I gave a a talk on European cinema to a large audience of schoolchildren and the general? public as part of the?Guildford Twinning Association‘s lecture series on 3 October 2018. After giving a broad context for the production and distribution of European films I focused on two films in particular which are both on the A-Level syllabus: the French film?Intouchables (2011) and the German film?Das Leben der Anderen?(2006). The GTA is currently twinned with Freiburg, but is hoping soon to be twinned with Versailles.