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EFM Industry Debates 2014: Talks on Recent Artistic Forms of Documentaries, Experiences of Renowned Producers, New Sales Strategies in Asia, and Changing Mediascapes in the Age of Digitisation In 2014, the EFM Industry Debates will again discuss topical issues related to the film and media industry. These issues have to do with the situation of documentaries and how they are changing artistically; with successful producers, the industry’s unsung heroes, and their in...
Forum 2014: Special Screenings
The Forum has now finalized its 2014 programme with a series of special screenings dedicated to historical films and re-discoveries as well as current works of special formal and thematic interest. When Bong Joon-ho first opened Jean-Marc Rochette’s comic “Snowpiercer” in a Seoul bookshop, he supposedly devoured all three volumes on the spot. Eight years later, the French comic has been made into the most lavish Korean film of all time. Seolguk-yeolcha ...
Berlinale 2014: Competition Complete
Fan Liao und Lun Mei Gwei in Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice, Volksrepublik China) von Yinan Diao The Competition of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 20 of the 23 films in the Competition programme will be vying for the Golden Bear and Silver Bears (see also press releases from December 17 and 20, 2013). The following countries are participating: Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Franc...
Berlinale 2014: International Jury announced
With James Schamus serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2014 Berlinale Competition. The other members of the International Jury will be Barbara Broccoli, Trine Dyrholm, Mitra Faharani, Greta Gerwig, Michel Gondry, Tony Leung and Christoph Waltz. James Schamus, Jury President, USA In his capacity as a producer, James Schamus has been responsible not only for the Academy Award-winning film Brokeback Moun...
New Feature Film Projects on the Road to Success at the Berlinale Co-Production Market
39 new feature film projects from 30 countries will be presented at the 11th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 9 - 11, 2014). In addition, five internationally renowned production companies have been selected without a concrete project for the exclusive Company Matching programme. The Co-Production Market gives all of these producers the opportunity to come together for pre-scheduled individual meetings with 450 potential co-production and financial partners. Chosen from 328 en...
Documentaries at the Berlinale 2014: Think Big
In Focus: Diverse Documentary Forms and Events The Berlin International Film Festival has long been committed to documentaries in their diverse forms. This is reflected in the programmes of the Berlinale’s different sections and initiatives, as well in the European Film Market (EFM), Berlinale Co-Production Market, and Berlinale Talents. In 2014, a total of 64 documentaries will be screening in a variety of forms. In addition, discussion of a wide range of different...
Final Selection for Panorama Dokumente Completes Panorama 2014
This year’s Panorama Dokumente is presenting 16 films, including ten world premieres. All first screenings will be presented at Cinestar 7 in the Sony Center and at Kino International. Panorama Dokumente will open at Cinestar 7 at 5.00 pm on February 7 with the world premiere of the Dutch co-production The Last Hijack by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting. The film depicts what motivates piracy in Somalia. The topic of Africa, which is also reflected in the Ethiopian fictio...
9th Forum Expanded 52 works from 20 countries: the Complete Programme
9th Forum Expanded What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is? 52 works from 20 countries have been selected for the 9th Forum Expanded. The exhibition at ST. AGNES, the former parish hall whose church space is one of the key venues for this year’s Forum Expanded, is already being set up for the opening on February 5. In one of the installations to be shown there, Clemens von Wedemeyer’s “Afterimage”, a camera feels its way through the ...
Panorama 2014: Selection of Fictional Features for Main Programme and Panorama Special Now Complete
With 24 of them world premieres, 36 films from 29 countries will give an overview of current international fictional-feature production. Most recently invited are works from Norway, Ethiopia, Mexico, India, Iran, Georgia, Greece, Hungary and Austria – with returning filmmakers Elfi Mikesch and Umut Dağ, who opened Panorama 2012 with Kuma, his directorial debut. The titles just added include a remarkable number of Asian productions: In Ieji (Homeland) by Nao Kubota (Japan), a f...
Generation 2014: Opening Films and Juries – The Crystal Bear Turns 20
The competition of Generation 14plus will open with the British musical feature God Help the Girl by Stuart Murdoch. In his directorial debut, founder and lead singer of the band Belle and Sebastian gives a profound and charming account of a summer love in the beat clubs of Glasgow. Stuart Murdoch and his leading actors, Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray, are expected to attend the premiere at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt at 7.30 pm on February 7, 2014. The Ge...
Berlinale Special 2014
Berlinale Special is part of the official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers, as well as film portraits of renowned personalities and extraordinary formats. This year 18 productions have been invited to participate in Berlinale Special, including nine world premieres. With many prominent guests expected to attend, the Gala Screenings are being held, as usual, at the Friedrichstadt-Palast and, for the first time, at the Zoo Palast. “Wo...
44th Berlinale NATIVe – The Journey Continues
BirdWatchers The special series “NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema” is devoted to diverse historical, cultural, political, ethnic, artistic and economic aspects of indigenous cinema. In 2014, two feature films will be imbedded in the multifaceted sidebar and so form a bridge between the regions already highlighted in 2013 (Australia, New Zealand, North American and the Arctic) and those to be highlighted in 2015 (Central and South America). “A...
Fruit Chan's THE MIDNIGHT AFTER premieres at Berlinale in Panorama Special
THE MIDNIGHT AFTER by Fruit Chan (DUMPLINGS) will celebrate its world premiere in the Panorama Special section at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. The director and the actors Simon Yam, Kara Hui, You-nam Wong, Tien-you Chui and Janice Man will be available for interviews in Berlin. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER tells the story of 17 people, who come to realize that the entire population of the planet has vanished – e...
03.02.2014 THE KNIGHTS OF THE LAGOON premieres in Berlin at Kulinarisches Kino Film & Food
I CAVALIERI DELLA LAGUNA / THE KNIGHTS OF THE LAGOON - 64. International Filmfestival Berlin, Kulinarisches Kino Film & Food The Italian documentary I CAVALIERI DELLA LAGUNA / THE KNIGHTS OF THE LAGOON by Walter Bencini will be presented as a world premiere at the 64. International Filmfestival Berlin in the Kulinarisches Kino Film & Food. I CAVALIERI DELLA LAGUNA / THE KNIGHTS OF THE LAGOON is an Insekt Film Production. The story of a fishing community dr...
03.02.2014 After a Successful 2013, World Cinema Fund Gets Off to a Smashing Start in 2014
For the World Cinema Fund (WCF), 2013 proved to be an exceedingly successful year: the WCF-funded film Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons) by Emir Baigazin took home the Silver Bear at the last Berlinale. Also the Berlinale 2014 could not have got off to a better start. For the first time two WCF-funded films will be screening in the Competition of the Berlinale: Celina Murga’s La tercera orilla (The Third Side of the River, Argentina /Germany / Netherlands), and Benjamin Nais...
03.02.2014 Little Studio Films goes Greek with AS GREEK AS IT GETS movie.
Los Angeles, California January 21, 2014– Little Studio Films announces the acquisition of the rights to the romantic comedy screenplay “AS GREEK AS IT GETS” from Australian screenwriters Helene and Peter Paroulakis and will be presenting the project at the 2014 Berlinale to territorial distributors and potential co- production partners. Hoping to follow the box office and cross cultural success of the Nia Vardalos film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, t...
03.02.2014 Tristan Weisgal has joined Bleiberg Entertainment as Vice President of International Sales & Development
Ahead of the upcoming European Film Market, Tristan Weisgal has joined sales and production company Bleiberg Entertainment as Vice President of International Sales & Development. Weisgal was previously at Cargo Entertainment, where he assisted the founders in acquiring films and selling foreign distribution rights. He was consulting at this past AFM—following a departure from Cargo—and was quickly approached by Bleiberg. His new post will include spearheading sales, assisti...
30.01.2014 Picture Tree International with Fack Ju Göhte, Los Àngeles, West, Dreamland at Berlinale 2014
The international sales and production outfit Picture Tree International (PTI) has secured the global distribution rights for the hit screwball romcom FACK JU GÖHTE / SUCK ME SHAKESPEER. With over six million tickets sold and a box office exceeding US$ 60 million, the film was Germany's most successful release in 2013. PTI will present this box-office blockbuster directed by Bora Dagtekin ("Turkish for Beginners") and staring Elyas M’Barek ("The Wave", "Th...
30.01.2014 2014 Berlin Film Festival to Premiere Two Films by Josephine Decker
A powerful new female voice in indie film has arrived. The 2014 Berlin International Film Festival will premiere two films from Josephine Decker next month. About Josephine Decker, Lead Programmer of the Berlinale Forum Section, Christoph Terhechte, says, "I haven't seen such a powerful filmmaking in a long time." “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely” and “Butter on the Latch” are both set in sensuous, subtly dangerous spaces, and blossom into wildly ...
30.01.2014 Awards ceremony line-up: 28. TEDDY AWARD – The Queer Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival
28. TEDDY AWARD – The Queer Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival Awards ceremony line-up: 14 February 2014 at 9pm, Komische Oper Berlin The line-up of artists taking part in the 28th TEDDY AWARD gala in the Komische Oper Berlin can now be revealed. Host for the evening is TV presenter and actor Jochen Schropp. Sven Ratzke is the new Hedwig. Hedwig and the Angry Inch featuring Sven Ratzke is every inch as good as the original. Director and creator of ‘...
30.01.2014 “el Somni” (The Dream), the film by the Roca Brothers, Franc Aleu and Mediapro is set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in
World premiere of “el somni” at the Berlin Film Festival A unique film blending many artistic disciplines around the gastronomy of the world’s best restaurant El Celler de Can Roca “el somni” (The Dream), the film by the Roca Brothers, Franc Aleu and Mediapro is set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Culinary Cinema section. “el somni” is a unique film, promoted and produced by MEDIAPRO, in collab...
30.01.2014 WOWOW set to shine in Berlin!
WOWOW, Japan’s leading premium pay TV broadcaster, will have a noticeable footprint at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival – the 64th edition of the revered film festival. It was announced that Japanese drama IEJI (English title: “Homeland”), a feature film produced by WOWOW’s original film label for theatrical movies, WOWOW FILMS, has been selected to screen in the Festival’s prestigious Panorama Section, where the film ...
30.01.2014 SOMOS MARI PEPA (We Are Mari Pepa) premieres at Berlinale in Generation
SOMOS MARI PEPA (We Are Mari Pepa) A film by Samuel Kishi Leopo Feature film, Mexico 2013, 95 minutes The feature film SOMOS MARI PEPA (We Are Mari Pepa) by Samuel Kishi Leopo will celebrate its European premiere in the Generation section at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. The director, the lead actor Alejandro Gallardo and the producer Toiz Rodríguez will be available for interviews in Berlin. SOMOS MARI PEPA (We Are Mari Pepa) tells the story o...
30.01.2014 "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" Cathedrals of Culture by Wim Wenders...premieres in Berlin
The 3 D film project Cathedrals of Culture by Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz will have it's world premiere at Berlinale Special CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE by Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz produced by Erwin M. Schmidt, Gian-Piero Ringel executive producer Wim Wenders Co-produced by ...
30.01.2014 Tunisian Women boxers doc descends on Berlin Film Market
BOXING WITH HER Tunisia 70 & 52 min Documentary HDCAM Golden Hack Arab Film Festival Rotterdam - Doha Tribeca Film Festival Quatar - UNFPA Sun Valley - Cinem Africa Stockholm Film Festival This revealing documentary explores the world of female boxing in Tunisia, a society where the body of a woman is considered a sacred place for procreation. Through interviews with women boxers, and exciting competitions the ...
30.01.2014 ITHACA, Based on The Human Comedy, directorial debut of Meg Ryan, to premiere at EFM
EFM'14 THE EXCHANGE READS MEG RYAN'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT TO BERLIN BUYERS Brian O'Shea, CEO of The Exchange, announced today the acquisition of worldwide sales rights to ITHACA, written by Erik Jendresen (Band of Brothers). The Exchange will begin selling the title to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market'14 in Berlin. ...
30.01.2014 THAT DEMON WITHIN will make its international red carpet debut at a Gala screening in Panorama Special during Berlinale
THAT DEMON WITHIN, the latest suspense action drama from lauded Hong Kong director Dante Lam, has officially been selected for the Berlin International Film Festival 2014. THAT DEMON WITHIN will make its international red carpet debut at a Gala screening in Panorama Special during Berlinale, attended by director Dante Lam, producer Candy Leung, Albert Lee and stars Nick Cheung, Daniel Wu and Christie Chen. The film is the latest dark thriller from Lam, straight from the success of hi...
30.01.2014 Supporters, Promoters & Hosts: Sponsors of the 64th Berlinale Thank you Ma'm
For the first time since 2007, the Berlinale is again being sponsored by four principal partners. Our new automobile partner, AUDI, as well as our long-standing partners, L’ORÉAL PARiS, TESIRO and ZDF, have all signed agreements until 2016. The Berlinale is also happy to welcome a number of other new partners this year: Canada Goose, experts for extreme weather outerwear; EMC², a US-American hard- and software manufacturer, as well as König Pilsener, the Festival&...
30.01.2014 Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary by Martin Scorsese added in Berlinale Special, Presented as Work in Progress
Untitled New York Review Of Books Documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is the newest addition to the Berlinale Special, where it will be shown as a work in progress, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and key contributors. "For over 50 years, 'The New York Review of Books' has been one of the most interesting and sophisticated magazines on culture and politics, with content by outstanding writers and thinkers. In their wonderful documentary...
30.01.2014 Berlinale Camera 2014 to Honour Karl Baumgartner
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 64th Berlin International Film Festival, producer and distributor Karl “Baumi” Baumgartner will be awarded the Berlinale Camera. Karl Baumgartner is one of Germany’s leading producers and independent distributors. In his capacity as producer, he has brought...
30.01.2014 “Berlinale Goes Kiez” : The Berlinale’s “Flying Red Carpet” travels to 7 arthouses
In 2014, the Berlinale’s “Flying Red Carpet” will again travel through the city and stopover for an evening at each of the following seven arthouse cinemas: Eva Lichtspiele (Wilmersdorf), Toni & Tonino (Weißensee), Adria (Steglitz), filmkunst 66 (Charlottenburg), Passage (Neukölln), Thalia Programm Kino (Potsdam-Babelsberg), and Eiszeit Kino (Kreuzberg). Whether a 100-year-old movie theatre, film palace or small rear house studio, with the “Berlina...
30.01.2014 “Books at Berlinale”: Eleven New Books pitching for the Screen
On February 11, at “Books at Berlinale”, film producers will have a chance to discover eleven new literary works that would make good movies. The selected novels will be presented and pitched at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. At the get-together afterwards, invited producers will have an opportunity to meet with right-holders – international publishers and literary agents –, and to make and cultivate contacts in the book world or perhaps even to option film rights di...
30.01.2014 New Feature Film Projects on the Road to Success at the Berlinale Co-Production Market
39 new feature film projects from 30 countries will be presented at the 11th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 9 - 11, 2014). In addition, five internationally renowned production companies have been selected without a concrete project for the exclusive Company Matching programme. The Co-Production Market gives all of these producers the opportunity to come together for pre-scheduled individual meetings with 450 potential co-production and financial partners. Chosen from 328 entr...
Jury for the Best First Feature Award at Berlinale
The Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers since 2006, when it introduced the Best First Feature Award. The award is endowed with 50,000 Euros, donated by the GWFF (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrecht), a society dedicated to safeguarding film and television rights. The prize money is to be split between the producer and the director of the winning film. Additionally, the director will be awarded with a high-quality viewfinde...
24.01.2014 Focusing on how to successfully push storytelling and create compelling films, over 120 experts will join the 300 film pros
Storytelling that expands your senses: Ade, Al Mansour, Begić, Côté, De Laurentiis, Gearty, Gerwig, Gondry, Grisoni, Heisenberg, Hoss, Jordan, Llosa, Luna, Navarro, Petzold, Porumboiu, Rădulescu, Schamus, Solomon, Stockhausen, Strickland, Thornton, and Vesth are among confirmed industry experts to share their experience with the world’s 300 most promising new film professionals Focusing on how to successfully push storytelling and create compelling films, over 120...
24.01.2014 13 Dutch Films in Berlinale
The Netherlands claims a strong presence at this year’s Berlinale Film Festival with four Dutch features, two Dutch feature length documentaries, two shorts and five minority Dutch films. The animated Dutch documentary The Last Hijack by Femke Wolting and Tommy Pallotta (producer: Submarine, coproducer: Still Films (IE), Razor Film (DE), Savage Film (BE) screens in Panorama. In Forum is 40 Days Of Silence by Saodat Ismailova (Dutch producer: Volya Films, coprodu...
24.01.2014 The Films of the 44th Berlinale Forum: Merciless Working Environments and the Absurdities of the Cultural Establishment
The 44th edition of the Berlinale Forum once again provides an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent. Actress Josephine Decker pulls off a highly original twin pack in this year’s programme: her directorial debut Butter on the Latch about the uncanny experiences of two friends in a Californian forest screens alongside her second feature Thou Wast Mild and Love...
17.01.2014 Sandra Kaudelka and Sebastian Mez win “Made in Germany –Perspektive Fellowship” (ex aequo)
For the third time, German watchmaker Glashütte Original, co-partner of the 64th Berlinale, and the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section have awarded the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship” for young German filmmakers. Endowed with €15,000, the fellowship is funded by the Saxon watch manufacturer to support young talented German directors in realizing their next projects. This year two filmmakers can celebrate winning this prestigious fellowship. Submi...
15.01.2014 Berlinale Talents 2014: 300 Talents from 79 Countries
Berlinale Talents 2014: 300 Talents from 79 Countries / Cinematographers Agnès Godard, Franz Lustig and Christopher Doyle to Mentor Talents / New Initiative “Berlinale Talents Market Hub” Powered by Canon From a pool of 4167 applicants, an international jury selected 300 Talents from 79 countries and across the board of filmmaking disciplines. The Talents are invited to the HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin from February 8th to 13th, 2014 for the twelfth editi...
13.01.2014 Berlinale Bites II
“Berlinale Bites" provides journalists with sporadic, compact information about our programme, as well as notes on various events, guests and service offers at the Berlinale. #PressBerlinale Follow us on Twitter! As of last November, the Press Office is using the platform under #PressBerlinale for short-term, up-to-date information, and will be twittering festival impressions during the Berlinale. 64th Berlinale Programme Press Conference The pres...
13.01.2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2014: Young Talent Goes Global
Gregor (Sebastian Zimmler) in Hüter meines Bruders von/by Maximilian Leo © Matteo Cocco With 14 films, including nine full-length fictional features, and five medium-long fictional and documentary films (20 to 60 minutes), the selection for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2014 has been completed. (See also the first press release from Dec. 18, 2013.) The programme will open with the fictional feature Hüter meines Bruders made, with the support of Sixpack, a project to promote ta...
13.01.2014 Berlinale Shorts 2014: Noah Is a Woman; and the Darkroom, a Cinema
Diandra Forrest in Afronauts von/by Frances Bodomo © Joshua James Richards Berlinale Shorts 2014: Noah Is a Woman; and the Darkroom, a Cinema In 2014, 25 films from 21 countries will be competing for the Golden Bear for Best Short Film and the Silver Bear Jury Prize: fictional, documentary, experimental, essayistic and animated films all have an equal chance. Almost a third of these productions is not digital but was shot on film or focuses on the medium of film as a vehicle. A...
13.01.2014 European Film Market 2014 Set to Go / New Initiative and New Venue
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival European Film Market (EFM) is set to go for 2014, with exhibit spaces fully booked at Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel on Potsdamer Platz. The EFM is one of the most important platforms for international trade in film distribution rights and audiovisual content. Taking place from February 6 - 14, the first annual industry meeting, the EFM opens the international film year. A new initiative with Berlinale Talents, and new features like the Ca...
13.01.2014 | Berlin's blog | 300 reads The countdown has begun towards the 28th TEDDY AWARD
With today’s launch of the TEDDY poster, the countdown has begun towards the 28th TEDDY AWARD taking place in the framework of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival from 6 to 16 February 2014. The 28th TEDDY AWARD will climax on 14 February 2014 with a glittering awards ceremony at the Komische Oper Berlin. The Franco-German TV station ARTE will broadcast the TEDDY Gala for a 9th successive year. The artwork for the 28th TEDDY AWARD is taken – as it was last year – from ...
06.01.2014 Berlinale will offer its World Premiere to Lars von Trier’s Long Uncut Version of Nymphomaniac Volume I
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will present the world premiere of Volume I of the long uncut version of Nymphomaniac, out of competition. Alongside starring actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, numerous other international stars are part of the Nymphomaniac ensemble: Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier and many others. British actress Stacy Martin celebrates her big screen debut with Nymphomania...
23.12.2013 Festival Poster for the Berlinale 2014
Starting in mid January, the Berlinale poster will be displayed at the Potsdamer Platz and across the city, and so set the mood for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from February 6th to 16th, 2014. “The Berlinale Bear is and remains an extremely popular mascot – not only with our movie-loving Berlin audiences but also our international guests. This year an entire parade of bears will colourfully brighten Berlin’s cityscape and light ...
23.12.2013 Berlinale Culinary Cinema Goes Kiez
Since 2007 the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema has shown films focussing on food and ecological topics. After screenings from the main programme, chefs make meals inspired by the films and prepared according to the Slow Food motto “good, clean and fair”. For the 64th Berlinale, this year’s Culinary Cinema will be taking food to the street. In collaboration with Markthalle Neun and Slow Food Berlin, it will provide Street Food. During the Festival, six trucks will off...
19.12.2013 Panorama 2014: First Films
Now that scouting trips for the Panorama 2014 are over, viewings in Berlin are in full swing. 50 fictional and documentary films will be chosen to give the programme its distinctive profile between innovative mainstream and radical alternative. So far 19 films have been invited. Confirmed to date are new works by Michel Gondry, Kutluğ Ataman, Robert Lepage, Sophie Fillières, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maximilian Erlenwein, John Michael McDonagh, and Tsai Ming-liang. Di...
19.12.2013 Forum Expanded: New Exhibition Spaces and Focus on Mid-length Films
Cinema is being rethought, with the mid-length format in particular seeming to offer new artistic freedoms with a true disregard for uniformity. A striking number of films in this year’s programme, whether shot digitally or on 16mm, 35mm, or even 70mm, are somewhere between 20 and 60 minutes in length. As such, they leave categories like feature, documentary, experimental or art film behind them to develop a contemporary film language able to take account of the complexit...
19.12.2013 Perspektive Deutsches Kino revives the Midnight Movie
Spacemen Age of Cannibals Lamento The Innocents Amma & papa The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme have been invited: four feature films and two documentaries. "This year, I paid special attention to variety in content and cinematic aesthetics," says section head Linda Söffker in describing her selections. "Directors who tell familiar stories using new images, with an interesting script, or filmmakers who ta...
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