„Success or disaster?” What the German press says about Berlinale, Part III 6d5g2t
After one exhausting week with hundreds of films at Berlinale, nerves are on edge. Some have given up before – like columnist Harald Martenstein from „Tagesspiegel”: „There are strong people, and there are weak people. At Berlinale, you realize in the last third to which group you are belonging.” In his case it´s quite clear: Martenstein himself „ed out and then slept for 14 hours”. ...
Berlinale Awards: the complete List of Winners 5u4b5s
Călin Peter Netzer and the producer Ada Solomon Golden Bear PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY GOLDEN BEAR for the Best Film Poziţia Copilului Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer JURY GRAND PRIX (Silver Bear) Epizoda u životu berača željeza An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović ALFRED BAUER PRIZE (Silver Bear) - in memory of the Festival Founder – for a feature film that opens new perspectives Vic+Flo ont vu un ours Vic+Flo S...
Berlinale 2013: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus 5b502a
The of the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus Hannah Bulling Matthias Caspari Rosa Elina Ehrlich Rocco Görhardt Lenius Jung Felix Katulski Magdalena Kollmann Ada Maria Nardi Lonja Emily Louise Siebenmann Maja Tischmann Fabian Welke give the following awards: Crystal Bear for the Best Film: The Rocket by Kim Mordaunt, Australia 2013 After a little boy has lost his home, he and his family embark on tense journey through a spectacular natural landsc...
Main Bears Go To Dark Horses from the East at Berlin 4yx22
Berlin juries seem to have a penchant for springing surprises in favor of long shot contenders and unknown outsiders. An unheralded Romanian picture, Pozitsia Capilului (Child's Pose), was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film, The Silver Bear (The Grand Jury Prize) went to a film from Bosnia, "Epizoda u Zivotu beraca zeljeza" (An episdode in the life of an Iron Picker) which focuses on the trials and tribulations of a Gypsy (Roma) family in that former Yugos...
The 63rd Berlin International Film Festival to Come to a Splendid Close 6n3r5s
Today, on Saturday, February 16, the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival will come to a splendid close with the presentation of the awards. 1,600 guests are expected to attend the gala, beginning at 7.00 pm in the Berlinale Palast, where the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears, the Prizes of the International Short Film Jury and the Best First Feature Award will be announced. Following the ceremony, the winner of the Golden Bear will be shown as closing film. Festival Director Dieter K...
Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Two Mothers by Anne Zohra Berrached wins the “FGYO-Prize Dialogue en perspective” 1j1r3p
On Saturday, February 16 at the award ceremony of the independent juries, the young French-German-Portuguese jury awarded the “FGYO-Prize Dialogue en perspective” for the first time endowed with 5.000€. This year, the prize goes to Anne Zohra Berrached‘s film Two Mothers. For the tenth time, the Berlin International Film Festival and the French-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlinale, are giving young film-lovers the chance to award the ...
Berlinale 2013: The Panorama Audience Award Go to The Broken Circle Breakdown and The Act of Killing i3g1t
The Act of Killing The public has cast its votes: the 15th PanoramaAudienceAwards - presented in collaboration with radioeins of rbb (Berlin-Brandenburg’s public radio and television station), Berlin’s city magazine tip and the Berlinale’s Panorama section - go to The Broken Circle Breakdown for fiction film, and to The Act of Killing for documentary. The official award ceremony will be held on Berlinale Kinotag, Sunday February 17, at 5.00 pm in CinemaxX ...
Interview with Ulrich Seidl Paradise: Hope s5i3v
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French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann receives honorary Golden Bear 1g3rv
Video excerpt http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/claude-lanzmann-erhaelt-den-goldenen-ehrenbaeren-der-berlinale-2013--7328090.html ...
Video excerpt of the on German cinema featuring Volker Schlöndorff 3p6m6r
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The Teddy Awards 2l2a32
The nine of the international jury – programmers of queer film festivals and programmes – view films of queer interest within the framework of all sections of the Berlinale . Three films are nominated for each of the categories: best feature film, best documentary/essay film and the best short film. The jury presents furthermore its Special Jury Award. of the Jury Benoît Arnulf, Nice LGBTI Film Festivals, /Frankreich; Martha Arredondo, The Santo Doming...
"Sadourni’s Butterflies"
("Las Mariposas de Sadourni", 2012) at EFM, Berlin. 5f1tv
"Sadourni’s Butterflies"
("Las Mariposas de Sadourni", 2012) is the first feature film by Argentinian director Dario Nardi. The film made its international premier at the 10th Dubai Film Festival and its North American premier at the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival in the 'New Voices/New Visions' section. It most recently screened at the EFM market during the 63rd Berlinale. Nardi began work on the film fifteen years ago in 1998 until at last...
Berlinale 2013: Crystal Bears and the New Awards by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung in Generation 14plus 5i1g44
The of the Youth Jury in Generation 14plus Indira Geisel Maxim Mersini Jonas Mileta Zoë Noack Sarah Rheinfurth Carla Romagna Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh give the following awards: Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec, Poland 2012 In this film we were completely unprepared for the extreme way the story unfolds. Its bold editing style, colorful cinematography and innovative direction gave the film great dynamism. The film showed us strong...
Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema section’s Closing Night Film will be the British comedy, JADOO. 3eu2x
Directed by Amit Gupta (Resistance), JADOO is one of the only wholly British films in this year’s festival selection and the filmmaker and his cast will be in Berlin in of the film. It has been announced during the EFM that Jeff Berg’s recently launched talent, finance and rights outfit Resolution has taken world rights to JADOO. JADOO The World Premiere Screening of Amit Gupta’s Jadoo Will take place at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival (Culinary ...
'The Lookalike' (2013) at EFM, Berlin 163j41
Actor John Corbett as 'Bobby' in 'The Lookalike' (2013). Crime drama ‘The Lookalike’ (2013) wrapped filming in late January just in time to cut a trailer for buyers at the 2013 EFM (European Film Market) in Berlin. Sales company Arclight Films acquired the film for world rights and began pre-sale negotiations at the EFM. Filmmaker Richard Gray and his DOP Thomas Scott Stanton attended the 63rd Berlinale to promote 'The Lookalike' along with Richard...
'BOY' (2010) at the 63rd Berlinale in NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema section, a retrospective. 5t5e6w
Taika Waititi is an actor/writer/director from the Raukorekore region of east coast New Zealand and of Te-Whanau-a-Apanui descent. Two years ago his film 'BOY' (2010) held its North American premier at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. 'BOY' most recently screened in the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema section of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, 2013. 'BOY' is by far one of the greatest indie film achievements of recent years that stays long with its v...
'The Orator' ('O Le Tulafale', 2011) at the 63rd Berlinale, 2013 4w4s4c
Tusi Tamasese's film ‘The Orator’ ('O Le Tulafale', 2011) made film history as the first ever to come from the Samoan Islands. It held its world premier at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011, and most recently screened at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema section in 2013. Saili is a small man with a big heart who lives happily with his beautiful wife Vaaiga and her daughter Litia. Sadly however, t...
'Samson and Delilah' (2009) at 63rd Berlinale f1if
By far one of the best and most memorable films for me in the past five years was the cinematic masterpiece "Samson and Delilah" (2009) by Australian director Warwick Thornton. Directed as his first feature after sixteen years as a cinematographer, the film is set in the Central Australian desert. It is a contemporary Aboriginal rite of age story about two young lovers, Samson and Delilah, who experience a journey together that changes their lives forever. Thornton’s ...
'Inch’ Allah' (2012) at 63rd Berlinale 321g58
Inch’ Allah.
Canada, 2012. Canadian filmmaker Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s film “Inch'Allah” is about a Quebecer female doctor ‘Chloe’ (played by Evelyne Brochu) working for the Red Cross in a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who finds herself in the midst of war. Every day she crosses the border between the Israeli side of the border where she lives, to the Palestinian side where she works, witness to the quotidian horror of this tragic divide. La...
German co-production "Night Train To Lisbon" in Berlin 5o1g54
"Night Train to Lisbon" premieres at the Berlinale 2013, adaption of bestselling novel, by Pascal Mercier. Jeremy Irons plays Raimund Gregorius, a talented but boring middle-aged swiss professor, investigating the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. After an unexpected encounter with a mysterious woman in a rainy day in the city of Bern, Raimund discovers a book of a Portuguese writer and doctor, Amadeu de Prado, a figure pursued by the fascist regime. This leads to a train ride to Li...
Cinema and economy: „Burn it up Djassa” from Ivory Coast at the Panorama section of Berlinale 2941z
If you are running out of money, don´t have an accreditation and losing your Berlinale tickets, which you have bought – that´s… Berlin. Different as our Mayor said: Poor, but not sexy anymore (nowadays a visitor as the Australian musician Robert F. Coleman is claiming in a big „New York Times”-article that the slovenly life at so cheaply Berlin has ruined his band – too many drugs and parties. But I don´t think you can blame the...
Clouds over the city: Berlin in winter – what the German press says, Part II 214c2u
Dear guests, as a Berliner I have to apologize: Sorry for this awful weather! More mud than snow, a harsh and cold westerly and the sky almost always grey. Instead of „Heavens over Berlin” (the originally German title of Wim Wenders´„Wings of Desire”) we only can talk about the bank of clouds over the city in these days. „Süddeutsche Zeitung” from Munich (where they have snow all winter and beautiful mountains nearby) writes: If t...
With the Advancing Digitization of the Film Industry, the Berlinale Faces Complex Technical and Logistical Challenges 1455m
In 2013, the number of films screening in the Digital Cinema Package (D) format at the Berlinale exceeds 50% for the first time. Only around 8% of the films are still shown in the classic 35mm format. The rest of the total of about 2,500 screenings scheduled during the Festival and the European Film Market are in diverse digital video formats. Against this backdrop, the work processes involved in ensuring an optimal screening of the films have changed radically over the past years. ...
Don’t worry Berlin: Richard Linklater´s „Before Midnight” at Berlinale – and what the German press says 25r1r
For Richard Linklater „Before Midnight” it is a kind of long journey back home-story. It has been in Berlin 1995, when he won with „Before Sunrise” his first important international trophy as a director – the „Silbernen Bären” (Silver Bear), Berlinale´s second place price. After „Before Sunset” nine years later on Linklater is now (again nine years later) presenting the sequel „Before Midnight” out of c...
On February 13, the WCF invites all its friends as well as representatives of the industry and press to the discussion “Filling the Gap: The Art of Filmmaking in Cuba & Vietnam”. There will once again be the opportunity to learn more about the programme, successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives and partners of the World Cinema Fund (WCF). The Executive Board of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (KSB) decided, in late 2012, it would continue funding th...
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