Homage 2015 and Honorary Golden Bear for Wim Wenders
The Homage of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival will be dedicated to German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who will also be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement. The award ceremony on February 12, 2015 at 10.00 pm in the Berlinale Palast will include a screening of Der amerikanische Freund (The American Friend, 1977). The thriller, based on the book „Ripley’s Game“ by Patricia Highsmith, is set in Hamburg, Paris and New York and tells the story of a fatal friendship between two highly dissimilar men played by Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper.