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The Berlin school comes to Rome

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In 2007, the critical and public acclaim of titles such as Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning The Lives of Others [+see also:
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by Chris Kraus proved the potential of the latest German cinema at the Italian box office, among many others.

Thus, this year, two long-standing festivals – EuropaCinema in Viareggio and the Pesaro Film Festival – have announced that for this year’s editions they will focus on emerging German talent, behind and before the camera.

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In anticipation of these two in-depth events, the Goethe Institut is promoting in Rome (at the Filmstudio through February 8) a complete retrospective on Angela Schanelec, which she is attending. Having shot, and often starred in, five features – from 1995’s My Sister’s Good Fortune to 2007 title Afternoon – the director of Passing Summer (selected in the Berlinale Panorama), Places in Cities and Marseille (both screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard) has become a leading name of the Berlin School.

This group of talented young filmmakers that studied at Berlin’s Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie are today regularly featured in German cinema magazine Revolver.

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(Translated from Italian)

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