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687 articles available in total starting from 03/07/2002. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

Interview: Aki Kaurismäki • Director

My characters, hopeless optimists

Le Havre describes a world of marginalised individuals who express great mutual solidarity and it even has an optimistic ending  

24/11/2011

"A triple A mini-treaty"

"In the past, from the point of view of German producers, getting involved in a French film was considered too expensive, complicated and chaotic, not to mention the language barrier. The reverse...  

24/11/2011 | Industry | France/Germany

16th German Film Festival opens in Paris with Thalheim's Westwind

Paris is welcoming its 16th German Film Festival (November 23-29). A total of 12 new feature films and six shorts plus the NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2011 programme are to be screened at the...  

22/11/2011 | Festivals | France/Germany

9th German-French Film Meeting in Paris

German Films and uniFrance are organising for the ninth time the German-French Film Meeting, to be held in Paris on the 23th and 24th of November. Around 300 participants from both countries will...  

22/11/2011 | Events | France/Germany

Franco-German committee backs three films

The bilateral Franco-German co-production support committee, which met in Berlin on July 11, allocated €698,000 between three projects, including a majority German title and two French initiative...  

14/07/2011 | Funding | Germany/France

A Quiet Life

Claudio Cupellini’s second film is also his most accomplished. After earning Best Actor at the Rome fest for Toni Servillo, the film won the Cineuropa Award at the Brussels Film Festival.  

04/07/2011 | Films | Reviews

StudioCanal: a European brand

At the start of September, British and German distribution companies Optimum Releasing and Kinowelt will take the name of their parent company: French group StudioCanal. For StudioCanal CEO...  

01/07/2011 | Industry | France/Germany/UK

Interview: Ulrich Kohler • Director

“The alienation of people living far from their roots”

The German director explains why in Sleeping Sickness he decided to focus on the subject of European expatriates working in development aid in Africa.  

08/06/2011

Sleeping Sickness

Ulrich Kölher dips into the troubled waters of European humanitarian action in Africa in the film which earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin in 2011.  

08/06/2011 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Lars von Trier • Director

Von Trier's train wreck

The Danish director answered questions from the international press following the premiere of Melancholia, in Competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.  

28/04/2011

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