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The 75th Locarno Film Festival is also dedicating a film to Hollywood DirectorsDouglas Sirk a retrospective. Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg 125 years ago and is considered the grand master of film melodrama. The festival in Locarno takes place from 3 to 13 August and is one of the most important film festivals in Europe.

The drama "You Will Not Have My Hate" by Hamburg-based Director Kilian Riedhof ("Gladbeck", "His Last Race") will be shown open air on the Piazza Grande - the centrepiece of the festival. In his new film, Riedhof tells the true story of Antoine Leiris, who lost his beloved wife Hélène in the terrorist attack on the "Bataclan" club in Paris. In a moving social media post, he contrasts the hatred of the attackers with his love for his son, who is almost three years old. In a state of emergency between media attention and endless grief, Antoine now has to find his way in the new reality - especially for the sake of his young son Melvil. The script was written by the North German team of authors Jan Braren, Marc Blöbaum and Kilian Riedhof and the French author Stéphanie Kalfon. The Komplizen Film production will be released in German cinemas on 10 November.

The Hamburg film artist Helena Wittmann is able to"Human Flowers of Flesh" will celebrate its world premiere in the Concorso Internazionale international competition. Following her internationally acclaimed debut "Drift", Wittmann's second feature film - both produced by the Hamburg-based company Fünferfilm - is also making a successful start to the festival season. In "Human Flowers of Flesh", Wittmann tells the story of Ida, who lives on a sailing ship with her crew of five. During a stopover in Marseille, she becomes aware of the mysterious male world of the French Foreign Legion and decides to follow in their footsteps across the Mediterranean.

Last year, two prizes at the Locarno Film Festival went to MOIN-funded productions: The film "Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash", co-produced by Fatih Akin, received the festival's top prize, the Golden Leopard, and actress Saskia Rosendahl was honoured with the Best Actress award for her leading role in the drama "No One's with the Calves".