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Haneke, White Ribbon triumph at European Film Awards

2009-12-14T06:00:00Z

Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) was the big winner at this year’s European Film Awards, taking awards for European film, director and screenwriter of the year.

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Ribbon, Prophet, Slumdog lead EFA Award nominations

2009-11-09T05:46:00Z

Cannes favourites The White Ribbon and A Prophet and last year’s Oscar sensation Slumdog Millionaire both figure prominently in the 22nd European Film Awards nominations, which were announced this weekend.

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Will Cannes 2009 deliver on high expectations?

2009-02-20T00:00:00Z

With Berlin over, selectors at the Cannes film festival (May 13-24) are facing a deluge of films from the world’s greatest auteurs - so many, in fact, some big names could end up being excluded from official selection.Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces opens in Spain on March ...

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Watching the world

2010-02-19T16:52:00Z

Leon Forde gives an overview of this year’s foreign-language film contenders and charts their progress from festival appearances to the Oscars ceremony at Hollywood’s Kodak Theater. Plus a look back at Screen reviewers’ first impressions of the five nominated films

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Telepiu, net operations add to Canal Plus loss

2000-03-09T14:08:00Z

Michael Haneke, the Austrian director whose film The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) scooped three of the top awards at Cannes last week, has set his next project as a series for television. The series Das Weisse Band (literally The White Band) will be produced for state broadcaster ORF and shot ...

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The German connection

2010-05-17T14:09:00Z

With its generous array of finance and an ever-expanding pool of talent, Germany is a natural location choice for film shoots from around the world. Martin Blaney looks at how the territory’s muscular production sector is strengthening its international links.

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Fantastic deal with Mexico’s Imagination

2009-05-15T05:58:00Z

Roxane Barbat and Fred de Wysocki’s Los Angeles based sales company Fantastic Films International has signed a multi-picture distribution deal with Mexican 3D animation house Imagination Films.