FSFF 2018
He is considered to be the primordial rock of Bavarian film, the powerhouse on stage and in film. Josef Bierbichler is one of the prominent guests of honour at the 12th Five Lakes Film Festival. Two evenings are scheduled for interviews and film screenings with the great human actor, author and director. In addition to Bierbichler's current film "Zwei Herren im Anzug", "Winterreise" and "Hierankl" by Hans Steinbichler, "Servus Bayern" by Herbert Achternbusch and "Winterschläfer" by Tom Tykwer will also be shown. From the 6th until the 15th of September 2018, the 12th Five Lakes Film Festival will be held as the "International Festival of Central European Film". The main theme this year is set to be "Time". From the 26th of July until the 15th of August, two open airs invite you to a cinema experience in Starnberg and Wörthsee directly at the lake.
In cinema Josef Bierbichler has played patriarchs, strict fathers, farmers or entrepreneurs. In "Zwei Herren im Anzug", his current work, in which he also directs, he includes motifs from his own novel "Mittelreich". The FAZ described the film as an "After Herbert Achternbusch bomb strike". On the celebration of his 70th birthday, Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director and director at the Schaubühne Berlin, honoured Sepp Bierbichler in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "I bow before you. For your attitude, for your anger about the injustice of the world, for your language, with which you try to counter this injustice. And for your ability to be empathetic."
The actor, who was born and still lives at Lake Starnberg, will read from his autobiographical novel "Mittelreich" at the 12th Five Lakes Film Festival and present his new film "Zwei Herren im Anzug" in a conversation with Matthias Helwig. Guests are expected to attend the other films being presented at the festival, "Winterreise" and "Hierankl (both directed by Hans Steinbichler), "Servus Bayern" (Herbert Achternbusch), Das weiße Band" (Michael Haneke) and "Winterschläfer" (Tom Tykwer). In 2007 Bierbichler was awarded the German Film Prize Lola for Best Actor in "Winterreise".
The 12th Five Lakes Film Festival - this year with new dates from the 6th until the 15th September - is once again offering an opulent programme and inviting you to an outstanding festival of films with prominent guests, famous filmmakers and young savages. Around 120 films in world premieres, German premieres and South German premieres with exhibitions, discussions and discussions will be shown in more than 300 performances on 11 screens in the venues Starnberg, Gauting, Seefeld Castle and Weßling. Directors, producers, authors and actors present their latest works. The legendary evening circumnavigation of Lake Starnberg with open-air short film award ceremony will take place on September 11, 2018. Film enjoyment and midsummer flair: From the 26th July until the 15th of August 2018 two open airs in Starnberg and Wörthsee invite you to an open-air cinema experience directly at the lake.
This year the motto of the film festival is "Time", in 2019 it will be "Space" and in 2020 "Movement", causal themes of the medium film. Festival director Matthias Helwig: "Time is a big issue in our fast-moving society. The time we lack, the time we need, the time we have. Time that expands and time that shortens to a moment. All this depicted in film, in the rhythm of the editing or in the length of the formats short film, feature film, epic or series."
Since 2006 the Five Lakes Film Festival has been taking place in one of the most beautiful regions of Germany in the Fünfseenland in the south of Munich. The focus is on feature, documentary and short films with a focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol (DACHS). The promotion of young filmmakers and the anchoring of contemporary films in film history (retrospective) and in society (horizons) are fixed components of the festival. At "Fokus Drehbuch" (Focus Script), well-known filmmakers discuss current and explosive industry topics.
Within a very short time the FSFF has developed into one of the largest and most renowned film festivals in Southern Germany and will take place - on from 2018 - on nine screens in the venues in Starnberg, Gauting and Schloss Seefeld.
Festival director Matthias Helwig has caused a sensation in the German cinema landscape for over 30 years with his wide-screen cinemas Gauting, Starnberg and Schloss Seefeld und Herrsching: his cinemas have received well over 100 awards for their outstanding programme and have already been voted "Germany's best cinema" twice.
The guests of honour range from Michael Ballhaus, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Edgar Reitz, Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders in the first years to István Szabó and Eva Mattes last year. Tom Tykwer, Martina Gedeck, Florian David Fitz, Karl Markovics, Ulrich Tukur, Hannelore Elsner, Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Schipper and many more came to the numerous film discussions at the lake, the series Focus Script and Competition Films.
