The Circuit

Variety's Christian Koehl has the lineup for the Muenster Film Festival in Cologne.  This year it's all about work:

To have work, to look for it, to find it, to find fulfillment in it, to suffer from it or to drop out. Work is the theme of this year’s European Feature Film Competition... There’s life, love and hatred in film — where the money comes from is most often shrouded in mystery. This isn’t the case in the eight feature films nominated for the Münster Film Prize worth €10,000 for best director: work plays no minor role in these, be they thriller, music film or social drama.

Appropriately, John Carney's "Once" is up for the award.

Take out the "e" in a Google search and you'll get Muenster's bizzaro twin - a film festival held by a bunch of slackers in Ottawa, going strong for six years:

The Munster Film Festival is held in Ottawa each year... the entrants to which are typically just my friends and I.  There are no prizes, or judges, or audience other than ourselves.