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17.02.2022 | Berlin's blog
Berlinale 2022 - Arthouse Cinema Award winners
The CICAE Juries at Berlinale - (from left to right): Éva Demeter, Tisza Mozi, Szolnok (HU), Sabine Girsberger, Schweizer Studiofilm Verband (CH), Dr. Christian Bräuer, president of the CICAE, Carla Molino, Il Kino Berlin (DE), Jochen Frankl, Burg Theater, Burg (DE), Joanna Piotrowiak, Kino Muza, Poznan (PL), Albert Triviño Massó, Zumzeig, Barcelona (ES) and Boglárka Nagy, managing director of the CICAE. Photo © Stefan Zeitz On Thursda...
Crystal Bears and Awards of the Juries of Generation Kplus Awards of the Children’s Jury Generation Kplus The members of the Children's Jury in Generation Kplus – Tilda Aue, Maria Fock, Connar Beck Lowe, Henri Marioth, Leonardo Urrutia Schwarze, Kerstin Teichmann and Ida Lilli Zschaubitz – have awarded the following prizes: Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Comedy Queen by Sanna Lenken, Sweden A great protagonist, powerful and vulnera...
The members of the 2022 International Jury, M. Night Shyamalan (President), Karim Aïnouz, Anne Zohra Berrached, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Connie Nielsen and Said Ben Saïd award the following prizes: Prizes of the International Jury Golden Bear for Best Film Alcarràs By Carla Simon Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize The Novelist’s Film By Hong Sang-soo Silver Bear Jury Prize Robe Of Gems By N...
The Heiner Carow Prize 2022 for the promotion of german cinematic art goes to the Perspektive talent Rafael Starman (cinematography) for Gewalten. The Heiner Carow Prize, endowed with 5,000 Euros, has now been awarded for the ninth time at the Berlin International Film Festival. For the first time, the prize in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section goes to a Perspektive talent whose skills in their respective professional field have made a...
Berlinale Co-Production Market 2022 Awards Ceremony On Monday, three cash prizes were awarded to new feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12 to 16). The Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, endowed with 20,000 Euros, went to the producers of Caractères Productions from France, and Honare Khiyal from Iran for their project My Favourite Cake (directors: Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam M...
No U-Turn by Ike Nnaebue The Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), with its differentiated funding programme (WCF, WCF Europe, WCF Africa, WCF ACP), is committed to cultural diversity, cooperation, sustainable development and the promotion of cinema in regions with weak film infrastructures. Since its foundation in 2004, the WCF has pledged to play a constructive part in the democratisation of international filmmaking – taking into account th...
The "EFM Industry Sessions" under the motto SHAPING CHANGE invite you to join a programme with transversal market-wide themes. This year, the European Film Market’s conference programme, the “EFM Industry Sessions”, is entitled SHAPING CHANGE. Over six days (February 10-15, 2022), the challenges facing the film and media industry in times of digital transformation will be addressed and imp...
EFM is here! New releases are available now from Summer Hill Films. To schedule an online meeting, click the link below: Be sure to look at our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2022 and beyond! FEATURED RELEASE: A student makes his own comic books where the deaths depicted within b...
The Strike Back Studios (a new joint venture between Realization Films, Public House Films, and Hideout Pictures), brings the upcoming wide release of Bold Soul Studios clever ensemble comedy “4/20” from directors Noah Applebaum (“Captain Risky’s Ski Jump Driving,” “New Girl”) & Teri Fruichantie (“Broducers,” “Drugs & Other Love”), and produced by ...
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Isabelle Huppert - Photo Philippe Gay Isabelle Hupert tested positive to COVID and was unable to Attend the Berlin International Film Festival in Person, the ceremony was online. Isabelle Huppert was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement yesterday - congratulations! The award was received by the film team of her new film "About Joan" (À propos de Joan), actor Lars Eidinger and director Laurent Larivière. ...
Statement by Representatives of the Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Community As representatives of culture: writers, artists, performers, artists, scientists – we appeal to the world leaders to issue a joint call for peace. Today, Ukraine needs peace more than ever. Accumulation of Russian military forces around the borders of the European State as well as the constant discussions that the war will start almost tomorrow – are alarming for us, as for all Ukrainians. ...
F. l. t. r., last row: Clare Dunne (Ireland), Emilio Sakraya (Germany), Claudia Roth (German Federal Government Commissioner of Culture and the Media), Timon Sturbej (Slovenia), Souheila Yacoub (Switzerland) 2nd row: Gracija Filipović (Croatia), Anamaria Vartolomei (France), Hanna van Vliet (The Netherlands) 1st row Evin Ahmad (Sweden), João Nunes Monteiro (Portugal), Marie Reuther (Denmark) Tonight the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2022 were welcomed to the Berlinale Palast stage by ...
Producers Helen Leake AM and Gena Ashwell from Dancing Road Productions announced today that the feature film Carnifex is currently in post-production after principal photography in Adelaide, South Australia. Developed from an original concept by Dancing Road, Carnifex is an environmental horror/thriller with a talented cast that features Alexandra Park (The Royals), Sisi Stringer (Mortal Kombat) and Harry Greenwood (Wakefield) with one of Australia’s best-l...
UK-based sales firm 101 Films International, a member of the Amcomri Entertainment Inc, has boarded worldwide sales (excluding North America) for The Most Dangerous Game, a remake of the classic 1930s survival thriller which launches at EFM this week. Shot in the Pacific Northwest, the film stars award-winning actor Tom Berenger (Platoon) and Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello (Habitual), alongside two-time Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Judd Nelson (The Breakfa...
Global Screen, a TELEPOOL brand, has acquired worldwide distribution rights for upcoming English-language feature film My Sailor, My Love, by acclaimed Finnish director Klaus Härö (The Fencer, One Last Deal, Elina) produced by Making Movies and Samson Films. Starring award-winning actor James Cosmo (Braveheart, Game of Thrones), Catherine Walker (House of Gucci, A Dark Song) and Brid Brennan (Dancing at Lughnasa, Brooklyn), My Sailor, My Love is written ...
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Taurus Berlin 2022 With Director Tim Sutton. Interview by Emmanuel Itier Q: Why the choice of directing this film and what were your intentions with it? Tim: First, I have always been fascinated with the lives of musicians. Often it means a tortured soul who create stuffs and struggle to exist in the world. You can go back all the way to Mozart and his struggles. It’s about the struggles, the addiction, the family, the fans. The struggle of the creative mind ha...
BEBA Berlin 2022 With Director: Rebeca Huntt Berlinale Interview by Emmanuel Itier Q: Why was it so important for you to make this documentary? Rebeca: I made this film because I wanted to connect with people on a more honest level. On a more honest but also more vulnerable level. I felt isolated like a lot of young people do when they go through that existential growth. Especially when you are in your twenties. I don’t think we live in a very kind society. T...
We would like to draw your attention to the following honours and award ceremonies taking place in the next few days: 14.02.2022: Presentation of the European Shooting Stars The European Shooting Stars 2022 will be presented on Monday, February 14 at 6 pm in the Berlinale Palast: Gracija Filipović (Croatia), Marie Reuther (Denmark), Anamaria Vartolomei (France), Emilio Sakraya (Germany), Clare Dunne (Ireland), Hanna van Vliet (The Netherlands), João Nunes Monteiro (Portug...
Arab Cinema Center at the Berlinale for the 8th Consecutive Year For the 8th year in a row, the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) will engage in a wide-range of activities at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) (Feb 10-20) accompanied by 10 of its partners that vary between film organizations and international film festivals. The partners accompanying the ACC to the Berlinale (in alphabetical order): Arab Radio and Television Network (ART) ( KSA), El Gouna Film Festival (E...
Dame Joan Collins is set to star in the upcoming action comedy "The Battle For Stathie Manor" from Evolutionary Film Productions and Red Bus Movies. Evolutionary Films is launching worldwide sales for the title, and co‑representing North American sales with CAA Media Finance, coming to market with a proof of concept sizzle reel supported with funds awarded by the UK Global Screen Fund – a DCMS fund administered by the BFI. In a large remote English ...
DO NOT MISS A BIT from BERLINALE AND EFM 2022 Email us to be featured FOLLOW US : ---------------------------------------- Peter von Kant by François Ozon Opens the 2022 Berlinale Denis Ménochet and Isabelle Adjani in Peter von Kant by François Ozon The 72th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival will be inau...
First look photo from The Locksmith, the new thriller starring Ryan Phillippe (Academy Award-winning Crash, Robert Altman’s Gosford Park), Kate Bosworth (Sony Pictures Classic’s Still Alice, Warner Bros.’ Superman Returns) and Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible franchise, Pulp Fiction) – Arclight Films is handling worldwide sales. Film information below: THE LOCKSMITH Status: Principal photography recently wrapped in Las Cruces, New Mexico Genre: Thriller ...
On February 10, the start of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival was celebrated in person at the Berlinale Palast. Minister of State for Culture and the Media Claudia Roth, Governing Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey, this year’s Jury President M. Night Shyamalan, as well as the Festival Management Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian kicked off the Berlinale with a festive opening. During the Opening Gala, the International ...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI 05.03.1922 - 05.03.2022 NEXT TO US VIGGO presents Pasolini Next to Us by Giuseppe Bertolucci. A touching documentary that sees Pasolini, on the set of what will be his latest controversial film Salò or the 120 days of Sodom, engaged in an intense and lucid dialogue with the German journalist Gideon Bachmann. An unwitting testament to anticipate a future that has become reality. A calm, unmistakable voice emerges from the hubbub of...
First look images from Ric Roman Waugh’s action title ‘Kandahar’, featuring Gerard Butler and Navid Negahban which has now wrapped after a seven-week shoot in Saudi Arabia’s desert region of AlUla and Jeddah. Produced by Thunder Road Films and Capstone, with MBC, which is also co-financing and handling rights. KANDAHAR Butler stars as Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative, stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan. He must fight his way out, alongside his Afgha...
The Opening Ceremony (including the red carpet) will be streamed on our website and YouTube from 7pm! Competition: "Peter von Kant" by François Ozon Panorama: "Nobody's Hero" by Alain Guiraudie Generation Kplus: "Oink" by Mascha Halberstad Generation 14plus: "Rookies" by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai ...
Global Screen, a TELEPOOL brand, has secured pre-sales of the gripping female-led drama Lost Transport to Menemsha Films for the USA and Canada ahead of this month’s Berlinale Market. Lost Transport, starring Hanna van Vilet (ANNE+, Toon, Quicksand), Eugénie Anselin (Bad Banks) and Anna Bachmann (Lost Ones) in the lead roles, alongside Bram Suijker and Konstantin Frolov, has been acquired by Menemsha Films. Founded in 1998 by Neil Friedman, the company is dedicated t...
Newly released official trailer and poster of ULTRASOUND, a sci-fi puzzle which oozes tension and darkness, written and directed by Rob Schroeder. ULTRASOUND SCI-FI, THRILLER / US / 103' DIRECTOR: Rob Schroeder CAST: Vincent Kartheiser, Chelsea Lopez, Breeda Wool, Tunde Adebimpe Heading home in the rain from a wedding, Glen (Vincent Kartheiser, MAD MEN) drives over a plank of nails and has to seek help at a nearby house. There, h...
Juliette Binoche and Berlinale, which will take place from February 10 through 16 in the presence of a large French delegation, led by Claire Denis, Rithy Panh who will present their new films in Competition. Parallel to the festival, the EFM (European Film Market) will mainly take place online this year. Nine French films (or French coproductions) have the honors of the official selection this year, including François Ozon...
Honoring French animations, documentaries, and dramas for TV that have achieved the highest international sales, the 18th Unifrance TV Export Awards were presented on February 8, 2022, at the Trianon in Paris during the awards ceremony for the PROCIREP French TV Producers' Prize. These awards, which highlight the strong appeal of our French TV productions in international markets, recognize the wonderful work of French distribution companies, which Unifrance accompanies on a dai...
EL NORTE SOBRE EL VACÍO (NORTHERN SKIES OVER EMPTY SPACE) WORLD PREMIERE IN PANORAMA AT BERLINALE 2022 Don Reynaldo is a renowned hunter in decline. When he is threatened with the loss of his ranch and his father’s legacy, he’ll dangerously reorder his relationships with his family, his employees and his land. Staring Gerardo Trejoluna (Don Reynaldo) and Paloma Petra (Rosa), EL NORTE SOBRE EL VACÍO is the third feature film from Mexican writ...
IEFTA & United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) present The 5th Edition of REFUGEE VOICES IN FILM The 5th edition of Refugee Voices in Film, a presentation of the ongoing collaboration between the UNHCR’s “Telling The Real Story” program and IEFTA, honors the imaginative and humanitarian efforts of filmmakers as they document the experience of those enduring irregular migration, whether from violence, famine or political oppression. Using Narrative, Documentary ...
The Asia Video Industry Association has appointed Matthew Cheetham as General Manager of the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) with immediate effect. Over the last four years CAP has made real inroads into the systemic problems of video piracy faced by the broadcast and streaming video industry in Asia Pacific. The blocking of pirate sites is becoming more common in many markets, laws have been introduced to limit access to infringing set-top devices, constructive relationships have been f...
Check here our latest acquisitions from our friends at WIDE! For any enquiries or meetings please contact our sales agents Marco URIZZI and Lorena AMARAL, our head of acquisitions Maxime MONTAGNE or our festivals manager Matthias ANGOULVANT: ...
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Morgan Freeman (photo credit: Nigel Parry) and Josh Hutcherson (photo credit: John Russo) Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games movies) are set to lead the upcoming action science-fiction thriller 57 Seconds, it was announced today. Directed by Rusty Cundieff (Tales from the Hood, "Chappelle's Show"), the film is written by Macon Blair (Netflix's I Don't Feel at Home in This World An...
Giovanna (Clara Calamai) meets Gino (Massimo Girotti), a rough and handsome vagabond. Their passionate affair leads to the murder of Giovanna's husband. Can a strong and sensual affair survive the guilt? A dark and provocative drama of sexual tension adapted from James M. Cain's classic novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. The film is available, for the first time, in the restored version of...
DO NOT MISS A BIT from BERLINALE AND EFM 2022 Email us to be featured FOLLOW US : ---------------------------------------- New Releases From Summer Hill! EFM Is Coming Up! EFM is coming soon! New releases are available now from Summer Hill Films. Be sure to look at our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our available films. FEATURED ...
Denis Ménochet and Isabelle Adjani in Peter von Kant by François Ozon The 72th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival will be inaugurated by Peter von Kant by writer/director François Ozon. The film which stars Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla is part of the international Competition and will celebrate its world premiere on February 10, 2022, at the Berlinale Palast. Artistic Dir...
© Peter Kreibich / Berlinale 2010 From February 12 to 18, 2022, Berlinale Goes Kiez will once again bring selected festival films to arthouse cinemas in and around the region of the capital. With the special series, the festival honours the social function of the neighbourhood cinemas and the role they play in a diverse film culture. In the months following the lockdown, the cinemas impressively continued their work, despite all the uncertainties, all the f...
Berlinale 2022: The Films of the Competition 18 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears. Productions from 15 countries are represented. 17 films are world premieres. Seven films were directed by women. Eleven filmmakers have been at the festival before, eight in Competition, and five of them already hold a “bear” in their hands. One film is a non-fiction and animated one, set in an unspecified t...
The Berlinale Special Programme 2022 Berlinale Special comprises 15 films from twelve countries, among them six documentary forms and nine feature films as well as two short films. Twelve are world premieres. “Despite the pandemic we are happy to have the Berlinale Special Gala back. Films intended for the widest public will be presented in our biggest...
There is one first feature. 15 countries are represented. This year’s selection includes more films than usual from established filmmakers (Bertrand Bonello, Ruth Beckermann, Mitra Farahani, Sho Miyake, Arnaud des Pallières, Gastón Solnicki, Peter Strickland, Syllas Tsoumerkas), but also welcomes new voices. Each selected film aims to engage in a conver...
A renowned auteur of European cinema is launching the 2022 Panorama: Alain Guiraudie will open the section with his political satire Viens je t’emmène (Nobody’s Hero), his first film to be presented at the Berlinale. Guiraudie’s love-struck band of middle-class citizens race through the streets of Clermont-Ferrand following a terrorist attack. Love, paranoia and distrust propel his cast of characters through this satire ...
The Talents of 2022: Filmmakers, Artists and Creatives Form the Community of the 20th Edition of Berlinale Talents The Talents around the Globe Berlinale Talents is celebrating its 20th birthday. Since 2003, the Berlinale’s multidisciplinary talent initiative has grown to nearly 10,000 alumni and has actively shaped the industry with this community of ...
The Pull of Precisely Observed Matter. The selection process for the 52nd Berlinale Forum made one thing very clear: however much the pandemic may have paralysed life in our societies, filmmakers worldwide have lost none of their inventiveness and artistic desire. The works selected - 27 feature-length works in the main programme, 14 feature-length works and shorts ...
Berlinale Classics: The Programme Will Show Seven World Premieres of Digitally Restored Film Classics and Re-discovered Archive Films We celebrate the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth with a screening of his Mamma Roma, while another old master of European cinema is represented with Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique (Our Music). With Kawaita hana (Pale Flower...
Disillusioned heroes, crime investigations too close to home and that unique humbling experience strictly reserved for human relationships - seven titles comprise the eighth year of Berlinale Series, the festival programme dedicated to exceptional serial narratives celebrating their world or international premiere in Berlin. Three titles from Iceland, Sweden and Denmark mark a strong Scandinavian year, including the first series by ...
The focus of the overall Generation selection is on young people: how they perceive the world, how they appropriate it or how they oppose it. The films tell of the power to move mountains that is inherent in them. A boulder is blocking the community space? The only child in the village befriends the rock and lures it back to its mountain (Luce and the Rock). A father c...
A Boost for 34 attractive Feature Film Projects: Berlinale Co-Production Market Finds International Partners and Financiers for the Film Hits of Tomorrow As in 2021, this year’s event will take place online. The aim is to limit physical contacts in the current situation, while still creating an efficient and relaxed setting for meetings. The producers of the projects will meet potential inte...
With their fearless subjectivity, the filmmakers of the Berlinale Shorts invite us to see the world through their eyes: “As different as the films may be, they all deal with our present and are aesthetically highly interesting. They are sincere in attitude and playfully free in form. I believe that dealing with complex issues in the darkened cinema also makes it easier for us – the audience – to face the complexity of the world outsi...
This year, a Forum Special consisting of nine film programmes complements the main programme of the independent section of the Berlinale. A significant part of these programmes are dedicated to the eleven short films and feature-length works which continue the “Fiktionsbescheingung” series, which was originally launched online during the Berlinale Summer Special and was later shown on the big screen at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA...
Moving closer to the ground, getting to the bottom of things, looking and hearing with precision, perceiving what’s happening close by, oft-unnoticed: these are the ideas that inform the 17th edition of Forum Expanded and the selection of films, installations and performances that will be presented as part of the Berlinale at the Arsenal cinema, silent green Kulturquartier, the Embassy of Canada, SAVVY Contemporary as well as at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium for t...
Seven feature films and documentaries have been invited to Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2022. From this year onwards, the section also wishes to draw attention to other skills that shape the creative process of filmmaking. In addition to the traditional appreciation of directing and production, in the future, there will also be a special talent in every Perspektive film presented from another discipline. For the first time in 2022, the programme ...
Berlinale Shorts Close-Ups of the Bigger Picture With their fearless subjectivity, the filmmakers of the Berlinale Shorts invite us to see the world through their eyes. Competing for the Golden and Silver Bears are 21 films from 19 countries, including new works by Deepak Rauniyar, Sky Hopinka and Berlinale Bear winners Atsushi Wada and Radu Jude. The International Short Film Jury comprises Rosa Barba, Reinhard W. Wolf and Payal Kapadia. More information Forum An Awareness...
European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and World Cinema Fund digital The Berlinale has developed a new concept so that it can fly the flag for culture emphatically, even in these times of pandemic. The focus this year, therefore, will be on cinema screenings in the Berlinale venues. The health and safety of the audience at all events and strict...
Ten Chosen Books to Be Pitched For Film or Series Adaptation Moderator Syd Atlas at “Books at Berlinale” 2021 On February 14, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, will present ten exceptional books particularly suitable for literary adaptation in "Books at Berlinale". At the pitching event, which has been presenting new publications, bestsellers and award winners every year since 2006, film p...
FILM.UA Group FILM.UA Group will participate in the upcoming European Film Market 2022 Online and as much as we wanted to meet with you in person in Berlin we’re looking forward to the opportunity to arrange an online meeting via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime. Please send us your convenient time/dates for a meeting with the FILM.UA team. For reference, our time zone is Kyiv (Ukraine) - EEST. And don’t miss th...
Over 40 premieres - films, series, and animation - will be presented by Russian content makers and distributors at the European Film Market (EFM) from February 10 to 17. Under the Russian Content Worldwide (RCW) brand, 39 participating companies will unite at a virtual stand organized by ROSKINO, a Russian film promotion body, with the support of the Russian Cinema Fund. In total, Russian companies will present more than 130 projects. Evgenia Markova, CEO of ROSKINO: ...
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 10th until the 16th. The feature film BROTHER IN EVERY INCH by Russian director Alexander Zolotukhin will celebrate its world premiere in the section Encounters. This is the story of the painful separation of twin brothers, whose deep and sincere affection for each other hinders them from attaining their shared dream - becoming air force pilots. One of the most famous Russian filmmakers, Alexander Sokurov, was the crea...
The panel, in cooperation with European Film Market, explores the marketing opportunities available through international film festivals with, among others, representatives of notable world sales companies. Strengthening Your PR & Publicity: How Sales Agents Spark International Distribution What does the sales agent do once a film is invited to an international film festival? What is the present-day promotional strategy for a film? Who do the sales agents prioritize, target and r...
Trailer has now been released for Berlinale World Premiere 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR (World Premiere, Berlinale Special Section), a documentary portrait of one of the world’s most important living war photographers, Micha Bar-Am. Festival Trailer (JUST RELEASED): Born in Berlin in 1930, Israeli photojournalist Bar-Am became an internationally recognized photographer in the 1960’s. Today, at the age of 91, he looks at his ph...
GLOBAL SCREEN SELLS THE CONFERENCE TO NORTH AMERICA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, ITALY AMONG MANY OTHERS Global Screen, a TELEPOOL brand, announces a raft of sales for haunting feature film The Conference, an historically accurate and emotive drama produced for the 80th commemoration day in 2022 of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: the organization of the systematic mass murder of 11 million European Jews. The Conference has b...
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Iuvit Media Sales will launch international sales at this month’s EFM Benacus Entertainment in association with RNF Productions announced today that Eliza Taylor (The 100, Thumper) and Bob Morley (The 100, Love Me, Lost in the White City) will star in the sci-fi thriller I’ll Be Watching. Erik Bernard (Free Dead or Alive, The Place We Hide) is onboard to direct. The script was penned by Sara Sometti Michaels (St. Agatha) and Elisa Manzini (Angel Baby). Eliza Taylor and Davi...
WORLDWIDE RIGHTS ARE AVAILABLE Evil Dead 2 meets The Blair Witch Project After a public controversy left him disgraced and demonetized, a washed up internet personality tries to win back his followers by livestreaming himself spending one night alone in an abandoned haunted house. When he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event become...
To celebrate their 7th annual FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS campaign, German Films would like you to join us for a panel event during the Berlinale, spotlighting this year’s seven filmmakers: Documentary writer-director SARAH NOA BOZENHARDT, actor-producer-writer SARA FAZILAT, actor-director JERRY HOFFMANN, film editor JULIA KOVALENKO, writer-director MATTHIAS LUTHARDT, cinematographer and director ZAMARIN WAHDAT and actor ANNE ZANDER. Since its first edition in 2016, the an...
AVANT PREMIÈRE 2022 14-17 FEBRUARY ONLINE WHAT IS AVANT PREMIÈRE? Meet buyers, distributors + film producers online at Avant Première, the international trade fair for the performing arts film industry, taking place from 14-17 February 2022. Learn more here! REGISTER JOIN THE INNOVATION DAY ...
The Pluto Team will be participating in the upcoming virtual EFM and In-Person Berlinale. Come and meet us at the PLUTO BASE in the cozy Telegraph Bar (Winterfeldtstr. 1, 10781 Berlin) from 11th – 14th of February 2022 (every day from 3pm to 11pm). We would love to have a drink with you there or to set up a meeting elsewhere. We are thrilled to present our lineup of engaging global cinema: Somewh...
The WTFilms team will be attending virtual EFM and would love to meet you and introduce our new titles. Gregory Chambet, Dimitri Stephanides & Maxime Duchateau will also be available for in-person meetings in Berlin on Feb 10th and 11th. ...
THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER by German director Jessica Krummacher starring Birte Schnöink, Elsie de Brauw, Johanna Orsini, Susanne Bredehöft, Gina Haller, Christian Löber A production of Walker + Worm Film Produced by Tobias Walker, Philipp Worm Germany / 2022 / 134 Minutes The feature film THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER (“Zum Tod meiner Mutter”) by German director Jessica Krummacher (TOTEM) will celebrate its world premiere on February 12th 2022 at this year’s Be...
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Our feel-good family movie FAMILY SQUARES, which will take you on a roller-coaster of laughter and tears, is available for your territory. We will be premiering the official Art and Trailer shortly. The film stars Emmy-winning actor, Henry Winkler, Judy Greer, Oscar-nominated June Squibb, Emmy-nominated Margo Martindale, and Emmy-nominated Ann Dowd all among a talented ensemble of other recognizable faces. US Distributor Screen Media is scheduled to release the film On Febr...
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We are looking forward to connecting virtually during EFM 2022! Please find our lineup below, including our newest acquisition, Sundance hit MARS ONE by Gabriel Martins. Our Virtual Screening Schedule at EFM can be found below (in Berlin local time): MARS ONE Feb 9th 3:00pm - Sundance at EFM 1 ULTRASOUND Feb 10th 1:00pm - Virtual Cinema 8 ...
EFM is coming soon! New releases are available now from Summer Hill Films. To schedule an online meeting, click the link below: Be sure to look at our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2022 and beyond! FEATURED RELEASE: MERCY: FINN is sent to prison for a crime of mercy. Inside the prison, Finn meets M, a you...
IT'S NOT OVER CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT (COMPLETED) A MAN STARTS TO SUSPECT THAT HIS GIRLFRIEND MAY HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AILING HUSBAND'S CONDITION AND UNTIMELY DEATH. ...
Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the fantasy feature The Lost Girls directed by Livia De Paolis. The film is inspired by J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan and is based on the novel by Laurie Fox. Vertical is planning a day-and-date release in the U.S. on June 17, 2022. MYRIAD PICTURES is handling international sales and will represent the film at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin this coming February. Myriad and UTA co-repped the...
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Officially invited by the 72nd Berlinale and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), the international cinema critic and professor will join the FIPRESCI award jury. Hamed Soleimanzadeh, researcher, critic, and international professor of Iranian cinema has experienced the jury panel in France’s 74th Cannes Film Festival, 2021, and he will join two prominent world cinema critics Alexander Zwart from the Netherlands, and Bettina Hirsch from Germany to judge the Foru...
HFG - THE BLACK DEMON - Fernanda Urrejola - photo credit Javiera Eyzaguirre Beverly Hills, California (January 24, 2022) – Fernanda Urrejola (Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico”) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Netflix’s The Harder They Fall and “Narcos: Mexico,” Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario) join Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Sweet Home Alabama) in prolific action director Adrian Grünberg’s (Rambo: Last ...
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The 72nd Berlinale has announced its programme, with an outstanding presence of Catalan films, projects and talent. The latest films by Carla Simón and Isaki Lacuesta will be part of the Competition section and the short film Agrilogistics and the film Afterwater will participate in the Berlinale Shorts and Forum sections, respectively. In addition, two Catalan projects, 20.000 especies de abejas...
STUDIO 9 FILMS GAINS EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES ACCESS TO THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF NOTORIOUS SYRIAN COLONEL ANWAR RASLAN People & Power: The Trial of Anwar Raslan Part 2 TX: January 19th 2022, 22.30pm GMT on Al Jazeera: People and Power Channel 235 on Freeview
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/people-power The second of a two part special report, behind the scenes at the landmark trial of a notorious Syrian colonel, Anwar Raslan. ·The...
Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric (35) meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isadora, who is married. When the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young, homeless guy, provokes a wave of paranoia by taking refuge in Médéric’s building. Sympathizing with Selim, crazy about Isadora, Mederic’s life suddenly turns into a mess... NOBODY'S HERO by ALAIN GUIRAUDIE BERLINALE PANORAMA OPENING FILM World Pre...
ITN'S TITLES FOR EFM 2022 CLICK HERE FOR ANIMATIONS CLICK HERE FOR DOCUMENTARIES To request avails, screeners and/or a meeting, please email: stuart@itnfilms.com Thanks, Stuart Alson President Email: stuart@itnfilms.com Website: www.itnfilms.net BULL SHARK ...
BLUE FINCH FILMS BOARDS HOME-INVASION THRILLER BARBARIANS Blue Finch Films has boarded international sales rights (excluding North America) to the sharp home-invasion thriller, Barbarians Starring Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones), Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full Of Grace) & Conner Swindells (Sex Education) ...
What does Filipino punk have to do with feminism and Shakespeare? How is cinephilia related to Brazilian telenovelas and fetishes? What does the freedom of art have to do with labour, sex and rock ‘n’ roll? How does cinema overcome the obstacles of history with new images? How can criticism and filmmaking know the past and yet be completely of the moment? Do audiences only believe what they see, and in cinema is the proof of the pudding truly in the eating? And finally: new a...
EFM Is Coming Up! EFM is coming soon! New releases are available now from Summer Hill Films. To schedule an online meeting, click the link below: Be sure to look at our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2022 and beyond! FEATURED RELEASE:...
Competition The International Jury M. Night Shyamalan © Bryan Bedder/Getty images for Universal Pictures, Anne Zohra Berrached © Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale, Tsitsi Dangarembga © Hannah Mentz, Karim Aïnous © Denny Sachtleben, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Connie Nielsen © Dennis Stenild, Said Ben Saïd © Patrick Swirc Once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale 2022. The other ...
The annual platform spotlights the most exciting rising and established talents working across various disciplines in film and TV in the country today. German Films, the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide, today announced the talent who will feature in its 7th annual signature FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS campaign. The prestigious, high-profile platform aims to bring international visibility to the wealth of ground-breaking t...
UK-based sales firm 101 Films International, a member of the Amcomri Media Group, secures worldwide distribution rights, excluding UK/IRE, for critically acclaimed documentary film Love Yourself Today, a powerful and inspirational film which centres around the music of Irish singer songwriter Damien Dempsey. Part documentary, part concert film, Love Yourself Today, produced by FIS Eireann/Screen Ireland and Motherland in association with Thirty Nine Films, is an emotive celebrat...
European Film Promotion (EFP) is pleased to announce the ten emerging European talents for this year's 25th anniversary edition of EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS. From 11- 14 February 2022, seven actresses and three actors will be presented to the international press, the industry, and the public in an exclusive hybrid programme during this year's 72nd Berlinale (10 – 20 February 2022) adapted to the current Covid protocol. One of the programme's many highlights wil...
EFM Is Coming Up! Catch New Releases from Summer Hill Films! Come Meet Us at EFM! New releases are available now from Summer Hill Films. To schedule an online meeting, click the link below: Be sure to look at our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2022 and beyond! FEATURED RELEASE: ...
Avant Première Music + Media Market Vienna 2022, moves online, running from 14-17 February 2022 ! In 2022, the international trade fair for performing arts in audiovisual media will take place online, from 14-17 February 2022. As B2B marketplace, conference and networking event for the music + dance film industry, Avant Première unites experts + decision makers in broadcasting, streaming + VOD, film production + distribution and performing arts. Check out ...
Check out the newly released official trailer and poster of INDEMNITY, an action-fueled South African film written and directed by Travis Taute (Blood & Water). For more information and screener links, contact international@magpictures.com OFFICIAL TRAILER INDEMNITY ACTION, THRILLER / US, SO...
New releases are available now from Summer Hill Films. To schedule an online meeting, click the link below: Be sure to look at our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2022 and beyond! FEATURED RELEASE: I, MATTER: Directed by Shayne Pax The story of a college girl living in LA, as she struggles with life, romantic feeling...
SHAPING CHANGE: "EFM Industry Sessions" Call on the Film and Media Industry to Jointly Shape the Future The EFM is expecting buzzing business not only at its main location, the impressive Gropius Bau, as the industry returns to Berlin © EFM / Juliane Eirich The European Film Market (EFM) of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 10 to 17, 2022 under the motto "It all (re)starts here"...
20 editions, 10,000 alumni, seven hubs from Beirut to Buenos Aires and a yearly tally of more than 100 former participants with films in the festival: the Berlinale’s talent development initiative has a lot to celebrate. For the 20th edition, taking place from February 12 to 17, 2022, Berlinale Talents is optimistically looking forward to a physical event with digital components, all destined to bring together the 200 invited Talents across 13 disciplines. Mariette Rissenbeek an...
Clara Sola by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén For many years, the Berlinale has been presenting specially curated programmes outside the festival timeframe. The programme goes by the name of Berlinale Spotlight. Since 2018, the Berlinale funding initiative World Cinema Fund (WCF) has presented a Berlinale Spotlight every year at the Berlin film festival &ldquo...
Historical photos from the mood book of Quién mató a Narciso? In the 35th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made eleven funding recommendations for projects from Afghanistan, Argentina, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mongolia, Paraguay, Peru and Vietnam. The current funding amounts to a total of 493,000 Euros. The WCF is pleased to be able to support independent cinema even mor...
Screenwriter, director and producer M. Night Shyamalan will serve as president of the International Jury at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. The successful American immigrant filmmaker originally from South Asia has been captivating audiences worldwide with his genre films over the past three decades. His breakthrough, the 1999 psychological thriller The Sixth Sense starring Bruce Willis, was the second highest grossing film of that year and receive...
© Daniel Seiffert / Berlinale Berlinale 2022 To Be an In-Person Event The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 10 to 20, 2022 as an in-person event. The European Film Market (February 10-17, 2022), the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12-16, 2022), Berlinale Talents (February 12-17, 2022) and the World Cinema Fund will focus on on-site offerings. They will furthermore provide online formats. More information on the 2022 festival ...
For many years, the Berlinale has been present around the world with specially curated programmes. The Berlinale Spotlight extends the festival period and thus makes the activities of the Berlinale visible throughout the entire year. Under the title Berlinale Spotlight: Generation a programme composed of films from the Generation 14plus 2021 edition will be presented in cooperation with Alice nella città which is a festival dedicated to the young audience in affiliation...
La Mif (The Fam) by Fred Baillif: The cast at the premiere during the Berlinale Summer Special © Jan Kraus / Berlinale 2021 With its specially curated programmes, the Berlinale has been present around the world for many years. Moreover, the Berlinale Spotlight extends the festival period and makes the activities of the Berlinale visible throughout the year. Under the banner of Berlinale Spotlight: Generation and for the fourth time already, the Berlinale section Generation will ...
The new heads of Forum Expanded: Ulrich Ziemons (©Guillaume Cailleau) und / and Ala Younis (©Thomas Venker) After 16 editions as head of Forum Expanded, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus passed the mantle onto new hands in September. She founded the Berlinale section in 2006 together with Anselm Franke — then lead curator at the KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, and today the director of Fine Arts and Film at Haus der Kulturen der Welt — who will also be le...
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