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The Match Factory to present five world premieres at EFM
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will handle international sales on four new films invited to screen in Berlinale's Competition. The films are: Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's comedy Gigante, starring Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas; The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada), from Barcelona-based Peruvian director Claudia Llosa; Veteran Greek director ...
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Films by Loncraine, Scherfig and Guggenheim complete Berlinale programme
Richard Loncraine's 1950s-set My One And Only, starring Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and Logan Lerman, will screen as a world premiere in Competition, while Scherfig's An Education, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, will be coming direct from Sundance for a gala presentation at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the ...
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Happy New Year bags four Swiss Film Prize nominations
Christoph Schaub's Happy New Year garnered four nominations for the 2009 Swiss Film Prize QUARTZ in the categories of best fiction film, best screenplay, best actor and best film score. The five episodes intertwine the fates of people of a disparate group of people during Zurich's New Year's Eve celebrations. ...
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Bavaria Film International adds six Berlinale world premieres to EFM sales slate
Bavaria Film International has added six of the forthcoming Berlinale's world premieres to its sales slate for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM). The six titles are: Maren Ade's competition film Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) about a couple during a holiday on Sardinia and their futile attempt to be as ...
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Interview: Oliver Hirschbiegel
The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' of the 1970s are a long way from Oliver Hirschbiegel's hugely successful drama Downfall about the last days of Adolf Hitler, but the German director sees many similarities.'I've always been interested in the human condition and how this brings forth extreme confrontation,' he explains.Hirschbiegel came to ...
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Berlinale's 2009 Panorama programme finalised
The section's main programme will open on February 5 with Danish actress-director Rie Rasmussen's debut feature Human Zoo while the Panorama Special strand will kick off with another debut, North (Nord) by Norway's Rune Denstad Langlo. The final raft of titles to be confirmed include world premieres of new films ...
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Berlinale announces members of International Jury
The Berlinale has announced the members of the International Jury, joining jury president Tilda Swinton. The jury will decide on the winners of the Golden Bear, Silver Bears and the Alfred Bauer Award in the festival's official competition. The jury members are: Spanish writer-director Isabel Coixet, who has had films ...
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Khlebnikov, Schipper, Ottinger and Lom premieres at Berlinale Forum
World premieres of new films by Boris Khlebnikov, Sebastian Schipper, Ulrike Ottinger and Petr Lom have been confirmed as the Berlinale's Forum section finalises its 2009 line-up of 48 films from 31 countries. Russian filmmaker Khlebnikov's Help Gone Mad about the adventures of a Byelorussian migrant coming to Moscow to ...
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Baader Meinhof and John Rabe share top Bavarian prize
Uli Edel's Oscar shortlisted The Baader Meinhof Complex and Florian Gallenberger's John Rabe shared the top honour of the Producer Prize at the 30th Bavarian Film Awards held in Munich at the weekend. Gallenberger's film, which will have its world premiere at the Berlinale next month in the Berlinale Special ...
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UFA Cinema slate to include Robert Harris's Vaterland.
German producer-distributor UFA Cinema has added eight projects to its ambitious production slate, including a new screen adaptation of Robert Harris's international bestseller Vaterland. Vaterland was previously filmed by Chris Menaul in 1994 with Rutger Hauer in the lead. The company's executive managers Wolf Bauer, Thomas Peter Friedl, Nico Hofmann ...
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Elevenworld premieres in 14 latest titles for Berlinale Competition
Some eleven of the 14 latest films announced for the Berlinale's Competition programme are world premieres, including new films by Stephen Frears (Cheri), Bertrand Tavernier (In the Electric Mist), Francois Ozon (Ricky) and Andrzej Wajda (Sweet Rush). 25 of the 26 films screening in the Competition programme have now been ...
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Panorama world premieres include Breillat, Winterbottom, Glawogger
World premieres of new films by Catherine Breillat, Micheal Winterbottom and Michael Glawogger will screen in Berlinale's Panorama section. Catherine Breillat will present her latest work La Barbe Bleue, an exploration of the famous Bluebeard story, Directing team Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross will show a work in progress, The ...
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Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino line-ups complete
Lars Büchel's Lippel's Dream, and Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds make the Berlinale's Generation selection while Lars Jessen's Dorfpunks and Stefan Schaller's To Each His Own are invited to Perspektive Deutsches Kino as selectors finalise their line-ups for 2009. 27 features from 25 countries have been selected in total for ...
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Ascot Elite adds four new titles to 2009 release slate
Leading Swiss indepedent distributor Ascot Elite has acquired rights for Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking with up-and-coming star Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan, from Handmade Films International. Fifty Dead Men Walking is one of four films acquired by Ascot Elite for German speaking Europe. Also from Kari ...
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Visitor passfor the EFM, Wild Bunch returns (almost) to the market
The European Film Market plans a number of logistical changes to make life easier for its delegates and in doing so has brought sales agent Wild Bunch back into the market - almost. The first innovation is the introduction of a transferrable visitor pass that will cost $106 (Euros 80). ...
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Berlinale co-production market selects The Diary from Bille August
The Diary from Bille August is one of 22 projects chosen for the official selection of Berlin's 6th co-production market. The final list of projects selected also includes Mary's Ride from Thomas Imbach; The Ardor from Pablo Fendrik andThe Book Of Internal Grammar from Nir Bergman. Eligible projects have budgets ...
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Germany's M-Appeal picks up Panorama world premiere Ghosted
Berlin-based sales agent M-Appeal has picked up Monika Treut's latest feature Ghosted which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section next month. Ghosted is a co-production between Treut's own company Hyena Films and Taipei-based Chi & Company - it is the first ever German-Taiwanese feature co-production. Inga ...
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US indies and strong Asian presence in Berlinale's Forum
Films from the USA, Lebanon, Germany, and Asia are among the new titles confirmed for the Forum's programme at next month's Berlinale. They include three US independent productions which will have their world premieres in Berlin. Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax about the vagaries of oral communication; Matthew Hysell's Marin Blue: and ...
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German 2008 box office up 3.5%, year on year, admissions up 1.57%
2008 ended with a 3.5% year on year increase in box-office takings and a year on year increase of 1.57%admissions in German cinemas, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI. German cinema-goers bought 123.6m tickets in the last 12 months, up 1.57% on 2007's 121.7m. They generated box-office takings of ...
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Projects by Alvart, Stölzl, Schwochow planned by new Berlin outfit
Berlin-based production outfit Bittersuess Pictures has revealed new feature projects by Christian Alvart, Philipp Stölzl and Christian Schwochow. Oscar-winning producer-director Pepe Danquart established Bittersuess Pictures in 2008 and since then has been developing projects for its first slate. That slate will now include Christian Alvart's next feature Liebe, his first ...