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Blogging from Berlin. Our team of festival ambassadors and reporters bring you the dailies from the Berlin Film Festival and past editions archives.
Coming next The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival will be held from February 9 to 19, 2012.
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 members 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...
The number of films screened in DCP (Digital Cinema Package) formats has risen significantly since last year’s Festival - especially at the European Film Market. The Berlinale 2012 presented a total of 659 screenings in DCP formats, as well as 627 in 35mm film and some 1,100 in diverse video formats.
For festivals worldwide – and the Berlinale in particular with its enormous programme - this development poses substantial technical, logistical and financial challenges. ...
The European Film Market 2012 (EFM), which took place from February 9-17 during the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, had its strongest year to date and was marked by a bustling atmosphere at the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel. This year, close to 8,000 participants from 100 countries attended the international trade fair for film and audiovisual content, a 15% increase to the previous year.
In addition to the high volume of participants, Exhibitors reported numer...
Beki Probst is the head of the EFM, European Film Market, for Berlinale since 1988. Before this position, she worked for the Berlinale as the film festival’s delegate for Turkey and Greece for seven years. Beki was born in Istanbul, Turkey where as a student she studied law and journalism and wrote for Turkish newspapers ‘Tercuman’ and ‘Hayat’. It was when she moved in Switzerland in 1960 that her career in cinema began where she managed the Probst-Kinobetriebe.
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by Alex Deleon
On the heels of the 2012 Berlinale, forming a kind of coda to the busy week preceding, four unusual pictures from Iran were presented in this extra special Persian package, one each evening starting Sunday, at the Babylon Theater in Rosa Luxemburg Square.
The Babylon located just west of Alexander Platz in what used to be Communist East Berlin, is one of the oldest movie theaters in Berlin and is now a protected architectural monument. It is also one of the regular Be...
by Alex Deleon-Sinha
Although little known ourtside of the Indian Sub-Continent itself there are several so-called "regional" film industries in India
each of which produces as many or more feature films a year in the regional languages as are produced in the Hindi mainstream
industry of Bombay (Whence the brand name known to the world as "Bolly-wood"). Of course, Bombay has now been officially rechristened Mumbai, but this doesn't change anything cinematically ...
Slate Includes OPEN GRAVE from Atlas Independent and Academy Award ® Winner Julian Fellowes' ROMEO AND JULIET
Camela Galano, the former President of New Line International and Warner Bros. International Film Acquisitions, announced today the formation of her new international sales company Speranza13 Media. The new company, which specializes in international sales and financing launches with a slate including: Atlas Independent's OPEN GRAVE, directed by visionar...
International Jury
Glamour, bears and great stars [...]
International Short Film Jury
The Bears in the Shorts section [...]
Generation
Crystal Bears for the best children's and youth films [...]
Independent Juries
Awards from audience, industry and film critics [...]
Best First Feature Award
© Daniël Bouquet
The most important award fo...
Christoph Terhechte, Sacha Polak
Silvina Landsmann
Emin Alper
Robert Pattinson
Onlooker
Christina Ricci
Holliday Grainger
Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
Christina Ricci, Robert Pattinson
Holliday Grainger
Robert Pattinson
...
Przemyslaw Wojcieszek
Marten Persiel and the jury
Mani Haghighi
Atsushi Wada
João Salaviza
Boudewijn Koole, Rick Lens
Ursula Meier
Miguel Gomes
Nikolai Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg
Zhang Xiaoke, Anne Fleck
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
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by Alex Deleon
Friday February 19, 2012
Berlin is known above all for its political and social commitment, or what the French Existentialists would call a Festival "Engagé".
Esthetic purists sometimes question the Berlin prize decisions on artistic grounds but art is often of secondary importance in this ballpark
where politics can also have to do with the pecking order in the upper echelons of the international film establishment.
Clearly the film with the most ob...
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
GOLDEN BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM
Cesare deve morire
Caesar Must Die
by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
JURY GRAND PRIX-SILVER BEAR
Csak a szél
Just The Wind
by Bence Fliegauf
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Christian Petzold for
Barbara (Barbara)
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members of the Children's Jury Generation Kplus
Kimia Godarzani-Bakhtiari
Rosa Münchmeyer
Anne Marie Dominik Fittje
Nikita Neitzke
Justin Braun
Fion Mutert
Victor Neumeister
Lale Öztoprak
Anna Luisa Cruz
Pia Jacqueline Heß
Simon Kajdi
give the following awards:
Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film: ARCADIA
by Olivia Silver, USA 2011
A family realises that it cannot just run away fr...
Today, during the award ceremony of the Independent Juries of the 62nd Berlinale, the young French-German-Slovak jury awarded the "Dialogue en perspective" prize. This year the prize goes to Marten Persiel's film This Ain't California. The award was initiated in 2004 by the German-French Youth Office (DFJW), an official Berlinale partner, in association with the Berlin International Film Festival.
The young jury that decided who would receive the "Dialo...
The audience has cast its votes: the 14th Panorama Audience Award, 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 Parada for the best feature film. For the best documentary film, Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present came out on top, receiving more votes than its competitors.
The official award ceremony will be held on ...
The nine members 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 AWARD for best feature film, best documentary/essay film and the best short film.
Die neun Mitglieder der internationalen Jury – Organisatoren queerer und anderer
Filmfestivals – sichten Filme aus allen Sektionen der Berlinale mit queere...
Premiere
Ladya Cheryl, Edwin
Jiri
Thomas Hailer, Álex de la Iglesia
Carolina Bang
Salma Hayek
Carolina Bang
Steven Soderbergh, Michael Fassbender, Gina Carano, Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas
Michael Fassbender
Antonio Banderas
Li...
Thomas Heise, Bernd Buder
Fujiwara Toshi, Kato Takanobu
Harada Miho, Fujinami Kokoro
Kimura Shoko
Kimura Shoko
Volksbühne
Javier Bardem, Álvaro Longoria
Javier Bardem, Dieter Kosslick
Dieter Kosslick, Álvaro Longoria, Lilly Hartley, Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem
...
The members of the Youth Jury in the Generation 14plus
Klara Kruse Rosset
Gülcan Çil
Solveig Lethen
Jarnail Fang Yu Singh Sekhon
Sami Yacob
Nico Palesch
Lino Steinwärder
give the following awards:
Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film: Lal Gece
by Reis Çelik, Turkey 2011
We were deeply touched by he brilliant actors in this year's winning film. They let us take part in the feelings of t...
by Alex Deleon
Winter Twilight in Arctic Hammerfest as German Guest Worker visits scene of wife’s Hit-and-Run accident in “Gnade”
On Day Number 8 some German papers are touting the possibility of a German Golden bear.
In a not overly compelling competition selection there have been several notable German entries.
"Barbara" starr...
Christoph Fleischmann wins the Score Competition On Thursday evening, February 16, the tenth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus came to a successful close with the Score Competition award ceremony at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre. Over the course of six days full of events, 350 young filmmakers from 99 countries connected with each other and with 150 internationally renowned experts under this year’s motto “Changing Perspectives”. International icons of cinema such as Victor Kossakovsky...
A splendid opening of the Berlinale’s new venue at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on Schaperstraße, a decisive increase in participants and films at the European Film Market, and more than 250,000 tickets already sold – these are the midway results of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. “The audience is pouring into cinemas and celebrating world stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Angelina Jolie, Isabelle Huppert and Christian Bale. People love the Berlinale – no matter how cold ...
Break
Ina Holmqvist, Michael Krotkiewski with Sally, Emelie Wallgren
Mustafa Karaboyun
Rosmeri Segundo, Daniela Seggiaro
Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch
Bernd Lange, Hans-Christian Schmid, Corinna Harfouch
Lars Erdinger
Bernd Lange
Lars Erdinger
Patton Oswalt
...
Léa Seydoux, Ursula Meier, Kacey Mottet Klein
Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein
Léa Seydoux
Léa Seydoux, Ursula Meier, Kacey Mottet Klein
Andie McDowell
Riz Ahmed
Ray Stevenson, John Hurt, Katherine LaNasa, Billy Bob Thornton
John Hurt , Katherine LaNasa
Anke Engelke
John Hurt, ...
by Alex Deleon
With the Fest at Midpoint Two American Iron Ladies have dominated the scene thus far, Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep. For the first four days it was all about Angela, her hard hitting Bosnian genocide film, and her hectic personal life.
On Valentines Day, Feb. 14, which comes exactly in the middle of the festival, it was Meryl Streep Day, who arrived to pick up a Berlin Bear Lifetime award and held forth before an enthralled overflow press conference audience. Jolie, 36, ...
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