The 21st FICA - International Festival of Asian Cinemas of Vesoul enters its 3rd decade of existence.

The more than 30.000 audiencemembers in the last two years put the Festival on top position of all other existing European Independant Asian Film Festivals.

During its 21st anniversary edition from February 10-17th, the Festival proposes a total of 90 rarely-seen and/ or never-been-released before movies from 18 different Asian countries and in presence of more than 40 special guests in order to (re)discover Asia’s important cultural heritage.

17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century

13-22 March 2015

17th TDF HIGHLIGHTS

Another year of courageous documentary filmmaking is about to reveal itself: the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century offers some of the most striking samples of the genre. Here is a selection of highlights from this year’s edition:

Their Oscar nomination for Best Documentary is a small testament to these films’ achievements: Brazilian photojournalist extraordinaire Sebastião Salgado fills the screen with his images and life story in The Salt of the Earth directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. A close-up of Salgado’s face against a black background and a generous selection of his stunning photographs lead a narrative full of surprising twists and turns, of emotional and moral depth that ultimately becomes a kaleidoscope of our planet with all its wonders and contradictions.

Blending the genres of ecological documentary and political thriller Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga (with Leonardo de Caprio executive producing) chronicles the suspenseful story of a group of park rangers and their struggle to protect the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The gorillas might be the endangered species threatened by poachers in the UNESCO World Heritage Site, but Von Einsiedel’s documentary widens the scope to include the area’s pressing social issues, the personal dedication of the protagonists and, ultimately, the fight between good and evil.

TDF regulars - Heddy Honigmann, Kim Longinotto, Joshua Oppenheimer and Barbara Kopple - return with their latest work: Music transcends borders – whether they be geographical, ethnic or cultural – in Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts, a surprising road-movie with one of the world’s best orchestras, the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, setting the tone.

After his ground-breaking Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer delves once again into Indonesia’s tragic recent history. The Look of Silence, a “poem about a silence borne of terror”, follows a family of survivors that discovers the identity of their son’s murderers – and decides to confront them.

A former prostitute is now a guardian angel for neglected and exploited women and young girls in Kim Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher. Shot in verité style, the portrait of an inspiring woman becomes a multi-faceted narrative of various experiences as seen through the point of view of the women who share them on camera.

Oscar winner Barbara Kopple returns with Running From Crazy, an intimate portrait of Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. As she has to deal with a legacy of greatness but also of suicide and mental illness, Hemingway looks to the past to find a way to change her and her children’s future.

An incredible, unknown story comes to the surface with André Singer’s Night Will Fall. A British film about the Holocaust, overseen by Alfred Hitchcock and shot by a group of British filmmakers during the days of World War II liberation, was shelved for 70 years for political reasons. Singer juxtaposes the yet unseen and horrifying images of the film with the unique story of its origins and fate.

Michael Matheson Miller’s Poverty Inc. is not just another documentary about poverty and the developing countries. Matheson Miller masterfully chooses his talking heads, who expertly and roundly present the workings of global poverty, focusing on the West’s responsibility in the reinforcement of a vicious circle of paternalism, charity and colonialism.

Two journalists/directors record their own, personal and shocking stories. Having himself experienced detainment, torture and humiliation, Ahmad Jalali Farahani exposes in We Are Journalists the harsh reality Iranian journalists face in their country – and their constant struggle for freedom of expression. Another incredible true story is that of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas who reveals with Documented a different kind of coming-out: that of an undocumented immigrant in the US. Sharing the hardships of an immigrant’s “illegal life in limbo”, Vargas’s film becomes the story of his own transformation into an activist.

For all those who do not have tickets for the overly keyed up Berlin Film Festival, Freies Museum Berlin offers the Berlinale-Asyl. Over 11 days programs will be shown by 19 Berlin Film Festivals which are organized on the network Festiwelt. Independent, animation, documentaries - the newest films beyond the catwalk.

More information: www.berlinale-asyl.de

Special highlight is the Jan Cvitkovic - Film Night on the 6th of February. Cvitkovic is one of the most successful Slovenian directors of the last years and will present a retrospective choice of his films. He was honored with a lion by the Venice Film Festival. The discussion panel will consist of Mrs. Nerina Kocijančic ̌ (Slovenian Film Institute), Miha Černec (producer) as well as Niko Novak (actor).

More information: www.staragara.com

On Friday the 13th of February will be shown „Plastic Man: the artful life of Jerry Ross Barrish“ by William Farley as a special screening . Jerry Ross Barrish’s tale is one of metamorphoses: First an activist bail bondsman in 1960s San Francisco, then an indie filmmaker, today this artist creates sculptures and installations from the garbage of our affluent society.The film portrait shows the internationally known artist in action.

More information: www.plasticmanbarrish.com

For Berlinale visitors who want to recover from the hustle and bustle, did not get tickets or do not want to queue from 6 AM on, great cinema, a backstage bar and interesting meetings will be offered at Freies Museum Berlin. The entry is free.

The Freies Museum Berlin is an independent center for art and culture and focuses its work on the promotion and presentation of artistic actions, movements and new artistic developments in the local and international context. On display are exhibits on influential artistic concepts, ideas and movements that have changed the perception and understanding of art.

More information: www.freies-museum.com

Festiwelt e.V. - Network of Berlin Film Festivals represents the interests of the associated Berlin Film Festivals. It is a globally unique festival group that combines organizational and substantive synergies between the participating festivals and develops projects to promote national and international film and cinema culture in Berlin and Germany.

More information: www.festiwelt-berlin.de/berlinale-asyl-2015

The International Filmfestival ContraVision is providing a meeting place for short film makers and short film enthusiasts since 1993. The renowned ContraVision awards are being distributed exclusively by the audience. Movies from independent filmmakers and works of film- and art-school graduates are competing with commercial productions in equal rank before the jury for the public’s favour. Short films of all genres up to a length of 30 minutes are admitted; a subject or topic is not prescribed.

The 23rd International Filmfestival Contravision takes place from March, 20th to 28th 2015 at Cinema Central in Berlin, Germany. „Visions contra total television“ is the motto of the organizer Contra Medienwerkstatt that is more than a non-profit association; and the ContraVision festival is more than just a competition: Attention is attracted towards the independent short film being produced for various reasons offside the main stream trends and in general not finding its way into the commercial movie theatres.

More information: www.contravision.de

Visions du Réel invites you to TALK & DRINKS

At the Berlinale, “Meet the Docs“, EFM Producers Hub

Monday 9 February 2015

From 4pm to 5pm

“After the film school: Challenges for emerging filmmakers and producers“

A conversation between Luciano Barisone, Director of Visions du Réel, 

Nicole Vögele, Swiss filmmaker and Elsa Kremser, Austrian filmmaker

Nicole Vögele, born 1983 in Gretzenbach (Switzerland) lives in Zurich. In 2010 she enrolls at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg studying documentary filmmaking. Her first documentary “Frau Loosli“ won 2013 at Visions du Réel the C-Side Postproduction Prize for the best Swiss film. The same year her short essay “In die Innereien“ premiered at DOK Leipzig.

Elsa Kremser, born 1985 in Wolfsberg (Austria), works as a producer and author for creative documentaries in Vienna. She studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany where she makes “Sonor” and “A Promise” together with Levin Peter, films that both premiered at Visions du Réel. At the moment she is preparing the formation of a Vienna based production company.

Nicole and Elsa work together on “nebel”, an experimental documentary about fog and solitude. The film receives an honorable mention at 64th Berlinale, is screened at Visions du Réel, Locarno and many other international festivals.

Contact: Gudula Meinzolt, gmeinzolt@visionsdureel.ch, +41 79 962 29 70

Visions du Réel representatives at the Berlinale: Claude Ruey (President), Luciano Barisone (Director), Gudula Meinzolt (Head of DOCM)

As every year, IN-EDIT will be at the Berlinale and we would be delighted to meet you if you consider that it would be interesting for your project(s)

WHAT IS IN-EDIT?

IN-EDIT is music documentary. Born in 2003 in Barcelona, it grew with the idea to promote this genre in the world. Now, IN-EDIT is a strong network of festivals which in 2015 will run festivals in Barcelona (13th Edition), Santiago de Chile (12), Sâo Paulo (7th), Bogota and Thessaloniki and Athens (2nd) so we hope to join worlwide more than 100.000 spectatots. We also organize screenings of music docs, distribute films and also run IN-EDIT TV, the first VOD platform dedicated exclusively to music documentaries.

At IN-EDIT festivals we screen a selection of the best music documentaries produced in the last couple of  years (but we do not forget about the classics docs of the genre neither). We award the most outstanding ones in the Official Selection (American Interior, was the best International Documentary in 2014). We also continue to pay tribute to the most important directors of the genre in our homage section (Frank Scheffer in 2014,  in the previous years D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles, Dick Fontaine, Les Blank, Murray Lerner, Julien Temple or Don Letts).

WHY SHOULD WE MEET?

* FESTIVALS: Open Call for submissions for the IN-EDIT festivals. The submission process is already open so if you are in Berlin with a music documentary it is a good moment to let us know about it. The Open Call concerns Barcelona, but International Titles could be selected also for IN-EDIT festivals before Barcelona (for example Sao Paolo or Bogota).

* IN-EDIT TV: Online Contents. IN-EDIT TV is looking for content, So we would be more than happy to enlarge our catalogue. For the moment IN-EDIT TV is available only in Spain, but in 2015 we plan to expand to at least one other country: Mexico!

* IN-EDIT Fast Forward: Tecnology companies and projects. We launched this new project in 2013 in form of a conference where we have presented companies who change our relationship with the audiovisual and / or music. We offer them to experiment with our festival also.  In the first edition we invited companies such as VHX, Distrify (new distribution models ), Interlude and The Mad Video (interactive video), Civolution and Linklib (second screen) Soundkik (social jukebox) or Screenly (theatrical on demand).

* Other. At  IN-EDIT we care a lot for how we do things and we create our own solutions for our needs, besides of new business lines. From offering programming packages to entities  and other festivals in the countries where we operate, to technical solutions for the needs of the entities in this field (own ticketing system, translating and subtitling in Spain) IN-EDIT is a company  which is always broadening its spectrum of action. Besides that we  are opened to hear about new forms of development, management tools or technical services helping us to improve our International network of  our work.

WHO SHOULD I CONTACT?

Cristian Pascual – CEO and director of the Festival In Barcelona will be attending from February 6th until 9th.

Johannes Klein - Head of Programmers from 6th to 14th.

Irene Visa – Booking and Coordination from 6th to 12th

Ask for a meeting through Johannes Klein

IN-EDIT FESTIVALS, 2015

Head Office & Barcelona: www.in-edit.org

Chile: www.in-edit.cl

Brasil: www.in-edit-brasil.com

Colombia: www.in-edit.co

Grecia: www.in-edit.gr

IN-EDIT TV Music Doc VOD service: www.in-edit.tv

IN-EDIT FAST FORWARD: Somewhere between music, film and technology: ffwd.in-edit.org

6th Annual Cinema Verde <<>> February 12-15, 2015

For the past five years Cinema Verde, Gainesville’s Environmental Film and Arts Festival, has educated and engaged the community through the art of documentary filmmaking. Our festival has sparked awareness and inspired action toward a sustainable future for all. 
We are putting the final touches on what will prove to be our most successful festival yet. 

We will screen 40+ films telling the stories of communities and individuals overcoming environmental challenges. 

The Festival features live music, art and over 40 films, simultaneously screening, focusing on sustainable solutions for environmental concerns.

2015 FILM SELECTIONS/SYNOPSES/TRAILERS on on our website http://www.cinemaverde.org/2015-films/

The 6th Annual Cinema Verde Festival runs from 5 PM on Thursday, Feb. 12 through 8 PM Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. The Paramount Plaza Hotel & Conference Center located at 2900 SW 13th Street, Gainesville, FL 32608 is this year's venue.

***Sat. Feb. 14 is the Eco-fair - if you would like to participate, please sign up ASAP http://www.cinemaverde.org/support/

Events include:
over 40 films (local, national, international, and student - college and high school)
Director discussions
Eco Art Gallery opens Thurs. Feb. 12
Eco Vendor Fair Sat. Feb. 14
Live Music - nightly
VIP Opening Night Reception Thurs. Feb. 12
Local Food Potluck Sun. Feb. 15

Ticket prices range from a $100 VIP Pass (all inclusive-films and events), $50 Half Access VIP Pass, $25 1 day pass, to $10 single film.

Tickets are available http://www.cinemaverde.org/tickets/

Cinema Verde's mission is to provide environmental education to the public through film, arts, workshops, events, tours and any other forum or media; to increase public awareness of environmental practices that enhance public health and improve quality of life in urban, suburban and rural settings. We bring community organizations, businesses and citizens together to help forge sustainable solutions for our future. Cinema Verde provides environmental education through film and the arts.

Trish Riley is founding director of Cinema Verde, an environmental film and arts festival held in Gainesville, Florida since 2010. Trish is a national award-winning investigative and environmental journalist and author, with work published in major newspapers, national and international magazines. She is the founder of www.GoGreenNation.org, a website designed to promote green jobs, resources and businesses. http://cinemaverde.org/about/cvstaff/

The film society of the Lincoln Society organized the first retrospective of Ruben Oestlund’s films. His films and innovative approaches were largely unknown in the United States until his most recent production FORCE MAJEURE prompted attention because of its nomination as the Swedish entry for the foreign language  Oscar.

Oestlund’s   depiction of Swedish society mirrors a dark and satirical perception with absurd overtones. He avoids linear story lines, not permitting the audience to predict what will happen. Rather, he interrupts the flow of events bringing ambiguity and non-sequiturs to the screen. The viewer must decipher what is happening, which is facilitated by long takes, stationary camera work and realistic presentations.  As an astute but detached observer, Oestlund places the audience into an active role, challenging its perception but rendering the viewers frequently ill at ease and disturbed at the same time.

According to film critics, Oestlund’s THE GUITAR MONGOLOID, produced in 2004, ranged from one of the worst to one of the best Swedish films produced that year. His goal to make the audience feel insecure was certainly achieved. He did not decipher what is right and what is wrong nor convey message bound meaning. There is a series of seemingly unconnected   vignettes depicting the odd and erratic actions of individuals whose bizarre behavior ruptures the flow of events.  A boy damages roof top satellite dishes to interfere with television consumption.  An elderly women rambling to herself is obsessed with closing a door. She is looking for her stolen bike which in another scene is damaged by a group of young men. Their only activity in several vignettes is the destruction of bicycles. When she finds her bike she cannot disengage it from a lamp post but does not understand why. In the Russian roulette scene a man is pressured by his two drunken companions to risk his life. Shouting lyrics, a boy strums a guitar in front of shops.    In a parking lot scene there is a driver-less car which   speeds in circles chasing the owner. Two middle aged bike gang members are so strung out on the perfect conditions of their bikes that they engage in another sequence in a violent fight with teenagers who may have scratched one of the  bikes. In the last scene of the film, the guitar boy inflates plastic garbage liners and floats them in a surreal scene like a big black emblem   over the rooftops of the city. There is no straight storyline in Oestlund’s depiction of individuals acting on the margins of society and engaging in erratic behavior. Unless directly impacted passing people barely notice their action. 

Using the approach applied in GUITAR MONGOLOID Oestlund presents in INVOLUNTARY, released in 2008, a series of mini events interrupting the taken for granted reality. There is no straight story connecting the vignettes. At a birthday party a patriarch loses sight on an eye hit by a fire cracker,  yet to the consternation of his guests, he denies that something important has happened to him. Reporting child abuse by another teacher, an instructor interrupts the harmonious relations of her colleagues who want to suppress the incident. A driver stops his bus to find out who did minor damage to the toilet until a young boy is forced to confess while the passenger who was responsible watches silently. Sexually assaulted by his male peers during a trip and disgusted by the experience, a young man decides to stay with them. Half-drunk teenage girls interrupt riders on a train and in a group with others  damage a car. They run away from the irate owner and unconcerned about what will happen to her leave a drunken girl behind who is picked up by the driver.  Routine patterns of behavior are interrupted and cognitive dissonance results.

To Oestlund’s surprise, the reaction to the controversial and provocative film PLAY, of 2011 co-produced with Denmark and France, was much stronger among educators and social scientists than by film critics. Based on a true Goteborg story, five immigrant black children from poor backgrounds are ripping off three white middle class children including an Asian kid. In an elaborate ploy they obtain their smart phones and engage in another scam robbing them of their remaining valuables. The story is superbly and convincingly enacted by these boys. Oestlund precludes overt identification with either group by inserting unconnected trivial scenes   such as an office party at the shopping center,  a band of American Indians playing in front of it and an apparently ownerless crib obstructing passage on the train. Because of these scenes the disruptive elements of the PLAY become even more powerful.

The black group is aggressive and outspoken and excels in the cat and mouse game they play with the white kids who come across as passively serving as unwitting collaborators in the scams. They are systematically degraded in the story and show little resistance. Indifferent adults do not intervene to protect the white children or stop the boisterous behavior of the black ones in the tram or shopping center. One of the black children tells the white ones that it is their own fault for being victimized, “you must be stupid showing your smart phones to a group of five black kids”. There is also physical violence. On the tram young vigilantes beat up all the kids and one of the black children who wants to leave the group is assaulted by his friends. The other passengers remain indifferent except for an old man who tries to help the black child. At the end of film two white men steal smart phones from two young black children and accuse them of being thieves, though a woman defends the children in a heated exchange about minorities.

The camera work and visual style gives PLAY a documentary real time feeling. Customary moving images are missing and the audience is immersed like using the images as a giant looking glass.  Oestlund certainly realizes that there is a stereotype issue and that the film could reinforce the notion of criminal black youngsters. But without taking obvious sides he focuses on the race issue which has become prominent in liberal Scandinavia through heated immigration debate and the rise of right wing parties.

Though interrupted by unpredictable twists and turns the widely acclaimed FORCE MAJEURE feature of 2014 presents an accessible story of a professional couple’s weeklong stay in a luxury ski resort with their two children.  During that period an incident shakes the precarious basis of their marriage and reveals the turmoil behind the appearance of a happily engaged couple. Mutual taken for granted preconceptions about each other are destroyed and the marriage is collapsing, a pending disaster the kids sense immediately. Oestlund has stated that he hoped this film, which questions the brittle basis of most marriages, would lead to an increased divorce rate.

When a rapidly approaching avalanche threatens to kill the family the husband grabs his cell phone and escapes, abandoning his wife and children.  Prompted by panic or by a powerful survival instinct his action destroys the conception of the care taking and loving father and husband.  As Carl Jaspers suggests, the innermost self is revealed in such extreme situations.  Returning to the breakfast table he finds his family safe with the wife having protected the kids and he acts as if nothing has happened. In subsequent encounters with the spouse and friends he denies that he abandoned the family. His action creates an unbearable cognitive dissonance for his wife. She is forced to see his apparent true self, a weak and self-centered person in stark contrast to her perception of him before the avalanche hit.  He has to admit that he abandoned wife and children because his action was recorded on his smart phone. He spends time by himself with a friend who suggests screaming as a way to reduce stress, a behavior he repeats with a group of drunken men. Returning to his room he breaks down in tears, and is caught up in unstoppable wailing and crying that neither his wife nor his children can stop. He confesses his shallowness to her, his past infidelities and the cover-up of his fractured self. He has gone  through a primal experience, Jasper’s  extreme situation.  After he returns to his senses, he saves his wife during a snow storm after she had suffered a skiing accident. He acts firm but gentle with the children. When they leave the hotel, harmony has been reestablished and his wife has gained composure and cognitive balance. The world and her marriage make sense again. Yet the last scenes show the precariousness of their existence because their bus comes close to a life threatening tumble from a steep mountain road which is caught by Oestlund in anxiety inducing images.

As his retrospective shows, Ruben Oestlund belongs to a group of unconventional innovative film makers   such as Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Roy Anderson  and  Harmony Korine who break with traditional film making, disturb taken for granted conceptions of reality and force the audience to reflect. Oestlund's creative injection of doubt and cognitive dissonance induces  questioning and breaks our routinized mental habits.

Claus Mueller, filmexchange@gmail.com

Ottawa's Cellar Door Film Festival celebrates Women in Horror Month with a special Friday the 13th screening of Dys-. Dys-, directed by Montreal's Maude Michaud, is the first Audience Award winner for Best Feature Film at the Cellar Door Film Festival and CDFF can't wait to hit audiences with a second shot of Michaud's bold, raw vision. The film screened to an engaged audience back when Michaud joined the festival for its inaugural edition in 2014.

The feature presentation of Dys- will be preceded by a screening of Michaud's 2009 short film Reflection and Michaud will join us for a Skype Q&A after the film to chat all things great about the combo of girls and gore.

The film screens for FREE on Friday the 13th at 7:00pm in 100 St. Pat's at Carleton University and is sponsored by the School for Studies in Art and Culture and the School of Canadian Studies (Carleton University) and Cellar Door Film Festival as part of Women in Horror Month. Please visit http://events.carleton.ca/canadian-women-in-horror-screening-event/ for more info.

Synopsis: A strange disease is plaguing the city. Hoping to escape contamination, Eva and Sam, an estranged married couple, are forced to barricade themselves in their apartment despite the palpable tension between them. Now forced into isolation in their small living space, they struggle with their own frailty in a world that can only offer the worst horrors imaginable.

The Berlinale and the European Film Market can look back at a successful edition of the festival. “For 65 years now, the Berlinale brings the pubic and trade professionals together to experience film in all of its facets – and, more recently, in new formats. Once again the festival’s internationality rose this year – at the same time the festival has consolidated its position in Berlin. The stars love coming to the Berlinale and appreciate the enthusiasm of moviegoers here,” says Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.

Alongside the works of a number of cinema’s grand masters, new discoveries were among the many highlights of this year’s festival. In addition, the many panel discussions and talks held by the different festival sections attracted large audiences. Once again the festival proved to be a site of important impulses for the culture of international debate. Another huge success with the public, professionals and critics was the expansion of the Berlinale programme and the EFM to include the field of serial formats. The Berlinale is the first A film festival in the world to give serial works a prominent position, and in doing so provides for the growing cultural significance and status of drama series in the film industry.

Star guests on this year’s Red Carpet included: Christian Bale, Juliette Binoche, Cate Blanchett, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Brühl, James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Benoit Jacquot, Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis, Sir Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, David Oyelowo, Natalie Portman, Charlotte Rampling, Ryan Reynolds, Wim Wenders, Brian Wilson, and many more.

With the Award Ceremony at 7.00 pm on Saturday, February 14, the 65th Berlin International Film Festival draws to a close with a splendid event. At this festive gala, the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears, the Audi Short Film Award as well as the Best First Feature Award will be announced. Directly after the ceremony there will be a screening of winning Golden Bear film. 

Anke Engelke will host the event, which will be broadcast live by ZDF/3sat at 7.00 pm. The Award Ceremony is also available via live stream at www.berlinale.de.

Some 1,600 guests are expected to attend the Award Ceremony (see an excerpt from the guest list at the end of this press release).

Yesterday evening (Thursday, Feb. 12) visitors to the Berlinale had bought 310,000 tickets. A new festival record appears to be in the making.

The many different events at the Audi Berlinale Lounge outside the Berlinale Palast were a fantastic bonus for audiences and fans: these over 30 public events were crowd-pullers; they included Q&As with film teams from the Competition and discussions with guests from other Berlinale sections.

On Sunday, February 15, 2015 is Berlinale Kinotag, another special treat for the public: many of the festival films from the different sections will be rescreened at Berlinale venues.

Once again there was a huge flurry of activity at the European Film Market of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival: with some 8,500 trade professionals (2014: 8,396) from 100 countries, of which 1,568 were buyers (2014: 1,499) the EFM again registered an increase in participants over the previous year. Sales were good and included the Competition films Elser, Taxi and Knight of Cups. Numerous US distributors also made lucrative deals for Hollywood titles, e.g., Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge or Freeheld with Julianne Moore.

On the nine days of the EFM, a total of 748 films were shown in 1,014 screenings at the EFM’s 38 venues. 532 of them were market premieres - new cinematic works at the industry’s first international marketplace of the year for film rights and audiovisual content.

The response to the EFM’s many long-established events, as well as to new initiatives and event series was also exceedingly positive. In all, 1,200 visitors turned out for the three EFM Industry Debates presented by the IFA.

A special attraction were the Drama Series Days of the EFM, held for the first time this year in cooperation with the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. The two panel discussions on the topic of “high-quality international and national drama series” were completely booked out; and the market screenings of the eleven selected series, well-attended. Also the pitching of drama series at the Berlinale Co-Production Market - where six serial projects were presented – went over well with producers, distributors, authors and creators.

For the first time the EFM also had a special programme focussing on Asia. In partnership with “Bridging the Dragon” and to the keen interest of market participants, different events were held on current developments in the Chinese media world.

Market participants greatly appreciated another new EFM initiative: the EFM Start-ups, organized in cooperation with the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Startup Germany e.V.

EFM Director Matthijs Wouter Knol and EFM President Beki Probst can look back at a successful EFM. Matthijs Wouter Knol: “Nowadays the market hardly differentiates between formats, it just seeks high-quality content – that is, in addition to the individual cinema films presented at the EFM. Apparently we have responded right to this trend.”

Some of the guests expected at the Award Ceremony on February 14, 2015 are:

Ken Adam, David Bennent, Christian Berkel, Anna Brüggemann, Andreas Dresen, Hannelore Elsner, Matthias Habich, Hannah Herzsprung, Marc Hosemann, Vanessa Jopp, Carla Juri, Udo Kier, Burghart Klaußner, Naum Kleiman, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Maren Kroymann, Aino Laberenz, Heike Makatsch, Jeanine Meerapfel, Ursela Monn, Jannis Niewöhner, Ulrike Ottinger, Jana Pallaske, Franziska Petri, Rosa von Praunheim, Saskia Rosendahl, Marc Rothemund, Andrea Sawatzki, Jenny Schily, Volker Schlöndorff, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Florian Stetter, Ula Stöckl, Sasha Waltz, Franziska Weisz, Wim Wenders, Ronald Zehrfeld, and many more.

A number of prominent German politicians have also announced their attendance. They include Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas, President of the Berlin House of Representatives Ralf Wieland and former Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, as well as the ambassadors of several countries. 

Yesterday, the 13th edition of Berlinale Talents came to a successful close. During the six-day programme, 300 emerging film professionals from 75 countries and a variety of fields met with some 100 renowned experts. In addition, the participants had a wide range of opportunities to continue developing their film projects.

The general success of Berlinale Talents was quite evident in the film programme of the 2015 Berlinale: 86 former participants of Berlinale Talents contributed to 63 of the films in the festival sections. “Once again, the new Talents of 2015 found inspiration in the creative atmosphere of Berlinale Talents, and made many contacts amongst fellow participants and the film industry. We will undoubtedly soon welcome some of these talented filmmakers back to Berlin with their films,” commented Florian Weghorn, who was in charge of the Berlinale Talents programme for the first time this year.

The Berlinale Talents took place under the motto “2015: A Space Discovery”. Top-notch experts expounded on the creation, exploration and transmission of cinematic space. They included Howard Shore, Marcel Ophüls, Joshua Oppenheimer, Wim Wenders, Joanna Hogg, Bong Joon-Ho, Andreas Dresen, Ursula Meier, Walter Salles, Sebastian Schipper, and many others.

Speaking on the opening panel, Jury President Darren Aronofsky provided insight into the development of space and spatial perception in his films The Fountain and Black Swan. Claudia Llosa, also a member of this year’s International Jury, described in detail the creation of poetic spaces in her movies. She pointed out how they referenced contradictory aspects of social and cultural spheres in Peruvian society.

Cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger, who most recently brought desert landscapes to the big screen in Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert, took an in-depth look at how it was to do the camerawork in the Chauvet cave for Herzog’s documentary Cave of  Forgotten Dreams. During his talk he stated that:“Depicting space on the screen only works if I, as the cameraman, accept the properties of the real-life surroundings.” His master class was one of the many different activities held in cooperation with Canon.

Production Designer Alex McDowell (Minority Report) spoke about designing complex filmic worlds that generate a multitude of narratives: “My relationship with cinematic space continues to evolve, both as a creator of worlds and as a lover of the art of storytelling. Powerful films embedded with the intuitive design of a unique world take audiences on a journey into space.”

For the first time, Berlinale Talents was also open to participants with experience in developing and producing high-quality drama series. Within the scope of the festival-wide Drama Series Days, Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, took delight in his conversations with the Talents: “The idea that nothing is off limits and artists can come here to see something new – that’s very exciting, especially because this is not the prevailing attitude in the commercial world.”

Awards and Honours

During the Talent Project Market, the EUR 10,000 VFF Talent Highlight Pitch Award went to the project Biencuidao, which had been presented in Berlin by producer Gema Juarez Allen from Argentina and director Abner Benaim from Panama. Cash prizes endowed with EUR 1,000 each were awarded for the nomination of their projects to Macedonian producer Emilija Chochkova and French producer Guillaume de la Boulaye.

The Berlinale Talents Doc Station Development Grant was awarded for the first time to one of the ten documentary film projects that had been selected for the Doc Station. The recipient was Marouan Omara from Egypt for his project Dream Away. “We are very pleased with the EUR 3,000 cash prize, donated by Canada Goose, that went to the director. It will provide Marouan Omara and his co-director Johanna Domke more opportunities to develop their film project and bring about its realisation in the coming year,” remarked Project Manager Christine Tröstrum.

At the Sound Studio of Berlinale Talents, sound designers and composers had the chance to mix short sequences in Dolby Atmos® and participate with their works in a competition offered by Dolby®. The Jury then picked the winner: sound designer Warren Santiago from Thailand.

During Berlinale Talents, the Robert Bosch Stiftung awarded a prize to promote international cooperation between German and Arab filmmakers. The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung went to each of three film teams for a project in one of the following three categories: 

Animation: Clean Up the Living Room We’ve Got Visitors Coming by Ghassan Halwani, Lebanon / producer: Inka Dewitz, Germany

Documentary: Amal by Mohamed Siam, Egypt / producer: Sara Bökemeyer, Germany

Short Film: The Parrot by Amjad Al Rasheed and Darin Salam, Jordan / producer: Roman Roitman, Germany.
The prizes are endowed with a maximum of EUR 70,000 each. 
 

Prizes of the independent juries of the 65. Berlinale are here. Check out all the categories: 

PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY

PRIZE WINNER COMPETITION 2015

El botón de nácar

by Patricio Guzmán

PRIZE WINNER PANORAMA 2015 

Ned Rifle

by Hal Hartley

PRIZE WINNER FORUM 2015

Histoire de Judas

by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Members of the Jury 2015:

Lukáš Jirsa

Gustavo Andujar

Gregg Brekke

Piet Halma

Dr. Inge Kirsner

Joachim Opahle 

PRIZES OF THE FIPRESCI JURY

PRIZE WINNER COMPETITION 2015

Taxi

by Jafar Panahi

PRIZE WINNER PANORAMA 2015 

Paridan az Ertefa Kam (A Minor Leap Down)

by Hamed Rajabi

PRIZE WINNER FORUM 2015 

Il gesto delle mani (Hand Gestures)

by Francesco Clerici

Members of the Jury 2015

Competition

José Romero 

Belinda van de Graaf 

Mode Steinkjer

Panorama

Alexey Gusev 

Bettina Hirsch

Zsolt Gyenge

Forum

Neil Young 

Julia Teichmann

Beat Glur

PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

Victoria 

by Sebastian Schipper

Members of the Jury 2015

Adrian Kutter

Rudolf Huber

Moritz Busch 

CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD

PRIZE WINNER PANORAMA 2015 

Que Horas Ela Volta?

by Anna Muylaert

PRIZE WINNER FORUM 2015 

Zurich

by Sacha Polak

Members of the Jury 2015

Lina Winkler

Marie Vassort

Jacopo Chessa

Sylvie Buscail 

Peggy Johnson

Malgorzata Kuzdra

LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS 

PRIZE WINNER 2015

Mot Naturen

by Ole Giæver and Marte Vold

Members of the Jury 2015

Elsie Roose

Andrea Stosiek

Pedro Barbadillo

Artem Ryzhkov

TEDDY AWARD 

BEST FEATURE FILM 2015

Nasty Baby

by Sebastián Silva

BEST DOCUMENTARY/ESSAY FILM 2015 

El hombre nuevo (The new man)

by Aldo Garay

BEST SHORT FILM 2015 

San Cristóbal

by Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

SPECIAL JURY AWARD 2015 

Stories of our lives

by Jim Chuchu

SPECIAL TEDDY AWARD 2015 

Udo Kier

Members of the Jury 2015

Gustavo Scofano

Nick Deocampo 

Muffin Hix 

Yvonne Behrens

Diego Trerotola

Shana Myara

Predrag Azdejkovic

Mascha Nehls 

Bradley Fortuin 

MADE IN GERMANY - PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP

PRIZE WINNER 2015

Oskar Sulowski

for Rosebuds

Members of the Jury 2015

Angelina Maccarone

Jenny Schily

Jochen Laube 

FGYO-AWARD DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

Ein idealer Ort (A Perfect Place) 

by Anatol Schuster

Special Mention: 

Im Sommer wohnt er unten (Summers Downstairs) 

by Tom Sommerlatte

Jury 2015: 

Marie Bäumer (Jury President)

Alexander Graeff 

Marian Freistühler 

Louise Cognard 

Alice Wagret 

Chloé Odstrcil 

Pauline Robert 

Hendrik Neuman 

CALIGARI FILM PRIZE 

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III

by Kidlat Tahimik

Members of the Jury 2015: 

Michael Baute

Maximilian Becker

Barbara Fischer-Rittmeyer

Nils Daniel Peiler

Dr. Margarete Wach

PEACE FILM PRIZE 

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

The Look of Silence

by Joshua Oppenheimer

Members of the Jury 2015: 

Marianne Wündrich-Brosien

Helgard Gammert-Jakli

Claudia Gehre

Martin Zint

Andreas Altenhof

Michael Kotschi 

Katrin Schlösser

Lena Müller

Anna Sofie Hartmann 

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE 

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

by Saeed Taji Farouky and Michael McEvoy

Members of the Jury 2015: 

Sibel Kekilli

Markus Beeko

Marcus Vetter 

HEINER CAROW PRIZE 

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin

by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange

Members of the Jury 2015: 

Andriy Khalpakhchi

Matthias Freihof 

Konstanze Schiller 

THINK:FILM AWARD 

The jury 2015: Karim Aïnouz, Mohamed Beshir and Ala Younis.

PRIZE WINNER 2015 

Oskar Dawicki in The Performer by Maciej Sobieszczanski and Lukasz Ronduda

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Untitled (Human Mask) by Pierre Huyghe

Special Mention:

Thamaniat wa ushrun laylan wa bayt min al-sheir (Twenty-Eight Nights and A Poem) by Akram Zaatari 

Readers' Juries and Audience Awards

PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD 

PRIZE WINNER FICTION FILM 2015 

Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother)

by Anna Muylaert

PRIZE WINNER DOCUMENTARY FILM 2015

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

by Saeed Taji Farouky and Michael McEvoy 

BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS' JURY AWARD

PRIZE WINNER 2015

Victoria 

by Sebastian Schipper 

TAGESSPIEGEL READERS' JURY AWARD 

PRIZE WINNER 2015

Flotel Europa

by Vladimir Tomic 

ELSE - THE SIEGESSÄULE READERS' JURY AWARD 

PRIZE WINNER 2015

Zui Sheng Meng Si

by Chang Tso-Chi 

Prizes Berlinale Co-Production Market& Berlinale Talents 

ARTE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 

AWARD WINNER 2015

Marcela Said from Chile

For Los Perros, produced by Jirafa from Chile and Cinéma Defacto from France 

EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD 

The Award Winners 2015

Director Emily Atef and producer Karsten Stöter (Rohfilm, Germany) 

VFF TALENT HIGHLIGHT PITCH AWARD 

AWARD WINNER 2015 

Producer Gema Juarez Allen from Argentina and Director Abner Benaim from Panama

For Biencuidao 

BERLINALE TALENTS DOC STATION DEVELOPMENT GRANT

PRIZE WINNER 2015

Marouan Omara from Egypt 

for his project Dream Away

DOLBY® ATMOS POLICY TRAILER

AWARD WINNER 2015

Warren Santiago (Thailand, Philippines) 

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Warda at Berlinale's European Film Market

Poster of Warda After its roaring success across theatres in the Arab world, the spine-chilling thriller Warda will be part of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival within its European Film Market (EFM), one of the world's major film events. The film will screen through the 1st Arab Cinema Center (ACC) which lands its first edition through the festival this year. Organized by MAD Solutions, the ACC is a new step taken by the company as part of its long-term strategy to support ...

 

New Application Round (3rd) Opens for Berlinale Residency 2015/2016

The Berlinale Residency is now in its third round. Until March 16, 2015, filmmakers, who have screened their first films with success at international festivals and cinemas, may submit feature films, documentary or cross-media projects which they are currently developing. Eligible for selection are only those projects that already have one producer in place.   The “Berlin 24/7” programme Berlinale Residency invites three filmmakers to Berlin, where they will be...

 

Three cash prizes have now been awarded to selected projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 8-10).

 

On Sunday night the EUR 20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which was presented for the first time in Berlin this year, went to the project 3 Days in Quiberon, directed by Emily Atef which is presented by the German company Rohfilm. The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea directed by Syllas Tsoumerkas from Greece received a Special Mention. With this award, the Eurimages – European Cinema Support Fund wants to promote the project’s development.   Today two other, well-es...

 

New fund for children’s films by German MDM and Netherlands Film Fund

At the International Film Festival Berlin 2015, the Netherlands Film Fund and the MDM, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH have established a co-development fund to jointly support script development for original children film projects. Children films have always played a major role within the policy of both funds. By joining forces the funds aim to develop and coproduce high quality stories for children that will find their audience in both countries and beyond.  MDM director ...

 

Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) in the supernatural thriller VOICE FROM THE STONE

13 Films is handling international sales at the ongoing European Film Market. VOICE FROM THE STONE Genre: Supernatural thriller Status: Post Production Writer: Andrew Shaw, based on the Italian novel La Voce Della Pietra by Silvio Raffo Director: Eric D. Howell Producers: Dean Zanuck (The Road to Perdition, Get Low), Stefano Gallini-Durante Cast: Emmy award nominated Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys, Dom Hemingway), Marton Csokas (The Equalizer, The Debt, The Bourne Sup...

 

First look photo of Pierce Brosnan in the thriller URGE handled by Fortitude International

Fortitude International is handling international sales at the European Film Market.   URGE Genre: Thriller Status: Post-production Country of Origin: US Director: Aaron Kaufman (producer on SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, MACHETE KILLS) Writers: Aaron Kaufman, Jason Zumwalt, Jerry Stahl Producers: Skip Williamson, Mark Neveldine Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Ashley Greene (TWILIGHT trilogy) Synopsis:  A group of f...

 

Gone with the Wind as Casablanca 2

  One of the most rewarding side bars of this years Berlinale is the restored Technicor Section in cooperation with MoMA of New York City, and the Eastman Kodak Archive in Rochester, N.Y. Among the offerings a totally restored print, fifteen minute musical preamble and all, with 15 minute intermission at the halfway mark of "Gone With The Wind", 1940. I had seen it so long ago that I needed a refresher on the plot -- Scarlett such a scheming bitch and Gable such a co...

 

Berlinale 2015: Nobody wants the night (review)

  Nobody wants the night (Nadie quiere la noche), dir. Isabel Coixet, Berlinale 2015 Competition - Opening Film  by Martin I. Petrov   As Plato wrote in his allegory of the cave thousands of years ago, a caveman feels secure in the darkness, but it is the excitement of the light above that defines the beauty of his human nature. Isabel Coixet comes two thousand years closer in history to depict this exact same thirst for knowledge in Nobody wants the light, opening film of ...

 

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Matt Dillon joins DJ Caruso's THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES

 

Leading independent financing and international sales company, Fortitude International, has signed a sales deal with Relativity Squared (“R2”), Relativity Studios’ new speciality division, for THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES, it was announced today by Fortitude co-founders, Nadine de Barros, Robert Ogden Barnum, Daniel Wagner and Relativity Studios president of production, Robbie Brenner.   THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES is directed by DJ Caruso (DISTURBIA) with Oscar nominee Mat...

 

13 Films Sells EXTORTION to Constantin

 

13 Films has sold German and all German speaking rights in all media to Constantin Film for actioner EXTORTION starring Frank Grillo (CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER, THE PURGE: ANARCHY) and Ving Rhames (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise, PULP FICTION), it was announced today by Tannaz Anisi, President of 13 Films.   13 Films is handling worldwide rights and is actively selling the title at the ongoing European Film Market in Berlin.   The film, set to start shooting in Puerto Rico thi...

 

Radiant Films International strikes multiple deals worldwide for the passionate romance MADAME BOVARY

 

Radiant Films International has completed multiple sales deals in territories worldwide for the passionate romance MADAME BOVARY starring Mia Wasikowska (ALICE IN WONDERLAND) including all French-speaking rights to Jour2Fête and Italy to Paco Pictures, it was announced today by company President and CEO, Mimi Steinbauer. Additional sales have been completed in other European territories including Benelux to A-Film, Scandinavia to Svensk Filmindustri and Portugal to NOS Lusomundo Audiovisu...

 

Dutch-German film co-production treaty signed at the Berlinale

February 7, 2015 - During the Berlin International Film Festival a treaty was signed for the co-production of films by the Governments of the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany. The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Dr. Jet Bussemaker, the Staatsministerin bei der Bundeskanzlerin Beauftragte und der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Prof. Monika Grütters and de Leiter der Kultur und Kommunicationsabteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes Dr....

 

BERLINALE FORUM // "H." by Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia

H. by Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia US/ Argentina, 2014 | 93 min. | Sci-fi/ drama I DCP  Fes...

 

Whats Hot @ EFM from Pathfinder Films

 

Pathfinder Films LTD. Stand No. 125  |  Location: Marriott  Please Email: markets@pathfinderfilmsltd.com  with a date and time After a successful film festival tour Trunk’d will debut at EFM. Festival Tour List Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2014 - Leicester, England Laugh or Die Comedy Festival 2014 - Chicago, Illinois Action on Film In...

 

Queen of the Desert as portrayed by Nicole Kidman made an impression

 

BERLIN 65 ( 2015) REVIEWS BY Alex Deleon  The 65th Berlin Film Festival opened with two portraits of obsessed  women in life threatening desert situations, Portrayed by international superstars, respectively Juliet Binoche in "Nobody Wants the Night" and Nicole Kidman in Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert".  In the first Binoche portrays the wife of Commander Peary who was lost in the far north seeking to be the first man to reach the North Pole. His wi...

 

Clarius Entertainment has acquired US rights to CELL starring John Cusack and and Samuel L. Jackson and based on Stephen King’s

Clarius Entertainment has acquired US rights to Benaroya Pictures and The Genre Company’s thriller CELL directed by Tod "Kip" Williams (PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2) and starring John Cusack (upcoming LOVE & MERCY, LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER) and Oscar-nominated Samuel L. Jackson (upcoming KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, DJANGO UNCHAINED), it was announced today by the film’s producers Michael Benaroya and Richard Saperstein.   International Film Trust (IFT) is handl...

 

Ariztical Entertainment's Available Films - EFM

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AVANT PREMIÈRE MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN 2015

The IMZ is hosting AVANT PREMIÈRE MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN once again (10-13 Feb 2015), the international trade fair for performing arts films. In cooperation with Berlinale Talents and the European Film Market we are offering an extensive programme for over 400 international branch experts: http://www.avantpremiere.at/index.php?id=3&start=on   OPEN HOUSE   Celebrating the official open...

 

WIDE HOUSE // EFM 2015

Click on the images to watch the trailers     Directed by  Jannik Splidsboel   In some places love equals courage  Directed by  Atsushi Funahashi   Man...

 

Double Dutch International has acquired worldwide rights for DANIEL DOLPHIN AND THE HORN OF SEA DRAGON.

 

Jason Moring, President of Double Dutch International, has announced that DDI has acquired worldwide rights for DANIEL DOLPHIN AND THE HORN OF SEA DRAGON.   A Canadian production, based on the best-selling characters from THE DOLPHIN novels, over 14 million copies sold worldwide, translated into 40 languages, the 20 million US Dollar budget family animated movie DANIEL DOLPHIN AND THE HORN OF SEA DRAGON will be directed by Adam Mars, produced by Carmen Forsberg from Silverlight Entertainm...

 

Tiberius Film acquires four international movie highlights at the EFM

The leading German indie distributer Tiberius Film has acquired the rights to four international movie highlights at the European Film Market 2015. Wolfgang Carl, Managing Director of Tiberius Film GmbH, says: “The EFM is always a very good forum for us to discover exciting and promising movies. We are very excited that our acquisitions have begun so well this year. Our new films include a variety of highlights for all target groups, ranging from French romantic comedy to gripping genre ...

 

Minister of State Monika Grütters Visits the EFM 2015

65. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (5. - 15. Februar 2015) Photo left to right: Matthijs Wouter Knol (EFM), Cornelia Hammelmann (DFFF), Monika Grütters (BKM), Mariette Rissenbeek (German Films), Beki Probst (EFM), Frank Völkert (FFA) Copyright: Juliane Eirich   This Friday morning, Monika Grütters - Germany’s Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media - visited the European Film Market (EFM) of the 65th Berlin Inter...

 

New initiatives and two discussion rounds at World Cinema Fund Day on February 11

 

World Cinema Fund:     The World Cinema Fund (WCF), which celebrated its 10th anniversary in October 2014, is growing and expanding its funding capabilities. Last year, the WCF was able to put forth new initiatives and secure its continued existence for another three years.   The WCF was founded in 2004 as an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (KSB) and the Berlin International Film Festival, and quickly became one of the leading institutions in the area of ...

 

FIPRESCI redesigns website at the occasion of its 90th anniversary

 

To better serve film professionals and cinephiles, FIPRESCI – the International Federation of Film Critics has redesigned its website. The responsive design and the database containing film reviews related to more than 1200 films, filmmakers and film festival editions positions www.fipresci.org  as a gateway to cinema through film criticism.   The official website of the International Federation of Film Critics – FIPRESCI has been redesigned, at the occasion of the Federa...

 

Dieter Kosslick Introduces The Berlinale 2015

Full Programme Press Conference Video mit Dieter und freunden

Berlinale 2015: Star-studded Opening Gala

Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Prof. Monika Grütters, the Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, Jury President Darren Aronofsky and Festival Director Dieter Kosslick will open the 65th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast at 7.45 pm on February 5. During the Opening Gala, the International Jury will be introduced. In addition to Darren Aronofsky (director, USA), its members are Daniel Brühl (actor, Germany)...

 

Film News (UK): First Trailer Revealed in Berlinale for Howard Ford's Child Abduction Thriller ‘NEVER LET GO’

Here is a sneak preview of what's up for grabs at the Berlin Film Festival later this week - Howard J Ford's (Director/Producer Co-Writer of 'The Dead 1&2") latest epic NEVER LET GO. Shot in Morocco, Spain and the US, the film tells the story of Lisa, a single mother (played by Angela Dixon) who takes the law into her own hands to get back her abducted child. The completed film will screen at Cannes Market in May. The exclusive trailer for filmfestivals.com: A single ...

 

Introducing in Berlin the new FilmFestivals.com SHIFT72 Affiliate Programme for your VOD Platform

    SHIFT72, the leading provider secure VOD platforms to the entertainment industry, has joined forces with filmfestivals.com to offer our audience an exclusive discount on your own VOD platform. If you're a content owner or creator, you can now distribute titles directly to your audience with your own branded platform while keeping 100% of the profit. For Festivals - Open your festival doors to a worldwide audience using cutting-edge VOD technology....

 

The Africa Movie Academy Awards AMAA (Nigeria, June) closes submissions during Berlinale February 10th.

Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, the founder of the AMAAs, presides over the Africa Film Academy. The Africa Film Academy (AFA) aims to promote the training, lobbying, and the overall development of young professions in the Film industry, striving to maximise their full potential in an industry where there are limitless possibilities and always capacity for more. In this regard, the Africa Cinema Business Roundtable was established. She is concentrating on the development of training as...

 

Arclight Films — Berlin 2015 New Film Added to EFM Lineup

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Content takes sales rights fror Thriller Reversal and premieres in EFM

    Content Media Acquires International Sales Rights to Dark Factory’s Gritty Female Revenge Thriller “Reversal” on Heels of Sundance World Premiere; Will Introduce Film to Foreign Buyers for the First Time in Berlin   Berlin, Germany – February 5, 2015 – Continuing to bolster its international sales slate on the eve of the EFM, Content Media announced today that it has acquired international sales rights to Dark Factory’s&nb...

 

“Prison System 4614” will have its world premiere at the Panorama of the 65th Berlinale.

Jan Soldat commented on his selection in Berlinale: "My first feature lenght documentary “Prison System 4614” will have its world premiere at the Panorama of the 65th Berlinale. “Prison System 4614” is about a private, self-built prison, in which men can be imprisoned and tortured voluntarily. It’s a fetish role-play, where you can live prison and torture-fantasies for real. As warden or as prisoner. I observed that event over one week with my camera....

 

Studio 100 Film Returns to EFM 2015 With New Animated Feature Films

With Princess Emmy – The Movie, Vic The Viking – The Movie and Blinky Bill – The Movie, film sales company Studio 100 Film will be showcasing extraordinary children and family oriented animation movies for international distribution at this year’s EFM 2015.  Studio 100 Film is at Stand N° 24, under the umbrella of Creative Europe MEDIA in Martin-Gropius-Bau.   Currently in pre-production and set for delivery in 2017, Princess Emmy – The Movie is a ...

 

Berlin Screenings // The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills directed by Marcin Malaszczak. Official Screenings: 05.02.15 - 09:30 CinemaxX6 EN / PRESS SCREENING 06.02.15 - 18:30 Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg EN / WORLD PREMIERE SOLD OUT ...

 

One Eyed Films Line Up for EFM

WORLD GENRE CINEMA  NEW BERLIN 2015 LINE UP    ‘III‘   Dir Pavel Khaleev Russia  89’  2015               SUPERNATURAL HORROR     "The sheer ambition…is nothing short of magical'' BloodGuts      "integral and intelligible, visually impressive!" Anton Dolin     During the outbreak of a mysterious deadly epidem...

 

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS TAKES LEAD IN “DAMASCUS COVER”

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS TAKES LEAD ROLE IN “DAMASCUS COVER” FILMING COMMENCES THIS WEEK IN MOROCCO   All-star cast to include: Sir John Hurt, Olivia Thirlby, Igal Naor, Jurgen Prochnow and Navid Negahban    LONDON Anticipated espionage thriller, Damascus Cover, commences production from this week in Morocco starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Stonewall, Dracula, The Tudors, Mission: Impossible III) with confirmed cast including: Olivia Thirlby (Juno, N...

 

[KOFIC] Korean Films @ Berlinale & EFM

PRODUCTION/ INTERNATIONAL SALES Media Contents Center (Korea National University of Arts) Tel +82 2 746 9548 E-mail knuadis@gmail.com WEBSITE kmc.karts.ac.kr HOSANNA DIRECTED BY NA Young-kil l CAST JI Hye-chan, PARK Ji-hwan, HYEONG Young-seon 2014 l Drama l 25 min | HD, 2.35:1, Color, 5.1ch A boy...

 

GHOST BRIDE Available in 4K

    Ghost Bride   More New Titles Available Now: Psychotic An insane asylum psychologist wakes to find herself tied up in the morgue, with the full horror of insane patients e...

 

Israeli-German doc 'Censored Voices' to have its European premiere at the Berlinale

The Israeli-German production Censored Voices will celebrates its European premiere at the 65th edition of the International Film Festival Berlin on Saturday, February 7. One week after the 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war, renowned author Amos Oz and editor Avraham Shapira recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored the r...

 

Fortissimo Films has acquired world-wide rights to Mark Dornford-May’s highly-anticipated BREATHE UMPHEFUMLO

FORTISSIMO FILMS ADDS “BREATHE UMPHEFUMLO”(LA BOHÈME) TO ITS IMPRESSIVE 2015 BERLIN SLATE   THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FILM WILL HAVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE IN OFFICIAL SELECTION AT NEXT MONTH’S BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL   Fortissimo Films has acquired world-wide rights (outside of South Africa) to Mark Dornford-May’s highly-anticipated BREATHE UMPHEFUMLO, which will have its World Premiere as an Official Selection at the upcoming Berlin Internation...

 

Red Sea Media EFM LINEUP

 ZOMBIE KILLERS: Elephant's Graveyard new trailer and artwork releases this week via Anchor Bay Entertainment     Zombie Killers Synopsis A young group of zombie-killing soldiers led by their fearless commander (Billy Zane) is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.  Hollows Grove Synopsis A young filmmaker documents his ghost-hunting, real...

 

Jinga Films @ EFM

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Genre: Supernatural Horror / 96 Minutes / Argentina / 2015   Cast: Ana Maria Giunta, Toto Munoz.   Story: A journalist investigates a remote orphanage and discovers that it's inhabitants are child vampires led by the grandson of Count Dracula. As she bonds with the children she realises she must do whatever she can to protect this endangered species from a puritanical cult hell bent on destroying them.    Distribution: All ...

 

CINE ARGENTINO AT EFM BERLINALE 2015

  OFFICIAL COMPETITION The Mad Half Hour Leonardo Brzezicki         Definition: The mad half hour refers to a condition usually indoor housecats experience once a day. They are about expanding energy in one concentrated burst that goes from 15 to 30min, witho...

 

Arab Cinema Center Kicks Off in Berlin International Film Festival

  As part of one of the world's big-name cinematic hubs, Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), the 1st Arab Cinema Center (ACC) kicks off within the European Film Market (EFM), running from 5-15 February, 2015, at the festival's  65th edition. Part of its long-term strategy to back and promote Arab filmmaking industry in the Arab world, MAD Solutions is the organizer of this first Arab platform promoting Arab cinema industry at the heart ...

 

Worms: New animated movie for EFM 2015 !

FREE DOLPHIN INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS WORMS A new animated movie released by Fox in Latin America Accidentally dug to the surface and taken to a soil recycle shop, the little earthworm Junior and his friends Nico and Linda work out a way to go back home. But first, they need to spoil plans of worlds domination of the terrible and evil "BigWig" who wants to transform all the earthworms of the world in slaved zombies.     Marine Mutinelli-Szymansk...

 

05.02.2015 | Berlin's blog | 82 reads

MK2 @ EFM 2015

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NEW TO MARKET - Such Good People from Breaking Glass Pictures

We have an exciting and funny NEW TO MARKET feature, SUCH GOOD PEOPLE. This film will be available for WORLD WIDE LICENSING.   ...

 

Hungarian Films Sales/Hungarian National Film Fund2015 film line-up

 

WORLD SALES CONTACT TO DOWNLOAD OUR FULL FILM CATALOGUE: click here 2015 LINE-UP     PAW  (family, 2015)   A sweet, humorous tale about a German Shepherd Dog that travels around the world and saves lives, rewarded by nothing more than a pat on the head from his loving handler. PAW is orphaned at birth and suffers a long and grueling journey bef...

 

WANJA by director Carolina Hellsgård to celebrate its world premiere at the 2015 Berlinale

Feature film starring Anne Ratte-Polle to be screened in the Berlinale programme Perspektive Deutsches Kino On Saturday, February 7th, the German film WANJA by director Carolina Hellsgård will have its world premiere at the 65th International Film Festival Berlin (Berlinale) in the program Perspektive Deutsches Kino. The drama, starring Anne Ratte-Polle and Nele Trebs, tells the story of former bank robber Wanja, who...

 

World premiere of PIONEER HEROES (Pionery Geroi) at Berlinale in Panorama

 

The feature film PIONEER HEROES (Pionery Geroi) by the director Natalia Kudryashova will celebrate its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. Natalia Kudryashova will be available for interviews in Berlin. Being Natalia Kudryashova's debut feature film, PIONEER HEROES (Pionery Geroi) is nominated for Berlinale's Best First Feature Award by Berlinale Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.   PIONEER HEROES (Pionery Geroi) is a story of ...

 

World premiere of KOZA in Berlinale Forum

 

The feature film KOZA by Ivan Ostrochovský will celebrate its world premiere in the Forum section at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. The director Ivan Ostrochovský, the actors Peter Baláž and Zvonko Lakčević as well as the director of photography Martin Kollár will be available for interviews in Berlin. Being Ivan Ostrochovský's debut feature film, KOZA is nominated for Berlinale's Best First Feature Award by Berlinale Festival Direct...

 

29th TEDDY AWARD Gala at the Komische Oper Berlin Final Program, do not miss the event

 

the program for the 29th TEDDY AWARD Gala at the Komische Oper Berlin has now been finalised. The evening will be led by moderator and actor Jochen Schropp. Ingrid Caven is a singer-songwriter icon, “a comet passing once in a hundred years...” as the New York Times put it. Before starting her singing career in the late seventies, she had already achieved star status in European film. More than just lifelong friendship tied her to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned 7...

 

Line up for Berlin from MEMENTO FILMS INTERNATIONAL

 

New line up for Berlin with the World Premiere in Competition of BODY by Malgoska Szumowska Screenings in Berlin   BODY by Malgoska Szumowska - Official Selection in Competition   Sunday 8th, 10:45 am, English Subtitles > CinemaxX 1 (Private Market Screening by INVITATION ONLY) Monday 9th, 10:00 pm, English & German Subtitles > Berlinale Palast (Premiere - Official Public Screening) Tuesday 10th, 11:30 am, English Subtitles > CinemaxX...

 

Attraction lineup @ Berlinale/EFM

 

Arclight Films — Berlin Lineup 2015

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ENTERTAINMENT 7 MEDIA - EFM 2015

Action Fantasy   Principal Photography - March 25, 2015  Budget: $20 mil US In the tradition of BOURNE IDENTITY meets WOLVERINE with amazing visual effects, comes a story of a young girl who is reluctantly taken in by a ruthless Assassin after her family is murdered and protected against the very people that created him.       ...

 

New Theatrical Film from ITN for Berlin Market

  LAUGH KILLER LAUGH 100 min. Crime. Complete.    North American Theatrical/VOD - April 24th, 2015   Cast: William Forsythe (The Rock), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Kevin Corrigan (Pineapple Express), Robert MacNaughton (ET), Bianca Hunter (The Fighter), Victor Colicchio, Artie Lange (Howard Stern, Beer League), Franky G (Saw II), Larry Romano (Donnie Brasco), Melissa McMeekin (The Fighter)  ...

 

DeAplaneta at EFM 2015

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Action - Disaster Movies for EFM 2015 from Free Dolphin International

    Marine Mutinelli-Szymanski Free Dolphin International   Tél: +33 (0)1 46 10 01 45 Mob: +33 (0)6 21 60 81 94   10 rue du Dôme 92100 Boulogne Billancourt France               ...

 

Attraction presents ANTBOY: REVENGE OF THE RED FURY at Berlinale Generation

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New Morning Line up in Berlin /EFM

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FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL presents the following theatrical feature films to EFM15

  FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL brings new titles, featuring our just added action thrillers: ROAR: TIGERS OF THE SUNDARBANS and A STOLEN JACKPOT: our animated features: QUEST FOR A MAGICAL FLOWER and Z-BAW; fantasy & family films: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and SAM STEELE AND THE CRYSTAL CHALICE; and sci-fi action thrillers: THE PROTOTYPE, OTHER WORLD, and NESHIMA.  >>We will also ...

 

Breaking Glass Pictures at BERLIN 2015

NEW TITLES coming to the Market this year. These include the compelling titles; SAUGATUCK CURES, COLDWATER, KRUEL, and SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES. Available for WORLD WIDE LICENSING.                  SAUGATUCK CURES (Comed...

 

Berlin 2015 lineup from re.creation

  The Vessel 2015 | USA | 110 min Writer & Director Julio Quintana Producer Maria Quintana Executive Producers Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), Sarah Green (Mud) cast Lucas Quinitana, Martin Sheen Genre Drama Status Completed The inhabitants of a small seaside village have their faith and resolve tested in the aftermath of a destructive tidal wave.     ...

 

24 HOURS - which is now complete and available for delivery from Cardinal XD.

  Review a trailer and more info about the film here: http://www.cardinalxd.com/#!24-hours/cxuz   ...

 

TomCat Films heads down the "Furious Road"!

  Please come meet with ME and TomCat Films to see our latest and greatest line-up of mockbuster, cult and genre films.  We will be at the Marriot Hotel - Stand #110 from February 6 to 9.  If you have not already done so, please send us an email suggesting two convenient meeting times and we will respond within 24 hours to confirm.  Please review our latest film below.  See you in Berlin! TomCat Films would like to present, the action, sci-fi, post apoclayptic th...

 

Criticism as Agenda in Berlinale 2015 Selection announced

Critics’ Week Berlin : February 5-12, 2015   Cannes has got one, Venice and Locarno have got one, and in 2015 Berlin will finally get a Critics' Week, too. On seven nights during the Berlin International Film Festival, film critics will screen a programme of remarkable international feature films. Films which spark subsequent debates concerning aspects of cinema and film criticism.    “A feature of other film festivals that's missing in Berlin is a ...

 

Summer Hill Goes to Havana and EFM

  3 Days In Havana| Leading Lady | Found in Time | Dutch Kills | Fat Boy Chronicles   3 Days In Havana "Some people would kill for three days in Havana" Jack Petty, an Insurance executive attending a convention in Cuba, has his world turned upside down when he gets caught up in an assassination plot. "...a buddy adventure movie in a city...

 

The Fried Fish from Iran

 

An Iranian Animation “ THE FRIED FISH” directed by Leila Khalilzadeh and produced by Documentary and Experimental Film Center has been selected to be screened in the Generation Kplus competition of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.   The festival will take place from 5th-15th February 2015.   International Sales and Distributor:  Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC)  ...

 

New Films from Vision Films at EFM 2015

Berlinale Talents Market Hub

The European Film Market 2015 welcomes Berlinale Talents once again to the initiative Berlinale Talents Market Hub in partnership with Canon. This platform, at its buzzing location in the gallery of the Martin-Gropius-Bau, serves as a contact and meeting point, offering new perspectives to both EFM participants and upcoming talents. Talents not only gain insights into how the EFM works, but also can use this prominent platform to ...

 

Films by Weiner and Oppenheimer Complete the Berlinale Special 2015 Programme

Films by Berlinale jury members Matthew Weiner and Joshua Oppenheimer will complete the selection for Berlinale Special.   The comedy Are You Here starring Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler will screen in Berlinale Special. Director/Screenwriter  Matthew Weiner is the creator of the award-winning television series Mad Men and a member of this year's International Jury.   After receiving a Panorama Audience Award in 2013 for his Oscar-nominated documentary...

 

Digital Cinema at the 2015 Berlinale

Concurrent with cinema technology developments in recent years, the Berlin International Film Festival has been bringing its facilities up to the newest digital standards. The digital proportion of the approximately 2,500 film screenings will again be over 95 percent this year. The majority of festival screenings will be DCPs (Digital Cinema Packages). Seven companies - Colt Technology Services, Rohde & Schwarz DVS, Arri, Dolby, Barco, Highlands Technologies Solutions and Aspera, an IBM comp...

 

30.01.2015 | Berlin's blog | 43 reads

Berlinale 2015: International Jury confirmed, With Darren Aronofsky serving as Jury President

With Darren Aronofsky serving as Jury President, the International Jury will award the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2015 Berlinale Competition. The other members of the International Jury will be Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha De Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou and Matthew Weiner. Darren Aronofsky, Jury President, USA Born and raised in Brooklyn, Darren Aronofsky celebrated his directorial debut in 1998 with the film π, which won Best Director at the Sundance...

 

Jury for the Best First Feature Award

Since 2006, when it introduced the Best First Feature Award, the Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers. The award is endowed with 50,000 Euros, donated by the GWFF (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrecht), a society dedicated to safeguarding film and television rights. The prize money is to be split between the producer and the director of the winning film. Additionally, the director will be awarded with a high-quality view...

 

Berlinale 2015 Jury for the Best First Feature Award

Since 2006, when it introduced the Best First Feature Award, the Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of film makers. The award is endowed with 50,000 Euros, donated by the GWFF (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrecht), a society dedicated to safeguarding film and television rights. The prize money is to be split between the producer and the director of the winning film. Additionally, the director will be awarded with a high-quality view...

 

Berlinale Generation 2015: Juries, Opening Films and Special Screenings

With the Chinese film Gtsngbo (River) by Sonthar Gyal, the line-up of feature films in the Generation Kplus competition is complete. Sonthar Gyal’s touching story of a family, set in the Tibetan steppe, will have its world premiere in Berlin. A total of 66 films from 35 countries will now be screening in the two Generation competitions.   The Generation 14plus competition will open with the world premiere of a work from the Netherlands: Prins (Prince) by Sam de Jong (Marc Jacobs, ...

 

Berlinale is Now Equipped with Dolby Atmos

For the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale Palast will be equipped with the new immersive Dolby Atmos sound system. For films mixed with this technology sound comes alive from all directions with clarity and depth. The first film to benefit from this groundbreaking technology will be the festival’s opener: the world premiere of director Isabel Coixet’s Nobody Wants the Night, with Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi and Gabriel Byrne. “Filmmakers us...

 

Forum 2015: Special Screenings

The Forum completes its programme with a series of special screenings dedicated to historical films and re-discoveries as well as new films that grapple with cinema and film history.   The 1973 gangster film Joe Bullet was South African producer Tonie van der Merwe’s attempt to conquer a new market. Inspired in equal measure by the black pop culture of the time and the American Blaxploitation genre, Louis de Witt’s action-packed film about a manipulated cup final was one of ...

 

VIDEO: Richard Linklater WINS Boyhood Berlin Film Festival Award to Oscar Winner 2015...WIN WIN?! Why Not?

VIDEO: Richard Linklater WINS Boyhood Berlin Film Festival Award to Oscar Winner 2015...WIN?! Why Not? Ok here is a test...my psychic prediction foretell an Oscar win for Boyhood director and screenwriter Texas native Richard Linklater. Boyhood has a long history flmed in the friendly cultural hub of our southern neighbours in Austin Texas After 12 years of filming later, Boyhood began In May 2002,  Linklater, said that he would begin shooting an untitled film in his home c...

 

Program of the Berlinale Special

Berlinale Special is part of the official programme and presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers, biopics of renowned personalities as well as extraordinary formats.   With many prominent guests expected to attend, gala screenings will be held at the Friedrichstadt-Palast, the Zoo Palast and the Kino International.   The presentations at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele will again include moderated discussions with the filmmakers after the screenings. ...

 

The 45th Berlinale Forum will show a total of 43 films in its main programme, of which 31 are world premieres

The 45th Berlinale Forum will show a total of 43 films in its main programme, of which 31 are world premieres and 10 international premieres. This year’s programme will be opened by what is probably Canadian director Guy Maddin’s most rampant and anarchic film to date. The Forbidden Room comes across like an apparently chaotic, yet always significant eroto-claustrophobic nightmare that never seems to want to end. Its countless fantastic plotlines are i...

 

CoPro Series, an exclusive event of Drama Series Days, the new platform for serial content at the EFM Berlinale Co-Pro Market

 

On February 10, the Berlinale Co-Production Market is inviting those active in the industry to the new CoPro Series pitching for the first time. CoPro Series is an exclusive event of Drama Series Days, the official new platform for serial content at the European Film Market and Berlinale Co-Production Market. Six handpicked serial projects will be presented within the framework of the first CoPro Series. The projects come from Belgium, Germany, Israel, Norway, Spa...

 

50 selected film posters by graphic design artists Margrit and Peter Sickert to be exhibited at Haus der Berliner Festspiele

EXHIBITION OF 50 FILM POSTERS BY DESIGNER COUPLE MARGRIT AND PETER SICKERT AT HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE The Berlin International Film Festival will exhibit 50 selected film posters by graphic design artists Margrit and Peter Sickert at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. © Wim Wenders Stiftung Film poster for Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend) created by Margrit and Peter Sickert "For decades, the first vis...

 

The Berlinale Classics will showcase restored versions of Goldfinger and Cold Blood, Full line up confirmed

 

The Berlinale Classics, which was launched two years ago as part of the Retrospective section of the Berlin International Film Festival, will be showing a total of five films in this year’s programme. High-quality restored and reconstructed films in digitally remastered versions form the basis for this forum, which closely collaborates with national and international film partners who are especially committed to the digital restoration of film classics. In addition to...

 

Panorama 2015 will open with Sangue azul (Blue Blood) from Brazil, 34 fictions in competition

© Rodrigo Valenca Daniel de Oliveira in Sangue azul by Lirio Ferreira The main programme of the Panorama will open with the Brazilian production Sangue azul (Blue Blood) by Lirio Ferreira at the CinemaxX 7 on February 5. In the magnificent visuals of a fairy tale, the film tells of a family torn by strife and how, bit by bit, its members find their way back to each other. In doing so they disclose secrets whose c...

 

23 films in The Competition of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival

 

The Competition of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival is now complete. 19 of the 23 films in the Competition programme will be vying for the Golden and Silver Bears. 21 films are world premieres. The following countries are participating in the entire programme: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong/China, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, the People’s Republic...

 

Oskar Sulowski (in the centre), wins the "Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship

 

RIZE CEREMONY: OSKAR SULOWSKI WINS “MADE IN GERMANY – PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP”, FUNDED BY BERLINALE CO-PARTNER GLASHÜTTE ORIGINAL Today, German watchmaker Glashütte Original, co-partner of the 65th Berlinale, and the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section awarded for the fourth time the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship” to a young German filmmaker at the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen. The EUR 15...

 

Berlinale special series on Indigenous cinema focuses on Latin America with 18 fictional and documentary films

@ Cuandro Negro Santos de la Torre, Graciela Santiago González in Eco de la Montaña (Echo of the Mountain, 2014) by Nicholás Echevarría The Berlinale special series on Indigenous cinema is continuing its journey: Latin America is the focus of this year’s film programme, with 18 fictional and documentary films made between 1986 and 2014. The series will open with the stunning documentary Eco de la Mont...

 

The EFM Industry Debates from Saturday the 7th to Monday the 9th of February 2015

 

The EFM Industry Debates from Saturday the 7th to Monday the 9th of February 2015 will once again focus on contemporary themes in the film and media industries, while also reflecting new initiatives within the European Film Market: The first Industry Debate puts the spotlight on Asia - specifically on mega-market China and the revolutionary success of its online platforms. In the second debate, producers will take the floor and present their experiences in self-distribution for...

 

Forum Expanded 2015,The 11th edition complete line up

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Art & Project/Depot VBVR Gift, 2007. © 2015 Estate of David Askevold Concert C with Door by David Askevold The full programme for the tenth edition of Forum Expanded, entitled “To the Sound of the Closing Door”, is now confirmed. The group exhibition at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg consists of 19 installations by 16 contemporary artists as well as the film lo...

 

11 new books suitable for film adaptation at “Books at Berlinale”

 

On February 10, 2015, film producers can discover eleven new books suitable for film adaptation at “Books at Berlinale”. The pitching and get-together afterwards will take place for the tenth year running as part of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Immediately following the books presentation, producers can meet the copyright owners - noted and internationally active publishing representatives and literary agents - to discuss filming rights and network within the world of ...

 

Panorama Dokumente 2015 Line up complete with 18 documentaries

© Gerd Conradt Une jeunesse allemande (A German Youth) by Jean-Gabriel Périot Panorama Dokumente will open with the world premiere of the French-Swiss-German co-productionUne jeunesse allemande (A German Youth) by Jean-Gabriel Périot in Cinestar 7 on February 6 at 5.00 pm. Using archive material, the film traces without bias or commentary the developments leading up to the “German Autumn” in late 1977. The ...

 

The Berlinale Culinary Cinema programme will present 13 new or recent feature-length films about food and ecology

From February 8 - 13, 2015, the Berlinale Culinary Cinema programme will present 13 new or recent feature-length films about food and ecology, serve menus by top European chefs, and discuss the relationships between food, culture and politics. © Lohse, Kempf, Hoffmann: Ali Ghandtschi / Nakamura: Geisels Werneckhof / Pérez: Francesc Guillamet / Bottura: Paolo Terzi The chefs of the Culinary Cinema 2015 The Berlinale w...

 

Richard Linklater's Berlin Acceptance Speech for Boyhood...and ready for more

Richard Linklater received his first Prize in Berlin in 1995 for the first episode of his trilogy with Ethan Hawke et Julie Delpy, Before (Sunset, Sunrise, Midnight) 19 years after he returned to Berlin to win silver and a second prize in Berlin for Boyhood. The film was shot over twelve years. A 12 Month Film Festival Cycle began almost one year ago for the film Boyhood which today has arrived in its crowning glory. An Oscar nomination and a unanimous agr...

 

Berlinale Generation 2015: Hermetic Worlds and Brave Decision-Makers

A further 14 feature films round off the Generation programmes. In total, 65 short and full-length films from 35 countries were selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions. The cross-section and other special screenings will be announced in the next Generation press release. Firmly grounded in their respective political and cultural contexts, the selected films paint sensitive portraits of extraordinary characters often living in hermetically sealed worlds. “We ...

 

Jafar Panahi’s New Film in Competition, Werner Herzog, Benoit Jacquot and Further Titles added to the Selection...

 

  Another eight films have been selected for the Competition Programme of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival (see press releases from December 15, 2014, and January 9, 2015). The productions are from the following countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong/China, Iran, the People’s Republic of China, Poland, the USA, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. Body Poland By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of) With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszews...

 

Berlinale Bites #2

 

“Berlinale Bites” is a sporadically sent compact roundupof recent information about the 2015 festival programme, as well as notes on various events, guests and service offers at the Berlinale.   Press Conference on the 65th Berlinale Programme The press conference will take place at 11 am on January 27. Only invited press representatives may attend. Afterwards the Berlinale programme will go online: https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/programmsuche.php &...

 

Berlinale Shorts: White Flags Are More Visible!

27 films from 18 countries will be competing for a Golden and a Silver Bear, as well as the nomination for best short film at the European Film Awards and the first-ever EUR 20,000 Audio Short Film Award. This year’s members of the International Short Film Jury are documentary filmmaker and curator Madhusree Dutta from India, Turkish artist Halil Altındere, and producer and festival director Wahyuni A. Hadi from Singapore. Screening in competition are the latest works of Nadav Lapid, Am...

Berlinale Co-Production Market matches 36 new feature film projects with international partners

 

  At the 12th annual Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 8 - 10, 2015), 36 new feature film projects from 28 countries will be presented. In addition, five internationally noted production companies will be introduced as part of the exclusive "Company Matching" programme. In Berlin, these producers will get to know interested potential partners from the participants' pool of 500 producers and financiers from around the world in previously arranged individual meetings. ...

 

Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2015: Young Filmmakers Display a Keen Awareness of Form

 

  With 14 films, including nine full-length and five medium-long fictional and documentary films (30 to 63 min), the selection for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2015 has now been completed. The programme will open with the German-French co-production Im Sommer wohnt er unten (Summers Downstairs / produced by Osiris Media, Berlin and Osiris Media France, Saint-Palais-sur-Mer), a debut film by actor and director Tom Sommerlatte. This fictional feature is about two brothers who meet with...

 

Berlinale Co-Production Market and Eurimages Strengthen Their Partnership

 

Berlinale Co-Production Market and Eurimages Strengthen Their Partnership: EUR 20,000 Eurimages Award to Be Given Out at This Year’s Berlinale   The Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 8 to 10, 2015) and Eurimages will be ramping up their existing partnership during the 2015 Berlinale by introducing two new measures to promote European film projects and producers.   The first of which is the renowned Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which will be given to one o...

 

Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night to Open the 65th Berlinale

The 65th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 5 with the world premiere of Nobody Wants the Night, the most recent work by Spanish director Isabel Coixet. It will participate in the international competition. The Spanish-French-Bulgarian co-production takes place in 1908, in the Arctic seclusion of Greenland. The adventure film focuses on courageous women and ambitious men who put anything at stake for love and glory. The ensemble cast includes international s...

 

Drama Series Days, EFM meets Dragon, EFM Startups and Producers Hub - Various New Initiatives in 2015

European Film Market (EFM):     As the first film market of the year, the European Film Market (EFM), part of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, will take place from February 5 to 13, 2015 and open the year for the film trade industry. The EFM is one of the most significant platforms for trade in international  film rights and audiovisual content. As the first industry event of the year, it is a compass for the newest developments. The exhibition spaces at Martin-Gr...

 

Berlinale Special Gala: Fifty Shades of Grey to Celebrate Its International Premiere at the Berlinale

Fifty Shades of Grey, the highly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling book, will celebrate its international premiere as a Berlinale Special Gala at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.   Written by author E L James, the book was translated into 51 languages. The film is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy) and produced by Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti alongside James. The screenplay for the film is by Kelly Marcel.   Stepping into the iconic roles o...

 

29. TEDDY AWARD – The Queer Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival

 

Presentation of the Award on 13th February, 2015 in the Komische Oper Berlin The advance ticket sale has begun     Dear Mesdames or Sirs,   the entrance tickets for the 29. TEDDY AWARD Show are available from now on.  The most important queer film prize in the world will be given away during the 65. Berlin International Film Festival on Friday, 13th of February 2014. The location of the festive awarding will be in 2015 again the Komische Oper Berlin. At the festive TED...

 

“To the Sound of the Closing Door” – Full Forum Expanded programme at Akademie der Künste for the first time

 

In its 10th anniversary year, Forum Expanded will be presenting the group exhibition, together with the complete film programme and all performances and discussion events at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg. This re-establishes the historical connection between the Berlinale and this particular location: the Akademie was one of the main Forum screening venues until 1999 and will once again screen films from the Forum programme in 2015. The venue will thus function as a resonance cham...

 

Revelation of the Festival Poster for the Berlinale 2015

  The 65th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 5 to 15, 2015, but starting in mid-January, the Berlinale poster will be displayed at Potsdamer Platz and across the city to set the mood for the festival.   The focus of the 2015 Berlinale key visual is the stage curtain. "The glamorous and suspense-packed second that precedes every cinema experience is when the curtain opens to reveal the screen. This year's poster motif aims to stir anticipatio...

 

Berlinale Shorts: International Jury Confirmed and the New Audi Short Film Award

  Madhusree Dutta, Wahyuni A. Hadi, Halil Altındere: The short film has a long tradition as an art form at the Berlinale and is an important component in the festival’s artistic profile. Since 1956 the Berlin International Film Festival has awarded a Golden and a Silver Bear to the best short films. Now in the 60th year of their presentation, they will be joined by still another award whose winner will also be selected by the Berlinale Shorts International Jury: The Audi ...

 

Panorama 2015: Probing the Past to Shape the Future

  The eleven fictional and eight documentary films selected at this early date already provide a foretaste of the contents and global issues of the forthcoming 36th Panorama programme.   East Asia will again make a strong showing in 2015. Already confirmed are significant works by renowned directors from Taiwan and South Korea. They could be labelled “modern history” or even “national traumas”. With Paradise in Service, director Doze Niu Chen-Zer from Taiwa...

 

Berlinale 2014 Bites and previews

 

Darren Aronofsky to be jury president American director, screenwriter and producer Darren Aronofsky will head the jury of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He is known for the works Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006) and Black Swan (2011), among others. https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_24852.html   The EFM goes serial, and presents its new website This year, the European Film Market is cooperating with the Berlinale Co-Produ...

 

The Berlinale and the Franco-German Youth Office Present the Seven-Member Jury of the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”

 

For the twelfth year running, the Berlin International Film Festival (February 5 – 15, 2015) and the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlinale, are giving young film-lovers the chance to award the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”.   Seven cineastes have been selected to view and evaluate the films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the 65th Berlinale – three from Germany and four from France. On February 14th, durin...

 

EFP in preparation to choose ten of Europe's One To Watch Actors at the Berlinale (Feb 5 – 15, 2015)

 

  EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2015 Jury Line-up Is Unveiled   European Film Promotion (EFP) has today announced its five members of the prestigious EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS jury for 2015. This year’s jury represents various countries and stretches across numerous sectors of the international film industry, including Swedish actress and former SHOOTING STAR Eva Röse (Maria Wern), film editor (Empire magazine) Damon Wise from the UK, Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska (Elles),...

 

Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship 2015 Berlinale and Glashütte Original Announce Jury for the Fourth Round

    Launched by the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section and Berlinale’s co-partner Glashütte Original, the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship” will be awarded for the fourth time to a young talented director prior to the Berlinale. Conceived to support young German filmmakers in developing a project, material and screenplay, the € 15,000 fellowship is funded by the watch manufacturer Glashütte Original. Eligible to participate were all d...

 

Berlinale Retrospective 2015: “Glorious Technicolor. From George Eastman House and Beyond”

  Singing in the wind The Retrospective of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival promises to be an opulent colour spectacle. It will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a colour film process that has become a legend far beyond Hollywood: Color by Technicolor. The Retrospective will present around 30 magnificent Technicolor films, some of which have been elaborately restored. They were made in the early years between the dawn of Technicolor and 1953 – and include six British ...

 

Berlinale Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Wim Wenders

Dennis Hopper in The American Friend, 1977      The Homage of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival will be dedicated to German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who will also be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement (see press release of August 21, 2014).   The award ceremony on February 12, 2015 at 10 pm in the Berlinale Palast will include a screening of Der amerikanische Freund (The American Friend, 1977). The film thriller, based on a book b...

 

Berlinale World Cinema Fund: New Funding Recommendations

 

  At the 21st jury session of the World Cinema Fund (WCF), the jury recommended four new film projects for production funding and one work for distribution funding.   Since its establishment in October 2004, the WCF has awarded production and distribution funding to a total of 124 projects chosen from 2,364 submissions from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia, the Caucasus, as well as from the countries Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. All...

 

Dieter Kosslick will stay Director of the Berlinale until 2019

  Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters has extended Dieter Kosslick's contract as Director of the Berlinale until May 31, 2019.   Dieter Kosslick assumed directorship of the Berlin International Film Festival in May 2001. Since then, he has enriched the festival with numerous innovations and initiatives, established the EFM (European Film Market) as one of the most important film markets worldwide, and firmly rooted German film within ...

 

Berlinale Talents main theme "2015: A Space Discovery"

Oscar® winner Howard Shore confirmed as an expert With the main theme "2015: A Space Discovery", Berlinale Talents invites 300 emerging filmmakers to discover new ways of looking at cinematic space. Throughout nearly 100 talks and workshops, experts and talents dedicate themselves to film as a multi-dimensional spatial art, jointly exploring various perspectives for the screen, or how characters unfold the action spaces of edited stories and imagery. Berlinale Talents relates a...

 

Darren Aronofsky to be Jury President of the Berlinale 2015

American director, screenwriter and producer Darren Aronofsky will be Jury President of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. "Darren Aronofsky has distinguished himself as an outstanding protagonist in contemporary auteur cinema. In his artistic approach he consistently sounds out cinematic language and its aesthetic possibilities. I’m pleased to be able to welcome him as Jury President of the Berlinale 2015,” says Festival Director Dieter Kosslick.   Fol...

 

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World Cinema Fund Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary and Launches an Additional Funding Project: WCF Europe

On its 10th anniversary, the World Cinema Fund (WCF) looks back at a successful and productive decade. Since its establishment, it has backed a total of 119 projects from 41 countries: it has granted production funds 84 times and given distribution funds to 35 films for release in German cinemas. In 2015, the WCF will expand its funding programme to include a special project: WCF Europe.   Founded in 2004, the WCF was initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Ber...

 

Dieter Kosslick to receive the Innovation Prize from the International Economic Forum Baden-Baden (IEF)

Dieter Kosslick, the Director of the Berlinale, will be awarded the IEF Innovation Prize in recognition of his cultural achievements that promote Germany’s international reputation. Actress Maria Furtwängler will hold the speech in honour of Dieter Kosslick. The awards ceremony will be held on October 17th at the 4th International Economic Forum Baden-Baden. This year the IEF, under the theme “Globalisation: value(less)?” and the patronage of Federal Finance Ministe...

 

Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Marie Bäumer to be Jury President of “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”

Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Marie Bäumer to be Jury President of “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” 2015 / Looking for a Young Jury!   The French-German Youth Office (FGYO), official partner of the Berlinale, is calling for applications for the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” jury in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.   Starting now, young film lovers can apply to become jury members for the independent Berlinale award “FGYO-Award...

 

The EFM Goes Serial

As of February 2015, Berlinale’s industry platform – the European Film Market (EFM) with its Berlinale Co-Production Market division - will provide creators and producers of television series with the opportunity to present, sell and buy new high-profile television content. On February 9 and 10, 2015, the EFM is organising special market screenings and a business lounge for buyers and sellers of television content. The Berlinale Co-Production Market is extending its progra...

Special Guests John Waters, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Asner, Chris Lemmon; Films about Sophie Tucker, Dean Kamen, George Takei, Food, Water, Immigration, More

From Citizen Kane, considered by some to be the greatest film of all time, to classic films starring Richard Dreyfuss (who will be on hand) to films about food and food waste and from Sophie Tucker to Dean Kamen and George Takei, the 21st annual Sedona International Film Festival will feature 160 documentaries, features, shorts, Academy Award nominees and specialty films over nine days with a special tribute celebrating the 100th birthday of director and actor Orson Welles, Feb. 21-March 1.

Highlighting this year’s festival will be a series of screenings and retrospectives of Welles’ work coordinated by his daughter, Beatrice, who lives part-time in Sedona. She will be joined by renowned film critic and family friend Jeffrey Lyons.  In addition to Citizen Kane, Welles’ classic films to be screened include Othello, Touch of Evil, Falstaff - Chimes at Midnight, the film he most wanted to be remembered by. Several documentaries and panel discussions also are planned and Q&A sessions with Beatrice and others.

The full Festival schedule of films, workshops, panel discussions and events is available at http://www.sedonafilmfestival.org.

Established among the nation’s most sought-after independent film festivals by filmmakers, the nine-day Sedona International Film Festival brings more than 10,000 film lovers to Sedona’s world-famous red rocks for films in a range of categories from World Cinema to Documentaries that Make a Difference and from Sedona Green to Family Films and Classics.

Among those attending the festival are director John Waters (Hairspray, Serial Mom, Pink Flamingos), who will perform his one-man show, John Waters: This Filthy World, a look at his remarkable 50-year career; a man that William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash.” Ed Asner, who with Mark Rydell will perform their two-man show, Oxymorons. Asner, who is in the cast of two films in the festival, also will perform his one-man show, FDR.  Also scheduled to appear are Richard Dreyfuss (Goodbye Girl, Mr. Holland’s Opus will be screened); Chris Lemmon, who will perform his one-man tribute to his father, Jack, A Twist of Lemmon.  Lemmon is a Verde Valley High School graduate. 

The Festival opens Friday, Feb. 20 with a concert by The Larry Dunn Orchestra performing the music of Earth, Wind & Fire.  Dunn was the keyboardist and musical director for Earth, Wind & Fire during their remarkable R&B run that produced more than 100 million albums worldwide, six Grammy’s, four American Music Awards and 32 gold and platinum records.  A film about Dunn, All About Love: The Music of Larry Dunn, will be shown at the Festival.

Other films scheduled this year:

• The world premiere of Girl on the Edge (Peter Coyote, Taylor Sprietler, Elizabeth Pena, Mackenzie Phillips), a powerful true story about the journey of a troubled teenage girl who finds healing in the most unlikely of places, and who must choose to either invest in her own recovery or succumb to the trauma of her past.

• Night Will Fall, possibly the most shocking and emotionally staggering film ever shown at the festival. Although the Holcaust footage, some shot by Alfred Hitchcock, was used at the Nuremburg war trials, it was subsequently buried by the Allies and remained secreted away for 70 years. Now, re-mastered into an astounding film, Night Will Fall is a devastating visual reminder of the horrors of the camps and the politics which still surrounds the history of the Nazi era. (Graphic visuals).

• The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, the rags-to-riches story of an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of Broadway, vaudeville, radio, television and Hollywood long before names like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Bette Midler, Madonna and even Mae West.

• The Immigration Paradox, takes a critical and in depth look at one of the most divisive issues in human global history — immigration that exposes the missing information to the immigration issue by interviewing an array of people from various backgrounds, which include economics, sociology, philosophy, history, policy, and activism.

• SlingShot, focuses on inventor Dean Kamen (Segway Human Transporter) and his 15-year quest to solve the world's safe-water crisis. Iconoclast, Kamen is a modern hero whose inventions, mostly medical devices, help people in need and ease suffering.  

• Secret Sharer, from Academy Award winner Peter Fudakowski (Tsotsi, which also will be screened), a contemporary fable told with epic beauty, humor and a twist in its tale about a young man’s journey into maturity through challenging human relationships on the high seas.

• To Be Takei, a look at the many roles played by eclectic 77-year- old actor/activist George Takei, whose wit, humor and grace have helped him to become an Internet phenomenon with more than 7 million Facebook fans. Now at 76, nine years after formally coming out of the closet, Takei and his husband, Brad, have become the poster couple for marriage equality, highlighting homophobia through television interviews and hilarious skits.

Sedona International Film Festival films will run all day beginning Saturday, Feb. 21 on four screens at Sedona Harkins 6, 2081 W. Highway 89A; the Mary D. Fisher Theater, 2030 W. Highway 89A, and the Sedona Performing Arts Center at Sedona Red Rock High School, 995 Upper Red Rock Loop Road.

            Platinum All-Access Passes are $990; Gold Priority Passes, $490; 20-ticket packages, $210; 10-ticket packages, $105. Full-time students can get the 10-ticket package for $85. Individual film tickets go on sale to the general public on Feb. 16.

            Packages, other than for full-time students, are available online at www.sedonafilmfestival.org or through the Festival Box office at (928) 282-1177.  Student packages must be purchased through the Box Office and student ID’s are required.  For more information, visit www.sedonafilmfestival.org.

Oxford Brookes University will be raising awareness of human rights this month as a popular and thought-provoking festival returns to the city for its 13th year.

The Oxford Human Rights Festival (Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 February) will see a four day programme of films, talks and workshops, along with a special exhibition on display in the Glass Tank at the university’s Headington Campus.

The films, talks and workshops will tackle three themes refugees, women’s rights and politics and revolution.

Highlights will include the hard hitting documentary on domestic abuse Private Violence, short films Gardens of St. George and Bristol Bike Project about refugees in Bristol, and the blockbuster The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assage.

The festival is organised by Oxford Brookes students on the Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) and Applied Architectural Design master’s degree courses.  It is open to the public to attend free of charge.  

Nicoletta Idili, a current student involved in organising the festival said: "To be helping organise the Oxford Human Rights Festival is a special formative experience; working in a team to create different events so people don’t forget that even nowadays human rights are still continuously violated all over the world.  The events promise to bring lively debate and raise controversial and hard hitting issues, both in developing countries and closer to home.”

Already on display in the Glass Tank is the exhibition, The Insurgent Artist, a retrospective of the work of George McBean, illustrator, animator and former head of the UNICEF Graphics Section.  It features fascinating sketchbooks, illustrations, products, photographs and animation from George’s amazing 36-year career with the organisation both at their headquarters in New York and in the field in Africa, Nepal and the Caribbean.

The festival will take place at the new John Henry Brookes Building and the new Abercrombie Building.  More information about the festival and the full programme of events can be found on the festival’s website www.oxfordhumanrightsfestival.org.

To book onto a reception and private view of the Glass Tank exhibition on 18 February, including a Q&A session with George McBean, please contact Gallery Manager and Exhibitions Curator Joanna Walker, joannawalker@brookes.ac.uk.

 Glasgow Film Festival is delighted to make a first announcement about guests attending the festival this year. Respected veteran actors GemmaJones (Bridget Jones’ Diary, Sense And Sensibility, the Harry Potter films) and RichardJohnson (The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, The Haunting, Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra) will attend the festival in support of Radiator, the beautiful debut of director TomBrowne, nominated for the GFF’s inaugural Audience Award. At the other end of the spectrum, KaridjaToure and AssaSylla, the young stars of Celine Sciamma’s multi-award winning Girlhood (Bande de filles), one of the hottest-tipped films on the festival circuit, will walk the red carpet for the film’s Scottish premiere.

DanielWolfe, best known as the director behind some of the most cinematic music videos of the last decade, including Duffy’s ‘Mercy’, Plan B’s ‘Stay Too Long’, Sugababes’ ‘Girls’ and the Jake Gyllanhaal-hipster-killing-spree of ‘Time To Dance’, will attend the festival in support of his feature debut, supercool thriller Catch Me Daddy, along with the film’s stars ConorMcCarron (NEDS) and GaryLewis (Outlander, Gangs of New York, Billy Elliot). PeterMullan (Trainspotting) and MorvernChristie (Grantchester, Lost In Austen) will take part in masterclasses on editing and casting as part of the Behind The Scenes programme strand.

GFF are also delighted to confirm that legendary crime novelist WilliamMcIlvanney will attend the World Premiere of the documentary about his life, William McIlvanney: Living With Words. Director GilliesMcKinnon and actor IainRobertson are confirmed to attend the 20th anniversary screening of Small Faces. AlanMcKenna, best known as an actor in films like Belle, and as Patrick McGuire in Doctors, will attend for Pressure, his debut feature script as a writer. Award-winning director YasminFedda returns to GFF with her brilliant documentary Queens of Syria. Actor LeoGregory and director JaneSpencer support dreamy existential comedy The Ninth Cloud, actor/director April Mullen walks the red carpet for her gory revenge thriller pastiche 88,

Guests already announced include New Zealand actor CliffCurtis, for TheDark Horse, director CarolMorley for TheFalling, composer OlfaurArnalds (The Hunger Games, Broadchurch), Oscar-winning sound designer GlennFreemantle (Gravity, Paddington, Ex Machina), the band British Sea Power and the comedian PaulMerton.

A complete list of talent attending, including media call opportunities, is available below. Please contact Kirstin Innes (kirstin.innes@glasgowfilm.org) to enquire about interview availability. Further announcements are expected in the coming weeks.

FULL TALENT LIST TO DATE OVER

LIST OF TALENT ATTENDING AS OF 06/02/15

THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY

The Grump: Director Dome Karukoski

“a poignant exploration of loneliness, old age and the pitfalls and pleasures of remaining resolutely stuck in your ways”- Screen

One of Finland's most successful directors, Karukoski has been called the “saviour of Finnish cinema”. His second film, Home of the Dark Butterflies, was chosen as Finland's submission for the 2009 Academy Awards. The Grump follows the misadventures of a stubborn, 80-year old farmer, a light-hearted satirical look at life in modern-day Finland.

Catch Me Daddy: Director Daniel Wolfe, Actors Connor McCarron & Gary Lewis

Laila, played by Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, is on the run with her Scottish boyfriend Aaron (Conor McCarron from NEDS) from her family and their over-prized sense of honour in this powerfully gripping British drama. We are joined by the director and stars for its Scottish Premiere. The film is is the feature debut of music promo director Daniel Wolfe, who has worked with bands including Chase & Status and Plan B, and stars including Jake Gyllenhaal for The Shoes’ ‘Time To Dance’  Scottish actor Conor McCarron, who plays boyfriend Aaron, is perhaps best known for his role in NEDS (2010), for which he was nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the British Independent Film Awards. We are also joined by renowned Scottish actor Gary Lewis, who has starred in such films as Gangs of New York (2002), Billy Elliot (2000), and Filth (2013)

Our Extra-Sensory Selves: Director Allison Gibbs

Allison Gibbs’ new film is the result of an exploration on the possibilities of becoming extra-sensory. Based in part on research conducted with the Development Circle for Radical Subjectivity in France, the film shows the group’s journey as they attempt to reclaim their extra-senses and reach a higher state of consciousness.  A graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, Gibbs has screened work at Glasgow International 2014, Intermedia Gallery, and in Berlin. Our Extra-Sensory Selves is the result of her residency with Triangle France, based in Marseille.

A Night at the Regal: British Sea Power, Joe McAlinden

On From the Sea to the Land Beyond

“Beautiful, mesmerising… gloriously cosseted with a British Sea Power score… “- Grace Dent, The Independent.

“This wasn’t one to have playing casually. It was a thing to be immersed in, whisky poured, speakers turned up. The alchemy of precisely arranged visuals and sweeping music was mesmeric.”- Jack Seale, Radio Times

A pioneering force in the UK indie scene for over ten years, British Sea Power have carved a reputation as one of the most ambitious and forward-thinking bands out there. They perform their live score to documentary film From the Sea to the Land Beyond

Former frontman of alt-rock hitmakers Superstar, Joe McAlinden's musical career has seen him collaborate with the likes of Edwyn Collins, Teenage Fanclub, and Rod Stewart. He performs his live soundtrack to EDIT, the latest film from artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, fresh from their work on Nick Cave feature 20,000 Days on Earth.

The Dark Horse: Actor Cliff Curtis

“the most deserving cinematic export to emerge from New Zealand in years”- Variety

“Curtis… brings dramatic heft, a total immersion in the personality of a tortured but gifted man, one with a rank and file of demons in his head and a generous soul. It’s a high wire Curtis walks, with large strides.” - Indiewire

“(Curtis’) performance is mesmerising from the start. If he gets a better role in his career he’ll be lucky”- Sydney Morning Herald ★★★★

Cliff Curtis is one of New Zealand's most recognisable stars, with leading roles in homegrown projects like Oscar-nominated The Whale Rider, as well as Hollywood blockbusters Sunshine, Three Kings, and upcoming Walking Dead spin-off Cobalt. He will attend the European Premiere of The Dark Horse, marking his immersive portrayal of bipolar chess champion Genesis Potini.

FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY

Behind The Scenes: Close-Up on Casting: Director Kahleen Crawford, Actor Morvern Christie

Casting director KahleenCrawford, who has worked on Filth, Sunshine on Leith and Young Adam, and actor MorvernChristie (currently Grantchester’s Amanda Kendall, also known as Fi Healy, Head of Legacy, in Twenty Twelve, and Jane Bennett in Lost In Austen) give aspiring actors and interested audience members a look behind the scenes the casting process.

I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run: Director Nick Hall

An experienced editor and director, Nick Hall presents his first documentary feature, a raucous film following the misadventures of former Clash frontman Joe Strummer in Spain, featuring interviews with Strummer's close friends and former bandmates.

SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY

Queens of Syria: Director YasminFedda

An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Yasmin Fedda has earned a reputation for her hard-hitting and insightful storytelling. Her film Queens of Syria saw her awarded the Black Pearl fro Best Director at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film follows the story of fifty Syirian women, forced into exile in Jordan, who came together to perform their own version of timeless Greek tragedy The Trojan Women.

MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY

Pressure: Director Ron Scalpello, Actor/Writer Alan McKenna

Taut, tense, reminiscent of no-escape thrillers like Solaris or 127 Hours, Pressure is the second feature from British director Ron Scalpello, in which four deep-sea divers become trapped in their saturation bell at the bottom of the ocean off the Kenyan coast.

Scalpello, who previously directed such music promo videos as The Prodigy’s ‘Voodoo People’, and first feature Offender, joins us alongside co-writer and actor Alan McKenna.

William McIlvanney: Living with Words: Director Maurice O'Brien, Author William McIlvanney

Told in his own words and those of family and colleagues, William McIlvanney: Living with Words is an intimate portrait of the man known as the ‘Godfather of Tartan Noir’ and the inspiration he provided for an entire generation of writers. Legendary author, the creator of Laidlaw (and with it, the genre of ‘tartan noire’) and Docherty (recently voted on of the top ten Scottish novels of all time), Following on from directorial success of Buffalo Dreams and Northern Soul: Keep the Faith (both 2013), Maurice O’Brien presents his latest work and tribute to the literary talents of William McIlvanney, who will be attending the festival in support of the film.

Margaret Tait Award: Stoneymollan Trail: Director Charlotte Prodger

We welcome Margaret Tait Award winner Charlotte Prodger for the world premiere of 2014 specially-created experimental film, Stoneymollan Trail.  A graduate of Goldsmiths College and Glasgow School of Art, Charlotte Prodger was featured as part of Glasgow International 2014 and has exhibited in Glasgow, London and New York. After winning the Margaret Tait Award in 2014, Stoneymollan Trail is the film she has specially created to be screened as part of GFF15.

TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY

Girlhood: Actors Kardja Toure & Assa Sylla

“A work of cinematic art.” - The Guardian

"Sciamma revels in the risky, reckless exuberance of adolescence and in the sheer joy of filming it.” - New York Times ★★★★★

“One of the best coming-of-age movies in years” - Indiewire

Girlhood, the latest film from acclaimed director Céline Sciamma, arrives in Glasgow for its Scottish Premiere, having already received prizes at Stockholm, San Sebastian, and Toronto. A nuanced coming of age tale set in the banlieues of Paris, the film’s breakout young stars, Kardja Toure and Assa Sylla, join us for a red carpet and post-screening Q+A.

Margaret Tait Residency: O.K. Rick: Director Florrie James

The world premiere of 2014 Margaret Tait Residency participant Florrie James’ latest work, O.K. Rick features female interpretations of Rick Blain and Victor Laszlo from Casablanca collecting information for the National Census, set to an original score by Dick 50. Having previously screened work at the Intermedia Gallery, CCA and Collective, Glasgow School of Art graduate Florrie James presents her latest work O.K. Rick, after participating in the Margaret Tait Residency with the support of the Pier Arts Centre (Orkney).

WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY

Radiator: Actors Richard Johnson & Gemma Jones, Director Tom Browne

“In a powerful reminder of just what a great actor he is, Richard Johnson gives us a Leonard who is by turns tyrannical and petulant, irascible, sardonic, needy, funny, terrified – a fragile bully. He hits all the notes in an understated performance which is also physically vulnerable and brave” – Screen Daily

A black comedy about an elderly couple of hoarders, this inspirational British feature from first-time director Tom Browne is nominated for GFF’s inaugural Audience Award. Talent in attendance: veteran British actor Richard Johnson, one-time husband of Kim Novak and co-star of Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen in films such as Never So Few (1959), had starring roles in The Haunting (1963), John Gielgud’s Julius Caesar (1970) as playboy detective ‘Bulldog Drummond’ in Deadlier than the Male (1967) and Some Girls Do (1969) and has been a stalwart of screens on boths sides of the Atlantic ever since. A well-loved feature of British film and television since the 1960s, Gemma Jones is perhaps best known for her roles as Bridget’s awful mum in Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), as Mrs Dashwood in Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility (1995), and as Madam Pomfrey in the Harry Potter films. 

X+Y: Director Morgan Mathews

A BAFTA-winning documentary filmmaker, Morgan Mathews attends to discus his fictional debut X+Y, inspired by his acclaimed 2007 documentary Beautiful Young Minds. X+Y stars Sally Hawkins, Asa Butterfield and Rafe Spall in a touching, heartfelt story of maths, autism and first love.

THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY

The Falling: Director Carol Morley

“A brilliant and very distinctive feature…terrific film-making – enough to bring a rush of blood to the head”★★★★

 - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Set in a girls’ school in the late 1960s struck by a fainting epidemic and starring Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams, The Falling, director Carol Morley’s distinctive and strikingly photographed follow up to Dreams of a Life, confirms her place as one of the UK’s most exciting directors.

Behind The Scenes: Editing Masterclass

Colin Monie, one of the leading film and television editors in the UK, known for his work on Midnight’s Children, Shetland and Hallam Foe, and Peter Mullan, who worked with Monie as a director on NEDS and The Magdalene Sisters, discuss the editing process and the

Warsaw Uprising: Director JanKomek,WriterPiotr CŚliwowski

Two of the most exciting young talents working in Polish cinema. Warsaw Uprising is a groundbreaking documentary film, entirely cut from archive footage that has been painstakingly restored and colourised frame by frame.

On The Trail of the Far Fur Country: Director KevinNikkel

Kevin Nikkel is a Canadian writer and director, whose animated and documentary films have generated an international reputation at numerous festivals. His latest feature documentary, On the Trail of the Far Fur Country, is an intimate portrait of Canada's Aboriginal people, and a chronicle of how life in the North has changed in the last century.

FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY

88: Director April Mullen, Writer/Actor Tim Doiron

As an actor, April Mullen has appeared in films like Cavedweller and A History of Violence. Helming Dead Before Dawn 3D made her the youngest and first ever female director to shoot a film in stereoscopic 3D. Doiron has been her writing partner on all of their company, Wango Films’, features. Their new feature, 88, which stars her long-term collaborator Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future), is a glorious, gory homage to cult exploitation revenge thrillers. Part of FrightFest, World Premiere.

The Hoarder: Director Matt Winn

Horror director Matt Winn discusses his new chiller, The Hoarder, which stars Mischa Barton. Part of FrightFest, World Premiere.

SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY

WastedTime: Director David Hayman Jr.

World premiere of debut feature by Scottish director David Hayman Jr, this unique production mixed professional and non-professional actors, some of whom were serving time and have used acting as a road to rehabilitation.

Sea Without Shore:Director/Actor Fernanda Lippi, Director Andre Semenza, Sound Designer Glen Freemantle

Fernanda Lippi and Andre Semenza are best known as the founders of boundary pushing physical performance group Zikzira Physical Theatre, as well as their acclaimed film work on the likes of Ashes of God. Glenn Freemantle is one of Hollywood's most talented sound editors, well-known for his work on recent hits like Ex Machina, Paddington and Theory of Everything, as well as his Oscar-winning sound design for Gravity. World Premiere.

The Treatment: Director Hans Herbots

Belgium’s top-grossing film of 2014 is a shocking serial killer thriller based on Mo Hayder’s novel and directed by Hans Herbots, who also helmed acclaimed TV series The Spiral. Part of FrightFest.

The Woods Movie: Director Russ Gomm

Russ Gomm is in attendance for the world premiere of his new documentary going behind the scenes of The Blair Witch Project, examining its impact and influence as well as looking at how it was made. Part of FrightFest.

SUNDAY 1 MARCH

Small Faces: Director Gillies Mackinnon, Actor Iain Robertson

The award-winning autobiographical remembrance of growing up in 1960s Glasgow from director Gillies MacKinnon, Small Faces is one of the most vivid coming of age films that Scotland has ever produced. Talent in attendance: BAFTA-nominated director Gillies MacKinnon (Hideous Kinky, and Castles in the Sky starring Eddie Izzard, which was nominated for both the Audience Award and the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at EIFF last year) and actor Iain Robertson, whose lead role in Small Faces as a young teenager has lead to lead roles in Rab C Nesbitt and Sea Of Souls, and an award-winning theatre career. We hope to confirm more talent for this event.

The Ninth Cloud

Dreamy existential comedy The Ninth Cloud follows a young American woman around the sees Michael Madsen playing against type as a free-spirited playwright in 1990s London. Talent in attendance: director Jane Spencer (Little Noises) and lead actor Leo Gregory (Green Street Hooligans, Stoned, Tristan + Isolde). 

8th WINTER FRENCH SHORT FILM SCREENING
Saturday, February 21, 2015 – Doors at 6pm / Films at 7pm

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

part of the COUCHBLEACHERS ART INSTALLATION
 

JOIN US for an ORIGINAL & ARTSY EVENING of FABULOUS SHORTS, DELICIOUS WINE, BEER & PASTIS, TASTY FOOD TRUCK, and UPLIFTING FRENCH POP MUSIC!

PROGRAM

§  2015 CÉSAR NOMINATED SHORTS!
It is Awards season in France too. Our 8th Winter Short Film Screening  will showcase a selection of the short films nominated for a CÉSAR (French Academy Award) in the ANIMATION and LIVE ACTION categories. 
The audience will be invited to vote for the “Sacramento César Awards”!
The 40th César Ceremony will have been held a day earlier, Friday, February 20th. César Winners will be announced at the end of the evening.

§  This year's screening is unique in that the audience will be part of a living, interactive art exhibit: The Verge's COUCHBLEACHERS installation (by Los Angeles artist Nate Page) will be our seats for the evening. Because of this unique opportunity capacity is limited

WHERE

§  VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS– 625 S Street (corner of 7th and S Streets).

WEBSITE

§  www.SacramentoFrenchFilmFestival.org

PHONE

§  916-455-9390

TICKET PRICES

§  $15 General Admission

§  Tickets will be available at the door. Reserve your seats in advance online. www.SacramentoFrenchFilmFestival.org

HIGHLIGHTS of the EVENING

§  All films are presented in French with English subtitles.

§  French Pop with DJ Christophe.

§  No Host Wine, Beer & Pastis Bar!

§  Food Truck byCICHY Co.

§  With the support of Barefoot Wine, New Glory Brewery, Simply Recipes & Unifrance Paris.

§  Please dress comfortably and note that shoes are not allowed on the couches!