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RELEASES Germany

Here and There hits screens

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A Serbian in the United States who wants a visa for his girlfriend, and an American musician in difficulty in Serbia: this is the basis for Karlovy Vary-selected Serbian director Darko Lungulov’s debut feature Here and There [+see also:
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, which was released yesterday on German screens, with a dominant theme of dialogue and a sense of perspective (see interview).

Co-produced by Germany’s Penrose Film and distributed by Camino, the film, in which Cindy Lauper has a cameo role, is now a festival favourite. Meanwhile, its director is preparing his next project, Monument to Michael Jackson, about how US pop culture has taken root in Serbia.

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In Germany and Austria, Constantin is launching Ralf Huettner’s Vincent Wants To Sea, produced by Munich-based Olga Film. The film centres on Tourette’s syndrome sufferer Vincent (Florian David Fitz, also screenwriter), who wants to go scatter his mother’s ashes in the sea. The cast also includes Karoline Herfurth and Heino Ferch.

This week’s other new European releases are Philip Scheffner’s German political wildlife documentary The Day of the Sparrow (distributed by Arsenal); Miraz Bezar’s German/Turkish co-production Min Dît: The Children of Diyarbakir (distributed by Mîtosfilm); and superb French/Italian drama Wild Grass [+see also:
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, which earned master filmmaker Alain Resnais a Special Prize at Cannes and is being released by Schwarz Weiss .

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(Translated from French)

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