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The 41st Munich International Film Festival is showing six Hessian projects, three of which are in the running for the New German Cinema Award with a total of eight nominations.

»Focus Germany meets UK and Ireland«

German Films and FOCUS Germany appearing together at the »German Pavilion«, the platform for the German film scene at the Festival de Cannes (14 – 25 May, 2024).

The six-part ARD dramedy has won »Best Series«, »Best Music« and the »High School Award For Best Series« - congratulations!

Thomas Wendrich has won the screenplay prize at Series Mania in Lille for »Herrhausen – The Banker and The Bomb«.

The program of the 74th Film Festival is complete: We are looking forward to the horror film »Cuckoo« by Tilman Singer in the »Berlinale Special Gala 2024« section, «Elbow« by Aslı Özarslan in the Generation 14plus competition as well as »Shahid« by Narges Kalhor and »Well Ordered Nature« by Eva C. Heldmann in the Berlinale Forum.

»Gotteskinder« by Frauke Lodders, »Milchzähne« by Sophia Bösch and »Exile never ends« by Bahar Bektaş are screening in the competition program of the Saarbrücken festival for young filmmakers.

Maren Wiese and Petra Stipetić have won the 3,500 euro prize in the regional competition at the Kassel Dokfest. In this year's edition, 135 films and videos were submitted for the Golden Hercules.