Maren Ade | BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture Series

Published: Oct. 10, 2016, 11:04 a.m.

Maren Ade, writer-director of Toni Erdmann, shares insights from her career, discussing character development, writing emotion and directing her own work.\n\nMaren Ade\u2019s first full feature was Der Wald vor lauter B\xe4umen (The Forest for the Trees, 2003) about a lonely teacher who moves to an urban school with unrealistic ambitions of changing the lives of her new pupils. Ade followed this up with Alle Anderen (Everyone Else, 2009), a sun-kissed portrait of love, sex and romance following a young German couple who find their seemingly unbreakable relationship severely tested while holidaying in the Mediterranean. Her third film is Toni Erdmann (2016) a fascinating depiction of an estranged father and his emotionally repressed adult daughter as he tries to re-forge their relationship in a unique and comic way.\n\nAn honest examination of the relationships between ordinary people seems to be at the heart of her work, all dealt with compassionately and through an unfettered window of truth, inviting the audience to form their own opinions and judgements.\n\nSponsored by The JJ Charitable Trust. \n \nWatch this session on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMV2HuZR3Mk\nRead the transcript on our website: https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/transcripts/bafta-screenwriters-lecture-series-maren-ade\n \nThe Screenwriters' Lectures are presented as originally recorded. Some of the lectures may contain outdated comments or views which some listeners may find insensitive or offensive.\n\nStay up to date \n \nTwitter: \n@BAFTA: https://twitter.com/BAFTA \n@BAFTAGames: https://twitter.com/BAFTAGames \n \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bafta\nInstagram: http://instagram.com/bafta\nTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bafta\nTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bafta\n \nsign up for our newsletter: https://www.bafta.org/newsletter\nvisit our websites to find out more: http://www.bafta.org\n \n#BAFTA