20/01/2014 - Rotterdam will introduce Jan Schomburg's second feature, amongst other German selections

Lose My Self [+see also:
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The competition, which includes only first and second films, will be opened by the German co-production Qissa [+see also:
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The Bright Future sidebar will introduce the road movie Oilfields Mines Hurricanes by Fabian Altenried, produced by bildundtonfabrik and the Schuldenberg Foundation, as well as Grzegorz Muskala's Whispers Behind the Wall (One Two Films, DFFB).

In the section titled "The State of Europe – My Own Private Europe", Cynthia Beatt will show A House in Berlin (Heartbeatt Pictures). Julian Radlmaier will present A Proletarian Winter's Tale (DFFB) in "The State of Europe – Grand Tour". Spectrum is featuring the German/Thai film Supernatural by Thunska Pansittivorakul (coproduced by Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion), and Spectrum Shorts includes several German titles.

Finally, Rotterdam is dedicating a retrospective to the German documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz.