September 2007 - Nr. 9
German Films at TIFF
A Roundup of German Films Presented at the Toronto International Film Festival
TWIG - A total of 23 German films and co-productions were presented at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival, globally one of the most important film events.
As cited by German Films, the Munich-based national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide, "Reclaim Your Brain" (Free Rainer - Dein Fernseher Lügt) by Hans Weingartner (DE/AT),"Love Comes Lately" by Jan Schütte (DE/AT/US), "Mongol" by Sergei Bodrov (RU/DE/KZ) and "Shadows" by Milcho Manchevski (MK/D/IT/BG/ES) had their world premieres at the Toronto Festival, which comes to a close on Saturday (Sept. 15), as Special Presentations.
Meanwhile the Masters sidebar showed "Ulzhan", by Volker Schlöndorff (FR/DE/KZ), "Disengagement" by Amos Gitai (FR/DE/IT), "A Girl Cut in Two" by Claude Chabrol (FR/DE), "It's a Free World" by Ken Loach (UK/DE/ES/IT) and "The Man from London" by Béla Tarr (HU/FR/DE).
Six German films and co-productions were screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section: "And Along Come Tourists" (Am Ende Kommen Touristen) by Robert Thalheim, "The Edge of Heaven" (Auf der Anderen Seite) by Fatih Akin (DE/TR), "The Counterfeiters" (Die Fälscher) by Stefan Ruzowitzky (DE/AT), "Faro - Goddess of the Waters" by Salif Traoré (ML/FR/CA/BF/DE), "Jar City" by Baltasar Kormákur (IS/DE) and "The Trap" by Srdan Golubovic (RS/DE/HU).
The Visions section invited "Silent Resident" (Weisse Lilien) by Christian Frosch (AT/DE/LU/HU) and "You, the Living" by Roy Andersson (SE/DK/DE/FR/NO).
The documentary film section Real to Reel presented "A Jihad for Love" by Parvez Sharma (US/GB/FR/DE/AU), "The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories" by Andrey Paounov (BG/US/DE) and the new film by Werner Herzog, the US production "Encounters at the End of the World".
The avantgarde film section Wavelengths showed two works by Karø Goldt - "Bouquet" (DE/AT) and "Gone" (DE/AT) as well as "The Butterfly in Winter" (Der Schmetterling im Winter) by Ute Aurand and Maria Lang and "Schindler's Houses" (Schindlers Häuser) by Heinz Emigholz (AT/DE). (from German Films)
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Republished with permission from "The
Week in Germany"
Links:
Toronto International Film Festival 2007 Reclaim your BrainLove Comes Lately
Ulzhan
Along Came Tourists
The Edge of Heaven
The Counterfeiters
Bouquet
Gone
The Butterfly in Winter
Schindler's Houses
