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German cinema travels through Brazil

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- November is now a German film month all over Brazil: after Salvador, the 'Panorama alemão' festival is going to Brasilia, Fortaleza, and Porto Alegre

German cinema travels through Brazil

German cinema currently has a major presence in the growing Brazilian market: not only was a German focus programmed at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival and 40 German films and co-productions shown at São Paulo, but there is now a yearly German festival travelling through four more cities: Panorama alemão.

After a successful debut last year, with around 3,200 spectators and very positive audience reactions, the second edition of the event is presenting ten new German award-winning features. The selection, which has just been screened in Salvador (October 31 - November 7), is now travelling to Brasilia (November 8 to 15), Fortaleza (November 14 to 21), and Porto Alegre (November 21 to 28). Most of the films being shown in the Panorama have already been programmed in the afore-mentioned festivals, but “we would like to also give those Brazilian audiences outside of the major festival cities the chance to get to know contemporary German cinema in all of its diversity,” says  Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films. The prestige of the selection is enhanced by the presence of various actors (such as Ulrich Tukur, from Exit Marrakech [+see also:
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– photo – and Houston [+see also:
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) and directors (including Two Lives [+see also:
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by Georg Maas).

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The selection covers various genres, subjects and approaches. It includes the German candidate for the foreign Oscar, Two Lives [+see also:
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(a German-Norwegian coproduction involving Zinnober Film and B&T Film), Oscar-winning director Caroline Link's Exit Marrakech (Desert Flower Filmproduktion, Erftal Film, B.A. Produktion, MTM West, StudioCanal), Bastian Günther's Houston (Lichtblick Media), Marc Rothemund's The Girl With Nine Wigs (Goldkind Film), Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld [+see also:
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(Walker+Worm Film, Lhasa Films), David Sieveking's Forget Me Not [+see also:
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(Lichtblick Media), Juliane Fezer's Silent Sea [+see also:
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(Julex Film), Stephan Lacant's Free Fall [+see also:
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(Kurhaus Production), Friederike Jehn's Summer Outside [+see also:
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(zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion), and Katrin Gebbe's intense Cannes UCR shocker Nothing Bad Can Happen [+see also:
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(Junafilm). A selection of six nominees and winners from the German Short Film Awards has also been programmed.

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