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Cinema Festival Brings New German Films to Macedonia



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8 October 2008 | The fourth edition of the Festival of New German Film opens tonight at 8 pm in Skopje’s Youth Cultural Centre with the screening of award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin’s film At the Edge of Heaven, national media reported today.

This year’s festival will take place in Skopje, Tetovo, Bitola and Štip and its programme will again include the latest films by some of Germany’s best directors, the Vecher newspaper reported. Some of them include the 2005 films Zeppelin! by director Gordian Maugg who will be present at the screening in Skopje, and Till Hastreiter’s Status Yo!, which will be presented by the director.

Until October 17, film aficionados will also be able to see Bettina Blümner’s Pool of Princesses, Hannes Stöhr’s One Day in Europe, Chris Kraus’s Four Minutes, which won the Gold Prize at the German Film Awards in 2007, Michael Schorr’s Schultze Gets the Blues and Robert Thalheim’s And Along Come Tourists.

The festival, according to Vecher, will be opened by Minister of Culture Elizabet Kancheska- Milevska and the German ambassador to Macedonia, Ulrike Knotz.

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