Volker Schlöndorff made honorary member of the International Art Cinemas Association

 

Film director Volker Schlöndorff receives an honorary membership from the International Art Cinemas Association at Berlinale 2017

 

Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

 

 

 Schlöndorff and filmmaker director Laurie Gordon at the award ceremony

 

 Schlöndorff won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

 

 

Volker Schlöndorff and Nina Hoss at the press conference of Return to Montauk at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival

 

Laurie Gordon

Schlöndorff was attending Berlin with his latest film Return to Montauk.