All Middle East articles – Page 170
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57000 km Between Us (57000 KM entre nous)
Dir: Delphine Kreuter. France. 2007. 82 mins.Hell is other people - especially family, and especially when they have a camcorder in hand. That's the message of Delphine Kreuter's debut 57 000 KM Between Us, a caustic exercise that uses its rough-edged DV medium to revealing effect, re-tuning French bourgeois comedy ...
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Sony Pictures Television extends deal with ProSieben
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has extended its relationship with Germany's ProSiebenSat 1 Group through a multi-year volume deal. The deal includes current and library feature films and TV programmes for the ProSieben's free-to-air channels.The line-up of feature films includes such blockbusters as Spider-Man 3, The Pursuit Of Happyness and ...
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Rotterdam short Tigers go to Rivers, Ho, Liotta
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has handed out the awards in its short film programme.The three Tiger Awards for Short Film went to Ah, Liberty! by Ben Rivers (UK), As I Lay Dying by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia) and Observando el cielo by Jeanne Liotta (US). Each comes with a ...
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Bavaria Film to unveil four market premieres at EFM
Bavaria Film International (BFI) will have four market premieres at the forthcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin next week. These titles are in addition to the three films that the company has in Official Competition - Cherry Blossoms - Hanami, Restless and Black Ice.The four new titles showing at ...
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Hauer joins van Houten in cast of Smoke And Ochre
Rutger Hauer and German actor Sebastian Koch have joined the cast of biopic Smoke And Ochre, to be directed by Dutch filmmaker Paula van der Oest. Dutch actress Carice van Houten plays the lead role of revolutionary South African writer Ingrid Jonker. Hauer will play her father while Koch will ...
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Invicta Entertainment sets up shop Berlin
Production and financing outfit Invicta Entertainment has set up its headquarters in Berlin to produce films in the $1m-$10m range for the international market. With an in-house development team and access to private equity for development and production, Invicta will have the ability to acquire, develop and produce projects at ...
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EastWest takes on sales for Rotterdam title Worldrevolution
Sales company EastWest Filmdistribution has acquired worldwide rights to Worldrevolution According To Drahdiwaberl.Klaus Hundsbichler's film looks at the life of Vienna-based punk musician Stefan Weber and his revolutionary band Drahdiwaberl, which has been together for almost 40 years.Hundsbichler worked on the film for more than eight years. 'My most important ...
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Go with Peace, Jamil
Dir: Omar Shargawi, Denmark 2008, 90 minutesHigh on testosterone and sweaty machismo, Omar Shargawi's debut feature is let down by a lack of subtlety and some shallow characterisation. This is a revenge thriller set in the immigrant Arab community in Copenhagen. Sunnis are pitted against Shias. Shargawi shows plenty of ...
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EU report says legal framework for VoD not solidly defined
The new legal framework for video-on-demand (VoD) services in Europe created under the European Commission's Audio Visual Media Services Directive may not be as solidly defined as expected. That is the conclusion of a report published today by the European Audiovisual Observatory. If true, it could open up a legal ...
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Wild Bunch's EFM offerings include James Gray's Two Lovers
Wild Bunch has addednew films from James Gray, Darren Aronofsky, Marco Tullio Giordana and Rintaro, among others, to its slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.Gray's Two Lovers reunites the director with Joaquin Phoenix and also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Vanessa Shaw and Isabella Rossellini. The romantic drama is produced by ...
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Jameson Dublin International Film Festival confirm In Bruges as opener
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival has announced that In Bruges the feature film debut from award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh will open the 2008 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival on February 15.In Bruges is a blackly comic drama of Irish hit men (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) told to lie ...
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Grbavica director on Berlinale Best First Feature Jury
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic, whose feature debut Grbavica won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2006, is one of the three members of this year's international jury for the Best First Feature Award.The other two members are veteran US producer-distributor Ben Barenholtz and French director Dominique Cabrera whose A ...
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As Goteborg kicks off, 200 people expected at Nordic Film Market
More than 200 international film professionals - producers, buyers, sellers and festival programmers - have registered for the Nordic Film Market, running between Jan 31-Feb 3 during Sweden's 31st Goteborg International Film Festival, which starts today.This year's programme includes 20 recent Nordic features and 12 works-in-progress, such as Danish director ...
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La Vie En Rose leads Cesars with 11 nominations
Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose has secured 11 Cesar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress for Marion Cotillard's portrayal of French icon Edith Piaf.Other Best Picture contenders for France's highest film honor include Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine Et Le Mulet, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud's Persepolis (also up ...
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Locarno's Open Doors turns attention to Latin America
Latin American cinema will be the focus of this year's Open Doors project platform at the Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).Particular attention will be paid to projects from countries with emerging film production such as Peru, Colombia, Uruguay and Costa Rica, although projects from other Latin American countries where ...
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Micha Lewinsky's Der Freund is tops at Swiss Film Awards
Micha Lewinsky's Der Freund was named Best Film at this year's Swiss Film Awards which were presented for the 11th timelast night at the Solothurn Film Days.The drama about a shy outsider who poses as the boyfriend of a woman after her sudden death and is welcomed into her family ...
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World premiere of Golzow finale selected for Berlinale Forum
The 19th and final part of Winfried and Barbara Junge's monumental Children Of Golzow chronicle, ...they're living happily ever after. The Children of Golzow, is one of four world premieres being shown as Special Screenings in this year's Forum programme of the Berlinale.The Junges' longest-lasting observation in film history - ...
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Rotterdam opens with Lamb of God, speculation about future head
The 37th IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam) opened last night with the world premiere of Argentinian director Lucia Cedron's Lamb Of God. At a packed screening in concert hall, the Doelen, the festival's new director Rutger Wolfson spoke of his vision for the festival.Click here for Screen's full Rotterdam preview'Perhaps ...
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Oxford Murders and Enfin Veuve make international impact
While Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street was the highest entrant in this week's international box-office chart from Screen International, there were a number of new European entrants catching the eye.The Warner Bros' film took $8,111,368 over the weekend, playing on 1,092 screens in five territories.The film will ...
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Czech box office rises 20% and sets new recordin 2007
Sales as Czech cinemas were at $66.9m (CZK 1.2bn) in 2007, the highest-grossing year ever at Czech box offices. The sales represent a 20% increase on 2006. Admissions were at 12.8m, up 11% from 11.5m in 2006; the Czech Republic has a population of 10.2m. Average ticket price grew 3%.The ...