20/06/2014 - The Whole Shebang leads a whole gang of German (co-) productions (including four in competition), with an emphasis on the Berlin School, to which a special sidebar is dedicated

The 36th Moscow International Film Festival (June, 19 to 28)is welcoming a vast selection of German films, starting with Doris Dörrie's The Whole Shebang [+see also:
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The international competition also features the international coproduction Beti and Amare by Andy Siege, the Swiss/German title Dreamland by Petra Volpe (coproduced byWüste Film Ost), and Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man [+see also:
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The 'Free Thought' sidebar will screen, amongst other, Wim Wenders' omnibus project Cathedrals of Culture [+see also:
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Damian John Harper's Los Angeles [+see also:
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Films of the Berlin School are being shown in a sidebar named 'The Sky Over Berlin', prepared in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut in Moscow. Amongst the eight titles presented within this ambit are Christian Petzold's excellent Yella [+see also:
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The German actress Franziska Petri is a member of the international competition jury.