24/03/2010

The 29th Istanbul International Film Festival (April 3-18), will be showing numerous German (co)productions in over 10 different sections.

Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station [+see also:
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interview: Semih Kaplanoglu
film profile] (Turkey/Germany) will be shown in the national competition, Turkish Cinema 2009-2010.

When We Leave [+see also:
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interview: Feo Aladag
interview: Feo Aladag
film profile] by Feo Aladag and Jaco van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody [+see also:
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interview: Jaco Van Dormael
interview: Jaco Van Dormael
film profile] will be shown as Akbank Galas.

The documentaries Comrade Couture by Marco Wilms and Dancing Dreams by Anne Linsel and Rainer Hoffmann can be seen in the sidebar entitled Documentary Time with NTV.

German co-production showing in other sections are: Ajami [+see also:
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film profile] by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shari, Altiplano [+see also:
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film profile] by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, Michael Glawogger’s Contact High [+see also:
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film profile], Dima El-Horr’s Every Day is a Holiday [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open, Nils Arden Oplev’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [+see also:
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interview: Niels Arden Oplev
interview: Søren Stærmose
film profile], Alejandro Fernández Alemendras’ Huacho [+see also:
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film profile], Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon [+see also:
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film profile], Jasmila Zbanic’s On the Path [+see also:
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film profile], Patrice Chereau’s Persecution [+see also:
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film profile], Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos, Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men [+see also:
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film profile] and The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner [+see also:
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film profile] by Stephan Komandarev.

This year there will be German-Turkish Producers Meeting as part of Meetings on the Bridge. German Films is supporting this meeting, which is being organised by Media-Antenne/Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in collaboration with Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.