KINO: The German Film Magazine

A Year Ago in Winter, the latest work from Oscar-winner Caroline Link. And A Woman in Berlin – Anonyma, a hard-hitting film about the fate of rape victims in Berlin in 1945. German entries in the international film festival in Toronto. International and multi-cultural Canada’s colourful film scene In honor of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) KINO takes a look at the current Canadian film scene. This years TIFF opened with PASSCHENDAELE, an epic about Canadian soldiers fighting in the trenches of World War I. Some 15000 soldiers fell in the battle near the Belgian city of Passchendaele. We spoke about the film with director and star Paul Gross. And we also met up in Toronto with legendary independent filmmaker Bruce McDonald to discuss his new film PONTYPOOL, an art house horror film about zombies overrunning a small town in northern Ontario.Toronto World Premiere Oscar winner Caroline Link and her new film Caroline Link presents her new film, A YEAR AGO IN WINTER a dramatic story of how a family deals with tragedy. Link wrote the screenplay herself, based on the novel by Scott Campbell. Toronto has a special place in Caroline Link’s career. It was here that NOWHERE IN AFRICA screened for the first time, before going on to win an Oscar. We met up with the successful director at the Festival. The Toronto International Film Festival is the most important festival for the North American market, particularly for European film producers. So German sales companies …