BREAK UP MAN (Schlussmacher)
The Milwaukee Film Festival which runs September 26 – October 10, 2013, announced the entire film line-up of 240 films – 103 features and 137 shorts – from 44 different countries. The festival opens with the North American premiere of the German film BREAK UP MAN (Schlussmacher). BREAK UP MAN tells the very funny tale of Paul Voigt, a charming and ambitious professional who works for a ‘relationship break-up’ agency. A master at delivering bad news to husbands and wives on behalf of partners lacking the courage to say ‘it’s all over’. Paul is on the verge of a big promotion and seems to be staring at nothing less than a fabulously successful future. That is until he meets Toto, a needy and neurotic client who decides to cling to cool-and-calm Paul for dear life. Before long it’s Paul who needs counseling as his work performance nosedives and his romance with stunner Natalie heads in a similar direction.
The complete 2013 Milwaukee Film Festival line-up:
SPOTLIGHT FILMS:
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Break Up Man (Schlussmacher)
(Germany / 2012 / Director: Matthias Schweighöfer)
FESTIVAL CENTERPIECE
Earth feat. live accompaniment from Altos
(Ukraine / 1930 / Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Blood Brother
(USA / 2012 / Director: Steve Hoover)
After Tiller
(USA / 2012 / Directors: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson)
The Angels’ Share
(United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy / 2012 / Director: Ken Loach)
August: Osage County
(USA / 2013 / Director: John Wells)
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
(USA / 2013 / Director: Chiemi Karasawa)
Free the Mind
(Denmark, Finland / 2012 / Director: Phie Ambo)
The History of Future Folk
(USA / 2012 / Director: J. Anderson Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker)
SOMM
(USA / 2012 / Director: Jason Wise)
TRIBUTES
Notorious
(USA / 2009 / Director: George Tillman, Jr.)
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
(USA / 2013 / Director: George Tillman, Jr.)
Blow Out
(USA / 1981 / Director: Brian De Palma)
COMPETITION
12 O’Clock Boys
(USA / 2013 / Director: Lofty Nathan)
The Act of Killing
(Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Joshua Oppenheimer)
Beyond the Hills (Dupa Dealuri)
(Romania / 2012 / Director: Cristian Mungiu)
The Crash Reel
(USA / 2013 / Director: Lucy Walker)
Post Tenebras Lux
(Mexico, France, Germany, Netherlands / 2012 / Director: Carlos Reygadas)
Stories We Tell
(Canada / 2012 / Director: Sarah Polley)
Upstream Color
(USA / 2013 / Director: Shane Carruth)
War Witch (Rebelle)
(Canada / 2012 / Director: Kim Nguyen)
PASSPORT: GERMANY
Almanya, Welcome to Germany (Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland)
(Germany / 2011 / Director: Yasemin Samdereli)
Hannah Arendt
(Germany / 2012 / Director: Margarethe von Trotta)
Lore
(Australia, Germany, United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Cate Shortland)
Ludwig II
(Germany / 2012 / Directors: Marie Noëlle, Peter Sehr)
Oh Boy
(Germany / 2012 / Director: Jan Ole Gerster)
Oma & Bella
(Germany / 2012 / Director: Alexa Karolinski)
This Ain’t California
(Germany / 2012 / Director: Marten Persiel)
Wings of Desire
(Germany / 1987 / Director: Wim Wenders)
RATED K: FOR KIDS
The Land Before Time
(USA, Ireland / 1988 / Director: Don Bluth)
Taking Chances (Patatje Oorlog)
(Netherlands, Belgium / 2011 / Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk)
Wolf Children (Okami Kodomo No Ame To Yuki)
(Japan / 2012 / Director: Mamoru Hosoda)
Zarafa
(France, Belgium / 2012 / Directors: Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie)
Kids Shorts: Size Small
Aston’s Presents (Sweden / 2012 / Directors: Uzi Geffenblad, Lotta Geffenblad)
Choir Tour (Latvia / 2012 / Director: Edmunds Jansons)
Chopin’s Drawings (USA / 2011 / Director: Dorota Kobiela)
Eskimal (Mexico / 2011 / Director: Homero Ramirez Tena)
How Shammies Guessed (Latvia / 2012 / Director: Edmunds Jansons)
Kitten’s First Full Moon (USA / 2011 / Director: Gary McGivney)
Knuffle Bunny Free (USA / 2012 / Director: Karen Villarreal)
The Little Bird and the Leaf (Switzerland / 2012 / Director: Lena Von Döhren)
Mira’s Night (USA / 2011 / Director: Elyse Kelly)
A Tangled Tale (USA / 2013 / Director: Corrie Francis Parks)
Kids Shorts: Size Medium
Big Mouth (Canada / 2012 / Director: Andrea Dorfman)
Boris the Rat Dresses Warmly (Finland / 2012 / Directors: Kaisa Penttilä, Leena Jääskeläinen)
Chinti (Russia / 2012 / Director: Natalia Mirzoyan)
Colosse – A Wood Tale (USA / 2012 / Director: Yves Geleyn)
The Fox and the Chickadee (Canada / 2012 / Director: Evan Derushie)
Frog Weather (Germany / 2011 / Director: Pauline Kortmann)
Jonah and the Crab (USA / 2012 / Director: Laurel Cohen)
My First Spellbook (Scotland / 2011 / Director: Gavin Laing)
Paulie (USA / 2012 / Director: Andrew Nackman)
Shame and Glasses (Italy / 2013 / Director: Alessandro Riconda)
Wing (Denmark / 2011 / Directors: Asger Grevil, Mette Vestergaard Madsen)
Kids Shorts: Size Large
Bot (USA / 2010 / Director: Mustafa Lazkani)
Eyes on the Stars (USA / 2012 / Director: The Rauch Brothers)
A Girl Named Elastika (Canada / 2012 / Director: Guillaume Blanchet)
High Noon (Venezuela / 2013 / Director: Ivan Mazza)
I’m Going to Mum’s (New Zealand / 2012 / Director: Lauren Jackson)
Krake (Germany / 2012 / Director: Regina Welker)
The Maiden and the Princess (USA / 2011 / Director: Ali Scher)
Monster, Me (USA / 2013 / Director: Milt Klingensmith)
Song of the Spindle (USA / 2011 / Director: Drew Christie)
Sounds for Mazin (Netherlands / 2012 / Director: Ingrid Kamerling)
Turning a Corner (USA / 2012 / Director: David B. Levy)
CREAM CITY CINEMA
Billy Club
(USA / 2013 / Directors: Drew Rosas, Nick Sommer)
Date America
(USA / 2012 / Directors: Bob Murray, Amy Neuenschwander)
The Milwaukee Show
Before You (USA / 2013 / Director: Michael T. Vollmann)
Begong Ava, Begong Hele (USA / 2013 / Director: Heather Hass)
Cinders (USA / 2013 / Director: Andrew Gralton)
The Glitch (USA / 2013 / Director: Zijian Yan)
I Am (USA / 2013 / Director: Karim Raoul)
Love You Still (USA / 2013 / Director: Michael Viers)
Margaret Hue Would Like To Go To Mars. (USA / 2013 / Director: Anna Sampers)
Pluto and the Vessel (USA / 2013 / Director: Harrison Browning)
The Quiet City (USA / 2013 / Director: Brian McGuire)
Spectacle! (USA / 2013 / Directors: Andrew Swant, WC Tank, Erik Ljung, Kurt Raether, Carol Brandt)
USPS (USA / 2013 / Director: Jessica Farrell)
Within A Stone’s Throw (USA / 2013 / Director: Cecelia Condit)
The Milwaukee Youth Show
Alexander Copenhagen and the Key of Destiny (USA / 2012 / Director: Thomas Fleischmann)
Birth of a Dream (USA / 2013 / Director: Megan Sai Dogra)
Copycat (USA / 2013 / Director: Hudson Miller)
#DiseasesSpreadLikeRumors (USA / 2012 / Directors: Participants in Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee Programs)
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Flowers in Bloom (USA / 2013 / Director: Alejandra Salinas)
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Generation Empowered: The Dream is Now (USA / 2013 / Director: LaTonya Matlock)
How Geoffrey Broke His Glasses (USA / 2012 / Director: Jamie Mercado)
In The Mind (USA / 2013 / Director: Brian Mercado)
The Journey Home (USA / 2013 / Directors: Elizabeth Zingsheim, Mara Matovich)
Night of the Beanie Babies (USA / 2013 / Directors: Josh Frank, Ryan Coenen)
Pancakes (USA / 2013 / Director: Lauren Markey, Brian Ore)
Phone Wars (USA / 2012 / Director: Holly Kraemer, Kevin Salgado)
Poppin’ (USA / 2013 / Directors: Lauren Markey, Brian Ore)
Spider Dog (USA / 2013 / Directors: Gabriella Avila, Alexia Justo)
Sun Up,Sun Down (USA / 2013 / Director: Felicia McGowan)
Toytonic (USA / 2013 / Directors: Students from Audubon Technology and Communication Center)
Penelope
(USA / 2013 / Director: Brad Lichtenstein)
Sign Painters
(USA / 2013 / Directors: Faythe Levine, Sam Macon)
When the King Tilts
(USA / 2013 / Director: Drew Britton)
SOUND VISION
Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
(USA / 2013 / Director: Lily Keber)
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
(USA / 2012 / Director: Drew DeNicola)
Brothers Hypnotic
(USA / 2013 / Director: Reuben Atlas)
Enzo Avitabile Music Life
(Italy / 2012 / Director: Jonathan Demme)
The Girls in the Band
(USA / 2011 / Director: Judy Chaikin)
Muscle Shoals
(USA / 2012 / Director: Greg “Freddy” Camalier)
Narco Cultura
(USA / 2012 / Director: Shaul Schwarz)
Stop Making Sense
(USA / 1984 / Director: Jonathan Demme)
CINEMA HOOLIGANTE
100 Bloody Acres
(Australia / 2012 / Directors: Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes)
2001: A Space Odyssey
(USA, United Kingdom / 1968 / Director: Stanley Kubrick)
Enter the Dragon
(USA, Hong Kong / 1973 / Director: Robert Clouse)
Here Comes the Devil
(Mexico / 2012 / Director: Adrián García Bogliano)
The Rambler
(USA / 2013 / Director: Calvin Lee Reeder)
Sightseers
(United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Ben Wheatley)
Vanishing Waves
(Lithuania, France, Belgium / 2012 / Director: Kristina Buožyt)
We Are What We Are
(USA / 2013 / Director: Jim Mickle)
SHORTER IS BETTER
Shorts: The Best Damn F*#@ing Midnight Program Ever. Sh*t.
Total running time: 83 min
The Apocalypse (USA / 2012 / Director: Andrew Zuchero)
The Cub (USA / 2012 / Director: Riley Stearns)
Flytopia (United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Karni Arieli, Saul Freed)
Hell No (USA / 2013 / Director: Joe Nicolosi)
It’s Not You, It’s Me (USA / 2012 / Director: Matt Spicer)
Oh Sheep! (Germany / 2012 / Director: Gottfried Mentor)
Perfect Drug (Belgium / 2012 / Director: Toon Aerts)
Sea Pig (USA / 2013 / Directors: Andrew Gilchrist, Jesse Allen)
Swarming (Kuhina) (Finland / 2011 / Director: Joni Männistö)
Shorts: Date Night
Total running time: 95 min
The Bird Spider (La Migala) (Spain / 2011 / Director: Jaime Dezcallar)
CRUSH 472 (United Kingdom / 2013 / Director: Jess Scott-Hunter)
The Date (Treffit) (Finland / 2012 / Director: Jenni Toivoniemi)
Ellen Is Leaving (New Zealand / 2012 / Director: Michelle Savill)
Routine (Rutina) (Spain / 2012 / Director: Ana Ortiz)
Taboulé (Spain / 2011 / Director: Richard García)
Ten Thousand Days (New Zealand / 2012 / Director: Michael Duignan)
Tram (France, Czech Republic / 2012 / Director: Michaela Pavlátová)
Undress Me (Ta Av Mig) (Sweden / 2013 / Director: Victor Lindgren)
Shorts: Let’s Get Animated
Total running time: 82 min
Bird Food (Ireland / 2012 / Director: Richard Keane)
Boles (Germany / 2013 / Director: Spela Cadez)
I Am Tom Moody (United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Ainslie Henderson)
Irish Folk Furniture (Ireland / 2012 / Director: Tony Donoghue)
Jonah (Tanzania, United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Kibwe Tavares)
Marcel, King of Tervuren (USA / 2012 / Director: Tom Schroeder)
Oh Willy… (Belgium, France, Netherlands / 2012 / Directors: Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef)
Palmipedarium (France / 2012 / Director: Jérémy Clapin)
Shorts: …Make Lemonade
Total running time: 88 min
All Souls’ Day (Swieto Zmarlych) (Poland / 2012 / Director: Aleksandra Terpińska)
Fear of Flying (Ireland / 2012 / Director: Conor Finnegan)
Keys. Wallet. Phone. (Germany / 2012 / Director: Juliet Lashinsky-Revene)
Summer Vacation (Hofesh Gadol) (Israel / 2012 / Directors: Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit)
Walking the Dogs (United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Jeremy Brock)
Shorts: Modern Families
Total running time: 84 min
Anna and Jerome (France / 2012 / Director: Melanie Delloye)
Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? (Pitaako mun Kaikki Hoitaa?) (Finland / 2011 / Director: Selma Vihunen)
Dotty (New Zealand / 2012 / Directors: Mick Andrews, Brett O’Gorman)
F**k the Parents (USA / 2012 / Director: Ethan Kuperberg)
Grandpa and Me and a Helicopter to Heaven (Morfar och jag och helikoptern till himlen) (Sweden / 2013 / Directors: Asa Blanck, Johan Palmgren)
Mobile Homes (USA, France / 2013 / Director: Vladimir de Fontenay)
Mud Crab (Australia / 2012 / Directors: Igor Coric, Sheldon Lieberman)
My Favorite Picture of You (USA / 2013 / Directors: Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin)
Shorts: Obsession
Total running time: 89 min
Dumpy Goes to the Big Smoke (Australia / 2012 / Director: Mirrah Foulkes)
Eating Lunch (Äta Lunch) (Sweden / 2012 / Director: Sanna Lenken)
Georgena Terry (USA / 2012 / Director: Amanda Zackem)
GUN (USA / 2012 / Director: Spencer Gillis)
Peach Juice (Canada / 2012 / Directors: Callum Paterson, Nathan Gilliss, Brian Lye)
The Roper (USA / 2012 / Directors: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands)
The Tuner (O Afinador) (Brazil / 2012 / Directors: Fernando Camargo, Matheus Parizi)
Woody (Australia / 2013 / Director: Stuart Bowen)
Shorts: Out of This World
Total running time: 91 min
The Captain (Australia, USA / 2013 / Directors: Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser)
Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? (USA / 2012 / Director: Jason Willis)
Delicacy (USA / 2012 / Director: Jason Mann)
Dust (United Kingdom / 2013 / Directors: Ben Ockrent, Jake Russell)
Edmond Was a Donkey (Edmond Était un Âne) (Canada, France / 2012 / Director: Franck Dion)
Hotel (Spain / 2012 / Director: Jose Luis Aleman)
Record/Play (United Kingdom, Bosnia / 2012 / Director: Jesse Atlas)
Shelved (New Zealand / 2011 / Director: James Cunningham)
Ufologist (USA / 2012 / Directors: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands)
Shorts: Stranger Than Fiction
Total running time: 102 min
Eddie Adams: Saigon ‘68 (USA / 2012 / Director: Douglas Sloan)
The Flogsta Roar (Flogstavrålet) (Sweden / 2013 / Director: Johan Palmgren)
Mr. Christmas (USA / 2012 / Director: Nick Palmer)
Pouters (United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Paul Fegan)
Unravel (United Kingdom, India / 2012 / Director: Meghna Gupta)
Vladimir Putin In Deep Concentration (USA / 2013 / Directors: Dana O’Keefe, Sasha Kliment)
We Will Live Again (USA / 2013 / Directors: Joshua Koury, Myles Kane)
DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL FAVORITES
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
(USA / 2013 / Director: Grace Lee)
Band of Sisters
(USA / 2012 / Director: Mary Fishman)
Becoming Traviata
(France / 2012 / Director: Philippe Béziat)
Bound by Flesh
(USA / 2012 / Director: Leslie Zemeckis)
Breathing Earth
(Germany, United Kingdom / 2012 / Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer)
Citizen Koch
(USA / 2012 / Directors: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin)
Fatal Assistance (Assistance Mortelle)
(France, Haiti, USA, Belgium / 2013 / Director: Raoul Peck)
God Loves Uganda
(USA / 2013 / Director: Roger Ross Williams)
Google and the World Brain
(Spain, United Kingdom / 2013 / Director: Ben Lewis)
If You Build It
(USA / 2013 / Director: Patrick Creadon)
Informant
(USA / 2012 / Director: Jamie Meltzer)
The Institute
(USA / 2012 / Director: Spencer McCall)
Maidentrip
(USA / 2013 / Director: Jillian Schlesinger)
More Than Honey
(Germany / 2012 / Director: Markus Imhoof)
Mussels in Love
(Netherlands, Belgium / 2012 / Director: Willemiek Kluijfhout)
Pandora’s Promise
(USA / 2013 / Director: Robert Stone)
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
(United Kingdom, Ireland / 2012 / Director: Sophie Fiennes)
Remote Area Medical
(USA / 2013 / Directors: Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman)
Rising From Ashes
(USA, Rwanda, United Kingdom, South Africa / 2012 / Director: T.C. Johnstone)
Spinning Plates
(USA / 2012 / Director: Joseph Levy)
Unhung Hero
(USA / 2013 / Director: Brian Spitz)
Valentine Road
(USA / 2012 / Director: Marta Cunningham)
When I Walk
(USA, Canada / 2013 / Director: Jason DaSilva)
Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
(USA / 2012 / Director: Sebastian Junger)
FICTION FESTIVAL FAVORITES
2+2 (Dos Más Dos)
(Argentina / 2013 / Director: Diego Kaplan)
Aayna Ka Bayna
(India / 2012 / Director: Samit Kakkad)
The Almost Man
(Norway / 2012 / Director: Martin Lund)
Blancanieves
(Spain, France / 2012 / Director: Pablo Berger)
The Broken Circle Breakdown
(Belgium, Netherlands / 2012 / Director: Felix van Groeningen)
Closed Curtain (Pardé)
(Iran / 2013 / Directors: Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi)
Drug War (Du Zhan)
(Hong Kong / 2012 / Director: Johnnie To)
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
(South Africa / 2013 / Director: Henk Pretorius)
Finding Mr. Right
(China, Hong Kong / 2013 / Director: Xue Xiaolu)
A Hijacking (Kapringen)
(Denmark / 2012 / Director: Tobias Lindholm)
House With a Turret (Dom S Bashenkoy)
(Ukraine / 2012 / Director: Eva Neymann)
In The House (Dans La Maison)
(France / 2012 / Director: François Ozon)
Key of Life (Kagidorobou No Method)
(Japan / 2012 / Director: Kenji Uchida)
Laurence Anyways
(Canada / 2012 / Director: Xavier Dolan)
Northwest (Nordvest)
(Denmark / 2013 / Director: Michael Noer)
Once Upon a Time Veronica
(Brazil, France / 2012 / Director: Marcelo Gomes)
Paradise: Hope (Paradies: Hoffnung)
(Germany / 2013 / Director: Ulrich Seidl)
Picture Day
(Canada / 2012 / Director: Kate Melville)
The Pirogue (La Pirogue)
(France, Senegal / 2012 / Director: Moussa Touré)
Reality
(Italy, France / 2012 / Director: Matteo Garrone)
Something in the Air (Après mai)
(France / 2012 / Director: Olivier Assayas)
Tanta Agua
(Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany / 2013 / Directors: Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge)
This is Martin Bonner
(USA / 2013 / Director: Chad Hartigan)
Zaytoun
(United Kingdom, Israel, France / 2012 / Director: Eran Riklis)