2nd Festival of German Cinema in Budapest from 21 – 24 September 2006

The winner of the Tiscali Audience Award and the Lion’s Award in Rotterdam 2006 EDEN will open the 2nd Festival of German Cinema in Budapest on 21 September 2006. The director Michael Hofmann will be there to present his film to the Hungarian audience and the press.

Other films in the program include: REQUIEM by Hans-Christian Schmid, THE RED COCKATOO (DER ROTE KAKADU) by Dominik Graf, TOUGH ENOUGH (KNALLHART) by Detlev Buck, the children’s film THE ROBBER HOTZENPLOTZ (DER RAEUBER HOTZENPLOTZ) by Gernot Roll, the TV movie MARIA'S LAST JOURNEY (MARIAS LETZTE REISE) by Rainer Kaufmann and Marc Bauder’s documentary LAST TO KNOW (JEDER SCHWEIGT VON ETWAS ANDEREM).

The main program will be complemented by German Films’ successful short film program NEXT GENERATION 2006.

This selection of new German films gives the Hungarian audience an opportunity to view Germany in a different light - from political events of the past - which not only changed Europe but also the world - through to the very personal search for self-determination in the last moments of life.



The first Festival of German Cinema in Budapest was a great success last year, where three of the five films shown were sold to Hungarian distributors. And there is a good chance of repeating the success of 2005 with this year's film selection.