Germany will be the guest country at the 69th SEMINCI

Germany will be the Guest Country in the 2024 edition of the Valladolid International Film Festival, following the innovative structure that the festival established last year for the national retrospectives, past and present will be in dialogue through films belonging to the New German Cinema (with works by Win Wenders, Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, as well as lesser-known but equally stimulating auteurs such as Elfi Mikesch, Helma Sanders-Brahms and Sohrab Shahid Saless) and films from the last 20 years, including Berlin School icons such as Ghosts (Christian Petzold), Western (Valeska Grisebach) and The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade).

A bridge between modernity and contemporaneity that focuses on the most audacious voices of German cinema, having emotional warmth and humanism as common denominators between all the selected works.

In addition, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (eds.) will publish the book ‘Mirror of Passions. German Cinema, the 1970s and the 21st Century: Modern/Contemporary’, coordinated by Carlos Losilla.

Titles:

• Table for Love (Edgar Reitz, 1967)
• It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (Rosa von Praunheim,1971)
• Alice in the Cites (Wim Wenders, 1974)
• Time of Maturity (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1975)
• Shirin’s Wedding (Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1976)
• Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, 1976)
• Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta, 1981)
• Macumba (Elfi Mikesch, 1982)
• Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder,1982)
• The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade, 2003)
• Ghosts (Christian Petzold, 2005)
• Windows on Monday (Ulrich Köhler, 2006)
• Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
• The Last to See Them (Sara Summa, 2019)
• Piaffe (Ann Oren, 2022)
• Nightsongs (Romuald Karmakar, 2004)
• Head on (Fatih Akin, 2004)