"Summer in Berlin", Autumn in Toronto
Summer in Berlin (Sommer vorn Balkon), by Andreas Dresen will represent Germany in its world premiere in the main section ('Contemporary World Cinema') of the non-competitive 30th Toronto International Film Festival (8-17 September 2005. This comedy, produced by Peter Rommel Productions and X Filme Creative Pool and distributed by X-Verleih (from 1/5/2006), portrays two female friends who chat the sultry Summer away on the balcony of their building, in the East of Berlin. Their punchy, slightly laconic, conversations about their joys and sorrows come from the pen of the scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Solo Sunny).
The documentary section ('Real to Reel') will screen Into Great Silence (Die grosse Stille), directed and produced by Philip Groening. This film about the daily monastic life at the Grande Chartreuse, co-produced by Bavaria Film and Ventura Film and distributed by X-Verleih, will also be seen in Venice, in the 'Horizons' sidebar. Three German productions have also been selected to be screened in Toronto: Half Moon for Margaret (Halbmond für Margaret) and India, by Ute Aurand, as well as Album, by Mattias Müller.
About fifteen co-productions are in the programme: Battle in Heaven, by Carlos Reygadas, Dear Wendy, by Thomas Vinterberg, Paradise Now, by Hany Abu-Assad, Shooting Dogs, by Michael Caton-Jones, and Something like Happiness, by the Czech director Bohdan Sláma ('Contemporary World Cinema' section); Workingman's Death, by Michael Glawogger ('Real to Reel'); L’annulaire, by Diane Bertrand, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, by the Quay Brothers, and Fallen, by Fred Kelemen ('Visions'); Manderlay, by Lars von Trier, Hidden, by Michael Haneke, and Obaba, by Montxo Armendáriz ('Masters'); Fateless by Lajos Koltai, and The Matador by Richard Shepard ('Special Presentations').
(Translated from French)
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