New films by Michael Tully, Denis Coté, Göran Hugo Olsson and Maximilian Leo are among the latest pickups by German sales agents Films Boutique and Media Luna.
Jean-Christophe Simon’s Berlin-based outfit Films Boutique has four world premieres at next week’s Berlin Film Festival:
Sudabeh Mortezai’s first feature Macondo after his acclaimed documentaries The Bazaar of Sexes and Children of the Prophet, in the Official Competition.
Brazilian Daniel Ribeiro’s coming of age comedy-drama The Way He Looks, in the Panorama.
Umut Dag’s stark drama Cracks In Concrete, in Panorama Special.
Canadian film-maker Denis Coté’s documentary Joy Of Man’s Desiring about the energies and rituals of the workplace, in the Berlinale’s Forum.
In addition, Films Boutique will have the market premiere of Michael Tully’s comedy Ping Pong Summer, starring Susan Sarandon, Amy Sedaris, Judah Friedlander and Lea Thompson, which premiered in Sundance and is screening at Rotterdam this week.
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Jean-Christophe Simon’s Berlin-based outfit Films Boutique has four world premieres at next week’s Berlin Film Festival:
Sudabeh Mortezai’s first feature Macondo after his acclaimed documentaries The Bazaar of Sexes and Children of the Prophet, in the Official Competition.
Brazilian Daniel Ribeiro’s coming of age comedy-drama The Way He Looks, in the Panorama.
Umut Dag’s stark drama Cracks In Concrete, in Panorama Special.
Canadian film-maker Denis Coté’s documentary Joy Of Man’s Desiring about the energies and rituals of the workplace, in the Berlinale’s Forum.
In addition, Films Boutique will have the market premiere of Michael Tully’s comedy Ping Pong Summer, starring Susan Sarandon, Amy Sedaris, Judah Friedlander and Lea Thompson, which premiered in Sundance and is screening at Rotterdam this week.
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- 1/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Nancy Buirski [pictured], Valeria Golino and Hernán Musaluppi to decide on the Best First Feature Award; 18 films are in contention.
Berlinale has unveiled the three-person jury for its Best First Feature Award.
Us director and producer Nancy Buirski, Italian actress and director Valeria Golino and Argentinian producer Hernán Musaluppi will decide the award, with the winner announced at the official award ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on Feb 15.
The award comes with a €50,000 prize, donated by the Gwff, and will be split between the producer and director of the winning film, while the director will also be awarded with a high-quality viewfinder.
A total of 18 directorial debuts have been nominated by the heads of the Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.
They are:
Competition
´71 - United Kingdom
By Yann Demange
With Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Richard Dormer
Historia del miedo (History of Fear) – Argentina / Uruguay / Germany / France
By Benjamin Naishtat
With Jonathan Da Rosa, [link...
Berlinale has unveiled the three-person jury for its Best First Feature Award.
Us director and producer Nancy Buirski, Italian actress and director Valeria Golino and Argentinian producer Hernán Musaluppi will decide the award, with the winner announced at the official award ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on Feb 15.
The award comes with a €50,000 prize, donated by the Gwff, and will be split between the producer and director of the winning film, while the director will also be awarded with a high-quality viewfinder.
A total of 18 directorial debuts have been nominated by the heads of the Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.
They are:
Competition
´71 - United Kingdom
By Yann Demange
With Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Richard Dormer
Historia del miedo (History of Fear) – Argentina / Uruguay / Germany / France
By Benjamin Naishtat
With Jonathan Da Rosa, [link...
- 1/23/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Berlinale has completed the selection for its Perspektive Deutsches Kino strand.
The lineup comprises 14 films: nine full-length fiction features and five medium-long fiction titles and documentaries.
The programme will open with feature Hüter meines Bruders by director Maximilian Leo.
This year’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino list:
Amma & Appa by Franziska Schönenberger (documentary)
Anderswo (Anywhere Else) by Ester Amrami
Bosteri unterm Rad (Bosteri Beneath the Wheel) by Levin Hübner (documentary)
El carro azul (The Blue Car) by Valerie Heine
Flowers of Freedom by Mirjam Leuze (documentary)
Hüter meines Bruders (My Brother’s Keeper) by Maximilian Leo
Lamento by Jöns Jönsson
Nebel (Fog) by Nicole Vögele (documentary)
Raumfahrer (Spacemen) by Georg Nonnenmacher (documentary)
Der Samurai by Till Kleinert
Szenario (Scenario) by Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause
Tape_13 by Axel Stein
Die Unschuldigen (The Innocents) by Oskar Sulowski
Zeit der Kannibalen (Age of Cannibals) by Johannes Naber...
The lineup comprises 14 films: nine full-length fiction features and five medium-long fiction titles and documentaries.
The programme will open with feature Hüter meines Bruders by director Maximilian Leo.
This year’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino list:
Amma & Appa by Franziska Schönenberger (documentary)
Anderswo (Anywhere Else) by Ester Amrami
Bosteri unterm Rad (Bosteri Beneath the Wheel) by Levin Hübner (documentary)
El carro azul (The Blue Car) by Valerie Heine
Flowers of Freedom by Mirjam Leuze (documentary)
Hüter meines Bruders (My Brother’s Keeper) by Maximilian Leo
Lamento by Jöns Jönsson
Nebel (Fog) by Nicole Vögele (documentary)
Raumfahrer (Spacemen) by Georg Nonnenmacher (documentary)
Der Samurai by Till Kleinert
Szenario (Scenario) by Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause
Tape_13 by Axel Stein
Die Unschuldigen (The Innocents) by Oskar Sulowski
Zeit der Kannibalen (Age of Cannibals) by Johannes Naber...
- 1/8/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme of the Berlinale include four feature films and two documentaries.
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
- 12/18/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The first six films for the 2014 Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme of the Berlinale include four feature films and two documentaries.
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai [pictured]is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
Till Kleinert’s Der Samurai [pictured]is described as “a nightmarish thriller” while Johannes Naber’s new film Zeit der Kannibalen is called “an exciting and scathing cinematic feat that paints a picture of global economy in its worst human perversions.”
Lamento, produced by Jost Hering and Maxim Juretzka (BuntFilm), is an Hff Konrad Wolf graduation film by Jöns Jönsson.
Amma & Appa is a personal documentary that focuses on the wedding plans of director Franziska Schönenberger and her fiancé and co-director Jayakrishnan Subramanian. The doc spotlights the clash of Bavarian and Indian value systems
In the 40-minute documentary Raumfahrer, the observation slit in a prison transport bus gives texture to the thoughts of its passengers.
The 36-minute fiction graduation film Die Unschuldigen by Oskar Sulowski (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg), which premiered in early December at the Grand Off Independent...
- 12/18/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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