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The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from Feb 15 - 25, 2024 / EFM : Feb 15-21
Max Perkins and Tom Wolfe in "GENIUS"
"Genius" Stars Jude Law as genius novelist Thomas Wolfe and an austere Colin Firth who never took hat off until the final scene. Sepia tone photography and meticulous period reconstruction with streets full of proper vintage cars starts out promisingly. New York, 1929. Scribners publishing Co. Thomas Wolfe played by Jude Law as a frenetic young writer from the sticks of north Carolina arrives ...
“Boris Without Beatrice” (2016) screened in competition during the 66th Berlin Film Festival (11-21 February, 2016). French Canadian visionary writer/director Denis Côté's film follows the story of Boris Malinovsky (played by James Hyndman) struggling with the grave manic depression of his wife Beatrice (Simone-Elise Girard). While Beatrice retreats into a dark space of melancholia- sleeping all day and staring into the oblivion- Boris loses himself in his extravag...
Following THEEB’s BAFTA® winning success, Fortissimo Films announced today that Naji Abu Nowar’s critically-acclaimed film has completed additional distribution deals in key territories. After a very successful European Film Market for Fortissimo, deals were finalised with Film Buro (Spain), Cineplex Inc. (Colombia), Cineteca Nacional (Mexico), Bulgaria Film Vision (Bulgaria), MegaCom (Former Yugoslavia), HBO (Central Europe), DENK & Sinema TV (Turkey) ...
Review by Alex Deleon for <filmfestivals.com>
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 ...
Writer/Director Michael Petroni's film “Backtrack” was sold to international territories at this year's EFM in Berlin by sales agent Bankside Films. The film tells the story of psychologist Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) who is himself troubled by a forgotten past that has come back to haunt him. Visited by ghosts of his childhood, Peter seeks to uncover his unconsciously buried memories. But the more he seeks the truth, the more his life and the lives of his family become enda...
Ben Gibson, Director of schools, Bodo Knapheide, Head of Studies and Edith Forster, Head of Administration
A wine reception was held on the top floor of DFFB in front of industry, students and staff of Berlin’s German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in honour of newly appointed Director Ben Gibson? former director of the London Film School (LFS), he was also the founder of Making Waves program . He is the first non german to hold this po...
The international trade fair for performing arts films
While premières are shown on film festivals, Avant Première presents performing arts films even before: music and dance films, documentaries, portraits, concerts, live recordings - with a majority of classical music, complemented by contemporary or pop. 500 film productions are featured in the Avant Première Screenings as an exclusive preview to the major international public and private ...
In “A Quiet Passion”, Cynthia Nixon portrays Emily Dickinson, one of America’s greatest and most original literary icons. A person that lived much of her life introverted and never saw recognition in her lifetime.
Director Terence Davies explores how Emily Dickinson’s exceptional poems could come into being. The camera glides delicately into a life in which poetry takes up more and more space. Emily Dickinson communicates with the outside world via letters. In her corr...
On Saturday, the 66th Berlinale drew to a splendid close with the award ceremony. The event turned out to be a touching evening not least because of the Golden Bear awarded to Fuocoammare by Gianfranco Rosi. It reflected the political spirit that had been perceptible throughout the festival.
For eleven days the Berlinale demonstrated the creative power and diversity of cinema, as well as welcomed guests and the public at many panel discussions and talks on t...
Gianfranco Rosi Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea)
Prizes of the International Jury, Best First Feature Award, Prizes of the International Short Film Jury - The Winners of the 66th Berlinale
with: Gianfranco Rosi, Danis Tanović, Lav Diaz, Mia Hansen-Løve, Trine Dyrholm, Mohamed Ben Attia, Tomasz Wasilewski, Mark Lee Ping-Bing, Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Leonor Teles, Mahdi Fleifel, Chiang Wei Liang
Tomasz Wasilewski for Zjednoczone stany miłości(United Stat...
The producer, Anamaria Antoci, accepted the CICAE Art Cinema Award for Ilegitim (Illegitimate) I Prizes of the Independent Juries Forum
ROMANIA, POLAND, FRANCE|2016|DRAMA|ROMANIAN|88’
Director: Adrian Sitaru (Hooked, Best Intentions)
Production: Domestic Film, Film Produkcja, Damned Films
Cast: Alina Grigore, Adrian Titieni, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu
&nb...
Hermann Buehlbecker (L) and Charlize Theron (C) attend the Cinema For Peace Gala 2016 during the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival on February 15, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Gisela Schober/Getty Images for Cinema For Peace)
Charlize Theron attends the Cinema For Peace Gala 2016 during the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival on February 15, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Gisela Schober/Getty Images for Cinema For Peace)
Shirin Ebadi attends the Cinema For Peac...
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
Members of the Jury: Meryl Streep (Jury President), Lars Eidinger, Nick James, Brigitte Lacombe, Clive Owen, Alba Rohrwacher and Małgorzata Szumowska
GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST FILM (awarded to the film’s producer) Fuocoammare Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi
SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE Smrt u Sarajevu / Mort à Sarajevo Death in Sarajevo by Danis Tanović
SILVER BEAR ALFRED BAUER PRIZE for a feature film that opens new perspectives Hele...
Gianfranco Rosi Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea)
Tomasz Wasilewski for Zjednoczone stany miłości(United States of Love)
Mark Lee Ping-Bing for the cinematography in Chang Jiang Tu (Crosscurrent) by Yang Chao
Majd Mastour in Inhebbek Hedi (Hedi) by Mohamed Ben Attia
Trine Dyrholm in Kollektivet (The Commune) by Thomas Vinterberg
Mia Hansen-Løve for L‘avenir (Things to Come)
Hel...
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...
Portuguese Leonor Teles is the youngest director ever to win the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlinale. A double achievement, since Batrachian's Ballad is her first film outside film school. Batrachian's Ballad charmed the Jury of the International Short Film Competition at the Berlinale, which awarded it the grand prize, and also the public - the ovations at the sold out theaters leave no room for doubt.
A film produced by Uma pedra no sapato/Filipa Reis/João Mill...
BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD,
ENDOWED WITH € 50,000,
FUNDED BY GWFF
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, funded by 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...
Golden Bear for Best Short Film
Balada de um Batráquio(Batrachian's Ballad)
by Leonor Teles
Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film)
A Man Returned
by Mahdi Fleifel
Audi Short Film Award
Jin zhi xia mao
(Anchorage Prohibited)
by Chiang Wei Liang
Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2016
© Mahdi Fleif...
By Alex Deleon
Hail Caesar -- opener -- hilarious. Great press conference to open festival.
Midnight Special -- am press -- encounters of the Fourth kind meets Village of the damned. Stylish sci-fi.
Man who Fell to Earth -- Tribute to David Bowie --not as good as I remembered it to be years ago ... Confused plotting -- lame side actors.
Die Russen Kommen -- DDR masterpiece, banned at the time in East Germany. Best film of the week.
Sunday, Delphi, AND-Ek GHES -- "one nice...
An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself. The walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes and strange symbols. Can they help Police Inspector Babak Hafizi in his investigations? Will they shed any light on why there is ...
Best Film: ES ESMU SEIT (MELLOW MUD) by Renārs Vimba
Best Short Film: BALCONY by Toby Fell-Holden
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Highlights Press Conference SAINT AMOUR by Benoît Delepine & Gustave Kervern at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Benoît Delépine (Director, Scriptwriter, Producer)
For Bruno, the agricultural show in Paris marks the high point of his year since it means he can go on a wine tasting tour through France’s wine-growing regions and drink his way from one stand to the next without even leaving the exhibition hall. His father Jean apparentl...
Since 1992, the international film organisations of the Protestant and Catholic Churches - INTERFILM and SIGNIS - have been represented by the Ecumenical Jury. It consists of six members and awards its main prize to a film entered in the Competition. It also awards two other prizes, both worth 2,500 Euros, one to a film from the Panorama and one to a film in the Forum.
The prizes go to directors who have succeeded in portraying actions or human experiences that ...
The Teddy Award – the most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honour presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.
During the Berlinale the award is presented in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Documentary / Essay Film and Best Short Film as well as the Special Jury Award. Every year films from all...
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