German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta will be honoured with the European Film Academy’s lifetime achievement award at the 35th European Film Awards.
The director will receive the accolade at the ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on December 10 where she will be an honorary guest.
Von Trotta was a leading figure of New German Cinema and her body of work as a filmmaker includes titles like Marianne & Julianne (aka The German Sisters), which won Venice’s Golden Lion in 1981, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse, Hannah Ardent and the 2018 documentary Searching For Ingmar Bergman.
Previous winners of the European Film Academy’s lifetime achievement award include Werner Herzog, Stephen Frears and Judi Dench.
Earlier this month, the the organisation announced the first wave of films in the running for the awards.
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