The Irish Film Institute hosts a number of foreign film festivals throughout the year to promote film culture in Ireland: The Paulaner German Film Festival is one of the permanent fixtures in Ireland’s cinema calendar, and reflects the healthy diversity of current German cinema. With recent films such as The Lives of Others and The Counterfeiters both at the forefront of arthouse success, this year’s festival brings a new crop of productions from a country whose film industry is in a very strong global position.
