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Berlinale's Forum selects strong Asian titles
Asian cinema is well represented in the first batch of films confirmed by the Berlinale's International Forum section including titles by Singapore's Tan Pin Pin, Japan's Takahashi Izumi and Korea's Mun Jeong-hyun.In addition, the Forum's programme will present the international premieres of Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares' new film Leo ...
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Berlin Panorama selects four docs including Heavy Metal In Baghdad
Documentaries on rock icon Patti Smith, gay Muslims, the South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys and an Iraqi heavy metal band have been selected to screen in the Berlinale's Panorama programme.The four films, which have been previously shown at other festivals, are:Patti Smith: Dream Of Life, by Steven Sebring (US). ...
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High Point to take on sales for Abrahamson's Prosperity project
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has followed his Cannes Director's Fortnight hit Garage with Prosperity, a series of four related 'mini features' for Irish TV broadcaster RTE.High Point Media Group has taken on international rights to the project, and plans to launch it at Berlin's European Film Market rather than at ...
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Berlinale adds competitors including Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky
New films by Mike Leigh, Isabel Coixet and Amos Kollek are among another nine titles confirmed for this year's Berlinale Competition section in addition to the eight previously announced last month.The nine additions are all world premieres except for the international premieres of Kabei and Quiet Chaos:Elegy by Isabel Coixet ...
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Seven films announcedforBerlin Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar
The Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar has announced half of the section's programme for the seventh edition.The opening film on Feb 8will be1st of May - All Belongs To You (1. Mai - Das Ende Vom Lied), an episodic feature directed by Jakob Ziemnicki, Sven Taddicken and the directorial duo ...
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Berlin's EFM to welcome 25 new exhibitors including IM Global
Companies from the US, the UK, Spain, Ukraine, and Brazil are among 25 first-timers confirmed so far as exhibitors at the Berlinale's forthcoming European Film Market (EFM). Participants with stands for the first time in the EFM's central venue of the Martin Gropius Bau include such sales agents as ContentFilm ...
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Berlin Talent Campus expands short film competition
The Berlin Today Award (BTA), the Berlinale Talent Campus's short film competition, is being expanded for its next edition which will see the films focusing on the theme of 'My Wall' to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009. Participants of previous Talent Campuses ...
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Berlin Reverse Angle to include films by Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders
Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog andWim Wenders are to be featured in a special Berlinale programmeentitled 'Rebellion of the Filmmakers', organised to accompany theworld premiere of the documentary Reverse Angle - Rebellion of theFilmmakers about the history of the legendary Germanproducer-distributor Filmverlag der Autoren. Founded in 1971 on ...
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Bavaria takes on world sales for Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami
Bavaria Film International will handle world sales for Doris Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami, which will have its world premiere in Berlinale Competition. Munich-based Olga Film produces, reteaming after working with Doerrie more than two decades ago on Men. Co-producers are Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARD/Degeto and arte and other backers ...
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Berlinale expects 5,000+ submissions for 2008 festival
Organisers are expecting that the 2008 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival will again be a record-breaking one when it opens its doors on Feb 7, 2008. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia's Tallinn, Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said that he expects ...
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Francesco Rosi to receive Berlinale tribute and Golden Bear
Veteran Italian director Francesco Rosi is to be honoured with an Homage and an Honorary Golden Bear at February 2008's Berlin International Film Festival. The Homage will present a selection of 13 films documenting Rosi's oeuvre of politically committed cinema over the decades and will include his 1961/62 film Salvatore ...
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Costa-Gavras to serve as Berlinale jury president
The Greek-French director Costa-Gavras has been named as president of the International Jury for February's Berlin International Film Festival.Costa-Gavras has often seen his films shown at the Berlinale in past years: Music Box, with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jessica Lange, received the Golden Bear at the 1990 festival, while La Petite ...
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Berlin's EFM tightens access and starts premium first weekend rates
Berlin's European Film Market (EFM) is introducing new access restrictions to its venue in the Martin Gropius Bau for the first weekend (Feb 9-10), which may lead some accredited professionals looking to go elsewhere to do business at the festival. Moreover, new premium screening rates will be introduced for the ...
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Berlinale taps Dominique Green as UK delegate
As its selection period looms, the Berlinale has appointed Dominique Green as its official delegate for the UK. Green will advise the Berlinale about the UK film industry and film selection.Green, a veteran of film production, distribution and training, has collaborated with the Berlin festival for many years. In 2004 ...
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Artificial Eye buys Rivette and Costanzo titles after Berlin
UK distributor Artificial Eye has announced two more acquisitions on the back of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival. The company has taken UK rights to Jacques Rivette's Don't Touch The Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache) starring Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli and Bulle Ogier. It also acquired Saverio ...
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'Berlinale of the actors' breaks attendance records
Now in his sixth year as festival director, Dieter Kosslick has pronounced the 2007 'a Berlinale of the actors: we had never had so many actors' films, big stars and cinema legends in the Berlinale's history as was the case this year'. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Kosslick said that 'technically speaking, ...
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Chinese film takes Golden Bear
Chinese director Wang Quan'an had an ideal start for the Chinese New Year by winning this year's Golden Bear for his third feature Tuya's Marriage (Tu ya de hun shi) on the eve of the Year of the Pig.The tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in ...
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Berlinale to show Lost In Beijing in uncensored version
China's Li Yu's Lost In Beijing will have its world premiere tonight (Friday) in the Berlinale's official competition at the Berlinale Palast in the uncensored version after all. Speaking to ScreenDaily.com exclusively, festival director Dieter Kosslick announced: 'We are showing the film tonight in the version which the producer is ...
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Bavaria seals deals on Competition films and market titles
Bavaria Film International has closed a slew of deals on Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale competition this afternoon. The adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel starring Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and Julia Jentsch was sold to Distribution Company (Argentina, Chile, ...
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Sony Classics gets North American rights for The Children Of Huang Shi
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Roger Spottiswoode's The Children Of Huang Shi. The epic tale is set in war-ravaged China in 1938. Production on the project ends today in Shanghai, with a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Arthur Cohn ...