Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), produced and presented by Miami Dade College, announced a strong line-up of films shot and set in Miami, as part of the event’s beloved Florida Focus presented by FPL, and other categories within the 30th annual event, scheduled for March 1 – 10, 2013.
“MIFF’s strong commitment to highlighting the best of Florida production is a tribute to the great talent that exists from and within our state,” says MIFF Executiv...
WAR WITCH, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and an Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film, recently released an extended featurette detailing the many struggles it overcame on its road to the Oscars.
WAR WITCH took 10 years to make and was shot entirely in the Congo. There were many challenges, including the crew being mistaken for actual army rebels. The lead actress, Rachel Mwanza, was twelve years old and living on ...
Giuseppe Tornatore is back in grand form with his latest film, “The Best Offer” (2013). Filmed between Bolzano, Merano, Vienna and Prague, it is the story about art collector and fine art auctioneer Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) who can tell a fraudulent painting from an original as easy as distinguishing black from white.
Virgil is a sterile man who has pushed down human emotions and relationships for stark professionalism and sharp senses. But one day his better judgment is test...
If you are running out of money, don´t have an accreditation and losing your Berlinale tickets, which you have bought – that´s… Berlin.
Different as our mayor said: Poor, but not sexy anymore (nowadays a visitor like the Australian musician Robert F. Coleman is claiming in a big „New York Times”-article that the slovenly life at so cheap Berlin has ruined his band – too many drugs and parties. But I don´t think you can blame the city when you a...
Directed by Amit Gupta (Resistance), JADOO is one of the only wholly British films in this year’s festival selection and the filmmaker and his cast will be in Berlin in support of the film.
It has been announced during the EFM that Jeff Berg’s recently launched talent, finance and rights outfit Resolution has taken world rights to JADOO.
JADOO
The World Premiere Screening of Amit Gupta’s Jadoo
Will take place at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival (Culinary ...
Actor John Corbett as 'Bobby' in 'The Lookalike' (2013).
Crime drama ‘The Lookalike’ (2013) wrapped filming in late January just in time to cut a trailer for buyers at the 2013 EFM (European Film Market) in Berlin. Sales company Arclight Films acquired the film for world rights and began pre-sale negotiations at the EFM.
Filmmaker Richard Gray and his DOP Thomas Scott Stanton attended the 63rd Berlinale to promote 'The Lookalike' along with Richard...
16th Holland Animation Film Festival opens with the premiere of the new Monty Python:
A Liar’s Biography:
The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
Wednesday March 20, Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht
March 20 – 24 2013, Utrecht
Animation highlights, from art-house to commercial,
on Holland's biggest animation film festival
www.haff.nl
On Wednesday March 20 the sixteenth edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) opens with the...
90 films from 28 countries to be screened in Paris on the 29th, 30th and 31st March 2013.
The European Independent Film Festival, Europe's premiere event for independent filmmakers and their audiences, announces its' Official Selection for the eighth edition of the festival which will take place at the end of March 2013.
ÉCU 2013 will showcase 90 films from 28 countries ranging in genre from feature films, short films, documentaries, animation and stud...
Inch’ Allah.
Canada, 2012.
Canadian filmmaker Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s film “Inch'Allah” is about a Quebecer female doctor ‘Chloe’ (played by Evelyne Brochu) working for the Red Cross in a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who finds herself in the midst of war. Every day she crosses the border between the Israeli side of the border where she lives, to the Palestinian side where she works, witness to the quotidian horror of this tragic divide.
La...
"Night Train to Lisbon" premieres at the Berlinale 2013, adaption of bestselling novel, by Pascal Mercier.
Jeremy Irons plays Raimund Gregorius, a talented but boring middle-aged swiss professor, investigating the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. After an unexpected encounter with a mysterious woman in a rainy day in the city of Bern, Raimund discovers a book of a Portuguese writer and doctor, Amadeu de Prado, a figure pursued by the fascist regime. This leads to a train ride to Li...
If you are running out of money, don´t have an accreditation and losing your Berlinale tickets, which you have bought – that´s… Berlin.
Different as our Mayor said: Poor, but not sexy anymore (nowadays a visitor as the Australian musician Robert F. Coleman is claiming in a big „New York Times”-article that the slovenly life at so cheaply Berlin has ruined his band – too many drugs and parties. But I don´t think you can blame the...
In 2013, the number of films screening in the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format at the Berlinale exceeds 50% for the first time. Only around 8% of the films are still shown in the classic 35mm format. The rest of the total of about 2,500 screenings scheduled during the Festival and the European Film Market are in diverse digital video formats.
Against this backdrop, the work processes involved in ensuring an optimal screening of the films have changed radically over the past years. ...
For Richard Linklater „Before Midnight” it is a kind of long journey back home-story. It has been in Berlin 1995, when he won with „Before Sunrise” his first important international trophy as a director – the „Silbernen Bären” (Silver Bear), Berlinale´s second place price. After „Before Sunset” nine years later on Linklater is now (again nine years later) presenting the sequel „Before Midnight” out of c...
For Richard Linklater „Before Midnight” is a kind of long journey back home-story.
It has been in Berlin 1995, when he won with „Before Sunrise” his first important international trophy as a director – the „Silbernen Bären” (Silver Bear), Berlinale´s second place price. After „Before Sunset” nine years later on Linklater is now (again nine years later) presenting the sequel „Before Midnight” out of competition. After...
Call for Entries!! LIAF The London International Animation Festival (UK), submit Online for 1,5€!!
If you have a short film, submit it to the LIAF The London International Animation Festival (UK) for 1,5€! through Festhome, a new online submission platform!
This festival have £10 entry fee.
Create your free account at www.festhome.com where you will find more information on this festival. Remove all the postal fees, submit your entire short film in hi...
The film „Workers“ from José Luis Valle in the Panorama section tells the story of two wage-dependent persons in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Rafael (Jesús Padilla) has been a cleaner for 30 years in a sterile light-bulb factory. Next day he should receive his pension – but then they refused it to him, because he is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Lidia (Susana Salazar) on the other hand is a maid of a rich, critically ill Mexican. This „Patr...
The Second Annual Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival kicks off Thursday, February 28 2013 with three full days of screenings and after-parties. This year’s event offers something for everyone, highlighting the dynamic range of talent and storytelling capabilities the independent filmmaking community has to offer. Among the 58 films selected for screening is a diverse mixture of documentaries, shorts, features, animation, music videos and horror films, including 9 student fi...
Ulrich Seidl's PARADISE-trilogy reaches its preliminary high point at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013. PARADISE: HOPE is the final part of the PARADISE-trilogy. With its premiere in the Berlinale Competition the film is nominated for the Golden Bear award.
Within the scope of his PARADISE-trilogy director, writer and producer Ulrich Seidl presents a photography exhibition at the renowned exhibition space C/O Berlin, International Forum for Visual Dialogues. The photo e...
The documentary follows director Jeremy Seifert as he investigates the proliferation of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in seeds and the subsequent effects on health, biodiversity and the global agriculture industry.
GMO OMG will World Premiere on Sunday, February 10th at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival
GMO OMG - SYNOPSIS:
Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeove...
Director Catriona McKenzie’s Australian film ‘Satellite Boy’ (2012) made its US premier at the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival in the ‘New Voices/New Visions’ section. The film screened this week in the EFM Berlin Market at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Set in the dry and expansive Australian Outback, the film is a perfect arrival for the theme and mood of the synergetic Aquarian Age, confronting the issues of past, present and ...
Some movies are important. Some movies are really good. Miriam Kruishoop’s Crosstown is both. Last week the film had its world premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. It is the story of an illegal immigrant family in LA. I sighed in exasperation, I got the chills, I cried. I have not been this moved by a film since seeing Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere last summer.
"Crosstown is a story about two marginalized families dealing with the brutal realities about what ...
Arguably one of the most talked about films on the 2012 international festival circuit was the extreme realism drama ‘War Witch' (aka 'Rebelle’), 2012. Written and directed by Kim Nguyen, the film is in French and Lingala and filmed on location in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Canada’s entry for Best Foreign Film for the 85th Academy Awards, ‘War Witch: Rebelle’ tells the story of Komona (Rachel Mwanza) who is kidnapped by Congolese guerilla soldiers....
Leave it to the Danish, once again. The little country between Sweden and Germany is a giant when it comes to international cinema.
With its national cinema state funded by the DFI (Danish Film Institute), Denmark has been a mainstay on the cinema scene for decades, having produced some of the world’s most influential and greatest directors of contemporary film- Carl Th. Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928; Vampyr, 1932), Erik Balling (Qivitoq, 1956), Gabriel Axel (Babette’s ...
Starting this year, the Retrospective is being expanded by presentations called Berlinale Classics. Here recent restorations of film classics and rediscovered films that are outstanding in image and sound will be shown. As a rule, the films of Berlinale Classics will be presented by a prominent Festival guest. These presentations are based on cooperation with renowned partners.
“In the past years, viewers have been able to experience premiere screenings of new restorations...
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