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German focus in Hong Kong

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- The 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival (23 March – 6 April) is dedicating a section to new German films

German focus in Hong Kong
Victoria by Sebastian Schipper

The Hong Kong International Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals in Asia, is devoting part of the program of its 39th edition to German cinema. Eight films will be shown in a German focus called German Cinema Now. Moreover, Hannes Lang's I Want To See the Manager [+see also:
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, an Italian/German coproduction, has been selected in the Documentary Competition, and two German films (Architektura and Daewit) are screening in the Short Film Competition. In total, 33 German films and co-productions will be shown during the festival, and German Films will be part of the umbrella stand of the European Film Promotion at the FILMART.

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The German focus features three Berlinale films: Andreas Dresen's As We Were Dreaming [+see also:
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, Sebastian Schipper's Victoria [+see also:
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, and Rosa von Praunheim's Tough Love [+see also:
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. The section also includes festival favourites Giulio Ricciarelli's Labyrinth of Lies [+see also:
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, Berlin 2014-awarded Stations of the Cross [+see also:
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by Dietrich Brüggemann, Christian Petzold's Phoenix [+see also:
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, Timm Kröger's The Council of Birds [+see also:
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, and Ingo Haeb's The Chambermaid Lynn.

Rüdiger Suchsland's documentary From Caligari to Hitler, about German cinema in the Weimar Republic, is part of the section "Documentaries: Filmmakers and Filmmaking". Restored versions of Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas, winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or in 1984, are also on the programme.

The international film market FILMART (23 to 26 March) is an important hub for European world sales companies to bring movies to Asia. Therefore, seven German world sales companies will be represented at the umbrella stand that the European Film Promotion is organizing with the support of German Films: Beta Cinema, Films Boutique, Global Screen, m-appeal world sales, The Match Factory, media luna new films and Picture Tree International).

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