Dominik Graf named Guest of Honor at the Oldenburg Film Festival

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Oldenburg Film Festival

VERDICT: Graf will be a guest in Oldenburg from September 11th to 15th where he will be honored with a retrospective of his films.

The Oldenburg film festival will honor German filmmaker Dominik Graf, who made his debut in the late 1970s. He is part of a generation of filmmakers that aimed to
revolutionize mass entertainment with straight forward and economical storytelling, Additionally, heis an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, having written numerous articles, and interviews, and essays.

Graf came to international recognition in 2014 with his film ‘Beloved Sisters’, which was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards.

Currently, he more often works in television, focusing primarily on police dramas, thrillers and crime mysteries, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films.

A statement from the Oldenburg Film festival reads, “With Dominik Graf, the film festival honors perhaps the most unusual filmmaker of his time, one who always prefers to put himself in the service of the story he tells and who has found the essence of this art form in the straightforwardness and economy of storytelling. His insight from a conversation with the film critic Olaf Möller is perhaps the core of the art of filmmaking in general, the simplicity of which only the greatest filmmakers have never been afraid of: Ultimately, I have the impression that what I specifically want or what gives me the most joy, can only be found in its purity off the rack’.”

Oldenburg Film Festival is offering a retrospective of his work, including:

Die Katz (1988)
12 September 9:30pm
Casablanca Salon

Die Sieger Director’s Cut (2019)
14 September 9:30pm
Cine k/Studio

Fabian und der Gang vor die Hunde (2021)
15 September 2:30pm

Hotte im Paradies (2002)
13 September 9:30pm
Cine k/Studio

Spieler (1990)
13 September 7:00pm
Cine K/Studio

Treffer (1984)
14 September 4:30pm
Cine k/Muvi