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Date: November 17 - 26, 2023

Since 2012 German Films is organizing the Festival of German Films in China together with the Goethe Institut Beijing. The official program of the 11th edition will be shown this year at the Goethe Institute in Beijing. In addition there is a special screening at the German Embassy School with German director Aelrun Goette.

The opening film of this years Festival of German Films in China will be WHEN WILL IT BE LIKE IT NEVER WAS BEFORE followed by live Q&A with director Sonja Heiss.

 

List of screened films:
WHEN WILL IT BE AGAIN LIKE IT NEVER WAS BEFORE by Sonja Heiss
IN A LAND THAT NO LONGER EXISTS by Aelrun Goette (Special Screening in Nanjing with Aelrun Goette on site)
IN THE BLIND SPOT by Ayşe Polat
MITTAGSSTUNDE by Lars Jessen
MUSIC by Angela Schanelec
ONE LAST EVENING by Lukas Nathrath
THE ORDINARIES by Sophie Linnenbaum

COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS by Alice Agneskirchner
DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob
NO, I DO by Claudia Sárkány
SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN by Steffi Niederzoll
THE FOREST MAKER by Volker Schlöndorff

 

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Since 2018 German Films is organizing Industry Screenings in Asia to present the newest German feature films and documentaries to buyers in Japan, China and South Korea. The latest Industry Screenings took place in March and April 2022 in Tokyo and Beijing and welcomed over 50 buyers from Japan and China. The event took place @Eurolive in Tokyo and @Broadway Cinema and was organized together with the Goethe Institut Tokyo and our foreign representative for China Anke Redl.

FILMART - Meet us under the European Film Promotion Umbrella

FILMART is one of the most important audiovisual trade fairs in Hong Kong and Asia one of key destinations for the export of European films. 

Since 2011, EFP has been running EUROPE! UMBRELLAs for world sales companies and EFP members at Hong Kong's renowned and well-established film trade FILMART that takes place in March each year. Since 2020 FILMART is held online. As long-term supporter German Films is supporting the umbrella as well as the participation of German World Sales.
Find more information here: Website EFP

Horizonte German Film Festival by Goethe Institut Tokyo: Website

Kino/23 German Film Festival: Website

Festivals

A-Festivals & Other Important Festivals

  1. International Film Festival of India, Goa (A-Festival; India)
  2. Shanghai International Film Festival (A-Festival; China)
  3. Tokyo International Film Festival (A-Festival; Japan)
  4. Busan International Film Festival (South Korea)

For further information about A-Festivals, please contact Sylva Häutle.

Other Asian Film Festivals

(selection by German Films)

Your festival is in Asia, and you are interested in the selection of German films for your program? Then please get in touch with our Head of Regional Desk Fides Stark. 

You can apply for travel support if you and your film are invited to a festival abroad.
Please find more information here.