LES MAGNETIQUES
LES MAGNETIQUES
France, Germany I Fiction I 2021
Brittany, 1980s.
A bunch of friends yearning for excitement broadcast a free radio station from their hometown in the countryside. Jerome leads it with unique charisma while Philippe, the technical genius, lives in the shadow of Jerome, his big brother. When called for the military service, Philippe has no choice but to leave for West Berlin. He’s determined to keep on broadcasting, but realizes that he just lived the last glorious moments of a world on the verge of extinction.
Fotos Credit: © Céline Nieszawer
Production: Srab Films, Easy Tiger I FR, Elemag Pictures I DE in Co-Production with Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH
Director: Vincent Cardona
Screenplay: Romain Compiingt, Chloé Larouchi, Maël Le Garrec, Catherine Paillé, Rose Philippon, Vincent Cardona
DoP: Brice Pancot
Editor: Flora Volpeliere
Art Director: Marion Burger / Uli Friedrichs (Art Director)
Costumes: Gwendoline Grandjean
Make-Up: Claudia Goetz
Distribution Germany: Port au Prince Pictures GmbH
World Sales: Indiesales
With the support of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, FFA CNC Mini-Traitè, DFFF
ANOTHER REALITY
ANOTHER REALITY
ANOTHER REALITY is a character-driven documentary which provides a real insight into the life in parallel societies in Germany, ruled by Hip Hop music.
Production: Elemag Pictures I Germany
It’s US Media & 27KM I Germany
Cognito Films I Switzerland
Written and directed: Noël Dernesch & Olli Waldhauer
DoP: Friede Clausz
Editor: Gesa Jäger
Distribution Germany: Der Filmverleih
World Sales: Magnetfilm
In Co-Production with RBB, WDR, SRF / SRG SSR in collaboration with ARTE
Funded through
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
BKM
medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Zürcher Filmstiftung
Kulturfonds Suissimage
Audience Award DOK.Fest Munich 2019
La Semaine de la Critique Locarno International Filmfestival 2019
Special Award Editing Gesa Jäger Filmkunsttage Sachsen-Anhalt 2019
Youth Jury Award German Films Festival Nantes 2019
SLAVES
SLAVES
Documentary, 52 min
Germany / Russia
Director: YousifAl-Chalabi
Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Vlad Ketkovich, Borislav Chouchkov, Maria Chuprinskaya
Production: Elemag Pictures GmbH, Ethnofund Russia Co-Production: WDR, Guardian
All nations denounced slavery, but it still exists and flourishes in many countries. A slave costs about USD 300-400. Their life has a price and the price for a human being is even less than the latest smartphone.
ANNUAL RINGS
ANNUAL RINGS
short documentary, 30
Germany 2017
Director: Jens Becker
DoP: Peter Badel, Yoliswa von Dallwitz
Editor: Annett Ilijew
Music: Composing Anja Dolak
Sound: Antje Volkmann, Benjamin Frank
Producer: Tanja Georgieva
Production: Elemag Pictures GmbH
Partner: Kulturelle Filmförderung Mecklenburg e.V., Filmwerkstatt Kiel/FFHSH, Thüringer Staatskanzlei, DEFA-Stiftung
Some people's lives are as eventful as a good novel. 88-year-old Siegfried Wanka has lived such a life. He was a gambler, a notorious womaniser, always crossing lines. Wanka has always lived in the shadow of power, as an interpreter for Walter Ulbricht, agent leader of the Stasi in Vienna, party official, arms dealer, and profiteer. He never really cared about morality - it was always about survival In his life's novel, this short film recounts the preface. The story before it became history, of a 16-year-old who was almost shot dead on Sylt at the end of the war. Who sank with a minesweeper off the coast of Schleswig- Holstein and survived. Who was given a second chance at life and wanted to make good use of it. A refugee stranded in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, full of ambition to make something of himself.
THE SIXTH CONTINENT
THE SIXTH CONTINENT
documentary, 84 / 52
Germany, Italy
written and directed by Andreas Pichler
DoP: Susanne Schüle, Martin Rattini Editor: NelaMärki
Sound: Stefano Bernardi
Music Composer: Jan Tilman Schade
Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Valerio Moser, Borislav Chouchkov, Andreas Pichler Production: Elemag Pictures
Co-Producer: Miramonte Film, ORF, RAI Bozen
funded by Eurimages, MDM, IDM Südtirol, BKM, Amt für Film und Medien Südtirol Distributer Germany: REAL FICTION
Theatrical release South Tyrol January 2018 / Germany May 2018
The odd house on the outskirts of a small town has become a haven for survivors and castaways of all coloratura. A safe place and open experiment.
The „House of Solidarity“ is going to rack and ruin, but it is the beauty of the city of Brixen in South Tyrol at the edge of the forest. On taking a closer look, you discover something completely unexpected. Site not shrouded in mystery, but a highly colourful and lively biotope of extremely different destinies. Forty, fifty people live in this house. Thieves, the homeless and the jobless, addicts and refugees from half the world. Their biographies read like a collection of diverse life stories that have only one thing in common: they are all stranded, often failed in life. Here they find a temporary safe place home and live together.
This cannot work out well, said the residents wrongly over 10 years ago when the house of solidarity came alive. But the impressive social experiment was successful.
In the narrative time frame of few months, the documentary THE SIXTH CONTINENT is capturing the utopic moment in a very intimate and poetic manner, which is the peculiar thing about this place.
Soon, everything becomes very different in the house of solidarity. The missionary order that provided it, wants it back. The future is open.
SUMMER `45
SUMMER `45
Cease-fire - My summer in Dresden ’45 I Germany I non-fiction I 33 min
Written and directed by Hans-Dieter Grabe
DoP: Aldo Gugolz
Editor: Annett Illijew
Commissioning Editor: Udo Bremer, ZDF/3sat
The documentary director Hans-Dieter Grabe reflects on a year that was not only special but also dramatic for him.
"On April 17, my father, a colonel in the Luftwaffe, suddenly returned to us from one of the theatres of war. Shortly thereafter, howling sirens drove us and the other residents into the air-raid shelter. Then the longest air-raids to date began in Dresden. An aerial bomb missed our house by just a few metres, but a firebomb hit it. My father in his undone uniform jacket tried, in vain, to flag down a fire brigade in front of our burning house. We, however, were unhurt, my father was with us, and just three houses down we found shelter.
My parents didn't know what to think about the impending cease-fire. That, I couldn't understand. The weapons would be stopped, and I would no longer have to be afraid of bombs. Not a single shot was fired when soon thereafter the Red Army marched into Dresden. I saw how afraid the grown-ups were of the Russians. But I could also see the Russians' weariness. I liked their singing. The gardens around the ruins became playgrounds for us children. Stolen fruit filled our empty stomachs.
The Russians took my father. My mother and I hoped to find him behind bars in the Dresden prison. Then after many weeks a miracle occurred. My father was released for health reasons from the former Buchenwald concentration camp, which was now being used as a special camp for Soviet secret police. I learnt about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A single plane with a single bomb destroyed an entire city. What would have happened to us if there hadn't been a cease-fire?
A new school year began. The young teacher did not hit our fingers with a long ruler anymore. I loved her. And then when my summer of '45 was coming to an end I loved yet another young woman: a tightrope walker. She balanced from the Hofkirche steeple above the Elbe. Under her feet my parents and I stood in a tightly packed sea of people. All of us stared up holding our breath. We were spellbound not because we were afraid of bombers but because the truce had held after all."
VOLCANO
VOLCANO
fiction feature, 90 min
Ukraine/ Germany
Lukas, an interpreter for a military mission, gets lost near a remote Ukrainian village and stumbles from simple misadventure into the weirdest road trip of his life.
Director: Roman Bondarchuk
script: Alla Tyutyunnuk, Darya Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk DoP: Vadim Ilkov
Sound Design: Borys Peter
Music Composer: Anton Baibakov
Production Design: Kirill Shuvalov
Editor: Mykola Bazarkin, Heike Parplies
Colour Correction and VFX: ARRI Media Halle
Producer: Olena Yershova
Co-Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Michel Merkt, Darya Averchenko Production: Tatofilm
Co-Production: Elemag Pictures, KNM, SOUTH
Partner: Ukrainian State Film Agency and Mitteldeutscher Medienförderung.
TAILOR / DER HOCHZEITSSCHNEIDER VON ATHEN
TAILOR / DER HOCHZEITSSCHNEIDER VON ATHEN
fiction feature, 90 min
Greece, Germany, Belgium
Nikos, an excellent tailor, sees his life collapsing. His daughter has turned his back on him, his father is sick and needs money for his care and their sewing workshop is on the brink of bankruptcy. He then has the idea of going to his customers since his customers no longer come to him. He launches an itinerant workshop which quickly becomes the attraction of the popular districts of Athens. It turns out to be THE wedding dress specialist. Life finally seems to smile again when he learns that the family workshop will be seized. Moreover, his traveling workshop is destroyed by the jealous husband of his neighbor who helps her to make the ordered clothes. And it is by making the wedding dress of his daughter, who will find a meaning to his life.
Director: Sonia Liza Kentermann
Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa
Co-Producer: Tanja Georgieva, Melanie Andernach, Isabelle Truc
Production: BLONDE audiovisual productions, Elemag Pictures, Made in Germany Filmproduktion, Iota Production
Partner: Eurimages, ERT, Griechisches Filmcenter, Creative Europe, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles
World Sales: Plutofilm
Distributer Germany: Neue Visionen Filmverleih
LES MAGNETIQUES
ANOTHER REALITY
SLAVES
ANNUAL RINGS
THE SIXTH CONTINENT
SUMMER `45
VOLCANO
TAILOR / DER HOCHZEITSSCHNEIDER VON ATHEN
WE WERE PITMEN
WE WERE PITMEN
Germany, Switzerland I non-fiction
In times of society conflicts around clima change and gender identities, several men and one woman embark on a tragic and humorous journey to begin a new chapter in their lives, triggered by the closure of of their gloomy workplace: the last German underground coal mine.
Production: Elemag Pictures I Germany in Co-Production with Cognito Films I Switzerland
In co-production with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, SRG and with the support of MDM, BKM, DFFF, BAK (Schweiz) and Stiftung Zentralschweiz
written and directed by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
THE ANATOLIAN LEOPARD
THE ANATOLIAN LEOPARD
Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Poland I Fiction I 2020
Fikret is the director of the country's oldest zoo, which is supposed to go private. There is only one final obstacle on the way to privatisation: the zoo's oldest denizen, an Anatolian Leopard protected by law as "an endangered species.”
Production:
Tato Film I Turkey in Co-Production with Elemag Pictures I Germany, Adomeit Film I Denmark and Donte&Lacroix I Poland
written and directed: Emre Kyis
DoP: Nick Cooke
World Sales: LuxBox
With the support of Mitteldeutschen Medienförderung
Fotos Credit: Adam Ciereszko
INVISIBLE TO THE EYE
INVISIBLE TO THE EYE
Turkey, Germany I experimental I non-fiction I 84 min I 2020
The same route after three and a half centuries... A creative documentary following the footsteps of the Ottoman-Armenian intellectual and traveler Eremya Celebi Komurciyan into the cosmopolitan Istanbul of the 17th century. Long before the invention of cinema, Komurciyan situates himself as a subject who observes the city of Istanbul as if he had a camera in hand. Borrowing Komurciyan’s timeless cine-eye, we delve into contemporary Istanbul to capture what is “inaccessible to the human eye” through the remnants of his route.
Fenafilm I Turkey in Co-Production with Elemag Pictures I Germany
written and directed: Zeynep Dadak Camera: Florent Herry
Music: Erdem Helvacioglu
With the support of medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
WE WERE PITMEN
THE ANATOLIAN LEOPARD
INVISIBLE TO THE EYE
THE JEWISH GIRL
THE JEWISH GIRL
Germany, Israel, Bulgaria I fiction
Based on a true story
Sofia 1943. Christo, a local bar owner, is determined to save a wounded 16-year-old Jewish girl, who jumped off the train from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, after stabbing a Nazi officer to death. Meanwhile, he develops an intimate relationship with the Jewish psychiatrist treating his wife in a mental sanatorium. An SS officer is coming to Sofia to find the Jewish Girl.
Written and directed by Sharon Bar-Ziv
Project Development supported by MDM
THE JEWISH GIRL
COMPLETED
IN PRODUCTION
IN DEVELOPMENT
Tanja Georgieva-Waldbauer
Producer
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