FIPRESCI 100: Homage to Klaus Eder at the 42nd Filmfest Munchen

On July 3, 2025, during the 42^nd Filmfest Munchen, the international film critics’ community will pay homage to the FIPRESCI General Secretary of 38 years Klaus Eder.

Klaus Eder, born in 1939, began as an editor of the monthly magazine Film in the 1960s and from 1968 became a film critic on the radio programme of Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Bavarian public broadcaster in Munich. In the politically turbulent times after 1968, he curated German film festivals, and from 1986 to 2007 he programmed the Munich International Film Festival, which is known as Filmfest München in Germany. He also championed German film beyond national borders and acted as an advisor to many international festivals. As an author, he has written books on Andrzej Wajda, Luis Bunuel, Im Kwon-taek and Nagisa Ōshima, among others. Read more.

After the laudation, Klaus Eder will moderate a discussion with the German film director Jan-Ole Gerster, preceding the screening of his FIPRESCI-awarded film Lara (film critics’ prize in 2019, Munich).

Gerster has won FIPRESCI prize before with his film Oh Boy at 14th Bratislava International Film Festival in 2012. Along many other accolades, Oh Boy received Prix FIPRESCI 2013 at the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin, Germany.

The special screening is organized under the umbrella of 100 years of FIPRESCI celebration.

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