Based on treatments that young and talented filmmakers had to submit by October 1, 2012, a three-member jury will pick the winner of the €15,000 fellowship. The jury has already been put together and includes three members who are closely associated with German cinema. All three want to actively support up-and-coming German filmmakers. Hans-Christian Schmid Author and director Hans-Christian Schmid has enriched the world of German and international cinema with a number of impressi...

  The Festival of German Films will be held in Paris for the 16th time from 23 to 29 November 2011. A total of 12 new feature films, six shorts and the NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2011 program of short films will be presented at the Cinéma L'Arlequin. The festival will open with WESTWIND by Robert Thalheim who has already made a name for himself in France thanks to AND ALONG COME TOURISTS (AM ENDE KOMMEN TOURISTEN). Director Thalheim and actress Friederike Becht will be present at the...

The 8th Festival of German Films in Buenos Aires (11 – 17 September 2008)New films by Germany’s leading filmmakers as well as promising newcomers will be shown at the 8th Festival de Cine Alemán. The festival will be kicked off in the Cine Village Recoleta on 11 September with a screening of THE WAVE (DIE WELLE) in the presence of director Dennis Gansel and lead actress Jennifer Ulrich. THE WAVE is one of five films submitted for the selection process for the German entry for the Best Fore...

The 8th Festival of German Films in Buenos Aires (11 – 17  September 2008) New films by Germany’s leading filmmakers as well as promising newcomers will be shown at the 8th Festival de Cine Alemán. The festival will be kicked off in the Cine Village Recoleta on 11 September with a screening of THE WAVE (DIE WELLE) in the presence of director Dennis Gansel and lead actress Jennifer Ulrich. THE WAVE is one of five films submitted for the selection process for the German entry for the Best ...

The evening of the second Sunday in Advent saw the cinema projector in Stockholm being turned off for „German Films Go North".In retrospect, one can say that the fourth Festival of German Films surpassed the success of the previous year. Both the audience figures and the interest of the press and distributors were higher.In Copenhagen (26 – 29 November), the most enthusiastic reception was given to the film THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE) by Fatih Akin, which won the Audience Awar...

Full houses and strong interest from the audience: that is the end result of the 6th German Panorama at the Warsaw International Film Festival (12.-21.10.) and the Days of German Cinema which were held after the festival in Cracow (26.10.-1.11.). In Warsaw alone, more than 3,500 cinema-goers saw the 13 German films in the country focus German Panorama which was opened in festive manner by the German Ambassador Michael H. Gerdts. HOUNDS (JAGDHUNDE) by Ann-Kristin Reyels was shown as the opening f...