25/09/2006

Four German productions and co-productions are showing in the competitive sections of the 22nd Warsaw International Film Festival (October 6-15): Longing [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Sehnsucht)) by Valeska Grisebach, Valerie by Birgit Moeller and Contact by Sergej Stanojkovski (DE/MK) are participating in the New Films, New Directors Competition while Absolute Wilson by Katharina Otto-Bernstein (US/Germany) will be presented in the Documentary Competition.

For the fifth year, the Warsaw festival will be presenting the German Panorama sidebar section, in collaboration with German Films. Featuring a total of 19 titles, the section will open on October 7 with Requiem [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Hans-Christian Schmid
interview: Hans-Christian Schmid
interview: Sandra Hueller
film profile]. Director Hans-Christian Schmid will he onhand to present his film

Other feature films in the programme include: Eden ( Michael Hofmann) Elementary Particles [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Franka Potente & Moritz Ble…
interview: Oskar Roehler
film profile] (Oskar Roehler, see Focus), The Free Will (Matthias Glasner), Tough Enough [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (Detlev Buck), The Lives of Others [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Florian Henckel von Donners…
interview: Ulrich Muehe
film profile] (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), Running On Empty (Buelent Akinci), The Man From the Embassy (Dito Tsintsadze), Take Your Life (Sabine Michel), Pingpong [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Matthias Luthardt
interview: Sebastian Urzendowsky
film profile] (Matthias Luthardt), Summer 04 [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (Stefan Krohmer), Longing and Valerie.

Documentaries will be represented by Otto-Bernstein’s Absolute Wilson, Balordi by Mirjam Kubescha (Germany/Italy), The Unknown Soldier by Michael Verhoeven and Veruschka by Paul Morrissey (Germany/US). The short film Vincent by Giulio Ricciarelli will be shown in addition to the short film programme NEXT GENERATION 2006.

Other sections will present the co-productions Grbavica [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Barbara Albert
interview: Jasmila Zbanic
film profile] by Jasmila Zbanic (Austria/Bosnia/Germany/Croatia), Something Like Happiness [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bohdan Slama
interview: Pavel Strnad
film profile] (see Focus) by Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic/Germany) and Obada by Montxo Armendáriz (Spain/Germany).

Schmid, Verhoeven, Kubescha, Otto-Bernstein, Moeller and Michel are all scheduled to present their films in Warsaw.

As part of the CentEast Market, which is associated with the festival, Media Desk Polska and Media Antenne Berlin-Brandenburg will be organising the seminar entitled "From script development to post- and co-production" on October 13.