Wim WENDERS
Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1945 and is a giant of contemporary German cinema, a leading figure of the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s. He made his feature debut with The Goalkeeper′s Fear of the Penalty Kick (1971), and has produced most of his work through Road Movies, the production company he founded in 1977. He won the Golden Lion at Venice for The State of Things (1982), the Palme d′Or at Cannes for Paris, Texas (1984), and the Best Director prize at Cannes for Wings of Desire (1987). From the 1990s onward, he also built a reputation as a documentarian, earning an Academy Award nomination for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), among others. Counting Pina (2011), a portrait of choreographer Pina Bausch, and The Salt of the Earth (2014), on photographer Sebastião Salgado, he has received a total of three Academy Award nominations for documentary filmmaking. Perfect Days (2023) proved the veteran director′s continuing vitality, winning the Best Actor prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
