MK2 Films has boarded Bernhard Wenger’s feature debut, “Peacock,” a tragicomedy headlined by Albrecht Schuch, the German actor who starred in “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “System Crasher.”
An up-and-coming Austrian director, Wenger developed the script at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation residency and was part of Berlinale Talents in 2020. His shorts, including “Keeping Balance,” “Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain” and “Excuse Me, I’m Looking for the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend,” have played at festivals in Chicago, Palm Springs and Nashville, among others.
MK2 Films’ team, spearheaded by Fionnuala Jamison, is kicking off sales on “Peacock” at the American Film Market. The project is being pitched as a “corrosive comedy” capturing “the essence of human relationships.”
“Peacock” tells the story Matthias who works at a rent-a-friend agency and finds it increasingly difficult to open up again and be authentic in his private life.
An up-and-coming Austrian director, Wenger developed the script at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation residency and was part of Berlinale Talents in 2020. His shorts, including “Keeping Balance,” “Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain” and “Excuse Me, I’m Looking for the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend,” have played at festivals in Chicago, Palm Springs and Nashville, among others.
MK2 Films’ team, spearheaded by Fionnuala Jamison, is kicking off sales on “Peacock” at the American Film Market. The project is being pitched as a “corrosive comedy” capturing “the essence of human relationships.”
“Peacock” tells the story Matthias who works at a rent-a-friend agency and finds it increasingly difficult to open up again and be authentic in his private life.
- 11/2/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Breaking the Ice Review Video — Breaking the Ice (2022) Video Movie Review, a movie directed and written by Clara Stern, and starring Alina Schaller, Judith Altenberger, Wolfgang Bock, Pia Herzegger, and Tobias Samuel Resch. Plot Synopsis Breaking the Ice‘s plot synopsis: “Breaking The Ice, a film that explores what happens when someone with a very [...]
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Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Breaking The Ice (2022): An Absorbing Movie that Works Best when its Scenes are off the Ice...
- 2/18/2023
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Fest focus on films by up-and-coming talent from Geman-speaking world.
Max Gleschinski’s Alaska won the top prize in the feature film competition at this year’s Filmfestival Max Ophüls, which was held in Saarbrücken on the German-French border from January 23-29.
Focusing on works by up-and-coming talent from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, the festival is considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world.
Rostock-based Gleschinski’s second feature centres on a 40-something woman who slowly finds her way back into life after nursing her father for 20 years, and falls in love with another woman.
The...
Max Gleschinski’s Alaska won the top prize in the feature film competition at this year’s Filmfestival Max Ophüls, which was held in Saarbrücken on the German-French border from January 23-29.
Focusing on works by up-and-coming talent from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, the festival is considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world.
Rostock-based Gleschinski’s second feature centres on a 40-something woman who slowly finds her way back into life after nursing her father for 20 years, and falls in love with another woman.
The...
- 1/31/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
From the very first shots in Clara Stern’s Breaking The Ice (a highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival) we are seized under the fast-moving spell of the Dragons, a Viennese women’s ice hockey team. Mira (Alina Schaller), the protagonist whose journey the film follows most closely, is the captain. Her family owns a vineyard where she works together with her mother and grandfather (Wolfgang Böck), whose dementia begins to creep into the fibre of everything.
The armour-like uniforms of the sport when shed in the locker room of the Dragons reveal an array of very different women. One of them, Theresa (Judith Altenberger), newly joined the team and from the start it is clear that not-yet-definable sparks are flying between her and Mira. Dynamics shift when one day Mira’s brother Paul (Tobias Samuel...
The armour-like uniforms of the sport when shed in the locker room of the Dragons reveal an array of very different women. One of them, Theresa (Judith Altenberger), newly joined the team and from the start it is clear that not-yet-definable sparks are flying between her and Mira. Dynamics shift when one day Mira’s brother Paul (Tobias Samuel...
- 7/15/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Clara Stern on Paul (Tobias Samuel Resch) on the bridge chasing after Theresa (Judith Altenberger) and Mira (Alina Schaller) in Breaking the Ice recalling François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim: “I noticed it while editing that we did that.” Photo: Johannes Hoss
Clara Stern’s Breaking The Ice, shot by Johannes Hoss with a score by Benedikt Palier and edited by Matthias Writze, stars Judith Altenberger Alina Schaller Tobias Samuel Resch, Pia Hierzegger (Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner), and Wolfgang Böck. It will be screened later this month in OutfestLA. The director discussed why she has a “big fascination with professional athletes,” her work with the composer and cinematographer, seeing in the editing a resemblance to a scene in François Truffaut’s Jules Et Jim, her Vienna Film Academy connection to Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert, Jessica Hausner, and Marie Kreutzer, where the Dragons come from, and a phone call to her grandmother.
Clara Stern’s Breaking The Ice, shot by Johannes Hoss with a score by Benedikt Palier and edited by Matthias Writze, stars Judith Altenberger Alina Schaller Tobias Samuel Resch, Pia Hierzegger (Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner), and Wolfgang Böck. It will be screened later this month in OutfestLA. The director discussed why she has a “big fascination with professional athletes,” her work with the composer and cinematographer, seeing in the editing a resemblance to a scene in François Truffaut’s Jules Et Jim, her Vienna Film Academy connection to Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert, Jessica Hausner, and Marie Kreutzer, where the Dragons come from, and a phone call to her grandmother.
- 7/15/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
By Abe Friedtanzer
Sports have historically created gendered environments defined by competition. As a result, they aren't always welcoming to those who don't fit fit neatly into the player mold. Clara Stern's Breaking the Ice is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be able to truly express yourself as the captain of a women's hockey team in Austria...
Sports have historically created gendered environments defined by competition. As a result, they aren't always welcoming to those who don't fit fit neatly into the player mold. Clara Stern's Breaking the Ice is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be able to truly express yourself as the captain of a women's hockey team in Austria...
- 6/22/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
Breaking the Ice Review — Breaking the Ice (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Clara Stern and starring Alina Schaller, Judith Altenberger, Wolfgang Bock, Pia Herzegger and Tobias Samuel Resch. Conventional sports movies have become mundane and are commonplace in American cinema. No matter how [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Breaking The Ice: Romantic Sports Drama is Better When it’s Off the Ice [Tribeca 2022]...
- 6/14/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
A minor but affecting character study about buried family trauma, Clara Stern’s feature-length narrative debut “Breaking the Ice” works well as both a sports drama — focusing on an Austrian minor-league women’s hockey team — and a romantic drama. While perhaps too contained within its protagonist’s point of view, Stern’s film is nevertheless an impressive debut.
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The film follows a mid-20s hockey player, Mira (Alina Schaller), as she goes about trying to balance her athletic career with her duties at her family’s vineyard.
Continue reading ‘Breaking the Ice’ Review: Clara Stern’s Ice Hockey Drama Is A Focused But Minor Character Study [Tribeca] at The Playlist.
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The film follows a mid-20s hockey player, Mira (Alina Schaller), as she goes about trying to balance her athletic career with her duties at her family’s vineyard.
Continue reading ‘Breaking the Ice’ Review: Clara Stern’s Ice Hockey Drama Is A Focused But Minor Character Study [Tribeca] at The Playlist.
- 6/12/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Stefan (Michael Pink), Simi (Nina Katlein), Claudia (Pia Hierzegger), and Filipp (Alexander Sladek) in Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner Photo: Gabriel Krajanek
Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner, a highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, has a modern day Hansel and Gretel feel. Philipp Otto Runge’s Juniper Tree (Von dem Machandelboom), a tale that inspired the Brothers Grimm stylistically, may come to mind, or movies such as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining or Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover while watching this story of food, desire, family, customs, and control unfold on the screen.
Peter Hengl with Anne-Katrin Titze on Hansel and Gretel: “I wanted to go for a certain timelessness and make it relatable for a modern audience.”
Simi (Nina Katlein) arrives in a remote part of Austria on the farm where her aunt Claudia lives with her son...
Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner, a highlight of the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, has a modern day Hansel and Gretel feel. Philipp Otto Runge’s Juniper Tree (Von dem Machandelboom), a tale that inspired the Brothers Grimm stylistically, may come to mind, or movies such as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining or Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover while watching this story of food, desire, family, customs, and control unfold on the screen.
Peter Hengl with Anne-Katrin Titze on Hansel and Gretel: “I wanted to go for a certain timelessness and make it relatable for a modern audience.”
Simi (Nina Katlein) arrives in a remote part of Austria on the farm where her aunt Claudia lives with her son...
- 6/11/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Clara Stern’s debut feature “Breaking the Ice,” a drama about the blossoming love between ice-hockey player Mira and her new teammate Theresa, has debuted its trailer. The film will have its world premiere Saturday in the Viewpoints section of the Tribeca Film Festival. Julien Razafindranaly at Films Boutique is handling world sales.
The Austrian film follows on from Stern’s prize-winning short film “Mathias,” about a transgender man’s struggle to find his place in the world. “Mathias” screened at more than 30 festivals, and won best short film at Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film in 2017, and the Austrian Academy Award for best short film in 2018.
Frédéric Boyer, Tribeca’s artistic director, commented: “She brings that same sensitivity to ‘Breaking the Ice,’ a film that explores what happens when someone with a very rigid approach to life meets their freewheeling opposite.”
Alina Schaller stars as Mira, the heir to an...
The Austrian film follows on from Stern’s prize-winning short film “Mathias,” about a transgender man’s struggle to find his place in the world. “Mathias” screened at more than 30 festivals, and won best short film at Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film in 2017, and the Austrian Academy Award for best short film in 2018.
Frédéric Boyer, Tribeca’s artistic director, commented: “She brings that same sensitivity to ‘Breaking the Ice,’ a film that explores what happens when someone with a very rigid approach to life meets their freewheeling opposite.”
Alina Schaller stars as Mira, the heir to an...
- 6/9/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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