The lightness of being in Munich has made its way again.
After slight hesitation and despite the changing forces of nature - Doris Dörrie's open-air premiere was emptied by the weather gods - the cinema industry is again drawing hope.
The ten-day meeting of audiences, actors and filmmakers from all over the world ended almost euphorically exuberant.
There was not a conversation that did not deal with the fact that the shared film experience in the cinema is a dimension of experience that the medium cannot do without.
That of Klaus Lemke, whose best-of-homage of his films under the title: "Champagne for the eyes - poison for the rest" cheered the audience, so gladly ad absurdum Isar flickering prevailed.
Ukrainian and Russian filmmakers marveled at the knowledgeable and compassionate questions from the Munich audience at the panels.
The children's film festival with the opening film "Räuber Hotzenplotz" and Minions performances at the Film and Television University was enthusiastically received.
"All in all, our expectations were exceeded with over 50,000 visitors," says Diana Iljine, director of the film festival.
That she acted as manager of a reduced budget with 120 films from 55 countries,
The state of Bavaria and the city of Munich negotiate
But what is ultimately due to the fact that the two major shareholders, the state of Bavaria and the city of Munich, after gentle hints at this point, came back to negotiations, which resulted in a significant increase in the budget for the anniversary film festival (the 40th) in should culminate next year.
Iljine is looking forward to "more than inflation compensation" after "everyone counted thousands" this year.
It turns out that in times of crisis, a certain gratitude and solidarity from filmmakers at the film festival makes things and encounters possible that would otherwise not exist.
Veronica Ferres pulls the strings behind the scenes, Maria Furtwangler offers to help, and internationally acclaimed Vicky Krieps is eternally grateful that the 2011 Munich Film Festival was her stepping stone to great career.
And for years there was a certain taste when the Munich Film Festival made use of German television films - which was rewarded by the audience with sold-out cinemas - but in times when the streaming services are turning high-quality series into new cinemas, an artistic combination of series comes together and movie.
The series rightly become the focus of interest or are awarded the first Bernd Burgemeister Prize for series (worth 25,000 euros), such as “King of Stonks”.
The Netflix series shows Matthias Brandt deliberately hilarious as the boss of the dubious online financial service provider Cable Cash.
Or the competitor Sky, which is constantly chasing the music: At the broadcaster's screening in the G-7 Hotel Bayerischer Hof, which has been converted into a fortress, reference was made to sixty new productions,
including the Olympic assassination commemoration day series "Munich Games", the Franz-Beckenbauer homage "Der Kaiser", which has not yet given Beckenbauer his blessing, or the paranormal series "Souls", which does justice to high standards, in which Julia Koschitz can show new sides of themselves.
International interest should only be a matter of time.
The ARD/Arte co-production “Lauchhammer”, which is set in Lusatia and will be shown at the end of the year, also gives rise to high hopes.
When Amazon studio boss Philip Pratt moans about "felt 50 degrees" at the 2nd Amazon Studios Brotzeitbrettl in Munich's Parkcafé, that's just the prelude to the in-house production "Damaged Goods", with and by Sophie Passmann, which premiered at the film festival.
or the paranormal series "Souls", which meets high standards, in which Julia Koschitz is allowed to show new sides of herself.
International interest should only be a matter of time.
The ARD/Arte co-production “Lauchhammer”, which is set in Lusatia and will be shown at the end of the year, also gives rise to high hopes.
When Amazon studio boss Philip Pratt moans about "felt 50 degrees" at the 2nd Amazon Studios Brotzeitbrettl in Munich's Parkcafé, that's just the prelude to the in-house production "Damaged Goods", with and by Sophie Passmann, which premiered at the film festival.
or the paranormal series "Souls", which meets high standards, in which Julia Koschitz is allowed to show new sides of herself.
International interest should only be a matter of time.
The ARD/Arte co-production “Lauchhammer”, which is set in Lusatia and will be shown at the end of the year, also gives rise to high hopes.
When Amazon studio boss Philip Pratt moans about "felt 50 degrees" at the 2nd Amazon Studios Brotzeitbrettl in Munich's Parkcafé, that's just the prelude to the in-house production "Damaged Goods", with and by Sophie Passmann, which premiered at the film festival.
which takes place in Lausitz and will be shown at the end of the year.
When Amazon studio boss Philip Pratt moans about "felt 50 degrees" at the 2nd Amazon Studios Brotzeitbrettl in Munich's Parkcafé, that's just the prelude to the in-house production "Damaged Goods", with and by Sophie Passmann, which premiered at the film festival.
which takes place in Lausitz and will be shown at the end of the year.
When Amazon studio boss Philip Pratt moans about "felt 50 degrees" at the 2nd Amazon Studios Brotzeitbrettl in Munich's Parkcafé, that's just the prelude to the in-house production "Damaged Goods", with and by Sophie Passmann, which premiered at the film festival.
One of the world's largest distributors told her on the fringes of the film festival that "Munich is a brand", recognized and important, says Diana Iljine.
There was one fly in the ointment: The police prematurely ended the closing party in front of the America House.
Local residents had complained about the noise.
The film festival has not yet reached all of Munich's residents - at least not in a positive way.