08/12/2005

Amongst today's new releases, the German public will find an Asian film, a Peruvian one, two American blockbusters, and five European movies.

The theatres will feature two German documentaries. Kinostar distributes 12 tangos – Adios Buenos Aires, a work written, directed and produced by Arne Birkenstock, who went to the 'Cathedral', one of Buenos Aires' best places for tango, and explored the surprising lives of many dancers. Winterkinder, by Jens Schanze, is also about people but it is more introspective, for the director focuses on his own very normal family and the way they react the grandfather's nazi past. Generations oppose and question the possibility of a truly 'ingenuous' participation to national-socialism. This film, produced by the young filmmaker himself, ends his studies at the Munich film and TV school. Winterkinder is distributed by Tiberius.

As for fictions, mîtosfilm launches a German/Turkish/Greek/French co-production, Waiting for the Clouds [+see also:
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Also on the programme, two other European films: Lücke im System, hi-tech thriller by the Swiss director Romed Wyder (distr. Neue Visionen Filmverleih), and Factotum [+see also:
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(Translated from French)