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Hanni & Nanni by Christine Hartmann

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

The late British children’s author Enid Blyton wrote over 600 children books and sold more than 600 million copies worldwide. Her many works included a series of books about twin sisters and their adventures at the girls boarding school St. Clares. Originally entitled The Twins At St. Clares (1941), the German version of the books […]

Weihnachtsfeier mit Tanja und Regina

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Es ist eine herzerwärmende Tradition: die alljährlich Ziegler-Film-Weihnachtsfeier in einem vorzüglichen Restaurant. Dieses Jahr war die Cucina Casareccia der Treffpunkt, und die Menüs waren delikat. Wolf Gremm drehte auf Thailand; er schickte eine Video-Botschaft. Wir sahen Ausschnitte aus dem Film Der Mann mit dem Fagott von Udo Jürgens und Michaela Moritz. Das Drehbuch stammt von […]

Hof Film Days Fetes Bob Rafelson

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

The German film community’s annual family gathering in the Franconian town of Hof kicked off this year with Florian Cossen’s feature debut Das Lied in mir (The Day I Was Not Born). The film had already won prizes at festivals in Montreal and Zurich and left Hof with this year’s Eastman Promotion Award for up-and-coming […]

Hof 2010: Kulturpreis for Heinz Badewitz

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

One could hardly imagine Heinz Badewitz being able to slip away from his own festival for even a few hours. However, he actually managed this year to travel to nerby Bamberg to receive a Culture Award which has been presented by the energy concern Eon Bayern in collaboration with the Bavarian Ministry of Science and […]

Locarno Continues to be a Home from Home for Films from Germany

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

The change of Locarno Film Festival’s artistic director from Frédéric Maire to Frenchman Olivier Père this year didn’t see any great change in the festival’s traditional support for films from Germany or made with German partners. No less than four of the 18 titles selected by Père for the International Competition were produced with German […]

German Films Previews Turn 10

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

The 10th edition of the German Films Previews saw the showcase of new German productions being presented to around 90 international buyers in Hamburg for the first time from July 15-18. Previously, the event had been held in Munich (six times) and Cologne (the past three years), but the promotion agency German Films decided to travel further […]

Turkish Delight and 3D: Filmstiftung NRW’s International Film Conference at Medienforum NRW

Monday, July 12th, 2010

The regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in May meant that the Medienforum NRW saw its dates this year at the end of June head-to-head with Filmfest München and the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Despite having to cope with this competition as well as sweltering temperatures, the Filmstiftung NRW brought to a compact and […]

KINO! 2010: New Films from Germany at MoMA, New York (April 2010)

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Since last year’s edition New York’s Museum of Modern Art has moved the dates of its annual survey of German films from a dark November slot to a sunny spring one in order to benefit from the new crop of German productions premiering at the Berlinale. And so this year’s KINO! 2010: New Films from […]

Edgar – a short film by Fabian Busch

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Internationally, German actor Fabian Busch may be best known for his role in Hans-Christian Schmid’s 23 (1998), playing opposite August Diehl, in Oliver Hirschspiegel’s Academy Award-nominated Downfall (Der Untergang, 2004), and, most recently, as Kate Winslet’s defense lawyer in Stephen Daldry’s Oscar winner The Reader (2008). Besides an impressive list of feature film and television […]

German Films Previews in July 2009

Friday, July 31st, 2009

New films by Andreas Dresen, Alain Gsponer, Kaspar Heidelbach and Feo Aladag were among 20 titles presented at the 8th edition of German Films Previews which was held in Cologne for the third time from July 12-15, 2009. The annual showcase of films in the lineups of German sales companies, which was supported this year […]