With some of Germany’s most successful production companies in its stable, Leonine Studios is reaping the rewards with such feature film and television hits as “School of Magical Animals,” “Nightlife,” “Dark” and “Pagan Peak.”
Leonine’s production division includes such well-established companies as Wiedemann & Berg Film, which focuses on theatrical features, W&b Television and Odeon Fiction, which produce movies and series for all broadcasters and streaming platforms in Germany, documentary outfit Gebrueder Beetz and format maker I&u TV.
“We are in for high creative quality and commercial success,” explains Quirin Berg, who, along with Max Wiedemann, serves as Leonine’s chief production officer and managing director of Wiedemann & Berg Film.
“The parameters in each segment we are operating in may be different, but the agenda is not. And that was already the profile when we started out as producers some 20 years ago.”
Indeed, Wiedemann & Berg’s first feature film,...
Leonine’s production division includes such well-established companies as Wiedemann & Berg Film, which focuses on theatrical features, W&b Television and Odeon Fiction, which produce movies and series for all broadcasters and streaming platforms in Germany, documentary outfit Gebrueder Beetz and format maker I&u TV.
“We are in for high creative quality and commercial success,” explains Quirin Berg, who, along with Max Wiedemann, serves as Leonine’s chief production officer and managing director of Wiedemann & Berg Film.
“The parameters in each segment we are operating in may be different, but the agenda is not. And that was already the profile when we started out as producers some 20 years ago.”
Indeed, Wiedemann & Berg’s first feature film,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Picture Tree Intl. has acquired the rights to Carolina Hellsgård’s “Sunburned,” the follow-up feature to her zombie drama “Endzeit – Ever After.”
Pti will be presenting first footage from the film, currently in post-production, at this year’s German Films Previews (July 3-6).
“Sunburned” follows solitary teenager Claire on a family holiday in Spain. Neglected by her distant mother and older sister she eventually finds company in Amram, a young, struggling Senegalese beach vendor. Claire promises to help him, regardless of the consequences.
The film is Hellsgård’s third feature as director after her debut “Wanja,” which premiered at the Berlinale in 2015, and post-apocalyptic zombie feature “Endzeit – Ever After,” which premiered at Toronto Film Festival last year. The latter film is still traveling the festival circuit with an upcoming U.K. premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival on June 29, and is being readied for its U.S. release through Juno Film,...
Pti will be presenting first footage from the film, currently in post-production, at this year’s German Films Previews (July 3-6).
“Sunburned” follows solitary teenager Claire on a family holiday in Spain. Neglected by her distant mother and older sister she eventually finds company in Amram, a young, struggling Senegalese beach vendor. Claire promises to help him, regardless of the consequences.
The film is Hellsgård’s third feature as director after her debut “Wanja,” which premiered at the Berlinale in 2015, and post-apocalyptic zombie feature “Endzeit – Ever After,” which premiered at Toronto Film Festival last year. The latter film is still traveling the festival circuit with an upcoming U.K. premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival on June 29, and is being readied for its U.S. release through Juno Film,...
- 6/27/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The $34,000 prize is aimed at promoting gender equality.
The Goteborg Film Festival will open with Miia Tervo’s Aurora from Finland, about a party animal Finnish woman in Lapland who meets an Iranian asylum seeker, on January 26.
The festival will close with the world premiere of Swedish directors’ Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s Swoon on February 4. The period romance is about two young lovers from families who own rival amusement parks.
The festival will screen 376 films from 83 countries.
Full lists of the films in the festival’s five competitions below.
The festival will host Eurimages’ Audentia Award competition for...
The Goteborg Film Festival will open with Miia Tervo’s Aurora from Finland, about a party animal Finnish woman in Lapland who meets an Iranian asylum seeker, on January 26.
The festival will close with the world premiere of Swedish directors’ Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s Swoon on February 4. The period romance is about two young lovers from families who own rival amusement parks.
The festival will screen 376 films from 83 countries.
Full lists of the films in the festival’s five competitions below.
The festival will host Eurimages’ Audentia Award competition for...
- 1/8/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The 42nd edition of the Goteborg Film Festival will open on a light note with Miia Tervo’s romantic comedy “Aurora,” which marks the Finnish director’s feature debut. Also set to compete in the Nordic and Audentia sections, “Aurora” marks Tervo’s follow up to her critically acclaimed documentary short, “Lumikko,” which was nominated at the European Film Awards in 2010.
The festival will close with “Swoon,” a fantasy-filled love story directed by Stein and Mårlind, the pair behind hit drama series “The Bridge,” “Midnight Sun” and “Shelter” with Julianne Moore. “Swoon” follows the impossible romance between Ninni and John, the young heirs of two rival families who own neighboring amusement parks.
Along with the launch of the Dragon Award for best acting, the Goteborg Film Festival will also host the Audentia Award, a prize created by Eurimages to honor the best female-directed film of the year. The Audentia Award...
The festival will close with “Swoon,” a fantasy-filled love story directed by Stein and Mårlind, the pair behind hit drama series “The Bridge,” “Midnight Sun” and “Shelter” with Julianne Moore. “Swoon” follows the impossible romance between Ninni and John, the young heirs of two rival families who own neighboring amusement parks.
Along with the launch of the Dragon Award for best acting, the Goteborg Film Festival will also host the Audentia Award, a prize created by Eurimages to honor the best female-directed film of the year. The Audentia Award...
- 1/8/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Maja Lehrer, Gro Swantje Kolhof and Trine Dyrholm in Ever After
A take on the collapse of civilisation that goes to very different places from those we are used to, Carolina Hellsgård’s Ever After (titled Endzeit in the original German) is a dazzlingly beautiful affair. It follows two young women, Vivi (Gro Swantje Kolhof) and Eva (Maja Lehrer) as they try to cross the zombie-infested land between Germany’s last two human-occupied cities. What makes it more unusual – and made me sit up and take notice despite the fact that I’m offered zombie films on a weekly basis – is that it’s made entirely by women. I asked Carolina how this came about.
Director Carolina Hellsgård
“Olivia Vieweg wrote the script of this film,” she says. “Obviously there are two female protagonists. And then I met with Leah Striker, who’s the director of photography and we got along really well,...
A take on the collapse of civilisation that goes to very different places from those we are used to, Carolina Hellsgård’s Ever After (titled Endzeit in the original German) is a dazzlingly beautiful affair. It follows two young women, Vivi (Gro Swantje Kolhof) and Eva (Maja Lehrer) as they try to cross the zombie-infested land between Germany’s last two human-occupied cities. What makes it more unusual – and made me sit up and take notice despite the fact that I’m offered zombie films on a weekly basis – is that it’s made entirely by women. I asked Carolina how this came about.
Director Carolina Hellsgård
“Olivia Vieweg wrote the script of this film,” she says. “Obviously there are two female protagonists. And then I met with Leah Striker, who’s the director of photography and we got along really well,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
What do you do when the future holds nothing but just attempting the most basic survival? When your world has shrunk to a handful of strangers, none of whom have much hope that life will be improving in anyone's lifetime? And your memories consist of nothing but one terrible mistake? Would you make the most of the situation, or dare to do something drastic, even if it might cost you your life? Director Carolina Hellsgård and writer Olivia Vieweg explore these philosophical questions in Ever After. Using a viral outbreak and the collapse of civilization as a starting point, the story take these concerns about how we should live out our final days into a dangerous wilderness and its affect on two very different women....
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- 9/8/2018
- Screen Anarchy
What if humanity’s apocalypse wasn’t the world’s end? We’ve become so used to treating ourselves as rulers of this planet despite knowing so little about it and the surrounding universe while also doing our best to destroy everything we touch. So what are we truly besides another in a long line of species with no greater hold on Mother Nature than the last? Our demise doesn’t therefore have to be by our own hand and hubris. Perhaps those two things merely place our heads on the chopping block for fate to enter. Instead of hoping to survive a viral zombie outbreak, maybe we should welcome it as an earned necessity. Instead of fighting tooth and nail to stop our demise, maybe our death ensures Earth’s continued life.
In this way the last line of young Renata’s (Amy Schuk) prayer as remembered by her...
In this way the last line of young Renata’s (Amy Schuk) prayer as remembered by her...
- 9/8/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Neil Jordan’s Greta, Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux added to Special Presentations.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s 1980’s set skinhead drama Farming and Rosanne Pel’s Poland-set relationship drama Light As Feathers are among a Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) Discovery selection that comprises 48% of films directed by women.
Tiff chiefs have also added Neil Jordan’s Greta and Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux to Special Presentations, and announced the International Rising Stars, details of the fifth annual Festival Street, and Speaker Series participants. In addition, Mira Nair has joined the Platform jury.
This year’s festival will present 343 films in total,...
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s 1980’s set skinhead drama Farming and Rosanne Pel’s Poland-set relationship drama Light As Feathers are among a Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) Discovery selection that comprises 48% of films directed by women.
Tiff chiefs have also added Neil Jordan’s Greta and Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux to Special Presentations, and announced the International Rising Stars, details of the fifth annual Festival Street, and Speaker Series participants. In addition, Mira Nair has joined the Platform jury.
This year’s festival will present 343 films in total,...
- 8/21/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Titles include Molly from British director Sally Potter (Ginger & Rosa) [pictured].Scroll down for full line-up
The 12 projects that will make up this year’s Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform (Sept 22-25) have been revealed and include titles from the UK, France and Germany among others.
Filmmakers this year include British filmmaker Sally Potter who will present her latest project, Molly.
Potter’s films include Oscar-nominated Orlando (1992), starring Tilda Swinton; Rage, which competed for Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2009; and her most recent feature, Ginger & Rosa (2012), which screened at Toronto and Iffr among other festivals.
Bulgaria’s Maya Vitkova is back at Hfm with upcoming project Love, following the success of her previous film Viktoria, which played in competition at Sundance and Iffr.
Serbian director Nikola Ležaić will present The Religion of Night Walks, his second feature length work after Tilva Ros, which was selected for Locarno and won the top prize at Sarajevo in 2010.
From Sweden, [link...
The 12 projects that will make up this year’s Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform (Sept 22-25) have been revealed and include titles from the UK, France and Germany among others.
Filmmakers this year include British filmmaker Sally Potter who will present her latest project, Molly.
Potter’s films include Oscar-nominated Orlando (1992), starring Tilda Swinton; Rage, which competed for Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2009; and her most recent feature, Ginger & Rosa (2012), which screened at Toronto and Iffr among other festivals.
Bulgaria’s Maya Vitkova is back at Hfm with upcoming project Love, following the success of her previous film Viktoria, which played in competition at Sundance and Iffr.
Serbian director Nikola Ležaić will present The Religion of Night Walks, his second feature length work after Tilva Ros, which was selected for Locarno and won the top prize at Sarajevo in 2010.
From Sweden, [link...
- 8/29/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Former winners of Screen International’s Best Pitch Award are among the producers with projects at the co-production market during the 14th edition of Tallinn’s Baltic Event (Nov 16-18).Scroll down for full list of projects
Finnish producers Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg of Making Movies Oy, who won the Screen award on two occasions (most recently, last year for the comedy Impaled Rektum) will be coming to the Baltic Event with Klaus Harö’s next feature project, the grandfather-grandson drama Dark Christ.
Making Movies is the producer of Harö’s The Fencer, Finland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.
Another of Harö’s feature projects, Never Alone, to be produced by Mrp Productions’ Ilkka Matila, received Screen’s best pitch award in 2011.
Meanwhile, Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim, whose production of Kristijonas Vildziunas’ Seneca’s Day took the award home from the 2013 edition of the Baltic Event, will be back...
Finnish producers Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg of Making Movies Oy, who won the Screen award on two occasions (most recently, last year for the comedy Impaled Rektum) will be coming to the Baltic Event with Klaus Harö’s next feature project, the grandfather-grandson drama Dark Christ.
Making Movies is the producer of Harö’s The Fencer, Finland’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.
Another of Harö’s feature projects, Never Alone, to be produced by Mrp Productions’ Ilkka Matila, received Screen’s best pitch award in 2011.
Meanwhile, Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim, whose production of Kristijonas Vildziunas’ Seneca’s Day took the award home from the 2013 edition of the Baltic Event, will be back...
- 10/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The 65th Berlinale has begun to unveil its lineup for this coming February 5th to 15th in the German capital. Watch this page for updates as more announcements come in.
Competition
Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh)
Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)
As We Were Dreaming (Andreas Dresen)
Under Electric Clouds (Alexey German)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
The Bunker (Nikias Chryssos)
Spiderwebhouse (Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt)
HomeSick (Jakob M. Erwa)
Wanja (Carolina Hellsgård)
Sibylle (Michael Krummenacher)
A Perfect Place (Anatol Schuster)
I Remember (Janna Ji Wonders)
Generation 14Plus
Short Skin (Duccio Chiarini, Italy)
Corbo (Mathieu Denis, Canada)
Nena (Saskia Diesing, Netherlands/Germany)
Flocken (Beata Gårdeler, Sweden)
The Beat Beneath My Feet (John Williams, Great Britain)
Generation Kplus
Paper Planes (Robert Connolly, Australia)
Snow Pirates (Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu, Turkey)
Mini and the Mozzies (Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist Møller, Denmark)
Rainbow (Nagesh Kukunoor, India)
My Skinny Sister...
Competition
Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh)
Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)
As We Were Dreaming (Andreas Dresen)
Under Electric Clouds (Alexey German)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
The Bunker (Nikias Chryssos)
Spiderwebhouse (Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt)
HomeSick (Jakob M. Erwa)
Wanja (Carolina Hellsgård)
Sibylle (Michael Krummenacher)
A Perfect Place (Anatol Schuster)
I Remember (Janna Ji Wonders)
Generation 14Plus
Short Skin (Duccio Chiarini, Italy)
Corbo (Mathieu Denis, Canada)
Nena (Saskia Diesing, Netherlands/Germany)
Flocken (Beata Gårdeler, Sweden)
The Beat Beneath My Feet (John Williams, Great Britain)
Generation Kplus
Paper Planes (Robert Connolly, Australia)
Snow Pirates (Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu, Turkey)
Mini and the Mozzies (Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist Møller, Denmark)
Rainbow (Nagesh Kukunoor, India)
My Skinny Sister...
- 12/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Berlinale's begun rolling out the lineup for its 65th edition, beginning with the first seven titles in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program. Nikias Chryssos’s The Bunker "creates a world of its own, somewhere between an absurd comedy, a horror film, a melodrama and a B movie," the festival tells us. With Spiderwebhouse, Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt "turns a social drama into a modern, black-and-white fairy-tale." Jakob M. Erwa’s HomeSick "combines some of the elements of a thriller with impressionistic arthouse cinema." Anne Ratte-Polle plays the title roles in both Carolina Hellsgård’s Wanja and Michael Krummenacher’s Sibylle. We've got the details. » - David Hudson...
- 12/10/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Berlinale's begun rolling out the lineup for its 65th edition, beginning with the first seven titles in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino program. Nikias Chryssos’s The Bunker "creates a world of its own, somewhere between an absurd comedy, a horror film, a melodrama and a B movie," the festival tells us. With Spiderwebhouse, Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt "turns a social drama into a modern, black-and-white fairy-tale." Jakob M. Erwa’s HomeSick "combines some of the elements of a thriller with impressionistic arthouse cinema." Anne Ratte-Polle plays the title roles in both Carolina Hellsgård’s Wanja and Michael Krummenacher’s Sibylle. We've got the details. » - David Hudson...
- 12/10/2014
- Keyframe
Comes a Bright Day
"With another twelve world premieres and three international premieres, Generation’s feature-length film program is now complete," the Berlinale's announced today. "A total of 58 short and full-length films from 32 countries have been selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions." Straight from the release, then, with descriptions from the festival:
Generation 14plus
Comes a Bright Day (Great Britain, by Simon Aboud) – Against the backdrop of an armed robbery at a London jewellers, much more is at stake than money. Where diamonds are involved, love is not far. Cast: Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd, Timothy Spall and others. World Premiere. Site.
Lal Gece (Night of Silence, Turkey, by Reis Çelik) – When the groom lifts the bride’s veil, he is looking into the face of a 14-year-old girl. As tradition has it, a night in the bridal chamber seals the marriage. Cast: Ilyas Salman, Dilan Aksüt and others.
"With another twelve world premieres and three international premieres, Generation’s feature-length film program is now complete," the Berlinale's announced today. "A total of 58 short and full-length films from 32 countries have been selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus competitions." Straight from the release, then, with descriptions from the festival:
Generation 14plus
Comes a Bright Day (Great Britain, by Simon Aboud) – Against the backdrop of an armed robbery at a London jewellers, much more is at stake than money. Where diamonds are involved, love is not far. Cast: Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd, Timothy Spall and others. World Premiere. Site.
Lal Gece (Night of Silence, Turkey, by Reis Çelik) – When the groom lifts the bride’s veil, he is looking into the face of a 14-year-old girl. As tradition has it, a night in the bridal chamber seals the marriage. Cast: Ilyas Salman, Dilan Aksüt and others.
- 1/12/2012
- MUBI
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