The UK's Dom Rotheroe, Brazil's Lais Bodanzky, Denmark's Anders Thomas Jensen and the USA's Michael Cuesta are among eleven first-time filmmakers invited by the Filmfest Hamburg to show their feature debuts in its tesafilm Festival sidebar and compete for the $13,975 (DM 30,000) "Golden tesafilm Reel".

Established in 1999 with financial support from the Beiersdorf corporation, the tesafilm Festival provides a forum of international up-and-coming directors to spend a week in Hamburg meeting each other and getting to know the local film and television industry.

The complete lineup of invited films competing for this year's "Golden tesafilm Reel" are:

Endstation: Tanke, dir: Nathalie Steinbart, Germany
Flickering Lights, dir: Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark
Brainstorm, dir: Lais Bodanzky, Brazil
The Business Of Strangers, dir: Patrick Stettner, USA
Les Jolies Choses, dir : Gilles Paquet-Brenner, France
L.I.E., dir: Michael Cuesta, USA
L'Afrance, dir : Alain Gomis, France
Late Marriage, dir: Dover Kosashvili, Israel/ France
Miss Wonton, dir: Meng Ong, USA/ Singapore
My Brother Tom, dir: Dom Rotheroe, Great Britain
Bungee Jumping Of Their Own, dir: Kim Dae-seung, South Korea