Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films, welcomed members of the international film industry to the German Films Cocktail at Cannes’ Villa Rothschild on Saturday.
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film “Searching for Ingmar Bergman” plays in Cannes Classics, was one of those presented on stage as well as Wanuri Kahiu, the director of German co-production “Rafiki,” which plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Among the other German co-productions in the festival are competition titles Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka,” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Lazzaro Felice,” as well as Un Certain Regard films Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” and Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room.”
Among the guests at the cocktail were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Peter Herrmann, chairman of the board of German Films, Bernd Neumann, president of Ffa, Peter Dinges, chairman of Ffa, Dennis Lim...
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film “Searching for Ingmar Bergman” plays in Cannes Classics, was one of those presented on stage as well as Wanuri Kahiu, the director of German co-production “Rafiki,” which plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Among the other German co-productions in the festival are competition titles Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka,” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Lazzaro Felice,” as well as Un Certain Regard films Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” and Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room.”
Among the guests at the cocktail were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Peter Herrmann, chairman of the board of German Films, Bernd Neumann, president of Ffa, Peter Dinges, chairman of Ffa, Dennis Lim...
- 5/14/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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