The 33rd Göteborg International Film Festival, which opened Friday and runs through February 8, will present 38 German (co)productions.

The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award will go to Maren Ade’s Everyone Else [trailer, film focus] while the Five Continents sidebar has selected Susanne Schneider’s The Day Will Come and Kai Wessel’s Hilde [trailer].
Hawa Essuman’s Soul Boy and Uli M. Schueppel’s tranzania.living.room will play in Forget Africa, part of this year’s international focus.

Other films and sections include Matthias Emcke’s Phantom Pain (First Cut), Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen [trailer] (Gala), Monika Treut’s Ghosted [trailer] and Khalid Gill’s Kiss the Moon (Panorama) and Rika Ohara’s The Heart of No Place (New Visions).

Toni Schifer’s documentary On/Off – Mark Stewart Pop Group to Maggia can be seen in Music Nonstop.

The Masters section will be showing History of Hell by Rosa von Praunheim and Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision [trailer].

Esther Gronenborn’s Kaifeck Murder, Damjan Kozole’s Slovenian Girl [trailer] and Wolfgang Fischer’s What You Don't See are screening in Horror and Suspense.

The documentary section includes Guenter Wallraff: Black On White by Pagonis Pagonakis and Susanne Jaeger, Joerg Adolph’s Lost Town and Vadim Jendreyko’s The Woman With the 5 Elephants.

Festival Favourites will present Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe [trailer], Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon [trailer] and She, a Chinese by Xiaolu Guo.

Another 12 German co-productions that will be shown in various sections include A Rational Solution [trailer, film focus], the three Millennium titles, Last Cowboy Standing and The Good Heart [trailer].