All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 83
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FeaturesBerlin Q&A: Steve Coogan, 'Shepherds And Butchers'
Comedian and film star Steve Coogan plays a crusading lawyer taking on a seemingly unwinnable case in Apartheid era South Africa in Oliver Schmitz’s Shepherds And Butchers (sold at EFM by West End Films).
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NewsTopkapi boards Babak Jalali's 'Land'
EXCLUSIVE: Dutch outfit signs up for IFFR Tiger Award-winner’s follow-up to Radio Dreams.
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NewsRaven Banner secures 'It Came From The Desert' pre-sales
EXCLUSIVE: Video game adaptation sees mutant ants wreacking havoc in the New Mexico Desert.
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NewsItaly to remake comedy 'Off Course'
EXCLUSIVE: Italian company picked up rights from Spanish outfit Deaplaneta.
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NewsTerence Davies reveals details of next projects
EXCLUSIVE: British director is working on an adaptation of Mother Of Sorrows and a biopic of Sigfried Sassoon.
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NewsAttraction snaps up Berlin Generation titles
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian distributor takes Blue Bicycle and Fortune Favors The Brave from Berlin’s strand aimed at teenagers and children.
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NewsHurricane whips up storm with Berlin slate
EXCLUSIVE: A Quiet Passion producer is working on an Emily Dickinson documentary.
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NewsMadonna dancer doc 'Strike A Pose' strikes deal
EXCLUSIVE: Film premieres in Berlin’s Panorama Documentary strand.
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NewsTurkish animation 'Bad Cat' sells to Germany
EXCLUSIVE: Animation based on Turkish comic strip.
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NewsFelix Van Groeningen readies Fellini-esque drama
EXCLUSIVE: Ensor will see the Oscar-nominated director return to Europe, while his Sundance film Belgica has had its poster banned.
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NewsM-Appeal inks deals for 'Paradise Trips'
EXCLUSIVE: Artcam has taken Raf Reyntjens’ film for the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
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NewsFortissimo secures 'Ants On A Shrimp' deals
EXCLUSIVE: In advance of the film’s Berlinale premiere, the sales company has announced multiple deals.
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NewsCoproduction Office scores 'Creative Control' deals
EXCLUSIVE: Euro sales outfit inks additional deals after Amazon Studios took US rights.
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NewsHany Abu-Assad set to move 'Mountain Between Us'
Double Oscar nominee has been in Rotterdam with his new feature, The Idol, a biopic of Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf.
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NewsShuttered A-Film back catalogue finds distributors
As the dust settles after the shock closure last year of A-Film, details have emerged as to what has happened with the back catalogue of the blue-chip Dutch distribution company.
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NewsSergei Loznitsa reveals details of WWII projects
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed details of his new projects.
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NewsGender issues tackled at Rotterdam fest
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to deal with the zeitgeist topic in “a playful and provocative way”.
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News'Paint Drying' director in talks to screen protest film
British director Charlie Lyne has provoked a debate in the UK about censorship and the inner workings of the BBFC with his film/provocation, Paint Drying.
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NewsDutch films to get investment boost
Fewer Dutch films with more production investment and marketing clout behind them. That is what Doreen Boonekamp, director of the Netherlands Film Fund, is promising in the next four-year funding cycle, 2017-2020.
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NewsIFFR's Art:Film to showcase 'The Notebooks', 'What If Women Ruled The World?'
This is the fifth year that IFFR has included an Art: Film platform within the CineMart as part of an ongoing attempt to bring art world professionals closer together with their colleagues from cinema.