Ghost Town AnthologyThe titles for the 69th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 7-17, 2019. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONThe Ground Beneath My FeetThe Golden Glove (Faith Akin, Germany/France)By the Grace of GodThe Kindness of StrangersI Was at Home, but A Tale of Three SistersGhost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, Canada)Berlinale SPECIALGully Boy (Zoya Akhtar, India)BrechtWatergate (Charles Ferguson, USA)Panorama 201937 Seconds (Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki), Japan)Dafne (Federico Bondi, Italy)The Day After I'm Gone (Nimrod Eldar, Israel)A Dog Called Money (Seamus Murphy, Ireland/UK)Waiting for the CarnivalChainedFlatland (Jenna Bass, South Africa/Germany/Luxembourg)Greta (Armando Praça, Brazil)Hellhole (Bas Devos, Belgium/Netherlands)Jessica Forever (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France)AcidMid90s (Jonah Hill, USA) Family MembersMonos (Alejandro Landes, Columbia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay) O Beautiful Night (Xaver Böhm,...
- 1/2/2019
- MUBI
The young acting talent will be revealed during the opening weekend of next year’s Berlinale.
The European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the ten young actors that it has selected for the 2016 European Shooting Stars.
The list includes María Valverde, who had a role in Ridley Scott’s epic Exodus: Gods And Kings and has been cast in Asif Kapadia’s forthcoming romantic drama Ali And Nino.
Jella Hasse, who starred in Germany box office smash Fack Ju Göhte 2 and Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, who played a part in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s San Sebastian-winning Sparrows are also both on the list.
As is Kacey Mottet Klein, who plays the lead in Guillame Senez’s Keeper, which came away with the joint jury prize and best actress award at the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday.
The selected group will be now be presented during the opening weekend of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (February...
The European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the ten young actors that it has selected for the 2016 European Shooting Stars.
The list includes María Valverde, who had a role in Ridley Scott’s epic Exodus: Gods And Kings and has been cast in Asif Kapadia’s forthcoming romantic drama Ali And Nino.
Jella Hasse, who starred in Germany box office smash Fack Ju Göhte 2 and Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, who played a part in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s San Sebastian-winning Sparrows are also both on the list.
As is Kacey Mottet Klein, who plays the lead in Guillame Senez’s Keeper, which came away with the joint jury prize and best actress award at the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday.
The selected group will be now be presented during the opening weekend of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (February...
- 12/15/2015
- ScreenDaily
Also… former Shooting Star joins Jan Forsström’s The Great Bear, pitched at this week’s Baltic Event.
Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and Italy’s Marta Donzelli, producer of this year’s Berlinale competition film Sworn Virgin, are among the jury members selecting the line-up for the 18th edition of the European Shooting Stars showcase to be held at the 66th Berlinale in February.
The decision on the 10 aspiring acting talents from across Europe will also be taken by the Greek film director Constantine Giannaris (Man At Sea), German film critic Tobias Kniebe of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Danish casting director Rie Hedegaard (Dancer In The Dark, Men and Chicken, Itsi Bitsi).
As in previous years, the European Shooting Stars will be introduced to the international industry and press in a whirlwind three days of workshops, roundtables, press meetings during the Berlinale’s first weekend, culminating in the presentation of the Shooting Stars Award...
Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and Italy’s Marta Donzelli, producer of this year’s Berlinale competition film Sworn Virgin, are among the jury members selecting the line-up for the 18th edition of the European Shooting Stars showcase to be held at the 66th Berlinale in February.
The decision on the 10 aspiring acting talents from across Europe will also be taken by the Greek film director Constantine Giannaris (Man At Sea), German film critic Tobias Kniebe of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Danish casting director Rie Hedegaard (Dancer In The Dark, Men and Chicken, Itsi Bitsi).
As in previous years, the European Shooting Stars will be introduced to the international industry and press in a whirlwind three days of workshops, roundtables, press meetings during the Berlinale’s first weekend, culminating in the presentation of the Shooting Stars Award...
- 11/18/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Icelandic feature Rams and Colombian rural drama Land and Shade take top prizes at Greek festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson’s Rams (Hrutar) has been named best film at the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 6-15) winning the Golden Alexander.
It beat competition from 13 other first and second films screened in this year’s particularly strong international competition section.
The film, awarded the Un Certain Regard top prize earlier this year in Cannes, deals with two brothers, who haven’t spoken to each other for over 40 years though living in neighbouring farms in a remote valley in Iceland raising sheep.
World sales are handled by Polish outfit New Europe Film Sales. It will be released in Greece by Ama Films.
Following a long tradition of Latin American productions sweeping the Thessaloniki awards, features from Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela shared the majority of the other official and side awards...
Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson’s Rams (Hrutar) has been named best film at the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 6-15) winning the Golden Alexander.
It beat competition from 13 other first and second films screened in this year’s particularly strong international competition section.
The film, awarded the Un Certain Regard top prize earlier this year in Cannes, deals with two brothers, who haven’t spoken to each other for over 40 years though living in neighbouring farms in a remote valley in Iceland raising sheep.
World sales are handled by Polish outfit New Europe Film Sales. It will be released in Greece by Ama Films.
Following a long tradition of Latin American productions sweeping the Thessaloniki awards, features from Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela shared the majority of the other official and side awards...
- 11/16/2015
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November 6-14) offers busy industry programme including works in progress and Crossroads co-production strand.The 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicks off today with the Berlin prizewinner Victoria by Sebastian Schipper.
The festival closes Nov 14 with the Cannes awarded My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) by Arnaud Desplechin, who receives an homage, enjoys a full retrospective of his films and will deliver a masterclass.
Also receiving homages are veteran Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc and Greek master cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis, accompanied by tributes to the 70 years of Greek animation and to the recent Austrian cinema.The late Belgian director Chantal.Akerman is receiving a special homage with the presentation of her 2011 film Almayer’s Folly (La folie Almayer).
The competition program includes 15 first and second films (the full list is below). The five members of the international jury set to award the Golden, Silver and Bronze...
The festival closes Nov 14 with the Cannes awarded My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) by Arnaud Desplechin, who receives an homage, enjoys a full retrospective of his films and will deliver a masterclass.
Also receiving homages are veteran Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc and Greek master cinematographer Nikos Kavoukidis, accompanied by tributes to the 70 years of Greek animation and to the recent Austrian cinema.The late Belgian director Chantal.Akerman is receiving a special homage with the presentation of her 2011 film Almayer’s Folly (La folie Almayer).
The competition program includes 15 first and second films (the full list is below). The five members of the international jury set to award the Golden, Silver and Bronze...
- 11/6/2015
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Zorba Director Mourned At Funeral
Celebrated Zorba The Greek director Michael Cacoyannis has been laid to rest in Athens, Greece.
The Cyprus-born filmmaker passed away in hospital on Monday after suffering complications from a heart attack and respiratory problems. He was 89.
The star's friends and family gathered at a church in Athens on Thursday to bid farewell to the film icon in an emotional ceremony.
Among the mourners were composer Mikis Theodorakis, actors Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Costas Ferris and Constantine Giannaris, and local politicians.
Greece's Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou gave a touching eulogy at the funeral, telling attendees, "Today we say goodbye to a great creator who brought Greek culture to the rest of the world."...
The Cyprus-born filmmaker passed away in hospital on Monday after suffering complications from a heart attack and respiratory problems. He was 89.
The star's friends and family gathered at a church in Athens on Thursday to bid farewell to the film icon in an emotional ceremony.
Among the mourners were composer Mikis Theodorakis, actors Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Costas Ferris and Constantine Giannaris, and local politicians.
Greece's Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou gave a touching eulogy at the funeral, telling attendees, "Today we say goodbye to a great creator who brought Greek culture to the rest of the world."...
- 7/29/2011
- WENN
Here's Looking at You, Boy (Shau Mir in die Augen, Kleiner)
BERLIN -- The subject is out of focus in "Here's Looking at You, Boy," a documentary about the emergence of gay cinema. Director Andre Schafer mixes talking heads with clips from highly selective movies of the 1970s onward without a clear agenda or point of view. Consequently, the less-than-incisive doc will be limited to gay film festivals and the DVD market.
Schafer admits he took pains to avoid territory already covered in the 1995 classic "The Celluloid Closet" and last year's "Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema." So the movie's direction appears to have been dictated by what film rights he could secure and what individuals would agree to appear on camera. Even then, some interviews get off the track with reminiscences about personal experiences as opposed to how such experienced are conveyed in movies.
Also there is a problem of definition. Is this a movie about gay directors or about gay subject matter in movies? The question really arises when he tackles Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a leader of the German new wave in the '70s. Talking about Fassbinder's sexuality in relationship to his cinematic achievements is as edifying as discussing Walt Whitman's sexuality in regards to his poetry. In both instances, this is decidedly beside the point.
The film skewers heavily toward northern European and U.S. movies. Passing mention of developing countries and a single film clip from India take care of the rest of the world. Little is made of lesbian films and there is a notable absence of people of color.
The clips themselves are often of poor quality. Then again, the interviews shot in Digi Beta look pretty washed out too.
The talking heads assembled are certainly an articulate lot. These include German pioneer Rosa Von Praunheim, Joseph Lovett, Stephen Frears (talking about "My Beautiful Laundrette"), Constantine Giannaris, Guinevere Turner, Gus Van Sant and Tilda Swinton (discussing her muse, Derek Jarman).
The movie has a few good laughs. Swinton recalls how Jarman, who was HIV-positive, raised money for years by insisting each film project would be "Derek Jarman's last film." And John Waters puzzles over the characters' dilemma in "Brokeback Mountain". "They can only get together twice a year for great sex," he muses. "Sounds perfect to me".
HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, BOY
Floriamfilm
Credits:
Writer/director: Andre Schafer
Producers: Marianne Schafer, Ingmar Trost
Director of photography: Bernd Meiners
Music: Ritchie Staringer
Editor: Martin Schomers
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Schafer admits he took pains to avoid territory already covered in the 1995 classic "The Celluloid Closet" and last year's "Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema." So the movie's direction appears to have been dictated by what film rights he could secure and what individuals would agree to appear on camera. Even then, some interviews get off the track with reminiscences about personal experiences as opposed to how such experienced are conveyed in movies.
Also there is a problem of definition. Is this a movie about gay directors or about gay subject matter in movies? The question really arises when he tackles Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a leader of the German new wave in the '70s. Talking about Fassbinder's sexuality in relationship to his cinematic achievements is as edifying as discussing Walt Whitman's sexuality in regards to his poetry. In both instances, this is decidedly beside the point.
The film skewers heavily toward northern European and U.S. movies. Passing mention of developing countries and a single film clip from India take care of the rest of the world. Little is made of lesbian films and there is a notable absence of people of color.
The clips themselves are often of poor quality. Then again, the interviews shot in Digi Beta look pretty washed out too.
The talking heads assembled are certainly an articulate lot. These include German pioneer Rosa Von Praunheim, Joseph Lovett, Stephen Frears (talking about "My Beautiful Laundrette"), Constantine Giannaris, Guinevere Turner, Gus Van Sant and Tilda Swinton (discussing her muse, Derek Jarman).
The movie has a few good laughs. Swinton recalls how Jarman, who was HIV-positive, raised money for years by insisting each film project would be "Derek Jarman's last film." And John Waters puzzles over the characters' dilemma in "Brokeback Mountain". "They can only get together twice a year for great sex," he muses. "Sounds perfect to me".
HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, BOY
Floriamfilm
Credits:
Writer/director: Andre Schafer
Producers: Marianne Schafer, Ingmar Trost
Director of photography: Bernd Meiners
Music: Ritchie Staringer
Editor: Martin Schomers
Running time -- 90 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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