This years Festival accepts English, American, Iranian, Hungarian, French and obviously German pieces all of which are vying for the coveted Golden Bear presented to this years' winner.
Of the the American movies that have impacted the Germans as well as the entire world is the Coen Brothers' True Grit featuring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Also on the bill, is Margin Call by J.C Chandor. The piece stars Demi Moore and Kevin Spacey and is based on the 2008 Wall Street financial meltdown.
The rest of the movies are relatively unknown to Americans. These movies however, are seen as the frontrunners: "The Turin Horse" by Bulgarian master movie maker Bella Tarr, features a story about the early life of Friedrich Nietzsche; "Coriolanus" by Fiennes, an English actor turned directors with his own take of a classic Shakespeare play; "Yelling to the Sky" by American director Victoria Mahoney, featuring Lenny Kravtiz' daughter Zoe as a 17-year-old girl living a rough yet exciting life in New York; and Iranian born director Asghar Farhadi's "Nader and Simin, A Separation" a tale about a serendipitous couple.
America's biggest contribution to the film festival however, can be seen in one of Germany's first forays into special moviemaking called "Pina". Directed by Wim Wenders, it features a new medium of film that has swept Germany as of late; 3D films.
3D capabilities wont be revolutionizing the way Germans look and use media anytime soon. But the way that this innovation has trickled from the top-down, represents a kind of free flow of ideas from developed countries to less developed countries. This is also an example, on a micro scale, of the neocolonial hegemony that exists between the U.S and the rest of the world.
Here is the trailer to one of germany's first 3D endeavors:
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