While the big cinema breaks are faltering, the small Starnberg Film Festival is trumps. Guests of honor and flair are impressive, the focal points are contemporary. A festival at its zenith? And then what?
The film world is still fine on the blue carpet. While elsewhere, on the red carpets, the stars shine through their absence, there is a promising sparkle above Starnberg, a flickering that does not only come from the reflection of the evening sun in the lake.