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RELEASES Germany

Funny families

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- The German public can this week discover the family road movie Life Is Not For Cowards and the thriller Bastard, in which Martina Gedeck investigates the sequestration of a child by his parents

André Erkau, the director of Complètement givrés (2011) and co-author of Mann tut was Mann kann [+see also:
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 by Marc Rothemund, this weeks presents the German public with his new film, Life Is Not For Cowards [+see also:
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. This title produced by the company from Hamburg Riva Filmproduktion with Danish partners and distributed by NFP sees an adolescent shaken by the accidental death of her mother take off with a boy who has left school. As she wanders over to Denmark, the rest of her family (that is her father, grandmother and the latter’s nurse) go after her. 

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W-Film launches the thriller Bastard [+see also:
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by Carsten Unger, in which a psychologist working for the judiciary police and played by Martina Gedeck investigates the disappearance of a young boy (photo). Alerted by the many contradictions in the parents’ testimony, she is certain that they are hiding something. A video of the sequestered and tied up boy as well as the strange behaviour of his two school friends will confirm her horrific suspicions. Bastard is a Gifted Films and Maranto Films production.

Three German documentaries are also scheduled for release: You Drive Me Crazy [+see also:
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 by Andrea Thiele, a German-French coproduction in which three young expats in three different areas of the world have to retake their driving licence (distr. RealFiction); the collective film Die Nordsee – Unser Meer (Polyband); Woodstock in Timbuktu by Désirée von Trotha (BraveHearts). Neue Visionen bets on the Dutch documentary I Am a Woman Now [+see also:
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by Michiel van Erp, in which elderly transsexuals tell stories about the years that followed their surgery.

It is also worth mentioning the successful Spanish-Canadian horror movie Mama [+see also:
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by Andres Muschietti (Universal), the British comedy  I Give It a Year [+see also:
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by Dan Mazer (StudioCanal) and the Franco-Belgian-Estonian movie Une Estonienne à Paris [+see also:
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by Ilmar Raag, with Jeanne Moreau (Arsenal).

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(Translated from French)

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