Doris Dörrie is more than just one of the leading German directors. She is also a writer of novels, short stories, children’s books and has directed several operas. Dörrie joins Margarethe von Trotta as Germany’s preeminent woman directors of modern times. Her most recent film “Cherry Blossoms” (“Hanami”) marks her return to Japan to tell the story of Rudi and his wife Trudi, a German elderly couple.