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Festival Augenblick
The Festival Augenblick is a French film festival based in Strasbourg, held annually in the Grand Est region since 2005. It showcases German-language films. Profile Taking place every November in Alsace and the Grand Est region, the festival focuses on German-language cinema. Founded in 2005 by the Alsace Cinémas association (now renamed Le RECIT), the festival aims to make films primarily from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland accessible to a wide French audience. It features both current films and classics, showcasing works from renowned filmmakers as well as emerging talents. One of the festival's key objectives is to foster cultural exchange between German-speaking countries and France. It counts over 50,000 admissions annually and is held in more than 40 screening locations. In addition to film screenings, the festival offers various side events, such as discussions, workshops, masterclasses, and film education programs. The current artistic director of the festival is Sadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent date and depending upon the festival's focus, can include international and/or domestic releases. Some film festivals focus on a specific format of film, such Documentary film, documentary, or runtime, such as short film festivals, or genre, such as horror films, category of filmmakers, such as Woman, women, production country/region or subject matter. Film festivals can be competitive or non-competitive, and are often regarded within the film industry as launchpads for new filmmakers and indie films, as well as boosters for established filmmakers and studio productions. The films are either invited by festival curators, or selected by festival programmers from submissions made by the filmmakers, film producers, production companies, sale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strasbourg
Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of Geography of France, eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin Departments of France, department and the Seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, official seat of the European Parliament. The city has about three hundred thousand inhabitants, and together Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Greater Strasbourg and the arrondissement of Strasbourg have over five hundred thousand. Strasbourg's functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 860,744 in 2020, making it the eighth-largest metro area in France and home to 14% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict, Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of roughly 1,000,000 in 2022. Strasbourg is one of the ''de facto'' four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Est
Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (; ACAL or, less commonly, ALCALIA), as a result of territorial reform which had been passed by the French Parliament in 2014. The region sits astride three water basins (Seine, Meuse and Rhine), spanning an area of , the fifth largest in France; it includes two mountain ranges (Vosges and Ardennes). It shares borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland. As of 2021, it had a population of 5,561,287 inhabitants. The Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city is Strasbourg. The East of France has a rich and diverse culture, being situated at a crossroads between the Gallo-Romance languages, Gallic-Latin and Germanic languages, Germanic worlds. This history is reflected in the variety of languages spoken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (South Jutland County, North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Germans of Romania, Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (European Collectivity of Alsace, Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the global language system, major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drii Winter
''A Piece of Sky'' () is a 2022 Swiss-German romantic drama film written and directed by Swiss filmmaker Michael Koch. The film was set against the backdrop of Swiss Alps. The film was officially selected at 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. The film also earned special mention from the main competition jury for its screenplay during the Berlin International Film Festival. It was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Synopsis The film revolves around the relationship between Marco (Simon Wisler) and Anna (Michele Brand) although Marco is an outsider whereas Anna is a native person. In a remote Alpine village, Marco comes as an outsider but was welcomed by the people for gaining reputation for his ability to work hard as he established himself as a reputed farmer. He subsequently falls in love with Anna who is a single mother as the latter lives with her daughter Julia. Marco and Anna de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Styx (film)
''Styx'' is a 2018 German-Austrian drama film directed by . The film features Susanne Wolff as Rike, an emergency doctor who is sailing her yacht solo off North Africa when she comes across a boat full of asylum seekers in distress after a storm has damaged their vessel. ''Styx'' was screened in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. It was highly praised by critics and won many awards, including at the German Directors Guild Awards, the German Film Awards, Boulder International Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Ljubljana International Film Festival, and was nominated for many others. Plot Rike is a German emergency doctor. For her holiday she decided to sail alone on her twelve-metre long yacht "Asa Gray", on a trip in the footsteps of Charles Darwin from Gibraltar to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. During her journey off North Africa, she is informed by a container ship passing nearby that she must prepare for a severe storm on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western (2017 Film)
''Western'' is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film written, produced, and directed by Valeska Grisebach. It was screened in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film has been well received by critics. The film stars Meinhard Neumann in his first acting role as a German construction worker in Bulgaria who finds himself in the middle of a culture clash with the locals. Plot Meinhard is one of a group of German construction workers hired to build a hydroelectric plant in a remote Bulgarian village near the Greek border. As the water supply to mix the cement has been interrupted and promised gravel does not arrive, their work comes to a halt, leading to boredom. While sunning in a nearby river they meet some local women out bathing and the encounter becomes antagonistic when one of the Bulgarian women loses her sun hat and the German worker who retrieves it refuses to give it back and tries to push her underwater. There are other conflict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of Mine
''Land of Mine'' () is a 2015 Danish historical war drama film directed by Martin Zandvliet. It was shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected and nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards. The film is inspired by real events when over 1.3million German landmines were cleared from Denmark's shores and fields from May to September 1945 and tells a story of German prisoners of war ordered to clear land mines after World War II. It is estimated that more than 2,000 soldiers including a number of teenagers, under the command of Danish officers, removed mines. 149 of them lost their lives during the five months of mine clearing, 165 were severely wounded and 167 lightly wounded. The removal was part of a controversial agreement between the German Commander General Georg Lindemann, the Danish Government and the British Armed Forces, under which German soldiers with experience in defusing mines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amour Fou (2014 Film)
''Amour Fou'' ("mad love") is a 2014 Austrian film directed by Jessica Hausner, starring Christian Friedel and Birte Schnöink. The story is set in Berlin in 1810 and 1811, and follows the German writer Heinrich von Kleist and his lover Henriette Vogel in the final stages of their lives. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Plot In Berlin the affluent Henriette Vogel holds a soiree where the poet Heinrich von Kleist attends. Heinrich approaches his close friend and cousin Marie and after telling her how living has become painful to him he asks her to consider dying with him in a murder-suicide pact. Marie declines. Heinrich then approaches Henriette and tells her that as Marie has declined his dearest wish his love for her is dying as his love for Henriette begins to blossom. After telling Henriette that he feels she is an unloved outsider like him he asks her to join him in death. Henriette is appalled at his characterization of her a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall (2012 Film)
''The Wall'' () is a 2012 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Julian Pölsler and starring Martina Gedeck. Based on the 1963 novel '' Die Wand'' by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer and adapted for the screen by Julian Pölsler, the film is about a woman who visits with friends at their hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps. Left alone while her friends walk to a nearby village, the woman soon discovers she is cut off from all human contact by a mysterious invisible wall. With her friends' loyal dog Lynx as her companion, she lives the next three years in isolation looking after her animals. ''The Wall'' was filmed on location in the Salzkammergut region of the Austrian Alps. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot An unnamed woman (Martina Gedeck) travels with her two friends, Hugo and Luise, and their loyal dog Lynx to their isolated hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Brühl
Daniel César Martín Brühl González (; ; born 16 June 1978) is a German and Spanish actor. He has received various accolades, including three European Film Awards and three German Film Awards, along with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA Award. He received his first German Film Award for Deutscher Filmpreis, Best Actor for his roles in ''The White Sound, Das Weisse Rauschen'' (2001), ''Nichts Bereuen'' (2001), and ''Vaya con Dios'' (2002). His starring role in the German film ''Good Bye, Lenin!'' (2003) received widespread recognition and critical acclaim, and garnered him the European Film Awards, European Film Award for European Film Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and another German Film Award for Best Actor. He was introduced to mainstream international audiences through his breakthrough performance as Fredrick Zoller, a Nazi German war hero in Quentin Tarantino's ''Inglourious Basterds'' (2009), and appearances in films like ''The Bourne Ultimatum (fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His style involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film they are working on. In 1961, when Herzog was 19, he started work on his first film Herakles (film), ''Herakles''. He has since produced, written, and directed over 60 films and documentaries such as ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'' (1972); ''The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser'' (1974); ''Heart of Glass (film), Heart of Glass'' (1976); ''Stroszek'' (1977); ''Nosferatu the Vampyre'' (1979); ''Fitzcarraldo'' (1982); ''Cobra Verde'' (1987); ''Lessons of Darkness'' (1992); ''Little Dieter Needs to Fly'' (1997); ''My Best Fiend'' (1999); Inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
