Berlinale Camera for Haro Senft, one of the founding fathers of New German Cinema 3e4a32
Since 1986, the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and wishes to express its thanks. At the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, Haro Senft, one of the pioneers of New German Cinema as well as a tireless advocate of German children films will be awarded the Berlinale Camera. Haro Senft, born in Budweis (České Budějovice), is one of t...
Panorama Dokumente Programme Nearing Completion with 19 Films 2g5f5v
As in past years, the documentary sector appears to be consistently stabile, politically engaged and in its diversity well equipped for the cinema. Moreover, it's a treasure trove for themes that inspire fictional films. On February 10, 2012, in Cinestar7, the Panorama Dokumente will open with The Reluctant Revolutionary by British director Sean McAllister. The film is about a Yemenite tourist guide who slowly abandons his professional distance towards the political "spring&...
Berlin 2011: Wieland Speck on Queer Films and the Berlinale o5e5a
Wieland Speck who is in charge of the Berlinale's Panorama has been heading the TEDDY program and awards for the last 25 years and transformed it into the world's most important platform for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual cinema (LGBT). The Berlinale was the first major international film festival which made a queer film program part of its official repertoire. Films with these themes now for about 20% of all production in the Berlinale program. The Teddy program ...
Berlinale 2011: Dieter Kosslick Interview 4x1b2o
Claus Mueller : You have been running the Berlinale for 10 years now. What are your most important achievements and what were the biggest challenges? Dieter Kosslick: We have achieved what we wanted; the festival is younger through our initiatives such as ...
Berlinale 2011 Overview 2k6z
The Berlinale continues to solidify its position among the top three film festivals and film markets. It scored well this year with about 800 films in the Berlinale and the European Film Market program attracting close to 20,000 accredited professionals including 3900 journalist and selling 300 000 tickets to the general public. Undoubtedly, as the first major international film festival and film market in the calendar year offering a widely differentiated program with a strong doc...
A strong year: 6,900 participants from 90 countries at the European Film Market 102fc
A strong year: 6,900participants from 90 countries at the EuropeanFilm Market A strong EuropeanFilm Market 2011 (EFM) presented itself at the Martin- Gropius-Bau andthe Marriott Hotel during the 61st Berlin International FilmFestival. From February 10 - 18, more than 6,900 industry participants from 90countries visited the international market for film and audiovisual contentthat takes place alongside the Berlinale. The participants included 1,532international buyers and 400 exhibitors from...
My Berlin Top Ten Films 4hnn
At a film festival that totals more than 250 feature films (not to mention an additional 250 features in the accompanying European Film Market), one can only skim the surface of an event as wide-ranging as the Berlinale. Film choices are often based on schedule availability....grabbing a screening in between meetings or making sure one is awake to catch the early morning press screenings of the Competition program. In a sense, one only gets a random taste of the very far-flung program...
Berlinale 2011 partnered exclusively with Barco for digital screenings zfz
Barco, a global leader in digital cinema projection technology, was an official partner of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, one of the world's leading film festivals, taking place from 10 - 20 February. This year's edition featured more than 80 digital screenings, a record number in the history of the Berlinale. ...
Berlin, weather and the fading landmarks of memory lane 4w1172
The weather this Berlinale has been more or less "as usual" -- chilly, around freezing every day, a few snowflakes in the air, and brightly overcast -- no sunshine, but bright cloudy days casting a bright silver haze on the cobblestone meadows of Potsdamer Platz -- the kind of bracing weather that makes one happy to be inside a warm cinema rather than out on a tempting beach ... like at Cannes, Venice, or San Sebastian. Berlinale veterans --which means anyone who was here before...
Ecumenical prize in Berlin to Familiar Grounds, en terrains connus 31d8
PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY - Forum section FAMILIAR GROUNDS (En terrains connus) a film by Stéphane Lafleur (Canada) "This film is structurally original in showing how "accidents" can alter human relationships. It is innovative in drawing warm and human comic moments out of an alienated world where relationships are fragile. Its dialogue is sparse and well-controlled, and the soundtrack integrates very effectively with the film's visual imagery....
Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) 6rv6i
At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale, , February 10-20, 2011) the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) has been presented to: "The Turin Horse" (A Torinói Ló) by Béla Tarr (Hungary, 2010) (International Competition) "Top Floor Left Wing" (Dernier étage gauche gauche) by Angelo Cianci (, Luxemburg, 2010) (Panorama) "Heaven's Story" by Zeze Takahisa (Jap...
Berlin Film In Focus: NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPERATION 404l15
The Iranian film NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPERATION (terrible title, that) was the big winner at the 61st edition of the Berlinale, winning the Golden Bear as Best Film and Best Actor and Best Actress Silver Bears for its ensemble cast of men and women. The film, directed by Asghar Farhadi, who won a Silver Bear as Best Dierctor in 2009 for DARBAREYE, will certainly be one of the most talked about international films of the year. With the current attention of the world on the emerging democ...
The Berlinale Camera to Lia van Leer, Jerome Clement, Franz and Rosemarie Stadler x6u3z
The Berlinale Camera is awarded to a film personality or an institution to whom the film festival feels especially attached. This award is a way of expressing thanks and has been given every year since 1986. Between 1986 and 2003 the Berlinale Camera was donated by the Berlin jeweller David Goldberg. Since 2004, the Berlinale Camera has been sponsored and manufactured by Georg Hornemann Objects. For the Berlinale 2008, the trophy has been redesigned by the Düsseldorf-based goldsmith himself. Th...
Honorary Golden Bear 2011 143h5i
The Berlinale awards an Honorary Golden Bear to important film personalities. The award honors a particularly outstanding oeuvre or film career and is regularly given to the guest of honour of the Homage. Additional Honorary Golden Bears can be given independently of the Homage section. The Honorary Golden Bear is awarded during a festive ceremony usually followed by the screening of a film in the Berlinale Special programme. The Honorary Golden Bear is visually identical to the festival's hig...
Prizes Independent Juries - Berlinale 645f13
A jury is considered independent when its are not selected by the Berlinale. A number of independent juries award prizes at the Berlinale. The high level of quality and diversity of the films are an invitation for critical examination and discerning judgment that opens up new directions. Accordingly the independent juries award their prizes along different criteria, in accordance to the special intention linked to each award. The following prizes are awarded by independent juries during...
Berlinale's Best First Feature Award 3e125w
The Best First Feature Award is given annually to the best debut film, considering films from the Competition, the Panorama, the Generation, the Forum or the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programmes. A three-member international jury chooses the winning film. The prize is endowed by the Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten (GWFF), a society for safeguarding film and television rights. It is worth 50,000 euros and shared between the producer and the director of the awarded film....
Berlin , quickshots, best, worst and in between 221t2
by Alex Deleon With some 400 films to choose from one might say that everybody sees a different festival over a ten day period. Of the official competition films two were early walkouts. Ralph Fiennes' "Coriolanus" and the Bela Tarr entry "A Torinoi Lo" (The Turin Horse) -- arguably the most bleak, depressing , and boring film ever made. It's all about two miserable people livinng in a miserable life in a miserable hut somewhere in the middle of nowhere and tr...
Berlinale Awards 4p6k4v
The Awards of the International Jury 2011 Golden Bear for Best Film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation) by Asghar Farhadi Asghar Farhadi Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix A torinói ló (The Turin Horse) by Béla Tarr Silver Bear - Best Director Ulrich Köhler for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness) Ulrich Köhler Silver Bear - Best Actress ...
25th TEDDY AWARD 2011 - The Winners 4lu68
The nine of the international jury - organisers of queer and other film festivals - view films within the framework of all programs of the Berlinale which have queer context. Three films are nominated for each category and one receives a TEDDY for best feature film, best documentary/essay film and the best short film, each with a cash award of €3,000. of the Jury: Marcus Hu (President of the TEDDY AWARD Jury) Strand Releasing, Culver City...
La Ducha (The Shower) is Berlinale's Short Film winner, The Unliving is EFA Film Nominee Berlin 3j4q1d
The Future Meets the Moment - Berlinale Shorts 2011 The Short Film Jury with its renowned - artist and photographer Nan Goldin, filmmaker and director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television in Jerusalem, and film producer and director Ibrahim Letaief from Tunisia - awards the DAAD Short Film Prize and the EFA Short Film Nominee Berlin to the following productions: The DAAD Short Film Prize of the Berlin Artist Programme of the DAAD goes to a young Chilean director: Mari...
Teddy Awards Announced For Top Gay Films 65d6c
It was without a doubt the hottest ticket and the coolest party in town. On Friday evening, tout Berlin was partying at the former Templehof Airport to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, also known as the "gay Oscars". The Teddys are voted on by specific juries for the best gay-themed films screening in all sections of the Berlinale. The Teddy jury is comprised of queer festival programmers from around the world. Winning the top award was German...
Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus o3f3w
Berlinale 2011: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus The of the Children's Jury Generation Kplus Ilenga Altuğ Christian Becker Merten Ebbert Antonia Felsmann Mascha Tabea Luise Leskien Olivia Mirza Jakob Oeschey Paul Reichhoff Lotta Schwerk Jurek Stanislawski Liv Thastum give the following awards: Crystal Bear for the Best Feature...
The Education by Dirk Lütter wins FGYO Prize "Dialogue en perspective" x2p3b
Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Die Ausbildung (The Education) by Dirk Lütter wins FGYO Prize "Dialogue en perspective" Today, during the award ceremony of the Independent Juries of the 61st Berlinale, the young French-German-Bosnian jury awarded the "Dialogue en perspective" prize. It goes this year to Dirk Lütter's film Die Ausbildung (The Education). The award was initiated in 2004 by the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlin...
Nader and Simin -- a Separation, Iranian film on track of Golden Bear 291s4v
by Alex Deleon As New York Yankees catcher/philospher, Yogi Berra, once put it. "It ain't over till it's over", but as the fest winds down, the smart ninth day money is on the Iranian film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin ("Nader and Simin -- a Separation"). The Berlin festival is nothing if not political in tone, and this year the political emphasis has been on protesting against Iranian film censorship. However, this family drama is not overtly political in natu...
Panorama Audience Awards Even The Rain... 1c6556
Berlinale 2011: Panorama Audience Awards PPP go to También la lluvia (Even The Rain) and Im Himmel, Unter der Erde. Der Jüdische Friedhof Weißensee (In Heaven Underground - The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery) The audience has cast its votes: the 13th PanoramaAudienceAward PPP, which is 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, goes to Tambié...
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