The Berlin school : films from the Berliner schule / Rajendra Roy, Anke Leweke ; with contributions by Thomas Arslan, Valeska Grisebach, Benjamin Heisenberg, Christoph Hochhäusler, Nina Hoss, Dennis Lim, Katja Nicodemus, Christian Petzold and Rainer Rother ; [translations from the German by Russell Stockman].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction / Rajendra Roy -- The beginning / Anke Leweke -- On whose shoulders: the question of aesthetic indebtedness / Christoph Hochhäusler -- French Cancan in the DDR: an exchange with Christian Petzold / Anke Leweke -- Women's lab: the female protaganist in ther Berlin School / Rajendra Roy -- No solutions, only questions: an encounter with Nina Hoss / Rainer Rother -- The view from here / Valeska Grisebach -- On the move: Thomas Arslan's Kinetic Cinema / Katja Nicodermus -- The cinema of life / Thomas Arlsan -- Moving on: the next new wave / Dennis Lim -- Form follows / Benjamin Heisenberg.

"The informal movement that critics like to call the Berlin School," as director Christoph Hochhäusler puts it, is a loose affiliation of filmmakers who emerged around the time the Berlin Wall fell. The founding figures--Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, and Angela Schanelec--and their younger colleagues are not bound by a manifesto or by any singular aesthetic. Nonetheless, their observant portrayals of characters in flux offer a compelling cinematic expression of the search for new identities in a time of societal change. The films of the Berlin School have resonated profoundly since the mid-1990s, making it one of the most influential auteur movements to emerge from Europe in the new millennium.

"Published in conjuction with the film series The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule (November 20-December 6, 2013)"--T.p. verso.