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

28.06.2024 to 06.07.2024
Karlovy Vary
17.01.2021 to 24.01.2021
Saarbruecken
14.11.2019 to 24.11.2019
Mannheim and Heidelberg
24.05.2019 to 01.06.2019
Zlín
06.11.2018 to 11.11.2018
Cottbus
11.09.2015 to 20.09.2015
Miskolc
26.10.2014 to 02.11.2014
Leipzig
14.05.2014 to 25.05.2014
Cannes
01.08.2012 to 11.08.2012
Locarno
07.10.2011 to 16.10.2011
Warsaw
04.02.2009 to 15.02.2009
Berlin
06.02.2002 to 17.02.2002
Berlin
10.02.1999 to 21.02.1999
Berlin
04.07.1997 to 12.07.1997
Karlovy Vary
10.02.1994 to 21.02.1994
Berlin