Oscar winner Kate Winslet will probably be honored at this 12 months’s Munich worldwide movie competition with the competition’s CineMerit Award for extraordinary achievement.
Winslet will attend the German competition to current the European premiere of her new movie, Lee, the place she performs battle correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. She’s going to obtain the CineMerit Award after the Munich screening of Lee and can participate in a sit-down dialogue.
Directed by Ellen Kuras, Lee premiered in Toronto final 12 months. Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Noémie Merlant, Josh O’Connor, and Andy Samberg co-star. Winslet can also be a producer on the movie. StudioCanal is releasing Lee in Germany, bowing in theaters right here in September.
“We’re delighted that Kate Winslet will probably be celebrating the movie’s European premiere with us in Munich,” stated competition director Christoph Gröner and inventive co-director Julia Weigl in a joint assertion. “Lee is a splendidly intense character portrait. It’s vital to us that the Munich Worldwide Movie Competition, with its many movies and voices, sends a transparent sign for democracy, range, and cohesion.”
One other iconic Oscar-winning actress, Jessica Lange, may also be honored in Munich this 12 months with the CineMerit award.
The forty first Munich movie competition runs June 28-July 7.