German talent from Berlin Alexanderplatz, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo and more talk about the impact of the production boom and content diversification (Video)

As the European Film Market kicks off next week, Deadline got together with four top German talents yesterday to talk about the most important topics of the German film and television industry at an industry event Encountering German Films 2022: The Filmmakersin collaboration with German Films.

The actor Welket Bungué joined us, who already in Alexanderplatz in Berlin and that of David Cronenberg crimes of the future, The you case director-actor-writer Alison Kuhn, Our children from Bahnhof Zoo Actors Lena Urzendowsky and Reza Memari, writer and director of the upcoming cartoon The Last Whale Singer.

“Many people are interested in telling stories from a very specific point of view, which led me to the conclusion that German cinema and the German industry has room for many more people, whether creative or technical, coming to the country to collaborate to work. come. Bungué told Deadline on the panel.

He added that the content boom has raised the bar for creatives. “During the pandemic we had to reinvent ourselves as an industry and I can say the quality standards and audience are broader than what we are used to.”

Kuhn said she has noticed trends in the market that are making platforms more open to alternative storylines that would not have been considered just a few years ago.

“I think society has changed so much and the film industry follows that change. I think many films that I myself have seen or made would not have found a platform a few years ago, for example films about abuse of power and films about sexuality,” she said. “I feel like there’s been a lot of openness in the film industry for new themes in the last few years, so it’s actually a really good starting point for a young filmmaker in the industry.”

For Urzendowsky, she is also encouraged by the openness of the German market and hopes it will get her involved in more projects that can have a greater social impact.

“I think it’s important for me to see films, but also to be part of films that leave a lasting impression on the viewer, because through films, whether good fiction or documentaries, I really see the opportunity or power, our behavior to change or the way we think,” she said. “That’s why I think art is such a platform to create lasting, systemic change.”

Memari, whose company Telescope Animation uses real-time animation produced by Unreal Engine, shed light on the experience and how the rendering engine is boosting the animation industry and increasing the quality of animated films.

“We can do much more with our time than we used to,” he says, referring to the technology. “We’re raising the quality.”