The 7th Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market is expanding its international scope this year with more foreign companies than ever before taking part in the event, high-profile guests and an examination of Germany’s heritage cinema sector.
Criterion Collection CEO Peter Becker opens this year’s MIFC on Tuesday, Oct. 15, with the event’s traditional Keynote of the Great Witness address. Criterion Collection’s distribution, DVD/Blu-ray publishing business and its recently launched Criterion Channel are certain to be major topics of discussion at the event.
As part of the German presentation, the MIFC will screen newly restored copies of two German films, Ewald André Dupont’s 1923 classic “Das alte Gesetz” and, from 1968, Ula Stöckl’s “Neun Leben hat die Katze” , both courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek.