All Berlin articles – Page 259
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Berlin to host first conference of Mediterranean Euromed Programme
Producers, directors and institutions from the Mediterranean countries will be meeting with representatives from Eurimages, CNC, the World Cinema Fund and Europa Cinemas, among others, at the first regional conference of the Euromed Audiovisual II Programme being staged during the Berlinale from Feb 10-11. The conference will take stock of ...
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Berlinale needs further expansion, says director
On the eve of this year's Berlinale, festival director Dieter Kosslick has suggested that the festival expand further to meet the growing demand for tickets from the general public in addition to the professional visitors.Speaking to Deutschlandradio Kultur at the weekend, Kosslick said: 'The Berlinale must become bigger because the ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Berlin competitor Tuya's Marriage
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia has announced Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage as the latest addition to its EFM slate. The company picked up international rights to the Chinese film excluding French-speaking territories, BeNeLux, and Indonesia - which Pretty Pictures acquired at last year's Asian Film Market. Mainland China distribution ...
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Walter Salles and John Waters lined up for Berlinale Talent Campus
Last year's Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic, directors Walter Salles and John Waters, producer Kees Kasander, and actors Sarah Polley and Gael Garcia Bernal are among 120 international experts speaking at the Berlinale Talent Campus which celebrates its fifth anniversary between Feb 10-15. The programme of discussions, lectures, and workshops ...
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Australian drama West strikes Lightning
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has boarded the edgy Australian drama West and will introduce the project to buyers in Berlin next week.The film will receive its world premiere in the Generation 14plus section of the festival and explores what happens when two slacker cousins find their ...
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Berlin buzz - updated with reviews
Reviewed films appear in blue - click to go to review.WORLD PREMIERESIN COMPETITIONAngel (Fr-Belg-UK) (CLOSING FILM)Dir: Francois OzonBerlinale regular and arthouse favourite Ozon makes his English-language debut with Angel, starring Romola Garai, Sam Neill and Charlotte Rampling. Celluloid Dreams did brisk business during Cannes for most key territories on the ...
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Berlin buzz - Significant others
PANORAMAAlice's House (Bra)Dir: Chico TeixeiraA winner at last year's Films in Progress at San Sebastian, the film tells of a woman who tries to overcome the hardships of working in a poor neighbourhood of Sao Paulo.Contact: Cinematografica Superfilmes, (55) 11 3031 5522Good Bye, Southern City (Azerb-Rus)Dir: Oleg SafarliyevProduced and written ...
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EFM buzz - the ones to watch
USFocus Features International will commence sales on playwright Martin McDonagh's in-production black comedy In Bruges about hitmen, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.Lionsgate brings David Moreau and Xavier Palud's adaptation of the Pang Brothers' cult horror hit The Eye, starring Jessica Alba, to market.Voltage Pictures will begin selling ...
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StudioCanal picks up three new projects, including new Klapisch film
StudioCanal has announced three new films set to debut on its Berlin slate. The first is from director Cedric Klapisch who will re-team with his Auberge Espagnole star Romain Duris. Few details are currently available apart from cast with Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, Francois Cluzet, Karin Viard and Albert Dupontel ...
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Penny Wolf quits Peace Arch Films
Penny Wolf is leaving her post as managing director of Peace Arch Films in London, effective Mar 16.Wolf will attend the European Film Market in Berlin to meet buyers as a company employee, before going on to pursue new opportunities.Further details including an announcement of Wolf's replacement will follow in ...
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Cinemavault adds three European premieres to Berlin slate
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has boarded a number of new projects for the European Film Market in Berlin, among them the schizophrenia drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden.Joe Pantoliano and newcomer Devon Gearhart also star in Joseph Greco's film, which will receive its European premiere in Berlin and centres on ...
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Berlinale Cameras to be awarded to Mina, Meszaros and KINO publishers
The Berlinale Camera awards will be presented at this year's festival as part of the Berlinale Special section to Hungary's Marta Meszaros, the Italian documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, and Dorothea Moritz and Ron Holloway, publishers of KINO German Film. Announcing this year's programme at a press conference on Tuesday morning ...
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Berlin completes Panorama line-up of 50 titles
The Berlinale's Panorama section has now finalised its line-up, with more than half of its 50 titles being world premieres. Seven are debut features. The latest additions include Paul Oremland's feature debut Surveillance set in a world of security cameras and the Canadian actress Sarah Polley's directorial debut Away From ...
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Festivals feel the city heat
The great city film festivals exist of course as important events in their own terms. Without the pressure of a major market and often of competitions, they often succeed in their core mission to public celebration of film and film-makers.'We can just invite what we think are the best films ...
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The Good Shepherd
Dir: Robert De Niro. US. 2006. 165mins.Robert De Niro's secondfeature The Good Shepherd is afrequently absorbing, fascinating work that achieves its power through itsdeliberate sense of contradiction. Traversing 20th-century American foreignpolicy and Cold War politics, it refracts historical tensions through a singleperspective; the complex, emotionally harsh life of spymaster Edward ...
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Letters From Iwo Jima
Dir: Clint Eastwood. US.2006. 141mins.Clint Eastwood's twilight career renaissancecontinues and only further deepens with LettersFrom Iwo Jima,his second film in two months about the best known Pacific battle duringWorld War Two. Shot back-to-back with its companion piece Flags Of Our Fathers, it focuses more explicitly on the conflictand its human ...
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The Good German
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US. 2006.107mins.Steven Soderbergh's latestcinematic experiment is an homage to atmospheric wartime noir classics like The Third Man and Casablanca, attempting to reconjure themagic by recreating post-war Berlin on the backlot, shootingin black-and-white and encouraging the actors to give heightened theatricalperformances a la Bogart or Dietrich. It's a ...
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Woman On The Beach (Haebyuneui Yeoin)
Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. S Kor. 2006. 128mins.Owing more to French cinema of the 1960s thancontemporary Korean film-making, Hong Sansoo'sromantic comedy Woman OnThe Beach is as intimate, laid back and low-key as his previousefforts. As such it will have a good following among critics and do well with thirtysomething arthouse audienceswho ...
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Crossing The Line
Dir. Daniel Gordon. UK. 2006. 91mins.Perfectly timed to reach Pusanjust as current tensions with North Korean increase once more, Crossing The Linepromises more than it can deliver. The story of former US soldier James Joseph Dresnok, 44 years after he left the American dream andsettled in Pyongyang, DanielGordon's documentary fails ...
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The Sugar Curtain (El Telon De Azucar)
Dir/scr: Camila Guzman Urzua. Fr-Sp. 2006. 80mins.A classic portrait of a dream gone wrong, Camila Guzman Urzua's personaland intimate Cuba documentary The SugarCurtain is as fierce an indictment of the Castro regime as any academicanalysis of it.The daughter of expatriateChilean film-maker Patricio Guzman, whosedocumentaries on Pinochet's military coup are textbookmaterial ...