International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, the southwest region of Germany.
Stadthaus N1 in Mannheim, the main festival venue, pictured here in 2014 for the 63rd IFFMH
The main award of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
Atom Egoyan is a Canadian filmmaker. Emerging in the 1980s as part of the Toronto New Wave, he made his career breakthrough with Exotica (1994), a film set in a strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama The Sweet Hereafter (1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations. His biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller Chloe (2009).
Egoyan in 2016
Egoyan with his wife Arsinée Khanjian in 2013