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The Berlinale’s Competition section has picked the first six films for the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. They include productions and co-productions from Austria, Chile, France, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Spain and the USA.

In addition, Christian Rost and Claus Strigel will present the world premiere of their documentary Unter Menschen (Redemption Impossible) in the Berlinale Special.

Competition

Gloria

Chile/Spain

By Sebastián Lelio (La Sagrada Familia, Navidad, El año del tigre)

With Paulina García, Sergio Hernández

World premiere

Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon)

Republic of Korea

By Hong Sangsoo (Night and Day, Hahaha, In Another Country)

With Eunchae Jung, Sunkyun Lee

World premiere

Paradies: Hoffnung (Paradise: Hope)

Austria/France/Germany

By Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Import Export, Paradise: Love)

With Melanie Lenz, Vivian Bartsch, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas

World premiere

Poziţia Copilului (Child’s Pose)

Romania

By Călin Peter Netzer (Maria, Medal of Honor,...

The nominations for the 5th edition of Gopo, Romania's film industry honours, have been made publicly available during this week. As expected, Florin Şerban's first feature film, If I Want to Whistle I Whistle received the most nominations with 13, followed by Marian Crişan's debut film, Morgen, with 11 nominations, while Radu Muntean's Tuesday, after Christmas was nominated in 10 categories. The Best Film category includes the three mentioned titles above plus Andrei Ujică's The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu and Medal of Honor, a film by Peter Călin Netzer. For the Best Actress award compete Ada Condeescu (If I Want to Whistle I Whistle), Adriana Trandafir (Europolis), Maria Popistaşu (Tuesday, after Christmas), Mirela Oprişor (Tuesday, after Christmas) and Ozana Oancea (First of All, Felicia). Best Actor award will go to one of the following: Andras Hathazi (Morgen), George Piştereanu (If I Want to Whistle I Whistle), Mimi Brănescu (Tuesday, after Christmas), Victor Rebengiuc...

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Tuesday, After Christmas, and the other nominations for the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) have been announced. The 5th Annual Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) ”are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (U.S.A.), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion.” The full listing of the 2011 Gopo Awards (Premiile Gopo) is presented below.

Best Film

Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceau?escu (The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu)

Producer, Velvet Moraru; Director, Andrei Ujic?

Eu când vreau s? fluier, fluier (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle)

Producer, C?t?lin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu; Director, Florin ?erban

Mar?i, dup? Cr?ciun (Tuesday, After Christmas)

Producer, Drago? Vîlcu; Director, Radu Muntean

Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour)

Producer, Liviu Marghidan; Director, Peter C?lin Netzer

Morgen

Producer, Anca Puiu; Director, Marian Cri?...

Hello! How are you? is the film that helmer Alexandru Maftei hopes will represent a new era in Romanian cinema: an era of the films for the general public. Maftei sophomore film follows his debut pic, Fii cu ochii pe fericire. A decade has passed since his debut and follow up picture and during all this time, Maftei worked mostly in advertising until he felt the need to come back to his first love: making movies. But he didn’t want to show the same old stories that we got used to see in Romanian films. He wanted to make people laugh. He wanted people to feel good watching a Romanian movie. He wanted that, at least for about an hour and a half, the public would forget about everyday problems from both the past and the present. So he made this film – a romantic comedy, a rarity in Romanian...