KINO: The German Film Magazine

Film history at the Berlin International Film Festival: the documentary Reverse Angle looks back at the young German cinema of the nineteen-sixties and seventies.
Cherry Blossoms and a Heart of Fire -- German Films in the International Competition


German director Doris Dörrie presents her latest film at this year's Berlinale. CHERRY BLOSSOMS -- HANAMI is a very personal story that is also being published as a novel. Doris Dörrie has already won the Bavarian Film Prize; now CHERRY BLOSSOMS -- HANAMI is going up against films from around the world in competition for the Golden Bear. The second German film in the running is HEART OF FIRE, the film version of the controversial story of Senait Mehari, a former child soldier in Eritrea, now a pop singer in Germany. KINO reports on both German films in competition and on the winners. Hannah Herzsprung -- Germany's Shooting Star 2008


She's one of the new faces in German cinema and European film: Hannah Herzsprung has been chosen as a Shooting Star 2008 along with eight other actors. Her breakthrough came with the prize-winning film FOUR MINUTES. During the Berlinale, Hannah Herzsprung and her fellow actors will not only be presented with the Shooting Star Awards at a glitzy ceremony, they'll also be introduced to international casting agents and the press. We meet the German Shooting Star in Berlin.Generation 14plus -- Love, Peace & Beatbox


The Berlinale section Generation presents fresh cinema for a younger audience -- and its success is growing. Last year. Some 50,000 people watched both short and feature-length films from around the world. Now documentaries are also being shown. LOVE, PEACE & BEATBOX presents a group of Berlin teenagers who beatbox, a genre of hip-hop produced solely with the mouth. Their message is one of non-violence. KINO looks at a documentary about an unusual music project.Reverse Angle -- Rebellion of the Filmmakers


They're the icons of German Cinema: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders. Their films represent the young, rebellious cinema of Germany's post-Adenauer era. The documentary REVERSE ANGLE -- REBELLION OF THE FILMMAKERS illuminates the story of an unusual auteur' collective, from its beginnings in Munich through success in Cannes to the group's split in 1977. KINO looks at a fascinating piece of German cinema history.New German Cinema -- Then and Now


Ute Soldierer interviews Alfred Holighaus, head of Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.Perspektive Deutsches Kino -- Looking at the Painful Parts


Culture clash, violence, a search for support -- these are the topics concerning young German directors showing their first films in the Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. KINO presents an unusual feature film project: BERLIN -- 1ST OF MAY. An eleven-year-old Turkish boy, two teenagers from western Germany and a cuckolded policeman -- each finds himself in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on May Day, where emotions traditionally run high. The three directing teams shot their stories on location in Berlin on May Day -- reality in the midst of a fiction film.

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[vita787]

SENAIT SAN,

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING, KEEP IT UP!

Even on Japan you have support.

[moose13666]

Senait, habe keine Gefühle oder Tränen für diese negativen Menschen, gegen Dummheit gibt es kein Heilmittel - leider.

Wir warten auf Dein nächstes Buch und CD!

[justmillio]

I thought ''heart of fire'' writers and directors should call it a novel not a true story, otherwise people like me who briefly know the policy of Eritrean war for independence on child soldier could hardly believe any film headed ''based on true story''. The writter should be brought to justice for fabrication this story at the expense on our beloved country and bravely achieved independence. Senait stick to your mom's nationality, then Eritrean may forgive you.

[justmillio]

This film is disgrace, baseless, owful and any body accepting this as a film could only be Eritrean hater or know nothing about eritrean liberation struggle. Any body who knows least about the struggle should know this ''KUNTAL BELIEKA MISAE'' means go and eat one more kuntal of food. emphasizing you are so young. This happened to me at the age of 15 when i went to join the military. No way you would be accepted and if forced like Senait's horror dream You would be sent to School.

[SappyJuice]

kommt sie aus England oder tut sie nur so?

[bier13666]

Senait - we love you, I know what we would do to your enamy in the netherlands...

[chees13666]

Mrs. Mehari, God prevail your honesty