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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.

Festivals

Current issues

Annette Gjerde-Hansen, Norwegian President of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes 2026, writes about the background of the jury's decision to award Cristian Mungiu's "Fjord" with their prize.
In his retrospect of the festival, Peter Paul Huth highlights, above all, the films in the Cannes Classics series.

Events

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

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