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12/12/202412/12/2024

Premiere in Düsseldorf

Last night DER MANN AUS ROM (De Man uit Rome) von Jaap van Heusden had it’s premiere in Metropol Düsseldorf.

12/12/24

We been a lovely night at our premiere in the Metropol Cinema Düsseldorf together with writer & director Jaap van Heusden, actress Daniela Holtz and some more people of our great team. Thanks to all of them and our supporters we managed to shoot this special film in autumn 2021, during the pandemic.

Jaap van Heusden at the Premiere in Düsseldorf
Jaap van Heusden & Daniel Bälde (discussion leader Q&A)
From left to right: Johannes Lehmann (Art & Media Consultant), Maria Tsigka (Producer FICTION PARK), Jaap van Heusden (Writer & Director), Daniela Holtz (Actress), Marina Horbach (Film- und Medienstiftung NRW), Markus Halberschmidt (Producer FICTION PARK).
Jaap van Heusden leaving a note for the potential audience
Jaap van Heusden & Daniel Bälde (discussion leader Q&A)
Jaap van Heusden

Thanks to photographer Frederik Kiefer for taking these pictures.

06/12/202413/12/2024

Best Lead Performance nomination for Hunter Schafer

HUNTER SCHAFER nominated Best Lead Performance

Hunter Schafer has been nominated for BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE for the Independent Spirit Awards for her first lead performance as Gretchen in CUCKOO by Tilman Singer.

06/12/24

To celebrate this amazing, and so well deserved, nomination, we have put together some BTS photos from Felix Dickinson and Monica Lek of this astonishing actress throughout the movie.

First day of shooting
TILMAN SINGER & HUNTER SCHAFER
GRETA FERNÁNDEZ & HUNTER SCHAFER
DAN STEVENS, MILA LIEU, HUNTER SCHAFER and JAN BLUTHARDT
MILA LIEU & HNTER SCHAFER
KALIN MORROW, HUNTER SCHAFER, TILMAN SINGER & ASTRID BERGÈS-FRISBEY

We love Hunter and cross our fingers !

02/12/202404/12/2024

German Cinema Release and Premiere

Happy to share that DER MANN AUS ROM (The Man from Rome) will finally have it’s Premiere in Düsseldorf followed by German Cinema Release on December 12th.

02/12/24

Finally the German audience can watch the film by Jaap van Heusden, shortly before he is going to shoot his next feature. Premiere will be in Düsseldorf on December 11th in the Metropol Cinema, one day before the German Cinema Release.

Manfred Riepe from epd films wrote:

Confirmation of a miracle: In his psychological drama, Jaap van Heusden makes theological and secular motifs collide in a remarkable way.

Cinemas can be found on the website of the German Distributor missingFILMs.

08/11/202411/11/2024

CUCKOO in Midnight Shivers PÖFF

After THE MAN FROM ROME had been in PÖFF Competition last year, this year CUCKOO will be screened in the MIDNIGHT SHIVERS section.

08/11/24

Germany is the focus country this year at Northern Europe’s largest film festival and the associated Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event platform.

We are delighted that CUCKOO with three screenings in Midnight Shivers is part of this year’s edition. Other films are ‘Crocodile Tears’, ‘Dying’, ‘In Love, Yours Hilde’, ‘Greetings from Mars’, ‘Johatsu’, as well as ‘Riefenstahl’.

04/11/202411/11/2024

Entertainment is not a bad word

In 2017, the couple founded the company Fiction Park – with the catchy motto: “Entertainment is not a bad word”.

04/11/24

Sincere thanks to Rüdiger Sturm for this portrait of Markus Halberschmidt and to GERMAN FILMS for approaching him. And to photographer Bernd Nörig for this this great photo.

In autumn 2016, Markus Halberschmidt and his partner Maria Tsigka spent a lot of time chilling on their living room sofa, watching an entire series. Then, suddenly, the couple said to each other: “Why don’t we do something like this?” … This joint realisation had its consequences, ultimately leading to up-and-coming German director Tilman Singer landing in the top 10 of the American cinema charts with his arthouse horror CUCKOO in August 2024.

👉 Here you can read the full little portrait

Looking forward to hopefully bring with our FICTION PARK more entertaining projects to the audiences in this world !