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Twelve excellent German films screened at KinoFest film festival

Twelve selected German films of different genres will be screened at the 2022 KinoFest film festival from February 18 to March 31.
Twelve excellent German films screened at KinoFest film festival ảnh 1Excellent German-made films will be screened at the KinoFest film festival. (Photo courtesy of the producer)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Twelve selected German films of different genreswill be screened at the 2022 KinoFest film festival from February 18 to March31.

The film festival is being organised by eight Goethe institutions in SoutheastAsia on an online platform called Goethe-On-Demand.

The films set to be screened during this two-week long film festival includeFabian Or Going To The Dogs by Dominik Graf, Draw A Line - Richard Siegal andthe Ballet of Difference by Benedict Mirow, Curveball by Johannes Naber, FreeCountry by Christian Alvart, The Royal Game by Philipp Stoelzl, and Whiskeywith Vodka by Andreas Dresden, among others.

The event also includes three documentaries, including Cleaners by Hans Blockand Moritz Riesewieck, Dear Future Children by Franz Böhm, and the BerlinaleFilm Festival-winning film Mr. Bachmann and His Class by Maria Speth.

Notably, the films are shown online forfree and translated into five languages: English, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian,and Burmese.

The organisation of an online film festival, in addition to ensuring theprevention and control of the pandemic, also aims to bring films to audiencesin rural areas, creating conditions for them to evaluate and criticise movies.

Through the films, the audience can understand more about the country,contemporary people and development of German cinema./.
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