Festival director Christoph Gröner with the moderators of the closing ceremony Christina Wolf and Malte Borkmann, in the background the festival team. Watch his video Interview below!

"Munich as a city is always worth visiting, and in case you are into films you should not miss the international film festivals taking place in the Bavarian capital, bringing glamour into the city, transforming several spots into red carpet venues. This transformation occures not only once but twice a year. Industry professionals, film students and cinephiles have in the months of June and respectively November one single goal. Towards the end of June the prestigious Filmfest Munich www.filmfest-muenchen.de/en/ takes place. This festival might be listed as a B festival and „We are very happy with this!“ new appointed festival director Christoph Gröner (and previously creative director) told me while I was attending the Filmschoolfest 12-18.11 www.filmschoolfest-munich.de/en/  a second reason for visiting Munich. Gröner is passionate about films.

At the beginning Gröner moderated masterclasses with Mads Mikkelsen, Alice Rohrwacher or Bong Joon Ho for seven years and wrote film reviews for majour German magazines like Abendzeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Blickpunkt:Film and Film & TV Kameramann.

From 2011 on he focused on German talents and films, and from 2014 on international celebrities as well. Then in 2019, he became the artistic director of the Filmfest Munich, and now just recently in October 2023 he has been appointed as the new festival director of the Filmfest Munich. Congratulations on the new job!"

Alice Kanterian for filmfestivals.com