15/06/2011

This year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 15 – 26) has invited two German films and a fancy selection of coproductions to participate in its different sections.

Running in the international feature competition are the bicultural comedy Almanya [+see also:
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interview: Yasemin Samderely
film profile] by Yasemin Samdereli (Roxy Filmproduktion) and four coproductions : Pablo Larraín's Post Mortem [+see also:
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film profile] (coproduced with Mexico), Xavier Gens' The Divide, the Berlinale-awarded Turin Horse [+see also:
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interview: Béla Tarr
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film profile], by his talented fellow-contryman Kornél Mundruzcó.

The international documentary competition will be screening Lorenz Knauer's Jane's Journey [+see also:
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film profile], as well as the German/Finnish movie Mama Africa [+see also:
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film profile] by Mika Kaurismäki, and Ali Samadi Ahadi's The Green Wave [+see also:
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The Perspectives sidebar presents two German/American titles, Jerzy Skolimowksi's Deep End and Jim Jarmusch's famous Stranger Than Paradise, as well as the British/German coproduction The Last of England by Derek Jarman.