Standing out by its high artistic quality the film with patience and respect encounters very different people visiting the cemetery Père Lachaise in Paris. Heddy Honigmann associates life and death evoking, by means of the art, the immortal. (Photo: Portrait of Caroline Rivière by Ingres, seen through the eyes of a protagonist of the film.)
Founded in 1955 as "Leipziger Kultur- und Dokumentarfilmwoche" (Leipzig Week for Cultural and Documentary Film), the festival is headed by Christoph Terhechte since the beginning of 2020. An Ecumenical Jury existed since 1990. It was transformed into an Interreligious Jury in 2016.
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