“Slow Food Story” is an italian documentary presented at the last Berlinale 2013. It is the story of a revolution. A slow revolution, a revolution at a snail’s pace. One that’s been going on now for 25 years and still shows no signs of coming to a stop. Its leader is Carlo Petrini, better known [ Read More ]
PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURYGOLDEN BEAR for the Best Film Poziţia CopiluluiChild's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer JURY GRAND PRIX (Silver Bear) Epizoda u životu berača željeza An Episode in the Life of an Iron Pickerby Danis Tanović ALFRED BAUER PRIZE (Silver Bear) – in memory of the Festival Founder –for a feature film that [ Read More ]
Berlinale Residency 2012 filmmakers Tuesday, February 12 The Berlinale Residency programme supports writer/directors from around the world, who have already enjoyed their first festival and cinema successes, in developing their new fiction, documentary film or cross-media projects. The first Berlinale Residency took place from September – December 2012. The selected filmmakers stayed in [ Read More ]
STATE 194 PANORAMA DOKUMENTE at the Berlin FF 2013 SYNOPSIS: If you build the foundations of peace . . . will it come? This fascinating question lies at the heart of STATE 194, a vital and revealing look deep inside Israel and Palestine at the men and women trying to seize an historic opportunity to [ Read More ]
The Berlin International Film Festival is celebrating its opening tomorrow, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm. After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival will be officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, [ Read More ]
Berlinale 2013: International Jury With WONG Kar Wai serving as Jury President, the International Jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the 2013 Berlinale Competition. The other members of the International Jury will be Susanne Bier, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras, Shirin Neshat, Tim Robbins and Athina Rachel Tsangari. Chinese [ Read More ]
Film producers who are looking for exciting literary material for the screen should be in their element at “Books at Berlinale” on February 12, 2013. Ten novels that might make good movies will be presented at this year’s “Books at Berlinale” within the scope of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. At the breakfast following the pitch, [ Read More ]
Berlin Film Festival 2012: SEVEN WONDERS – RICHARD LORMAND Ira Sach’s KEEP THE LIGHTS ON: Heartrending, frank, smart, but real cinema. This beautiful film comes to the Panorama after receiving a very positive reception in Sundance. Outstanding Danish-born actor Thure Lindhardt (FLAME AND CITRON, NORDKRAFT, BROTHER- HOOD, among many others) brings extra emotional depth [ Read More ]
Special Event at the 2011 Rome Film Festival, “Pina” by Wim Wenders’ is a huge miracle of the connection between cinema, dance, art and technologies. The first European 3D ever made, “Pina” is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (died in 2009), featuring the unique and inspiring art [ Read More ]
Academy Award latest male actor winner with “The King’s Speech”, Colin Firth, might starr “Stoker”, the new horror movie directed by Park Chan–Wook (“Old Boy”, recently awarded at Berlinale61 for iPhone short Movie “Night Fishing”), featuring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska (“Alice in Wonderland”, “The Kids Are All Right”), and written by Wenthworth Miller (“Prison [ Read More ]
