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Aloft Press Conference Highlights
Press Conference Highlights "Aloft" by Claudia Llosa (Spanien / Kanada / Frankreich) Claudia Llosa (Director, Screenwriter) Jennifer Connelly (Actress) Mélanie Laurent (Actress) Cillian Murphy (Actor) William Shimell (Actor) Jose Maria Morales (Producer) Ibon Cormenzana (Producer) Mark Johnson (Executive Producer) Moderation: Anatol Weber ...
The 64th Berlinale is distinguishing the British director Ken Loach with the Honorary Golden Bear for his outstanding body of work. ...
20,000 Days on Earth Press Conference Video Highlights
20,000 Days on Earth, a new film featuring Nick Cave and directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2014, picking up awards for best directing and editing, where the jury described it as "documentary storytelling at its most visionary and mind blowing". More info: http://www.20000daysonearth.com Berlinale Press Conference Excerpt ...
George Clooney and the cast for his new film "Monuments Men" seemed to be in good mood at the press conference in Berlin, when they suddently started to sing (and whistle again during Q&A). ...
Berlinale Video Bits from the Red Carpet...we are all excited to be there...
Shia LaBeouf, being not famous anymore, George Clooney, whistling the "Monuments Men" theme, or Tilda Swinton, offering Dieter Kosslick to come an clean sometime - we put together the highights of the first days of the festival for you. Enjoy! ...
Captures from the Red Carpet Day 8
Frieder Schlaich, Patti Smith ...
Embargo for Berlinale press who may not report about the work in process by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi The screening of Untitled New York Review of Books Documentary by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi is a work in progress and will be presented in three separate excerpts. It is not the completed film, with picture and audio unfinished. For this reason it’s not allowed to publish any kind of reviews after the screening. The screening takes place at February 14, 3....
German Afghan Film - Between Worlds - Looks Like a Winner
By Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com> "Zwischen Welten" (Between Worlds) a Stark new drama about a German military unit on a peacekeeping mission in a most inhospitable Afghan village has Golden Bear written all over it. It's German, it's political, it's timely, it's depressing, it's unhappy, it's a damn well made military thriller -- and the director, Feo Aladag, is a woman ~ what more could a Berlinale Jury ask for! Of course there are other emoti...
Golden Bear Homage to Ken Loach at Berlinale
Ken Loach Homage Berlinale 2014 The British director talked about his films and working methods. He will receive a Honorary Golden Bear. Ken Loach will be at 16.25 for his Photo Call, followed at 16.35 by a Q&A The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will award British director Ken Loach the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievements at 10 pm in the Berlinale Palast. Polish director Jiří Menzel will give the laudation.. After t...
Somewhere in Oaxaca, southern Mexico: 16 years old Mateo lives here in a rural community, where the traditional Zapotec culture is still alive. But on the other hand it´s a poor region from where a lot of the young people migrate to the US. Mateo itself prepares his – dangerous – crossing of the border to reach the almost mythical city of Los Angeles. For this reason he joins a local gang, so that he can draw on their support over there. To be accepted into their circles, he ...
Captures from the Red Carpet Day 7
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Captures from the Red Carpet Day 6
World Cinema Fund Day on Wednesday, February 12, 2014
The WCF invites all friends of the WCF, as well as international representatives of the trade and press to the WCF Day on February 12, 2014. After welcoming words from Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, and WCF project managers Sonja Heinen and Vincenzo Bugno, Jorge Sánchez, director of the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía will present the IMCINE Award. This new prize will be awarded by IMCINE to all Mexican films that receive funding from the World Cinema Fund in the ...
Berlinale & EFM 2014: Mid Fest Signals are all Green
After getting off to an exuberant start with the opening film, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, the days that followed saw a superb line-up of stars: Bob Balaban, Christian Bale, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hugh Bonneville, Pierce Brosnan, Nick Cave, Toni Collette, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Brendan Gleeson, Jeff Goldblum, John Goodman, Hannah Herzsprung, Nick Hornby, Diane Kruger, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Aaron Paul...
RADiUS-TWC is proud to announceD it has acquired North American rights to PARADISE LOST starring Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro as Pablo Escobar and Josh Hutcherson as a young man who finds himself unexpectedly pulled into the family business after marrying Escobar’s niece. The film also stars Brady Corbet (MARTHA, MARCY, MAY, MARLENE) and newcomer Claudia Traisac in a breakout performance. Directed by Andrea Di Stefano making his feature debut, the film w...
1999 in Mexico City: „Fede”, his roommate Santos and Fede´s younger brother Tomás hanging out in a spartan housing block apartment somewhere in the big city. They have nothing to do, because the university is currently on strike, the power is turned off and the fridge almost empty. And Fede, also called „Sombra” (shade), is afraid of going to be crazy – because of the Tiger, who is haunting in his head. What fairly desolate starts, becomes in &bd...
New NYMPHOMANIAC Poster -- A Thinking Man's Picture
from Alex at Berlin A new Nymphomaniac poster has been revealed by the Lars von Trier work shop. Uppity and coming American actor Shia Labeouf wearing glasses like a true intellectual should is pictured approaching an intellectually detached Charlotte Gainsbourg to lap up some love juice. Charlotte holds a half eaten apple of temptation aloft but is absorbed in her reading. Both actors are of course nude. The inspired graphic artist of this thinking man's movie poster must...
Bloody Nordic Mafia Comedy is Audience Fave at Berlin Midpoint
Shootout at the Norskie Corral is grand Finale of Snowplow Opera "in Order of Disappearance". Old Bruno Ganz is still full of P. and V. and Skarsgard is literally awesome. "In Order of Disappearance" (Kraftidioten, or "Power freaks" in German) is the surprise of the week at Berlin. Stellan Skarsgård is a snowplow driver who will stop at nothing to reap revenge on his son's druglord killers in this wildly ribtickling Norwe...
Captures from the Red Carpet Day 5
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Production and acquisitions executive Lars Wiebe has joined leading German distributor SquareOne in the newly created role of Head of German Productions as part of the company’s new strategy to enhance its production division, it was announced today by company CEO, Al Munteanu. On making the announcement Munteanu said: " We are very pleased to add one of the most experienced and successful professionals in the industry to our production and acquisitions team. Lars is a popula...
Shooting Stars take a pause with Dieter on the Red Carpet
(From left to right): Nikola Rakocevic (Serbia), Cosmnia Stratan (Romania), Miriam Karlkvist (Italy), Danica Curcic (Denmark), George MacKay (UK), Maria Dragus (Germany), Marwan Kenzari (The Netherlands), Jakob Oftebro (Norway), Edda Magnason (Sweden) and in front Mateusz Kosciukiewicz (Poland) with Dieter Kosslick (Festival director Berlin International Film Festival) Photo: Harald Fuhr >>> Download here Berlin, Monday 10th February 2...
ID Communications picks up world rights for award winning doc "The Last Safari"
Veteran photojournalist's work explored in "The Last Safari" documentary capturing the rich cultural heritage of African region The Last Safari follows the story of a photojournalist's quest for meaning through the unforgiving landscape of remote Kenya as she sets out in search of the tribes-people she documented a decade earlier, dodging everything from bullets and floods, to heat strokes along the way. Elizabeth L. Gilbert began her caree...
Digital Cinema at the 64th Berlinale
As in recent years, the Berlinale has again faced enormous technical and logistical tasks that have arisen from the film industry’s digitisation. Now that the rollout of digital cinema is nearing completion, one of the greatest challenges for the Festival is distributing the films with their ever larger data volumes. For the first time, the digital screenings at the Berlinale are all being presented in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format. This involved converting the films in adva...
Captures from the Red Carpet Day 4
Captures from the Red Carpet Day 3
Clooneymania followed by Nymphomania in Berlin
by Alex Deleon Farba for <filmfestivals.com> Judging from the Sunday morning papers in Berlin on day five of Berlin '64 one might get the impression that the main raison d'être of the festival is the visitation of Hollywood megastar Gorgeous George Clooney. Mr. Clooney is here to present and promote his fifth directed effort, "The Monuments Men" of which he also the star. The picture is a didactic all star enter...
Berlin 2014 Not the Red Carpet
Images one might see walking to and from the market place or the movies, Starbucks, or Billy Wilder's all in a Berlinale day ...
Young Shooting Stars welcomed to Berlin
(From left-right): Cosmnia Stratan (Romania), Mateusz Kosciukiewicz (Poland), Jakob Oftebro (Norway), Miriam Karlkvist (Italy), Maria Dragus (Germany), Richard Shen (President of TESIRO), Danica Curcic (Denmark), Marwan Kenzari (The Netherlands), Nikola Rakocevic (Serbia), Edda Magnason (Sweden) and George MacKay (UK). The annual EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS activity has kicked-of...
Clooneymania in Berlin: Georgeous George is the Talk of the Town
by Alex Deleon Farba for <filmfestivals.com> Judging from the Sunday morning papers here in Berlin on day five of Berlin '64 one might get the impression that the main raison d'être of the festival is the visitation of Hollywood megastar Gorgeous George Clooney. A sampling: Mr. Clooney is here to present and promote his fith directed effort, "The Monuments Men" of which he also the star. The picture ...
Captures from the Red Carpet Day 2
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Traffic Jam at Clooney's Press Conference
Following the press screening of the worlds premiere of George Clooney's WW II art recovery thriller, "Monuments Men" the press center hotel Hyatt a few steps away was a madhouse of frustrated journalists trying to get a glimpse of the procedings at the head of the stairs outside of the already jam packed conference hall. Clooney himself is always a magnetic drawing card here but this was in addition to the star director himself, many of his costars, namely Matt Damon, Bill M...
Interview with Wieland Speck on Panorama 2014, what cinema can do
With 52 films, Panorama 2014 offers an overview of cinema around the world. Wieland Speck speaks in an interview about the risks of emancipation, the unbroken power of film, and the upcoming return to the Zoo Palast. Nước (2030) by Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh Looking at the 2014 programme, one notices that almost every film has a political undertone, at the least. Was there a conscious decision to make the status quo and it...
The Grand Budapest Hotel Grand Budapest Hotel Red Carpet Thursday Feb 06, 2014
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Stars Portraits on the walls of Berlinale Palast
The large-format Berlinale star portraits have been taken by the photographer Gerhard Kassner since 2003. During the festival they adorn the walls of the Berlinale Palast. There they are signed by the stars before their gala premieres. ...
THROUGH A LENS DARKLY produced by John Singleton premieres in the Panorama Section
Acclaimed filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris and his production company, Chimpanzee Productions, today announced the involvement of Oscar® nominated filmmaker John Singleton as Executive Producer for the documentary feature film THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE. The film, just coming off a successful world premiere at Sundance 2014 where sold out audiences were moved to ovations, is co- produced and inspired by Dr. Deborah Willis. It is the first doc...
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> PRIX DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE 2014 OFAJ - DFJW
Trois questions aux jurés du Prix OFAJ DFJW
de Pierre-Edouard Peillon Nous avons proposé aux jurés de se présenter en répondant à trois questions concernant leur cinéphilie, leur rapport au cinéma allemand et leurs attentes par rapport à l’expérience qu’ils sont en train de vivre. Itamar Gov D’où vient votre passion pour le cinéma ? Je trouve que le cinéma contient toutes les autres formes d&rsqu...
de Lucie Brux JEUDI 6 février, à 19h30, au Berlinale-Palast, s’est tenue en grande pompes et souliers vernis la cérémonie d’ouverture du 64ème Festival du film de Berlin. Nous n’y étions pas. Une heure plus tard et deux kilomètres plus loin, au Friedrichstadt-Palast, s’est tenue en un peu moins grandes pompes la retransmission de cette même cérémonie d’ouverture. Nou...
Rencontre avec Béatrice Angrand la Secrétaire Générale de l OFAJ
Filmfestivals.com a rencontré Béatrice Angrand Secrétaire Générale de l'OFAJ à l occasion du voyage de presse à la découverte du Prix Dialogue en Perspective 2014 OFAJ - DFJW Qu’est-ce que l’OFAJ ? L’Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse (OFAJ) est une organisation internationale au service de la coopération franco-allemande...
Le jury Dialogue en perspective 2014 OFAJ - DFJW et son Président Denis Dercourt
© Daniel Seiffert Vendredi, 1e jour : Premiers pas pour le jury. Au centre, son Président, le réalisateur Denis Dercourt ...
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Le jury Dialogue en perspective 2014 OFAJ - DFJW en pleine activité
© Daniel Seiffert La 64e édition du Festival international du Film de Berlin est sous les feux des projecteurs ! Les 7 membres de notre jury composé cette année de trois Français, trois Allemands et d’un Israélien vont fouler le tapis rouge de la Berlinale et se mêler à la foule enthousiaste. Depuis 11 ans, un jury sélectionné par l’OFAJ et la Berlinale, compos&...
Le jury Dialogue en perspective 2014 OFAJ - DFJW
L'équipe de Filmfestivals.com rendra compte (à l invitation de l'OFAJ), des activités du jury pendant la Berlinale: débat et remise du prix OFAJ, hommage à Ken Loach... Stay tuned for more! Le prix récompensera un des films des jeunes auteurs allemands de la section Perspective Deutsches Kino Président du Jury, Denis Dercourt, France L’auteur et réalisateur Denis Decourt a touché un public intern...
L’Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse (OFAJ), partenaire officiel de la Berlinale et la section Perspektive Deutsches Kino vous invitent, dans le cadre du Festival du Film de Berlin, à une table ronde sur le jeu d’acteur en France et en Allemagne. Le corps et la voix des acteurs dominent l’écran comme la scène, donnent du sens, de l’intensité et inspirent la confiance. Il sera question du travail sur scène et devant la cam&eacu...
En route pour la Berlinale ! Dans le cadre du 64ème Festival International du Film de Berlin, sept jeunes jurés passionnés de cinéma seront membres du jury « Prix OFAJ Dialogue en perspective » du 06 au 16 février 2014. Vous pourrez retrouver la couverture intégrale de cet événement sur notre site filmfestivals.com; le site phare du ciruit des Festivals. Trois Français, trois Allemands et un Isra&eac...
L’Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse (OFAJ), partenaire officiel du 64ème Festival International du film de Berlin, organise du 06 au 16 février 2014, pour la onzième année consécutive, l’opération « Prix OFAJ - Dialogue en perspective ». Un jury franco-germano-israélien composé de sept jeunes cinéphiles, sélectionnés parmi plus de cent vingt candidature...
