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Cottbus, Germany, November 11-16, 2008
The Central and Eastern European film community recently came together over the course of six days at the 18th Annual Cottbus Film Festival. At the opening ceremonies, Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier – one of the festival’s co-patrons – congratulated the festival on its 18th birthday and described Cottbus as second only to the Berlinale in terms of its importance as a German film festival. Brandenburg’s Minister President and festival co-patron Matthias Platzeck greeted guests at the festive opening gala held at the Cottbus Staatstheater. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is a proud supporter of the Cottbus Film Festival and the Connecting Cottbus Co-production Market.
The Cottbus Film Festival featured 136 films from 30 countries and was attended by 500 professionals and over 18,000 guests. These numbers attest to the festival’s ever-increasing status as a unique forum for current Eastern European cinema.
On Wednesday, a German-Russian roundtable kicked off a new section entitled “Russischer Tag“ (Russian Day) and saw producers, directors, financiers and journalists from both countries call for the swift conclusion of the planned German-Russian Film Agreement.
As part of the 10th edition of the Connecting Cottbus East-West Co-Production Market, 14 new feature film projects from 13 countries were presented. This year’s CoCo Best Pitch Award went to the Rumanian producers Tudor Giurgiu and Dan Chisu (Libra Film) for the presentation of their project “The Bear.”
For more information, please visit www.filmfestivalcottbus.de and www.connecting-cottbus.de.
 
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Andreas Stein (Festival Manager), Petra Müller (Medienboard), Roland Rust (Festival Director), German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Doreen Goethe (pool production) and Brandenburg’s Minister President Matthias Platzeck on opening night
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Jens Meurer (Egoli Tossell, Berlin), Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard), German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Festival Director Roland Rust at the opening reception
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18th Cottbus Film Festival
Eastern European Film Festivals
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Festival Director Roland Rust and Artistic Director Gabriele Brunnenmeyer kick off Connecting Cottbus
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East-West Co-production Market Connecting Cottbus
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Panel "Focus Baltic Countries" at Connecting Cottbus
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Festival Director Roland Rust and Simone Baumann (LE VISION Leipzig/German Films) open the German-Russian Roundtable on "Russian Day"
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The German-Russian Roundtable kicks off the new festival section entitled "Russian Day"
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Medienboard Managing Director Kirsten Niehuus and Katriel Schory, Head of the Israeli Film Fund
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MDM Managing Director Manfred Schmidt and Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard) at the CoCo reception hosted by the Medienboard
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Fernanda Lange Boettcher (Brandenburg Economic Development Board), Marcel Maiga (Festival Program Co-ordinator)
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Laura Inoka (m-appeal, Berlin), Arkadiusz Wojnarowski (Ferdinand Magellan Film, Poland)
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Daria Moheb Zandi (rbb), Simone Baumann (LE VISION Leipzig/German Films)
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CoCo Best Pitch Award for “The Bear:” Award recipients Tudor Giurgiu (Libra film, Rumänien), award sponsor Sascha Wiesner (EastWest Distribution, Austria) and Gabriele Brunnenmeyer
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Photos © FilmFestival Cottbus/Thomas Goethe, Medienboard/Mareike Jung
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg/Contacts
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Contacts
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