German Co-productions Heavily Represented in Cannes This Year

Germany seems to already be the winner for having the most coproductions represented in the Cannes Film Festival and its sidebars.

The Berlin production company X-Filme Creative Pool has Competition film The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) by the Munich-born director Michael Haneke (a German-Austrian-French-Italian coproduction).

Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a division of Studio Babelsberg AG, is the German producer of the competition entry from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (a US-German coproduction).

Also screening in this year's Competition is Lars von Trier's Antichrist (a Danish-German-French-Swedish-Italian coproduction). The film's German co-producer is Zentropa International, with Heimatfilm as service producer.

The Israeli-French-German coproduction Jaffa by Keren Yedaya will be shown in the Official Program's Special Screenings . The German producer is Rohfilm.

The co-production Eyes Wide Open by Haim Tabakman (Israeli-German-French) will be presented in the Official Program's Un Certain Regard . Riva Film is the German co-producer of the film.

Independencia by Raya Martin (a French-German-Philippine coproduction) and The Wind Journeys (Los Viajes del Viento) by Ciro Guerra (a Colombia-German-Dutch coproduction) can also be seen in this section, both co-produced by Germany's Razor Film Produktion.

27 Films Production, is the German producer of Un Certain Regard entry, Le pere de mes enfants, by Mia Hansen-Løve (a French-German coproduction).

The Critics’ Week will be presenting Cologne-based Pandora Film's co-production Huacho by Alejandro Fernández Almendras (a French-Chilean-German coproduction).

Altiplano, the first breakout film of Helen Loveridge's new international sales agency Meridiana by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (a Belgian-German-Dutch coproduction), co-produced by ma.ja.de fiction, will also be screened in The Critics' Week.

Another co-production in the Critics’ Week is Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe (a Belgian-Dutch-Hungarian-German coproduction), ZDF/Arte and Network Movie are the German partners.

Also screening in this section is the short Together by Eicke Bettinga (a German-UK coproduction), Piggott-Bettinga Filmproduktion.

This year will also see the Critics’ Week presenting the results of the workshop for European filmmakers CINETRAIN. Filmmakers from different countries worked together on six shorts on a specific subject. Florian Krebs from Germany is one of the three directors of the short McRussia.

The Directors’ Fortnight is showing the Israeli-German coproduction Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. German coproducer is Berlin based Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion.









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