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Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke (born 1942, Munich) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter of austere European art cinema, director of Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon, and Amour, twice winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or.
Michael Verhoeven
Michael Verhoeven (1938-2024) was a German film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and physician. Son of Paul Verhoeven, husband of Senta Berger, and director of O.K. (1970), Die weiße Rose (1982), and Das schreckliche Mädchen.
Michiel Blanchart
Michiel Blanchart (born 1993, Louvain) is a Belgian director and screenwriter, IAD-trained, whose shorts include T'es morte Hélène; his debut feature La Nuit se traîne (2024) won a record ten Magritte Awards.
Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin (Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, born 1959, Riihimäki, Finland) is a Finnish director of Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea, The Strangers trilogy, and Deep Water.
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (1900-1973), Dresden-born German-American film director, exile in Paris and Hollywood, master of film noir (Phantom Lady, The Killers, Criss Cross), Golden Bear for Die Ratten 1955.
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich (born 1955, Stuttgart) is the German director of Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, and Moonfall; HFF Munich graduate, Centropolis founder, Oscar-winning disaster-spectacle pioneer now planning an AI film.
Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund (born 1974, Styrsö, Sweden) is the Swedish director of Force Majeure, The Square, and Triangle of Sadness, twice consecutive Palme d'Or winner known for long-take social satire, now working on The Entertainment System Is Down.
Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director and screenwriter born 1969, co-founded Dogme 95; his Festen won the 1998 Cannes Jury Prize and Another Round won the 2021 Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
Tim Mielants
Tim Mielants (born 1979, Mortsel, Belgium) is a Belgian director of Peaky Blinders series 3, Legion, Patrick, Wil, Small Things Like These, and Steve, and winner of the Ultima Film en Visuele Media 2024.
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director born in Berlin in 1899. He became a leading filmmaker for Joseph Goebbels, directing the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süss in 1940.
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is a German film director and producer, known for his New German Cinema style, his films shot in extreme locations, and his work with Klaus Kinski.
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders is a German filmmaker who was a leading figure of the New German Cinema of the 1970s, known for films like Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire.
Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022) was a German film director from Emden whose Das Boot (1981) earned six Oscar nominations and led to Hollywood blockbusters including In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, and Troy.