your new film Roter Himmel (literally Red Sky), Afire – on the one hand a wonderfully breezy summer romance, on the other an eerie contemporary drama. Tell us how this came together for you as a writer: the love story against the backdrop of a literally life-threatening environment, the emotional and the real fire.
Christian Petzold: I thought we’ve had hundreds of years of summer stories – some tragic, some comedic, but they would always exist; there would always be people who on a summer day would try to become someone, and we watch them in that process. But standing in a burnt forest in Turkey, I had the feeling that maybe soon that would be gone, there might be no more summer films. If you have no more earth, no more forests, no more clearings and no more dreams and nights, then we have nothing to tell. Continue reading "Interview: Christian Petzold on Afire &..." »
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Wednesday, July 12. 2023
Jacqueline Nsiah Joins Berlinale Selection Committee

“I’m looking forward to working with Jacqueline, who will bring her curating experience and additional expertise on African film to the committee,” says Carlo Chatrian.
Jacqueline Nsiah holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin and a Bachelor’s degree in African Studies and Politics from SOAS – University of London and is a freelance curator. Continue reading "Jacqueline Nsiah Joins Berlinale Selection..." »
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