Films by Pawel Pawlikowski, Valeska Grisebach and Skinner Myers are among the 48 titles selected by the Munich International Film Festival (June 26 - July 5) for its four main competition strands CineMasters, CineVision, CineRebels and CineCoPro.
CineMasters
Following their world premieres in Cannes last month, Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster, Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All Of A Sudden will be in the running in the CineMasters competition for the €15,000 CineMasters Award which is being sponsored for the first time by Munich’s trade fair organisation Messe München and will be presented to the producers of the best international film.
The 12-title line-up also includes Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel’s first documentary Landmarks (Nuestra tierra), which had its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival, and Visar Morina’s Shame and Money, a grand jury prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Morina will also be in Munich this year as a jury member for the German Cinema new talent award competition.
CineVision
Twelve international films by emerging directors have been selected for the CineVision sidebar’s competition, with a €10,000 cash prize presented to the winning film.
This line-up includes the world premiere of Iranian director Ehsan Noortanquan’s Daydreaming Lullabies, Ramzi Baskour’s comedy drama Hot Water, which premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at Sundance in January, US writer-director-producer-actress Emily Robinson’s horror film Ugly Cry, and UK director Molly Manners’ Extra Geography, which also premiered at Sundance and is based on a short story by Rose Tremain.
CineRebels
Meanwhile, Pete Ohs’s Poland-set relationship drama Erupcja, Jane Schönbrunn’s slasher film Teenage Sex And Death at Camp Miasma, which was this year’s opening film of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, and Munich’s world premiere of Skinner Myers’ avant-garde horror-thriller Moodswing Whiskey are among the 12 titles selected for the CineRebels competition which is dedicated to “format breakers, film adventurers and cinephile film taste”.
The €15,000 award is sponsored by car manufacturer Audi.
CineCoPro award
The Filmfest’s fourth main competitive strand sees the German production partners of 12 international co-productions in the running for the CineCoPro award.
The line-up includes Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, the Filmfest’s opening film on the evening of June 27, the world premiere of Moldovan-born filmmaker Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu’s Transit Times, Valeska Grisebach’s Cannes prizewinner The Dreamed Adventure, and Greek filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani’s Titanic Ocean, which world premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
The cash prize of €100,000 is from the Bavarian regional film fund FFF Bayern, with the support of the Bavarian State Chancellery, to be invested in a future co-production. The winning German co-producer will be decided by an independent jury of three producers: the UK’s Kate Solomon, Fred Burle of Berlin-based One Two Films and Tobias Walker of Munich-based Walker + Worm.
The juries of these four competitions will announce their winners at an awards ceremony on Saturday, July 4.
Meanwhile, US actor David Duchovny will be honoured with the CineMerit Award at the festival. He will also present this year’s closing film, the international premiere of Jay Duplass’ See You When I See You, in which he stars.
The festival will premiere 130 films in total, among them 28 world premieres. It is also hosting more than 70 events in its Industry Days programme for film industry professionals.
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