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Link, Reitz and Gröning in Toronto

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- A total of 26 German films and co-productions can be seen at this year's Toronto International Film Festival

Link, Reitz and Gröning in Toronto

A total of 26 German films and co-productions can be seen at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 5 to 15), including Caroline Link's Exit Marrakech [+see also:
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(photo - Desert Flower Filmproduktion, Erftal Film, B.A. Produktion, MTM West, StudioCanal), a father-son discovery trip which is having its international premiere in the Special Presentations section, and the German/French coproduction Home From Home – Chronicle of a Vision [+see also:
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by Edgar Reitz, a 19th Century story set in rural Germany and reminding of the spirit of his famous Heimat trilogy which will have its first North American screening in the Masters sidebar after its world premiere in Venice.

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The Wavelenghts sidebar includes Philip Gröning's The Police Officer's Wife [+see also:
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(Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, Bavaria Pictures, 3L Filmproduktion), about love and violence in a young small town family, Ramon Zürcher's debut, The Strange Little Cat [+see also:
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(a choreography of everyday life including animals and objects which was screened in Berlin and as part of the ACID section in Cannes), and a couple of German avantgarde shorts.

The many co-productions selected in Toronto include Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive [+see also:
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, Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness [+see also:
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, Claire Denis' Bastards [+see also:
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, János Szász' Le Grand Cahier [+see also:
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, Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Hope [+see also:
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, Miguel Gomes' Redemption, and Filippos Tsitos' Unfair World [+see also:
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Furthermore, the world-famous German actor Daniel Brühl can be seen in the British/German co-production Rush [+see also:
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by Ron Howard (coproduced by Egoli Tossell and Action Concept Film- und Stuntproduktion) and in the opening film, The Fifth Estate by Bill Condon.

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