All Munich Film Festival articles
-
NewsMunich Film Up! mentoring programme unveils 2023 participants (exclusive)
The selected participants have all recently graduated from film school and are hoping to develop their feature debut.
-
NewsFilmfest München closes with prizes, rising admissions and chatter about future heads of German festivals
The festival closed on July 1.
-
NewsFirst trailer for Munich Film Festival drama ‘Black Box’ (exclusive)
Asli Özge’s film opened the New German Cinema section at Munich
-
NewsGerman film industry proposes major changes to €370m funding system
German culture minister Claudia Roth is readying a major revision to Germany’s Film Law (the FFG).
-
Reviews‘Sweet Sue’: Munich Review
Leo Leigh’s spiky feaure debut stars Maggie O’Neill as an older woman looking for love
-
Reviews‘The Dive’: Munich Review
A diver fights to save her sister trapped under the waves in this claustrophobic English-language thriller from Germany.
-
FeaturesLeo Leigh talks ‘Sweet Sue’, improvising with the cast and the influence of his famous dad
‘Sweet Sue’ is the debut feature of Mike Leigh’s son Leo Leigh.
-
NewsSpanish love story ‘Notes On A Summer’ secures key deal to Germany
Patra Spanou Film has international rights to the debut film by Diego Llorente.
-
NewsBavaria launches Germany’s first gender and intern incentives to tackle inequity and skills shortage
Bavaria’s FFF Bayern has unveiled a €300,000 incentive for projects that employ two women in three roles of producer, director or writer.
-
Reviews‘Black Box’: Munich Review
A security lockdown puts the residents of a Berlin apartment block under increasing pressure in this tense ensemble drama
-
FeaturesDiana Iljine and Christoph Gröner reveal how the international focus of Filmfest München is evolving
The festival feature six world premieres of international films.
-
NewsVisit Films boards ‘Edge Of Everything’ ahead of Filmest München world premiere (exclusive)
Los Angeles-based writer-director duo Sophia Sabella and Pablo Feldman make feature debut.
-
NewsFilmfest München 2023 to launch world premieres of six international features
Titles include Vincent Perez’s ‘The Edge Of The Blade’ and Leo Leigh’s ‘Sweet Sue’.
-
News‘Black Box’, ‘The Dive’, ‘Shock’ among buzzy German titles premiering at Filmfest Munchen
They will screen as part of the New German Films line-up at the 40th edition of the German festival later this month.
-
NewsMunich Film Up! mentoring programme unveils participants for second edition (exclusive)
This is the second edition of the mentoring and residency programme for emerging filmmakers
-
NewsSophie Linnenbaum’s ‘The Ordinaries’ triumphs at Filmfest München
The sci-fi satire is Sophie Linnenbaum’s graduation film.
-
NewsGerman-French Funding Commission backs four projects, all by women directors
The biggest recipient is Valeska Grisebach’s fourth feature ‘The Dreamt Adventurer’ (working title).
-
NewsProducers explore UK-German co-production opportunities at Filmfest München
Inaugural conference heard from UK and German co-producers.
-
Reviews‘The Ordinaries’: Munich Review
Filmmaker Sophie Linnenbaum makes an inventive debut with this political satire set in a parallel cinematic world
-
Reviews‘Paloma’: Munich Review
Kika Sena puts in an exceptional performance as a Brazilian trans woman desperate for a church wedding