Filmfest München closes with prizes, rising admissions and chatter about future heads of German festivals

The festival closed on July 1.Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s experimental mix of documentary and fiction Four Daughters won the main €50,000 Arri award for best international film in the CineMasters competition at Filmfest München on July 1.The film’s German co-producer Thanassis Karathanos of Berlin-based Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion quipped he had written so many cheques to Arri in the past and it was nice to be having one now coming in the other direction, when accepting the award at the festival’s closing ceremony,Four Daughters is the second collaboration between Karathanos and Martin Hampel’s Twenty Twenty…

Read full article