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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.

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In his retrospect of the festival, Peter Paul Huth highlights, above all, the films in the Cannes Classics series.
Die Preisverleihung in Cannes endete mit einer Überraschung. Paweł Pawlikowski mit „Fatherland“ und Ryusuke Hamaguchi mit „Soudain“ waren die Favoriten, die beim Ranking der Kritiker in Führung lagen, dicht gefolgt von Andrej Svjagincev mit „Minotaur“.

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16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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