European Film Festival presents a smorgasbord of cinema in Atlanta

Shonda Hoffmeyer, the Goethe Zentrum Atlanta business and program manager, is one of this year’s artistic directors, alongside Valerie Ibarra, the communications and public diplomacy officer of the Consulate General of Belgium in Atlanta. Since Belgium holds the presidency of the European Union, officials from its Atlanta consulate office are taking the lead on a lot of the festival’s moving parts, but Ibarra and Hoffmeyer are working in partnership with other consulates to plan the four-day event and its opening night. The opening night film is Yolande Moreau’s “La fiancee...