Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Joachim A Lang, starring Lars Eidinger as famous playwright Bertolt Brecht as he attempts to adapt The Threepenny Opera for the silver screen at the end of the 1920s while standing firm against commercial demands, will today have the honour of opening the 23rd German Film Festival. Unspooling until 9 October in Paris, at the Arlequin cinema, the German Films-organised event will include a "Cinema of Today" programme, which presents a selection of ten features representative of the crème de la crème of recent German film production, to be shown in the presence of their directors. 

Standing out on the schedule are All Good [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Eva Trobisch (crowned Best First Feature at Locarno after it took home several trophies from Munich), the Cannes title In My Room [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ulrich Köhler
ficha de la película] by Ulrich Köhler, Different Kinds of Rain [+lee también:
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entrevista: Isa Prahl
ficha de la película] by Isa Prahl (awarded Best Debut Film at Tallinn) and Rock My Heart [+lee también:
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entrevista: Emilio Sakraya
ficha de la película] by Hanno Olderdissen (Young Audience Award at this year’s TIFF Kids International Film Festival in Toronto). Other titles on the menu include Gundermann [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by seasoned filmmaker Andreas Dresen, Iceman [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Felix Randau (revealed at Locarno on the Piazza Grande), the Hitchcockian thriller Four Hands [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Oliver Kienle and two movies that were unveiled at the most recent Berlinale: 303 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Hans Weingartner and the documentary Central Airport THF [+lee también:
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entrevista: Karim Aïnouz
ficha de la película] by Karim Aïnouz.

The German Film Festival has this year chosen to give pride of place to young actress Liv Lisa Fries through two films and, in particular, the series Babylon Berlin. Lastly, the gathering’s agenda also includes a selection of the best of this year’s short films made in German film schools (Next Generation) and some of the winners of the Short Tiger Award, bestowed upon the best short films under five minutes long.