Festival Profile
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival aims at industry professionals as well as the audience, with over 1000 professional participants and circa 60 000 people attending the screenings in both cities. Subsequent to each screenings there are public panel discussions with the film's representatives.
The festival presents films of independent newcomer directors and who are internationally widely unknown, focussing on arthouse and auteur films. The films selected must be premieres and thus films screened at Cannes, Locarno, Venice and any German festival are excluded.
In 2010, MANNHEIM MEETING PLACE was launched for the first time. The project succeeds the Festival's former co-production market MANNHEIM MEETINGS, focusing on the improvement of marketing opportunities of completed film projects. However, coporoduction meetings will still take place.
During the history of the festival, (debut) features of now famous directors such as Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Bryan Singer, Atom Egoyan, François Truffaut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, or Rahmin Bahrani were first introduced to an international public at the festival.
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