Trieste to host the Wild Roses focus dedicated to German women film directors

06/12/2023 – The 35th edition of the festival will host its traditional section on female filmmakers hailing from a specific Central and Eastern European country, showcasing 13 titles by as many German directors

Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert by Margarethe von Trotta

German cinema is set to be the focus of the traditional Wild Roses programme – unspooling within the Trieste Film Festival (whose 35th edition will run 19 – 27 January) – which homes in on women filmmakers from a different country in Central and Eastern Europe each year. As such, after Poland, Georgia and Ukraine’s turn, it’s now a selection – curated by the Berlinale’s executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeek – of contemporary Germany’s most interesting filmmaking approaches which is set…