We wish all our friends, fans and business partners a relaxing summer as we ‘sign out’ officially until September 5, 2014. We already have a number of exciting projects and events in the pipelines for the coming season. Starting in the fall, we will be able to share more details with you and will keep (…)

On June 30, exceptional acting talent Udo Kier will be honored with the CineMerit Award at this year´s Munich Filmfest. His 40 year-old world-spanning mega career got him to focus on the kings of mean and characters of darkness, amongst them: Dr. Jekyll, Dracula, Frankenstein or Jack the Ripper. He blessed over 160 international cinema (…)

Today we would like to remind you of the tenth anniversary of Peter Märthesheimer’s death, who was one of RWF’s most important supporters and collaborators. Born in Kiel, he studied economics and sociology before starting in 1964 as a commissioning producer at the WDR (the German State TV station, based in Cologne). During his WDR (…)

It is with great pleasure that we announce a Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective in Japan: It will run from June 21 until July 4, 2014 in Tokyo’s Auditorium Shibuya. Organized by the Athénée Francais Cultural Center, Eurospace, this venue will be supported by the Goethe Institut Tokyo. This is the first comprehensive presentation of Fassbinder’s (…)

70 years. This is a fact. We bow to the unequaled Hanna Schygulla. Kudos to you! And now on to a personal note wherein we dare to turn to some basic math. We would like to divide the seventy by two and say: Half your life. This, honored Hanna Schygulla, brings us to 1978, the (…)