10/10/2012 - The 17th edition of the Parisian event organised by German Films opens today with 13 features in its programme

Jan Ole Gerster’s Oh Boy! [+see also:
trailer
interview: Jan Ole Gerster
film profile] (photo), a film that won the New Talents award in Munich and was selected for Karlovy Vary, is to open the 17th German Film Festival, organised in Paris by German Films, at the Arlequin tonight. Until October 16, the event is to screen 13 feature films to make their French premieres at the festival in the presence of their directors.

Two of these, contenders from the last Berlinale, have already been acquired for France by Jour2Fête: Matthias Glasner’s Mercy (read the review [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Matthias Glasner
film profile]) and Hans-Christian Schmid’s Home for the Weekend [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (review). The following films will also arrive in Paris straight from the last Berlinale: Ann-Kristin Reyels’s Formentera [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ann-Kristin Reyels
film profile] (a feature debut unveiled in the Forum section - review) and Jan Speckenbach’s Reported Missing [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (screened in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section).

The programme is also to feature a major curiosity: David F. Wnendt’s Combat Girls [+see also:
trailer
interview: Jella Haase
film profile], a film awarded the Bronze Lola for Best Film as well as Best Actress and Best Screenplay at the 2012 German film awards. The film has been preselected for the next European Film Awards and has been acquired for France by UFO Distribution.

Also screening is Christian Schwochow’s Crack in the Shell [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (review), for which the actress of Danish origin Stine Fischer Christensen was awarded Best Actress at Karlovy Vary in 2011.

The programme is completed by Carsten Unger’s Bastard [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Leander Haußmann’s Hotel Lux [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (awarded in Rome in 2011), Johannes Fabrick’s The Last Fine Day, Tina von Traben’s Patty’s Catchup [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Carmen Losmann’s Work Hard – Play Hard (FIPRESCI prize in Leipzig), and Caroline Schmitz’s Beauty.

The festival, to include two short film selections, is also to feature a German Cinema Night on Friday October 12 at the Goethe Institute to focus on actress Hanna Schygulla who is to attend the event.

(Translated from French)