There are a limited number of places available to tour the site, and applications should be made to the Secretariat of the director.
Berlinale camera goes to director Ann Hui whose film Ahkam - The Stunt Woman screens in the Panorama. The prestigious award will be presented at the Panorama party in the Holiday Inn at 16.30. Hui is also playing the role of a film director in the competition film The River. During this event, the New York Film Academy Award for the best short film in the Panorama will also be presented.
It's birthday time in Berlin! Today sees the 75th birthday party of FFA president Herbert Strate. Other birthday boys in recent days include jury member Fred Gronich and Spain's Carmelo Romero.
Yesterday the festival director received a delegation from the Philippines accompanied by Peter Kern. Items on the agenda included the resurgent Philippine film business, and particularly a new generation of directors coming to the fore.
Radio France International opened a permanent Berlin office yesterday and its inauguration was attended by jury president Jack Lang and festival director Moritz de Hadeln. The pair bemoaned the fact that since the departure of the French Army, various French cultural institutes have been closed ie.the Institute on Unter den Linden as well as stores like FNAC. Today the pair will visit the Potsdamer Platz with former cultural senator and Partner für Berlin Volker Hassemer.
Smilla's sense of admissions. Although slashed by critics, Bille August's Smilla's Sense of Snow, has not disappointed German distributor Neue Constantin. Within the first four days, the film took over 250,000 admissions, with a screen average of 1,070.
The film qualified as last week's best opener, followed by Space Jam (843 per screen) and Rossini (737). ”We have no worries,” said Neue Constantin's head of distribution and marketing, Thomas Friedl. ”Smilla almost matches August's The House of the Spirits, which sold 266,000 tickets for 239 screens.” It totalled 2.8 million admissions, ending No 7 on the annual charts.
In Denmark, where Åndernes hus totalled 970,000 admissions to become the best grossing release ever, a cautious estimate is set at 600,000 tickets sold.
JRJ
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