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Director Janna Ji Wonders introduces her film WALCHENSEE FOREVER, screening across the US via KINO! Germany Now! 2021 Discover New Talent, presented by the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films: bit.ly/kinowalchensee.
Born in Mill Valley, CA in 1978 to a German mother and an American father, Janna Ji Wonders grew up near Lake Walchensee in Bavaria. She studied at the University of Film and Television in Munich and shot numerous music videos. Her short documentaries Bling Bling, about the gangster rap scene in LA, and Street Punk Moscow, about young punks in the suburbs of Moscow, won several awards. In 2015, her feature film I Remember was selected for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the Berlinale, where Walchensee Forever also premiered in 2020.
In a time of uncertainty and new challenges for our film community, the German Film Office is pleased to offer a new opportunity for theaters across the United States to present a curated selection of new fllms from Germany. KINO! Germany NOW! enables art-house cinemas and film festivals to book recent films fresh from the international festival circuit for both virtual and in-person screenings.