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The 49th edition of the Hof International Film Festival takes a deep breath and enters the arena

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- The Festival, an important event for young German filmmakers and world independent cinema alike, was opened by One Breath by Christian Zübert

The 49th edition of the Hof International Film Festival takes a deep breath and enters the arena
One Breath by Christian Zübert

Last night the Bavarian town of Hof kicked off the 49th edition of the Hof International Film Festival (20-25 October 2015), opening the Festival with One Breath [+see also:
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by Christian Zübert, which follows the desperate journey of two women: a German mother who loses her child and a young Greek woman who is not ready to become a mother.

Part of the Festival’s mission is to showcase new German talent, in particular with its awards, aimed above all at encouraging a new generation of German filmmakers: there’s the German Cinema New Talent Award (which comprises €10,000, put up by various Bavarian partners), the Award of the City of Hof (which has been won by directors of the likes of Werner Herzog, Tom Tykwer, Christian Petzold and Doris Dörrie in the past, to name but a few, and by actors and actresses such as Jessica Schwarz), the Hans Vogt Award, which is given to an innovative film in which the soundtrack is of particular importance (an award previously won by Wim Wenders and Edgar Reitz), the Granit Award for Best German Documentary and the Bild-Kunst Award for Best Sets and Costumes (won last year by the outstanding We Are Young, We Are Strong [+see also:
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The other major aim of the Hof International Film Festival is to showcase world independent cinema. The feature films in this year’s line-up include the plucky I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced by Yemenite director Khadija Al-Salami(co-produced in France), Brooklyn [+see also:
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by John Crowley, the screenplay for which was written by Nick Hornby, Love [+see also:
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by Gaspar Noé, Don’t Tell Me the Boy Was Mad [+see also:
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by Robert Guédiguian and I Am A Soldier [+see also:
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by Laurent Larivière starring Louise Bourgoin and Jean-Hugues Anglade, all three of which were screened at Cannes this year, The Sweet Escape [+see also:
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by Bruno Podalydès, Vincent [+see also:
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by Thomas Salvador, Swiss film Chubby [+see also:
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by Bruno Deville, Europe/Latin America co-production The Memory of Water [+see also:
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by Matias Bize, and Face Down [+see also:
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by the highly talented Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev.

This year the Portrait section of the Festival is dedicated to British novelist and director Christopher Petit (a.k.a. Chris Petit). This retrospective brings together no fewer than fifteen of his films: fictional feature films, short films and short documentary films.

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(Translated from French)

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