Guido Convents
Historian and anthropologist
Country of origin:
Belgium
Specialist of African and Belge cinema
Dissertation on the first years of cinema in Belgium
Director of Communication and Coordinator of the Cinema Desk of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication
Articles
For more than forty years the film festival Max Ophüls Preis in the German city of Saarbrücken presents films produced by young talented filmmakers from German speaking countries. It wants to discover and to promote the “newest” films from this cultural area. There is more. The festival was founded in 1980 which means at a time when the German film industry received a new boost thanks to the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962.
Festivals
14.11.2019 to 24.11.2019
Mannheim and Heidelberg