BERLIN -- With its revamped and sharper focus on German films, the Berlin Intl. Film Festival's new sidebar, Perspektive Deutsches Kino (Perspectives German Cinema), is showcasing 11 alternative and cutting-edge works by mostly first-time filmmakers.
Meanwhile, the more mainstream German Cinema section is offering a look at home-grown hits like "Manitou's Shoe" and "The Experiment."
Most of the 20 German Cinema titles are commercial pics with international market potential. About half of them already have been released domestically, including Ralf Huettner's "Moonlight Tariff," "Girls on Top" by Dennis Gansel and Ben Verbong's "The Slurb."
Perspectives, on the other hand, is "a vast overview of our local talent, filmmakers to watch and the various genres they are working in," sidebar director Alfred Holighaus said.
The section includes documentaries, features and experimental films and is open to the general public as well as attendees. Below is list of the pics and helmers featured in the sections.
Perspective Deutsches Kino (Perspectives German Cinema)"Abosolut Warhola" (Documentary) Stanislaw Mucha
"Detective Lovelorn" Thomas Frick
"80,000 Shots" Manfred Walther
"Der Glanz von Berlin" (Documentary) Antje Kruska, Judith Keil
"Happiness is a Warm Gun" Thomas Imbach
"Fickende Fische" Almut Getto
"Mein Kleines Kind" (Documentary) Katja Baumgarten
"Mutanten" Katalin Goedroes
"99 Euro-Films" Various
"Planet B: The Antman" Christoph Gampl
"Verrueckt nach Paris" ("Crazy for Paris") Eike Besuden, Pago Balke
German Cinema Section"Annas Sommer" Jeanine Meerapfel
"Black Box Germany" (Documentary) Andreas Veiel
"Endstation Tanke" Natalie Steinbart
"Engel & Joe" Vanessa Jopp
"The Experiment" Oliver Hirschbiegel
"Girls on Top" Dennis Gansel
"Herz Ueber Kopf" Michael Gutmann
"Die Hoffnung Stirbt Zuletzt" Marc Rothemund
"Love - The Hard Way" Peter Sehr
"Manitou's Shoe" Michael Herbig
"Mein Bruder der Vampir" Sven Taddicken
"Mondscheintarif" Ralf Huettner
"Mostly Martha" Sandra Nettelbeck
"Never Mind the Wall" ("Wie Feuer und Flamme") Connie Walther
"Nichts Bereuen" Benjamin Quabeck
"Planet der Kannibalen" H.C. Blumenberg
"Sass - Die Meisterdiebe" Carlo Rola
"The Slurb" Ben Verbong
"Toter Mann" Christian Petzold
"12 Past Midnight" Bernd Michael Lade
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