ARTE co-productions at the 45th Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2024 (PHOTO)

2024-01-21 09:07:09

Strasbourg (ots) – The 45th edition of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival starts next Monday in Saarbrücken and will again offer a wide range of films until January 28th.

ARTE is represented in the feature film competition section with three co-productions and in the side series MOP series, short film series Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris “Out of Breath/À Bout de Souffle” and Tribute: Christian Schwochow with a further 8 co-productions. The competition programs will be performed in seven venues in Saarbrücken and Saarland and will also be available via a streaming service on the festival’s homepage (www.ffmop.de) to see.

Feature film competition

Gotteskinder

Film by Frauke Lodders

NDR/ARTE, Kinescope Film, Magic Media Production

Germany 2024, 120 mins.

Beyond the blue border

Film by Sarah Neumann

SWR/ARTE, Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Wood Water Films

Germany 2024, 102 mins.

milk teeth

Film by Sophia Bösch

SWR/ARTE/SR/SWR/SRF/SRG, Weydemann Bros, Dschoint Ventschr film production

Germany 2024, 97 mins.

Further ARTE co-productions are shown in the side series:

MOP Series

Haus Kummerveldt

Film by Mark Lorei

ZDF/ARTE, Outside The Club GmbH

Germany 2022, 6 episodes of 18-24 minutes each

Short film series Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris “Out of breath/À Bout de Souffle”

Cryptid

Short film by Amina Krami

SWR/ARTE, Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Germany 2023, 8 mins.

Melodies of Barking Dogs

Short film by Daniel Huss

SWR/ARTE, Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Germany 2023, 9 min.

Paranus

Short film by Lena Strohmeier

SWR/ARTE, Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Germany 2023, 10 min.

Salon Spitz

Short film by Maxi Antonia Stumpp

SWR/ARTE, Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Germany 2023, 9 min.

Tribute: Christian Schwochow

The invisible

Film by Christian Schwochow

SWR/ARTE/RBB, teamWorx TV&Film, Berlin Union Film, Media Factory Berlin,

Summer house film production

Germany 2011, 113 min.

Paula

Film by Christian Schwochow

WDR/ARTE, Pandora Films, Grown Up Films

Germany, France 2016, 123 min.

I am Karl

Film by Christian Schwochow

RBB/WDR/ARD Degeto/ARTE, Negative Film, Pandora Film

Germany, Czech Republic 2021, 126 min.

Paula

Film by Christian Schwochow

WDR/ARTE, Pandora Films, Grown Up Films

Germany, France 2016, 123 min.

ARTE broadcasts on Sunday, January 28, 2024 in “Short Circuit – The Magazine” the short film “Longing for Paradise” (Wherever Paradise is), which won the short film prize at the Max Ophüls Prize in 2023, as well as the encounter with the filmmaker Anna Erlandsson on her small farm in central Sweden, where she lives with her husband.