24/08/2016 - German filmmaker Maren Ade will collect the award at the San Sebastián Film Festival

Toni Erdmann [+see also:
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Maren Ade is the first female director to carry off the award since its creation in 1999; former winners include reputed filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, Michael Haneke, Cristian Mungiu, Aki Kaurismäki, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Linklater and George Miller, among others.

Ade is a director, screenwriter and producer. Her debut film, The Forest for the Trees, won the Special Jury Prize in the World Cinema section at Sundance 2005. In 2009, she presented Everyone Else [+see also:
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Maren Ade will receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix at the San Sebastián Film Festival opening gala on Friday 16 September.