Tomorrow night, Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize winner, Sound of Falling [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mascha Schilinski
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Stealing focus among the 11 feature films gracing the Panorama line-up are Amrum [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Fatih Akin (unveiled in the Cannes Première section and scheduled for release in France on 24 December by Dulac Distribution) and four films discovered in this year’s Berlinale: Julia Lemke and Anna Koch’s documentary Circusboy [+lee también:
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entrevista: Julia Lemke y Anna Koch
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entrevista: Sarah Miro Fischer y Marie…
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entrevista: Martina Priessner
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ficha de la película] by Luzia Schmid.

Likewise set for the showcase are Vena [+lee también:
entrevista: Chiara Fleischhacker
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entrevista: Lauro Cress
ficha de la película] by Lauro Cress (victorious at this year’s Max Ophuls Prize), Rain Fell on the Nothing New [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Steffen Goldkamp (unveiled in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition and due to close the Parisian gathering), Smell of Burnt Milk [+lee también:
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entrevista: Justine Bauer
ficha de la película] by Justine Bauer (awarded the Jury Prize in Mons’ International Love Film Festival), Clouds Are Made of Rain by Benjamin Kramme, and Felix Golenko’s documentary Yumi – The Whole World (telling the story of law students from the South Pacific who take their battle against climate change to the most supreme court in the world by way of a historic UN resolution).

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the Germany Film Festival will also screen Oh Boy [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jan Ole Gerster
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entrevista: Fabian Stumm
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ficha de la película], directed by and starring Fabian Stumm (who’ll deliver a masterclass on 10 October).

The festival line-up isn’t lacking in short films either, with 11 due for presentation in Special Screenings, including some of the best films to come out of German film schools of late (Next Generation) and the best short films lasting seven minutes or less (Short Tiger Award).

German and French film industry professionals will likewise be flocking to Paris this week for The French-German Film Meetings (organised by German Films and Unifrance in league with the French-German Film Academy), which are taking place at the Goethe-Institut on 8 and 9 October with a number of debates jostling on the agenda (the programme can be found here).