Latest Berlin news – Page 213
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NewsBerlinale shorts section selects 25 films
Films by Spike Jonze and Park Chan-wook make the cut.
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NewsLOLAs longlist out; German Film Academy joins forces with Berlinale
Berlinale competition films Pina and If Not Us, Who? and Sundance documentary The Green Wave on LOLA longlist, premiere of new Berlinale programme LOLA@Berlinale as collaboration between festival and German Film Academy
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NewsBerlinale boss says 2011 festival will be 'the usual Kosslick mixture'
Dieter Kosslick tells Screen that the programme is also notable for films by and about women, as well as Latin American and Indian work, plus a diverse group of 3D films.
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NewsMundruczo, Riklis projects selected for Berlinale Co-Production Market
New films by such award-winning directors as Lucia Puenzo, Eran Riklis, Uberto Pasolini and Kornel Mundruczo [pictured] are among 38 projects from 25 countries which have been selected for pitching to 450 potential co-production and financing partners at the eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb 13-15).
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NewsCanales' Film Factory take sales on Arevalo’s Cousinhood
Former Filmax executive Vicente Canales has confirmed Daniel Sanchez Arevalo’s hotly anticipated comedy Cousinhood (Primos) as his first pick up under his new sales label Film Factory Entertainment.
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NewsLevelK takes on Lost In Africa ahead of EFM
Connie Neilsen leads the cast of the family adventure film.
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NewsBerlinale Generation to include Street Kids United, Jorgen + Anne
The Berlinale’s Generation sidebar has finalised its 2011 lineup of 59 films (including 32 shorts) from 32 countries selected for the competitions of Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus.
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NewsUtopia Ltd. to open Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino
The Perspektive’s new section head Linda Söffker has now completed her lineup of 11 films.
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NewsBerlin's Panorama selections include Elite Squad 2, Mothers
The Berlinale’s Panorama section has now unveiled almost half of its 2011 lineup for next month’s festival, including 10 world premieres of new films by such directors as Rosa von Praunheim, Alexander Zeldovich and newcomers Jan Schomburg and Marie Kreutzer.
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Berlin shorts jurors are Goldin, Schorr, Letaief
The Berlinale’s international short film jury will consist of US photographer Nan Goldin; Israeli director Renen Schorr, who founded the Sam Spiegel Film and TV school in Jerusalem; and Tunisian director/producer Ibrahim Letaief (pictured).
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NewsBerlin's Forum Expanded to focus on political thought
The Berlinale’s Forum Expanded, which explores the intersections between art and cinema, will focus on works that “challenge political thought in aesthetic form.”
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NewsGerman films in Berlin to include Lutter's The Education
The Berlinale has unveiled the first six films to be selected for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme.
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NewsBerlinale announces 12 Generation titles
Among the 12 features are four world premieres and three international premieres. The full announcement will be made in early January.
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NewsArmin Mueller-Stahl to receive Honorary Golden Bear at Berlin
It coincides with the acclaimed German actor’s 80th birthday.
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NewsVicente Canales sets up new sales agency Film Factory Entertainment
Former Filmax International chief Vicente Canales is setting up a new independent Spanish sales agency called Film Factory Entertainment, combining genre titles from young directors with more commercial output from leading directors.
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NewsBerlin’s European Film Market "nearly booked solid"; new docs services offered
With just under two months before Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM) opens its doors on February 10, 2011, the organizers are already reporting that exhibition space in the EFM venues at the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel are “nearly booked solid” with companies from almost 50 countries set to attend.
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NewsBerlinale competition to include Coriolanus, Pina, The Future
The Berlinale has announced seven new titles for its Competition.
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NewsAndrea Riseborough and Alexander Fehling among 2011 Shooting Stars
UK actress Andrea Riseborough (pictured) and Germany’s Alexander Fehling are among ten up-and-coming European acting talents which have been selected from a longlist of 25 candiates for European Film Promotion’s Shooting Stars showcase at next February’s Berlin International Film Festival.
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NewsBerlin invites Jafar Panahi to join 2011 jury
Not yet known if Iranian director will be able to join jury.
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Madsen, Kolar among jurors for EFP's Shooting Stars
The jury of experts has been named to select Europe’s ten most talented up-and-coming actors to participate in European Film Promotion’s (EFP) Shooting Stars 2011 showcase, which will be held during the forthcoming Berlinale from Feb 12-14, 2011.