Canadian director David Cronenberg will receive the Douglas Sirk Award at this year's Filmfest Hamburg, running Sept 27 to Oct 4. Festival opens with best-selling author Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's directorial debut Odette Toulemonde.
The award in recognition of Cronenberg's 'outstanding contribution to cinema' will be presented to the director on the evening of September 28 before the German premiere of his latest film Eastern Promises.
Previous winners of the Douglas Sirk Award have included Jodie Foster, Wong Kar-wai, Isabelle Huppert and François Ozon.
Among the titles already confirmed for the Filmfest's programme are Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parannaud's Persepolis, Laurent Salques' Dreams Of Dust, Anton Corbijn's Control, Nadav Shirman's The Champagne Spy and Alexei Balabanov's Cargo 200.
The Children's Filmfest sidebar will open with Swedish filmmaker Nanna Houlman's That Special Summer and close with the world premiere of Florian Baxmeyer's English-language family entertainment film The Three Investigators and The Secret Of Skeleton Island which Walt Disney Pictures is releasing in Germany in November.
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