12/08/2013 - A total of 37 German films and coproductions have been invited to the 37th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival (August 22 – September 2)

The fitting number of 37 German films and coproductions have been invited to the 37^th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival (August 22 – September 2), including two in the World Competition: Gregor Schnitzler'sGaming Instinct (Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktion), based on the prize-winning German bestseller by Juli Zeh and featuring two school-loners, the highly intelligent Ada and the fascinatingly demonic and manipulative Alev, and award-winning director Christian Schwochow's West (zero one film, TERZ Film, öFilm), in which a young mother leaves East Berlin for West Berlin after the death of her Russian boyfriend and gets interrogated by the secret service.

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Running in the Competition of Debut Films are John Kolya Reichart's Party of Eight(Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg), on a reunion of long-lost friends which turns sour, and Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld [+see also:
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The section World Greats features three German coproductions: Ludwig II [+see also:
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film profile]. The Focus on World Cinema includes no less than 18 titles with German participation, such as Franziska Buch's Adieu Paris [+see also:
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