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...
Greeting filmmakers!
Two great film festivals are now seeking submissions for 2013!
PLAY ON FILM FESTIVAL www.playonfilmfestival.com
Play On Film Festival is a new feature of the 6th Annual Play On Con. Like other festivals Play On is seeking submission in the following catagories, Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Animation, Documentiries (especially if they deal with gaming or nerd culture) and other. Play On is also open to gaming videos and gaming themed content. Play On Film Festival is t...
Call for Entries!! Academy Award-qualifying, HUESCA International Film Festival (Spain) , submit for 2€!!
If you have a short film, submit it to the HUESCA International Film Festival (Spain) for 2€! through Festhome, a new online submission platform!
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 high qualit...
Call for Entries!! Academy Award-qualifying, HUESCA International Film Festival (Spain) , submit for 2€!!
If you have a short film, submit it to the HUESCA International Film Festival (Spain) for 2€! through Festhome, a new online submission platform!
Create your free account at www.festhome.com where you will find more information on this festival. Remove all the postal fees, submit your en
‘Are you a traveler or a tourist?’ That is the question. What Is the difference? A tourist thinks about going home the minute he/she has arrived at his/her destination, whereas a traveler gets so wrapped up in the adventure he/she rarely ever returns home (Paul Bowles’ ‘The Sheltering Sky’). Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl was a true ‘traveler’ and made history with his epic voyage ‘Kon-Tiki’, now a major motion picture nominate...
'Counting Happiness' is the story of a five-year-old boy, Hasan, who lives alone on the streets of Delhi selling clockwork chicken. Driven by a firm belief that some mysterious secret lies hidden and awaiting discovery, he playfully seeks it out and finally finds it in the sequence of five - the number of the letters in his name. Hasan’s faith in the attainability of happiness presents him with a gift: ...
Une étudiante anglaise à Paris paye ses études en promenant des chiens. Elle apprendra à ses dépens que le meilleur ami de l'homme peut parfois être un bien lourd fardeau
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A dark fantastical tale in which a man enters into a pact with all the insect inhabitants of his rural cottage. when Joy leaves, Jonathan receives an array of services in exchange for surrendering a room in his house to the insects. his existence dripping with honey ,sex ,flies ,meat... and a very sticky end
Venue: dffb, Berlin
Date: 11-15 February 2013
Making Waves is running for the second year a one week distribution and marketing workshop devised by the London Film School in partnership with La fémis, the dffb, ESCAC Barcelona, UNATC the Romanian Film and Theatre University and New York’s Columbia University of the Arts Film Department and funded through the EU Media Programme.
How does a film find its audience? How does an individual title in a particular territory call for...
