TheEuropean representatives of such US distributors as New Line Cinema, TheWeinstein Company, Paramount Vantage, Miramax and Liaison Films will be amongthe 50 international film buyers attending the German Films' Munich Previewsshowcase.

Theshowcase, being held in cooperation with the Munich Film Festival for the thirdtime, will run July 13-16.

Othercompanies confirmed are the UK's Soda Pictures, Poland's Kino Swiat, Mexico's Constellation Pictures,Hungary's Budapest Film, and Russia's Most Media as well assix buyers from Italy including Istituto Luce, BIM Distribuzioneand Medusa Film.

Thebuyers will be able to see new films by Marcus H. Rosenmueller (Wer Frueher Stirbt, Ist Laenger Tot), Franziska Stuenkel (Vineta - The Secret Project) and Sven Taddicken (Emmas Glueck), which are having their world premieres at theMunich Film Festival, as well as Chris Kraus' drama Four Minutes which won Best Feature Film prize at last week'sShanghai International Film Festival, and Matthias Luthardt'sCannes Critics' Week success Pingpong.

ThePreviews' programme of 18 titles also includes Joachim Masannek'sfamily film hit The Wild Soccer Bunch 3,Christian Ditter's romantic comedy French ForBeginners, Angelina Maccarone's drama Hounded, Petra Katharina Wagner's love story Maria To Callas and GregorSchnitzler's coming-of-age story/nuclear drama The Cloud.

Apartfrom the Previews, the buyers will also be invited to meet the local Munich film scene at the FilmFestival's opening film Winter Journeyon July 14 and the Bavarian Film & Television Fund's 10th anniversary partyon July 15.