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Starting this year, the CineWaves will be the motif gracing the awards presented at Munich’s international film festival. This new design is inspired by water and its motion, reflecting the city’s joie de vivre and FILMFEST MÜNCHEN’s aim of attracting large audiences and offering something new that will inspire, captivate, and astonish them each time.

“FILMFEST MÜNCHEN has given itself a fresh iconography inspired by one of Munich’s most scenic locations: the incomparable Isar River. The flow of the water is inspiring and surprising. It constantly delivers something new. It encourages interaction and refreshment, especially in the summer,” say festival director Christoph Gröner and artistic co-director Julia Weigl.

FILMFEST MÜNCHEN sees itself as a festival for the public as well as a meeting place for the industry. Every year, new trends and developments — currents — in filmmaking are presented in a casual summery setting where new networks and friendships are formed.

New awards with international appeal

The new design centers around the CineWaves, a motif for the awards which suggests modernity and timelessness in a clear and streamlined fashion. For the first time in its history, the festival is harmonizing its awards, which are increasingly enjoying international appeal.

This year will once again see the world premieres of numerous German and international films at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN.

Working with the C100 design studio, FILMFEST MÜNCHEN has developed an iconography that stands for the qualities at the heart of FILMFEST MÜNCHEN: meeting people, continually (re)discovering motion pictures and those who make them, and being inspired by ideas, experiments, and innovations.

The design is based on footage of flowing water which was intentionally distorted by non-binary artist PPPANIK using a play of colors and other effects, thus becoming a cinematic statement in itself. We’re drawn into a summery, lush, blue-green colorscape that will remind everyone in Munich of the Isar, the Eisbach, and the English Garden.

Making waves at the opening gala

During the festival period from June 28 to July 7, all of Munich’s cinematic events will reflect this design, which will be featured prominently at the opening at the Gasteig HP8. On Saturday, June 29, FILMFEST MÜNCHEN will hold its festive opening gala — with a film and thousands of guests who will already be making waves on the first weekend of the festival.