Martin Kaufmann

Born in 1951, Martin Kaufmann’s interest in film began early on when, in 1957, his father opened a cinema near the family hotel in Nova Levante, a village of the Eggen Valley amid the peaks of the Rosengarten and Latemar, in South Tyrol. In 1978 the Filmclub Bolzano was born, of which Kaufmann is a founder. His idea inspired the birth of the Festival Bolzano Cinema (Bozner Filmtage) in 1987; he has been its artistic director from the start, and has given the event a highly personal stamp.