With actor/screenwriter Tucké Royale in attendance

The German Film Office is pleased to present a screening of the award-winning film Neubau (2020) by Johannes Maria Schmit, followed by a Q&A with lead actor and screenwriter Tucké Royale. Please register to attend.

Summer in Brandenburg: Markus works on an ostrich farm and cares for his grandmother, who has dementia. He spends his time daydreaming about Berlin, torn between his family responsibilities and his desire for the freedom and queer glamour of city life. When he finally makes up his mind and starts packing, Duc shows up.
“[Neubau trusts] the soft course between opposites and maintains the tension between the desire to arrive and the painful longing for departure until the very end.”—Cosima Lutz, Filmdienst

Neubau won Best Feature Film and the Social Interest Film Award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2020. Johannes Maria Schmit received a German Film Critics Award for Best Feature Debut in 2021.

Neubau – Ein Heimatfilm
Dir. Johannes Maria Schmit
Germany, 2020
81 minutes
With Tucké Royale, Monika Zimmering, Jalda Rebling, Minh Duc Pham
 

About the filmmakers

Tucké Royale works as an author, director, dramaturge, actor and musician for feature and documentary films as well as theater and radio plays. He studied puppetry at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Royale is a member of the European Film Academy, the Kooperative für Text & Regie, and a co-initiator of the #actout campaign. His debut film Neubau, for which he wrote the screenplay and in which he played the leading role, was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize, the Social Interest Film Award, the German Film Critics Award and the Braunschweig Film Prize. The radio play The Revolution Will Be Injected was named Radio Play of the Month and received the Jacques Matthey Doret Award from the 33rd International Radio and Television Union. The radio play Mit Dolores habt ihr nicht gerechnet (“You Didn’t Count with Dolores”) was also Radio Play of the Month and is currently nominated for the Prix Europa. Royale teaches as a visiting professor for creative writing at the University of Television and Film in Munich. He is currently writing his new screenplay Alman hesabı – Getrennte Rechnung (“Alman hesabı – Separate Bill”), which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
 
Arno Mokros is a queer/trans film producer and arts organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. He is co-founder and co-director of UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org), a nonprofit that gives time, space, and money to filmmakers at under-resourced career stages. UFO’s programs include an 18-month Short Film Lab for early-career directors hosted at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), feature filmmaker residencies, and other partnership-driven initiatives to cultivate a more robust filmmaker support ecosystem. He also coordinates NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant for emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers and regularly serves on selection committees for grants and artist opportunities. As independent producer, his work focuses on queer and trans stories, and he regularly serves as a consulting producer and creative advisor to early-career filmmakers working on narrative, documentary, and hybrid films.