30/05/2003

Twenty four years after winning the best foreign film Oscar for Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Blechtrommel, Germany did it again this year with Nowhere in Africa [+see also:
trailer
film profile] directed by Caroline Link. Spain decided this was an event well-worth celebrating at the fifth edition of the German Film Festival in Madrid from 10-14 June with a retrospective of Schlöndorff’s work and an exhibition of artefacts in the foyer of the Palafox Cinema.
Organised by Export-Union and numerous private sponsors like the Goethe Institute and the German embassy in Madrid, the programme includes a selection of recent German productions like Solino by Fatih Akin, Wolfsburg by Christian Petzold, Fuehrer Ex [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Winfried Bonengel and Grill Point [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Andreas Dresen). It also includes meetings with filmmakers Romual Karmakar and Douglas Wolfsperger who will present their documentaries: 196 BPM and Bellaria.
The festival will also showcase short films and a special screening of Robert Wiene’s 1921 silent film, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, with a live musical accompaniment from the Alioscha Zimmerman Ensemble.