06/11/2013 - The 8th Rome International Film Festival (November 8-17) is presenting two German coproductions in its Competition section. The latest by Pepe Danquart is to be screened in the Alice in the City section

The now imminent 8th edition of the Rome International Film Festival (November 8 to 17) will be presenting two German coproductions in its Competition section: Tayfun Pirselimoglu's Alias (coproduced by Bredok Film Production with Turkish, French, and Greek partners), which is vying for the golden Marcus Aurelius, and Angelo Bozzolini's The Italian Character: the Story of a Great Italian Orchestra, a German/Italian film coproduced by Alpenway Media and screening as part of the Special Events/Out of Competition.

The independent section Alice in the City, which shows films aimed at a younger audience, has programmed the international premiere of Oscar-winning director Pepe Danquart's Run Boy Run [+see also:
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The new trends section CinemaXXI, introduced last year, will be hosting the international premiere of the documentary The Incomplete (Jan Soldat Filmproduktion), in which Jan Soldat has his protagonist Klaus Johann Wolf explain why he decided to live as a slave.

Finally, at the coproduction market New Cinema Network, Willem Droste will pitch his project Unsettled. Last year, German participant Jessica Krumacher won the €30,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award after pitching Mordogan.