Hunter Todd (second from left), CEO and founder of WorldFest Houston, introduces the upcoming Panorama China program on Feb 19 in Houston along with China’s Consul of Culture Yang Song (right), Panorama China Chairman Ray Jiang (left) and WorldFest Director Kathleen Haney. May Zhou / China Daily
Panorama China will make up part of the 49th WorldFest Houston – the international independent film festival where famous directors such as Ang Lee, the ...
Warner Bros. has entered an agreement to acquire DramaFever, a U.S.-based company that operates subscription and on-demand video services, from SoftBank.
DramaFever offers hundreds of series, variety shows, films and kids’ programs, in multiple languages, and is available in more than 20 countries globally and growing. The service joins Time Warner’s company-wide efforts to reach audiences directly, including the recent acquisition of iStreamPlanet and the launch of SVOD services wi...
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Midnight Special press conference at Berlin, with Jaeden Lieberher, child star.
"Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind " meets "Village of the Damned".
Directed by Jeff Nichols, 37, his fourth feature, featuring Sam Shepard and Kirsten Dunst, Starring Nichols' regular Michael Shannon, and introducing charismatic child actor Jaeden Lieberher, 11.
This is high style sci-fi kitch set in the American south ...
Executive Producer John Lasseter attends the Los Angeles premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia" on February 17, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
Actors Hudson Yang (L) and Forrest Wheeler (C) attend the Los Angeles premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia" on February 17, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Al...
The documentary captures life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Samuele is twelve and lives on an island in the Mediterranean, far away from the mainland. Like all boys of his age he does not always enjoy going to school. He would much rather climb the rocks by the shore, play with his slingshot or mooch about the port. But his home is not like other islands. For years, it has been the destination of men, women and children trying to make the cros...
Sometimes all you need in cold afternoon is a good cup of tea, a warm plaid and a movie about Nazis getting killed by angry Chinese on classical and jazzy 30’s song. Exodus to Shangai is just the perfect movie for that type of feeling.
The movie is about the not so known story of Dr Ho, a chineese ambassador in Vienna in the beginning of WW2 who helped thousands of helpless jews to cross the border and go to Shangai with visas issued by the Chinese consul in Vienna. Even though...
Directed by Anthony Hickox (“Knife Edge” and “Consequence”), “Exodus to Shanghai” (2015) is an action/drama/comedy based on the true story of war hero Ho Feng-Shan ('Dr. Ho'), otherwise known as 'The Chinese Schindler' who saved thousands of Jews during WWII. Born on September 10, 1901, Dr. Ho studied German at University of Munich and was posted for the consul general in Austria from 1938 to 19...
It is the beginning of the 1990s and Polish society is trying to redefine itself after years of stagnation. Schools are being named ‘Solidarność’, the first West German spa visitors are bringing hard currency into the country, porn videos are doing the rounds and TV constantly repeats images of the trial of Rumanian dictator Ceaușescu. But private emotions remain untouched by these external changes: all the hopes and longings, caught between work, family and religio...
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro is considered to be one of the most influential proponents in the struggle against Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines during the late nineteenth century. Today, he is still celebrated as the father of the Philippine Revolution. Director Lav Diaz examines this myth and undertakes another expedition into the eventful history of his native land. The film’s various loosely interwoven narrative threads are held together by an exploration of the role...
DEADWEIGHT director Axel Koenzen at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Ahti Ikonen is the captain of a large container ship. When pressed for time while moored in Savannah, he violates regulations by ordering his crew to help the local dockworkers unload the cargo. When a crew member dies as a result, Ahti has to accept responsibility. News of the incident spreads, and at the next harbour Ahti is faced with union workers calling for a boycott.
This remarkable debut...
Michel Adams reveals a new side of WWII history with this original movie, based on real events. At turns tragic and appalling, romantic and aesthetical, Exodus to Shanghai delves into the unknown story of Dr. Ho, a war time hero who is today seen as "the Chinese Schindler".
With a great sense of humor and a special attention given to the composition of shots, the movie pays a new tribute to the exodus that thousands of Jewish people have endured in the wake of Hitler's ris...
Returning from the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin, Edge Entertainment are proud to present two high profile acquisitions. The Innocents by Anne Fontaine and Suburra by the team behind the success TV series Gomorrah.
The Innocents by Anne Fontaine which became one of the most buzzed about titles at Berlin’s EFM following the acclaimed world premiere at Sundance. Acquired from Films Distribution for Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the Baltics as well as the Pay TV rights for...
A very special sidebar will be the presentation in the EFM (European Film Market) and elsewhere by invitation only of "Exodus to Shanghai" a new film by London born Anthony Hickox. This film takes up a little known aspect of the pre-Holocaust when a large number of Jews in Berlin were bailed out by the Chinese and given safe transit to Shanghai.
Ho the Chinese Consul in Vienna in 1938 issued Exit Visas to many Jews against the instruction of his superiors. Together w...
Produced by Michel Adam a fashion TV founder and directed by Anthony Hickox (Waxwork, Hellraiser3...) this upbeat feature film provides a superb symbiosis of action thriller, comedy, romance, adventure, music and high production value. Using most attractive fashion models and seasoned actors the Exodus story is largely based on the true story of Dr. Feng Shan Ho the Chinese Consul of Vienna issuing 10, 000 exit visas in 1938 to Austrian Jews to leave the Third Reich for Shanghai...
Beginning on the eve of the 1938 Nazi invasion of Austria, Exodus Shanghai retells the story of “the Schindler of China”, Dr. Feng Shan Ho (David Yu), a staff member of the Chinese Embassy in Vienna, who smuggled Jews out of the country, defying his superiors in Beijing. Over 13,000 Jews found sanctuary in Shanghai. In Hickox’s universe, Ho and his nephew Bruce also boast formidable martial arts skills and a penchant for ass-kicking. As scores of Nazis arrive,...
The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich, Adolf Hitler, 1914.
This painting suggests military camouflage rather than quiet village life.
Yes, Adolf Hitler, claimed to be a painter. And he produced hundreds of works and sold his paintings and postcards to try to earn a living during his Vienna years (1908–13). However, he was not successful.
In his autobiography Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler described how, in his youth, he wanted to become a profession...
History, on-a-loop, has shown that it is just not only an ontological possibility but a historical reality.
Which is why we root for the underdogs, the davids, the oppressed.
Which is why we like movies like Schindler's List or movies like Exodus to Shanghai.
Based on a true story of Dr. Feng Shan Ho the Chinese Consul of Vienna. Dr. Ho, sometimes refered to as the Chinese Schindler, is even opposed by his own superior in Berlin who needs help from Ger...
Since 2000, cellist Yo-Yo Ma has brought together musicians from all over the world with his Silk Road project.
Video of the performance after the screening by part of The Silk Road Ensemble.
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When I was about to watch that movie, I was like « another movie about the WW2, well I hope I won’t fall asleep until the end… ». Actually I was wrong; I was awake during all the hour and I had quite a good time. Exodus to Shanghai is actually the type of movie that catches your attention in the beginning (just because you want to see how it’ll succeed the challenge). I think if Tarantino was obligated to realize a remake of Inglorious Bastard with Ryan Murphy: the...
Exodus to Shanghai is an unique movie that gives a different point of view of the Second World War : a love story in Vienna during the Anschluss that happens thanks to the Chinese Ambassador at the time in Vienna, Ho Feng-Shan. It's a movie with a lot of action too (sometimes scary !) that shows the Nazi craziness but at the same time has beautiful colors and film set ! So yes, there's still hope and one can always be surprised by the strength and the kindness of people !
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Directed by Anthony Hickox (“Knife Edge” and “Consequence”), “Exodus to Shanghai” (2015) is a WWII action/drama/comedy about Chinese diplomats living in Europe at the time, a never before told true story based on the life of screenwriter Michael Adam. The year is 1938 and the place is Vienna, Austria. Chinese Consul Dr. Ho (played by David Yu) goes against the will of the Nazi regime and its mercenaries to issue Exit Visas to Jews at the strategic time that Na...
Over the course of the past six years, the Berlin International Film Festival has grown to be one of the biggest technological trailblazers on the film festival scene – thanks in no small part to the support of its Digital Cinema Partners. As a result, in the scope of the increasing digitization of the cinema world, since 2010 all of the Berlinale’s cinemas have been successively connected to the festival’s Film Office via a fibre optic network, a completely new workflow for th...
Highlights Press Conference KOLLEKTIVET (The Commune) by Thomas Vinterberg at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands 2015, 111 min
Danish
by
Thomas Vinterberg
with
Trine Dyrholm
Ulrich Thomsen
Helene Reingaard Neumann
Martha Sofie Wallstrøm Hansen
Lars Ranthe
Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. His wife Anna, a well-known television newsca...
Highlights Press Conference ZERO DAYS by Alex Gibney at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Alex Gibney (Director, Producer)
In his new film, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the compl...
Highlights Press Conference GENIUS by Michael Grandage at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Michael Grandage (Director, Producer)
with Jude Law
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named Thomas Wolfe falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a li...
