14/02/2003

2002 was another good year for film production in Bavaria and for the Bavarian Film Fund - (FFF). The three best performing German films of the year: the children’s film Bibi Blocksberg directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, Caroline Link’s Nowhere in Africa [+see also:
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A number of other FFF-supported films won important awards at international festivals including the first International Emmy for seventeen years for a TV series entitled Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (The Manns – Novel of a Century) directed by Heinrich Breloer; a Golden Globe nomination, the Bavarian Production award, 5 German film awards and the Critics’ Special Award at Karlovy Vary for Nowhere in Africa, and the Palme d’Or in Canne plus three awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist [+see also:
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In 2002 the FFF’s international promotional activities once again focused on Eastern Europe with film weeks being organised in Budapest, Zagreb, Bratislava and Cracow. This year, events will be staged in Sofia, Montreal and Bangalore and the new German festival season opened with the Max Ophuels festival in Saarbruecken where several FFF-sponsored titles were screened. Hans-Christian Scmid’s Lichter (Distant Lights), selected for competition at the 53rd Berlinale.