Berlinale: Internationale Jury 2013 5g6o28
Berlinale 2013: Internationale Jury Unter dem Vorsitz von Regisseur WONG Kar Wai entscheidet die Internationale Jury über die Vergabe des Goldenen und der Silbernen Bären im Wettbewerb der Berlinale 2013. Die weiteren Jury-Mitglieder sind Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins und Athina Rachel Tsangari. WONG Kar Wai (Jury-Präsident) Der chinesische Regisseur WONG Kar Wai wurde mit zahlreichen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet und g...
Some Like It Hot - Filmmakers as Entertainers 2w4x66
Jane Campion, Anita Ekberg, Bence Fliegauf, Nina Hoss, Ken Loach, Lucrecia Martel, John Cameron Mitchell, Walter Murch, Hengameh Panahi, Ulrich Seidl und Paul Verhoeven bei der 11. Ausgabe des Berlinale Talent Campus Seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt bringt der Berlinale Talent Campus erfolgreich die nächste Generation vielversprechender Filmemacher aus der ganzen Welt mit erfahrenen, hochkarätigen Filmschaffenden und Branchenexperten im Rahmen der 63. Internationalen Fi...
“NATIVe - A Journey into Indigenous Cinema” 6e4u2i
Starting this year, the Berlinale will devote itself to the cinematic storytelling of Indigenous peoples in a special series entitled “NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema”. In its first year, the series will begin with a territorial focus on films from Oceania, Australia, North America and the Arctic. The programme of 24 short and feature-length fictional and documentary films includes groundbreaking Indigenous cinema from the past five decades. The special serie...
Berlinale 2013: Competition is Now Complete 5j5437
The Competition of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 19 of the 24 films in the official programme will be vying for the Golden and Silver Bears. The following countries are participating in the Competition programme: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, , , Greece, Hong Kong/China, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland and the U...
SHOOTING STARS Trailer 9s19
Watch Europe's best young actors in their latest films Please watch the filmclips of the SHOOTING STARS and their most recent films on our SHOOTING STARS trailer. We would cordially like to thank "Fernsehecke" for this production and the "chord society" for the use of their music. And last, but not least, all the production companies and sales agents who have allowed us to use the clips. >>> Have a look at the SHOOTING STARS page on ...
SHOOTING STARS Trailer 9s19
Watch Europe's best young actors in their latest films Please watch the filmclips of the SHOOTING STARS and their most recent films on our SHOOTING STARS trailer. We would cordially like to thank "Fernsehecke" for this production and the "chord society" for the use of their music. And last, but not least, all the production companies and sales agents who have allowed us to use t...
Berlinale Forum 2013: Upheaval and Transition 152y4q
Social upheaval, times of transition and periods of change are at the heart of numerous films in the 2013 Forum programme. Attempts to find new certainties and realignments do not only characterise their subject matter but also play a key role in determining their formal approaches. European cinema is a particularly strong presence in this year’s programme, from both east and west. The Croatian film Obrana i zaštita (A Stranger) by Bobo Jelčić examines the almost insurmountable...
Berlinale Competition 2013: Another Nine Films Confirmed 6x4g67
Another nine films have been selected for the Competition Programme of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The productions are from the following countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, , , Iran, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Slovenia, South Africa and the USA. Camille Claudel 1915 By Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanity, Flanders) With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent World Premiere Elle s'en va...
Berlinale Generation 2013 line up: The Culture of Individualism and the Longing for Community 216r1h
The Complete Programme With another ten feature-length films, Generation’s programme is now complete. A total of 60 short and full-length films from 36 countries have been selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions. “Structures are crumbling, be it in the institution of the family or an entire nation, yet the longing for community is still strong and this motivates young people to examine themselves and their surroundings“, remarks Section D...
Berlinale Shorts 2013 – Cinema’s Avant-Gardists or on Meandering through Time and Space 5f4v5l
27 films from 20 countries will be competing for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear Jury Prize, the DAAD Short Film Award, and a short film nomination for the European Film Prize. The programme includes 22 world premieres, five international premieres, and one film out of competition: Ossama Mohammed’s Khutwa Khutwa (Step by Step) from 1979. The Golden and Silver Bears for Best Short Film will be presented at the Award Ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on Saturday, February 1...
Crossmedia Distribution in Focus: European Film Market to host industry with Film- und Medienstiftung NRW 6q2r5t
“Distribution in a Crossmedia World” will be the title of a new discussion presented by the European Film Market together with Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and in collaboration with the trade magazine Blickpunkt:Film. On Monday 13 February 2012 at 16:30 in the Gropius Mirror Restaurant (across from the Martin-Gropius-Bau), international industry experts will discuss innovations and current developments in digital distribution. The Danish film producer Peter...
WONG Kar Wai's The Grandmaster will open 63rd Berlinale 8z56
The international premiere of The Grandmaster by Chinese director and president of this year's jury, WONG Kar Wai, will open the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The Grandmaster is an epic martial arts drama set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1930’s China and inspired by the life and times of the legendary IP Man (Tony LEUNG Chiu Wai), mentor to Bruce LEE. The plot encomes themes of war, family, revenge, desire, love, and memory. The all-star cast headed by T...
Isabella Rossellini, Hélio Oiticica and Richard Foreman at the 8th Forum Expanded w3j5
Forum Expanded is presenting film programmes, exhibitions and discussions as part of the Berlinale for the eighth time already. As a flexible platform for artistic work, Forum Expanded sees its role in breaking new ground and tapping into new spaces each year. Over the last few years, the still nameless area between cinema and art has gained a degree of autonomy while retaining a sense of openness in the process. The programme draws its power and creativity by bridging the gap between the nerv...
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2013: The Sorrow of Parting Is Both Gruesome and Beautiful 132c4c
With six full-length fictional, three documentary and two medium-long fictional films, new German directorial talents are making a strong showing with distinctive works in Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2013. Their films revolve around exploring the past, natural catastrophes, starting a family, separations – around love and lost. “Parting, for instance, from home or a loved one seems to preoccupy the next generation most of all. Sometimes the exploration is painful, at other times festi...
Panorama 2013: First Films and Programmes 4cpa
Now that scouting trips to find films for the Panorama have been concluded, viewings in Berlin are in full swing. “A third of the programme has already been selected,” reports Panorama director Wieland Speck. “Alongside works by European filmmakers, such as Lars Kraume and Felix van Groeningen, films from Asia – and especially from Korea – have made a deep impression. This is also true of works from Latin America, which is alone contributing four directorial debuts....
Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Claude Lanzmann 1r2t4z
French documentary filmmaker and producer Claude Lanzmann will be honoured with a Homage and awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. “Claude Lanzmann is one of the great documentarists. With his depictions of inhumanity and violence, of antisemitism and its consequences, he created a new kind of cinematic and ethical exploration. We feel honoured to honour him,” said Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick. ...
High Demand for the European Film Market 2013: All Exhibition Space Fully Booked 37ct
The European Film Market (EFM) of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival is off to a good start: all exhibition space at the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel at Potsdamer Platz is now fully booked. Due to the high demand, exhibition space was expanded in the first floor of the Marriott Hotel. The EFM (February 7 – 15, 2013) is the first meeting place of the year for the international film industry and one of the most important platforms for the sale and exhibition o...
A New Jury for the “Made in – Perspektive Fellowship” 266i2m
Based on treatments that young and talented filmmakers had to submit by October 1, 2012, a three-member jury will pick the winner of the €15,000 fellowship. The jury has already been put together and includes three who are closely associated with German cinema. All three want to actively up-and-coming German filmmakers. Hans-Christian Schmid Author and director Hans-Christian Schmid has enriched the world of German and international cinema with a number of impressi...
This year’s Berlinale Retrospective is entitled “The Weimar Touch” 40o6q
Berlinale Retrospective 2013: “The Weimar Touch. The International Influence of Weimar Cinema after 1933” This year’s Retrospective is entitled “The Weimar Touch” and is devoted to how cinema from the Weimar Republic influenced international filmmaking after 1933. It will focus on continuities, mutual effects and transformations in the films of German-speaking emigrants up into the 1950s. Weimar cinema flourished not least because of the democr...
Berlinale goes Kiez 6d484d
“Berlinale goes Kiez” pictures from previous years Since 2010, the Berlinale’s “Flying Red Carpet” has travelled from arthouse cinema to arthouse cinema on seven evenings during the Festival, visiting Berlin’s movie lovers in their neighbourhood cinemas. On each of these evenings, one Berlin arthouse cinema turns into an additional Festival venue and presents two selected films from the Berlinale programme. Just like...
Berlinale NATIVe – a journey into indigenous cinema 21r1v
Photo: www.markrogers.com.au Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson as Samson & Delilah (AUS 2009; directed by Warwick Thornton) The 2013 Berlinale will see the launch of a special series devoted to the cinematic story-telling of Indigenous peoples worldwide: “NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema.” The programme will introduce audiences to the milestones of Indigenous filmmaking and includes features, documentaries and short films. With the ...
30 filmmakers from the Talent Campus present their projects in the Berlin House of Representatives 5069o
30 international filmmakers from the Campus present their projects in the Berlin House of Representatives At the Berlin House of Representatives—home amongst other events to the Co-Production Market and located across the street from the Martin-Gropius Building where the European Film Market is held—30 selected Campus filmmakers have the unique opportunity to present their projects to the festival public. In addition to participants busy advancing their feature film projec...
Berlinale to Honour Chris Marker by Screening Description d’un combat 51543o
On September 23, 2012, the Berlin International Film Festival will honour documentary and experimental filmmaker Chris Marker, who ed away in late July, by screening his film Description d’un combat (Description of a Struggle). In this film, which received the Golden Bear for Best Documentary in 1961, Chris Marker took a personal look at the development of Israeli society and its identity twelve years after the state of Israel was founded. Chris Marker’s cinematic oeuvre co...
Wong Kar Wai (With a staggering 21 wins and 35 award nominations so far) will preside over the Jury of Berlinale 2013 4y2ll
Chinese director Wong Kar Wai will be the Jury President of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The director, who has won many international awards, is one of the most important representatives of world cinema. Wong Kar Wai’s unique and extraordinary style has inspired countless filmmakers and made him a cult figure of contemporary auteur cinema. Wong Kar Wai was born in Shanghai and grew up in Hong Kong. He made his directorial debut in 1988 with As Tears Go By. His...
Berlinale: European Film Market 2012 interview with its Director Beki Probst. 6v3b4g
In 2012 the Berlinale had another successful edition as the largest audience oriented international film festival selling 299.362 tickets. Total professional accreditations came close to 20.000 including 3.800 of the press. 402 films were featured in its public programs and 760 at the European Film Market. The festival continues to expand each year, yet over the last year the strongest growth has been experienced by the European Film market under the direct...
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