European Films

Three trailers for recent German-language features have been added to the trailer database. First up is Barbara Albert's Fallen (Falling), which competed in last year's Venice Film Festival and has come out on DVD in the US yesterday. The Austrian films tells the tale of five schoolgirls who meet again 14 years later at the funeral of one of their teachers and is a terrific acting showcase for German-speaking thirty-somethings (trailer, review). Also from Austria -- actually even from the same production company -- comes the wacky men-stuck-in-a-car comedy Immer nie am Meer (Forever Never Anywhere), which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January, came out in Austria in March and is set for a release in Germany in October (trailer, review). Lastly, there is the trailer for the German Am Ende kommen Touristen (And Along Come Tourists), the second film from Netto director Robert Thalheim. The film, which follows a young German who works and falls in love at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp site in Poland, will be released in Germany next week. It had its world premiere in Cannes in the Un certain regard section (trailer, review).