TIRANA, September 26/ATA/ In the 21st edition of the Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF), there was held today according to the schedule the masterclass of the German director Andreas Dresen, winner of the “Un Certain Regard” award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
At the beginning of the masterclass organized at the Agimi Art Center, there was shown his film “Stilles Land”.
The TIFF program includes 4 films by German director Andreas Dresen, one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers and a historical witness whose films reflect the state of German society since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He was born in Gera, East Germany, in 1963. He first worked as a sound engineer for the Schwerin Theatre, before studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He began working as a screenwriter and director in 1992. Dresen is known for his work using improvisation by actors, rather than a real literal script./p.s./
