The Chicago International Film Festival has a longstanding history of showcasing the work of Germany’s most gifted auteurs: In the 1970s, the Festival introduced American audiences to the work of the celebrated German New Wave, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta, and Wim Wenders. The Festival has added a long roster of incredible German filmmakers to that list over the past 60 years, including Emily Atef, Doris Dörrie, Dominik Graf, Werner Herzog, Sandra Nettelbeck, Aslı
Özge, Christian Petzold, Pia Marais, and Angela Schanelec.

This year, as the Festival celebrates our 60th anniversary, we continue to highlight the best in German cinema. We do so with six new features representing a wide range of creative voices from an array of cultural backgrounds, as well as one modern classic featuring a career-making performance from two-time Academy Award® nominee Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Actress Banafshe Hourmazdi, star of Festival title Turning Tables and one of this year’s Face-to-Face with German Films’ talents
to watch, will participate on the New Directors Competition jury.