German cinema has experienced something of a revival in the past decade. Germany has seen an increase in the quality, quantity and variety of films produced, and the burgeoning German film scene has already produced a number of promising young directors. One is Thorsten Schmidt, whose latest film "Ein Yeti zu verlieben" (A Yeti For Loving) will be shown in St. Petersburg Friday night. Schmidt, 32, lives in Berlin. It is not much notice, but if you are in Petersburg and have the time, it would be worth checking out.

"Yeti" is a family film that tells the story of Tim Bergmann (played by Oliver Stokowksi, a fellow German of Eastern European origin) a down-on-his-luck zoologist, his 12-year-old daughter and an opportunistic female business journalist who become embroiled in an adventure involving a captured yeti on an expedition to the Himalayas. The yeti’s capture produces an international buzz, which is covered by journalists worldwide, and hence the Russian segment, which involves a newscast seen through channel surfing. Schmidt himself appears in a cameo. "Yeti" premiered on the German TV station Pro7 in November.

Schmidt has proven himself to be one to watch, with a broadly appealing, breezy, kinetic style that many in Hollywood admire.

What: Film screening.
When: Jan. 11, at 6 p.m.
Where: St. Petersburg – Rodina Cinema.
Karavannaya Ul. 12.
Metro: Gostiny Dvor.
Tel: 311-6131, 325-9835.